John Stray, testing his daughter, Angela, aged 11, on her 13-times-table:
"Four thirteens?"
Geoffrey Stray, aged 8, eavesdropping:
"Fifty-two!"
John and Angela together:
How did you know that?
Geoffrey:
"I guessed!"
Quotation
“Probably
the wisest view is to say: the truth - like
the Self - is splintered up over thousands of miles and years; bits are
found here and there, then and now, and must be re-collected; bits appear in the
Greek naturalists, in Pythagoras, in Plato, Parmenides. in Heraclitus,
Neo-Platonism, Zoroastrianism, Taoism, Mani, Gnosticism, orthodox Christianity,
Judaism, Brahminism, Buddhism. Orphism, the other mystery religions. Each
religion or philosophy or philosopher contains one or more bits, but the total
system interweaves it into falsity, so each as a total system must be rejected,
and none is to be accepted at the expense of all the others (e.g. “I am a
Christian” or “I follow Mani”). This alone, in itself, is a fascinating
thought: here in our spatiotemporal world we nave the truth but it is splintered
- exploded like the EIDE - over thousands of years and thousands of miles and
(as I say) must be re-collected, as the Self or Soul or EIDOS must be. This is
my Task.”
(Philip K. Dick, in his Exegesis. 3/10/80).
CHAPTER 1
The Tarot As An Apocalyptic Cryptogram
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It is interesting that Murry Hope sees Sirius as "the third, and probably most influential player in a celestial drama",26 which caused the orbit and axis changes to the earth and Moon, and that it is due, in the near future, to cause a speeding-up of time, and an evolutionary quantum leap for life on earth. This is why:
Robert temple spent 8 years investigating the Dogon tribe, from Mali, West Africa; in particular, their detailed knowledge, not only about other planets in our solar system, but information concerning orbit times and the presence of a white dwarf in the Sirius system. They have known this information for thousands of years , and their religion revolves around it. They say they were given the information many centuries ago, by extra-terrestrial visitors from Sirius. Temple has traced their ancestry back to Egypt.27
These beings are called "Nommo", which is a collective name for them. They came to earth in an ark, while, what Temple presumes to be their "interstellar spaceship hovering above in the sky at a great distance",28 is actually described by the Dogon as "appearing in the sky as a new star, and leaving with the Nommos at their departure from Earth".29 They call it "star of the tenth moon".30 When it appears, the description is more like a materialisation than the approach of an object. "The star is not easy to see...the ten rays, placed in pairs, are inside the circle because the star has not yet "emerged"; it will be formed when the Nommo's ark descends, for it is also the resurrected Nommo's "eye" symbolically".31
Here we have a possible connection with Sitchin's "12th Planet", as he says the asteroid belt was originally a planet (the tenth), with 11 moons, which was destroyed when it collided with one of the moons of "Marduk" (Nibiru) - the 12th planet on the 3,600 year orbit. What's more, that too was loaded with extra-terrestrial visitors. The Dogon say that the Nommo will come again. "A certain "star" in the sky will appear once more"32 - the star of the tenth moon. The Dogon also say that "po tolo (Sirius B) and Sirius were once where the Sun now is".33
All this is very strange, but its getting stranger...
In the early 1920s Antonin Artaud wrote a one-act surrealist play called "There Is No More Firmament".34 After everyday scenes, there is rising panic as the Sun gets bigger and plague breaks out, accompanied by thundering noises; someone says, "It was a magnetic phenomenon", then a loudspeaker announces, "STUPENDOUS DISCOVERY. SKY PHYSICALLY ABOLISHED. EARTH ONLY A MINUTE AWAY FROM SIRIUS. NO MORE FIRMAMENT." One actor claims it is the end of the world. Another says it is 2 worlds ramming each other. There is a chant hailing the new ruler, King Mob. A revolutionary says, "We won't see the Antichrist yet", then a scientist explains: "The molecular grouping in Sirius is everything. These two forces, ours and theirs, had to be put in touch with each other".35
(The first anthropological study on the Dogon was not published until 1950). This sounds like Revelation 6 v14: "the sky vanished like a scroll that is rolled up".
In Peter Lemesurier's translation of Nostradamus's prophecies, (published in 1993),36 we find this rendition of Century II quatrain 62:
When Mabus shortly dies, there shall ensue
Of man and beast a laying waste most dread.
Then suddenly shall vengeance heave in view:
Thirst, famine, blood, with comet overhead.37
Mabus is "an oriental overlord", a Mongol leader due to invade the Middle East, possibly connected to the "Kings of the East" in Revelation 16 v.12. "Discounting the Latinate ending, he sounds suspiciously like someone called Mab"...or Mob.38
This brings us back to the Tarot, and Atu 17, The Star, which Kenneth Grant tells us, is the "key to the Aeon of Horus", as it represents Sirius, the Star of Isis, the mother of Horus, who is "the son of this God, and the sun or father of our solar system".39 In Antoine Court de Gebelin's pack, of the late 18th century, Atu 17 is titled "The Dog Star", which is Sirius, and is accompanied by 7 other stars, which probably represent the constellation of Canis Major, The Great Dog, of which Sirius is a part (or possibly Ursa Major - see Moses & Heliopolis in Ch.2).
The Star is attributed to Aquarius, and is virtually identical to medieval representations of Aquarius, with someone emptying 2 pitchers of water - one on land; the other into a pond.40 So here is another connection between Sirius and our imminent future, the dawning of Aquarius; "the New Age of Aquarius is seen as dating from 2010 or shortly thereafter", as Lemesurier quotes the french Institut Geographiique National.41