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Post by Charlotte on Nov 16, 2008 13:55:56 GMT -5
The City Beautiful, the City troubled The advertisement line above: Make everything taste like Bacon with Bacon salt, if not, wherewith should America be salted? There actually is a little known book, its cover depicting an open scroll between two pillars, the Menorah, the Tablets of Moses, and in place of the All Seeing Eye is an arrayed ink vessel with a quill. It too betokens the history of Mankind, and shows the Anglo-Saxon-Celtic connection with the Hebraic, and shows the name British as 'Brith=Covenant', and 'Ish=man'. Not knowing, I would ask Latona to confirm or refute this, please. We have seen the history of the New Nation beginning with a shipwreck off Bermuda, the "Hog Money" coin of Sumer Island testifying to it, among many other things. The Hog or wild Boar is the heraldic symbol of the Bacon's, also in the crest of Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester, father of Francis. Affirming this, and communicated before, Francis writes; "A malefactor mightily impuned the Judge of the Northern Circuit, Sir Nicholas Bacon, (Francis foster father) to save his life...desired mercy on account of kindred. "Prethee," said my Lord the Judge. "How came that in?" "Why if it please your Lordship, your name is Bacon and mine is Hog, and in all ages Hog and Bacon have been so near kindred that they should not be seperated." "Ay!" replied Judge Bacon, "but you and I cannot be kindred except you be hanged, for Hog is not Bacon until it is well hanged." There is an intimation of Nicholas Bacon and Francis Bacon not being kindred until Francis was 'hanged' and came to be raised at Grays Inn, home of Sir Nicholas Bacon. In "Charlotte's Web", it is the time when Wilbur was sold to the Zuckerman's, where he was constantly fearing for his life, and at times hysterical about being slaughtered at Christmas and hanged in the chimney to become Bacon as the 'old goat' = Lord Burgleigh tells him repeatedly to make his life miserable. All this is consistent with actual history and is all that matters. The rest is academic. Akin to Lucy, the Light of the Saints, Francis writes in Novum Organum: "The sun enters the palace and the privy alike and is not polluted thereby. We raise not a Capitol or Pyramid to the pride of man, But a Holy Temple in his mind on the model of the Universe, which model we imitate. For whatsoever deserves to exist deserves to be known, and knowledge is the image of existence. Now the mean and the splendid alike exist..."as the Trice Greatest Hermes instructs his son Tat. Francis made all knowledge his own. Did I tell you of a dream I had, viz., the phone rang, I picked up and listened, and a women's voice said: "You don't have to listen, you know who I am, I am Novum Organum", a new order of the ages. About 2 month later I received a call from Fern to come and live with her. She introduced me to Francis and my life became the way of Francis to this day, and has taken on additional meaning of the magnitude of this man, so you may understand my enthusiasm, to put it mildly. The first coin minted in America proper did not use the motto "In God We Trust". Instead we find Benjamin Franklin's design and motto "Mind Your Business". Depicted is the sun shining on a Pyramid in a ring, and an unbroken chain of rings "WE ARE ONE" Benjamin Franklin, the consummate man, and we might forgive our own flaws first. www.nobeliefs.com/pagan.htmA lesser know man is Charles Thomas, the "principal designer of the Great Seal, which design was changed trice, the third being the charm. "Allthough few people today have heard of Charles Thomson (1729-1824), he was one of America's most significant and influencial Founding Fathers - a man very well qualified to translate the idea and ideals of America into symbolic imagery." Of him George Washington wrote: "Posterity will find your name so honerably connected with the unification of such a multitude of astonishing facts...your services have been as important, as you patriotism was destinguished." Democracy guarantees "the sacred right to self-govern". Charlotte
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Post by ariston on Nov 16, 2008 23:05:59 GMT -5
Beautifully written Charlotte,
I have to agree with everything you say, much of what I have researched has been anticipated by you and find no fault. After reading much about Elizabeth, you can only come to the conclusion that she did indeed have children, she was ever being carried cross country in attended litter's, hiding these pregnancies no less. Not forgetting that Dudley was the keeper of Somerset house, her London residence.
