The Ultimate Thread: SJG's Soap Box

Three events in the next 24 hours that could determine whether the sell-off continues

http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/t…

Dougster, don't jump!

SJG

Jump, SJG, jump !!!

Are we talking about bitcoin, I've already moved my working capital into fiat....haven't touched the HODL coins

Bitcoin going to $1,000,000,000 per coin!
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=5366…

SJG

Bitcoin: Robert Shiller is correct again and again and again...

^^^^^ link?

SJG

I don't know you all well enough to know if you're serious....I never thought it would hit that high myself, but I was shocked when it went up from 1,000$ to $20,000 in a relatively short time span. I missed out on a lot of capital gain because I mostly make money on buying from sellers and selling to buyers...My rationale was I'd always make money regardless of a bull or bear market...I've had customers buy $30K and end up with millions from buying both BTC and ETH....

People can also watch valuations rise in the short term and make money in the casinos of Las Vegas. Put $1 down, if it wins, then the valuation of that number is now $35. You get to decide if you cash our or let it ride.

SJG

Obviously the last year or so was fueled by massive speculation....I warned all my buyers...and the HYIP ponzi's going on like Bitconnect are the worst. Yet, a few still chose to invest in such nonsense....It would have been better if we never had this run....bitcoin was just fine at $200, or even $2.

Well, this entire country has been becoming more and more a Ponzi scheme.

I think people should put their money into their own affairs. Believing that these financial speculations are somehow better is a huge con.

SJG

@san_jose_guy,

I'm just curious, without financial market speculation how else would we finance large risky projects?

@BHF... You do realize that asking a question like that is essentially the same as making eye contact with that crazy homeless guy who sometimes chases people with a used syringe, right?

@Call.Me.Ishmael,

LOL yes, I know. But he's actually an interesting guy. I mean he's batshit crazy but he's still interesting. I'm a libertarian and he hates libertarianism, so it's not like I would vote for him for mayor or something.

I’m reading the “Art of the Deal”, so stfu SJG!

This is another thread by a guy who comments on strip clubs - but hasn’t been in a club in 20 years. What are the chances SJG has actually investments in the market that he pretends to know about? He’s a complete sham. He views the markets with snippets of information that are used only because they fit his narrative. His comments hold no credence - and his soap box simply provides us with a better view of the village idiot!

I have $1,000 I can paypal to anyone who can permanently take away SJGs internet access.

Maybe we can get a pool going to up the ante.

You guys know that you are feeding SJGs fantasies by responding to his inane drivel right.

BHO, large projects or most business expansions get very little from financial speculation markets. Rather, such markets give a class a hold on our productive future. I cite here the writings of Doug Henwood, Left Business Observer and How Wall Street Works and for Who.

And Cashman, I'm not stupid enough to waste money that could be funding my own affairs, by putting it into things which are not my own affairs. You go along with herd think and believe that things you know very little about are good, because other people tell you so.

And I am sure that you regularly get your money clipped off of you in strip clubs, when someone who did not think like you would quickly be waking up in the mornings with the stripper of his choice.

SJG

http://tijuanababes.blogspot.mx/

REPLY TO A CONTINUING ENQUIREY ABOUT DFKING AND OUR LOCAL CLUBS

Well yes, our clubs are no touching. The last people who seriously challenged this sat in jail for several months before they were allowed to put their houses up for bail. Will this ever change, hard to say. Our DA's office knows that there is nothing except their bullying which stands between us and San Francisco. They don't want that to happen. So most of the time people are hit with massive charges, to intimidate them into pleading guilty, while the DA knows that with competent defense and in front of a jury, their case is bogus.

Jim and Artie Mitchell went through 2 jury trials. But of course, they courted the news papers. In San Francisco the news papers mocked the police. That helps.

Here the papers have sat on the fence and endorsed the moralists POV.

Sorry to hear that Seattle is Deja Vu. That sucks.

I am 24-7 embedded in guerilla style political conflicts. So I cannot go to anything like our underground circuit. I am inview and on call 24-7. If it is running, I say go to some of the bars and start asking. The dancers at the above ground clubs are not that likely to know about it. Just go to the bars and ask politely. The Mexicans call it 'Bikini Show'. At this point I would also suggest checking Watsonville, Monterey, and Salinas.

Otherwise just go to a major metro with a good rep for loose non-Deja Vu clubs.

I do not like Cheetah's. They only price dances so high because the girls insist that they are as hot as the SF girls. So the management gives in.

Brass Rail is far cheaper, and you can be civilian dating one of their girls very quickly. Some even do do P4P. Go in near closing time on the night shift. Dress nice.

Buying dances is a chump's game. Front room makeout session. Not for free, but treating her like a civilian. Then only when it is time for your own pants to come down, you invite her to the back room. Then take her home with you and keep on seeing her.

But, at our local clubs, and Deja Vu run SF, very hard to do. If you were to try SF, I would suggest MBOT, non-Deja Vu, and then the 4x unbranded DV no alcohol clubs. And especially New Century ( very large, and usually lots of blacks ) or Little Darlings ( looks to be all black ).

Otherwise just need to find another metro. People say great things about that San Gabriel Valley, and about a few other places such as Club Rio, and I would check out Starz in Gardena.

Good Luck
SJG

SJG - your posts have again gone off the rails. I am doing quite well with my investments. I avoid the crazes - and stick with stable - risk averse investments.

My investments fund all of my affairs. I don’t spout off details about my business and investment dealings because I’m comfortable where I am in life. I don’t seek approval from others, and I don’t offer (unsolicited) advice, because each investors basis and risk tolerance, differs.

Your above post makes it seem that you are a high level political operative. We all know that is a huge overstatement. I doubt that your “organization” is even at the level of grass roots.

Everyone on this board knows you are an angry man, who holds a major grudge against strip clubs (because of some odd negative experience over 20 years ago). You continue to spout negativity towards others, and offer little constructive advice. So your presence on this board is puzzling.

Do you think you’ve discouraged one member from going to a club with your sad diatribes? I would doubt you have any effect on others club habits.

@san_jose_guy said "large projects or most business expansions get very little from financial speculation markets."

Ok, I'll bite: where do you believe they get the money from if not the financial markets?

SJG and Groundhog Day have something in common. He’s like a broke record.

Well Cashman, that may be how you want to live, glorfied gambling, or following the pension and insurance fund managers. Really I could not care less how much money you have.

I and a circle of associates are putting our money into our own affairs and we will continue to.

I have nothing against strip clubs. I love them. But that doesn't mean I take them at face value, or regularly hand out wads of money when the same women can be enjoyed off site and things can get very personal.

I am not an angry man, as that would be you Cashman.

Here, something you can stuff into your mouth:
http://www.organicauthority.com/images/s…

SJG

If you aren’t an angry man - how many times have you posted rants here calling strip club patrons chumps? Telling others that they are pursuing enjoyment incorrectly?

An angry man is unable to accept the enjoyment of others. You are a sad and angry man. You continually tell us that we are having fun incorrectly. Why not simply accept our enjoyment for what it is?

You can spout off about your hang ups everyday - but this is the wrong site for it.

Those who go into strip clubs and buy dances, they are chumps.

Pursuing enjoyment incorrectly? Well sex and sex acts with real women ( as opposed to FemBots ) are enjoyable. But the bigger part of it is when the girl opens up to you emotionally. These idiots are not pursuing enjoyment. Something has gone seriously ary.

Cashman, you sound to me like someone who's entire psyche has been shaped by continual doses of alcohol. Am I right.

And here, if that sock wasn't enough to shut you up, try this:
http://78.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mcra92…

SJG

OT: Programmable Logic Devices
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=5461…

Destroying Political Consciousness, The ~~Mental Health~~ System
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=5454…

Up in a high rise, not Trump tower, but not too far away either:
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=5434…

Story of O, Sex Slave Initiation
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=5432…

OT: Who Performs A**a**inations?
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=5411…

The Best Women's Lingerie Does Not Need To Be Taken Off
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=5405…

Robert T. Kiyosaki, Rich Dad Poor Dad
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=5400…

Web Programming, HTML, CSS, and more
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=5391…

Founder, and idea for a TUSCL graphic
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=5387…

To Be Considered a Sexual Minority?
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=5382…

Remaining Friends With The Ex?
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=5382…

Bitcoin going to $1,000,000,000 per coin!
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=5366…

Any Regrets, for those who have deliberately avoided marriage, or initiated divorce?
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=5347…

Basement Clubs
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=5319…

Oakland Ghost Ship Fire
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=5313…

OT: Computer Programming
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=5312…

OT: Neoliberalism's Stealth Revolution
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=5310…

Why Are So Many White Men So Stupid?
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=5308…

OT: Economists, like Gary Becker
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=5304…

Slavery And The Family
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=5294…

Fighting Muggles!
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=5258…

Tomi-Ann Roberts
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=5257…

Is Stealthing Rape?
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=5257…

What Destroys Relationships?
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=5211…

You have again gone off and launched an irrational personal attack. It’s sad that you launch such attacks when questioned. I question your ability to reason maturely and respond intelligently.

I treat strip clubs as intended. They are a place for non-emotional adult sexual interaction. There is very little else I seek in strip clubs. I don’t seek out DFK and emotional connections from dancers.

If you want to debate salient points, I will do so. But your childish attacks are useless - as I’m not threatened by a keyboard cowboy - armed with media links and lengthy directs to his previous tuscl discussions.

Cashman and Taxi, I have made my points consistently and very clear. You still want to argue, about what I know not. But that is you two guys' problem.

"I treat strip clubs as intended. They are a place for non-emotional adult sexual interaction"

Yes, the strip club owners set them up so it looks like that. But the central part of sex is emotional.

The women who work in strip clubs, at least so far, they are real. But for some reason lots of guys want to treat them as fembots.

Not me, I am real with them and I open the door for them to be real with me. Been like that for decades, since my first visits to local clubs.

SJG

LMAO SJG has to pay women for emotional connections. And he thinks the best places for this are strip clubs and AMPs...both of which are there for sexual services.

What an emotional CHUMP!!!

^ And strip club POSER.

@taxi driver just piss on him and give him a dollar ;)))

BHF said: "LOL yes, I know. But he's actually an interesting guy."

You and I have vastly different definitions of the word 'interesting'.

SirLDAlot - there is a major omission in SJG’s statements - as he speaks as though his knowledge is current. He hasn’t stepped in a strip club in years. That is why I still don’t understand he posts on a strip club website. He can’t explain that either. His discussions are entirely non pertinent. A few off topic posts are fine for any user. But every post of his is off topic! He’s useless, lonely, bored, and he couldn’t afford to go to a strip club!

He's a huge ass faggot

SJG is gay!

You guys do realize he is jerking off while writing this stuff?!?! You are just getting him more turned on by engaging in debate.

@Uprightcitizen I disagree. I'm pretty sure SJG truly believes he's not trolling and is simply posting to "contribute" to TUSCL with "scintillating" conversation. (Yes he is that much of a clueless idiot.)

@Cashman1234 The reason you struggle to understand SJG is because you don't understand how the mind of a distraught narcissist works. As a narcissist, he is simply using TUSCL to look "better' than PLs that actually go to strip clubs and get dances with strippers. Unbeknownst to him, his claim that "buying dances is a chump's game" is a straw man argument that he uses to make himself look better as someone that would rather DFK and skip dances and go straight to FS. It's his narcissistic defense mechanism.

And coupled with his narcissism is the mental anguish and stress of losing his wife (LOL due to his own infidelity as a monger back in the 90s). He is extremely in post divorce stress but his narcissism won't let him see the truth in his own wrongdoings, so bashing TUSCL PLs is his "therapy"

And yes, there is no credibility to any of his claims. He may have DFKed once with a stripper in the 90s but he hasn't since. And also his only real stories that he has ever posted about actual DFK were his AMP whore threads he started about two years ago. And LOL even in those threads it is clear the AMP whores didn't really want to DFK him.

He basically lost his wife, a woman's sincere affections, and his money by being a PL monger. He now seeks that lost affection and emotional connection more so than actual sex. He fulfilled the need somewhat through paying AMP whores, and since that was at least something since he lost his wife, it's become his TUSCL mantra. As long as he keeps repeating his narcissistic and pathetic self over and over, he doesn't ever have to face the real truth about himself.

I don’t read his posts much and I have no idea what this one is about. But I think dance a lot gives an excellent psychological critique.

SLD nice shrinkage. Certainly plausible based on his history. I was just making a smart ass comment that was meant to point out the futility of having a reasoned debate with SJG. He likes to judge others but recoils at the slightest hint of being judged himself (your reasoning could very well be valid). He may also be cleaning up right now and once his refractory period is over he will start posting again.

^ No worries Upright, regardless of jest I was using your post to point out that he really is so clueless as to not even recognize his own asshole behavior. LOL it's extreme narcissism.

I agree - SLD offers good insights - and a good summary of the narcissism filling SJG’s mind.

To uprightcitizen’s point - it’s entirely possible that SJG is jerking off as he imparts his wisdom on us. He views his genius as so superior - that simply by tossing out a few snippets - is providing us with mind-blowing brilliance.

At least he doesn’t post fictitious reviews - to just get vip access. Although I’m sure his reviews wouldn’t be very interesting - as he couldn’t describe the interior of a strip club (at least not a modern club).

^^^^^^^ bunch of jackanapes

You buffoons still don't listen. I can disclose lots of stuff on this forum which I could not f2f, because I can and do deploy a privacy wall where I see it as needed. So what I tell you is what I want you to know. If I wanted you to know more, I would have disclosed it.

As such I am not subject to interrogation, and I don't have to prove anything whatsoever. My current life is very closely guarded because I have worldly responsibilities. I'm not every going to rule anything in our out.

Trying to get information out of me will never be any different than it would be with the CIA.

Subraman's Post From Stripper Web, Time wasters
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=5495…

The System (tm)
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=912

Dugan, often getting girls to leave mid-shift! Sure the hell beats buying dances.

SJG

Year of the Dog, Feb 16, 2018
https://www.asia-home.com/china/newyear/…

Dugan, often getting girls to leave mid-shift! Sure the hell beats buying dances.
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=5289…

SJG

Fap...fap...fap...oooh give it to me baby

^ @Uprightcitizen LMAO.

See how SJG's recent posts are self-aggrandizing and denigrate anyone that disagrees with him?

Reason: extreme narcissism.

He proves my point by trying to deny it.

^^^^^ Upright, go fuck yourself:
https://img1.etsystatic.com/047/0/994908…

Some threads to watch:

Mental Health System
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=5454…

Shift In Stripper Attitudes On Sex
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=5494…

San Diego
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=5493…

Musing On Adulting And Savings
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=5480…

States With The Most Clubs
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=5493…

Economic Issues For Club Owners
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=5491…

Complimenting Dancers
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=5490…

Clubs Open in NOLA
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=5487…

Thrill Of The Hunt
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=5487…

SJG

^ more proof of a clueless narcissist

BTW I doubt SJG jerks off. He also suffers from ED. Likely because of guilt that he is unwilling to admit.

I noticed SJG is now signing off all his posts with links to his older, most "scintillating" threads, but...he fails to share his threads on AMP whore DFK mongering. I thought I'd share them to put his views and claims into perspective...

https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=3299…

https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=3305…

https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=3335…

https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=3337…

https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=3369…

To me these are SJG's true "contributions" to the boards. They highlight his "mastery" of how to DFK and get "civilian" with an AMP whore. They are all both creepy and entertaining as fuck.

Enjoy!

"@Uprightcitizen I disagree. I'm pretty sure SJG truly believes he's not trolling and is simply posting to "contribute" to TUSCL with "scintillating" conversation. (Yes he is that much of a clueless idiot.)"


That's funny, and very accurate!

And the title is wrong, it should be "the creep's ultimate egotistical spam thread"

And i hate bumping this useless thread but the creep will be along in a few hours to bump it anyway like he always does.

^ LOL nice title.

LOL SJG has a limited window of free internet access every day. He attends to all his "worldly affairs" from his bike and then the high point of his day is spamming TUSCL with self-aggrandizing posts at the public library.

TheeOSU, You seem to be under the misunderstanding that I care what you think of my posts.

SJG

Debunking Personal Finance Gurus Like Suze Orman
https://kpfa.org/episode/against-the-gra…

My Ignore List:
DrPhil, DrPhil., IME, Meat72, san_jose_gay, tixtittyfag, JimGassagain, Call.Me.Ishmael, SirLapdancealot, L1oydSchoene

^
And you, creep, are definitely misunderstanding that other than you, nobody cares about your posts.

SJG is a cautionary tale for all PLs. He is an example of how bad things can go if you monger so much that SS becomes your reality that you lose your money, home, car, wife, and a woman's affections all because of it. He's at rock bottom in life now. And I'm pretty sure he's even lost his mind. And again it is all because of not being able to control his mongering.

Personally, I became fascinated with his early posts and read a lot of them, the ones I posted links to earlier, but besides those his OT threads are mindless drivel and spam. But those threads about his AMP mongering are amazing journeys into the mind of a clueless idiot that thinks he has game with AMP whores. But in reality they are completely repulsed by him and are stringing him along. They are his real world experiences rather than his fantasy land obsession with front room DFK posts, and so I think that is why I found them entertaining and funny (in a pathetic way).

So, will be getting an occult book:

https://www.amazon.com/Occult-Paris-Magi…

But also want to get the two James Wasserman books on the Knights Templar, especially interested in their involvement in a**a**ination and piracy. Today such might be considered te**o*ists.

https://www.amazon.com/Templars-Assassin…

seems to be the second book, and maybe lesser
https://www.amazon.com/Illustrated-Histo…

actually a third, 2017
Templar heresy : a story of gnostic illumination

So, all three, in order.

SJG

Sheryl Crow and Eric Clapton - "Run Baby Run" - Pavarotti and Friends - 1996 - live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzTMN-S1…

^ Because posting about getting an occult book is something all PLs and strippers are interested in and discussing.

Hey SJG, instead of posting about reading an occult book, instead how about going to an actual strip club and trying your front room DFK mad skills and report back about how it went when it was time for your pants to come down? I'm sure it would be an ultimate read!

Then will be proceeding to the Eliphas Levi books, mid 19th Century and often translated by members of Golden Dawn, like Westcott, Mathers, Waite, and Crowley. Prefer to read the ones I can get in the order written.

Eliphas Levi
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliphas_Le…

Selected writings:

La Bible de la liberté (The Bible of Liberty), 1841
Doctrines religieuses et sociales (Religious and Social Doctrines), 1841
L'assomption de la femme (The Assumption of Woman), 1841
La mère de Dieu (The Mother of God), 1844
Le livre des larmes (The Book of Tears), 1845
Le testament de la liberté (The Testament of Liberty), 1848
Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie, (Transcendental Magic, its Doctrine and Ritual), 1854–1856
Histoire de la magie, (The History of Magic), 1860
La clef des grands mystères (The Key to the Great Mysteries), 1861
Fables et symboles (Stories and Images), 1862
La science des esprits (The Science of Spirits), 1865
Le grand arcane, ou l'occultisme dévoilé (The Great Secret, or Occultism Unveiled), 1868
Magical Rituals of the Sanctum Regnum, 1892, 1970
The Book of Splendours: The Inner Mysteries of Qabalism


Ones I can likely get, try to be in order written:

The Book of Splendors (1892) probably cannot get

The Key of the Mysteries (1861) probably cannot get

So we have:

Transcendental Magic (1856)

The History Of Magic (1860)

The Great Secret; or Occultism Unveiled (1868)

The mysteries of the Qabalah, or, The occult agreement of the two testaments. Talks about Ezekiel and Revelations

SJG

http://www.metrolyrics.com/run-baby-run-…

Sheryl Crow and Eric Clapton - "Run Baby Run" - Pavarotti and Friends - 1996 - live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzTMN-S1…

LIFEBOAT ONLY!
Register now, or at least save this address some place safe, like in emails to yourself and on paper:
http://testosteronelifeboat.freeforums.n…

Amtrak Collision South Carolina
http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/amtrak-…

OT: musings on Adulting and savings (long)
https://www.tuscl.net/?page=post&id=5480…

NOLA
http://image.nola.com/home/nola-media/wi…

Lost Einsteins: The Innovations We’re Missing
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/03/opini…

The Greek magical papyri in translation, including the Demotic spells / edited by Hans Dieter Betz

https://www.amazon.com/Magical-Papyri-Tr…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_Magi…

SJG

So this new book:
https://www.amazon.com/Brotopia-Breaking…

Then about this Greek Magical Papyri
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_Magi…

We also have this:
https://www.amazon.com/Techniques-Graeco…

The above author is in libraries, but not his above work.

