Circles within Circles - Part 2
Esoteric Societies and Circles
I have considered above the way in which revolutionary secret societies and groups often structured their organisations on the pattern of circles and concentric circles. However, the same is frequently true of esoteric societies too. Many such bodies will establish an outer circle of initiates and then, as the candidate progresses through the ranks, he will join increasingly higher circles of learning moving gradually inwards to the main inner circle, where the adepts or masters are to be found. It would only be here that he would learn of the true aims of the organisation. This may be especially true of Freemasonry where it is only at the 33rd degree, the illuminati level, that Freemasons discover what the true aims of Freemasonry are, which may be very different from what the rank-and-file Masons think it is. I suspect the same is true of the Rosicrucians. Indeed, the C’s have said as much:
Session 21 December 1996:
Q: (L) Well, goodness sake! The Rosicrucians advertise in magazines!!! Is this worldwide organization that promotes itself so blatantly...
A: Well, the "world-wide" order is not all inclusive.
Q: (L) Is there an inner circle of this order that is unknown?
A: Yes.
Q: (L) Are the Rosicrucians connected to the Masons?
A: In a roundabout away.
Q: (L) Are the Illuminati connected to the Rosicrucians in any way?
A: Same.
Q: (L) Of the three I have named, which would be considered the one that is closest to the inner circle?
A: Not the correct concept.
Q: (L) Do the Rosicrucians have writings in their keeping that they, themselves, do not understand?
A: Yes. So do the Masons.
Where the C’s use the phrase a “roundabout way” as regards the Rosicrucians, Freemasons, and the Illuminati, my first thought is of a roundabout, which is a circular road structure that is usually located where two or more roads meet and is an alternative to using traffic lights (MJF: I appreciate here that roundabouts are almost unknown in the USA) to create a smooth traffic flow. Hence, we perhaps see the circle symbolism entering the picture once again. However, the meaning of a “roundabout way” when following a particular route is something which is not a simple, clear, and direct way. Where we are speaking of giving an answer to a question (as Laura was seeking here) then it means an indirect, vague, or evasive manner of doing or communicating something.
Bearing this in mind, where the C’s answer Laura’s question as to which of the three organisations would be considered the one that is closest to the inner circle, by saying this is not the correct concept, I believe they are alluding again to the circles within circles concept, showing that at some level, the three organisations’ membership probably interpenetrate – as with the example of David Rockefeller who acted as chairman for both the Bilderbergers Group and Le Cercle. This point may also link with comments the C’s have made about Laura going round in circles:
Session 28 November 1998:
Q: (L) One of the mythical stories repeated about this Abbe Berengar Sauniere, was that, on his deathbed, he made his confession and the priest who heard it refused him absolution and the last rites, and apparently fled from the house horrified. I don’t know if that is true, but it is an interesting story in relation to this story about Tannhauser, particularly since Sauniere painted the decoration in his church of Mary Magdalene gazing at a stick with buds springing out of it, and she was depicted in a grotto, such as the Horselberg cave. Is this Horselberg something that we are looking for here?
A: Ever feel as if you are dancing around in circles? [
MJF: which could be both a reference to Abbé Saunière’s links with the Martinist Rosicrucians and to the circular Stonehenge, built by the Druids, where the god Phoebus Apollo danced all night every 19 years – a reference to the metatonic cycle relating to the Moon – which the C’s said was indicative of “Symbolic. Tides, moon eclipses, that sort of thing”.]
[….]
Q: (L) You say I am dancing around in circles...
A: We are saying, as always, pay attention to the words.
And again, later in the same session:
Q: (L) Exactly. Anyway, somehow, all this connects backward to something that Solomon used to build his temple, and you told us previously that the secret that the Templars discovered UNDER the temple, was something that related to anti-gravity and that it was ‘buried in Galle.’ So, yes, we are going in circles. Can you comment on my comments?
A: Circles, hmmm...
This last comment in connection with the secret that the original nine Templar knights discovered under temple Mount may allude to the fact that the Templars may have had an inner circle who were the only ones who knew the real purpose behind the Order’s creation and existence.
The reference to circles then continued in the
session dated 5 December 1998:
Q: In response to your remark from last week, 'ever feel that you are dancing around in circles?' Mike wanted to know if this was a reference to crop circles?
A: No, not directly!
This last statement by the C’s may relate back to what the C’s had said about Stonehenge, crop circles and the Rosicrucians in the session dated 12 July 1997:
A: Have you researched the power of Stonehenge, and how it relates... where it fits in?
Q: Yes, we are bit by bit collecting things...
A: Well? And crop circles? Amazing connections... And what of "The Rosy Cross?"
And, of course, the reference to “
the Rosy Cross” takes us back to the Rosicrucians again.
Finally, the Rosicrucians were also mentioned in the
session dated 4 October 1997:
Q: … Now, in trying to figure out who has on what color hat, if there is such a thing, I have come to a tentative conclusion that the spider, or spinner of webs, is the Rosicrucian encampment, and that the Scorpion represents the seeker of wisdom... because, in fact, the word for Scorpio comes from the same root as that which means to pierce or unveil. Therefore, the Scorpion is also Perseus, per Ziu, or 'for God.' And the Rosicrucians are the 'other,' so to speak. Can you elaborate on this for me? Or comment?
A: What a tangled web we spin, when we must not let you in.
This last reference to a tangled web being spun is to Sir Walter Scott’s poem Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field, which is an historical romance in verse of 16th-century Scotland (the birthplace of modern Freemasonry) and England first published in 1808. The poem deals with themes of treachery and deceit. The particular verse the C’s are referring to is often erroneously attributed to Shakespeare, who had his own links to the Rosicrucians, as I have discussed previously. The real verse reads:
"
Oh, what a tangled web we weave,/ When first we practise to deceive!"
