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I happened upon a Manly P Hall story, well actually it's not by Hall, but it was in one of his journals from 1928. The story is about Gen. George Washington at Valley Forge. It's an incredible story of Washington having a vision. I think it would be 1792. The fellow that relayed the story was in his nineties when he told it. So the late 1800's.

Washington saw an apparition while alone in his tent. He was paralyzed by it. He was shown three visions. It was led by this phrase, Son of the republic...

The first thing he saw was the Continent being dotted by towns and cities cropping up all across the continent. I can't remember what happened then. The second time he saw a dark figure coming out of Africa and then the Civil War breaking out.

The third vision was Europe and Asia ganging up on the USA and attacking it. Was this WWII? I cannot know.

I sent this to my friend so we could discuss it. He told me Washington was a Mason. It seems like I knew that but somehow maybe forgot it.

My friend is a Christian and he was having some trepidation regarding Manly Hall. So I assured him that it wasn't Hall's story but someone else's. So we discussed this story as it were real. I have no reason to doubt it. But he did give me quite a few quotes attributed to Hall that were seemingly derogatory to him. They were in my view out of context. Which caused me to read more M. P. Hall.

I can see that Hall is an unabashed promoter for USA. And given the time frame it would make sense. I doubt Hall would agree with the state of affairs these days. but I digress. I really enjoy Hall's writing so I went back to find some other articles to read and I chose one from March, 1942. Low and behold it happed to have the very same article about Washington in it as well!

This was quite startling to me. There are a few hundred articles on the PRS website and I happened to choose one that had the same article from a decade earlier.

I have no idea what this means.

Current Mood: tired
Current Music: Thomas Dolby

It's gotten too weird. I have to step back for a while.

Current Mood: intimidated
Current Location: Missouri
Current Music: King's X

Druid Journal:

Briefly meditated on Sunday, I think. Came away with the sense that my practice needed to be enhanced by invoking a deity for the first time. Having a bit of trepidation about this however since traditionally I am an atheist.

If I've got any affinity at all with a deity it has to be related to trees. So the Druid God of the forest is Esus. (amazingly similar to another well known person I might add)

I cast the fews to see if that was a good choice. I got:

Present: Mar - arrival of a new influence, effects of destiny

Past: Ioho/Yew - spiritual strenght is renewed, life is given fresh vigor able to now understand what is and what shall always be

Future: Ohn (rev) Not yet finished gathering needed things

Seems like an affirmative answer.

Current Mood: sleepy
Current Music: Pat Metheny

The George Castanza Moment

School starts back this week. In what has to be one of the biggest contradictions ever, the powers that be have determined that the best way forward is to do the complete opposite of what they've been telling us to do for the last six months! From stay home, keep your distance, no congregating allowed to everybody crowd onto a bus and sit for extended periods in a closed class room with dozens of other people while recirculated air is pumped throughout the entire building! There's a plan! Remember what we said in April? Do the opposite!

The Outcome

What is going to happen any blind man can see. Cases will go through the roof. Not because this virus is any different but because pretty much all the viruses out there get spread through the public school system. Stomach viruses, colds, flu, chicken pox, pink eye you name it. If you ever caught anything as a child you probably got it at school. It's a breeding ground for disease. They can mandate all the mask wearing, hand washing and disinfectant spraying they wish but it isn't going to matter. This will be the final stop for the Covid and it should finally, mercifully have completed its cycle. Unless, they get two weeks into the school year and close it down again because every teacher and bus driver and faculty test positive along with a fairly large percentage of older students. And who knows even little kids might be susceptible in such an non quarantined environment. We'll see.

Personally, I would not send my children back. Even here, out in the sticks, the system is allowing for kids to take their classes online. Since I don't see any real value in Government schools in the first place I would use this opportunity to the fullest extent possible. I know that on the whole school is, in reality, just a socialized baby sitting scheme for single parent households or for families where both parents work.

Mixed Signals

But it's very clear that Dems and Republicans both are in agreement that school should "re-open", disregard any previous lip service to the contrary. Public school is an arm of the government and both parties are one hundred percent in favor of America's children being indoctrinated, corona virus be damned! The mutual agreement of both parties on this point should be a clear indicator that the last six months of draconian lock downs and asinine ordinances too myriad to mention were nothing but window dressing and political posturing, never having any meaningful value for the health of the populace. And yet they will continue to deprive people of their right to their livelihood while giving the all clear for school. Because either a) Covid isn't nearly as bad as we are supposed to believe it is or b) School should be postponed. It can't be both.

Current Mood: irritated

"rejecting all that is irrelevant."

This is why you use the example of doing something like going and touching a point on the wall everyday?

I am very capable of getting something done but rejecting all that is irrelevant, that seems vast now that I'm thinking about it. Almost incomprehensibly vast. I am always thinking a thousand things. This has to begin at a minuscule level, like putting on socks maybe.

If the concept has to begin on the plane above, can we then reverse engineer this dictate? Meaning that it might be possible to figure out which plane certain habitual thoughts or idiosyncrasies entered into us at and then devise the proper plan to eliminate those habits/thoughts by using the plane above their entry point.

