Thursday, August 29, 2013

Wily Apocalypse


So much self parody in public life connects America and Israel to boggle the mind. Tom Daschle, Senate Majority Leader, was Speaking for "both parties," "both houses" and all "212 years" when he introduced the joint resolution of House and Senate, of Edwards, Giuliani, Pataki, Obama, Kerry, to make it so. This is presumed payback for Israeli agents setting the charges. Yes the puritans and evangelicals made this connection long ago, repudiated by these figureheads called leaders except for the rhetoric  today. Woe to you puppets who say what you are leaders of untold others. Flies as it were decamped the  rocks of Isaiah to land on the Bushes. Official figureheads drew Isaiah tight about the U.S. throat, a rhetorical noose, for "Yahweh to send a word to Jacob (Isaiah 9.8), and it lighted upon America." This apocalypse is the same as it was for the flood of Noah, systemic corruption of the living genome. Oh dear. Don't you know that right now in every first world underground lab and military these same creatures are being made? Does that imply some intelligence spanning thousands of years sticking its neck out again to have its day? Don't you know that the Day of the LORD begins in darkness, the evening before what we call the day?

 "I know that there is only the smallest measure of inspiration that can be taken from this devastation, but there is a passage in the Bible from Isaiah that I think speaks to all of us at times like this, 'the bricks have fallen down, but we will rebuild with dressed stone: the sycamore figs have been felled, but we will replace them with cedars.' That is what we will do" (Tom Daschle, 9/12, 2001).

 Until Daschle nobody connected Jerusalem, Washington and New York (first inaugural of George Washington in 1789) with Isaiah and 9/11, but then what Isaiah really says is, "the princes are rebellious and companions of thieves, where every one loves bribes" (1.23). And that the news media "are soothsayers like the Philistines" (2.6), the American economy  "full of silver and gold, has no end of treasure" (2.7), but "their land is full of idols" (2.8) from TV alone, not to speak of "mankind become degenerate as the great man debased himself" (2.9).  Anthony Weiner in and by the yard so to speak, so the full quote reads like this:

"All that say in the pride and haughtiness of heart, 
the bricks are fallen down, but we will build with dressed stone: 
the sycamore figs are cut, but we will replace them with cedars, 
shall have adversaries set up against them enemies joined together;
 the Syrians before,  the Philistines behind; 
and they shall swallow them with open mouth." Isaiah 9.10

That's the complete text of Daschle's "blessing" except it reads like a curse, two lines out of context, disaster for America.

Daschle's Prayer Again
Daschle's Prayer
Daschling The House of Pride  
"in the pride and haughtiness of heart"

Edmund Spenser said,
Some frounce their curled Hair in courtly guise,
Some pranke their Ruffes, and others trimly dight
Their gay Attire: each others greater Pride does spight.

Here is Daschle again: "I know that there is only the smallest measure of inspiration that can be taken from this devastation. But there is a passage in the Bible from Isaiah that I think speaks to us all at times like this. ‘The bricks have fallen down but we will rebuild with dressed stone; the fig trees have been felled but we will replace them with cedars.’ That is what we will do. We will rebuild and we will recover, the people of America will stand strong together because the people of America have always stood together. And those of us privileged to serve this great nation will stand with you. God bless the people of America.” here.

Again, the complete text  of Isaiah says:

"All that say in the pride and haughtiness of heart,
the bricks are fallen down, but we will build with dressed stone:
 the sycamore figs are cut, but we will replace them with cedars,
shall have adversaries set up against them
 enemies joined together; the Syrians before, the Philistines behind;
 and they shall swallow them with open mouth." (Isaiah 9.10)

Sycamore root
Is anybody home in Daschle's head? When hewn stone and cedar replace bricks and sycamore that provoke alliances against them fantasy turns real, like they said. Daschle's words come true after he says them. The Sycamore at Ground Zero that sheltered St Paul's Chapel, causing it to survive with hardly a window broken, those roots, bronzed and its stump are memorialized on the spot, where they are replaced by a cedar! The empty place of the Sycamore has been filled. Plus, the first American Capitol was four blocks from Ground Zero compounding the fall of towers into a symbolic attack on the founding of the Republic itself. How far were the “symbols and structures of our economic and military strength” compromised?
The Syrians! Keep reading.If you wrote this in a Greek play it would sound contrived. America can beat Russia, China, Iran, Iraq, al Qaeda, but God? America has to beat God. Nonetheless a large pine, cousin of the cedar, was lowered into the empty hole with the destiny of the words.