However, the C’s have changed the second part of the quote so that it now reads:
“What a tangled web we spin, when we must not let you in.”
The changes may seem at first sight superficial, but the C’s seldom do such things without good reason. Of course, spiders spin circular webs, drawing us back to the idea of circles again and possibly to the concept of the Rosicrucians being connected to the Freemasons and the Illuminati in a “roundabout way” - where if you search for answers to questions about these groups, you are met with indirect, vague, evasive or even deceptive answers to prevent you from piercing the veil of the web or secret network and gaining access to their hidden or occult knowledge. Incidentally, Sir Walter Scott was a Freemason himself, like his father before him. Scott was a novelist as well as poet and wrote mainly historical, romantic themed stories such as Ivanhoe (which features a villainous Knight Templar as a main character) and Rob Roy (a story set around the Jacobite rising of 1715) to name but a few. One of his other poems, The Lady of the Lake, was tremendously influential in the Nineteenth Century, and helped to inspire the Highland Revival, which was part of the wider European Romantic movement of the late 18th and early 19th Centuries. However, the Rosicrucians are not the only esoteric group to be composed of circles within circles, with a secret inner circle located at the centre.
The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
I have, of course, written about this late 19th Century quasi-Rosicrucian society before. It was founded by three Freemasons (who were also Rosicrucians as leading members of the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia) and had quite a celebrity membership (including Bram Stoker, W.B Yeats and Aleister Crowley amongst others), although it was short-lived. As David V. Barrett says of the Golden Dawn in his book Secret Religions, the Golden Dawn was important both for the people associated with it and for its continuing effect on later movements – its offspring. It was also a classic example of circles within circles and interpenetrating circles.
The Golden Dawn was the brainchild of Dr William Wynn Westcott, a well-known coroner. As I explained before, he claimed (in one version of the Order’s origin story) to have received a 60-page manuscript from an elderly clergyman with occult interests. The manuscript contained, in an artificial language, fragments of ‘Golden Dawn’ rituals that clearly owed much to Freemasonry with large elements of the Kabbalah, astrology, alchemy and related subjects. Westcott asked Samuel Liddell ‘McGregor’ Mathers (the second co-founder) to flesh out the fragments into full working rituals and he then recruited Dr William Robert Woodman, who was then the Supreme Magus of the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia, to be the third leader of the new organisation. Hence, we can see that the Golden Dawn was effectively an offshoot of the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia – thereby establishing a whole new circle.
Barrett states that it is rather more likely that Westcott had found the Cipher Manuscript amongst the papers of Kenneth Mackenzie, who had helped Robert Wentworth Little set up the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia in 1866 (its membership included Lord Edward Bulwer-Lytton, although he never claimed to be a member – probably owing to the perceived repercussions for his status as a senior government minister if he ever admitted to being a member). Little had asked Mackenzie to help decipher some old documents containing ‘ritual information’ he had supposedly been shown in the Library of the United Grand Lodge by the then Grand Secretary of English Freemasonry, who claimed to be the last surviving member of a Rosicrucian order created by a 19th Century Venetian ambassador (although we are completely reliant on Westcott’s account to establish this more venerable provenance for the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia).
As Barrett states, the importance of the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia in the genesis of the Golden Dawn can be gauged by a summary of the order’s aims which were: ‘to afford mutual aid and encouragement in working out the great problems of Life, and in discovering the secrets of nature; to facilitate the study of the systems of philosophy founded upon the Kabbalah and the doctrine of Hermes Trismegistus’.
Kenneth Mackenzie had been the Grand Secretary of a fringe masonic order called the Swedenborgian Rite and when he died in 1886, his widow gave his Swedenborgian papers to Westcott. Who became the Supreme Grand Secretary of the Rite and amongst these papers were almost certainly the draft rituals Mackenzie had written, probably for one of two societies he had founded or was involved in, the Hermetic Order of Egypt and the Royal Oriental Order of the Sat B’hai. Barrett thinks there is little doubt that these were the papers that formed the Cipher Manuscript underlying the birth of the Golden Dawn. It transpires that Westcott and Mackenzie were also members of a small, short-lived alchemical research group called the Society of Eight (1883-1885), which Mathers had also joined shortly before it faded away. Mathers became friendly with Westcott through this link, and it is possible that the Cipher Manuscript may have been draft rituals Mackenzie had written for the Society of Eight.
Samuel Liddell MacGregor Mathers in Egyptian costume performing
a ritual in the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn
Thus, we can see that the founding members of the Golden Dawn were serial joiners of esoteric societies and groups, which had sprung up all over the place in the late 19th Century. However, these ties with the named esoteric groups goes much further than this, since the Golden Dawn also had hidden links with
Theosophy that were concealed behind a fictitious character.
For those who may recall my earlier article on the Golden Dawn, Westcott had supposedly discovered among the Cipher papers a letter from a
Fräulein Anna Sprengler, who was the chief adept of a (non-existent) German occult order,
Die Goldene Dämmerung. She allegedly granted a charter to the Golden Dawn to form the Isis-Urania Temple No.3 in London. Thus, the Golden Dawn became a fully authorised British branch of an ancient continental order, whose teachings went back into the mists of antiquity. In reality, Westcott wrote letters from Fräulein Sprengler (or Soror SDA – from her Latin motto
Sapiens Dominabitur Astris) and had them translated into German and then back into English. Although the Golden Dawn was founded on a lie, Kenneth Mackenzie had claimed to have been initiated into a Rosicrucian Order by some German adepts. There may be further links through ideas and ideals rather than direct organisational lineage between the Golden Dawn and the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia with a genuine 18th Century German group called the
Brotherhood of the Golden and Rosy Cross first mentioned in a document of 1710. In 1777, its constitutions and ‘traditional history’ claimed that the three degrees of Freemasonry were ‘a seminary or preparation for the higher curriculum of the Rosicrucian Order … the preparatory school of the Rosy Cross’. This immediately makes me think of the C’s statement: “
Well? And crop circles? Amazing connections. And what of the Rosy Cross?” Note that they didn’t say the Rosicrucians.