Some of the early Popes were Initiates, but the last fragments of their knowledge have now fallen into the power of the Jesuits, who have turned them into a system of sorcery.

Book of the Dead

Here we believe the eminent Egyptologist is going too far. The exoteric dogmas may often have been altered, the esoteric never. He does not take into account the sacred immutability of the primitive truths,
revealed only during the mysteries of initiation. The Egyptian priests have forgotten much, they altered nothing. The loss of a good deal of the primitive teaching was due to the sudden deaths of the great Hierophants, who passed away before they had time to reveal all to their successors; mostly, to the absence of worthy heirs to the knowledge. Yet they have preserved in their rituals and dogmas the principal teachings of the secret doctrine. Thus, in the seventeenth chapter mentioned by Maspero, one finds

(1) Osiris saying he is Toum (the creative force in nature, giving form to all Beings, spirits and men), self-generated and self-existent, issued from Noun, the celestial river, called Father-mother of the gods, the primordial deity, which is chaos or the Deep, impregnated by the unseen spirit.

(2) He has found Shoo (solar force) on the staircase in the City of the Eight (the two cubes of good and Evil), and he has annihilated the evil principles in Noun (chaos) the children of Rebellion.

(3)He is the Fire and Water, i.e., Noun the primordial parent, and he created the gods out of his limbs — 14 gods (twice seven) seven dark and seven light gods (the seven Spirits of the Presence of the Christians and the Seven dark Evil Spirits).

(4) He is the Law of existence and Being(v. 10), the Bennoo (or phoenix, the bird of resurrection in Eternity), in whom night follows the day, and day the night — an allusion to the periodical cycles of cosmic resurrection and human re-incarnation ; for what can this mean ? “ The wayfarer who crosses millions of years, in the name of One, and the great green (primordial water or Chaos) the name of the other ” (v. 17), one begetting millions of years in succession,the other engulfing them, to restore them back.

(5) He speaks of the Seven Luminous ones who follow their Lord, who confers justice(Osiris in Amenti ).All this is now shown to have been the source and origin of Christian dogmas. That which the Jews had from Egypt, through Moses and other initiates, was confused and distorted enough in later days ; and that which the Church got from both, is still more misinterpreted.

Today, I had a bit of a sensation in the solar plexus as if it was enlarging and filling up with a bit of energy. But then I also doubted it and attributed it possibly to tensing my ab muscles and feeling some tightening and fatigue there but I wasn't sure so maybe a little progress in that area, maybe not.

Heart had a good drummer. (non sequitur of the week)

Today I collected some English plantain seeds. It's not very often that you see plantain go to seed because it is typically mowed before it ever gets that far along.

Current Mood: sleepy

This always happens when I am working:

Dredging up past memories

Dwelling on regrets

Childhood memories of offenses suffered from parents esp. father

Haunted by first love

I want to let these things go.

Below is from an online natal reading and is pretty good!

Traits:

Creative, Enthusiastic, Broad-Minded, Expansive, Faithful and Loving

Dark Traits:

Pompous, Patronizing, Bossy, Interfering, Dogmatic and Intolerant

You are compassionate and respect the feelings of others. You expect the same respect in return. You tend to keep track of offenses suffered. While you will forgive those who upset you, it is not likely you will forget.

Often you are slow to act, because you are not comfortable making decisions without having all available facts to factor into the equation. You will avoid making mental mistakes at all costs.

Mercury Conjunct Jupiter

Your mind loves the world of abstractions. You love to explore the "essence" of things and seek a clearer view of life on a cosmic scale. You see life as a learning experience and will seek knowledge through all of your years. Your penchant for sharing concepts and knowledge make you an ideal teacher.

Mars In Leo

Mars is the planet of action. Its placement on your chart will indicate your level of aggression and competitiveness.

A Leo in Mars is a very proud spirit in need of being recognized for his excellence. You are extremely ambitious and are driven by your ego to reach the pinnacle of success. You truly want to be the best at whatever you do.

Because you feel you are a natural leader you do much better giving orders than you do taking them. You are full of energy and love competition. For you winning is extremely important. You thrive on the admiration and approval of others. However, while you love to bask in the glories of victory, losses never stop haunting you.

Uranus Conjunct Pluto

You were born in a period when there was an underlying current of restlessness and need for extreme personal freedom prevailed. You are totally intolerant of restrictions on your right to go your own way.

Current Mood: bemused

I have had no active pursuit of any occult activity other than attempting to read Steiner's book on it which my wife bought some years ago. I don't think I got through one chapter. When he said plants were sleeping I put it down. I also seem to have formed a very closely corresponding view of Life/Nature/Universe I've read the King James Bible and put a fair amount of study into Buddhism. I've always had an affinity for symbols.

I grew up in South Georgia and know of "hoodoo" only vicariously through what I heard from the black kids at school. They never used the term hoodoo but I often heard the word root. A "root lady" could root someone, which meant to cast a spell, usually to get even for cheating on someone or to hex them in some way. I specifically remember "period blood" in a story one of my friends told me in high school.