SJG

The true and invisible Rosicrucian Order : an interpretation of the Rosicrucian allegory and an explanation of the ten Rosicrucian grades / Paul Foster Case.

available in a library.

https://www.amazon.com/True-Invisible-Ro…

Always wanted to read this. Case, a Golden Dawn veteran, started his own group, a correspondance group based in Los Angeles.

SJG

So about Rosicrucianism, the above Paul Foster Case book, very highly regarded.

Also:
The Rosicrucians : the history, mythology, and rituals of an esoteric order / Christopher McIntosh (1997)

The Rosicrucian enlightenment revisited / John Matthews [and others] ; introduction by Ralph White (1999)

The invisible history of the Rosicrucians : the world's most mysterious secret society / Tobias Churton (2009)

Reading them in order would most please me.

SJG

Local guy I've known J.

Nominally a carpenter, but also usually homeless, living in his pick up truck. Had been absent. Just got out of 9 months in the county.

DUI, his first. I knew the penalties were tough, but 9months for a first time?

Seems he hit someone and she got injured. But J. down plays it, scratch on food, head injury.

J. has long had a drinking problem, and I see he also has an attitude problem. He blames this woman, driving at 11pm without her headlights on, and not wearing her seat belt. Talks like he has been wronged.

So now he is on probation for 3 years. He is in a temporary housing thing, 3 months at no cost. And he no longer has his vehicle.

After the 3 months they will try to get him into a sober living place. But J. says that won't work, as he drinks.

I feel that he is adamant about his drinking, maybe because he feels he was wronged, and because he no longer had a vehicle.

Working with community groups, I feel that many homeless men are so over divorce, or over loss of driving privelidge, or just bad driving records making them unemployable due to drinking. Many of the livable wage jobs a man might have do revolve around driving. But insurance co's of course don't want people with bad records working for their client firms.

I also have seen that many of the homeless men are also people who seem to have very grown up with very casual attitudes about drinking, seeing it as normal and a kind of an expectation. This kind of stuff is not easy to change.

Now in the group I am building there will be no such problems. But this group is not at all for the general population.

For our society, I say there is a problem, with alcohol, drugs, tobacco, psychiatric medication, recovery, and born again Christianity.

SJG

Book by someone I cannot stand, and about an industry I cannot stand.
https://www.amazon.com/Lean-Women-Work-W…

But I want to read it to better appreciate the counter point book:
https://www.amazon.com/Lean-Out-Struggle…

I've read some stuff from this Shevinsky. I don't share her POV. And some of what she objects to is male driven sexism. But I still want to read an understand it.

SJG

Led Zeppelin: Live on Danish TV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-WSbMW7…

Highly regarded, and Christopher Alexander has written lots of books:

https://www.amazon.com/Pattern-Language-…

SJG

Led Zeppelin, Danish TV 1969
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-WSbMW7…

Led Zeppelin, first album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsZG7n7r…

Led Zeppelin, second album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bcIjILq…

Led Zeppelin, Whole Lotta Love, from Song Remains The Same movie, w/Theremin, and with opening views of World Trade Center Twin Towers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrUHvPgx…

Led Zeppelin, Dazed and Confused, from Song Remains The Same, movie, w/destruction of horse hair violin bow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bCKqlVU9…

Mustn't forget about this, Patrick Dunn. Don't know if I will go along with it or not.

https://www.amazon.com/Postmodern-Magic-…

SJG

The Uplifters
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-zzXYPJA…

"demonstrates how crime, moral puritanism, and conflicts between ruthless capitalists and striking workers help ruin the lives of marginal Americans."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intoleranc…

But not all feminism is like this:

https://www.guerrillagirls.com/
Feminist artists, pro-sex, pro-prostitution. On the whole quite similar to the Russian girls, Pussy Riot.

"According to the authors, before agriculture, sex was relatively promiscuous, and paternity was not a concern, in a similar way to the mating system of Bonobos. "
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex_at_Daw…

https://www.amazon.com/Sex-Dawn-Stray-Mo…

Crisis and Openings: Introduction to Marxism - Richard D Wolff
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9Whccun…

Led Zeppelin 1969 Danish TV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k-WSbMW7…

Led Zeppelin II
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bcIjILq…

2/16

The Chinese horoscope for the Dog shows us that the Dog is the person who's constantly tasked with listening to the pain and sorrows of others. Not to worry though, the faithful dog doesn't mind. They are a true believer in Justice and they will fight for fairness for themselves, their family, their friends, and anyone else in need. They are not cowards, and they believe that a life without honor is no life at all.

http://horoscope-for.com/dog.html

Wow, "They are a true believer in Justice and they will fight for fairness for themselves, their family, their friends, and anyone else in need. They are not cowards, and they believe that a life without honor is no life at all." That describes me to a T.

*********************

Trump Budget Would Hit The Poor Very Hard
https://www.yahoo.com/news/trumps-budget…

SJG

Proxy Servers:
https://www.tuscl.net/discussion.php?id=…

Being able to use Proxy Servers on TUSCL was convenient. Safer in some kinds of situations. But with this new software it has never worked.

Just tried to access TUSCL using these four:

http://www.best-free-proxy.com/

http://dacd.win/

http://europroxy.pw/

takesper.gq

All the same problems. First it trips up on the sorting of discussions and articles. You select your option, but then it switches back. Seems not to like some kinds of client side interactivity. Also, does not let you login, just hangs.

Old TUSCL did work with most proxies.

Founder, might it be possible to reopen our old threads?

Thanks,
SJG

extreme income inequality and housing problems in Bay Area
https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/02/15/i…

SJG

Men Are Done Dealing With Women's Crap (Advice For Men)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q4PJrRz7…

Men Are Done Dating And Marrying Women (Wake Up Call For Women)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUn7Gt25…

SJG

Very high salaries, but homes still hard to afford. In my opinion this must hamstring those businesses too. High salaries make it hard. Unavailability also makes it hard.
https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/02/14/b…

Whole thing real stupid!

SJG

Inducting Women Into My Group:
https://www.tuscl.net/discussion.php?id=…

And so what becomes of a booking boy who seems to drift off into his own world and who has no interest in athletics and is tormented by bullies?

Doctors thought he was hard of hearing, and so they removed his adenoids.

https://www.amazon.com/Elon-Musk-SpaceX-…

Unlikely he ever has had money in ventures not run by he or his crew. His experience with 'jobs' seems to be very little.

SJG

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SolarCity

http://www.solarcity.com/residential/sol…

1st Ex-Wife
http://justinemusk.com/

http://www.solarcity.com/

Solar Roof, a roof which has invisible integrated solar panels, 98% as efficient as conventional solar cells ( no holes in roof, no tendency to leak )

Power wall battery, $5,500 for 14kWh

SJG

Bellanca Cruisair
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bellanca_C…

Maternal grandfather of Elon Musk had a 1948 model, they used to fly all around in it. Including once to Scotland and once to Australia. Mostly landing off airport.

They say that South Africa was a hard place for Elon Musk. He planned his escape to the US way back. But started off with college in Ontario.

SJG

Yep, need to read this to be prepared, Ho Tactics
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0692258841/ref…

so, from "Elon Musk, Tesla, SpaceX, and the Quest for a Fantastic Future", talking about Elon having just completed college in Ontario and U Pennsylvania.

page 55
"
Musk's insistence on explaining the early origins of his passion for electric cars, solar energy, and rockets can come off as insecure. It feels as if Musk is trying to shape his life story in a forced way. But for Musk, the distinction between stumbling into something and having intent is important. Musk has long wanted the world to know that he's different from the run-of-the-mill entrepreneur in Silicon Valley. He wasn't just sniffing out trends, and he wasn't consumed by the idea of getting rich. He's been in pursuit of a master plan all along. "I really was thinking about this stuff in college," he said. "It is not some invented story after the fact. I don't want to seem like a Johnny-come-lately or that I'm chasing a fad or just being opportunistic. I'm not an investor. I like to make technologies real that I think are important for the future and useful in some sort of way."

SJG

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Common_Gat…

The Young Karl Marx, interview with director Raoul Peck
https://www.democracynow.org/2018/2/23/t…

IRON BUTTERFLY IN- A-GADDA-DA-VIDA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZCkHanF4…

Building An Inclusive Economy
http://www.wpusa.org/Files/WPUSAstrategi…

SJG

So Musk started ZIP2, similar to CitySearch and like Yahoo Maps, Directions, and Yellow Pages. Then sold to Compaq in 1999 for over $300 Meg.

Musk had started with really nothing, his brother Kimbal, money from odd jobs in college, and a dilapidated sedan which they painted polka dots onto. And their father in South Afrika gave them $28k.

So about 4 years later, after sleeping and living in a 20' x 30' they had rented, and later bringing in outside people and money, when it was finally sold, Elon Musk got $22 Meg.

I think it highly unlikely that Elon Musk has ever been an 'investor', putting money into things he or his crew did not control, or that he ever went along with any doctrine of 'creating wealth', 'financial literacy', 'financial self improvement', or 'saving for retirement'.

Now Zip2 and PayPal were computer only things. I would not be satisfied with that myself.

But SolarCity, Tesla, SpaceX, those are an entirely different matter!

Will read more of the Ashlee Vance book about him later.

Now starting to read:
https://www.amazon.com/Occult-Paris-Magi…

And with the group I am building, we will have our own vast libraries.

SJG

So I read the earlier book on this subject:
Eliphas Levi and the French Occult Revival
https://www.amazon.com/Eliphas-Revival-W…

This has prepared me. And Christopher McIntosh has written a back cover endorsement for Tobias Churton:
https://www.amazon.com/Occult-Paris-Magi…

Its basically Pairs from 1871 thru 1914, mostly Rosicrucianism and Martinism.

Churton is turning out to be extremely prolific, and he is out there. But I can't afford to put the time into reading this straight, I have to speed read it, get out of it what I need, what will stick for me.

Very close relations between the occult and poetry, music, painting, literature, and science.

Talks about Frances Yates as one who talked about this at length:
https://www.amazon.com/Giordano-Bruno-He…

and then also:

Manuel Orazi, born in Rome 1860
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuel_Ora…

His 1895 piece entitled "Black Mass"
http://68.media.tumblr.com/d75296ff8f039…

Most of us have the idea of the naked woman on the altar from Anton LaVey, but it actually comes from:

J. K. Huysmans
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joris-Karl…
and this is what the painting must be a reference to.

Chat Noir
https://bonjourparis.com/wp-content/uplo…

SJG

Glenn Gould-Alban Berg-Piano Sonata
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNk_A4Zo…

VM whips out a foot or so and pees on this thread.

So reading Tobias Churton, Occult Paris.

Want to record some of his references, like these historical writers.

Frances Yates, writing in 1964 about Giordano Bruno

James Webb,
The Occult Underground
https://www.amazon.com/Occult-Undergroun…

And Colin Wilson wrote a book about James Webb

Athanasius Kircher's Theatre of the World: His Life, Work, and the Search for Universal Knowledge, by Joscelyn Godwin
https://www.amazon.com/Athanasius-Kirche…

And I need to find some books to read about Martinism, as I know far less about it than I do about Rosicrucianism.

SJG

Introduction to Martinism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9md6qiL…

So Churton finishes talking about the future, the legacy of that era before WWI. There was some rumors about Synarchism, a secret elite government, no good.

Now of course this would be Vichi, and such things are almost always Fascist.

But they are saying that it is the contemporary government of the EU.

SJG

Synarchism
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synarchism

good books written by
Joel R. Hass (Author),‎ Maurice D. Weir (Author),‎ George B. Thomas Jr. (Author)
like: University Calculus: Early Transcendentals, Multivariable
https://www.amazon.com/University-Calcul…

So books mentioned about this Synarchism:

This Gérard Galtier, but his stuff seems not to have been translated to English, but one into Spanish

Start with this, as referenced by Churton:

https://www.amazon.com/Ma%C3%A7onnerie-%…

and then:
https://www.amazon.com/tradicion-oculta-…

Okay, but then:

The Sion revelation : the truth about the guardians of Christs's sacred bloodline / Lynn Picknett and Clive Prince

And this Lynn Picknett has written lots of interseting looking stuff.

https://www.amazon.com/Sion-Revelation-G…

And then about Martinism, reading in Churton, starting to get some understanding.

Martinez de Pasqually (1727?–1774)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martinez_d…

And those who succeeded him were: Louis-Claude de Saint-Martin and Jean-Baptiste Willermoz

Now de Pasqually was likely half Jewish. And I have not read this anywhere, but to me he seems influenced by Baruch Spinoza, a likely practitioner of Kabbalah.

Here, a modern order which mentions among others Spinoza
https://wikivisually.com/wiki/Ordre_Reau…

Spinoza, in German I think:
https://www.hermetik-international.com/d…

Spinoza and Kabbalah
http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles…

Rosicrucian Order AMORC, loosely associating Martinism with philosophy like Spinoza's
https://www.martinists.org/videos

List of occultists, including Spinoza
http://wiki.deldebbio.com.br/index.php?t…

Spinoza
http://wiki.deldebbio.com.br/index.php?t…

Jacob Boehme
http://wiki.deldebbio.com.br/index.php?t…


Rhizome of Boehme and Deleuze: Esoteric Precursors of the God of Complexity, by Mark Bonta
http://muse.jhu.edu/article/374221

Deleuze and geophilosophy : a guide and glossary / Mark Bonta and John Protevi (2004)

Does tie Boehme to Martinism, sort of to Spinoza, and even to Paul Tillich.

and here, Sophia (wisdom)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophia_(wi…

about Martinism
https://answers.yahoo.com/question/index…

Rosicrucian Library
https://web.archive.org/web/200803281802…

Priscilla Hunt
http://phslavic.com/Priscilla_Academic/H…

Sophia Foundation
https://sophiafoundation.org/

famous book:
Three famous mystics: Saint-Martin / by Arthur Edward Waite ... Jacob Boehme, by W.P. Swainson; Swedenborg, by W.P. Swainson. (1940)

The unknown philosopher; the life of Louis Claude de Saint-Martin and the substance of his transcendental doctrine / by Arthur Edward Waite ( republished 1970)

and we have this, a reprint
https://www.amazon.com/Gerard-Encausse-P…

So other than what these Martinist groups have on their web sites, there is not that much. Though I do have to admit that the Tobias Churton book is proving both good and challenging.

SJG

Erik Satie: Gnossienne No. 1, 2, 3, not that difficult to play. You can tell that he has written it as three parts.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IUAF3abG…

made into two instruments:
http://www.music-scores.com/graphics/sa_…

clearly 3 piano parts
http://cdn.imslp.org/images/thumb/pdfs/6…

http://cdn.imslp.org/images/thumb/pdfs/d…

also good music to program into a sequencer. But I would still say this has to be by hand playing, not by typing in text. Otherwise it would sound mechanical.

more Satie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pyhBJzu…

I believe that the French Rosicrucian Order AMORC makes much use of Satie and Debussy.

So it was Antoine Court de Gebelin ( 1725 - 1824 ) who first put the 22 letter of the Hebrew alphabet onto the 22 Tarot cards. Eliphas Levi followed this. And Levi was not trying to recreate Renaissance magic, he wanted something compatible and necessary to science.

Eliphas Levi books I can readily get, but there are many more:
Transcendental Magic (1856)

The History Of Magic (1860)

The Great Secret; or Occultism Unveiled (1868)

The mysteries of the Qabalah, or, The occult agreement of the two testaments. Talks about Ezekiel and Revelations


And then this Inner Traditions Press, Rochester Vermont, always good, I've paid attention to it for decades. In this book they mention Churtons numerous other books, and al

The Morning of the Magicians, Pauwels and Bergier, very famous book, about 1960

The Esoteric Secrets of Surrealism by Patrick Lepetit

Lords of the Left-Hand Path
Stephen E. Flowers

Athanasius Kircher's Theatre of the World, Joscelyn Godwin, very famous person and famous book.

SJG

This is a lifeboat only. Join now. At least save the address on paper and in emails to yourself.
http://testosteronelifeboat.freeforums.n…

When RB went down there was no warning. And remember, the people who ran it were proud of what they were doing, and had no warning, and would not go along with LE's interpretation. But they force people to plead guilty just due to the weight of the charges.

https://www.fbi.gov/contact-us/field-off…

Here, Italian women taking off their clothes. I approve fully! Even though many are rather thick, I still like them.
https://www.yahoo.com/lifestyle/25-itali…

SJG

^^^ Has video

Churton is the first I have seen who was able to summarize Eliphas Levi. Levi did not want to recreate Renaissance Magic, he wanted something compatible with science.

pp 91, "Levi adapted the inherited system, adding an eleventh sephira, called Da'ath, understood as that Knowledge that is true Science, being a reflection and synthesis of the other sephiroth. Levi's advocacy of the tarot as a codified High Science opened the way for the tarot to be used not only as the familiar means of divination, but also as a path to inner exploration, constituting an essential wing of the high magic that could only be worked in a state of exalted or mystical consciouness.

SJG

from Occult Paris by Tobias Churton

So we talk about some following H. P. Blavatsky and her Theopsophical Society,

like Maria Pomar, Lady Caithness (1830-1895)

and Anna Kingsford (1846-1888) They both published an 1882 book, The Perfect Way

https://www.amazon.com/Perfect-Finding-C…

and also

https://www.amazon.com/Clothed-Sun-Being…

Sort of a feminized Christianity. And then also consistent with Jules Doinel, and his Gnostic Church, and the "Sophia Concept",

to me sounds very similar to groups running today, and also to Rudolph Steiner

SJG

and then on now to Stanislas de Guaita

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislas_…

SJG

Stanislas de Guaita ( 1861 - 1897 )

A curious guy, had been a poet, and with a great knowledge of chemistry. Seemed to be undergoing a great deal of emotional suffering. But then, rather like Aleister Crowley after him, under went a kind of conversion from poety to "Magick" as "the way of life."

Would go on to be involved in the Rosicrusianism of the day. And he wrote books like Black Magic, and the Keys To Black Magic.

Not seeing his books as easy to get.

http://www.rosicrucian-order.com/revista…

SJG


SJG

Erik Satie: Relâche (Complete ballet) (1924)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kvc6vIWQ…

So now starting to read about one of the most outrageous figures of the day, the one who re-started French Rosicrucianism

Josephin Peladan
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jos%C3%A9p…

Many books, starting with Le Vice suprême, novel, 1884

But very little seems to be easily available.

One book about Peladan:
Occult symbolism in France : Joséphin Péladan and the Salons de la Rose-Croix / Robert Pincus-Witten ( 1976 )

And then Peladan thought very highly of this one they call the "French Pythagoras".

Okay, here is a video about him and his book. French
Abbé Paul Lacuria - Les harmonies de l' être I

Someone made this:
http://lacuria69.blogspot.com/

and we have this:
https://www.amazon.com/grand-m%C3%A9conn…

Peladan used the title: Sar Merodack.

Talked about Synarchism.

Book also talks about Decadent Movement

yes, mentions all people in the book:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decadent_m…

And then the Symbolist Movement
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symbolism_…

some here:

https://www.tuscl.net/discussion.php?id=…
https://www.tuscl.net/discussion.php?id=…

SJG

Sexiest Ladies of Jazz - The Trilogy! - Full Album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ygccgH8W…

So in Occult Paris, Tobias Churton is now talking about some Knights Templar originated Rosicrucianism running in the Agen
Lot-et-Garonne area of France.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lot-et-Gar…

This Agen has been noted as an area with a very low birth rate. Some have said that if you have a second child there you will be receiving condolences cards. I noted that it stands out on the 1791 Jurist Priest map. Others say it is a place which went for the socialist Mitterrand. I speculated that being a leader in de-Christianization, it may go back to the Cathars. It is a kind of Catholic thinking which is totally against church teaching.

Now it is starting to look like it goes back further, to gnosticism originating with the Knights Templar.