It also so happens that the nine-grade degree structure of the Brotherhood of the Golden and Rosy Cross, from Zelator up to Magus, was identical to that of the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia and was carried over into the Golden Dawn, which added two further degrees by the addition of Neophyte below Zelator and Ipsissimus above Magus.
Barrett’s suggested link between Freemasonry and Rosicrucianism (the former perhaps being an offshoot of the latter) obtains some support from the masonic scholar and Golden Dawn and Societas Rosicruciana member
A.E. Waite who in his 1911 book
The Secret Tradition of Freemasonry proposed that some Hermetic fraternities played a part in the development of speculative Freemasonry. Waite, a Master Mason himself, claimed that a Holy Order called the ‘
Temple of Sion’ existed in 1464, which he thought might be the first instance of a form of speculative (as opposed to operative) Masonry. It was this and the famous Regis Manuscript that were the basis for Waite’s idea that some Hermetic fraternities played a part in the development of the speculative Craft. He believed that this was the mystic ideas of a Kabbalistic section of what he called
Wardens of the Secret Tradition that transformed Freemasonry from a guild or lodge of operative stonemasons into a secret society of speculative Freemasons. However, I find it fascinating that Waite should have referred to the ‘Temple of Sion’, which could well be the
Order of Sion, originally founded by a group of Augustinian Canons at the Priory of
Notre Dame de Sion in Jerusalem during the Crusader occupation of that city in the 12th Century AD. Remember that when Waite published his book in 1911, this was many decades before the Priory of Sion and its putative links to
Abbé Bérenger Saunière and the mystery of Rennes-le-Château became part of the popular zeitgeist first through
Lincoln,
Baigent and
Leigh’s 1982 book
The Holy Blood and the Holy Grail and then
Dan Brown’s 2003 book
The Da Vinci Code (that was turned into a highly successful movie in 2006). I hope to have more to say about A.E.Waite and his theories in a follow-up post. However, could Waite’s proposition establish a real link between the Order of Sion, the Knights Templar (whose first temple was on Temple Mount) and the Freemasons?
So, who was the real Fräulein Anna Sprengler? This lady was
Anna Kingsford (1846-1888) who was briefly the London president of Madam Blavatsky’s Theosophical Society before leaving to form her own Hermetic Lodge of the Theosophical Society in 1884. Westcott and Mathers regularly attended and were speakers at Hermetic Society meetings. In 1886, Anna Kingsford edited Valentine Weigelius’s 1649 work
Astrology Theologised, on the title page of which was the Latin motto
Sapiens Dominabitur Astris (‘the wise will be ruled by the stars’), which, as we saw above, was the same motto used by Fräulein Anna Sprengler (Soror SDA) in her letters to Westcott, which began in November 1887. Kingsford died on 22 February 1888 and the Hermetic Society would die with her. The Golden Dawn was born on 12 February 1888 and in August 1890, Westcott claimed to have received a final letter from Germany saying that Fräulein Sprengler had died, conveniently breaking off any further contact with her and the hidden masters – the mysterious Secret Chiefs of the Order.
The Golden Dawn was a secret society like the Freemasons and some Roscirucian groups in that it awarded degrees as members progressed up the ladder, but with the main emphasis being the study of magical theory and ritual. The degrees of the outer order of the Golden Dawn were Neophite ((1st degree or 1=10) Theoricus (2nd degree or 2=9) Practicus (3rd degree or 3=8) and Philosphus (4th degree or 4=7). But for a few (and unknown to the rest) there would later be an inner circle, the Ordo Rosae, Rubeae et Aurae Crucis (RR et AC) – the Rose of Ruby and the Cross of Gold. Based on the Rosicrucian symbolism of Christian Rosenkreutz, this inner circle had three degrees: Adeptus Minor (5th degree or 5=6), Adeptus Major (6th degree or 6=5) and Adeptus Exemptus (7th degree or 7=4). It should be noted that the outer circle only studied the theory of magic whereas the inner circle studied practical ritual magic.
Aleister Crowley claimed there was an even higher order, the Mysterious Third Order of the Silver Star or Argenteum Astrum (AA), which had three more degrees: Magister Templi (8th degree or 8=3), Magus (9th degree or 9=2) and Ipsissimus (10th degree or 10=1). Apparently, the adepts of this order were beyond mere humanity, existing purely as spirits on the astral plane. The pairs of number for each degree shown above refer to the
Sephiroth on the Tree of Life: the first, in a circle, shows how far the initiate has progressed from
Malkuth at the bottom of the Tree; the second degree, in a square, shows how far they are from
Kether at the top. As well as the associations between Tarot and the Tree of Life there were further correspondences between the twelve signs of the zodiac, the astrological planets and the four elements and much more. This stems from the occult notion that correspondences are a complex extension of the idea of sympathetic magic – if two things are related in some way, then one can be used to influence or strengthen the other.
