Electronic
logbook for the month of December 2020
An
article on astrology by a former rock musician turned occultist
On 28th December, I came
across an interesting article previously unknown to me as I was trying to
retrieve the linguistic history of what I deem to be a very important
quote (mainly about numbers and their relation to the cosmos) made by
Philolaus of Tarentum, a Pythagorean from the latter half of the fifth
century BC. This article (the one about astrology) was written by Gary
Lachman, a former member of the New York rock band Blondie who now lives
in London and writes books and articles as well as he lectures about
esoteric subjects. I wish to make a reference to this article, which is
entitled ‘“As
above, so below”: are cosmic forces at work on Earth?’, because it
explores some of the themes I touched upon in http://paulzanotelli.ch/blog/astrology/21st-december-2020-conjunction-of-jupiter-and-saturn.html,
http://paulzanotelli.ch/blog/esoterica/swedenborg-on-heavenly-and-earthly-correspondences.html
and http://paulzanotelli.ch/blog/fringe/cycles/a-quote-on-the-sun-and-the-course-of-human-events.html.
As the article is almost 4,000 words long, I would advise you to look up
(ctrl +f) Gauquelin (for a scientific analysis of astrology) and
Chizhevsky (for a man who devoted his life to the study of the sun’s
influence on our planet) if you are in a hurry. Enjoy.
https://www.newdawnmagazine.com/articles/as-above-so-below-are-cosmic-forces-at-work-on-earth
Lausanne, 31st December 2020
Applauses for the brave
A
recent news headline about the first covid-19 vaccine volunteer in this
country (https://web.archive.org/web/20201228113008/https://bluewin.ch/fr/infos/suisse/le-premier-genevois-tre-vaccin-est-un-homme-g-de-80-ans-513501.html)
somehow made me recollect a dystopian film I had seen many years ago on
TV. This association was brought about by the applauses the volunteer, a
former doctor aged 80, received for having taken the jab because in the
film (which I suspect that it might well have been Soylent
Green, but which I
cannot be bothered to check as I do not really like films, or movies in
American English) those who exit planet earth are in their forties or
earlier (as I said, it was a long time ago) do so in a kind of scenic
aerial performance that involves their being shot down with some kind of
laser beam on to rounds of applause and cheering from the onlookers (a
crowd partly made of friends and relatives). So, for some strange
reason, this is the analogy that sprung to my mind when I read the above
headline. Maybe it had to do with some horrendous stories I had heard
about handicapped people or the elderly having been nudged to sign
non-resuscitation forms in the UK in the early stages of the pandemic
(on this topic, you might wish to watch the following interview: https://seed122.bitchute.com/weBLW8e6mgIB/H2SciJCvXgV5.mp4)
or maybe it had to do with a documentary I had seen three or four years
ago about people living in Switzerland who had decided to ingest the
‘potion of death’ (the title of this documentary was ‘This is how I wish
to die’) – a ‘service’ which two organisations seem to be only too happy to provide to
‘customers’ in this country. Leaving aside the irony that somebody needs
to be applauded for taking a vaccine when we are constantly being told
that even the covid-19 vaccines are safe (despite claims to the contrary
being made by independent journalists – e.g. https://sharylattkisson.com/2020/12/cdc-more-than-5000-covid-19-vaccine-recipients-have-reportedly-suffered-health-impact-event),
I
shall simply allow myself to express my wonder here as to whether there
will be any cameras or journalist in 6 months from now to enquire about
the health status of the first ‘recipients’ of these vaccines… So, so
much so for a very partial society of the spectacle (to borrow the title
of one of Guy
Debord’s book – The Society of
the Spectacle).
Lausanne, 30th
December 2020
The demon of social media
On Christmas day, as I wanted to be sociable (and thus not leave the
living room after the lengthy Christmas meal), I had to listen to many
minutes of a compilation of sometimes funny but often downright stupid
moments that were aired on a particular French TV entertainment programme
that brings together guests who compete for the attention of the TV
watcher by coming up with what are supposed to be humorous remarks but
which are quite often plainly crass (as they should be, given that such
broadcasts are meant to appeal to the lowest common denominators that can
be awakened in the mind [or shall I dare write ‘heart’?]
of a TV viewer).