It is all completely Catholic, its just like I call it, being "in the church but not of it".

Tobias Churton writes extremely interesting and extremely challenging books.

SJG


Jerry Brown is certainly one of the most inspiring people to ever have held public office.

http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-me-po…

UBI ( Universal Basic Income )
https://www.amazon.com/Raising-Floor-Uni…

The Vietnam War PBS Episode 3: The River Styx (January 1964-December 1965)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-cxYWy1…

I had read a book about the Cathars. This guy went to the final martyrdom site Montsegur.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monts%C3%A…

He asked how many of the people were Cathars. He was told that they all were, and then surprised to hear that they still are.

Now I understand, its a way of being in the church but not of it.

Some called the Pater Norsters, as they would sit in a circle and recite the Lord's Prayer slowly over and over. Is this worth burning people at the stake?

It is a kind of protest, because they might not be sitting in the pews and listening to sermons. But the real threat about the Cathars was that they had switched their minds from standby to online, specifically, they had methods of contraception and abortion.

So this kind of private dissent, thinking beyond the church, still continues to this day.

You don't see this amongst American Catholics, rather it is in Catholic countrys.

So this is what Peladan and others were building upon in starting their Rosicrucian movement in Paris. But Agen had been a stronghold, noted for its low birth rate.

SJG

Chicago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cBGyFrHF…

http://cowbellsongs.com/the-list-cowbell…

Aerosmith Walk This Way
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UFFa1Hb…

Booker T and the MG's
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVAFjvRB…

Hank and Cupcakes, paint only
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8bIZ5P8…

The Vietnam War PBS Episode 3: The River Styx (January 1964-December 1965)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O-cxYWy1…

The Battle For Puerto Rico
https://www.democracynow.org/2018/3/21/t…

So this guy, Vicomte Louis Edouard de Lapasse ( 1792 - 1867 )

picture here:
http://iniziazioneantica.altervista.org/…

http://www.reinedumidi.com/rdm/lapasse.h…

He is the link between Peledan and the Agen - Tolouse Rosicrucianism and Templarism, but they are also Catholic Legitimists, meaning that they want to restore the monarchy. They oppose the Bonapartists and the Orleanists, I guess the actually want to restore the Bourbons.

Charles 10th
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_X_…

Orleanists
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Phil…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orl%C3%A9a…

Bonapartiste
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonapartis…

http://orderofthegrail.blogspot.com/2009…

So we have this Eugene Vintras, heretic Catholic priest, wore upside down cross on his vestments.
Bayeux le 7 avril 1807 et mort à Lyon le 7 décembre 1875
https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eug%C3%A8n…

discussed in this
Eliphas Lévi and the French occult revival / Christopher McIntosh 1972 / 2011

we do have this A. E. Waite book, more a photostat of the original book
https://www.amazon.com/Eliphas-Levi-Sect…

huge cash of A. E. Waite books in libraries, but not the above.

from Occult Paris by Tobias Churton, Eugene Vintras believed himself to be Elijah. And he was the spiritual source for the Carmelite Order. During the revolution said order was banished from France.

But then this also connects to this guy Abbe Boullan (1824-1893)

SJG

Repeat discussion about Agen France:

There is some new information at hand about Agen France and things which might make it unusual. Reading Occult Paris, by Tobias Churton.

https://www.amazon.com/Occult-Paris-Magi…

The book comes to one Josephin Peledan, a rather notorious sort of the 1880's and 1890's who started a Rosicrucian Order in Paris. The question turns to what made him think he had the initiatory standing by which to do that?

Well he was affiliated with one Vicomte Louis Edouard de Lapasse ( 1792 - 1867 )

http://iniziazioneantica.altervista.org/…

they show the same picture in the Churton book.

So this started with a lecture given by Yale's John Merriman, about France and the development of a middle-class, as evidenced by the low birth rate. And then how contraception was considered by the Catholic clergy as an unspeakable evil.

So Merriman talks specifically about Agen and how if you have a second child you can today expect to be receiving condolences cards. Never heard of such a place. Merriman talks about the place standing out on the 1791 Jurist Priest map, and then recently in how they voted for the socialist Mitterand.

So speculation was raised that these uncommon views which they have could come from that having been a Cathar place. There is in fact a cathar castle there. But most of these so called cathar castles are fake, built by the French Monarchy in order to keep the Cathars from coming back. Catharism is today something of a tourism industry.

Well, in Churton's book he talks about Peledan coming from 'old Catholic families" and Lapasse also coming from such, but in Agen.

They are actually talking about Templars, about there being some sort of Templar legacy there built into Agen, and also maybe into Toulouse.

So they talk about Templars, Troubodors, Cathars, and Rosicrucians, as all basically being the same, and operating, among other places, Agen.

And it has been discussed that Cathars would assemble and sit in a circle and slowly recite the Pater Noster over and over. But does this get people burned at the stake? No, it was because they had methods of contraception and abortion, and just because they were thinking about such things, instead of acting out of compulsion.

Remember, Cathars did not build their own churches, they would freely attend Catholic services. They just seemed to have understood it differently, been able to keep a certain critical distance. I have long called this, "Being in the Church but not of it".

So the Churton book is telling us that something like that still existed amongst these 'old Catholic families' in Agen in the 1800's. And so just by virtue of having grown up in that environment, Peledan and Lapasse were already initiated into some sort of Rosicrucian - Cathar - Troubodor - Templar thinking.

So after Merriman, this is the first written confirmation that someone finds something unusual about this Agen
Lot-et-Garonne

region

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lot-et-Gar…

I mean none of this occult stuff would the Catholic clergy approve of, and much of it did have a buried sort of sexuality. But who cares what the Catholic clergy says or thinks.

You will find this in a Catholic country like France, where as in the US, Catholics are more like Protestants, seeing it as a belief and approval seeking system.

If someone grows up in a family which is 'in the Church but not of it', then they will assimilate that different way of thinking.

So again, first confirmation that there is something different about Agen, and indeed affirming that it does connect to these gnostic types of thinking.

Condolences cards upon having a second child? Only time I ever heard of people who might think like that would have to connect to gnositicsm. And one of the major occurrences of such was Catharism in the South of France. But they are actually now connecting all of it to the Knights Templar.

Lapasse was a doctor, and he lived by the Rosicrucian injunction from the Fama Fraternititus to treat the poor at no charge.

this guy Abbe Boullan (1824-1893), he was the real Satanist of the group, and he was the one Huysman's was writting about.

SJG

Abbe Joseph-Antoine Boullan, Catholic priest, jailed in Rome, seen as Satanist, and some unspeakable rumors.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph-Ant…

So Josephin Peladan and Stanislas de Guaita, running their Rosicrucian Order, decided that it was their role to take Boullan down.

So some of this came down to Eliphas Levi's two volume:


Author Lévi, Éliphas, 1810-1875
Title Dogme et rituel de la haute magie. English
Transcendental magic : its doctrine and ritual / by Eliphas Lévi ; translation [and] biographical preface by Arthur Edward Waite

But there is also supposed to be some addendum to it.

If one looks at the table of contents for this, this addendum is there!

https://www.amazon.com/Transcendental-Ma…

So the addendum is called 'Nuctermeron' and it talks about twelve hours or intelligences, which may be pressed into service. This is all attributed to a first century mage Appolonius of Tyana, and found in a hermetic tract written in Greek in a Jewish 1721 work on the life and death of Moses.

So this is what they used, and the first of these 'intellilgences' is where the name Papus was taken from for Gerard Encausse.

This whole book is a bit of a challenge, as tend to be all the numerous books of Tobias Churton.

SJG

Ginger Baker's Airforce
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oe9DA8pO…

Flexible Transistor??
https://www.techopedia.com/definition/14…

Gérard Encausse - Papas

French father, Spanish Gypsy mother, traveling through Basque country selling medical devices of his own invention, finally educating himself heavily in the occult. Over all, quite a character.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%A9rar…

He actually wrote some very interesting things, going beyond the science of his day.

Some of his writings full text online.
https://books.google.com/books?id=ci1-AA…

https://hermetic.com/sabazius/papus

Not really anything I can get in libraries. Drat!

This is about him, a well known picture, but not in English, and Papus died in 1916.

https://www.facebook.com/doctor.papus

About him and his writings
https://darkbooks.org/articles/Papus.htm…

Now this is AMORC, but it has some of his writings full text, though probably in French
https://www.martinists.org/l-initiation

Okay, Dec 1895, issue 29

https://121f80fd42b333dd7c55-c3f33f99875…

So google digitized all of this, and AMORC is showing it via its Martinist Order, TMO.
and yes I see, this is what appears in translation in Occult Paris by Tobias Churton, very interesting. And Churton says it is also in Christopher McIntosh's book about Eliphas Levi and the French Occult Revival. Papus's writings are quite revelatory.

https://www.martinists.org/l-initiation

Well it says page 5 on the viewer, but it is page 195 on the scanned paper.
https://121f80fd42b333dd7c55-c3f33f99875…

SJG

Gnostic Catholic Church for North America, New York City, has stuff from some of the same names in Tobias Churton's 'Occult Paris'.
http://www.apostolicgnosis.org/

Their book:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/197643274X/ref…

It all goes back to the people Tobias Churton and Christopher McIntosh are writing about.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolibarr

Occult Paris by Tobias Churton, awesome book!

First issue of L'Initiation, first issue Nov 1888. Look at the awesome cover photo, reproduced in Churton's book:
https://121f80fd42b333dd7c55-c3f33f99875…

This Papus really is an interesting guy. Ended up as battle field medic, contracted tuberculosis in 1916 and died,

SJG

NOLO, Chartres - Iberville, doesn't the black girl in purple look good? I think this picture originally came from Google Street View
https://s.hdnux.com/photos/42/00/35/8914…

Chelsea Manning, running for the US Senate from Maryland, quite interesting
https://www.democracynow.org/

Steely Dan - Katy Lied (1975, Studio Album) 09 Any World (That I'm Welcome To)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S7XQGB-k…

Let it rain- Eric Clapton
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mi3Wxjnj…

Live, with some friends, and with his women
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jvN6zRNl…

Live, Royal Albert Hall, 2015
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OqXrTDtD…

Derek and the Dominos live at the Fillmore, over 19min!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnDSN_XK…

Bring It On!
An Inflated Stock Market Is Evidence of Spiritual Sickness, And It Is The Death Of Creativity And Innovation
http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/d…

So trying to finish up with Tobias Churton's "Occult Paris"

https://www.amazon.com/Occult-Paris-Magi…

Churton is always way out there. And he is always challenging.

San Jose's AMORC was not built on the idea that Rosicrucianism is either gnostic, connected to Cathars, or to the Knights Templar. But today many do see it this way.

So Churton talks about this Gnostic Church, and especially this Jules Doinel and Deodat Roche.

Continuing in North America, based in NYC?:
http://www.apostolicgnosis.org/

And you can see that inverting the Cathar aestheticism, plus Josephin Peladan, were the main influences on the decadence of Aleister Crowley.

And yes in the South, the Canal du Midi area, there is some sort of tradition of gnosticism, like what I call, being in the church but not of it. And this is especially strong in Agen. Seemingly it does go back to Cathars, Knights Templar, and Troubadours.

And then others say that this is Hermeticism coming in with Islam, and also being expressed in John of the Cross.

And then one of the most interesting people is this Papus.

So of Debussy and Satie, Churton says,
"that you may feel that you are only hearing a fragment of the music, for the tonal experimentation of these composers' minds were most deeply involved in esoteric sensibilities, aimed at invoking the unseen and unheard."

And we have this Breton myth of this city Y's, of their North coast, which sunk
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ys

And we have:
Debussy - La cathédrale engloutie

Orchestral
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTgGSWZz…

and then Isai Tomita on Moog
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjSHXopR…

Churton talks about pentatonic music ( do re mi so la )

and you can watch Satie's Gnossieenes being played:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVKZAIG7…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7VrnYszj…

SJG

Good book about gurus, including one Ignatius of Loyola:

https://www.amazon.com/Feet-Clay-Anthony…

Whitesnake - Stormbringer (Official Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk9wWj8W…

Soldier of Fortune
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z69sxDq3…

Burn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_tDz3VcV…

Rainbow - Stone Cold, do you like Ritchie Blackmore's double string plucks?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hByGwgm_…

Deep Purple, Perfect Strangers, look at the automobiles pulling up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ_kez7W…

Smoke On The Water
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7ZF2xaN…

Steppenwolf, Magic Carpet Ride, live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UtkP5gTX…

Derek and the Dominos, Let It Rain, live, to make this sound nice, does this require a keyboard player, or could it be two guitarists?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnDSN_XK…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifff5NbK…

2004
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3t8Q9dcF…

Layla 2008, fairly fast which sounds good:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbceFpLY…

So trying to finish up with Tobias Churton's "Occult Paris", a book which is saturated with accounts of various personages of the era, and based almost entirely on sources which have never been translated.

So much talk of this Gnostic Church and Cathars, I want to look at this Rosicrucian Lectorium, something which draws much from the Cathars, and see if there is any connection.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lectorium_…

https://www.rosycross.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosicrucia…

Large facility in Bakersfield CA
USA, Bakersfield CA, made by adapting a bank building.

2430 19th St
Bakersfield, CA 93301.
United States

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.3762573,…

https://goldenrosycross.org/reflections

https://goldenrosycross.org/get-know-us/…

https://goldenrosycross.org/dictionary/j…

In 1956, the work of Jan van Rijckenborgh and Catharose de Petri received an important impulse by the contact with Antonin Gadal (1877-1962), the custodian of the Cathar heritage in southern France. They allied themselves with the spiritual treasure of this spiritual community shattered by the Inquisition about 700 years ago.

Jan van Rijckenborgh wrote his first manuscripts under the pseudonym John Twine. With the choice of this pseudonym, he expressed that he was a John man, a forerunner of the Christ man. The last name Twine symbolizes the two aspects that are present in every human being: the divine element that urges the liberation, and the earthly element, the natural soul. In January 1940, Jan Leene adopted the spiritual name Jan van Rijckenborgh.

In the British Library in London Jan van Rijckenborgh discovered a work by Johann Valentin Andreae, “Rei publicae christianopolitanae descriptio”, in English translation. Interpreting parts of this document, he wrote a commentary which he published together with his Dutch translation of this manuscript in 1939 under the title “Christianopolis“. Furthermore he translated the Manifestos of the Rosicrucians: “Fama Fraternitatis”, “Confessio Fraternitatis” and “Alchemical Wedding of Christian Rosyross” into Dutch. In these writings he found what moved it himself: the call for a general reformation, which especially aimed at the fundamental change in man himself.

With about 40 publications written by Jan van Rijckenborgh, partially together with Catharose de Petri, he left a great wealth of advice and support to people who seek for truth and liberation on their spriritual path.

https://www.logon.media/

The writers of their leaders, and talking it back to Ancient Egypt and to Hermeticism and the Emerald Tablet.
https://goldenrosycross.org/topics/liter…

https://www.amazon.com/Egyptian-Arch-Gno…

I am so far not seeing any connection to the leaders of this 19th Century Gnostic Church, except for the interest in the South of France and the Cathars.

So let me look at this man from the Gnostic Church: Deodat Roche, living 99 years

Cathars
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/mistic…

"Today, Catharism is largely seen as a dualist religion, like most Gnostic and oriental teachings. The man largely responsible for identifying Catharism as such was Déodat Roche (1877-1978), often referred to both as 'the Cathar Bishop', if not 'the Cathar Pope'.

However, outside of France, his name is relatively unknown, as is that of his friend and Professor of Sociology René Nelli of the University of Toulouse (and often referred to as 'the vicar of Catharism'), who lectured on the subject all over France.

Their fame has largely been eclipsed by the likes of Otto Rahn and Antonin Gadal, who saw the caves of the valley south of Foix as secret initiation centers for the Cathars - a theory that is now often widely accepted, but which has very little academic support.

Gadal continued the work started by the local historian Adolphe Garrigou. From the 1930s onwards, circles were formed around Gadal and the already mentioned Roche and Nelli.

Together, they formed "La Société du souvenir de Montségur et du Graal," to promote the forgotten history of Catharism - but specifically tying it to the Holy Grail - and the promotion of Montségur, and the region as a whole. It is here that what is now known as 'neo-Catharism' was born, and it has little to do with the original belief.

A second circle of Cathar enthusiasts had the countess Pujol-Murat as a key figure; she was one of Otto Rahn's patrons. Rahn was a young German academic, whose books greatly advanced interest in Montségur and Catharism, both in the 1930s and now (see article 'The Strange Life of Otto Rahn: Author, Poet, Grail Seeker, SS Officer', in New Dawn No. 109, July-August 2008).
"

"Authors such as Walter Birks and R.A. Gilbert, as well as Elizabeth van Buren, have suggested the Cathars guarded a manuscript, knowledge - a spiritual treasure.



This manuscript is often said to be the 'Book of Love' and is linked with the Gospel of John, and is claimed to contain "sublime teachings, marvelous revelations, the most secret words confided by our Lord Jesus Christ to the beloved disciple [John the Evangelist].
"

http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/esp_ca…

again, finding stuff in French only
https://www.amazon.com/LEglise-Romaine-C…

TO BE CONTINUED

SJG

Anyway, so we have this Deodat Roche, felt to be responsible for much of the 20th Century resurgence of interest in the Cathars. And he was part of this French Gnostic Church, with Jules Doniel.

Then we have this Dutch Rosicrucian Lectorium. Started by people who had been with the Oceanside Rosicrucian Fellowship of Max Heindel, Oceanside, CA. They ran it in the Netherlands, but in 1935 they separated, and then it really has come into its own in the years since WWII. They are completely focused on Cathars. But I am not finding any connection between the two groups, or their researchs into the Cathars.

We have this Emmanuel des Essarts, who would become a bishop in the Gnostic Church, but he had been a gov't employee and taken with the thinking of Charles Fourier.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emmanuel_d…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Fo…
7 April 1772 – 10 October 1837

He only lived to 1837, but he is considered an early socialist.

Fourier's social views and proposals inspired a whole movement of intentional communities. Among them in the United States were the community of Utopia, Ohio; La Reunion near present-day Dallas, Texas; the North American Phalanx in Red Bank, New Jersey; Brook Farm in West Roxbury, Massachusetts; the Community Place and Sodus Bay Phalanx in New York State, and several others. Later Fourier inspired a diverse array of revolutionary thinkers and writers.

On education, Fourier felt that "civilized" parents and teachers saw children as little idlers.[22] Fourier felt that this way of thinking was wrong. He felt that children as early as age two and three were very industrious.

Because of its editor, I am sure this is good:
Poster, Mark, ed. Harmonian Man: Selected Writings of Charles Fourier. Garden City: Doubleday. 1971.

http://theanarchistlibrary.org/library/d…

Influences on Comrade Marx
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Influences…

The Jules Doniel and Deodat Roche group still has people claiming a legacy, for North America, in NYC.

http://www.apostolicgnosis.org/calendar.…

Succession
http://www.apostolicgnosis.org/successio…

And they connect this to Martinism, especially through Papus.

And they are connecting this to Rosicrucianism, Templars, the Grail, and more
http://www.apostolicgnosis.org/aesthetic…

And they have this book:
https://www.amazon.com/dp/197643274X/ref…
$14.95

Here we go, getting into contentious territory, Cathars and the Kabbalah
http://www.apostolicgnosis.org/the-catha…

We have this Roy Howat, a specialist in French piano music.
http://www.royhowat.com/

Debussy in proportion : a musical analysis / Roy Howat (1983)

And he claims that Debussy was using the Golden Section and Fibonacci Sequences, and saying that this is very compatible with Hermeticsm. And they have old paper piano rolls which Debussy played himself where he was double timing some measures, and this made it even closer to the Golden Section and Fibonacci Sequences.

This includes Stephan A, Hoeller of Los Angeles
http://www.apostolicgnosis.org/college-o…

Anyway, to conclude, Tobias Churton writes phenomonal and very challenging books, as 'Occult Paris' has certainly proved to be.