Eventually, Aleister Crowley would undermine the Golden Dawn after he tried to demand entry to the inner circle but was denied on grounds of unsuitability due to his ‘moral depravities’. With Woodman dead, Westcott having resigned, and Mather being expelled due to his support of Crowley, the Irish poet W.B. Yeats took over the Order. However, by this time the Golden Dawn was effectively finished. A.E. Waite took over the London Temple and changed the name to the
Independent and Rectified Rite of the Golden Dawn, changing its emphasis from ritual magic to a more spiritual and Christian mystical path. The renamed order faded out by 1914 to be replace the following year by the
Fellowship of the Rosy Cross. Those members like Yeats and Florence Farr who wanted to preserve the Golden Dawn’s emphasis on ritual magic formed
Stella Matutina, the Order of the Morning Star, which would gradually fade out and largely cease to exist by the late 1930’s. Other former members would also go off and form other esoteric societies such as the
Alpha and Omega Order. Nevertheless, as Barrett points out, the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn was remarkably influential on occult thought over the last century and a quarter, considering its short and troubled life.
There are today numerous groups, mainly in North America, who claim to be the descendants of the original Golden Dawn and to have preserved the original Order’s teachings as Rosicrucian offshoots. However, it is unlikely that any of them can trace an unbroken lineage back to the original Order and its splinter groups, despite the claims of some of them. For me though it serves as a classic example of the concept of circles within circles and a circle which interpenetrated other circles.
Having considered how revolutionary and esoteric secret societies have often organised themselves on the pattern of concentric or interlocking circles, we must look at the other limb of the structuring the C’s spoke of and that is structuring in cycles:
A: Remember, all is structured in cycles and circles.
The subject of cycles is one the C’s have spoken of frequently, particularly as we seem to be approaching the end of what they call a ‘Grand Cycle’. The word “cycle” means to move in or follow a regularly repeated sequence of events in the same order. It will also be instructive to note that wave forms move in cycles too according to their frequency, as anyone who has ever used an oscilloscope will know. This concept of circles and cycles, as relevant to the respective roles of the Quorum and the Illuminati, was discussed with the C’s in the session dated 31 October 2001:
Q: (L) On a number of occasions we talked about the quorum and the Illuminati. They both seem to be the highest levels of secret organizations. What is their relationship to each other?
A: Quorum mostly alien; illuminati mostly human.
Q: (L) Well, the quorum has been described...
A: Meet; two halves of whole.
Q: (L) Well the quorum seems to be described as being in touch with the Cassiopaeans, that is, yourselves, which you have described as beneficial beings, is this correct?
A: Close.
Q(: L) The illuminati has been described as being behind or with the brotherhood which has been described as being in connection with the Lizard beings...
A: Close. But not that simple.
Q: (L) Well, if the quorum is the good guys and the illuminati is the bad guys, and they both are at the high levels of Freemasonry, what is the story here?
A: Picture a circle or cycle first now then contemplate for a moment before follow-up.
Q: (L) Okay, I am contemplating a cycling circle.
A: Now, two halves representing positive and negative. Two halves.
Q: (L) Well, what I am getting out of that is the two halves and both sides are playing with the human race. Is that it?
A: No. This is complicated but if you can learn and understand, it will be a super revelation.
Q: (L) The quorum is described as the good guys. The illuminati is described as bad guys. And yet, they are both Masonic. When a person in the Masonic organization reaches the higher levels, are there individuals at the higher levels recruiting masons to one side or the other?
A: First, not exactly one side or another.
Q: (L) I am beginning to not understand something here because if the Lizzies...
A: Unblock.
Q: (L) I don't have a block here. If the brotherhood AKA illuminati AKA Lizzies AKA beast are the ones who are going to do detrimental things to this planet, how are they related or connected to the quorum which is in touch with...
A: This will take time to explain be patient it will be worth it.
Q: (L) Well, are you going to explain it right now?
Q: (L) Are you saying that at some levels the two halves overlap?
A: Close.
Q: (L) Are you saying that some of the Quorum are good guys and bad guys and the same for the Illuminati because the two are on opposing sides of the circle but at the point of blending one is weighted more to one side and the other to the other side? And these organizations are where the interactions come together?
A: Closer.
Q: (L) Does this mean that when people who are members of the quorum or illuminati call for information or help, that you, because of your service to others orientation are obliged to answer whoever calls?
A: Yes and no.
Q: (L) What is the no part.
A: If vibrational frequencies are out of pattern we do not connect.
Q: (L) Okay. A blending. Yet two halves.
A: Of a circle.
Q: (L) Who designed this circle?
A: Natural frequency wave. Some near conjunction blend both service patterns and each "camp" to create perfect balance. [
MJF: comparable to the yin and yang principle* - describing opposite but interconnected forces achieving a balance]
The yin and yang symbol, with black
representing yin and white representing yang
Q: (L) Okay, so the Illuminati are the higher level on the pathway of service to self and somehow, by reaching these higher levels may have come to realizations or frequencies which have caused their position to be modified or blended to where service to self becomes or incorporates or moves them to service to others realizations, is this correct?
A: Continue.
Q: (L) Okay, the ones in the quorum are those who are focused on service to others and they, in their pathway of service to others begin to understand that some service to self is service to others.
A: Close.
Q: (L) And the whole idea is to blend both pathways no matter which direction you come to it from?
A: Service to others provides the perfect balance of those two realities; service to self is the diametrical opposite closing the grand cycle in perfect balance.
Q: (L) So it is necessary to have a pathway of service to self in order for the pathway of service to others to exist?
A: Yes.
Q: (L) And those who are in the quorum and the illuminati ...
A: Blends in middle.
Q: (L) So it is necessary to have the darkness in order to have the light...
A: Yes.
Q: (L) And it is necessary to have the Lizzies in order to have the Cassiopaeans...
A: Close.
Q: (L) And both groups evolved through the Masonic organizations..
A: Freemasonry is human reflection in physical of these processes.