Leaving aside the
question as to why such low quality material was being broadcast on the
(alleged) day of the birth of a religious figure which meant so much to
Europe for well over a thousand and five-hundred years (i.e. from the 5th
century to the twentieth), I would like to establish a quick parallel
with a more recent but similar weapon of covert distraction and mental
degradation for the masses: social media. A recent interview given by an
alternative
researcher (and teacher) in the fields of sciences and politics
which went by the title of ‘Social
media exists to harvest your life by stealing your time’ reminded
me of some very harsh comments that had
been made by several former social media executives roughly
three years ago – e.g. https://swisscows.com/web?query=%22Chamath%20Palihapitiya%22%20%22Sean%20Parker%22®ion=en-US,
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=%22Chamath+Palihapitiya%22+%22Sean+Parker%22
or https://www.yippy.com/search?query=%22Chamath+Palihapitiya%22+%22Sean+Parker%22.
In turn, this made me ponder about the only force which
ultimately can be deemed to have a very strong vested interest in
degrading humans by stealing their time, defiling their morals
and ultimately depriving them of any spiritual connection. To me, this
hidden but all-pervasive force can only be the following:
Representation of the
demon Belial (one of Satan’s
minions), who almost looks as if he is
holding a computer tablet (taken from the German translation of
‘Consolatio peccatorum, seu Processus Belial’ published in
Augsburg in 1472 by the printer Günther Zainer).
Lausanne, 29th
December 2020
Two weeks of silence
This was not because of any scarcity of topics or news items to write about.
On the contrary, I could have filled up the equivalent of several screens
replete with links to articles, with clips from multimedia dissemination
platforms like bitchute.com
or brandnewtube.com,
with my own reactions to such news-related items or even with information I
gleaned from my reading of passages in books about subjects that have
nothing to do with what is going across the world presently. What put me off
from writing anything in this section was that on 7th
December my wife came back with a free newspaper (which she uses
mostly for wrapping balcony items) which had, almost
buried in an advertisement-like inset on page two, the highly important
news item that mass vaccination in this country would start from next
January. [I got rid of the television set maybe 2 years ago.] Given
that the vaccine which will be distributed in Switzerland is based on a
totally new technology (and one for which no other drug authorisation has
been issued by any regulatory agency previously) and given that serious
adverse events were reported in a trial with 45 participants (‘Systemic
adverse events were more common after the second vaccination, particularly
with the highest dose, and three participants (21%) in the 250-µg dose
group reported one or more severe adverse events.’ Source: New
England Journal of Medicine, 14th July 2020, https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2022483),
I
must admit that I really feel concerned about the possible adverse effects
from the jab that our government and health officials want us to take in
this country only roughly three weeks from now. However, I feared that to
voice my concern on this blog would automatically qualify me for the status
of ‘anti-vaxxer’, which in turn (and based on the heavy flak medical
dissenters have received in the press worldwide and even more violently so
from the national medical association with which they are registered) might
put me on the next witch-hunt list. After all the pharmaceutical sector is a
cornerstone of the Swiss economy, which is why it is better for me to stop
here... Yet I hope that the above will prove enough for me to overcome the
kind of ‘writer’s block’ I have been suffering from in relation to adding
more paragraphs to my ‘weblog for the month of December’, especially since
there is only a little more than a week left before the calendar moves to
January.
Lausanne, 22nd December 2020
Before the soul can move on.
Today, it was hard to rid
my mind of what happens after death (yesterday evening, I was informed of
the death of an aunt whom I was quite fond of). It was not
that today I was repeatedly assailed by the thought of what
happens to the body once the processes of decomposition are at work. No, I
kept wondering about the immaterial part of a deceased person, i.e. the
soul, and more specifically I could not help but recall some of the claims
that I had come across only a couple of weeks earlier, either in print or
whilst listening to some old radio broadcasts about alchemy and
alchemists. For Paracelsus, the soul, after death, hovers above the body
for a couple of hours or a little longer. Others have pointed to the
vigils of three nights that were[?still are?] part and parcel of the
Catholic tradition and finally there are those who claim that a soul’s
dissolution into the universe will be complete only after the passing of
40 days – yes, a QUARANTINE
[Medieval Latin quarantena, quadrantena ult. from Latin quadraginta
forty]. Then there is the claim that the purpose of cremation – or of a
same-day burial – is to force the soul to move to the next stage.
Certainly a fascinating subject which I would need to transform into
something more substantial than these few lines given its importance –
even if I am, of course, very much aware that death is the Great Mystery.