SJG

Debussy - La Mer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOCucJw7…

Erik Satie
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_fuIMye3…

Paul Foster Case, True and Invisible
https://www.amazon.com/True-Invisible-Ro…

The Rosicrucian enlightenment / Frances A. Yates (1978)

Rosicrucian trilogy : Fama Fraternitatis, 1614 ; Confessio Fraternitatis, 1615 ; the Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreuz, 1616 / the three original Rosicrucian publications in new translations by Joscelyn Godwin, Christopher McIntosh, & Donate Pahnke McIntosh. (2016)

Rhapsody In Blue: Gershwin
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynEOo28l…

Benny Goodman, Sing, Sing, Sing
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r2S1I_ie…

1937, Goodman and Krupa
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9J5Zt2O…

1971 w/ Gene Krupa, remember he had founded a drumming school
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=140Hb2q_…

COUNT BASIE Swingin' the Blues, 1941 HOT big band swing jazz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYLbrZAk…
seems to be 4 beat, Kansas City type.

So I had talked about my friend J., about 50yo, and with a very serious heart and fluid retention condition, and seemingly still using methamphetamine.

They were trying to send him to a psychiatrist, and I spoke out loud and clear discouraging that.

https://www.tuscl.net/discussion.php?id=…

So he side stepped the psychiatrist.

But about 6 weeks ago I saw the emergency vehicles at his apartment. I really feared for him. Then about two weeks ago someone told me he was in the hospital.

Very rare to keep anyone in the hospital for very long nowadays. So I figured he was probably in jail.

Met him today, no jail. He was in the hospital for over a month. His kidneys had almost failed and he was retaining lots of water. He came in there with a resting pulse rate of 139 per minute, and very high blood pressure.

To have that kind of pulse, all day and night, would drive anyone nuts, and they said it could be fatal.

They had to give him blood transfusions as he was becoming anemic. Real cause unknown.

Finally his pulse rate did come down.

"Grape Jelly like #2" was tearing up the insides of his intestines, and he shows yellowing of the eyes, a sign of jaundice and liver damage.

And of course street meth could have other stuff in it.

He told them that he had been using meth, when they asked about the heart rate. He said he stopped 4 days earlier because he wanted his test results to be clean.

He seems to understand that he must not use that, well sort of.

I remain concerned about him.

SJG

Derek and the Dominos, Let It Rain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnDSN_XK…

Neoliberal governmentality is a practice of
ruling people that interweaves aspirations of individuals with the demands of the market.

...

it is my inte
ntion to move
beyond the limited discussion of voluntary versus forced prostitution, in
order to stress that sex
work ha
s
become
entangled in ambiguous and simultaneous processes: on the one hand
,
it
can
generate personal empowerment and agency, and on the
other hand
,
it demands the individual‟s
subjection to a neoliberal market regime.

...

Sex work is used as a strategic means to realise a project
of self
-
actualisa
tion, which is linked to the desire for economic well
-
being and upward social
mobility.

article
demonstrates that sex work can simultaneously be a site of oppression and exploitation
,
and a
stepping
-
stone to personal advancement.

( already perceiving this myself is why I know that I and TJ girls will get along very well. )

Liberal
techniques of governance began to focus on the generation of
a population of
subjects
that were bound to economic paradigms in their thought and behaviour. A
crucial
component of neoliberal governmentality is its use of
the capacities of
free
subjects to
achieve its p
urposes and goals

Freedoms
–
the f
reedoms of the market
–
are integral to neoliberal governmentality, which operates on interests, desires, and
aspirations
,
rather than through ri
ghts and obligations

Subjects are not subjugated simply by means of obedience
but have
become governable
in their personal desires.




https://www.anthropologymatters.com/inde…

Sourcing: Foucault, M
ichel
. 1982.
„
From
the Repressive Hypothesis to Bio
-
Power‟
, in Hubert L.
Dreyfus and Paul Rabinow (eds.).
Michel Foucault: Beyond Structuralism and
Hermeneutics
, 126
–
42. Hertfordshire: Harvester Wheatsheaf.



SJG

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5488/9620…

https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7290/96201…

Jimi Hendrix live 1969, very good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17mh2oI2…

So the paper:
https://www.anthropologymatters.com/inde…

Looking at some references:

Michel Foucault : beyond structuralism and hermeneutics / Hubert L. Dreyfus and Paul Rabinow ; with an afterword by and an interview with Michel Foucault (1983 )

This author:
The micro-politics of capital : Marx and the prehistory of the present / Jason Read (2003)

Governmentality : power and rule in modern society / Mitchell Dean (2010)

Lots of others too.

SJG

Jon Hassel - The Surgeon
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQcOR91C…

https://www.anthropologymatters.com/inde…

Neoliberal governmentality is a practice of
ruling people that interweaves aspirations of individuals with the demands of the market.

„Neoliberal governmentality‟ is a mode of rule, or a governmental technology, that operates through
self
-
enhancement
techniques. It differs from disciplining modes of governance that draw on physical
repression or containment.

Foucault (1982) des
cribes how, with the emergence
of liberalism,
governments‟
demands on
the
individ
ual behaviour
of their citizens
to
prudent self
-
conduct
were
converted to accommodate an economic project. Liberal
techniques of governance began to focus on the generation of
a population of
subjects
that were bound to economic paradigms in their thought and behaviour. A
crucial
component of neoliberal governmentality is its use of
the capacities of
free
subjects to
achieve its p
urposes and goals



SJG

Mike Oldfield 'Tubular Bells' Live at the BBC 1973 (high quality / remastered)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l7MY_cdU…

Elon Musk
https://www.amazon.com/Elon-Musk-SpaceX-…

So he is on now to his second company: PayPal

and he is starting on his first wife: Justina Wilson

But she has informed him, "I am your wife not your employee."

I have heard this idea before multiple times, and even had the same communication directed at me.

So both situations are tumultuous.

With his first company Zip2, it sold for $300 Meg. He cleared $22 Meg. He bought his first airplane, and a small nice condo, which he renovated. He also spent $1 Meg for a MacLaren F1, only 62 in the world. One of them belonging to Larry Ellison.

Most MacLaren owners save them for special purposes. But for Musk it is a daily drive. It is seen parked on the street and at Safeway, and birds shit on it.

From PayPal, it will sell to Ebay for $1.5 Gig, and Musk will clear $180 Meg after taxes.

But both of these first companies will have been tumultuous, with Musk generally loosing control. But remember, now he has $180 Meg, and he has just turned 30yo.

He did some jobs and internships in college, but post graduating, NO JOBS! And he basically started with nothing.

SJG

Emerson, Lake & Palmer - Knife Edge - Live in Switzerland, 1970
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7_XkndC…

The Middle East's cold war, explained
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=veMFCFyO…

James Wasserman's books about the Knights Templar:

The Templars and the Assassins : the militia of Heaven / by James Wasserman ; including In praise of the new knighthood by Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, translated by Lisa Coffin. (2001)

An illustrated history of the Knights Templar / James Wasserman ; with contemporary photos of Rome and Jerusalem by Steven Brooke and France by Vere Chappell.(2006)

Templar heresy : a story of gnostic illumination / James Wasserman with Keith Stump and Harvey Rochman. (2017)

SJG

ELP Tarkus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WKNOlDtZ…

Elon Musk
https://www.amazon.com/Elon-Musk-SpaceX-…

So this is really interesting. On to his third company, Space X, and his first wife, Justina Wilson.

So it is striking how much new material Musk had to master for each of these companies, in order to be able to chart out new territory. Always getting involved in things he had no real prior experience in.

First child died at the age of 10 weeks from SIDS.

So in the years which followed Justina gave birth to twins, followed by triplets. Might have been some medical technology involved in this. Sounds strange, strange response to death of first. Need to read more about this to better understand.

So there are also some other books mentioned.

Rocketeers : how a visionary band of business leaders, engineers, and pilots is boldly privatizing space / Michael Belfiore. (2007)
https://www.amazon.com/Rocketeers-Vision…

Rocket propulsion elements / George P. Sutton, Oscar Biblarz. (2010)
https://www.amazon.com/Rocket-Propulsion…

Aerothermodynamics of gas turbine and rocket propulsion / Gordon C. Oates. (1997)
https://www.amazon.com/Aerothermodynamic…

And then I also take note of:

Modern engineering for design of liquid-propellant rocket engines / Dieter K. Huzel and David H. Huang (1992)
https://www.amazon.com/Engineering-Liqui…

Orbital mechanics for engineering students / Howard D. Curtis, Professor of Aerospace Engineering, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Daytona Beach, Florida. (2014) ( will entail some very cool mathematics )
https://www.amazon.com/Orbital-Mechanics…

Introduction to space dynamics / by William Tyrrell Thomson ( 1986, originally 1961, obviously some very cool stuff to today implement on personal computer )
https://www.amazon.com/Introduction-Spac…

Fundamentals of astrodynamics / [by] Roger R. Bate, Donald D. Mueller [and] Jerry E. White ( Dover, originally 1971 )
https://www.amazon.com/Fundamentals-Astr…

SJG

So reading about Elon Musk, having cleared $22 Meg from Zip2 and $180 Meg from PayPal, he was largely his own VC. He was getting into extremely ambitious things, like Space X. Months and months testing rocket engines on 300 acres in Texas, these usually exploding. Then out in the Marshall Islands, trying for a first launch. So many times having to back off as something was wrong, months and months.

Very competent people, but still approaching it with a shoot from the hip method, as is often the case with Silicon Valley startups.

Finally a launch, but it exploded after 25 seconds, debris fell back on the launch pad and into the water.

Then over a year later, one which really did get into orbit, but as the last of the fuel for the second stage was being used, it too exploded.

4 years in, and still no successful launches and no revenue, but lots of very capable people on the payroll. Few other than Musk would have tried this.

And then company 4, Tesla, the name having come from others, but Musk becoming the largest investor. Trying to build their Lotus based 2 seater, lots and lots of problems, but few would even be willing to risk the money, and the effort, besides Musk.

Musk was able to do this and sell cars, not because they were practical, but because he made having one into a status symbol.

And then with Model-S, so big, so expensive, even more so. Here they are all over the roadways.

And then the potential for batteries to explode, and exploring that.

They demoed the 2 seater, driving Arnold Schwarzenegger around in one. But they had to swap cars every 5 minutes because of over heating problems, and only one guy, the electric car expert, was authorized to drive them because they were actually very fragile.

SJG

^^^^ They recognized right off that a sports car is the way to go, not necessarily because of high top speed, but because of high acceleration at street legal speeds. And then the good aerodynamics are how you get the range.

So an SUV would be the worst. But this was before model X

SJG

So getting the Tesla Roaster going was extremely hard, 4 years, and still sinking.

Trying to manufacture motors and electronics in Taiwan and China. Lots of trouble. Trying to assemble battery packs in Thailand. There they use factory buildings which are just a concrete slab and 4 poles holding up a roof. They do this because of humid weather. But it is not clean enough. Eventually had to bring much of this back to LA.

France to make the plastic body panels, and Lotus in UK to make the frames.

All in all very complex and very costly. Wanted to sell for $85k. VC's sent very capable trouble shooter, found that cars would cost $200k to make.

Wanted to sell firm, the plan B, mostly for its intellectual property. But Elon held fast and really took over. They were going to slug it out. He also started shifting the talk to model S.

Lots of trouble with Roadster transmission. Mechanical transmission was to have 2 forward speeds.

UK firm was to design it. They did not expect any problems
http://www.xtrac.com/

First one failed immediately, some failed at 150 miles. Best mean time between failures they ever got was 2000 miles.

Usually if done right, a from the ground up EV does not need multiple speeds.

But also, look at when Cadillac was making FWD transverse, they had it so the differential and the automatic transmission were entire concentric. Really interesting.

Cadillac is back to rear wheel drive not, but I suspect that those transaxles are still used for Buick and Chevrolet.

EV still needs differential. With out without mulitple gears, it could all be made concentric with a dry electric motor.

Anyway, Tesla had to redesign much of the vehicle to get it meet the high acceleration specs with just one forward gear.

Tesla did not work much with Detroit, believing that they knew better. But auto industry firm hired found 14 separate problems with the 2 speed mechanical transmission, each being able to cause premature failure.


Zip2 and Paypay short fused, giving Musk $22 meg and $180 meg respectively. But Space X and Tesla being long term yield. Musk actually has to work every day to make these go. He is not just gambling, he is solving the problems.

I laugh at some of the imbeciles on this board who talk about gambling on the stock market, making trades with really no info to speak of, as proof that they 'have the balls'.

SJG

So Musk likes to do concrete factor floors in high gloss epoxy, very light grey. How much $, how hard to do, what about concrete cracks? Then white paint on the walls. Makes it look up beat, no real line between factory and office.

I would still say you need some carpet to reduce noise. Musk uses cubicles, these have some sound dampening.

Musk has this J. B. Straubel, one of the most hands on experienced EV people on the planet. Knows batteries, motors, electronics, and everything else need to build a car.

http://www.straubel.com/

Built 944 EV
http://evalbum.com/223

I had seen some of these 914 EV's
http://www.evwest.com/catalog/product_in…

SJG

Simians, Cyborgs, and Women
https://www.amazon.com/Simians-Cyborgs-W…

https://scontent-lax3-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t…

Ideally and EV can use series and parallel motor windings and battery connections, to get high performance with just one mechanical gear.

Diesel - Electric Rail Locomotives have always worked like this, not needing mechanical gear changes.

SJG

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wouter_Han…

https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Intercours…

https://www.amazon.com/Far-Tree-Parents-…

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?…

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=dp_byline_s…

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Compiler Construction
by Niklaus Wirth
https://www.amazon.com/Compiler-Construc…

This should be the last Writh book for me.

The School of Niklaus Wirth: The Art of Simplicity
by Laszlo Boszormenyi (Editor), Jurg Gutknecht (Editor), Gustav Pomberger (Editor)
https://www.amazon.com/School-Niklaus-Wi…

Looks good, but not really in libraries

SJG

The Lifestyle, erotic rights of swingers
https://www.amazon.com/Lifestyle-Look-Er…

http://photobucket.com/gallery/user/pus5…

http://photobucket.com/gallery/user/pus5…

http://photobucket.com/gallery/user/pus5…

Liber Chaos, by Peter J. Carroll, I believe his second book

https://www.amazon.com/Liber-Kaos-Peter-…

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Gary Lachman, writes great books, this about the late Colin Wilson, whom he knew quite well. Lachman is about the only one I would trust to write about Wilson.

https://www.amazon.com/Beyond-Robot-Life…

So Wilson completed his first novel, "Ritual In The Dark", but it was not published until later, and after a total re-write. It is about the nature of sex.

Wilson's first published work was "The Outsider" 1956.

https://www.amazon.com/Outsider-Colin-Wi…

Some time after that he started calling his non-fiction works, "The New Existentialism" There were about 6 of them. This was before he took to writing about murder and the occult.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colin_Wils…

So just to call attention to some of this non-fiction

Religion and the Rebel (1957)
Origins of the Sexual Impulse (1963)
Beyond the Outsider (1965)

and then there is this, as people challenged Wilson on the idea of there being female outsiders:
Outline of the Female Outsider (1994)

Except for the above, its all available in libraries.

In The outsider Wilson starts out talking about:

https://www.amazon.com/Inferno-Hell-Henr…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henri_Barb…

Barbusse was a member of the French Communist Party

Originally Wilson proclaimed himself a supporter of Socialism, because his hero, George Bernard Shaw was a Socialist.

But then upon researching Shaw to write about him, Wilson took exception to Shaw's arguments, so Wilson never again supported Socialism. And Wilson took exception to those of the London Left, like John Obrien "Look Back In Anger".

Also discussion of H. G. Wells, and in particular his last work:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H._G._Well…

"Wells's extensive writings on equality and human rights, most notably his most influential work, The Rights of Man (1940), laid the groundwork for the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which was adopted by the United Nations shortly after his death."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mind_at_th…

SJG

I've listened to Lynn Harrell twice live
Yuja Wang & Lynn Harrell: Rachmaninov Sonata for Cello & Piano in G minor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y7eMee_…

H. G. Wells
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXwQ5KqJ…

The rights of man, or, what are we fighting for? / H. G. Wells ; with an introduction by Ali Smith. (1915)
https://www.amazon.com/rights-man-What-a…

available in libraries

SJG

Not endorsing these sources:

H.G. Wells Elite Manifesto - What you Didn't Learn in School w/ Wayne Jett
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3vFIwSB…

Healing Teeth & Regrowing Enamel, Most Dentists in the Dark
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TweySdrW…

SJG

Teeth
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vFsupGCu…

SJG

Oil Pulling, for teeth

https://wellnessmama.com/7866/oil-pullin…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DtFzd3TB…

SJG

So ready to read the chapter, 'After The Outsider' in Gary Lachman's book about Colin Wilson. Lachman does an outstanding job of explaining what The Outsider was about.

But now reading, Liber Chaos, by Peter J. Carroll.

SJG

So reading Liber Chaos, by Peter J. Carroll.

Besides referencing his first book, Liber Null, another importance reference is

Pratchett, Terry, The Colour of Magic, 1991
https://www.amazon.com/Color-Magic-Novel…

in libraries, along with his zillions of other books, Pratchett, 1948 - 2015

Stephen Hawking, Brief History of Time, 1990, important influence on physics.

James Gleick, Chaos, Making a New Science, 1988 ( claims it is flawed )

Aleister Crowley's books, though Samuel Weiser

Austin Ausman Spar, through Rising Sun Publications, Glasgow Scottland

SJG

Anyone have any knowledge of these books, any experience with this series of books

Pratchett, Terry, The Colour of Magic, 1991

Anyone have any knowledge of these books, any experience with this series of books:

Pratchett, Terry, The Colour of Magic, 1991

https://www.terrypratchettbooks.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terry_Prat…

https://www.amazon.com/Color-Magic-Discw…

https://www.shmoop.com/the-color-of-magi…

SJG

Yuja Wang & Lynn Harrell: Rachmaninov Sonata for Cello & Piano in G minor
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Y7eMee_…

Loretta Lynn, very different from Tammy Wynette
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5DcdONaK…

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/14-…

Bro-Topia
https://www.amazon.com/Brotopia-Breaking…

Devil's Bargain
https://www.amazon.com/Devils-Bargain-Ba…

SJG

Artesia, New Mexico, population 11k, South West NM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Artesia,_N…

Rotate view to your right, to see the building.

https://www.google.com/maps/@32.7289548,…

https://www.tuscl.net/listing.php?id=451…

I thought there were a few clubs in Las Cruces, The Truck Stop With A Stripper Pole in Moriarty, and I though a few more in Albuquerque, like about 6 total.

Artesia also has a high voltage DC transmission system
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-volta…

http://b4.cigre.org/Publications/Other-D…

http://new.abb.com/systems/hvdc

http://www.gegridsolutions.com/index.htm

https://www.energy.siemens.com/hq/en/pow…

SJG

Support Single Moms
http://images10.newegg.com/ProductImage/…

Physics Texts
Someone just gave me a copy of:

https://www.amazon.com/Physics-Scientist…

But the cover is torn off. Its from 1990.

When people want to educate themselves, you don't need to have the newest edition. Though it does help to have a few different texts, written by different people.

The community is saturated with books like this that are getting dumped in all different ways. Huge, and beautifully written too.

These should be getting into our public libraries.

In the organization I am building, we will have tons and tons of such books.

I am going to glue the cover back on.

Hard to write such a book and do a good job up through the 19th century physics. If you do, not room for relativity, quantum mechanics, nuclear and high energy physics, or astrophysics. Modern physics just does not fit without making it way way too big.

SJG

Arnold Schönberg: Pélleas und Melisande op.5 (1903)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2SvMeye…

Support Single Moms
http://images10.newegg.com/ProductImage/…

So continuing with Peter J. Carroll's "Liber Chaos"

He talks about Chod Rituals, seemingly adapted from Tibetan Buddhism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%B6d

https://www.scribd.com/document/97485786…

http://firehorse.uk.com/healing/tibetan-…

https://chodpaorg.wordpress.com/what-is-…

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C extension
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cW7wxLnZ…

Five Sting Bass, starting at B
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBK2iEn-…

Five String Bass, tuned in fifths. Makes sense to me as rest of violin family is this way, and perfect temper tuned 5th is very close to natural interval 5th. Not so of 4th or 3rds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMsBFaA-…

Upton Bass, Connecticut
https://uptonbass.com/accessories-double…

Lemur Music, San Juan Capistrano CA. 5 string bass. Might be larger body than most common E A D G bass. Would be very heavy.
http://www.lemurmusic.com/BStoll-HEIDELB…

Mistuning, Pines of Rome needs B. I had thought it was Bb.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scordatura

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pines_of_R…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IvgyfqzL…

Should make no-body stand up electric bass, 5 string version, no frets.
http://www.globalbass.com/archives/jan20…

Need to prepare that C tuning for a very important and much anticipated return!