That last statement concerning Freemasonry is very insightful and seems to be indicating that even within the darkest of human forces like the Illuminati there will still be some light, perhaps suggesting that there are some ‘white hats’ amongst the Illuminati, which is the higher branch or echelons of Freemasonry. Thus, with the presence of white hats and black hats producing a blending in the middle, we get the yin and yang principle* leading to balance.
*The yin yang principle may be a reflection of the even more ancient Ouroboros, which is often interpreted as a symbol for eternal cyclic renewal or a cycle of life, death and rebirth with the snake's skin-sloughing off symbolising the transmigration of the soul (N.B. a Druid and Pythagorean doctrine). So again, we encounter with the quorum and the illuminati the idea of a cycle and time loops. The Ouroboros (or uroboros) was an ancient Egyptian symbol depicting a serpent or dragon eating its own tail. It entered Western tradition via ancient Egyptian iconography and the Greek magical tradition. It was adopted as a symbol in Gnosticism and Hermeticism and most notably in alchemy. One wonders, however, whether the symbol’s roots may lie further back in time with the ancient Brotherhood of the Serpent. The yin yang principle is also connected to the dragon, which may link us back to the Reptilians or Alpha Draconians, who are reputedly from the star system of Draco, the Dragon.
The illustration above is of an early alchemical Ouroboros, which includes the words ἓν τὸ πᾶν ("The All is One" – does this ultimately relate to the followers of the Law of One, one of two philosophical groups in Atlantis, the other being the Sons of Belial?) and is from the work of Cleopatra the Alchemist in MS Marciania gr. Z. 299. (10th century). Its black and white halves may perhaps represent a Gnostic duality existence, analogous to the Taoist ‘yin and yang’ symbol.
Interestingly, the first known representation of the Ouroboros, is on one of the shrines enclosing the sarcophagus of Tutankhamun (see below). This indicates that the symbol might have been well known to the Egyptian priest, the Hittite/Levite who became the biblical Moses who led the Children of Israel in the Exodus from Egypt into the desert, where he was subsequently deceived by the Reptilians passing themselves off as Yahweh. Moses is also famous for the serpent of brass, that he wrapped around a pole, the sight of which cured those Israelites that had been bitten by the fiery serpents sent by the Lord (Yahweh) to punish them for their complaining. I wonder if this, in reality, might well have been another reference to the melting down of the Golden Calf into the form of white powdered monatomic gold (depicted symbolically by the alchemists as a circle with a dot in the middle – the ormus), which was used as means of controlling the Israelites in the manner the C’s have suggested in the transcripts. However, by 550 BC, the Jews had come to view the serpent on the pole as a pagan image or idol referring to it as “Nehushtan”, which is a derogatory name in Hebrew meaning “a mere piece of brass/ a brazen thing.” Thus, the Israelite King Hezekiah would have it tore down and broken into pieces when ridding Israel of all its pagan idols.
The Ouroboros appears elsewhere in Egyptian sources, where, like many Egyptian serpent deities, it represented the formless disorder (the aether or information field) that surrounds the orderly world and is involved in that world's periodic renewal (a cycle of destruction and renewal analogous to that represented by the phoenix bird).
Curiously, where esoteric societies are concerned, the Ouroboros also features prominently in the Seal of the Theosophical Society founded in 1875. The Seal also contains the swastika, the Star of David, and the Ankh, which makes for a veritable pot pourri of ancient symbols.
However, the mention of cycles also takes on a sense of passages of time for those of us at third density level. We know from the C’s that these cycles repeat themselves in time loops, as with the Atlantean saga playing out again in our own age, where the C’s have recently confirmed that the Russians are playing the role of the Athenians this time around, as adversaries to the Western World’s Atlantis:
Session dated 13 May 2023:
(Ze Germans) What is the karmic role of Russia?
A: Replay of Atlantis.
Q: (L) When you say replay of Atlantis, are you saying that Russia is playing the part of Atlantis?
A: No. The adversary.
Q: (L) So in other words, the one that defeated Atlantis when it attempted to take over the world?
A: Yes.
Since it is beyond human capability to structure cycles of time (as far as we know), this is something which must be attributable to 4th and 6th density beings. This could include elements of the 4th density STS subterranean civilisation, the Nation of the Third Eye, working through human groups like the Rosicrucians and the Illuminati. Perhaps some inkling of this notion was given in the session dated 16 August 1997:
Q: Which reminds me: who REALLY burned the library at Alexandria, since I have heard two stories, one that the Christians did it and the other that the Arabs did it. Which?
A: Neither.
Q: Who DID burn it?
A: Sword keepers of "the lock."
Q: Who are the Sword Keepers of the Lock?
A: Has to do with Illuminati.
Q: What was their purpose in burning this library?
A: What is the purpose in burning ANY library?
Q: To destroy knowledge. Prevent other people from having access to it.
In the above extract, the C’s claim that it was a group who they described as the “Sword Keepers of the Lock”, who were connected with the Illuminati, that were responsible for burning down the Library of Alexandria, perhaps the greatest library in the ancient world. To this day, scholars and historians mourn what was lost in that fire. This may have included priceless historical works dating back to antiquity that would have shed more light on prior civilisations including Atlantis, which would, if available today, completely alter our understanding of pre-history. Thus, someone projecting forward or backwards in time, must have taken a decision to burn the library to prevent such knowledge being transmitted down through the ages to us today. Could that someone have been a member or members of the Nordic Covenant, since the C’s told us that one of its purposes was to guard secrets relating to our origins and the nature of our being? The C’s also confirmed that the Nordic Covenant were one of the players that wished to maintain the darkness of our realm, the time loops, and the cyclical replays. The reference to “Sword Keepers” also suggests a group prepared to use extreme violence if necessary to preserve this lock.
