Looking back at May 2021
With one or two exceptions, May 2021 (my birthday month) was good to very good to me. Even though it was not a job offer, I was granted with some very good news on the day of my birthday. Almost as good, I received two birthday cards I was not expecting – one with an ever so hope-inspiring mountain landscape (so much so that it stands only a few centimetres away from me as I am typing these words). Only last Saturday, I made a chance encounter – i.e., with the sister of one of my best friends in Geneva, which not only gave me a better glimpse into the nobility of her soul but it also allowed me to leave the city of my birth without being in a state of despondency (owing to the low turnout at the rally I had attended to mark my presential opposition to the further erosion of civil rights in this country under the pretext of the coronavirus pandemic).
As regards new information ‘finds’, I was blessed with a few nuggets. For instance, I learned about the courageous fight initiated by the Irish-Austrian (but Swiss born) science journalist Jane Burgermeister already in 2009 against some criminal entities. I also was able to gain some valuable insights into various subjects (AI/singularity, microchipping, parallel universes, some New Testament quotes, some aspects of the religion of ancient Egypt, thanatology, contemporary eugenics, hidden power structures and… monsters from the astral plane and the ability of the human voice to serve as a magical instrument – to cite only these).
A great opportunity to rejoice was the geopolitical novelty that, against the backdrop of the support provided by several western states (including Germany) to Israeli war crimes against the Palestinian population, China, for once, issued a pretty unequivocal condemnation of the murderous attacks against Palestinian civilians and the deliberate bombing of numerous elements of civilian infrastructure in Gaza.
On the downside, the loss of civilian life both in Palestine and Israel as a result of the attempt by the latter’s head of state to deflect the attention from his problems with his own country’s judicial system by forcing Hamas to retaliate in response to provocations on the esplanade of the Mosques and further evictions of Palestinians in Sheikh Jarrah (Jerusalem), the flare-up in tensions between China and the USA and between Russia and the USA over Ukraine. Finally, I must confess that I also came against a rather unexpected misunderstanding with my own parents which, I hope, will be cleared soon, probably next month owing to its connection with women (June was named after the Roman goddess Juno).
Lausanne, 31st May 2021
Fuellmich on invisible protection for those who dare to speak out and fight back.
If you have not heard of Reiner Fuellmich, he is the German-American lawyer who has initiated some class action lawsuits (on three continents) against some of the main protagonists of the current scam-demic. A lawyer with such prestigious scalps as Deutsche Bank, Volkswagen and Kuhne & Nagel (a leading, global freight forwarding company) to bear witness to his skills as a trial lawyer, he explains in this interview (which I came across only a couple of hours ago) that both he and his team of international lawyers are taking the matter to several international courts because they feel that it is their mission to do so. He also explains that, although he acknowledges that it might be dangerous, he nevertheless believes that he and his team are under some kind of spiritual protection. Strangely, this matches my own deep gut feeling that if one dares to speak out, but within the framework of a network of like-minded people or fellow activists [egregore?], the chances are very likely that some kind of spiritual protection will be bestowed upon you.
[Click on the picture with the
right button of your mouse and then on ‘Play’
in the menu to start the clip, which will play in ‘picture-in-picture’
mode.
If it does not, click on http://paulzanotelli.ch/videos/fuellmich-delingpole_spiritual-protection.mp4.
If it does not, click on http://paulzanotelli.ch/videos/fuellmich-delingpole_spiritual-protection.mp4.
James
Delingpole:
The guy who, the guy who invented the PCR test died mysteriously [PZ: the Nobel prize winner Kary Mullis], as, as so many people seem to do…er…when they cross Big Pharma.
Reiner Fuellmich:
Uhuhm, uhuhm [an interjection indicating agreement.]
James Delingpole:
Are you worried?…Er…I mean you, you must, I mean, you represent, you are standing up against organised crime on the most unimaginable scale. Are you worried that you might be a target?
Reiner Fuellmich:
Er…yeah…er…I’m not the only one though. There’s lots of us out there. I may be, I may be, I may be a sort of a standard bearer, or maybe particularly outspoken, but that’s only because, from what our Corona Committee did,…er…from all the expert testimony we’ve heard, that I believe I am in a position to act the way I’m acting. And I also think I don’t have a choice. I also think we don’t have a choice. All of us have to fight this because this is truly – I would never have guessed that I would ever say this because I’m a lawyer, you know – this is truly a…er…this is a fight of good against evil. And…er...the thing is, I do have protection:…er… I have protection from a lot of people and from…er…a lot of people, indigenous people for example,…er…spiritual people. Er…and that’s why I think, even though this is probably dangerous, yes…er…That’s why it’s, it’s meant to happen this way. I don’t know how to put it, but it’s meant to happen. I have a task to fulfil, and all the others who are working with me,…er…and on your side for example, [James Delingpole: Yeah] we, we are needed. We must do this in order to stop this. That’s why I think no one will be able to stop us.
James Delingpole:
It’s, it’s funny what you said just then…er. This is exactly how I feel about, about what I do because I guess because, you know, I have, I’m in a similar, similar position to you – not the same but similar, similar position, you know, as a kind of truth-teller – in a world where nobody is telling the truth, it’s extraordinary. And we, we attract, don’t we, we attract very good, good people, interesting people, powerful people on our on our side and that gives great hope now.
Source: https://vimeo.com/553673924
As for Reiner Fuellmich, more information about him can be gleaned from this documentary about the Corona Committee (courtesy of Oval Media): https://www.bitchute.com/video/1HYoaX7FimrX.
Or at https://www.corona-schadensersatzklage.de/mit-klage-in-den-usa-zum-schadensersatz (you can still use an online translator if you do not understand German – preferably not Google, unless you do not mind ‘Big Brother knowing about your interests). Or if you really do not want to do so, at https://www.ukcolumn.org/community/forums/topic/reiner-fuellmich-with-other-german-lawyers-class-action.
