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1st Rotation of March

Year of OurSELF 2010

DEAR BROTHERS & SISTERS

COMRADES OF MOTHER EARTH:

Ah, Spring is near, a very exciting season. All Nature is a-glow with new life & renewal. We celebrate her beauty & her bounty. Some of us also have—how to phrase it?—even a more intimate relationship with her. She sings to us…anyone can listen. Her song is one of perpetual birth & regeneration. She has only one Commandment for this Aeon: Do what is best for the children & cause them no harm. It’s so simple. That’s all she wants. The really strange & horrible thing is: we continue to torture & kill children—somehow they always get stuck between two or more ignorant, feuding, homocidal adults (like nations & armies).

The carange almost never stops…

Is anybody out there? Is anybody listening?

They’re still sacrificing their own children to Moloch.

From the TESTAMENT OF ISIS/Generations of Barbarians:

Turn away from the riches they offer, they are poor things & stink of death. Turn your back on their promises, they’re counterfeit. Reclaim the power that was once your birthright, that in your weakness you gave up to the corrupt Archons. They project an Armageddon of their own devise and twisted desires. They would even pervert the living waters & the holy hours of time. Don’t drink from the Liar’s Cup flowing over brim with blood & poison. For the children’s sake, reject the false Rulers of the World. My dear ones, you are all my chidren, lay down your weapons …

The legendary Joshua ben Joseph (“Jesus”) is recorded as saying:

But whoso shall offend one of these little ones which believe in me, it were better for him that a millstone were hanged about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the sea.

Matthew 18:6

There is no higher law.

Let the Governments around the world tremble & fall,

We’ve seen their true nature, no surprises at all.

If we reach out to each other, we might learn to heal

Free from the nightmares, approaching something more real.

The powerful have invoked God at their side in this war, so that we will accept their power and our weakness as something that has been established by divine plan. But there is no god behind this war other than the god of money, nor any right other than the desire for death and destruction. Today there is a "NO" which shall weaken the powerful and strengthen the weak: the "NO" to war. Subcomandante Marcos - Source: No to war, 2/16/03

Suzanne reports that she is still receiving queries about the status of The Gnostic Pagan School. The School is closed & there are no plans to reopen it. However, Suzanne does have an idea about it that sounded good & we decided to see what other people think. The idea is to create a blog (yes, another one) related to the many issues people have regarding The New Aeon and what it means to be a Gnostic Pagan. We like the idea because it is closer to the not-for-profit, non-authortarian nature of the original 1966 Gnostic Pagan Tradition. Rather than us pontificating & parceling out snippets of “wisdom,” the Readers/Initiates can create their own format based on key ideas presented in the Founding Document & various related topics & member rituals, documents, etc. This would be a much more democratic form of a New Aeon Mystery School. If other people like this idea, please let us know. We won’t be able to act on this venture until someone is willing to share their blogging expertise—i.e. assume responsibility for maintaining it. As much as we love our work, the three of us are stretched pretty thin on this current project.

Below is an article that could very well foretell

the end of the Internet as we now enjoy it:

18. February 2010

San Francisco Chronicle

TECH INDUSTRY WARNS THAT OBAMA ADMINISTRATION

SEEKS TO KILL FREE WEBSITES

A coalition of Internet companies called NetChoice warned today that the Obama administration's Federal Trade Commission is angling for a new rule that would require web site visitors to "opt in" to allow web operators to collect information for advertisers to target ads.

Executive director Steve DelBianco warned that such a rule would "devastate" free websites -- including this one -- by eliminating targeted advertising. Consumers seldom "opt in" to allow web sites to collect data on the personal interests they manifest by clicking on articles or advertisements.

DelBianco used an example of a reader named Grant looking at a golf article. "The web site ought to be able to tick a box saying Grant likes golf and use that to serve ads" and share "non-sensitive" data with Nike to buy the ads, as opposed to selling blind and irrelevant ads for baby diapers.

The FTC won the broader rule making authority it needs in the House-passed financial reform legislation but it is meeting Senate resistance. DelBianco predicted that such a rule would up-end the advertising model that now drives the Internet and require ad-supported websites, including blogs, to find a new source of revenue. NetChoice members include Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, Yahoo, eBay, AOL, and several web merchandising groups.

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So what’s with the ALICE IN WONDERLAND theme? This is the optimum time to go mushrooming—for those proficient enough to know exactly what they’re hunting.

HAPPY HARVESTING!