However, the expression “the lock” may connote something to do with time as in a “time lock”. The C’s have spoken about time locks on a few occasions, which can be manipulated by 4th density. For example:
Session 21 December 2012
A: We have also covered densities and that sort of thing. Your planet is definitely moving through a transition as all the many things you note and discuss point toward. However what is apparent now is temporary.
Q: (L) So, the things like sinkholes, volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, the strange noises in the sky, electrical charges... All of that stuff are symptoms of this transition? Is that what you're saying?
A: Yes.
Q: (L) And that's only temporary?
A: Yes. And UFOs become more obvious during such transitions.
Q: (Perceval) Why is this Denver thing even unusual? (L) I didn't think it was that unusual either.
A: It exits and enters via a "time lock".
[…]
Q: (Kniall) That's interesting because there was a session where they described what happened at the WTC as being a dome of the timelock or something. And they just mentioned "time lock" in reference to this. (Ailen) But then why do they become more visible during a time of transition?
A: Difficult to control matching frequencies when the frequencies of the multilevel environment keeps changing.
Session 22 March 2014:
Q: (L) Alright, I think that's enough on that topic. I think the topic on everybody's mind is The Plane [Malaysian Airlines Flight 370]
. The plane, the plane! {Fantasy Island.}(Pierre) Where is it?
A: In well of space/time lock.
The two locks referred to above may be quite different matters, of course, but there again they may be connected, since we know that aliens are capable of time travel and UFO abductions often involve what for humans is effectively the freezing of time. This effect was even described by the gypsy commentators in Morris Jessup’s book
The Case for the UFO who seemed to be immune to it through some psychic means (although carrying a magnet on you may also be useful too). Strangely, this phenomenon has been depicted in science fiction films and TV series including the science fiction show
Heroes, (2006-2010) where one of the principle characters,
Hiro Nakamura, who was a member of a group of humans who had developed superpowers, could manipulate space-time by freezing it. Was this a case of Thor’s Pantheum at work I wonder? Even more disturbingly, there were reports a few years ago of aircraft freezing in mid-air as they came into land. This news was picked up on SOTT News and the Forum and was discussed within one of the sessions with the C’s [
MJF: perhaps someone reading this may recall which one].
However, another popular science fiction time travel theme is the idea of a temporal agency regulating or policing the flow of time to prevent unscrupulous and nefarious players from manipulating the timeline to their advantage. The film
Time Cop springs to mind (see:
Timecop - Wikipedia) and the concept has been employed in various episodes of the ever-growing Star Trek TV franchise. The concept presumes that there are an infinite number of possible timelines in a quantum universe. The Cs have confirmed that this is indeed the case:
:
Q: That's what I thought. Now, you told us that the Montauk experiment was something that began in the 1920s. All of the stories say that the Navy was trying to make ships invisible to radar for defensive purposes. That's the story. My question is: is that just a cover story?
A: No.
Q: Is that, in fact, what they were attempting to do?
A: Close.
Q: Can you get me any closer to it? What were their intentions?
A: Convergence of interests: US Navy, Secret Government, Esteemed physicists [MJF: Einstein, Tesla, von Neumann, Townsend Brown etc.]
, Consortium, Aleister Crowley, mind programming and psy-warfare.
Q: Did they actually, even accidentally, discover through this work something about time travel?
A: Yes, but it was more an accident for the Navy than for others involved.
[…]
Q: (A) Okay, you have mentioned the Navy and the physicists, and then there were these people who simply were producing monsters, which does not seem to be anything that the Navy would want to do, much less physicists!
A: You are confusing subjects and time frames.
Q: (A) Somebody had to plan this experiment, yes?
A: But that was the Philadelphia Experiment.
Q: (L) How did this business of producing monsters and all that even come into this project?
A: Experiments in mind programming and psy-warfare.
Q: So, these were separate experiments. But, did they fall under the Montauk project...
A: Yes.
Q: So, they were compartmentalized things.
A: But the monsters were long after the Eldridge.
Q: When did the experiments with the monsters occur?
A: Late 1970s.
Q: Have they continued on with this monster producing business?
A: No need to get hung up on "monsters."
Q: Well, that would give me the heebie jeebies for sure!
A: Other materializations.
Q: They are working on other materializations, or they HAD other materializations?
A: Not just monsters.
Q: Well, that's too good to pass. What OTHER kinds of materializations did they have?
A: You name it!
Q: Were they able to materialize money for themselves?
A: No need.
Q: Were they able to materialize people from the past or the future?
A: Temporarily.
Q: Did they, in fact, do this?
A: Yes.
Q: Did they ask people from the future what kinds of events have occurred between then and now in order to refine their plans and activities?
A: No such.
Q: Why?
A: Variable futures.
Q: So, they could materialize somebody from the future, but it was only as potential, or probable future, so therefore, it meant very little, or was useless?
A: One of 329 decillion.
Q: Probable futures?
A: Yes.
Q: It's a lot.
A: Up to a point...
Q: At which time something collapses into the now. Regarding these folks they materialized from the past: anybody we would know?
A: No.
Q: Could they select who they materialized, or was it random?
A: The materialization was really a duality. Review texts re: abductions between densities for idea.
[…]
Q: You are saying that this Consortium, these Montauk folks, have a level of knowledge, and a way of thinking, that makes my thinking, and our thinking, seem like ...
A: Poppycock.
Q: My thinking is poppycock relative to theirs?
A: Close.
Q: (A) But this is only because we do not have this knowledge!
A: Right !!!!
Q: And we are trying to get it!
A: You cannot get it without an enormous amount of patience!
Q: Do we have time to have that kind of patience?
