“Say not, ‘I have found the truth,’ but rather, ‘I have found a truth.’ Say not, ‘I have found the path of the soul.’ Say rather, ‘I have met the soul walking upon my path.’” -Kahlil Gibran In terms of dealing with reality, Gibran is wrong. The line demarcating that which is true from that […]
People sometimes ask how such conspiracies as the JFK assassination and 9/11 could be “covered up without someone from the inside talking.” As Harrison Livingstone points out, this is a naive question. If someone is a witness to a murder done by professionals, do you really think they are going to go around blabbing about […]
We have been appalled for some time at the brazen character of the lies of the Bush Reich. (For a list of the “Top 40” lies told by the Bush Administration, see Steve Perry’s blog The Bush Wars.) The most brazen are: 1. Iraq has Weapons of Mass Destruction; 2. Iraq was involved in organizing and […]
In the Western world today, the civilization of the “individual”, each of us is encouraged to form what we are told is a unique perspective on the world. We each are encouraged to see the world through our own eyes. But this leads to certain problems because at the same time, most people believe that […]
Cont. – Procopius: Secret History, translated by Richard Atwater, (Chicago: P. Covici, 1927; New York: Covici Friede, 1927), reprinted, Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1961, with indication that copyright had expired on the text of the translation. 13. . DECEPTIVE AFFABILITY AND PIETY OF A TYRANT Justinian, while otherwise of such character as I have […]
Procopius: Secret History, translated by Richard Atwater, (Chicago: P. Covici, 1927; New York: Covici Friede, 1927), reprinted, Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press, 1961, with indication that copyright had expired on the text of the translation. CONTENTS By the Historian How the Great General Belisarius Was Hoodwinked by His Wife How Belated Jealousy Affected Belisarius’s Military […]
Historians, when writing about history, not only discuss the theoretical facts that are being proposed as the timeline, but also the means by which they arrived at their ideas. Generally, they draw their conclusions about history by reading “sources,” or earlier accounts of the matter at hand. In some cases these are eye-witness accounts, in […]
The Bible is an Extraordinary Book: A book which claims infallibility; which aspires to absolute authority over mind and body; which demands unconditional surrender to all its pretensions upon penalty of eternal damnation, is an extraordinary book and should, therefore, be subjected to extraordinary tests. But it isn’t. Neither Christian priests nor Jewish rabbis approve of applying to the bible […]
I would like to ask the reader a question before we continue. Have you ever, as a child, been accused of something you didn’t do, either by your parents, teachers or other “authorities?” And if so, were you punished unfairly for something you didn’t do? Do you remember how it felt? As you remember, can […]
Getting back to the subject of cults, the modern day cults of Judaism, Christianity and Islam are – as we can see – rather different from the ancient pagan cults. Keep in mind that a cult is defined as having an “object of worship,” the worship of which/whom – if the rules of worship are […]
I should make plain at this point that this little series of comments should not be considered as “Pagan Apologia.” It is not. As far as I can see, the Pagan cults were as useless in spiritual terms as the Monotheistic cults of today. BUT, there was a distinct difference between the thinking of the […]
Those who begin coercive elimination of dissent soon find themselves exterminating dissenters. Compulsory unification of opinion achieves only a unanimity of the graveyard. Justice Robert H. Jackson, 1892-1954 As many regular readers know, almost from day one of the publication of the material on this Website, we have been accused of being a “cult.” I’ve […]
As some of our readers know, we spent a week in Marseilles earlier this month – sort of out of touch with the “real world.” That is to say, during that week, I had to get my news from the television. I have to say that if the mass media was the only access I had to […]
Now, I would like to make some other comments before we move on. I would like to talk a little bit about “love.” Many readers seem to have grossly misunderstood the Cassiopaean remarks about love, mainly because they don’t play the game of exciting your “feel good” brain chemicals with their words. They have said, […]
The other day we received an email from Parabola Magazine rejecting our proposed paid advertisement for my book The Secret History of the World. Seems it didn’t fit their criteria for an acceptable publication. The mag had been suggested to us by a friend as a potential venue for our advertising, and I really wasn’t […]
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