“I believe one of the first things we should commit to – with federal help that underscores our nation’s purpose – is to rebuild the towers of the World Trade Center and show the world we are not afraid – we are defiant. John Kerry, US Senate, September 12, 2001.

The Blessing is a Curse

Bilbao spider
 Jack Ryan, John Kerry, Kevin Costner will prevent the apocalypse! What happened to the bricks? Right again. The Governor of New York ordered a 20 ton block of granite quarried from the Adirondacks to be the new cornerstone at Ground Zero. A gratuitous symbol, completely unnecessary, just PR and puffery, boasting, like John Kerry saying we will show the world we are not afraid – we are defiant Who do we defy anyway, for you can only defy a power greater than you, and surely he's not saying that of Al-Qaeda? What's wrong with this  hewn, dressed stone? Answer, in Israel anyway (and now of course America is like Israel), cutting and polishing pollutes the stone, imparts pride and haughtiness of heart,

      If you make a stone altar
don't make it of hewn stone
          any tool that touches it pollutes it (Exodus 20:25).

These particulars of pride can be explored by analogy. To be sure the first course of government is denial and ridicule that such "coincidences' exist. If they do they are happenstance, not collateral damage. That is saved for the effects of their own drones. No government drones have yet been mounted against the harbinger.

Huge Routs of People did about them band,
Shouting for Joy; and still before their way
A foggy Mist had covered all the Land;
And underneath their Feet, all scattered lay
Dead Skulls and Bones of Men, whose Life had gone astray. (FQ I xxxvi)

Gfovernment is all powerful to obscure. Look for one approach to be that Isaiah is anti-gay for his remarks against Sodom, and anti-woman, for those tinkling feet of the daughters of Zion whose secret parts are bared. But there is no avoiding the obvious, Isaiah is the last place America would ever want to be. Any sequence of the history of Israel tells you that. The trouble is, can you take the words back? Will the present speaker of the house and the senate leader renounce the cedar and hewn stone? It might do some good to take back a lot of former oaths. But if America is a symbolic Israel expect to have the hedge taken away (Isaiah 5.5), for it to be laid waste (5.6) (and directly related to the 9.10 curse), "swallowed with open mouth.""Hell is enlarged, opens without measure. Their glory descends into it" (5.14).

Quibblers may disallow the sycamore/cedar, brick/hewn stone analogy to say that the Isaiah tree was not a true sycamore like the one in New York, and that anyway Pataki's foundation stone was not in the end used by the builders of Freedom Tower. Not used. But the further you dig into the botany the stronger the parallels get. The greater prophecy had already said,  

"in the Last Days (Isaiah 2.2)...every one that is proud and lofty,
 every one lifted up shall be brought low; 
the cedars of Lebanon...and every high tower
...the loftiness of man shall be bowed down
...the idols utterly abolished" (2.12-18). 

Laptop Fickle Freaks

Not to go line by line, however the fundamental premise of Isaiah's judgment repeats over and over that human pride shall be humbled 2.11, the lofty shall be bowed down 2.17, and that their boldness proves their character 3.9. They are as proud as Sodom of themselves, "they hide it not," meaning they have no shame. The crack about Sodom doesn't have the sting for the current U. S. that it did for Isaiah, who took Sodom as an opposite case from Jonah's Nineveh, which changed its ways.  Every day in America, top down, bottom up, sodom, porn, abortion join particular idols made with hands, iPods, iPhones, laptops, toggle bunnies and video games to average 66 hours of screen time a week. Isaiah has them casting their (idol) laptops to bats and moles (2.20). Reception might be poor in the clefts and tops of ragged rocks where they hide, 2.21, or maybe they have left their idols behind in the scramble to survive at the tops of apartment buildings.