SJG

Robert Fritz, Path of Least Resistance

https://www.amazon.com/Path-Least-Resist…

A kind of anti-motivational book, even seeming to be an occult inspired book. Fritz is a musician and a composer

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Fri…

https://www.robertfritz.com/wp/

SJG

Elementary Linear Algebra, by Howard Anton, 4th Edition, 1973 - 1984, and also another special student solutions manual

Anton also has other books, about calculus

https://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_…

in academic libraries

SJG

Led Zeppelin II, Whole Lotta Love
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bcIjILq…

Sun Microsystems News
http://java.sys-con.com/node/251862

Tiny Homes Festival
https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/06/16/a…

$3.45 Gig San Jose budget, as always, mostly designed to help real estate profiteers.
http://el-observador.com/2018/06/15/mayo…

SJG

San Mateo County suing over opioid crises!
https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/art…

Big changes near Five Wounds Church
https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/06/20/b…

Electricity Sharing, blockchain? Bit Coin?
https://insidebitcoins.com/news/blockcha…

Historic Hank Coca's Furniture Building Sold
https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news…

SJG

Neil Young Southern Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kVRxdPWV…

TJ Street
https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7290/96201…

http://photobucket.com/gallery/user/lift…

https://farm8.static.flickr.com/7403/961…

https://www.flickr.com/photos/navymailma…

https://www.flickr.com/photos/navymailma…

Girl knows how to dress to please:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/navymailma…

https://www.flickr.com/photos/navymailma…

California Homelessness:
https://www.wired.com/story/big-tech-isn…

SJG

America's Uncivil War has broken out:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/civility-aler…

SJG

San Jose: Two people dead after light-rail train, car collide

https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/07/08/t…

Not far from the downtown, and one of the more heavily used and convoluted parts of the light rail route.

SJG

small, but potentially useful, 3 sizes:

https://www.scamptrailers.com/

https://www.scamptrailers.com/images/pdf…

biggest size is fifth wheel, so it still only needs one axle.

But in Minnesota.

https://www.scamptrailers.com/images/pdf…

Each of the three sizes can have its uses, but the 16' appeals to me, largest bumper tow size. Many floor plans, expand your pdf viewer to read nomenclature. Quite a flexible design, more flexible than most travel trailers. Probably you won't be using a super small tow vehicle anyway, so no problem. Still a very easy tow.

SJG

10 Warning Body Signs You Shouldn't Ignore
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMG5O61K…

Kavanaugh Confirmation

https://www.democracynow.org/2018/9/4/wh…

Feinstein, Kamala Harris join Democratic attacks at Brett Kavanaugh hearing
https://www.sfchronicle.com/politics/art…

Harris: 'We cannot possibly move forward' with Kavanaugh hearing
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/pol…

The Hill's Reid Wilson: Kamala Harris sees Kavanaugh hearing as a political opportunity
http://thehill.com/hilltv/what-americas-…

SJG

A specter is haunting Europe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PdYLRTGm…

Amazon(dot)Com, not a nice place to work:

https://www.democracynow.org/2018/9/5/as…

SJG

Universe 1971 (FULL ALBUM) [Hard | Blues Rock]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kSma2pg…

Imagining Life After Capitalism

What can Star Trek tell us about life after capitalism? Peter Frase discusses four possible futures in a world where workers are increasingly being replaced by machines — ranging from communist and socialist societies to ones in which workers are literally disposable. (Encore presentation.) Resources: Peter Frase, Four Futures: Life After Capitalism Verso, 2014

https://kpfa.org/episode/against-the-gra…

I hate this Neo-Liberal MF Asshole:

Entrepreneurial nation : why manufacturing is key to America's future / Ro Khanna (2012)

And I want to run him out of elected office!

He also wrote a forward to this:

Raise capital on your own terms : how to fund your business without selling your soul / Jenny Kassan ; foreword by Congressman Ro Khanna (2017)

SJG

I'll have this book about the opera Carmen in hand soon.
Georges Bizet : his life and work / Winton Dean. (1965)

Carmen, full opera
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sl10z41-…

Okay, this Indiana University version is playing now. It is from their 2015-2016 season.
https://music.indiana.edu/iumusiclive/

Better way to get to it:

Part 1
https://media.dlib.indiana.edu/media_obj…

Part 2
https://media.dlib.indiana.edu/media_obj…

And here, program with some commentary:
https://music.indiana.edu/events/program…

So lets see how some of this sounds when played fixed pitch, i.e. organ:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKNoVOBg…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Gk6J5I_…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DR5YCijs…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gEY5Lg_6…


Hal Ashby
https://www.theringer.com/movies/2018/9/…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Ashby

Obama Delivers Stinging Rebuke, Standing Up To Bullies, not following them.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/supposed-stan…

Roe v. Wade in Danger: Released Docs Reveal Kavanaugh Thinks Abortion Decision Is Not “Settled Law”
https://www.democracynow.org/2018/9/7/ro…

As 400+ Children Remain Separated From Parents, Trump Admin Wants to Detain Kids Indefinitely
https://www.democracynow.org/2018/9/7/as…

Mason, 1971
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-fyeJk5W…

Hypercapitalism : the modern economy, its values, and how to change them / Larry Gonick, Timothy Kasser. (2018, graphic novel)

https://www.amazon.com/Hypercapitalism-M…

HEADSTONE CIRCUS - Headstone Circus - 1968 (FULL ALBUM) [Psychedelic Rock]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZYPAasu…

In hand right now, Postmodern MAGIC, by Patrick Dunn (Llewellyn 2005)
Donald Michael Kraig likes this book, more than the Peter J. Carroll Chaos Magic books.

SJG


Elliot Rodger Manifesto, 2014, 11 hours, human voice reading
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=60WCF3WB…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cte9Bk_f…
Baker Gurwitz Army

Clark Kerr: Knowledge Industry
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4J94a_N…

Mario Savio on the operation of the machine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yew51uYH…

Mario Savio Memorial Lecture: Robert Reich on Class Warfare in America
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LkYXec3…

Just learned that there was a precursor to the Incel / PUA / Manosphere Movement, and it promotes some of the same ideas:

True Forced Loneliness

Sandman Video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2gqPUEt…

The Danger Of The "True Forced Loneliness" Movement
http://thedeclineofmyamerica.blogspot.co…

True Forced Loneliness
https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.p…

So this is it, Bill Greathouse TFL at war ??
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCQgiVTd…

Disclaimer, I do not agree with PUA, MG-TOW, or with Sandman.


So this is he, Bill Greathouse, TFL ?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bVwqlFP…

SJG

Founder, please open our threads back up! These threads are what give TUSCL its character.

Plan to be requesting this soon:

The assassins : the story of medieval Islam's secret sect / W.B. Bartlett. (2002)

Original Thread:
https://www.tuscl.net/discussion.php5?id…

Simians Cyborgs and Women
https://www.amazon.com/Simians-Cyborgs-W…

Cyborg Manifesto, full text
http://faculty.georgetown.edu/irvinem/th…

And we must not forget Valerie Solanas 1967 SCUM Manifesto ( Society for Cutting Up Men )
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/shivers/rant…

SJG

BAKER GURVITZ ARMY - Hearts On Fire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rip84gh6…

Not finding much in libraries about Martinism. People talking about Nag Hammadi and Valentinian versus Sethian Gnostics. Might fit,but certainly not part of historical Martinism

The Martinist uses two “books” in this work: one is the Book of Nature and the other the Book of Humanity
https://www.scribd.com/document/74801610…

An AMORC booklet, 22 pages, links to others.


The two books of Martinism are similar. One, “The Book of Man,” contains the truths of the little world, or microcosm. The other, “The Book of Nature,” explains the universe, the great world, or macrocosm. Martinism states that in man’s original and superior existence both
https://themartinistpentacle.wordpress.c…

Lots of online articles, like an initiatic teaching.

https://www.martinists.org/martinism
AMORC

doesn't seem to be in libraries, but the books exist.
https://www.amazon.com/martinism-Books/s…

notice A. E. Waite and Robert Ambelain

A. E. Waite has written lots of books. Some like him, some do not. But there is:
The unknown philosopher; the life of Louis Claude de Saint-Martin and the substance of his transcendental doctrine

The secret societies of all ages and countries / a comprehensive account of upwards of one hundred and sixty secret organizations--religious, political, and social--from the most remote ages down to the present time, by Charles William Heckethorn.

Simon Magus: Theosophical Classics by Jules Doinel

Modern Martinism, by A. E. Waite not in libraries

SJG

Marinist Doctrine, 4 pages

http://www.martinism.com/books/Robert%20…

SJG

Books as recommended by the British Martinist Order

https://www.bmosite.org/reading-martinis…

Most though not true 'Martinist' sourced books.

From AMORC Imperetor, a good guy, Christian Bernard, 7 pages
https://a6c7496c6b8edbef480d-0705b9b405d…

more book refs, but most of this stuff is not in libraries, though clearly good:
http://www.martinism.net/?page_id=91

SJG

TJ Street
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/x9DUqhAne44/hqdef…

[Talk Gnosis] An Introduction to Martinism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEu3TIjf…

Simians Cyborgs and Women
https://www.amazon.com/Simians-Cyborgs-W…

Cyborg Manifesto, full text
http://faculty.georgetown.edu/irvinem/th…

And we must not forget Valerie Solanas 1967 SCUM Manifesto ( Society for Cutting Up Men )
http://www.ccs.neu.edu/home/shivers/rant…

BAKER GURVITZ ARMY - Hearts On Fire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rip84gh6…

Martinism ( AMORC )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gf4olOgz…

SJG

So it looks like to learn about Martinism, A. E. Waite will be the way to go. Any other texts would be found online. Not sure if I am going to read them now, or if I am going to start with Eliphas Levi. I think Eliphas Levi, but Waite is one of his translators.

SJG

LifeBoat Forum
http://testosteronelifeboat.freeforums.n…

http://testosteronelifeboat.freeforums.n…

http://testosteronelifeboat.freeforums.n…

Martinism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dEu3TIjf…

Talk Gnosis: The Rosicrucians part 1, Dr. Jeffrey S. Kupperman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mKH3A2DW…

[Talk Gnosis] Martinism & Gnosticism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZz7z784…

Gnostic Sex
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENv6Fz_k…

Thelema and Gnosticism
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0R-_5fGQ…

Early Christian Magic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7P3yYME…

Killing Me Softly
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4USer34…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhs8QGNj…

Elysian Encounter-Baker Gurvitz Army - playlist full album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s0-DUyaY…

OT: Book Publishing Industry
https://www.tuscl.net/discussion.php5?id…

So what seems to be available of Eliphas Levi, and some translated from French by A. E. Waite

Transcendental Magic (1856)

The History Of Magic (1860)

The Great Secret; or Occultism Unveiled (1868)

The mysteries of the Qabalah, or, The occult agreement of the two testaments. Talks about Ezekiel and Revelations

SJG

So as there are not that many books available about Martinism, and because Matinism predates the 19th Century Eliphas Levi, let me look to it first:

Three famous mystics: Saint-Martin / by Arthur Edward Waite ... Jacob Boehme, by W.P. Swainson; Swedenborg, by W.P. Swainson. (1940)

The unknown philosopher; the life of Louis Claude de Saint-Martin and the substance of his transcendental doctrine (1970 R. Steiner Publications )

SJG

Bruce Chilton
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Chil…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sN3brxti…

Everything for everyone : the radical tradition that is shaping the next economy / Nathan Schneider. (2018)

Clamato, great tomato juice for drinking straight.

https://www.clamato.com/en
Motts LLP
Plano TX
https://www.motts.com/

TJ Street
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5488/9620…

https://c1.staticflickr.com/6/5539/96203…

https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5497/96200…

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7290/9620…

https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5449/96322…

https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5520/96203…

http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/nkeeS3HHJrU/hqdef…

https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7361/96322…

The best of the Equinox. Volume III, Sex magick / Aleister Crowley ; introduction by Lon Milo DuQuette.

The Rosicrucians : the history, mythology, and rituals of an esoteric order / Christopher McIntosh. (1997)

Rosicrucian trilogy : Fama Fraternitatis, 1614 ; Confessio Fraternitatis, 1615 ; the Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreuz, 1616 / the three original Rosicrucian publications in new translations by Joscelyn Godwin, Christopher McIntosh, & Donate Pahnke McIntosh.

Gardens of the gods : myth, magic and meaning / Christopher McIntosh (2005)

SJG

Interesting Old Thread
Favorite Strip Clubs of San_Jose_Guy?
https://www.tuscl.net/discussion.php5?id…

TJ Street
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5488/9620…

https://c1.staticflickr.com/8/7290/96201…

http://www.adelitasbartijuanamexico.com/…

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3680/9633…

Nirvana - Aneurysm (Live at Reading 1992)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvwqSMRt…

Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit (Live at Reading 1992) w/ surprise into
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3XIGon2…

QSR Automations, restaurant automation
https://www.qsrautomations.com/

cool stuff
https://www.qsrautomations.com/products/

industrial box computers
https://www.qsrautomations.com/products/…

SJG

Why I’m Proud To Be A Middle-Aged Stripper
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mid…

Baker Gurwitz Army Live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7GXbGPN…

San Jose underground, thanks to Jackslash for finding this:
https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2015/1…

Howlin' Wolf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpKB6OZ_…

FIAT Nuevo 500 Abarth
https://c.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploa…

So dosen't this guy look like Neil Young?

http://www.metroactive.com/features/Jay-…

Has he mastered old guy cool or what? I think young strippers would really go for him. But he has got to really be what he looks like he is. Seems to be so.

So high tech titans talking with ????? Saudi Arabia's Royal Money And Blood Men! And also local politicos.

https://www.sanjoseinside.com/2018/10/17…

Some of the names mentioned:

This past April, the 33-year-old royal stayed at East Palo Alto’s Four Seasons Hotel to hobnob with Google founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin and the search giant’s CEO Sundar Pichai, among a who’s-who of Silicon Valley titans, including Palantir’s Peter Thiel, venture capitalist Marc Andreessen and Y-Combinator’s Sam Altman.

So what does it mean for power brokers to have national sovereignty? Mostly it just means that they can execute people. 48 beheadings in Feb.



Virtual Reality Pioneer Jaron Lanier Makes the Case for Opting Out of Social Media
Jaron Lanier speaks

https://www.sanjoseinside.com/2018/10/17…

Ten Arguments for Deleting Your Social Media Accounts Right Now
https://www.amazon.com/Arguments-Deletin…

and also:
The Fourth Age: Smart Robots, Conscious Computers, and the Future of Humanity
https://www.amazon.com/dp/1501158562?aax…

SJG

QSR Automations, restaurant automation
https://www.qsrautomations.com/
Louisville, KY 40223

https://www.squirrelsystems.com/
Canada
Burnaby, BC V5A 4V7
Why I’m Proud To Be A Middle-Aged Stripper
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mid…

Baker Gurwitz Army Live
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u7GXbGPN…

San Jose underground, thanks to Jackslash for finding this:
https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2015/1…

Howlin' Wolf
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OpKB6OZ_…

FIAT Nuevo 500 Abarth
https://c.slashgear.com/wp-content/uploa…

The Dawn of a New Everything, Jaron Lanier (2017)

This guy is interesting.

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/162779…

SJG

Mainstreet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QH29n-MV…

Mary Jane's Last Dance - Tom Petty
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mki8vpl…

Golden Earing ~ Radar Love (extended) 1973
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZObv6Qg…

TJ Street

https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5488/9620…

https://c1.staticflickr.com/8/7290/96201…

http://www.adelitasbartijuanamexico.com/…

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3680/9633…

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/x9DUqhAne44/hqdef…

https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5497/96200…

https://c2.staticflickr.com/8/7361/96322…

https://c1.staticflickr.com/6/5539/96203…

https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5449/96322…

https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5520/96203…

http://i1.ytimg.com/vi/nkeeS3HHJrU/hqdef…

Attributed to Denis Diderot, "Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest."

Two books written about the same time which seem to span the chasm between religious and occult kabbalah

Kabbalah : three thousand years of mystic tradition / Kenneth Hanson (1998)

Heavenly powers : unraveling the secret history of the Kabbalah / Neil Asher Silberman (1998)

SJG

Why I’m Proud To Be A Middle-Aged Stripper
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mid…

What do you think occultant sorcerers would say about the magic I create in my bedroom every day?

The magic you create in your bedroom, and every day, well that is the objective. That is how sex is liberated from consumerism and from herd think.

We have to turn sex into magical ritual. And that is the purpose of the organization I am building. But people have to be led into it gradually.

https://www.amazon.com/Mystery-Babalon-B…

https://www.amazon.com/Vault-Babalon-Thr…

https://www.amazon.com/Modern-Sex-Magick…

And then with practitioners like Kenneth Grant and Nema.

And here in this, The Islamic Occultists, and one of their Priestesses, initiate an Templar Knight, someone bound by a vow of celibacy, into magical sex.

https://www.amazon.com/Templar-Heresy-St…

Sex Magic is one of the underlying themes in all Western and Eastern Occultism. But sometimes it is just being implied, but not actualized.

SJG

So this small Richard Rorty book is very good and very easy to understand, a kind of anti-philosphy, following on what he wrote in his much larger and more challenging "Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature":
https://www.amazon.com/Contingency-Irony…

Two books written about the same time which seem to span the chasm between religious and occult kabbalah
Kabbalah : three thousand years of mystic tradition / Kenneth Hanson (1998)
Heavenly powers : unraveling the secret history of the Kabbalah / Neil Asher Silberman (1998)

Why I’m Proud To Be A Middle-Aged Stripper
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/mid…

So I want to look at something new,
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646 - 1716)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottfried_…

and his idea of the Monad. What does it entail, what does he mean by it, and where from did it come?


Main interests
Mathematics, physics, geology, medicine, biology, embryology, epidemiology, veterinary medicine, paleontology, psychology, engineering, linguistics, philology, sociology, metaphysics, ethics, economics, diplomacy, history, politics, music theory, poetry, logic, theodicy, universal language, universal science

Notable Ideas:
Calculus
Monads
Best of all possible worlds
Pre-established harmony
Identity of indiscernibles
Matrix (mathematics)
Leibniz integral rule
Principle of sufficient reason
Notation for differentiation
Product rule
Vis viva
Boolean algebra
Salva veritate
Stepped reckoner
Symbolic logic
Semiotics
Analysis situs
Law of Continuity
Transcendental law of homogeneity
Ars combinatoria
Calculus ratiocinator
Leibniz's notation
Characteristica universalis
Problem of why there is anything at all
Pluralistic idealism
Metaphysical dynamism
Relationism
Apperception
A priori/a posteriori distinction

Influences:

Scholasticism, Suárez, Descartes, Hobbes, Malebranche, Spinoza, Bossuet, Pascal, Confucius

influenced:

Berkeley, Platner, Voltaire, Hume, Kant, Russell, Wiener, Gödel, Riemann, Gauss, Lagrange, Euler, Heidegger, Peirce, Benoit Mandelbrot, Wundt, Frege, Rescher


Monads:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gottfried_…

exposited in Monadologie

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monadology

The Monadology, online
http://home.datacomm.ch/kerguelen/monado…

like about 8 pages
http://home.datacomm.ch/kerguelen/monado…

Here, 13 page pdf
http://www.earlymoderntexts.com/assets/p…

So what was Leibniz into?

"
The general view of scholars is that the Kabbalah had no appreciable influence on the philosophy of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz. But on the basis of new evidence, Professor Coudert argues that this conclusion is mistaken. Leibniz was neither the foolish optimist Voltaire made him out to be in Candide nor the supreme rationalist described by so many subsequent scholars. He was a radical gnostic, whose philosophy was profoundly influenced by the Lurianic Kabbalah. Once this somewhat startling fact is understood, key areas of his philosophy, such as his concept of monads, defense of free will, and theodicy, can be seen in entirely new ways, which solve many of the problems that have perplexed scholars. This book is for all levels of readers, from those with a general interest in intellectual history to specialists in philosophy, the history of science, theology, and Jewish studies.
"

Just as I had suspected, like Baruch Spinoza before him.