Lausanne, 29th May 2021
at-one-ment
‘May that Universal Good Will of the Great Teachers of Wisdom, such as is herein set forth, speedily prevail, so that mankind may recognize their divine at-one-ment.’ This is how Walter Yeeling Evans-Wentz concludes the preface to his Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation. Until I looked it up a few minutes ago, I did not know that the historical meaning of atonement was indeed the one referred to by Evans-Wentz: unity (SOED: ‘unity of feeling; harmony, concord, agreement’). The word is Latin in origin: adunamentum, from adunare unite; this was indeed the way the word was used in earlier times – for instance: Sir T. More ‘Having more regarde to their olde variaunce then their new attonement’. A word we would do well to adopt given that polarisation and disunity seem to be doing so well presently – in a way, atone for the super wide state of division we have allowed ourselves to be dragged into.
An extreme form of visualisation: picturing one’s own bodily decomposition.
As I was looking for information on the French Egyptologist Gaston Maspero in the folders of my computer yesterday evening, I came across a description of the weighing of the heart in the Book of the Dead by a French author. The author, Georges de Maubertuis, takes the view (in his book L’évolution spirituelle de l’antiquité à nos jours) that if the heart of a deceased were to weigh more than the feather placed against it on the scale of judgment this would cause the soul of the deceased to start the cycle of life (or, in esoteric terms, the evolutionary process of a soul) again – in other words, reincarnation. Having recently posted a summary of this famous scene on this website, my recollection of what I had read was that Mr de Maubertuis’s interpretation was not borne out by the text itself. Although I can understand that the monster that sits at the side of the scale, the blood-chilling but very earthly composite of a crocodile (head), lion (trunk) and hippopotamus (rest of the body), can be viewed by some as an allegorical figure representing matter or all things material (as it will devour the soul not sufficiently pure to join the spiritual realm, the ancient Egyptian equivalent of paradise), I do not believe that the text supports this interpretation. This prompted me to read what Stanislav Grof has to say on the scene of the weighing of the heart in his short but fascinating study on Books of the Dead: Manuals for living and dying (in a way, following on the heels of Evans-Wentz). His study, in addition to discussing its Tibetan equivalent, the famous Bardo Thödol, also presents various cultural artefacts from three Mesoamerican civilisations (Maya, Aztec and Toltec) as well as from Mediaeval and Renaissance Europe (ars vivendi, ars moriendi). To my surprise, in his sub-section on ‘Memento mori’ (remember that [you will] die), Stanislav Grof claims that as part of this culture of remembering the transience of their earthly passage monks in Europe would go as far as undertaking the exercise of visualising the different stages in the decomposition of their own body: ‘In certain forms of meditation, medieval monks were asked to visualize their own death and identify with their bodies as they were gradually reduced to rotting flesh, bones, and finally dust. There is a reminder here of the practices of Tibetan tantric meditation in which the body is mentally annihilated, or even of more concrete exercises, where practitioners had to meditate on corpses or in cemeteries.’ True, the period known as the Middle Ages in Europe extended over more than ten centuries, so enough time for some weird practices to have taken place (think of the animal trials, the so-called ‘dancing plagues’, etc.), but I had never heard of this extreme form of memento mori visualisation. Unfortunately, Mr Grof does not provide any bibliographic reference for this extraordinary claim, nor are the books listed at the end of Books of the Dead: Manuals for living and dying of any use for verification purposes given that they are too general. So until I manage to check all of the works cited in his bibliography, there is no way for me to find out where and when this extreme form of visualisation took place in Europe (that is, only if such alleged meditative exercises on the part of the monks were not attributable to one of Mr Grof’s own consciousness experiments).
Lausanne, 27th May 2021
Likely more powerful in Latin.
Just under the sigil I added a couple of months ago to the index page I have for my blog (a cannibalisation of the famous ancient Egyptian tau symbol under the motto ‘Fac bonum’), I now display a very short oration in Latin. Here is how it goes in Latin:
‘Visita, quaeso, Domine, paginas meas et omnes insidias inimici ab eis longe repelle; Angeli tui sancti habitent in eis et me in pace custodiant. Amen.’
It is a reworking of a famous prayer that is part of the Book of Common Prayer and this oration (in the Latin sense of ‘oratio’, prayer) goes back to at least the eleventh century. It calls for angelic protection. I fully concur with those who believe that words recited in Latin are more powerful than when they are recited in the vernacular. In part, I would contend, because of the power of repetition through the centuries, in part because Latin was associated with Christianity until very recently, until the ill-fated Vatican II Council.
So I would guess that for this protective prayer to be fully effective, I would need to find a voice grave enough to recite the oration upon each visit to my blog’s ‘index page’. ;-)
I had toyed with the idea of performing a complete fast (no food, no drinks) for a full three days starting from yesterday evening. However, I fear that this might be too much for me as I need to go walking in Geneva for a few hours this coming Saturday. So I shall do it the Muslim way and abstain from any ‘body fuels’ from before the break of day until the sunset. Fasting, do you wonder? Well, simply because fasting has played an important function for God (or divinity)-worshippers, magicians and sorcerers for thousands and thousands of years. Maybe more on this topic in a future entry, but, for the time being, let me point out with some particular strength that I belong only to the first category.
And to accompany my fast I have even found a short mantra, in Latin of course, thanks to the book section of a famous search engine, with the letters ‘absolv peccat’, and then displayed here using the font called Augusta regular (designed by Julius de Goede):
Lausanne, 26th May 2021
Addendum to ‘Keep walking.’