The brith-covenant has something to do with this, but then it may be a play on words too in linking British, London is often depicted as the New Jerusalem, which has concordance with the New Atlantis. I joke not! I was looking at an old copy of Novum Organum Yesterday.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B'nai_B'rith
L.
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Post by Charlotte on Nov 18, 2008 12:11:04 GMT -5
Greetings Latona, The Holy Temple in man's mind, modeled after the Universe, was errected in London by the "Sages of Bensalem", to be recognized in New Atlantis, which Francis calls "America". I hope the time is here for the "New Atlantis that Philosophica Secunda which was planted by the men who planted the first colony in Virginia can begin to be understood". Clearly, we'r going through a re-volution, and as John Adams said of the Civil War, "the revolution was effected before the war commenced, it was in the minds and hearts of the people". Hopefully it will not take yet another war, alas... It's like pushing a stone up the hill and it keeps rolling back until a critical number of people help to push it over and it can gain momentum. It's one of the meanings of "Uncle Sam want's you!" As to one pregnancy of Elizabeth I, here is the Tudor Queen in a gown covered with Tudor Roses, and the plaintiff poem clearly the language of Francis, of his labours, his position at Court, and disposition of his Mind and Soul. The poem is in English, and all that matters, as, with due respect, Ms. Hammerschmidt-Hummel tries to 'rationally' identify the mysterious dark, British or Persian Lady in typical button-down manner of research. www.lebensraeume-var.de/darklady/bildnis.htmlor www.sirbacon.org/gallery/carrliz.htmlA great day to everyone Charlotte
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Post by Charlotte on Nov 19, 2008 12:29:06 GMT -5
Welcome to the New Atlantis of Sir Francis Bacon The Stature of Charles Thomson, principal designer of the Great Seal of the United States of America. "As the only Secretary of the Continental Congress for its entire fifteen years, Thomson was a tremendous unifying factor. He kept the minutes of all sessions of Congress, including special minutes of secret affairs. His journals and files became the archives of our nation. "No person in the world is so perfectly acquinted with the rise, conduct, and conclusion of the American Revolution." (John Jay) "Ranked closely to the President, Thomson stands to the right of John Hancock in the painting of the Declaration of Independence seen on the two-dollar bill. In fact, Hancock's and Thomson's are the only two names on the Dunlap broadside, the copy of the Declaration printed the night of July 4th - the only version made public for the next six month." On the Dunlap document are the words: "And for the support of this Declaration, with a Reliance of the Protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes, and our sacred Honor. On the "American Junior Red Cross" poster, the page Francis Bacon reads to the teenager representing America: "WE HOLD ourselves straightly tied to all care of each others good and of the whole by everyone, ans so mutually..." The rest of the page is blank. Bacon: "Let us, instructed by divine Providence, follow on to better days". There would be no America as we know it without Francis. "John Adams said Charles Thomson was "the Sam Adams of Philadelphia, the life and cause of liberty." Sam Adams wasn't interested brewing beer in his father's business or any establishment, had a hard time finding a niche for himself and didn't pay much attention to his finances, a perfect candidate to fight for the cause of Liberty. " Thomson was an expert in Latin and Greek. After retiring from public office in 1789, he spent twenty years translating the Septuagint Bible from Greek into English." Francis Bacon, with Fludd and a number of illustrious scholars, translated the King James version of the Bible from "the original tongues..." How comes it, that out of millions only "few people today have heard of Charles Thomson, whose "journals and files are the archives of" this Nation, the "life and cause of liberty?" And how comes it, that out of millions only few people have heard of Francis Bacon as the Founder of America? Charles Thomson my be mentioned briefly in conventioanal history informing the public, Francis Bacon as the Founder of America, never, it would shake the Empire to its core, making the current shake up seem like a 3 magnitute on the Richter scale. Charlotte
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Post by Charlotte on Nov 20, 2008 10:55:43 GMT -5
Francis Bacon on Plato's Atlantis
Excerpts from New Atlantis
"You shall understand (that which perhaps you will scarce think credible) that about three thousand years ago, or somewhat more, the navigation of the world (especially for remote voyages) was greater than at this day. Do not think with yourselves that I know not how much it is increased with you, within these six-score years; I know it well, and yet I say, greater then than now, whether it was that the example of the Ark, that saved the remnant of men from the universal Deluge, gave men confidence to adventure upon waters, or what it was; but such is the truth. The Phoenicians, and specially the Tyrians, had great fleets; so had the Carthaginians their colony, which is yet further west. Toward the east the shipping of Egypt, and of Palestine, was likewise great. China also, and the Great Atlantis (that you call Americ), which have now but junks and canoes, abounded then in tall ships. This island (as appeared by faithful register of those times) had then fifteen hundred strong ships, of great content. Of all this there is with you sparing memory, or none; but we have large knowledge thereof."