226 pages, Coudert is at UC Davis and has written a lot of interesting books.
https://www.amazon.com/Kabbalah-Archives…

https://www.amazon.com/Kabbalah-Archives…

Yep, chapter 4, 21 pages, "Kabbalah and Monads"

^^^^^ Well not really available

But available:

Alchemy, the philosopher's stone / Allison Coudert. (1980)

And published just after her Liebniz book, which also tied Liebniz to van Helmont
The impact of the Kabbalah in the seventeenth century : the life and thought of Francis Mercury van Helmont (1614-1698) / by Allison P. Coudert (1998)

Religion, magic, and science in early modern Europe and America / Allison P. Coudert (2011)

SJG

A much loved company and website back into action, enjoy:
https://www.wickedtemptations.com/

Lou Reed - Egg Cream
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIIG4gSX…

Ghilottibros.com, Golden Gate Bridge
https://ghilottibros.com/about/

So I want to continue looking into the above:
Here is some about the Coudert book
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…

Here is full text of some kind of an essay she wrote:
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.100…

and then look at this:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leibniz_As…

10 page pdf from AMORC's Rosicrucian Digest
https://f151aef42a498ae456d4-1ef8579ca90…

Daniel C. Matt, many books, but also God and the Big Bang (2016)
https://www.amazon.com/Daniel-C-Matt/s?k…

God & the big bang : discovering harmony between science & spirituality / Daniel C. Matt. (2016 edition)

16 page PDF
http://physics.ucsc.edu/cosmo/primack_ab…

I think same article, in Tikkun
https://www.questia.com/magazine/1P3-866…


So I am planning on letting some threads die off and close, unless someone else has something to add. For myself, I have run out of things to say.

The Levels of PLdom
https://www.tuscl.net/discussion.php5?id…

Elliot Rodger, Isla Vista Shooter 2014
https://www.tuscl.net/discussion.php5?id…

Car Keys and Wallet Dating
https://www.tuscl.net/discussion.php5?id…

... tried to distance himself from Nazi policies and was never held accountable
https://www.tuscl.net/discussion.php5?id…

Yippie, Dow drops 831 points!
https://www.tuscl.net/discussion.php5?id…

Sex In The Home Of Your Parents?
https://www.tuscl.net/discussion.php5?id…

So What Do Women Like To Read?
https://www.tuscl.net/discussion.php5?id…

*****************************************
So then the current open threads:

Vocels (Voluntary Celibates)
https://www.tuscl.net/discussion.php5?id…

Bible and related materials
https://www.tuscl.net/discussion.php5?id…

OT: Anglo-American Philosophy from Hobbes forward
https://www.tuscl.net/discussion.php5?id…

OT: Assembler, C/C++, Embedded Systems, Machine Architectures, Development Systems, JTAG, Rust
https://www.tuscl.net/discussion.php5?id…

American's Will Not Be Free Until The Last Preacher Has Been Strangled To Death By The Entrails Of the Last Libertarian.
https://www.tuscl.net/discussion.php5?id…

The Ultimate Thread: SJG's Soap Box
https://www.tuscl.net/discussion.php5?id…

JavaScript & jQuery
https://www.tuscl.net/discussion.php5?id…

OT: Mathematics
https://www.tuscl.net/discussion.php5?id…

R Programming Language
https://www.tuscl.net/discussion.php5?id…

OT: PC-AT Numeric Key Pad, who used it, and for what? Like it?
https://www.tuscl.net/discussion.php5?id…

OT: Book Publishing Industry
https://www.tuscl.net/discussion.php5?id…

SJG

Nirvana - Come As You Are
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vabnZ9-e…

This song in my head last night. It must be in the Key of D.

Most everyone can hear relative pitch. But very few can hear absolute pitch. The reason every key sounds different is because the percussion tuning is not changed. Musicians deny that percussion is tuned to any specific pitch, saying that rather it is just tuned until it sounds right. But that is silly, because that is exactly how a violin is played, by making it sound right. Tympani tunes with a crank handle, and it has a gauge right on it. So the kick drum is tuned to A of the 16ft octave, the same as the second to lowest string of a four string bass, 55 hz. All the drums are tuned.

These kind of songs are always in D. I think it has something to do with that A note, the dominant.

So to really know you almost have to play along with it. The D scale has F and C sharped. But it can be done with accidentals too. And some music revolves around other notes than the tonic. Some is Mixolyidian and so it revolves around the dominant and has the 7th ( C# ) flatted. Lots of ways. In the end it is just listening to it and trying to play along which will resolve this.

This ends on the D major triad and the chorus versus end on the D major triad. Usually that is the final determinant of what key it is in.

Alternate guitar tuning is being used, one suggestive of D.

http://s3.amazonaws.com/halleonard-pagep…

https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/nir…

https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/nir…

Wicked Temptations, how life should be:
https://www.wickedtemptations.com/standa…

Lust, red only
https://www.wickedtemptations.com/standa…

https://www.wickedtemptations.com/standa…

Black Sabbath - Paranoid (Full Album)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWvKvOVi…

Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/leibn…
"
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646–1716) was one of the great thinkers of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and is known as the last “universal genius”. He made deep and important contributions to the fields of metaphysics, epistemology, logic, philosophy of religion, as well as mathematics, physics, geology, jurisprudence, and history. Even the eighteenth-century French atheist and materialist Denis Diderot, whose views were very often at odds with those of Leibniz, could not help being awed by his achievement, writing in his entry on Leibniz in the Encyclopedia, “Perhaps never has a man read as much, studied as much, meditated more, and written more than Leibniz… What he has composed on the world, God, nature, and the soul is of the most sublime eloquence. If his ideas had been expressed with the flair of Plato, the philosopher of Leipzig would cede nothing to the philosopher of Athens.” (Oeuvres complètes, vol. 7, p. 709) Indeed, Diderot was almost moved to despair in this piece: “When one compares the talents one has with those of a Leibniz, one is tempted to throw away one's books and go die quietly in the dark of some forgotten corner.” (Oeuvres complètes, vol. 7, p. 678) More than a century later, Gottlob Frege, who fortunately did not cast his books away in despair, expressed similar admiration, declaring that “in his writings, Leibniz threw out such a profusion of seeds of ideas that in this respect he is virtually in a class of his own.” (“Boole's logical Calculus and the Concept-script” in Posthumous Writings, p. 9) The aim of this entry is primarily to introduce Leibniz's life and summarize and explicate his views in the realms of metaphysics, epistemology, and philosophical theology.
"

To me it seems like Leibniz must be highly influenced by Kabbalah and Neo-Platonism, basically the Western Occult Tradition.

Francis Mercury van Helmont
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franciscus…

SJG

JS69 Front Room Makeout Session
https://www.tuscl.net/discussion.php5?id…

https://www.wickedtemptations.com/standa…

https://www.wickedtemptations.com/standa…

https://www.wickedtemptations.com/standa…

https://www.wickedtemptations.com/standa…

https://www.lingeriediva.com/collections…

Joe Bonamassa - "Midnight Blues" - Beacon Theatre - Live From New York
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z74lr3t…

Beth Hart and Joe Bonamassa- I'd Rather Go Blind
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AnXgZZkP…

Joe Bonamassa - "Sloe Gin" - Muddy Wolf at Red Rocks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvvgZMGp…

TJ Street
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5488/9620…

https://c1.staticflickr.com/8/7290/96201…

http://www.adelitasbartijuanamexico.com/…

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3680/9633…

God in the 21st Century: Bishop John Shelby Spong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PwNmj5h1…

Bishop John Shelby Spong(9am) - "From a Tribal God to a Universal Presence: The Story Of The Bible"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87rokCqk…

Jesus for the non religious - Retired bishop John Spong on religion.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fUmKEH9j…

Is the Bible a source of Truth - Bishop John Spong
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=coKnuBBs…

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz : the work of the great universal scholar as philosopher, mathematician, physicist and engineer / Karl Popp, Erwin Stein (editors). (2000)

SJG

TJ Street
https://mail.google.com/mail/#drafts/FMf…

https://c1.staticflickr.com/8/7290/96201…

http://www.adelitasbartijuanamexico.com/…

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3680/9633…

So how about Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677 )
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baruch_Spi…

http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles…

and above talks about:
The essential Kabbalah : the heart of Jewish mysticism / [compiled and translated with notes by] Daniel C. Matt.

https://www.amazon.com/Daniel-Matt-Essen…

The influence of Abraham Cohen de Herrara's kabbalah on Spinoza's metaphysics / by Miquel Beltran 2016

Abraham Cohen de Herrara (1570 - 1635 )
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abraham_Co…

https://encyclopedia2.thefreedictionary.…

The kabbalah and Spinoza's philosophy as a basis for an idea of universal history, Harry Waton, 2 volumes, 1932
available

don't know that this institute still exists
https://philpapers.org/rec/WATTKA-3

SJG

https://jbonamassa.com/

Joe Bonamassa - "Sloe Gin" - Muddy Wolf at Red Rocks
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pvvgZMGp…

And now his own forum, harmonic notes:
https://forum.jbonamassa.com/viewtopic.p…

Midnight Blues
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z74lr3t…

Guitar Harmonics
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/String_har…

Beth and Joe - Black Coffee ( a Steve Marriott song, quite a vocal legend to try and imitate )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NooMzmbE…

Beth and Joe - I'd Rather Go Blind ( Live Amsterdam )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEHwO_UE…

Robin Trower, live ( more harmonic notes )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZmoMb0gN…

Spinoza's metaphysics : essays in critical appreciation / edited by James B. Wilbur (1976)

SJG

Henry More
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/henry…

Matinism

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martinism



Martinist Order and Synarchy

https://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Ordre_Mart…




Manifestations of the Marinist Order

http://omeganexusonline.net/rcmo/martini…



Robert Ambelain

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Amb…



Old Templar Church

http://www.oldtemplarchurch.org/index.ht…




Martinist Doctrine

http://ancientmartinistorder.org/reading…



The Way Of The Heart, Papus

http://ancientmartinistorder.org/reading…



Ecclesia Gnostica, Stephan A. Hoeller

http://www.gnosis.org/eghome.htm




The Ancient and Primitive Rite of Memphis-Misraïm
http://www.iss-ic-memphis-misraim.com/en…





Ancient and Primitive Rite of Memphis Misraïm

e of Memphis-Misraïm: An International Order

Diwali

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diwali



The true and invisible Rosicrucian Order : an interpretation of the Rosicrucian allegory and an explanation of the ten Rosicrucian grades / Paul Foster Case. (1981 Weiser reprint )



Table of contents




PART ONE: THE ROSICRUCIAN ALLEGORY 1 (152)

The Beginnings of Rosicrucianism
3 (4)

Fama Fraternitatis of the Meritorious Order of the Rosy Cross
7 (12)

The Confession of the Rosicrucian Fraternity
19 (10)

The Inner Meaning of the Manifestoes
29 (8)

Our Father and Brother, C.R.C.
37 (28)

The Journey, the Initiation, and the Founding of the Order
65 (34)

The Rosicrucian Agreement
99 (6)

The Vault of Brother C.R.C.
105 (28)

Symbolism of the Rose-Cross
133 (10)

Rosicrucian Religion and Politics
143 (10)
PART TWO: THE TEN ROSICRUCIAN GRADES 153 (156)

The Grades of the Order
155 (6)

The Grade of Zelator (1 = 10)
161 (14)

Doctrines of the Grade
165 (5)

The Thirty-second Path
170 (5)

The Grade of Theoricus (2 = 9)
175 (12)

Doctrines of the Grade
176 (7)

The Thirty-first Path
183 (2)

The Thirtieth Path
185 (2)

The Grade of Practicus (3 = 8)
187 (10)

Doctrines of the Grade
188 (9)

The Grade of Philosophus (4 = 7)
197 (16)

The Twenty-ninth Path
197 (2)

The Twenty-eighth Path
199 (2)

The Twenty-seventh Path
201 (2)

Doctrines of the Grade
203 (10)

The Grade of Lesser Adept (5 = 6)
213 (22)

The Twenty-sixth Path
215 (3)

The Twenty-fifth Path
218 (5)

The Twenty-fourth Path
223 (5)

Doctrines of the Grade
228 (7)

The Grade of Greater Adept (6 = 5)
235 (18)

The Twenty-third Path
237 (4)

The Twenty-second Path
241 (3)

Doctrines of the Grade
244 (9)

The Grade of Exempt Adept (7 = 4)
253 (18)

The Twenty-first Path
254 (5)

The Twentieth Path
259 (3)

The Nineteenth Path
262 (3)

Doctrines of the Grade
265 (6)

The Grade of Magister Templi (8 = 3)
271 (12)

The Eighteenth Path
271 (4)

The Seventeenth Path
275 (4)

Doctrines of the Grade
279 (4)

The Grade of Magus (9 = 2)
283 (14)

The Sixteenth Path
285 (1)

The Fifteenth Path
286 (2)

The Fourteenth Path
288 (3)

Doctrines of the Grade
291 (6)

The Grade of Ipsissimus (10 = 1)
297 (12)

The Thirteenth Path
298 (7)

Doctrines of the Grade
305 (4)
AFTERWORD 309 (10)

The Inner School
311 (8)



Looks like it starts at the Malkuth sphere on the Tree of Life, so all 22 paths plus all 10 sephiroth.





The Rosicrucians : the history, mythology, and rituals of an esoteric order / Christopher McIntosh. (1997)



Rosicrucian trilogy : Fama Fraternitatis, 1614 ; Confessio Fraternitatis, 1615 ; the Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreuz, 1616 / the three original Rosicrucian publications in new translations by Joscelyn Godwin, Christopher McIntosh, & Donate Pahnke McIntosh. (2016)







The Rosicrucian enlightenment revisited / John Matthews [and others] ; introduction by Ralph White (1999)




The invisible history of the Rosicrucians : the world's most mysterious secret society / Tobias Churton. (2009)




Rosicrucian history and mysteries / by Christian Rebisse ; [translated by Richard Majka]. (2005)






The Rosicrucian enlightenment / Frances A. Yates. (2002)


The Rose Cross Meditation : an archetype of human development / Rudolf Steiner ; selected and compiled by Christiane Haid
(2016)



The secret history of the world / Mark Booth. (2008)



The inner West : an introduction to the hidden wisdom of the West / edited and introduced by Jay Kinney. (2004)

SJG

Baker Gurwitz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cte9Bk_f…

So what do we find for Paul Foster Case?

Besides True and Invisible, we find one of two books on the Tarot.

The tarot : a key to the wisdom of the ages : the classic guide / by Paul Foster Case.

How about Rudolph Steiner?

Mystics of the renaissance and their relation to modern thought : including Meister Eckhart, Tauler, Paracelsus, Jacob Boehme, Giordano Bruno, and others / by Rudolf Steiner ... authorized translation from the German by Bertram Keightley (1911)

Knowledge of the higher worlds and its attainment / Rudolf Steiner. (1937 3rd edition. I think this is what most people read of his )

Christianity as mystical fact and mysteries of antiquity (1947)

Cosmic memory ( from him this kind of a book would be real interesting )

The essential Steiner : basic writings of Rudolf Steiner / edited and introduced by Robert A. McDermott

Theosophy : an introduction to the supersensible knowledge of the world and the destination of man / by Rudolf Steiner

The foundation stone ; The life, nature and cultivation of anthroposophy / Rudolf Steiner.

An outline of esoteric science / Rudolf Steiner ; translated by Catherine E. Creeger.

Esoteric Christianity and the mission of Christian Rosenkreutz : twenty-three lectures given between 17 September 1911 and 19 December 1912 / Rudolf Steiner.

Foreword ix

Marie Steiner


The Christ Impulse and Historical Development


Lugano, 17 September 1911
1 (14)

Locarno, 19 September 1911
15 (16)

Buddha and Christ. The Sphere of the Bodhisattvas


Milan, 21 September 1911
31 (14)

Rosicrucian Christianity


Neuchatel, 27 September 1911
45 (13)

Neuchatel, 28 September 1911
58 (12)

The Etherisation of the Blood


Basle, 1 October 1911
70 (23)

Jeshu ben Pandira and the Christ Impulse


Leipzig, 4 November 1911
93 (19)

Leipzig, 5 November 1911
112 (18)

The Christ Impulse as Living Reality


Munich, 18 November 1911
130 (15)

Munich, 20 November 1911
145 (6)

Faith, Love, Hope. The Third Revelation to Mankind


Nuremberg, 2 December 1911
151 (19)

Nuremberg, 3 December 1911
170 (18)

Cosmic Ego and Human Ego. Supersensible Microcosmic Beings. The Nature of Christ


Munich, 9 January 1912
188 (24)

The Dawn of Occultism in the Modern Age


Kassel, 27 January 1912
212 (9)

Kassel, 29 January 1912
221 (9)

The True Attitude to Karma


Vienna, 8 Feburary 1912
230 (16)

Intimate Workings of Karma


Vienna, 9 February 1912
246 (15)

The Death of a God and Its Fruits in Humanity


Dusseldorf, 5 May 1912
261 (14)

Address Given at the Opening of the Christian Rosenkreutz Group


Hamburg, 17 June 1912
275 (8)

The Mission of Christian Rosenkreutz. The Mission of Gautama Buddha on Mars


Neuchatel, 18 December 1912


The fourth dimension : sacred geometry, alchemy, and mathematics : listeners' notes of lectures on higher-dimensional space and of questions and answers on mathematical topics / Rudolf Steiner ; introduction by David Booth.

Steiner has dozens and dozens of books.

SJG

Jean Gebser
http://www.gebser.org/

The ever-present origin / Jean Gebser ; authorized translation by Noel Barstad and Algis Mickunas.

Georg Feuerstein, lots of books on yoga and tantra. But also interprets Gebser
Structures of consciousness : the genius of Jean Gebser : an introduction and critique / Georg Feuerstein

Gebser has also influenced the works of Ken Wilber

SJG

Ekaterina Mechetina plays Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HWbwJ78g…

Baker Gurvitz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cte9Bk_f…

TJ Street
https://c1.staticflickr.com/8/7290/96201…

http://www.adelitasbartijuanamexico.com/…

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3680/9633…

SJG, following the link you have on your profile to your google site, I have a couple of questions.

sites.google.com

1) is the guy hugging the bidet your mug?
2) You need to tell Mary to update the page since she seems to be the only one updating it and some of the links do not work.
3) Is Mary your mom or are you actually Mary? If she is your mom, what does she think about all the pics of strippers on the page?
4) Wonder what all those kids spelling out SJG would think if they knew they were on a website detailing strippers and sex?

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So going back to Allucquere Rosanne Stone,

References Donna Haraway,

Jurgen Habermans Communication an the Evolution of Society 1979

Fredric Jameson, Jacques Lacan, and Merleau-Ponty


SJG

Waring of Rising Nationalism
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world…

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-11/w…

https://www.realclearpolitics.com/2018/0…!

Adam Hochschild
https://www.democracynow.org/2018/11/12/…

Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, underneath the Arch of Triumph, should be visible from this East side angled view
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Arc+de…

http://www.paris-pictures.com/tomb-of-un…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arc_de_Tri…

https://architecturebehindmovies.files.w…

Theatre Chochotte - Paris
http://a403.idata.over-blog.com/3/52/36/…

Hookers in Paris
http://smallworldtravels.com/hookers-in-…

Baker Gurwitz
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cte9Bk_f…

God & the big bang : discovering harmony between science & spirituality / Daniel C. Matt. (2016)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel_C._…

https://web.archive.org/web/201208281257…

video, Daniel C. Matt, God and the Big Bang
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6nSKKLN…

Stan Tenen
The Alphabet In Our Hands, Part 1: The God of Abraham, A Mathematician's View
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6nSKKLN…

SJG

Bernhard Riemann
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bernhard_R…

Riemann, topology, and physics / Michael Monastyrsky ; with a foreword by Freeman J. Dyson. (1999)

Saturday I reported on a man who had vanished from a 49er's stadium game the previous Monday. Saturday they found a body in the water near the old unused Alviso Marina and some old concrete boat ramps. The stuff is unused because silt comes in from the bay and fills it up.