As I was trying to retrieve today (i.e. on Saturday 15th May 2021) a URL pointing to a seventeenth-century English language translation of Cornelius Agrippa’s De occulta philosophia (because of a quote of his on the power of the word) from a file stored in one of my many computer folders, I came across a screen capture of an aphorism of Agrippa’s I had made for an entry I had clean forgotten about. Posted almost a year ago, this entry is also about steadfastness:
http://paulzanotelli.ch/blog/spirituality/angels-want-us-to-be-steadfast.html. And I suppose this is the reason why Mr Durov’s words on focused constancy in one’s endeavours made me ‘tick’ so much that I felt compelled to quote them below after having read them earlier this week.
Keep walking.
A few hours ago, I wanted to check out the posts of a group on Telegram. So I downloaded the application’s desktop version as, in the wake of Snowden’s revelations in 2013 I did a little ‘homework’ and I quickly came across a short documentary produced by RT.com demonstrating that mobile phones are also snooping devices*, which is why I seldom use what is now an old smartphone for anything else than receiving calls and sending the occasional text message. Because my attempt at accessing the Telegram platform was unsuccessful, I looked at their FAQ section and went off on a tangent by reading the sub-section about the company. This took me to the blog section of the founder of Telegram and, coming in the form of a nice synchronicity**, almost directly to the following quote:
‘Anyone who stays true to their values and applies focused effort over a long period of time is bound to succeed in their area. This is true for any human occupation – sport, blogging, art, coding, business or studying.’ (https://t.me/s/durov: entry for 8th February of this year, which starts with ‘Telegram became the most downloaded mobile app in the world in January 2021.’
Mr Durov’s claim not only reminded me of the French adage ‘Rome was not built in a day’, of the many verses in the Qu’ran exhorting the faithful to be patient but also of the following piece of footage (which comes towards the very end of a short documentary about David Icke, a researcher of topics normally brushed under the carpets of the mainstream media – some of which are even a little difficult for me to accept, even though I would concur with the contention that our world is in many ways an illusion):
The guy who, the guy who invented the PCR test died mysteriously [PZ: the Nobel prize winner Kary Mullis], as, as so many people seem to do…er…when they cross Big Pharma.
Reiner Fuellmich:
Uhuhm, uhuhm [an interjection indicating agreement.]
James Delingpole:
Are you worried?…Er…I mean you, you must, I mean, you represent, you are standing up against organised crime on the most unimaginable scale. Are you worried that you might be a target?
Reiner Fuellmich:
Er…yeah…er…I’m not the only one though. There’s lots of us out there. I may be, I may be, I may be a sort of a standard bearer, or maybe particularly outspoken, but that’s only because, from what our Corona Committee did,…er…from all the expert testimony we’ve heard, that I believe I am in a position to act the way I’m acting. And I also think I don’t have a choice. I also think we don’t have a choice. All of us have to fight this because this is truly – I would never have guessed that I would ever say this because I’m a lawyer, you know – this is truly a…er…this is a fight of good against evil. And…er...the thing is, I do have protection:…er… I have protection from a lot of people and from…er…a lot of people, indigenous people for example,…er…spiritual people. Er…and that’s why I think, even though this is probably dangerous, yes…er…That’s why it’s, it’s meant to happen this way. I don’t know how to put it, but it’s meant to happen. I have a task to fulfil, and all the others who are working with me,…er…and on your side for example, [James Delingpole: Yeah] we, we are needed. We must do this in order to stop this. That’s why I think no one will be able to stop us.
James Delingpole:
It’s, it’s funny what you said just then…er. This is exactly how I feel about, about what I do because I guess because, you know, I have, I’m in a similar, similar position to you – not the same but similar, similar position, you know, as a kind of truth-teller – in a world where nobody is telling the truth, it’s extraordinary. And we, we attract, don’t we, we attract very good, good people, interesting people, powerful people on our on our side and that gives great hope now.
Source: https://vimeo.com/553673924
As for Reiner Fuellmich, more information about him can be gleaned from this documentary about the Corona Committee (courtesy of Oval Media): https://www.bitchute.com/video/1HYoaX7FimrX.
Or at https://www.corona-schadensersatzklage.de/mit-klage-in-den-usa-zum-schadensersatz (you can still use an online translator if you do not understand German – preferably not Google, unless you do not mind ‘Big Brother knowing about your interests). Or if you really do not want to do so, at https://www.ukcolumn.org/community/forums/topic/reiner-fuellmich-with-other-german-lawyers-class-action.
Lausanne, 29th May 2021
at-one-ment
‘May that Universal Good Will of the Great Teachers of Wisdom, such as is herein set forth, speedily prevail, so that mankind may recognize their divine at-one-ment.’ This is how Walter Yeeling Evans-Wentz concludes the preface to his Tibetan Book of the Great Liberation. Until I looked it up a few minutes ago, I did not know that the historical meaning of atonement was indeed the one referred to by Evans-Wentz: unity (SOED: ‘unity of feeling; harmony, concord, agreement’). The word is Latin in origin: adunamentum, from adunare unite; this was indeed the way the word was used in earlier times – for instance: Sir T. More ‘Having more regarde to their olde variaunce then their new attonement’. A word we would do well to adopt given that polarisation and disunity seem to be doing so well presently – in a way, atone for the super wide state of division we have allowed ourselves to be dragged into.
An extreme form of visualisation: picturing one’s own bodily decomposition.