A: These experiments have been conducted over a time period you would recognize as about 93 years and have involved thousands of humans and a few hundred NHIs. [
MJF: What is an NHI? Are they Near Human Individuals?]
Q: Are the people involved in these experiments STS or STO?
A: All "people" are STS.
Q: Well, the people who are working in the direction of STO, what chance do they have of access to this knowledge?
A: They do not need it.
Q: Why don't they need it?
A: They will have it when the elevator reaches "floor number 4." [
MJF: 4th density]
Hence, we see the Montauk experimenters materialising people from possible future timelines. These then leads to questions whether nefarious STS human agencies have made use of time travel capabilities to manipulate events such as the burning of the Library of Alexandria? The C’s have given us one clue that this could indeed be the case, and this evidence implicates the mysterious Consortium:
Session 9 June 1996:
Q: (L) Moving along... recently I read "On the Trail of the Assassins," by Jim Garrison, the New Orleans attorney. This is the book about his investigation into the Kennedy assassination. I know that we asked one or two questions about this earlier, but I think that now, with expanded perspective, we could ask a few more. Was the purported Cuban agenda what was really behind the assassination of JFK?
A: Not in its entirety.
Q: (L) Was there, in fact, any connection between this murder and JFK planning to reveal the government's knowledge of alien interaction?
A: Maybe, or that was feared, based upon a sophisticated psychological profiling system.
Q: (L) One thing that we noticed was that Lee Oswald was 'sheep dipped' in many areas around the country, well before the election of Kennedy. Why would this be the case?
A: Consortium.
Q: (L) What was the intention in using Oswald in this way? Was it just to have a handy person around, or did they already know, in advance, that Kennedy would be elected and that they would assassinate him?
A: Time alteration.
Q: (L) Do you mean time alteration in the sense that these events did NOT actually occur at the noted times, or that they were able to go back in time and do this to put more confusion into the picture?
A: Latter, see Montauk. [
MJF: Note that this session was three years before the session above where what had been going on at Montauk was discussed]
Q: (L) Obviously the Consortium was operating through the FBI, the CIA, the Mafia, and God knows who else, but, can you tell us who fired the shot that caused JFK's death?
A: No, because it would put you in grave danger.
Thus, we see the C’s confirming that agents of the mysterious Consortium were sent back in time to alter events concerning the Kennedy assassination, which may have been a pivotal event in modern human history, a tipping point that required such intervention. The question we need to ask then, is whether temporal agents have been sent back in time to interfere with other events as well? Again, this concept may have been depicted as far back as 1966 with the science fiction TV series
Time Tunnel (see:
The Time Tunnel - Wikipedia). In the series,
Project Tic-Toc is a top-secret U.S. government effort to build an experimental time machine, known as "The Time Tunnel “, due to its appearance as an elliptical passageway. The Time Tunnel was also a “portal” connecting the Time Tunnel "complex" with the same time periods in which two intrepid time travelling scientists, Doug and Tony (the stars of the series), are located. In the course of the series, Doug, Tony, and the Time Tunnel personnel discover that events of the past can be altered to some extent by the intrusion of the time travellers, and in a few cases, their historical research allows for it (oddly, in the then contemporary BBC TV science fiction series
Doctor Who - about the adventures of an alien time traveller and his human companions – the alteration of the time line was strictly forbidden and something to be avoided at all costs).
Although this was just popular entertainment, was the show perhaps a product of Thor’s Pantheum of psychic projectors or was it an Illuminati inspired deliberate leak of what was going on at the experimental level in the USA at the time where time travel experiments were concerned? Commentators have noted over the years that the PTB appear to want some of their plans to be put out there in full public view through the medium of the entertainment industry (movies, TV shows, books, comics, etc.). Is this something they are required to do so that they can say later “didn’t we tell you so” or is it just part of a general conditioning program for the human race?
But if time travel is already a reality, is there a group which watches or oversees the timelines and permits time alterations by temporal agents? If so, could that group be the mysterious “Watchers” who seem to be linked to the mysterious Quorum?
A: Partly.
Q: (L) Would we know any of them as well known figures?
A: Hidden. None you would know.
Q: (L) How is the Quorum important in regard to the Earth changes?
A: Watchers.
Q: (L) Why is it important to have watchers?
A: Keep track of prophecies.
Hence, we find a group called the “Watchers” tasked with keeping track of prophecies. Are these Watchers from the same group of watchers described in the apocryphal
Book of Enoch as angels (the ‘Sons of God’)? The C’s have told us that the
Book of Enoch’
s origins lay with a Sanskritian society in the area we now know as India. This book is what I believe the C’s once referred to as the original source from which all the legends of the giants comes from.
The story of the Nephilim in the
Book of Enoch connects the origin of the Nephilim with the fallen angels, and in particular with the
egrḗgoroi (
watchers).
Samyaza, an angel of high rank, is described as leading a rebel sect of angels in a descent to earth to have sexual intercourse with human females, which produced giant offspring:
“
And it came to pass when the children of men had multiplied that in those days were born unto them beautiful and comely daughters. And the angels, the children of the heaven, saw and lusted after them, and said to one another: "Come, let us choose us wives from among the children of men and beget us children." And Semjaza, who was their leader, said unto them: "I fear ye will not indeed agree to do this deed, and I alone shall have to pay the penalty of a great sin." And they all answered him and said: "Let us all swear an oath, and all bind ourselves by mutual imprecations not to abandon this plan but to do this thing." Then sware they all together and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it. And they were in all two hundred; who descended in the days of Jared on the summit of Mount Hermon, and they called it Mount Hermon, because they had sworn and bound themselves by mutual imprecations upon it.”