A stately Palace built of squared Brick,
Which cunningly was without Mortar laid,
Whose Walls were high, but nothing strong, nor thick;
And golden Foil all over them displaid;
That purest Sky with Brightness they dismaid:
High lifted up were many lofty Towers, (FQ I, iv.4)

That every Breath of Heaven shaked it;
And all the hinder parts, that few could spy,
Were ruinous and old, but painted cunningly. (iv, 50

When the stay and staff of Isaiah's prophecy are moved and helter skelter politics runs along with shortages of bread and water (Isaiah 3.1), the boundaries go down. People disdain these unseen protections for their connectedness with each other in the social, neural connectome!, which outcome is the demolition of leadership (3.2-5). Everybody's humanity is flouted. The judge, prophet, elder, lawyer, artist and speaker are removed. Shouted down by hordes, one of a hundred. My brother, nobody special, wouldn't even rule in their place, says Isaiah. "Don't vote for me," he says (Isaiah 3.7), "who wants to rule ruin?" So they get some children, "children are their tyrants" (3.12), the everlastingly puerile of heart and mind who train at our club, frat boys in their 60s with the moles, bats, cedars, towers, children, Sodom, pride and idols: Tom Daschle speaketh!

Was this mousetrap dead fall to catch the prey engineered in advance by Al-Qaeda or...?  A lucky strike  like the cigarette? It gets worse. . is it God? .A symbolic strike to  the heart, as Daschle so kindly says. He didn't realize George Washington's Inaugural and Federal Hall, first American Capital were four blocks from Ground Zero, in "the heart of the American community and the symbols and structures." Didn't know it would be 14 buildings in all.

None of this gets mentioned without the American senators getting their towers back up!  All Presidents echo the bigger better theme. In chapter eight of Isaiah, in a series of ominous predictions, Isaiah says he and his children are themselves signs and wonders, that greater signs come in a series of progressions, small warnings followed by greater. The principle is that the people who resist the rising of the soft waters of Shiloh in Rezin and Remaliah will be swept up to their necks by the floods of the king of Assyria. Those who do not heed the first warning get a second, and by implication after the second, a third, and pretty soon America's not in the Bible again. These floods of course have no power themselves except to provoke change. To resist is to make them worse. Likewise in 9, "at first He lightly afflicted that land of Zebulen and the land of Naphtali, but at last he will deal hard by the way of the sea" (9.1).

But even though it is the American leaders invoke this "blessing," Isaiah says it is the "people" (8.6) who refuse the soft waters of Shiloh. Aren't the people given points off in their spoiling because of mind control manipulation by corporate governments and military? Sorry, all are in it together. That's why if people spoke up now they would feel less a fooled victim. Join the revolution against Monsanto?  These progressions contain reversals, "associate yourselves and you will be broken...gird yourselves and be broken...take counsel and come to nothing...speak a word and it will be defeated (8.9,10). Neither is help to be found in the usual wisdom of diviners (19).  All avenues fail, "the living should not inquire of the dead." When the Assyrian flood comes, the conquered will be hungry, get angry and curse their president and his senate deities; instead of looking "upward for help" they "look to earth...and are driven into darkness" (21-22). This is the pattern of events the American  Speaker invoked, one warning unheeded, followed by a worse. Shiloh, Assyrian flood, forced march to Babylon. By no means believe everything your government does for your security, right up until the series of big surprises to come.Government leaders, corporate NGOs, selected Scientology and religious groups have a minimum of 1500 underground sites (UG) worldwide connected by mag-lev trains via the mo-hole.

The basic harbinger info of J. Cahn has had multiple shares of every sort. He says members of  Congress have visited the sites with him and prayed. What did they pray for anyway, the prevention of  disaster brought on by arrogance? Nobody wins against the force of entertainment patriotism. When JayZ, Charlie Rose, and all the monarched up movie stars and entertainment figures plead for the government to save us, deliver us from evil, know that government has replaced the larger thing that its senate defies. Paul Anka says when he was with the Rat Pack in Vegas, with Sinatra, Martin, Sammy Davis Jr. etc., they all knew they worked for the bosses of organized crime, but that didn't make them criminal and they were all right as long as they stayed in their place. Organized crime ran all the big clubs, networks, film studios, publishers. If you wanted to go along you got along. This serves as an analogy to government.

Between his cankred Teeth a venemous Tode,
That all the Poison ran about his Jaw;
But inwardly he chawed his own Maw
At Neighbour's Wealth, that made him ever sad; (FQ I, 30)

For each dissent there are a hundred, a thousand shills to psychoanalyze motive, twist fact. The thing is, something like Isaiah 9.10 unmasks the arrogance and its naked control. As if it were a giant colossi, a sumu wrestler big as a building, naked, ponderous.  i\If you don't like the Vegas Crime boss analogy for D.C./NY, try Monsanto, which has the entire government in its pocket to convince the Europeans not to ban GMO products. All the while they are saving your life they are killing you ponderoso. You cannot believe entertainment news, entrainment education. Even that disbelief is manipulated.