As I was looking for information on the French Egyptologist Gaston Maspero in the folders of my computer yesterday evening, I came across a description of the weighing of the heart in the Book of the Dead by a French author. The author, Georges de Maubertuis, takes the view (in his book L’évolution spirituelle de l’antiquité à nos jours) that if the heart of a deceased were to weigh more than the feather placed against it on the scale of judgment this would cause the soul of the deceased to start the cycle of life (or, in esoteric terms, the evolutionary process of a soul) again – in other words, reincarnation. Having recently posted a summary of this famous scene on this website, my recollection of what I had read was that Mr de Maubertuis’s interpretation was not borne out by the text itself. Although I can understand that the monster that sits at the side of the scale, the blood-chilling but very earthly composite of a crocodile (head), lion (trunk) and hippopotamus (rest of the body), can be viewed by some as an allegorical figure representing matter or all things material (as it will devour the soul not sufficiently pure to join the spiritual realm, the ancient Egyptian equivalent of paradise), I do not believe that the text supports this interpretation. This prompted me to read what Stanislav Grof has to say on the scene of the weighing of the heart in his short but fascinating study on Books of the Dead: Manuals for living and dying (in a way, following on the heels of Evans-Wentz). His study, in addition to discussing its Tibetan equivalent, the famous Bardo Thödol, also presents various cultural artefacts from three Mesoamerican civilisations (Maya, Aztec and Toltec) as well as from Mediaeval and Renaissance Europe (ars vivendi, ars moriendi). To my surprise, in his sub-section on ‘Memento mori’ (remember that [you will] die), Stanislav Grof claims that as part of this culture of remembering the transience of their earthly passage monks in Europe would go as far as undertaking the exercise of visualising the different stages in the decomposition of their own body: ‘In certain forms of meditation, medieval monks were asked to visualize their own death and identify with their bodies as they were gradually reduced to rotting flesh, bones, and finally dust. There is a reminder here of the practices of Tibetan tantric meditation in which the body is mentally annihilated, or even of more concrete exercises, where practitioners had to meditate on corpses or in cemeteries.’ True, the period known as the Middle Ages in Europe extended over more than ten centuries, so enough time for some weird practices to have taken place (think of the animal trials, the so-called ‘dancing plagues’, etc.), but I had never heard of this extreme form of memento mori visualisation. Unfortunately, Mr Grof does not provide any bibliographic reference for this extraordinary claim, nor are the books listed at the end of Books of the Dead: Manuals for living and dying of any use for verification purposes given that they are too general. So until I manage to check all of the works cited in his bibliography, there is no way for me to find out where and when this extreme form of visualisation took place in Europe (that is, only if such alleged meditative exercises on the part of the monks were not attributable to one of Mr Grof’s own consciousness experiments).
Lausanne, 27th May 2021
Likely more powerful in Latin.
Just under the sigil I added a couple of months ago to the index page I have for my blog (a cannibalisation of the famous ancient Egyptian tau symbol under the motto ‘Fac bonum’), I now display a very short oration in Latin. Here is how it goes in Latin:
‘Visita, quaeso, Domine, paginas meas et omnes insidias inimici ab eis longe repelle; Angeli tui sancti habitent in eis et me in pace custodiant. Amen.’
It is a reworking of a famous prayer that is part of the Book of Common Prayer and this oration (in the Latin sense of ‘oratio’, prayer) goes back to at least the eleventh century. It calls for angelic protection. I fully concur with those who believe that words recited in Latin are more powerful than when they are recited in the vernacular. In part, I would contend, because of the power of repetition through the centuries, in part because Latin was associated with Christianity until very recently, until the ill-fated Vatican II Council.
So I would guess that for this protective prayer to be fully effective, I would need to find a voice grave enough to recite the oration upon each visit to my blog’s ‘index page’. ;-)
I had toyed with the idea of performing a complete fast (no food, no drinks) for a full three days starting from yesterday evening. However, I fear that this might be too much for me as I need to go walking in Geneva for a few hours this coming Saturday. So I shall do it the Muslim way and abstain from any ‘body fuels’ from before the break of day until the sunset. Fasting, do you wonder? Well, simply because fasting has played an important function for God (or divinity)-worshippers, magicians and sorcerers for thousands and thousands of years. Maybe more on this topic in a future entry, but, for the time being, let me point out with some particular strength that I belong only to the first category.
And to accompany my fast I have even found a short mantra, in Latin of course, thanks to the book section of a famous search engine, with the letters ‘absolv peccat’, and then displayed here using the font called Augusta regular (designed by Julius de Goede):
Lausanne, 26th May 2021
Addendum to ‘Keep walking.’
As I was trying to retrieve today (i.e. on Saturday 15th May 2021) a URL pointing to a seventeenth-century English language translation of Cornelius Agrippa’s De occulta philosophia (because of a quote of his on the power of the word) from a file stored in one of my many computer folders, I came across a screen capture of an aphorism of Agrippa’s I had made for an entry I had clean forgotten about. Posted almost a year ago, this entry is also about steadfastness:
http://paulzanotelli.ch/blog/spirituality/angels-want-us-to-be-steadfast.html. And I suppose this is the reason why Mr Durov’s words on focused constancy in one’s endeavours made me ‘tick’ so much that I felt compelled to quote them below after having read them earlier this week.
Keep walking.
A few hours ago, I wanted to check out the posts of a group on Telegram. So I downloaded the application’s desktop version as, in the wake of Snowden’s revelations in 2013 I did a little ‘homework’ and I quickly came across a short documentary produced by RT.com demonstrating that mobile phones are also snooping devices*, which is why I seldom use what is now an old smartphone for anything else than receiving calls and sending the occasional text message. Because my attempt at accessing the Telegram platform was unsuccessful, I looked at their FAQ section and went off on a tangent by reading the sub-section about the company. This took me to the blog section of the founder of Telegram and, coming in the form of a nice synchronicity**, almost directly to the following quote:
‘Anyone who stays true to their values and applies focused effort over a long period of time is bound to succeed in their area. This is true for any human occupation – sport, blogging, art, coding, business or studying.’ (https://t.me/s/durov: entry for 8th February of this year, which starts with ‘Telegram became the most downloaded mobile app in the world in January 2021.’