I have years ago explored all around there. It is interesting, but even in the day time potentially dangerous. I once got stuck hip deep in mud and a shoe came off. Getting my foot back into the shoe I was able to recover it. But I was taking more risks in doing so.

This man was in the military, maybe Special Forces. So likely he handles himself quite well in the outdoors, even at night.

Not sure if any conclusions have been reached, but to me it sounds more and more like a suicide. Left his cell phone, battery run down to zero, in his car at the stadium. Also left his girl friend and her two kids there. But talking on the phone and using video up until the point he vanished.

https://590kqnt.iheart.com/featured/morn…

http://www.khq.com/story/39481212/santa-…

Here SJPD say that the body was found floating face down about 1 mile out from the Marina and the Ramps.
https://www.yahoo.com/gma/body-discovery…

https://heavy.com/news/2018/11/ian-power…

I believe that police probably have more tidbits of information which they are not going to disclose until they are ready to close the case.

In a homicide it is usually those closest to the deceased who did it, and they are exposed by the contradictions in their stories. To me, this is sounding more and more like a suicide.

Here it sound like he was found at the boat launch, though those concrete ramps are unusable do to silt.
https://thespun.com/news/body-found-amid…

https://www.oxygen.com/crime-time/body-f…

Still waiting to hear that they have confirmed the identity, and then of course for any conclusions.

http://www.ksro.com/2018/11/19/body-disc…

Jeff Healey Band, full concert
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_ufNFTA…


Theatre Chochotte, Paris
http://bird-production.com/photographers…

http://a403.idata.over-blog.com/3/52/36/…

Here, outside view, use zoom outs and changing back to maps to see exactly where this is:

https://www.google.com/maps/uv?hl=en&pb=…

Inside scene
https://www.google.com/maps/uv?hl=en&pb=…

34 Rue Saint-André des Arts, 75006 Paris, France

Here:
https://www.google.com/maps/@48.8533376,…

Very close to the Seine

and to the Luxembourg Gardens park.

http://cdn.kabook.fr/bk21125/pic_85465_1…

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/78/d0/3d/78d03…

http://info.xineurope.com/uploadfile/201…

Here, their own page:
https://www.theatre-chochotte.com/englis…

https://www.theatre-chochotte.com/englis…

https://www.theatre-chochotte.com/englis…

https://www.theatre-chochotte.com/englis…

Emmanuel Marcon
‘Patriotism is the exact opposite of nationalism. Nationalism is a betrayal of patriotism’
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world…

The US and Russian leaders listened in silence as Mr Macron took a swipe at the rising tide of populism in the US and Europe, warning: “The old demons are rising again, ready to complete their task of chaos and of death.”

“In saying, ‘Our interests first, whatever happens to the others’, you erase the most precious thing a nation can have, that which makes it live, that which causes it to be great and that which is most important: its moral values.”

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-11/w…

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-11-12/e…

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/18/opini…

EXPLORING PARIS: The Red Light Sex Shop Area (Pigalle)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2D_Zx8aY…

http://www.khq.com/story/39502486/body-d…

Philosopher Tobias Rees Raises a Question Everyone Thinks is Already Settled

Tobias Rees asks: 'What is human, anyway?'

http://www.metroactive.com/arts/Tobias-R…

"
The distinction between what is human and non-human is one of the most fundamental ideas of our shared consciousness. You figured out that distinction pretty early on in childhood, and you've never questioned it since.

That is, unless your name is Tobias Rees.

An anthropologist and philosopher, Rees is the director of something called the "Transformations of the Human" program at the Berggruen Institute in Los Angeles. He's also the keynote speaker on Nov. 26 in the Deep Humanities series at San Jose State University.
"

"
Rees points to studies of the "micro-biome," the enormous and complex ecosystem of bacteria that thrives in every healthy human body. "We don't really know where the human being ends and the micro-biome begins," he says. "Most of the neurotransmitters in your brain were made by bacteria."
"

"
Rees says the general scientific concept of the human is only a few hundred years old, and emerged from the European Enlightenment. It was a concept that led directly to ideas of natural rights and to revolutions in America and France.
"

"
The notion that AI will bring on an existential crisis in humanity has already been broached in popular culture, particularly in films such as 2014's Ex Machina, in which Oscar Isaac's Silicon Valley AI wizard ruminates about the future: "One day, the AIs are going to look back at us the same way we look at fossil skeletons on the plains of Africa: an upright ape, living in the dust, with crude language and tools, all set for extinction."
"

https://www.amazon.com/Plastic-Reason-An…

Designs for an anthropology of the contemporary / Paul Rabinow and George E. Marcus, with James D. Faubion and Tobias Rees (2008)

SJG

https://www.amazon.com/patrick-modiano-B…

An Introduction to Heidegger: Being and Time
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDAyhsZ-…

Bill Moyers, Forrest Church Interview
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJbFGevv…

Stravinsky: The Firebird / Gergiev · Vienna Philarmonic · Salzburg Festival 2000
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZkIAVGl…

So you folks like these no proscenium concert halls?

Disney Music Center
https://meyersound.com/wp-content/upload…

San Jose Center for the Performing Arts, not designed that way.
https://c2.staticflickr.com/4/3127/27685…

TJ Street
https://farm8.static.flickr.com/7318/961…

https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7290/9620…

https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5449/96322…

https://c1.staticflickr.com/3/2849/96290…

Sex Tra******g?

I say this woman is wrong, particularly about the United States and about California. She teaches at CSU Chico. She talks about the Central Valley, and she talks about International Blvd Oakland.

Maybe there are once and a while occurrences like she describes, but as I can see it is very rare. Other types of crime and other types of child abuse are far more common than what she describes.

I say that this woman has a highly distorted perception because she has a problem about sex.

What do you think?


Hidden in plain sight - slavery in your Community: Dr. Kate Transchel at TEDxChico
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sm3UfctR…

SJG

Silicon Valley, highest gender wage gap:

https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/12/03/w…

SJG

So I also recently saw:

https://www.amazon.com/John-Cross-Select…

And right next to it was the full unabridged version, from Institute of Carmelite Studies, about double the above book.

Surprisingly related to occultism, you would be surprised!

The guy has got intellectual influences like the Neo-Platonist, Pseudo-Dionysius.

And it connects with occult thinking.

SJG

TJ Street
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7290/9620…

It took the Catholic Church a long time to cannonize John of the Cross, and longer to make him Doctor of the Church. In Carmelite circles you may not see this, but he has always been controversial.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_of_th…

"The influence of the Song of Songs on the Spiritual Canticle has often been noted, both in terms of the structure of the poem, with its dialogue between two lovers, the account of their difficulties in meeting each other and the "offstage chorus" that comments on this action, and also in terms of the imagery of pomegranates, wine cellar, turtle dove and lilies, for example, which echoes that of the Song of Songs."

"It has rarely been disputed that the overall structure of John’s mystical theology, and his language of the union of the soul with God, is influenced by the pseudo-Dionysian tradition.[52] However, it has not been clear whether John might have had direct access to the writings of Pseudo-Dionysius, or whether this influence may have been mediated through various later authors. "

http://www.johnofthecross.com/

Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudo-Dio…

Mystery Schools, Gnosticism, Hermeticism, and the "Platonic Underground"
https://www.iep.utm.edu/pseudodi/


SJG

Yanis Varoufakis: Is Capitalism Devouring Democracy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gGeevtdp…

TJ Street
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7290/9620…

So the genealogy to get from Pre-Socratics and Plato, to Pseudo Dionysus and to John of the Cross and Teresa of Avila?

Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite (fl. c. 650—c. 725 C.E.)
https://www.iep.utm.edu/pseudodi/

Right here, Pseudo-Dionysius, complete works:
http://www.paulistpress.com/Products/283…

But who did he learn from?

http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05013a.h…

"
Dionysius is the author of three long treatises (The Divine Names, The Celestial Hierarchy, and The Ecclesiastical Hierarchy) one short treatise (The Mystical Theology) and ten letters expounding various aspects of Christian Philosophy from a mystical and Neoplatonic perspective. Presenting himself as Dionysius the Areopagite, the disciple of Paul mentioned in Acts 17:34, his writings had the status of apostolic authority until the 19th century when studies had shown the writings denoted a marked influence from the Athenian Neoplatonic school of Proclus and thus were probably written ca. 500.
"

35 (36? ) doctors of the church
https://www.catholiccompany.com/thirty-f…

Seems to list them
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05075a.h…

Lists them, says there are 36 such doctors
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctor_of_…

Neo-Platonism and Christiantiy
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neoplatoni…

Dionysius the Areopagite
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionysius_…

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Author:Di…

Still not clear what the genealogy of ideas was.

SJG

Nicki Minaj
https://nrg.radio/hiphop/wp-content/uplo…

Merkaba - Chariot of the Gods
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7TGz1bY…

Ever notice that Stephen Spielberg's films always include appearances of the Chariot, and that always before these there is silence and a void? Often such appearances mean that someone is going to die violently.

Chariot of God: Merkabah Mysticism - Vision of Ezekiel
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LIxbYy-…

Christ of the Apocalypse, from one of the doorways to Chartres
http://marc-haegeman-photography.com/img…

The Merkaba Explained IN DETAIL From Lightworkers org
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0BWTvNIA…

Manly P Hall - Merkabah, Mystical Disciplines [ MUST LISTEN ] [ Connects Ezekiel's Chariot to the Islamic Legend of the Flying Carpet / Prayer Rug ]
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVjfEMXn…

^^^^ Talks much about Moses Maimonides
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maimonides

TJ Street
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7290/9620…

http://www.adelitasbartijuanamexico.com/…

So if Church says that Moby Dick is the greatest work of American literature, and that there is no final interpretation, then how could their ever be a final interpretation on the Bible?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moby-Dick

So curiously F. Forrester Church is also writing about Dionysus

Seems to be talking about the real Dionysius the Areopagite. Says that since we cannot say what God is, the best way of describing him is by saying what his is not. He is not "illiberal".

SJG

Baby's Looki' Hot
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_ufNFTA…

TJ Street
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7290/9620…

http://www.adelitasbartijuanamexico.com/…

WARNING - The following accounts are considered to be forum trolls and may not be trustworthy:

san_jose_guy - commonly referred to as SJG this forum member is usually mocked or ignored, his comments should NOT be taken in any way as legitimate

This tiny house movement and linking this to the enforcement of move on laws is no good.

This is going to lead to interment camps.

https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2018/1…

It will be like the John Sobrato internment camp they tried to build, using shipping containers as tiny houses, all stacked up. It was designed to funnel people into the mental health system. And of course they would also be exposed to the Born Again Christian ministries.

Fortunately he was defeated, but Pierreluigi Oliverio ran for County Supervisor, wanting the 'mentally ill' to be subjected to forcible medication. They are trying to turn poverty and homelessness into a mental health issue.

Local government works in tandem with the Recovery Movement and with the Born Again groups.

People need to wise up and start fighting back.

Oliverio sighted his brother, who he wants forcibly medicated. So he is the good child, where as the brother is the scapegoat child.

And then the Recovery groups and the Born Again groups both destroy political consciousness.

SJG

Talking about a housing shortage and building more housing does nothing to stop the above abuses. The people who support that have themselves scapegoat siblings who often live on the street or worse.

SJG

So what do I have for today?

The Liberal Catholic Church
http://www.thelccusa.org/


http://www.straphaelslcc.org/litergy.htm…


Matins, Lauds, Prime, Terce, Sext, None, Vespers, Complin. Vespers has become the most popular of these, being well adapted to use as a public evening service.

The psalms, heralded by the key-thoughts of their respective antiphons, serve to attune the mind to the glory of the deity. The Little Chapter and hymn introduce other notes. Then the whole culminates in the great outpouring of praise at the Te Deum or the Magnificat and comes to a fitting conclusion in the peace and calm of the collects and final versicles.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Ca…


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J._I._Wedg…


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_We…

Krishnamurti
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jiddu_Kris…

Krishnamurti School, Ojai CA.

https://oakgroveschool.org/


Ancient Martinist Order AMO
http://ancientmartinistorder.org/


Ecclesia Gnostica
http://www.gnosis.org/eghome.htm


GNOSTIQUE.NET
http://www.gnostique.net/

Way of the Heart
http://www.gnostique.net/initiation/hear…




Gnostic Sanctuary
http://www.gnosticsanctuary.org/

Old Templar Church
http://www.oldtemplarchurch.org/



Nancy Wake: Gestapo's Most Wanted (French Resistance Documentary)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNXKovYM…



https://www.drc.fr/gb/169-rosicrucian-bo…
Rosicrucian and Marinist Books, AMORC France

INTERNATIONAL COLLEGE OF ESOTERIC STUDIES (AMO)
http://ancientmartinistorder.org/ices.ht…


SJG

Old Krotona, Hollywood, built 1912, then moved to Ojai 1926

should be pics of it:
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fbK_o8K_mMI/Uh…

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/a9/ef/6c/a9ef6…

https://lifeabsorbed.files.wordpress.com…

http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2735/40519…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krotona

http://www.krotonainstitute.org/

So been thru Ojai CA on bicycle trips. Beautiful. But never looked into the Theosophical Society of the associated Liberal Catholic Church.

https://www.theosophical.org/local-group…


This bookshop could have been the place I saw in my dream. Hard to tell yet.
http://www.krotonainstitute.org/bookshop…

http://www.krotonainstitute.org/about/

As I know this is the enduring legacy of H. P. Blavatsky and J. Krisnamurti.

2 Krotona Street
Ojai CA 93023
805-646–2653
[email protected]
http://www.thelccusa.org/parishes/califo…

Use zoom outs so see where this is:

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Kroton…

Theosophy
http://www.krotonainstitute.org/what-is-…

Library
http://www.krotonainstitute.org/library/

Accommodations Application, has rules!
http://www.krotonainstitute.org/wp-conte…

Teachings
https://www.theosophical.org/teachings

Most esoteric groups believe something like this, and many cite H. P. Blavatsky as the genius behind all of it:
https://www.theosophical.org/teachings/m…

http://www.ourladyandallangels.org/

1502 East Ojai Avenue in Ojai, California

https://www.google.com/maps/place/Our+La…

Theosophical Ideas
https://www.theosophical.org/theosophy/t…

World View
https://www.theosophical.org/theosophy/t…

Blavatsky's Secret Doctrine
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ek-HZ7Uq…

Krotona Morning, Ojai CA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2u3dAXi…

Krotona Fountain
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R6Phs-At…

more videos
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bueOQUDN…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOXAMC-Z…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9KZWwaa…

SJG

Rarely are people called upon to show moral the kind of moral courage needed by those who served in French Resistance

Nancy Wake: Gestapo's Most Wanted
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qNXKovYM…

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/073227…

Gary Clark Jr. - Bright Lights and notice Doyle Bramhall II, playing left handed and with a left hander's body, but with it strung for a right hander. Look close and you can see this, and if you listen to him play and watch closely you can hear it. He learned always using borrowed guitars from right handers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_ZeDn-h…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYXMDCNj…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHKTAyaW…

So continuing to look into this Theosophical Society / Krotona, to find out its history, about the people, see what it is all about.

One problem with Esoteric / Occult groups is that they are often aligned with the Right, or they claim to be apolitical, which makes them also aligned with the Right.

Maybe this one is not that way?

Helena Petrovna Blavatsky Russian, 1831 to 1891. Co-Founded Theosophical Society 1875. It would be hard to over estimate her influence
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena_Bla…

Hated Christianity. As such, also disliked Judaism.

Co-Founded Theosophical Society with Henry Steel Olcott ( lived until 1907) HQ for Theosophical Society was in India. Olcott was President of it up until his death.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_Stee…

Documentary About Blavatsky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLN7poqj…

"In November 1889 she was visited by the Indian lawyer Mohandas Gandhi, who was studying the Bhagavad Gita with the Keightels. He became an associate member of Blavatsky's Lodge in March 1891, and would emphasize the close connection between Theosophy and Hinduism throughout his life."

Hollywood Krotona Hangout
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXxzI0gL…

What is Theosophy?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1EsVhSi…

Krotona
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krotona

built in 1912, on 10 acres, a community, included sometimes Mary Astor and Charlie Chaplin.

The Hollywood Krotona building located at Primrose and Vista Del Mar was erected in 1919.

Seems to be an apartment building now, either this 2130 address, on the viewer's right. Or by the sign, the parking lot.
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.1089942,…

Vista Del Mar and Primrose is here:
https://www.google.com/maps/@34.1093169,…

Alice Baily, 1880 - 1949 was one of the early members
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Bail…

about Hollywood Krotona
http://thenativelatourist.com/2014/05/kr…

"
Ever wonder about the mecca of Moorish homes up in Beachwood Canyon? From 1912 to 1924, a plot of land nested up in the Hollywood Hills served as the national headquarters for the Theosophical Society. Named Krotona, the commune was a haven for followers of the mystical movement founded by Helena P. Blavatsky, whose principles included the promotion of unity across all sexes, colors, castes and creeds; compassion for all living beings and dedication to the “Divine Wisdom.”

The man behind the 10-acre community was Albert Powell Warrington, who transformed canyons into a secluded sanctuary for Theosophists, writes Hadley Hall Meares for Curbed LA. In her latest piece, she uncovers the history of Beachwood Canyon’s early bohemian colony:
"

Here also, up behind the Hollywood Krotona, Cloistered Dominican Nuns
https://monasteryoftheangels.org/

https://www.yelp.com/biz/monastery-of-th…

Still a very widely read book, 1877
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis_Unvei…

full text?
https://www.theosociety.org/pasadena/isi…

https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/083560…



SJG

Headstone Circus
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZYPAasu…

Okay, so this is the guy behind the Hollywood Krotona. A banker

Albert Powell Warrington
https://theosophy.wiki/en/Albert_Powell_…

Close to Annie Besant

President of the American Theosophical Society, 1912 - 1920. Also involved in the move to Ojai.

Annie Besant
https://theosophy.wiki/en/Annie_Besant

born 1847, London

passed away just before her 85th bday, 1933

1927 purchased land for Happy Valley Foundation, Ojai CA.

Elected President of Theosophical Foundation 1907 ( succeeding Olcott )

Progressive Activist!

"
Around the time of her marriage Annie visited some friends in Manchester, where she got into contact with both English radicals and the Irish Fenian Martyrs of Manchester. Through elderly lawyer William Roberts, much loved by the workers of Manchester for his unpaid work on their behalf, she became acquainted with the conditions of the urban poor. All this awakened her political and social consciousness.

After her marriage Annie began to support farm workers who were fighting to unionise and to win better conditions; her husband sided with the landlords and farmers.

During her marriage and soon after her separation, Annie began to lose her faith in Christianity and gradually fell into atheism and the Freethought movement, which sought to alleviate human suffering through education and social reform. In the summer of 1874 she became a member of the National Secular Society. In 1875, she would be elected as its vice-president. During this stage of her life she would become a remarkable supporter of freedom of thought, women's rights, secularism, birth control, Fabian socialism and workers' rights.

At the head of the movement was Charles Bradlaugh, who soon developed a close relationship with Besant. He was the editor of the radical newspaper the National Reformer and gave her a job working for it as a columnist and reviewer. During the next few years she wrote many articles on issues such as marriage and women's right to vote, trade unions, national education, birth control, and the abolition of capital punishment. At this time Besant also developed a reputation as an outstanding public speaker. Her first talk was on "The Political Status of Women" and it was a success, printed later as a pamphlet.

Besant began to lecture around the country, sometimes along with Bradlaugh, sometimes by herself, and soon became one of the most prominent champions of atheism and freethought in Britain.


Besant and Bradlaugh became household names in 1877 when they republished a pamphlet promoting birth-control by the American Charles Knowlton entitled The Fruits of Philosophy. The work claimed that in order to be happy, working-class families had to be able to decide how many children they wanted. The pamphlet was highly controversial and caused a real scandal, especially among the religious establishment. It was vigorously opposed by the Church and eventually banned as an "obscene work."

They were arrested and put on trial; charged with publishing material that was "likely to deprave or corrupt those whose minds are open to immoral influences." In court they argued that "we think it more moral to prevent conception of children than, after they are born, to murder them by want of food, air and clothing."