House of Pride

This allegory of the Pride is of  dual nature, moral-religious and national-political, particularly concerning Lucifera and the procession of the seven deadly sins (FQ, I, Cantos iv, v). Lucifera is not far from the daughter of Zion with her "hinder parts painted cunningly." Pride is an illusion with no basis in reality like Chaucer's House of Fame that has the names of great men inscribed on the north wall and their destruction on the south. The leprosy (Isaiah 3.17) of the Daughters and their bared secret parts is like the escapees of the House by the side of the road "in most wretched case." Literature is good for something, to talk about what otherwise is unmentionable, which Spenser voluminously did with the Tudors. The House of Pride is ready to crumble at any moment, for "every breath of heaven shaked it (iv, 5. 7). The inhabitants are infinite sorts of people, the best of the university of hell no doubt, a nation diverse as its own pride. The lords and ladies, the government await Queen Lucifera but are only props to her appearance. There is a lot of parody of the English Court. She brooks no rivals. To cast our male presidents into the roles they play as maiden queens does not deny the strict controls behind them. Lucifera is the false light of pride whose carriage is pulled by the seven deadly sins. Gluttony has been surrendered to along with pride, and lechery, envy, wrath.

His ruffin raiment all was staind with blood,
Which he had spilt, and all to rags yrent (FQ, iv. 34. 1-2)

What exactly are our seven deadly sins? Just to show this is not a prophecy of the Obama age, after the six unholy pairs have passed in review, we see Satan the lackey, riding on the wagon beam, lashing the beasts onward. They pass through the mass of people, and through a "foggy mist' that covers the land, before they find the "fresh flowering fields' and the "solace of the open air." The procession tramples over the skulls and bones of those who had previously come this way, "whose life had gone astray." Maybe Spenser was quoting Isaiah, like Daschle (5.18):

Woe unto them that draw iniquity with cords
of vanity, and sin as it were with a cart rope.

Ben Franklin

In the dungeons by the burning lake gods by the seaside lie. In the palace the bodies of thousands overcome by pride could never leave this House (Sparknotes), like the basement excavations at the Ben Franklin House when Franklin lived in London, boasted as the only remaining Franklin Home where Franklin lived 1757-75, most of the bones, 200 years old,  dissected, sawn and cut, one skull drilled with several holes. Paul Knapman, the Westminster Coroner cited "a pit in a windowless basement where sticking out of the dirt floor, a human thigh bone." The Franklin House was only trying to spruce the place up when they discovered this. Animal remains were found as well. Cover up the bones of Pride. The true and false are nearly interchangeable. Una takes Archimago to be Redcross, Redcross takes Duessa to be Una. Should we apply this technique to American government, Daschle takes America to be Israel.


 
Google The Harbinger of 9/11 and get all the elaborate explanations of Isaiah 9.10. How did America finally get in the Bible? It wasn't there before. Russia, China and Egypt were, but if the greatest power on earth wasn't in the Bible last days it was dropped smack into chapter nine of Isaiah by Tom Daschle. One caution, chapters two to fourteen of Isaiah are the  Mother of all Threatenings as Edward Young calls it. What Israel in Isaiah took every counsel of its own advising, which all failed, and continued doing so, until finally, in chapter fourteen, guess who comes? How art thou fallen thou son of the morning?

Cahn says 9/11 was "the first" warning, in concert with Isaiah 9.1, "at first He lightly afflicted." The sequencing repeats the progression of Shiloh to the Assyrian flood. There are implicit middle terms in this.  How many warnings before "at the last He will deal hard" (9.1)? The first trigger event begins a sequence of increasing scale, followed by a second, inferential, the financial meltdown seven years to the week after 9/11.  The point however is that from the two a third and on are projected until "the last." This assumes the warnings are not taken, behavior is unchanged, in fact it gets worse. One way it gets worse is that as the public, I mean the mass mind, becomes aware of warnings, the forces that rule bring out their drones to destroy awareness. Thus of the third event, putatively say for September 2015, only the fool will speak, not for fear of being wrong, but for being marked for certain destruction by the drones. These will ridicule, psychoanalyze, grammatically deconstruct, defame, exaggerate to destroy, utterly misrepresent the event and its revelator. When however the event comes to pass the drones will extinct the memory in the pop mass mind. Do these forces really have the power to so manipulate public awareness and memory of the past? You with your 66 hours of screen time a week might well ask. It is a fiat accompli.