Little Dorrit (2008)

Masterpiece Theatre

Claire Foy (Actor), Matthew Macfadyen (Actor), Dearbhla Walsh (Director), Adam Smith (Director) | Rating: NR | Format: DVD

I agree totally with the 5 stars given in other (Amazon) reviews of this wonderful Dicken's LITTLE DORRIT, including the Masterpiece Theatre's outstanding version of the story. It concerns the odd institution of Old London's debtor's prison. I'm not sure why I never read the book, the title may have thrown me off. It sounded just a little too sentimental—even for the melodramatic style of the great writer. In a sense, it is a little different from CD's usual themes of class & oppression. Oh, that exists in LITTLE DORRIT, but there is a more gentle presentation here, balanced by every day life. Dickens concern for the idea of Forgivness is here too, but not so many people to be forgiven. There is a surprising multi-racial theme as well, but only revealed near the conclusion. I am not aware of this idea existing any other of Dickens’ stories. The revealation in the plot very neatly ties up several subthemes. Like so many modern movies, the next to final action in LITTLE DORRITT is a stunning, Armagedon-like destruction. This too was a bit unusual for Dickens—and, of course, it works perfectly under his skilled vision.

Also, like so much of CD's work, LITTLE DORRIT is highly autobiographical, perhaps more so than the other novels. The theme of debtor's prision struck home to Dickens because his financially irresponsible father ended up in one. The child Dickens was sent to live & work in a printer's shop. It was not a pleasant experience. It hurt the boy most how easily his mother acquiesced to the separation & virtually sentence of hard labor for the young boy. He never really got over his feeling of betrayal. Strangely perhaps, he was often less than fair in dealing with his own wife & children. All this aside, LITTLE DORRIT is neither an angry or bitter tale. It is more a love story told in the many facets of that emotion.

If you're building a DVD library, you've got to include Dickens; and if you are building a Dickens section, this version of LITTLE DORRIT is absolutely essential.

The Charles Dickens Collection, Vol. 1 (Oliver Twist / Martin Chuzzlewit / Bleak House / Hard Times / Great Expectations / Our Mutual Friend)

Originally posted August 2006

REVIEW: THE CRIMSON THREAD

The Struggle to Become Jesus During the Revolt Against Rome

A Novel by Royston Potter

[Review based on final draft copy, 263 pages]

This review continues our investigation into the basis & nature of the Bible in general, and The Legend of Jesus Christ in particular. Whereas the preceding works (SEX, DRUGS, VIOLENCE & THE BIBLE; THE JESUS MYSTERIES, SIGNS FOR A MESSIAH, etc.) were—at least ostensibly—non-fiction, THE CRIMSON THREAD is an artistic & fictional creation based on an impressive intuitive & historical grasp of the subject matter. Indeed, in many aspects Royston Potter’s novel brings to mind the writing of Mary Renault whose weaving of intricate historic detail blended with exciting fiction transports the reader to really experience the time & place of the story.

Royston Potter makes no claims to a Gnostic orientation. Certainly early Gnostics would look askance at writing appearing to glorify the Deity devout Jews in the novel call “HaShem” (the nameless form of YHVH or Jehovah), known to the Gnostics as the Demiurge or lesser god of the material world. The closest THE CRIMSON THREAD comes to addressing things Gnostic is when the subject of the Essenes is mentioned. In fact, the Essene community and its relevance to the military & Messianic movement form a central theme in the book. However, the Essenes were not Gnostics. Like the Gnostics, the Essenes were fervent in their religious orientation to social reality, but unlike the Gnostics, they translated their spiritual zeal into political action. The Essenes were radical, but the Gnostics were a-political anarchists. Nonetheless, there are many parallels to Gnosticism to be gleaned in the novel, as we will indicate.

We don’t want to give the plotline away, so suffice it to say that THE CRIMSON THREAD is based on the premise “What if the historical figure known as Jesus had been born a twin?”

For those who study Gnosticism, this idea in itself has many parallels with Gnostic writing & beliefs.

It probably goes without saying that just about everything we review concerning The Jesus Legend advocates a historical worldview in opposition to the distorted & propagandistic dogma enforced by State Theocracy. THE CRIMSON THREAD exposes the pacifist illusions of The Legend sponsored by the Early Church and latter by that arch-hypocrite, the Roman Emperor Constantine who, for the purpose of increasing his own power, made Christianity the State religion. Royston Potter bases his book on the more accurate perception that the Jews of this period were waiting and preparing for a Messiah who would embody both their spiritual & political aspirations. Far from a pacifist Christ, the figure waited for by the Jews would, at least for a time, by necessity be a master in guerilla warfare. In fact, THE CRIMSON THREAD can be seen as a good primer in military strategy & tactics.

The author takes a social materialist approach to his subject, delving beneath the thin surface of Judaic society & religion as promulgated by the “accepted” gospels. In this there are similarities with the method of Clinton Clark in COMMENTARY ON THE GOSPEL OF GOD. Like Clark, Potter delves into the materialist social value forming the basis of spiritual legend, and transcends mere speculation.

There are certain startling parallels to the current situation in Iraq in THE CRIMSON THREAD. We chose not to indicate them in this review, but they will be obvious to readers of the novel.