Mr Durov’s claim not only reminded me of the French adage ‘Rome was not built in a day’, of the many verses in the Qu’ran exhorting the faithful to be patient but also of the following piece of footage (which comes towards the very end of a short documentary about David Icke, a researcher of topics normally brushed under the carpets of the mainstream media – some of which are even a little difficult for me to accept, even though I would concur with the contention that our world is in many ways an illusion):
[Click on the picture with
the right button of your mouse and then on ‘Play’ in the
menu to start the clip, which will play in
‘picture-in-picture’ mode.
If it does not, click on http://paulzanotelli.ch/videos/keep-walking.mp4.
If it does not, click on http://paulzanotelli.ch/videos/keep-walking.mp4.
‘It just shows that if
you keep walking, and
keep walking, believe in what you're doing, then
something comes out the other end.’
So may I too remain steadfast and keep walking on the path that those who seek the truth take and follow. Amen.
* ‘Escape the Web: Every click online thralls privacy’, uploaded on to YT and Dailymotion on 23 Oct. 2011: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xtq99k.
** In a few words, this is how I would define the concept of synchronicity: a coincidence that happens at a time deemed to be meaningful by an observer – coincidence comes from two Latin words cum, with, and incidere, to fall upon.
Lausanne, 11th May 2021
An ‘e-card’ for Mothers’ Day 2021
So may I too remain steadfast and keep walking on the path that those who seek the truth take and follow. Amen.
* ‘Escape the Web: Every click online thralls privacy’, uploaded on to YT and Dailymotion on 23 Oct. 2011: https://www.dailymotion.com/video/xtq99k.
** In a few words, this is how I would define the concept of synchronicity: a coincidence that happens at a time deemed to be meaningful by an observer – coincidence comes from two Latin words cum, with, and incidere, to fall upon.
Lausanne, 11th May 2021
An ‘e-card’ for Mothers’ Day 2021
I sent the above a day
early! I did so via the privacy-focused messenging
service, Wire.com, my mother and I use to
communicate. How could I have forgotten that Mothers’
Day falls on a Sunday, not on a Saturday?! I
must have been really day-dreaming... Well, better
early than late, no? I made the above in Word
2007. I found the picture with the multiple
hearts in a heart in Word’s
collection of art clips with the keyword ‘love’ [path:
C:\Program Files\Microsoft
Office\MEDIA\CAGCAT10\j0230876.wmf]. Please feel free
to use this montage of mine for your own purposes,
should you be interested in doing so.
Lausanne, 8th May 2021
‘In that night everything is written.’ (Laylatul Qadr)
‘Night of Power’ (or ‘Night of Decree’), Laylatul Qadr commemorates the night when God revealed the Qu’ran to the prophet Muhammad (may peace be upon him) through the angel Gabriel in one of the last 10 nights of the holy month of Ramadan.
Lausanne, 8th May 2021
‘In that night everything is written.’ (Laylatul Qadr)
‘Night of Power’ (or ‘Night of Decree’), Laylatul Qadr commemorates the night when God revealed the Qu’ran to the prophet Muhammad (may peace be upon him) through the angel Gabriel in one of the last 10 nights of the holy month of Ramadan.
Given
that a sura (Qu’ranic verse) states that ‘The
night of al-Qadr (decree) is better than a
thousand months’, devout Muslims believe that
by engaging in prayer, seeking forgiveness and
worshipping God also by performing small acts of
compassion on that unspecified night during the last
ten of the fasting month (for some it is on the 23rd
or the 27th) their rewards will be to see
their sins absolved, their supplications heard or
some inflections allowed to the unfolding of their
destiny.
[Click on the picture
with the right button of your mouse and then on ‘Play’
in the menu to start the clip, which will play in
‘picture-in-picture’ mode.
If it does not, click on http://paulzanotelli.ch/videos/menk-game-changer-laylatul-qadr.mp4.
If it does not, click on http://paulzanotelli.ch/videos/menk-game-changer-laylatul-qadr.mp4.
As
Mufti Menk explains in the above video, ‘certain
elements of destiny, the finer details, can
actually be changed and altered to a certain
degree by Allah [...] through
your supplication, your dua and also through
your charity [...]’.
I would strongly urge anybody who comes across this page to watch (or listen to) the above video as I am sure that they are bound to find the enthusiasm of this Muslim preacher to be rather contagious.
Is the religious advice he proposes for the supplications Muslims are to make to God (be it during that special night, during the holy month for Muslims or whenever else) not beautiful in terms of the simplicity and generosity of his recommendations? [The following excerpt starts some 20 minutes and 30 seconds into Mufti Menk’s religious exhortation]:
‘Don’t be selfish when you call out to Allah.
Call out for others as well: your family members, your friends, even your enemies, the others, the entire Ummah [Muslim community], humanity at large; call out for everyone.
When you call out for others, the angels are saying “Oh Allah, give this person the same as well”.
Similarly when you call out to Allah, let it not be only for your worldly needs.
Ask Allah to make you steadfast, ask Allah to make it easy for you to pray.
Ask Allah to make it easy for you to worship him and to make it difficult for you to sin against him.
And ask Allah to grant you goodness in the hereafter, to make it easy for you after.’
Lausanne, 7th May 2021
I would strongly urge anybody who comes across this page to watch (or listen to) the above video as I am sure that they are bound to find the enthusiasm of this Muslim preacher to be rather contagious.
Is the religious advice he proposes for the supplications Muslims are to make to God (be it during that special night, during the holy month for Muslims or whenever else) not beautiful in terms of the simplicity and generosity of his recommendations? [The following excerpt starts some 20 minutes and 30 seconds into Mufti Menk’s religious exhortation]:
‘Don’t be selfish when you call out to Allah.
Call out for others as well: your family members, your friends, even your enemies, the others, the entire Ummah [Muslim community], humanity at large; call out for everyone.
When you call out for others, the angels are saying “Oh Allah, give this person the same as well”.
Similarly when you call out to Allah, let it not be only for your worldly needs.