During the trial Besant was instrumental in founding the Malthusian League, which would advocate for the abolition of penalties for the promotion of contraception. She wrote and published her own birth-control pamphlet with a "less coarse" style entitled The Laws of Population. The idea of a woman advocating birth-control received wide-publicity. Newspapers like The Times accused Besant of writing "an indecent, lewd, filthy, bawdy and obscene book." They were both found guilty of publishing an "obscene libel" and sentenced to six months in prison. However, the conviction was quashed on appeal due to a technicality.

In spite of the legal victory, Annie had to pay a terrible price for the scandal. Rev. Besant used the publicity of the affair to file a case for the custody of their daughter Mabel. He was able to persuade the court that she was unfit to look after her on the grounds of Annie being an atheist, associated to infidel Charles Bradlaugh, and promoter of an indecent obscene pamphlet.

The loss of her two children caused her great grief. When they grew up, however, they both became devoted admirers of their mother.
"

In the United States, Mrs. Besant purchased land in 1927 to establish the Happy Valley Foundation in Ojai, California. A school was not formed immediately, but with the efforts of J. Krishnamurti and others, the Besant Hill School of Happy Valley now operates on that site.


In the United States, Mrs. Besant purchased land in 1927 to establish the Happy Valley Foundation in Ojai, California. A school was not formed immediately, but with the efforts of J. Krishnamurti and others, the Besant Hill School of Happy Valley now operates on that site.

Theosophical Emblem
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c…

Besant Hill School ( Ojai ) lists Besant, Krishnamurti, and Aldous Huxley as founders
https://www.besanthill.org/

Besant was a Fabian Socialist
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Fabian-…

http://www.iamnotastalker.com/2018/11/14…

http://www.rupertjulian.com/blog-archive…

Kabbalah Music
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQiIi4GE…

Jiddu Krishnamurti, 1895 - 1986
https://theosophy.wiki/en/Jiddu_Krishnam…

https://theosophy.wiki/en/Jiddu_Krishnam…

Annie Besant was a leftist. Maybe not the most radical, but a leftist, socialist, pro-contraception and family planning, and abortion, progressive educationalist.

SJG

To really understand, need to find books about each of the above mentioned persons.

Founder, re-open our old threads. Only way we can maintain topical diversity.

SJG

So what more can I find out. Vice President Henry A. Wallace was part of the Theosophical Society, until resigned when he became part of the FDR Admin, probably for political reasons.

https://theosophy.wiki/en/Henry_A._Walla…

Helena Roerich
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helena_Roe…

Roerich Pact
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roerich_Pa…

Roerich
http://en.icr.su/

Theosophy In Times of War
https://www.theosophical.org/publication…

Theosophy and the Second World War
https://www.filosofiaesoterica.com/theos…

Joined all US services, raised war bond money, criticized Gandhi for his pacifism. Criticize US for its neutrality.


Liberal Catholic Church
http://usreligion.blogspot.com/2013/07/t…


Theosophical Connection to the US Civil Rights Movement, through India, founding the Indian National Congress, 1885, and through Gandhi and the Gita, connecting then to MLK
http://usreligion.blogspot.com/2013/01/t…

Some criticism of Blavatsky. What they fault her for was common among occultists of that era, Steiner, Heindel.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theosophic…

“The Fire and Light of Theosophical Literature”, by Carlos Cardoso Aveline

https://www.infowars.com/zeitgeist-2-the…

INSTANT THEOSOPHY :- What is a Monad?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rln6fGTl…

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c…

https://theosophy.wiki/en/Egregore

What is a Monad? - Computerphile Uses Haskil
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1e8gqXL…

Monad, drawing from Pythagoreans and from Leibniz
https://theosophy.wiki/en/Monad

Monad
https://blavatskytheosophy.com/what-exac…

Haskell Language
https://www.haskell.org/

Egregore
https://theosophy.wiki/en/Egregore

"The term Theosophy comes from the Greek theosophia, which is composed of two words: theos (god, gods, or divine) and sophia (wisdom). Theosophia, therefore, may be translated as the wisdom of the gods, wisdom in things divine, or divine wisdom."

"Theosophy, also known as Christian theosophy and Boehmian theosophy, refers to a range of positions within Christianity which focus on the attainment of direct, unmediated knowledge of the nature of divinity and the origin and purpose of the universe. They have been characterized as mystical and occultist philosophies.[1] Theosophy is considered part of Western esotericism, which believes that hidden knowledge or wisdom from the ancient past offers a path to enlightenment and salvation.

The foundation of Christian theosophy is usually attributed to the German philosopher Jakob Böhme.

In 1875, the term "theosophy" was adopted and revived by the Theosophical Society, an esoteric organisation which spawned a spiritual movement also called Theosophy.[2] In the twentieth century, theosophy became the object of study for various scholars of Western esotericism.
"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theosophy_…


https://theosophy.wiki/en/Monad


http://usreligion.blogspot.com/search/la…

Blavatsky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLN7poqj…

The Irony of Apoliticism in Theosophy | Socialism, Communism, and Globalism (2018)
https://theamericanminvra.com/2018/04/12…

Theosophical Socialism, Rohit Mehta
https://www.theosophy.world/resource/ebo…

Theosophical Socialism - Rohit Mehta , 1937, full text online 505 pages


Occultist Identity Formations Between Theosophy and Socialism in fin-de-siècle France
in Numen
Author: Julian Strube 1

https://brill.com/abstract/journals/nu/6…

https://www.theosophical.org/publication…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theosophic…

http://theosophy.wiki/w-en/index.php?tit…

https://duronaqueda.blogs.sapo.pt/a-deus…

Isis
https://pedemacarrao.files.wordpress.com…

Neo-Platonism
http://theosophy.wiki/w-en/index.php?tit…

https://duronaqueda.blogs.sapo.pt/a-deus…

Theosophy
any of a number of philosophies maintaining that a knowledge of God may be achieved through spiritual ecstasy, direct intuition, or special individual relations, especially the movement founded in 1875 as the Theosophical Society by Helena Blavatsky and Henry Steel Olcott (1832–1907).

http://www.krotonainstitute.org/about/

Joy Mills
http://www.krotonainstitute.org/wp-conte…

Joy Mills, lived till 2015, President till 1974
https://theosophy.wiki/en/Joy_Mills

This I believe is Fascist and Evil:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%22I_AM%22…

Joy Mills
https://www.theosophical.org/publication…

Secret Doctrine 100 years later with Joy Mills ( videos )
https://theosophy.world/resource/secret-…


Blavatsky, H. P. (Helena Petrovna), 1831-1891.
The key to theosophy. : An abridgement / edited by Joy Mills. (1972)


Dark star rising : magick and power in the age of Trump / Gary Lachman. (2018)
"Did positive thinking and mental science help put Donald Trump in the White House? And are there any other hidden powers of the mind and thought at work in today's world politics? In Dark Star Rising: Magick and Power in the Age of Trump, historian and cultural critic Gary Lachman takes a close look at the various magical and esoteric ideas that are impacting political events across the globe. From New Thought and Chaos Magick to the far-right esotericism of Julius Evola and the Traditionalists, Lachman follows a trail of mystic clues that involve, among others, Norman Vincent Peale, domineering gurus and demagogues, Ayn Rand, Pepe the Frog, Rene Schwaller de Lubicz, synarchy, the Alt-Right, meme magic, and Vladimir Putin and his postmodern Rasputin. Come take a drop down the rabbit hole of occult politics in the twenty-first century and find out the post-truths and alternative facts surrounding the 45th President of the United States with one of the leading writers on esotericism and its influence on modern culture."

Madame Blavatsky : the mother of modern spirituality / Gary Lachman. (2012)

Lachman writes extremely good books!

A dark muse : a history of the occult / Gary Lachman. (2005)

https://www.amazon.com/Dark-Muse-History….

"The occult was a crucial influence on the Renaissance, and it obsessed the popular thinkers of the day. But with the Age of Reason, occultism was sidelined; only charlatans found any use for it. Occult ideas did not disappear, however, but rather went underground. It developed into a fruitful source of inspiration for many important artists. Works of brilliance, sometimes even of genius, were produced under its influence. In A Dark Muse, Lachman discusses the Enlightenment obsession with occult politics, the Romantic explosion, the futuristic occultism of the fin de siècle, and the deep occult roots of the modernist movement. Some of the writers and thinkers featured in this hidden history of western thought and sensibility are Emanuel Swedenborg, Charles Baudelaire, J. K. Huysmans, August Strindberg, William Blake, Goethe, Madame Blavatsky, H. G. Wells, Edgar Allan Poe, and Malcolm Lowry."

Annie Besant : a biography / Anne Taylor (1992)


The key to theosophy. : An abridgement / edited by Joy Mills. (1972 by Blavatsky )

Krishnamurti, 7 minutes video
https://theosophy.world/resource/what-sp…

From the outer court to the inner sanctum / Annie Besant. ( she has lots of books, most published by Theosophical Society )

The ancient wisdom : an outline of theosophical teachings. (1966, Annie Besant, 7th edition )

Joy Mills
http://www.krotonainstitute.org/wp-conte…

The Search For Truth ( good stuff about Theosophical thinking )
https://www.theosophical.org/teachings/t…


SJG

Gary Lachman on Madame Blavatsky
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPegrIcH…

I'm sure this is good! Lachman writes extremely good books. Credited as Gary Valentine, he was the original bass player for Blondie.

SJG

So trying to learn as much as I can now about this Theosophical Society. Will need to read books, but I am already reading all the books I can.

Founded in 1877, lots of bad press about it since. But remember, the main problem with Esoteric Groups is that they are either of the Right Wing, overtly or covertly, or they are New Age Lint Head groups.

Well, it was Blavatsky and the Theosophical Society which first encouraged Gandhi to ignore the Christian Missionaries and read the Gita. And it was his deciding that it should not be read as a literal prescription, which resulted in his doctrine of non-violence.

And then during two world wars the Theosophical Society had its members joining every branch and sub branch of the US Armed Services, criticizing Gandhi for his pacifism, and criticizing the US for its neutrality.

California has lots and lots of Esoteric - Occult groups.

But the Theosophical Society had Charlie Chaplin and Aldous Huxley.

That is a very long way from being represented by imbeciles like John Travolta and Tom Cruise.


So this Richard Smoley was the editor of the awesome but short lived San Francisco based Gnosis Magazine.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnosis_(ma…

Smoley is a completely straight arrow and completely level headed, and he has written many most interesting books.

The Shamanic Vision
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kI_KmST_…

Richard Smoley: Magic and the Occult
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bh8ahm7B…

https://www.theosophical.org/ts-network/…

So the world wide HQ is in India, where the group was started.

The US HQ is in Wheaton IL, about 40 miles West of Chicago.
https://www.google.com/maps/@41.8861038,…

And then they have a place in San Francisco. I believe it is this 809 Mason St.
https://www.google.com/maps/@37.7910805,…

I believe Smoley is speaking to us, 2018, from the San Francisco address.

But this is done from Wheaton
https://www.theosophical.org/programs/le…

https://www.theosophical.org/programs/ev…

https://www.theosophical.org/ts-network/…

The Theosophical Society : the history of a spiritualist movement / Jeffrey D. Lavoie (2012)
The California experience : a literary odyssey / [edited by] Warren A. Beck (1976, deals with lots of stuff, but Krotona between the wars )

The key to theosophy : being a clear exposition in the form of question and answer of the ethics, science and philosophy for the study of which the Theosophical (1968, written by Blavatsky, but I think edited by others since )


SJG

The Arsenal Of Democracy (December 29th 1940)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8oI-xc7X…

Joe Jackson - Breaking Us In Two
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g01HSthc…

To my ear this is an extremely sad song.

A lot of emphasis on minor triads

Breaks some of the conventions for guitar music, using lots of slash cords, and this F# Major. Black key music, okay for keyboard, but not common for guitar because it uses no open string notes. Are his people using an alternative tuning?

https://www.guitartabs.cc/tabs/j/joe_jac…

https://tabs.ultimate-guitar.com/tab/joe…

TJ Street
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7290/9620…

http://www.adelitasbartijuanamexico.com/…

Founder, please unlock our old threads. Too time consumptive to keep a bunch of topical threads going.

Try to learn more about Theosophical Society

https://www.theosophical.org/

World View
https://www.theosophical.org/theosophy/t…

"
The universe and all that exists within it are one interrelated and interdependent whole.

Every existent being-from atom to galaxy-is rooted in the same universal, life-creating Reality. This Reality is all pervasive but it can never be summed up in its parts, since it transcends all its expressions. It reveals itself in the purposeful, ordered, and meaningful processes of nature as well as in the deepest recesses of the mind and spirit.

Recognition of the unique value of every living being expresses itself in reverence for life, compassion for all, sympathy with the need of all individuals to find truth for themselves, and respect for all religious traditions. The ways in which these ideals become realities in individual life are both the privileged choice and the responsible act of every human being.


Central to the concerns of theosophy is the desire to promote understanding and unity among people of all races, nationalities, philosophies, and religions. Therefore, all people, whatever their race, creed, sex, caste, or color, are invited to participate equally in the life and work of the Society. The Theosophical Society imposes no dogmas, but points toward the source of unity behind all differences. Devotion to truth, love for all living beings, and commitment to a life of active altruism are the marks of the true Theosophist.
"

Christian Ritual in Theosophical Perspective
https://www.theosophical.org/publication…

Okay, the basic membership fee is $60 per year. ( Quite reasonable, far less than AMORC )

http://theosophicalsocietyofsanfrancisco…

This has got a lot more lodges and study centers than I ever would have imagined. So it must have people and money. If not a religious org, then it has to pay property tax.

Has an extensive collection of articles to communicate its teachings. But it does not seem to be like AMORC or BOTA, with weekly lessons, or with initiations.

https://www.theosophical.org/teachings/e…

Kern Foundation
https://www.theosophical.org/kern-founda…





SJG

Gary Clark Jr. - Bright Lights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_ZeDn-h…

Joe Bonamassa - "Midnight Blues" - Beacon Theatre - Live From New York
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8z74lr3t…

TJ Street Girls
http://tjstreetgirls.blogspot.com/

http://www.tijuanafaq.com/index.php

https://www.amazon.com/dp/1449997066/?ta…

Real TJ Street
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jj0yKwFl…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyJuyhdt…

So many books to read, too many!

Founder, please open our threads back up and keep them open. The posts will be better!

SJG

The Jeff Healey Band - Live In Belgium (Full Concert 1993)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s_ufNFTA…

Richard Smoley: Who Were the Essenes?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQokYsmf…

Gregg Braden - The 7 Essene Mirrors
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EiBsczaf…

Quest Books (Theosophical Society)
https://questbooks.com/

Quest Bookshop
http://questbookshop.com/home/index.php

SJG

The Theosophical Society in America: An Illustrated History
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bueOQUDN…

Theosophy UK Manly P Hall The Murdered Mystic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dO2tXOLe…

The Theosophical Society: An Invitation to Serve
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oQlKSlXH…

SJG

Feel that I am now getting to understand how the Theosophical Society works, but still need to know more about its teachings and its members.

SJG
Official Parking Lot Bouncer

As Most Diverse Congress in History Takes Office, Dems Push to End Shutdown Without Funding for Wall
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/1/4/mo…

'Leaked' Video Of Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Proves She... Has Friends, Can Dance
https://www.yahoo.com/huffpost/apos-leak…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1noBAbLa…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZBeuzWWK…

Edwin Starr
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztZI2aLQ…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01-2pNCZ…

War - The World Is a Ghetto 1972 Full Album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VmheOZtL…

How To Tell If Someone Is Truly Smart Or Just Average
https://getpocket.com/explore/item/how-t…

TJ Street
https://farm8.static.flickr.com/7318/961…
https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5488/96200…
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7290/9620…
https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5449/96322…

Warren Haynes ­with Joe Bonamassa -- Guitar Center's King of the Blues 2011
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX14smq2…

Beth & Joe - I'd Rather Go Blind - Live in Amsterdam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UEHwO_UE…

Beth & Joe - I Love You More Than You'll Ever Know - Live in Amsterdam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bOQ07fVV…

Amazing Performance by Gary Clark Jr. - When My Train Pulls In
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYXMDCNj…

Theosophical Society
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kQgVaGIu…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlqH_VVs…

Key to Theosophy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnVjwQqB…

Mitch Horowitz: H. P. Blavatsky, Manly P. Hall, and the Secret Teachings of all Ages
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIqlw020…


SJG

SJG's New Headquarters, coming soon to a strip club parking lot near you.

12' x 20', and with over 9' of center stand up height.
https://www.cabelas.com/product/Cabelas-…

TJ Street
https://farm8.static.flickr.com/7318/961…
https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5488/96200…
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7290/9620…
https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5449/96322…

Nancy Wake, Gestapo's Most Wanted
https://youtu.be/qNXKovYM15A?t=57m28s

Nirvana-Come as you are lyrics
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqN0ZOEO…

Casino Royale 1967 Sound Track Album
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EhmZULZX…

Mobile Kitchens, by Carlin, Fresno CA
https://kitchenstogo.com/products/mobile…
just saw one built in a huge 24,000 GVWR Walk-In Van, still okay for Class C License, huge diesel auxiliary power unit.

Mister Bond - A Jazzy Cocktail Of Ice Cold Themes
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XVQ8lpPu…

Sexiest Ladies of Jazz - The Trilogy! - Full Album - New 2017
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsJs_hEC…

Hard to believe, but they are really using this same song:

U2 New Year's Day (Full Version)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vdLuk2Ag…

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Year%2…

Soundgarden Half, playlist
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EHh-2T84…

Mitch Horowitz: H. P. Blavatsky, Manly P. Hall, and the Secret Teachings of all Ages ( really good )
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIqlw020…

Rashida Tlaib
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/1/8/re…
on impeaching Trump
https://www.democracynow.org/2018/11/9/r…
https://www.democracynow.org/shows/2019/…
https://www.democracynow.org/2019/1/8/ra…

Best thread ever on tussle

Thanks!

SJG

Masonry and the Theosophical Society
https://www.universalfreemasonry.org/en/…

SJG

Steve Blank, Lean Startup Model

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Blan…

https://steveblank.com/

Baker Gurvitz Army - Love Is / Memory Lane / Drum Solo / People - Live 1975 (Remastered) HD
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8dX1iPe…

Deep Purple - Lazy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EvYI5OT…

THE MOODY BLUES - RIDE MY SEE-SAW
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfy8NJtg…

THE GUESS WHO - NO TIME
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=meIuAUnZ…

Ep. 002 - Masonic Heroes of the Holocaust
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y5WrmUcE…

Video podcasts
https://www.universalfreemasonry.org/en/…

Kingdom Coming: The Rise of Christian Nationalism, by Michelle Goldberg (2006)
https://www.amazon.com/Kingdom-Coming-Ri…

So long I have wanted to read this critical book.

"
Again and again while reporting for Salon, I'd had the sense that liberals and conservatives no longer merely had divergent values--they occupied different realities, with contradictory facts, histories, and epistemologies.
"

And she explains that the Evangelical Christian Movement is "hydra-headed".

She credits some folks as helping, starting with the long respected Chip Berlet
https://www.politicalresearch.org/

Alfred Ross
https://www.thenation.com/authors/alfred…
https://www.democracynow.org/2005/7/26/t…
https://www.bizapedia.com/ok/institute-f…

Dan Quinn
https://tfn.org/

Adrienne Verrilli
http://www.womensmediacenter.com/profile…

Rob Boston
https://www.au.org/about/people/rob-bost…

SJG

Daath The Doorway to Knowledge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X-IawzBx…

Steve Blank
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Blan…

https://steveblank.com/

Freemasonry is inherently opposed to slavery but what slavery remains for us to fight against today?
https://www.universalfreemasonry.org/en/…

TJ Street
https://farm8.static.flickr.com/7318/961…
https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5488/96200…
https://farm8.staticflickr.com/7290/9620…
http://www.adelitasbartijuanamexico.com/…
https://c2.staticflickr.com/6/5449/96322…

Gary Clark Jr. - Bright Lights
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_ZeDn-h…

Black Sabbath - Paranoid (Full Album)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fWvKvOVi…