The same an Egyptian priest of very great age said to Solon, namely, that the "Hellenes are never anything but children - young in mind - there is no old opinion handed down among you by ancient tradition, nor any science which is hoary with age." Francis Bacon affirms this in his treatise 'Wisdom of the Ancients', that that Wisdom comes like relics in "a thin and rarified air" from a prehistoric and enlightened Golden Age "whence it fell like whispering into the trumpets and flutes of the Greeks."
Bacon continues on the Great Atlantis
"At that time this land was known and frequented by the ships and vessels of all the nations before named. And (as it cometh to pass) they had many times men of other countries that were no sailors that came with them.; the Persians, Chaldeans, Arabians, so as almost all nations of might and fame resorted hither; of whom we have some strips (Families, my teachers note) and little tribes with us at this day. And for our own ships, they went sundry voyages, as well as straits, which you call the Pillars of Hercules, as to other parts in the Atlantic and Mediterranean Seas; as to Paguin(which is the same with Cambaline) and Quinzy, upon the Oriental Seas, as far as to the borders of the East Tartary.
"At the same time, and an age after or more, the inhabitants of the Great Atlantis did flourish. For though the narration and description which is made by a great man (Plato he means) with you, that the descendants of Neptune planted there, and of the magnificent temple, palace, city, and hill; and the manifold streams of goodly navigable rivers (which as so many chains environed the same site and temple); and the several degrees of ascent, whereby man did climb up to the same, as if it had been a scala coeli, (a ladder to Heaven is meant) be all poetical and fabulous; yet so much is true, that the said country of Atlantis, as well as Peru, then called Coya, as that of Mexico, then named Tyrambel, were mighty and proud kingdoms, in arms, shipping, and riches: so mighty as at one time (or at least within the space of ten years), they both made two great expeditions; they of Tyrambel through the Atlantic to the Mediterranean Sea; and they of Coya, through the South Sea upon this our island; and for the former of these, which was into Europe, the same author amongst you (as it seemeth) had some relation from the Egyptian priest, whom he citeth. For assuredly such a thing there was. But whether it were the ancient Atheneans that had the glory of the repulse and resistance of thos forces, I can say nothing; but certain it is there never came back either ship or man from that voyage. Neither had the other voyage of those of Coya upon us had greater fortune, if they had not met with enemies of greater clemency. For the king of this island, by name Altabin, a wise man and great warrior, knowing well both his own strenght and that of his enemies, handled the matter so, as he cut off their land forces from their ships, and entoiled both their navy and their camp with a greater power than theirs, both by sea and land, and compelled them to render themselves without striking a stroke; and after they were at his mercy, contending himself only with their oath that they should no more bear arms against him, dismissed them all in safety."
This is hard to read because Bacon speaks at once of Plato's Atlantis, the colonization of America, and alchemy. The part of Peru, Coya, Mexico, the great expeditions for the riches, the "City of Gold" or El Dorado, the South Sea and "this our island", the New Atlantis America, betoken the colonization, and as I described in National Treasure: Book of Secrets", in the fable of Esteban the Moor, one of the four survivers of the shipwreck of Florida, who advanced with savage magnificence, bells and whistles I almost said, and was the first who found the City of Cibola and that Chief who poured turpentine over himself and rolled in gold dust and so on and so forth.
It's a grand tale of a magnificent journey.
Charlotte
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Post by Charlotte on Nov 21, 2008 14:03:03 GMT -5
Where was Plato's Atlantis according to Francis Bacon
Remembering also that Francis speaks above weaving in the history of the colonization of America, and ancient history below, and precisely of what he wants to convey.