Ask Allah to make you steadfast, ask Allah to make it easy for you to pray.
Ask Allah to make it easy for you to worship him and to make it difficult for you to sin against him.
And ask Allah to grant you goodness in the hereafter, to make it easy for you after.’
Lausanne, 7th May 2021
Still
time to collect some spring dew (aqua
mirifica)?
More than half way through the ‘dew-gathering season’ and I have still not published anything on this blog about the ancient tradition of collecting dew in the early hours of the morning. This is partly attributable to my reluctance to write about a subject I am not familiar with in terms of practical experience; you see, the collecting of dew from, say, 20th April to 20th May belongs to alchemy, which involves a lot of manual operations (i.e. practical experimenting with substances with a view to unlocking some of the secrets of the universe [my coinage] –yes, nothing less than this and please note that I am being deliberately vague). However, even if one has no expertise in a particular subject, one can still write about it – journalists, for instance, do this all the time. To me at least, merely pointing to the existence of something is better than keeping one’s mouth shut about it, but only if one believes that some members of the human family stand to benefit from going deeper into the information which has been passed on to them, as it were.
More than half way through the ‘dew-gathering season’ and I have still not published anything on this blog about the ancient tradition of collecting dew in the early hours of the morning. This is partly attributable to my reluctance to write about a subject I am not familiar with in terms of practical experience; you see, the collecting of dew from, say, 20th April to 20th May belongs to alchemy, which involves a lot of manual operations (i.e. practical experimenting with substances with a view to unlocking some of the secrets of the universe [my coinage] –yes, nothing less than this and please note that I am being deliberately vague). However, even if one has no expertise in a particular subject, one can still write about it – journalists, for instance, do this all the time. To me at least, merely pointing to the existence of something is better than keeping one’s mouth shut about it, but only if one believes that some members of the human family stand to benefit from going deeper into the information which has been passed on to them, as it were.
‘Petite
alchémille, maintenant que je t'ai revue et
que je sais où te retrouver, il s'agit
d'apprendre comment à tirer parti de tes vertus médicinales
(tonique, antiseptique,
etc). La rosée encore présente te rend si
belle...’ [Frail alchemilla, now that I
have seen you again and that I know where to
find you, it is time to learn how to benefit
from your medicinal virtues (tonic, antiseptic,
etc). The dew still present really beautifies
you.]
Roughly five years since I added the above caption to the picture I captured at one of my favourite nature spots in the canton of Vaud and no experimentation conducted on my part, lazy bugger that I am…
The entry in the abridged 2-volume version of the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary which I have on CD-Rom is a little reductive: ‘[ORIGIN Medieval Latin alchimilla, from alchimia alchemy + dim. -illa, from the belief that dew from the leaves of the plant could turn base metals into gold.]’
Apparently, there is much more than that which can be done with spring dew…
For instance, on page 37 of his Médecine spagyrique: végétale, minérale, métallique, Patrick Rivière (a French alchemist and teacher of esoteric knowledge who died a few weeks ago) writes that the salt derived from the April to May dew in tiny amounts (0.2g for each litre of dew gathered!) has excellent vasodilating [i.e. blood vessel dilating] properties in addition to being a diuretic.
On page 144 of his Alchimie et spagyrie “du Grand-Œuvre à la medicine de Paracelse”, there is a picture of the salt obtained with the caption ‘Premier Sel de la Philosophie, issu du travail sur la Rosée et cristallisé neige, tel que le définissait l’Adepte Fulcanelli.’
If you are interested in this subject, I am afraid that most recent sources are in French (Fulcanelli, Canseliet, Rivière, etc.). There is however a plate in a famous 17th century alchemical manual called the Mutus liber (or Mutus liber, in quo tamen tota philosophia hermetica, figuris hieroglyphicis depingitur…) which shows you how to obtain this coveted by-product of the moon’s rays (as some claim). The book has been digitised by the French national library and the plate providing visual guidance on how to obtain this snow-like crystalline salt from the April to May dew is available at https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k15122214/f13.item.r=mutus%20liber.
Now if the instructions are still a little too hermetic (pun intended, obviously) to your liking, I would suggest that you read Philippe Vaysal’s Le sel de rosée des philosophes. As the text is available in pdf format (e.g. from https://swisscows.com), you should be able to get the gist of both the process and the philosophy that underpins it pretty quickly, i.e. by simply copying this text and pasting it on to one of the better translation engines available online (e.g. Deepl).
As such, may you enjoy your first dip into the very time-consuming but potentially highly transformative pursuit of the queen discipline of the esoteric ‘sciences’: alchemy.
Lausanne, 6th May 2021
Roughly five years since I added the above caption to the picture I captured at one of my favourite nature spots in the canton of Vaud and no experimentation conducted on my part, lazy bugger that I am…
The entry in the abridged 2-volume version of the 20-volume Oxford English Dictionary which I have on CD-Rom is a little reductive: ‘[ORIGIN Medieval Latin alchimilla, from alchimia alchemy + dim. -illa, from the belief that dew from the leaves of the plant could turn base metals into gold.]’
Apparently, there is much more than that which can be done with spring dew…
For instance, on page 37 of his Médecine spagyrique: végétale, minérale, métallique, Patrick Rivière (a French alchemist and teacher of esoteric knowledge who died a few weeks ago) writes that the salt derived from the April to May dew in tiny amounts (0.2g for each litre of dew gathered!) has excellent vasodilating [i.e. blood vessel dilating] properties in addition to being a diuretic.
On page 144 of his Alchimie et spagyrie “du Grand-Œuvre à la medicine de Paracelse”, there is a picture of the salt obtained with the caption ‘Premier Sel de la Philosophie, issu du travail sur la Rosée et cristallisé neige, tel que le définissait l’Adepte Fulcanelli.’