I hadn't thought about that for decades until I shockingly found a bowl of said blood in my shower that my wife had collected, her own. I knew she was dabbling in magic in some ways and I had seen certain books she had been reading that were related to magic. Most of the things that I was aware of were offerings like lit candles, smudge sticks and certain ceremonies during full moons etc. It made me a little apprehensive because I knew she was going only by what she had either seen on Youtube or read in a contemporary book and having no real mentor. However I wasn't overly concerned about it.

Before I continue, this might be pertinent. We moved onto this property, its a farm, which is very rural only about four years ago and I, as well as my dog, saw an apparition one morning in the very old farmhouse we bought and moved into. Certainly a female entity. My dog's bark woke me and I noticed a woman walking but only got a glimpse of the torso before she went through the doorway. I actually thought it was my wife but she had left long before to go to work and Aggie would not have barked hostilely toward my wife. When I got up to look no one was there. I wasn't alarmed, I feel like I am very lucky to have seen a "ghost" and it's not the only time its happened. I didn't know that dogs could see them but after cogitating on it for a while it seemed rather silly to me to believe otherwise, why not? That happened pretty early on after we arrived here, way before the blood incident.

After I found the blood and knowing what I had heard about its use all those years ago I got very concerned. I know that blood is very powerful and although I am not versed in magic it felt like to me that she may have been treading in deeper waters than she realized. I tried to casually say something to that effect without getting too specific but I wasn't able to really get my point across. I took it that she was bemused at me, because of course in her mind I knew nothing about any of it. I did not mention my awareness of root ladies, blood, etc. My worry deepened.

I had seen my wife giving the blood to what looked like an offering to a large tree but I know she has collected it on more than one occasion and what she's done with it at other times I don't know.

I know she had some success with her practices. Our sow had a litter of pigs and we had been planning on harvesting one of them when the weather got cold enough. When the day arrived, I could tell that she was very upset with the thought of it and I could feel she was actively working against it. I tested the rifle out ahead of time to make sure it was firing. When I pulled the trigger to dispatch the hog nothing happened. I ejected the bullet put in another one. I sighted in on the hog again and click, nothing happened. The rifle wouldn't fire. I walked around the barn and shot the rifle into the ground and it fired. I tried it on the hog again and it wouldn't fire. Then it dawned on me.

I waited until the weather was favorable again and did not tell her I was going to do it ahead of time and I had no issues. She quickly got over the shock when I told her and she was comfortable with it after she thanked the hog and we got on with the process without any problem.

Current Mood: cheerful
Current Music: Pat Metheny

Today I was working on the new house I am building and since I am waiting for materials to show up, going on two weeks now, and not having very much to do until said material arrives I decided to open up the shower drain cover for the first time. What am I talking about? When the slab is poured on a house the plumbers cover the shower drains with plastic box-outs so that when the shower pan is being built you can install the shower drain at the right height. The box-out leaves an empty pit in the slab that accommodates the drain and after it is installed the pit is then filled in with concrete. It is about a foot wide square hole. It's sort of like turning a plastic shoe box upside down and pouring concrete over the top of it. It looks like a black square in the slab. To access them you have to cut the plastic out with a utility knife. Once you cut away the plastic you see the plumbing pipe stub up there poking up out of the original gravel beneath the slab. They poured the slab last May. So about 14 months ago. Today I cut the plastic off of the one in the master bathroom and to my shock there was a snake inside! There is no way for anything to get into one of these box outs. There is a pvc pipe stub up but the pipe was taped closed with duct tape. It dawned on me that the snake might have been there since the slab was poured.

He wasn't a very big snake maybe as big around as an index finger. As I investigated the pit I saw that he had shed his skin pretty recently as best as I could tell. He seemed to be quite unaware of me and I slowly realized that he must certainly be blind if he had been there in the darkness for his entire life. He was so small and the light was dim so it was hard to make out his eyes. I gathered him up with a gloved hand and walked him over to the well lit area and I could see his eyes looked as if they had cataracts over them. They were glazed over. He was blind.

As far as I could tell, he may have subsisted on condensation. What he ate or if he did I cannot say. I looked it up and he is a speckled king snake and we have seen adults of those near the house recently as well. I took the plumbing pipe out and inspected the duct tape and noticed maybe a one eighth gap between the tape and the pipe that may have been a possible entry point for a newborn snake but it would have been an impossibility to escape once it had slithered through the tiny gap.

I released him into the grass outside the french doors. I shot some video of him as he crawled away. Hopefully he can manage without sight solely through the use of his tongue. I realized later that he probably had never encountered any other creature before in that lonely dark prison.

Current Mood: melancholy
Current Location: Missouri

I am in a military base. A german sounding officer is at the head of the table wearing a white wool cardigan sweater. The sleeves have that intertwined weave on them and others are wearing them too. Mostly old men. They break out in a jody call, "They've got the warriors!" two-three-four, "They've got the warriors!". One old man repeats it, then others that appear out of nowhere. Then everybody is singing it. I want to, but don't know the song. Then on the fourth stanza the German officer sings the head to the song but I can't catch it or it's in another language and I wake up. I think this is Serbia.

Current Mood: confused
Current Location: Serbia?
Current Music: Singing