To move to a different
subject, I must put down in writing (this for archival purposes) that
Russia has started a massive vaccination programme. By the way, here were
some of the headlines displayed on the front
page of Russia Today (RT.com)
when I saved the page onto the servers of the Internet Archive (at 5:42 pm
CET):
Covid-19 was present in
America BEFORE being officially confirmed in China, study by US health
protection agency says
NATO says 'intimidating'
Russia BIGGEST threat to bloc till at least 2030 – plans to send warships
to Black Sea
[...]
Obama reveals he sought
truth about aliens and UFOs while president… but won’t say what he was
told
[...]
Putin orders start of
mass vaccination against Covid-19 in Russia, will begin NEXT WEEK with key
workers given priority
Trouble in store: How
highly paid, job-secure lockdown zealots have helped kill off the British
high street Op-ed
[...]
SpaceX will land on Mars
in two years, humans in four-to-six years, Musk says
[...]
Drug reverses age-related
cognitive decline within days, potentially turning the tide on diseases
like Alzheimer’s and dementia
[...]
Behavioural scientists
confirm relaxing of Covid lockdown at Christmas is a cynical way to impose
even tougher rules in new year Op-ed
[...]
A global team of experts
has found 10 FATAL FLAWS in the main test for Covid and is demanding it’s
urgently axed. As they should Op-ed
Sean Connery, Diego
Maradona, Robert Fisk… cancel culture has reached a new low with woke
warriors’ disrespect for dead icons Op-ed
[...]
It’s not censorship, it’s
‘positive change’: Red Cross chief says social media should promote ‘the
right information’ on vaccines
[...]
Israel backs preliminary
bill to disband parliament, paving way for the fourth election in 2 years
[...]
Genetic manipulation:
HIV-like virus edited out of primate GENOME in major advance towards
winning war on AIDS
[...]
A Covid-19 vaccine may be
on horizon, but it will not eradicate middle class fear of a united
working class Op-ed
[...]
That’s what you get for
obeying? New Yorker cover mocks lockdown-induced deterioration after
[...]
https://web.archive.org/web/20201202164207/https://www.rt.com/
Lausanne, 2nd
December 2020
A most unfortunate synchronicity
An aunt of mine died
either this afternoon or this evening (as I still do not know exactly
when). She might even have died when I posted the word ‘soul’ in ancient
Greek characters on the page that serves as my blog’s table of contents.
Or it could have been while I was listening to a recording of the late
French specialist of Paracelsus Lucien Braun in which he talks about this
famous 16th century Swiss doctor’s claim that the astral body
of a deceased person lingers on for a few hours or even longer, so that
the presence of the deceased is still being felt by the relatives. Or it
could have been while I was querying a database of texts for occurrences
of ‘the silver cord’ (this kind of reverse silver-coloured umbilical cord
claimed by those who believe in the astral body that it binds it to the
physical body from the time the soul enters the womb of the mother to the
demise of the owner of the physical body). Or it could have been when I
stumbled across https://www.classicfm.com/discover-music/latest/10-classical-music-tear-jerkers/
after having run the following search engine query: https://www.yippy.com/search?query=most+poignant+Ave+Maria
(as a follow-up to a search for ‘Miserere
mei
Deus, secundum magnam misericordiam tuam.’) The terrible irony being
that my aunt’s first name was a compound of Maria… Anyhow, may her soul
rest in peace. Of course, I shall pray to this effect and I shall extend
my condolences to her two children. As a tribute to this kind soul, a
genuine Christian, I have translated this text which was written by a
twentieth century French mystic and bearer of stigmata, Marthe Robin:
Death, the
grace of all graces
Death:
it is the grace of all
graces
and the crowning
achievement of our Christian life.
It is not an end, as
alas too many still think
so,
but the beginning of a
beautiful birth.
It does not mark the hour
of dissolution
of a creature,
but its real development,
its full blossoming in
love.
It completes our
possession in the divine life,
from which it removes the
hurdles preventing us from enjoying it at our leisure down here.
It allows us to go freely
to the Eternal Love, to
be conscious
that He gives Himself to
us and to remain in Him forever...
When I think of impending
death, I say to myself:
“So much the better, as
soon I shall be going to the good Lord!”
[Text in French available at http://www.noble-louable.ch/345/veilleedepriere.htm
.]
Lausanne,
1st December 2020