If you are interested in this subject, I am afraid that most recent sources are in French (Fulcanelli, Canseliet, Rivière, etc.). There is however a plate in a famous 17th century alchemical manual called the Mutus liber (or Mutus liber, in quo tamen tota philosophia hermetica, figuris hieroglyphicis depingitur…) which shows you how to obtain this coveted by-product of the moon’s rays (as some claim). The book has been digitised by the French national library and the plate providing visual guidance on how to obtain this snow-like crystalline salt from the April to May dew is available at https://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k15122214/f13.item.r=mutus%20liber.
Now if the instructions are still a little too hermetic (pun intended, obviously) to your liking, I would suggest that you read Philippe Vaysal’s Le sel de rosée des philosophes. As the text is available in pdf format (e.g. from https://swisscows.com), you should be able to get the gist of both the process and the philosophy that underpins it pretty quickly, i.e. by simply copying this text and pasting it on to one of the better translation engines available online (e.g. Deepl).
As such, may you enjoy your first dip into the very time-consuming but potentially highly transformative pursuit of the queen discipline of the esoteric ‘sciences’: alchemy.
Lausanne, 6th May 2021
The ‘Season
of sacrifice’
Given
that I mentioned this ‘season’ in my weblog
for April of this year as well as in my
recent post on Jack London’s fictional account
of how China’s population would start to be
culled through bacteriological warfare on the
highly portentous date of 1st of
May 1976 in a short story written in 1907 (but
published three years later), I must now
somewhat follow through on my little titillation
of the reader’s likely appetite for the sordid
and the unbecoming by providing a little more
information on this topic. First, however, let
me firmly
reiterate that I have really nothing more than a
rudimentary knowledge of this alleged season of
sacrifice, which should become clear in the
following lines. My first encounter
with this subject may date back to 26th
April of 2016, shortly after the inauguration of
the Temple of Baal in New York, probably after
having heard it being mentioned on a broadcast
of the UK Column (http://www.ukcolumn.org/ukcolumn-news/uk-column-news-26th-april-2016)
as well as on another show. Although I did turn
to the Internet for more information, I
collected only about half a dozen links, yet
without having even bothered to annotate them or
to copy any interesting passages and
subsequently save them in a thematic file.
Nevertheless, I am not going to access these
links now for the simple reason that three years
later, on 11th May 2019, I read the
following passage penned by David Icke, a
British researcher of fringe topics who has been
very much derided for his promotion of a strange
theory about shape-shifting alien entities (the
reptilians) as well as he has been vilified for
his contrarian stance (almost right from its
outset) on the covid-19 pandemic. The excerpt I
give below is from page 393 of an electronic
version of a book this author released in
November 2017 and which is entitled Everything
You Need to Know But Have Never Been Told
(the chapter from which the excerpt has been
extracted is called ‘Software El-ite’):
Major rituals are still performed on the same days and during the same astrological sequences as the ancients. Halloween or Samhain (pronounced Sowin) is a prime one and so is the period between March19th/22nd and May 1st or May Day. March 19th/22nd is when the Sun is said to be ‘resurrected’ out of the Southern Hemisphere at the start of the northern spring (symbolism connected to the ‘resurrection’ story of ‘Jesus’). The May 1st period is Beltane (Bel-tane – Bel/Baal/Bill/BL). Communism celebrates May Day because that is a satanic system of control as is fascism. This March-Beltane period is known in Satanism as the Season of Sacrifice and some sacrifices are performed in the open while being disguised as wars and disasters. The Waco massacre, Oklahoma City bombing, Columbine High School shooting, Virginia Tech Massacre and Boston Marathon bombing are only a few of many examples. They all happened in the period April 16th to 20th and even a 2011 article published by CNN asked the question: ‘What is it about mid-April and violence in America?’ Society-changing events are orchestrated in sync with particular astrological and numerological sequences which represent particular energetic (information) states which make their impact more powerful, not least on the human psyche. Is it really a coincidence that terrorist attacks in London (Lee Rigby murder), Brussels, Munich, London (Westminster Parliament) and Manchester all happened on the 22nd of the month?
I have very little to add except that the bit in green does not appear in the original text, that everybody is entitled to have their opinion on this subject – especially if it is backed by some amount of personal research into it – and that maybe this quote from Shakespeare’s Hamlet will remind the reader that our understanding of reality is limited:
There are more things in heaven and earth Horatio,
Than are Dreamt of, in your philosophy.
Hamlet (1.5.167-8) [Hamlet to Horatio]
Lausanne, 5th May 2021
The human voice as a magical instrument (Maspero, 1892)
Very, very early this morning, I read a beautiful description of the power of the human voice in an excerpt taken from Gaston Maspero’s Études de mythologie et d’archéologie égyptiennes (1893) and published in a book on secret societies and their crimes (André Baron, 1906). The powerful description of this academic Egyptologist and archaeologist remained at the back of my mind for the rest of the day and I could not wait for the evening to come so as to be able to find out whether this passage had been translated or not into English. Apparently this is not the case; however, Gaston Maspero (1846-1916) had already discussed his interpretation of Mâ-Khrôou (the power of the human voice when working to the proper modulation) in a previous paper, which was translated into English nearly 130 years ago. It appeared in April 1892 on pages 365 and 366 of the Imperial and Asiatic Quarterly Review and Oriental and Colonial Record under the title of ‘Creation by the Voice and the Ennead of Hermopolis’. Surprise, surprise: volume three of this venerable quarterly publication from the East India Association and the Oriental Institute is available from various online sources, including at the Internet Archive. So here is an excerpt very similar to the one in the French language which caught my imagination in the early hours of the first day of the week [as always, words or string of words that appear in green in citations were put in that colour by me, not by the author of the passage; the words in French were added by the original translator]:
The human voice had, and still has among most Oriental nations, a power not attributed to it by Europeans. It is the magical instrument, above all others, without which the highest operations of the art cannot succeed. Each of its emissions awakens an echo in the world of the Invisible, and sets to work forces of which the vulgar herd suspect neither the existence nor the manifold activities. Doubtless, the mere text of a Summons (Évocation), the sequence of words of which it is formed, has its real value, but this value is only full when the human voice comes in to give life to the letter; the spell, to be efficacious, must be accompanied by song, must become an incantation, a Carmen [Latin for sacred chant, incantation]. When declaimed with the sacramental chaunt (mélopée), without the modification of a single modulation, it necessarily produced its full effect; a false note, an error in the measure, the slightest break between two sounds, and it was null and void of effect. This is the reason why all who recited prayers or formulæ intended to bind the gods to the ac-
* Translated from the French by C. H. E. Carmichael, M.A.