It is curious that the mountain these 200 rebel angels were supposed to have descended to is Mount Hermon and that they should enter into a covenant (“imprecation” here meaning a prayer invoking a curse) there, since Mount Hermon’s summit straddles the border between Syria and Lebanon, and Lebanon is, of course, where the ancient city of Baalbek is located, a place where the C’s said a group of STS 4th density extraterrestrials called the Antareans tried to recreate the Nephilim:
Session 20 October 1994:
Q: Who built the city of Baalbek?
A: Antereans and early Sumerians. We meant Atlanteans. {Who are the Antereans?}
Q: What is the reason for the enormous proportions of this building?
A: Giants.
Q: Who were the giants?
A: Genetic effort to recreate Nephalim.
[…]
Q: What happened to interrupt or halt the building of this city?
A: Venus first appearance and pass.
Q: What year was this project brought to a halt?
A: 3218 B.C.
It is interesting (and good timing) that in the recent
session dated 13th May 2023, Laura should make the connection between the word “
egregore” and the Aramaic word
egrḗgoroi meaning “watchers”:
A: 4D beings!
Q: (L) Okay, so the word "egregore" as Stavish uses is mostly incorrect. Am I right about that?
A: Yes.
As you can see from the above, the C’s confirmed that these “watchers” were 4th density beings who, as we know, are capable of shapeshifting or varying their physicality. Curiously, in Aramaic culture, the term niyphelah supposedly refers to the Constellation of Orion and nephilim to the offspring of Orion in mythology. Moreover, Arab pagans believed that fallen angels were sent to earth in the form of men. Some of them mated with humans and gave rise to hybrid children. Putting these traditions together, this suggests that these watchers were 4th density beings from Orion, some of whom could perhaps have been the Antareans mentioned in the session dated 20 October 1994:
Q: Who built the city of Baalbek?
A: Antereans and early Sumerians. We meant Atlanteans. {Who are the Antereans?}
Were these Antareans, named as the co-builders of Baalbeck, part of the Ark faction (perhaps even its STS creators) mentioned in the session dated 2 February 2003:
Q: (L) So, we have a whole different set of clues to look at here. Alrighty then! Was what we are calling the Ark of the Covenant at Baalbek?
A: No. But there were certainly those who had advanced knowledge. [
MJF: How did they have this advanced knowledge – through time travel or remote viewing?]
Q: (L) I hate it when they do that: blow my theory to bits. Was there a "grail faction" and an "ark faction?"
A: Pretty much.
Q: (L) Was Baalbek built by the Ark Faction or the Grail Faction?
A: It was Ark Faction.
The C’s told us that the Antareans worked with the early Sumerians from Mesopotamia in building the ancient city of Baalbek (the deity Baal being a front for the Reptilians - Q: (L) Who was or is Baal? A: Lizard). Some of the earliest evidence for the Brotherhood of the Serpent has been found in Iraq in the form of stone carvings. Does this mean that the Ark faction comprised of humans and Antareans may have been members of the Brotherhood of the Serpent?
The C’s later said that the Antareans were an STS humanoid race from Orion:
Q: (L) And who are the Antareans?
A: STS Humanoid Orion linkage.
Q: (L) What is an STS Orion Linkage? (T) That's the... (L) We have a new concept here. (T) They would be... the... the...the... (V) Mutant Race! (T) Yes! Those that were part of the creation...
A: No.
Q: (L) What is an STS Humanoid Orion linkage?
A: An STS race from Orion that is humanoid.
According to the C’s, the Nazi Gestapo and SS were an experiment influenced by the Antareans, who were practicing for the eventual reintroduction of the Nephalim on to 3rd and or 4th density Earth. So, could these 4th density STS Antareans from Orion have been the Watchers?
It is curious that in Greek mythology, Nephele (a word bearing a strong similarity to “Nephilim”), a cloud nymph (nephos meaning "cloud"), married Athamus, and had twins, a son, Phrixus, and a daughter, Helle. Athamas then divorced her for Ino, who hatched a devious plot to get rid of the twins, roasting all the town's crop seeds so they would not grow. The local farmers, frightened of famine, asked a nearby oracle for assistance. Ino bribed the men sent to the oracle to lie and tell the others that the oracle required the sacrifice of Phrixus. Before he was killed though, Phrixus and Helle were rescued by a flying golden ram sent by their natural mother Nephele.
This myth could well be a garbled account of the tale of Nefertiti (both Nephele and Ino), Athamus (Akhenaten and/or Abraham), Meritaten (Helle) and Phrixus (Ishmael and/or Isaac). Roasting all the town’s crop seed so they would not grow may allude to the destructive effects wrought on Egypt by the eruption of the Thera volcano. The sacrifice of Phrixus may allude to the biblical tale of Isaac nearly being sacrificed by Abraham. Ino hatching a plot to get rid of Phrixus and Helle would seem to allude to Nefertiti/Sarah persuading Abraham to exile Meritaten and Ishmael in the Desert of Paran, where they were rescued by the Tuatha de Danann (the Dragon Slayers), possibly using the Grail (the golden ram) to flee to Colchis (somewhere in the British Isles). However, linking Nefertiti, the subterranean hybrid with an elongated head, to the cloud nymph Nephele may suggest a link between Nefertiti and the Nephilim and by extension the Antareans. Was Nefertiti a scaled down Nephilim hybrid like her fellow Hittite/Levite Abraham, both being genetically engineered by the Antareans? Let us recall that the Library of Alexandria was in Egypt a country where both Nefertiti/Sarah and Abraham/Moses had lived. Could the Library of Alexandria have had a true record of the Exodus and the background of Nefertiti and Moses as well as information on the Antareans and other Orion groups like the Greys and Reptiles, one which the Illuminati did not want to see the light of day in case it would influence future events?
Continued in Part 3