It's too bad America doesn't believe in Yahweh, especially when its leaders so sagaciously flaunt his counsel. You say you believe, but help thou my unbelief if you swallow entertainment patriotism, terrorists threats as if real, if you unquestioningly swallow the entertainment fugues giving you the peace sign, the devil sign, aping Horus and every jujube of Babylon. I guess you think this song is about you, don't you? America summons all the threats but none of the blessings, for these first fourteen chapters of Isaiah are filled with both. It is always saying his hand is stretched out still, but it's not the hand of a beggar on the freeway, it's the hand of help to pull you out of where the waters are up to your neck. No we can't have that! America can stand on its own two feet. Two feet, four feet, six feet and holler, our SWAT teams will bring the new order! How else talk. First warning the Towers. Second warning the financial meltdown close to exactly seven years later, says J. Cahn. Humbled. Humbled. (5.15). Third warning the blood moons and cardinal cross? Isaiah keeps saying that sheol has gotten a lot bigger from the influx (5.14). Woe unto them that call evil good (5.20) murder a woman's right, start there with Moloch. You better take a drink before we go (5.22). Man if you read 5.27-30 you might weep from whirlwind wheels, what soothsayers call weather changes, lions, lions, roar, roaring sea, darkness! That was the year king Uzziah died and Isaiah saw the posts of the door move at the voice (6.4). That was when he began his ministry of telling "this people in hearing you listen but you will not understand" (6.9). They had a bad case of Fat Heart (6.10). Say all that to say this, sheol had to expand, put up new towers since there was then "a great depopulation in the midst of the land" (6.12). Oh hell yes Daschle bring us into the Bible. We will double the alcohol and drug supply. Work continues on all fronts to increase datura production. The biggest applause is from Depopulate the 90% movement. Margaret Sanger and well, you don't want to know who. There are good shows on tonight. Let's get a cappuccino. First he had them casting their idols to  bats, splendid, and moles, don't forget the moles, but now he summons the fly and the bee to camp in all "the holes of the rocks and upon all thorns and upon all bushes" (7.19). Further proof America is in the Bible. The flies have already encamped upon the Bushes. Thing is, these flies are Assyrians, so we have to come up with the modern counterpart to really get America back out of the Bible.

Young Knight, whatever that dost Arms profess,
And through long Labors huntest after Fame,
Beware of Fraud, beware of Fickleness,
In Choice and Change of thy dear loved Dame;
Lest thou of her believe too lightly blame,
And rash misweening do thy Heart remove;
For unto Knight there is no greater Shame,
Than Lightness and Inconstancy in Love;
That doth this Red-cross Knight's ensample plainly prove. here

To show how vain the groove in the record that the apocalypse is coming, this is not Paul Revere's call to arms and flight, or an attempt to score readership in China and Ukraine. So many duds, so little time. I bring the Harbinger to the Faerie Queene. That should be obscure enough. Edmund Spenser got in trouble predicting Mary Queen of Scots was a type of the Great Whore of Babylon (Duessa). All England was a backdrop of his myth of King Arthur, Rome, the Bible and Babylon. Can it go further, that America is a backdrop for the new world order anti-messiah? It depends on commerce, beauty, truth and art. Buying and selling souls. I quote Dame Edith on this, "who buys, who buys, come lay your pence upon my staring lidless eyes." This commerce preoccupied patriarchs and prophets buying and selling favor, religion, blood, children, women, goods and service. Revelation 18 is a summation. Add in the 20 centuries succeeding and the stars of commerce will do anything to serve their need, get down on all fours and moo like a cow.  When the stars threw their spears, when the stars are shaken and fall like figs, who had a good run, those trumpets the angels blow at earth's imagined corners and those seals loose the long awaited judgments on commerce. As much as it's time to shop for a hole, it's time to bring the Faerie Queene to explain 9/11. It will get stranger. It's important to hedge one's bets, more Delphic than the moon, in case of another dud.

joint resolution  
  [A version of this, Blood Moon, came online at Camel Saloon Gallery, to whose editor grateful acknowledgement is made.]

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