/
complishment of a determinate act, called themselves Mâ Khrôou, or correct-voiced, and this is true not only, as commonly thought, of the dead, but also of the living; the happy or unhappy results of the operation depended entirely on the correctness of their voice. It was therefore the voice which had the preponderating part in prayer and in sacrifice, i.e., in the capture (mainmise) of the gods by man; without the voice, formulæ were but a dead letter. It is long since I established this point, and showed that in the alliance of voice and speech which constitutes prayer or a spell (conjuration), those were mistaken who only took account of speech and neglected the voice.
Major rituals are still performed on the same days and during the same astrological sequences as the ancients. Halloween or Samhain (pronounced Sowin) is a prime one and so is the period between March19th/22nd and May 1st or May Day. March 19th/22nd is when the Sun is said to be ‘resurrected’ out of the Southern Hemisphere at the start of the northern spring (symbolism connected to the ‘resurrection’ story of ‘Jesus’). The May 1st period is Beltane (Bel-tane – Bel/Baal/Bill/BL). Communism celebrates May Day because that is a satanic system of control as is fascism. This March-Beltane period is known in Satanism as the Season of Sacrifice and some sacrifices are performed in the open while being disguised as wars and disasters. The Waco massacre, Oklahoma City bombing, Columbine High School shooting, Virginia Tech Massacre and Boston Marathon bombing are only a few of many examples. They all happened in the period April 16th to 20th and even a 2011 article published by CNN asked the question: ‘What is it about mid-April and violence in America?’ Society-changing events are orchestrated in sync with particular astrological and numerological sequences which represent particular energetic (information) states which make their impact more powerful, not least on the human psyche. Is it really a coincidence that terrorist attacks in London (Lee Rigby murder), Brussels, Munich, London (Westminster Parliament) and Manchester all happened on the 22nd of the month?
I have very little to add except that the bit in green does not appear in the original text, that everybody is entitled to have their opinion on this subject – especially if it is backed by some amount of personal research into it – and that maybe this quote from Shakespeare’s Hamlet will remind the reader that our understanding of reality is limited:
There are more things in heaven and earth Horatio,
Than are Dreamt of, in your philosophy.
Hamlet (1.5.167-8) [Hamlet to Horatio]
Lausanne, 5th May 2021
The human voice as a magical instrument (Maspero, 1892)
Very, very early this morning, I read a beautiful description of the power of the human voice in an excerpt taken from Gaston Maspero’s Études de mythologie et d’archéologie égyptiennes (1893) and published in a book on secret societies and their crimes (André Baron, 1906). The powerful description of this academic Egyptologist and archaeologist remained at the back of my mind for the rest of the day and I could not wait for the evening to come so as to be able to find out whether this passage had been translated or not into English. Apparently this is not the case; however, Gaston Maspero (1846-1916) had already discussed his interpretation of Mâ-Khrôou (the power of the human voice when working to the proper modulation) in a previous paper, which was translated into English nearly 130 years ago. It appeared in April 1892 on pages 365 and 366 of the Imperial and Asiatic Quarterly Review and Oriental and Colonial Record under the title of ‘Creation by the Voice and the Ennead of Hermopolis’. Surprise, surprise: volume three of this venerable quarterly publication from the East India Association and the Oriental Institute is available from various online sources, including at the Internet Archive. So here is an excerpt very similar to the one in the French language which caught my imagination in the early hours of the first day of the week [as always, words or string of words that appear in green in citations were put in that colour by me, not by the author of the passage; the words in French were added by the original translator]:
The human voice had, and still has among most Oriental nations, a power not attributed to it by Europeans. It is the magical instrument, above all others, without which the highest operations of the art cannot succeed. Each of its emissions awakens an echo in the world of the Invisible, and sets to work forces of which the vulgar herd suspect neither the existence nor the manifold activities. Doubtless, the mere text of a Summons (Évocation), the sequence of words of which it is formed, has its real value, but this value is only full when the human voice comes in to give life to the letter; the spell, to be efficacious, must be accompanied by song, must become an incantation, a Carmen [Latin for sacred chant, incantation]. When declaimed with the sacramental chaunt (mélopée), without the modification of a single modulation, it necessarily produced its full effect; a false note, an error in the measure, the slightest break between two sounds, and it was null and void of effect. This is the reason why all who recited prayers or formulæ intended to bind the gods to the ac-
* Translated from the French by C. H. E. Carmichael, M.A.
/
complishment of a determinate act, called themselves Mâ Khrôou, or correct-voiced, and this is true not only, as commonly thought, of the dead, but also of the living; the happy or unhappy results of the operation depended entirely on the correctness of their voice. It was therefore the voice which had the preponderating part in prayer and in sacrifice, i.e., in the capture (mainmise) of the gods by man; without the voice, formulæ were but a dead letter. It is long since I established this point, and showed that in the alliance of voice and speech which constitutes prayer or a spell (conjuration), those were mistaken who only took account of speech and neglected the voice.
Lausanne,
3rd May 2021