They sailed from Peru...
"And it came to pass that the next day about evening we saw within a kenning before us, toward the north, as it were thick with clouds, which did put us in some hope of land; knowing how that part of the South Sea was utterly unknown; and might have islands or continents that hitherto were not come to light. Wherefore we bent our course thither, where we sah the appearance of land, all that night; and in the dawning of the next day, we might plainly discern that it was a land, flat to our sight, and full of boscage, (wood) which made it show the more dark. After an hour and a half's sailing, we entered into a good haven, being the port of a fair city; not great indeed, but well built, and that gave a pleasant view from the sea. And we thinking every minute long till we were on land came close to the shore and offered to the land. But straightways we saw divers of the people, with bastons (staves) in their hands, as it were, forbidding us to land: yet without any cries or fiercness, but only as warning us off by signs that they made. Whereupon being not a little discomforted, we were advising with ourselves what we should do.
"During which time there made forth to us a small boat with about eight persons in it, whereof one of them had in his hand a tipstaff (staff symbolic of authority) of a yellow cane, tipped at both ends with blue, who came aboard our ship, without any show of distrust at all. And when he saw one of our number present himself somewhat afore the rest, he drew forth a little scroll of parchment (somewhat yellower than our parchment and shining like the leaves of writing tables, but otherwise soft and flexible), and delivered it to our foremost man. In which scroll were written in ancient Hebrew, and in ancient Greek, and in good Latin of the School, (classical Latin) and in Spanish, these words: "Land ye not, none of you, and provide to be gone from this coast within sixteen days, except you have further time given you. Meanwhile, if you want fresh water, or victual, or help for your sick, or that your ship needeth repair, write down your wants, and you shall have that which belongeth to mercy." The scroll was signed with a stamp of cherubin's wings, not spread, but hanging downwards; and by them a cross. This being delivered, the officer returned, and left only a servant with us to receive our answer."
The cherubin withe hanging and crossed wings are well known.
"Consulting hereupon amongst ourselves, we were much perplexed. The denial of landing, and hasty warning us away, troubled us much: on the other side, to find that the people had languages, and were so full of humanity, did comfort us not a little. And above all, the sign of the cross to that instrument was to us a great rejoicing, and as it was a certain presage of good. Our answer was in the Spanish tongue, "That for our ship, it was well; for we had rather met with calms and contrary winds, than any tempest. For our sick, they were many, and in very ill case; so if they were not permitted to land, they ran in danger of their lives." Our own wants we set down in particular, adding, "That we had some little store of merchandise, which if it pleased them to deal for, it might supply our wants, without being chargeable onto them. We offered some reward in pistolets (Spanish coins) onto the servant, and a piece of crimson velvet to be presented to the officer: but the servant took them not, nor would scarce look upon them; and so left us, and went back in another little boat which was sent for him."
Who were these South Sea Islanders, who had scrolls in ancient Hebrew, Greek, Latin, and Spanish? And those sailing from Peru spoke Spanish and paid with Spanish coins. Don Quixote might be involved here, as some 70 copies of the first edition of the novel reached Lima, some 330 perished at the shipwreck of Havana or Bermuda, and 400 years of history stand open.
Charlotte
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Post by Charlotte on Nov 22, 2008 12:05:57 GMT -5
"About three hours after we had dispatched our answer there came toward us a person (as it seemed) of place. He had on him a gown with wide sleeves, of a kind of water chamolet, (a fabric made of goat's hair), of an excellent azure color, far more glossy than ours; his underapparel was green, and so was his hat, being in the form of a turban, daintily made, and not so huge as the Turkish turbans; and the locks of his hair came down below the brims of it. A reverend man was he to behold. He came in a boat, gilt in some parts, with four persons more only in that boat; and was followed by another boat, wherein were some twenty. When he was come within a flight-shot of our ship, signs were made to us that we should send forth some to meet him upon the water, which we presently did in our ship-boat, sending the principal man amongst us save one, and four of our number with him." The person of place of the island wore a turban, but the locks of his hair came down below the 'brim' of his hat. The person of place asked them if they were Christians, and the answered yes, they were. There was "(as it seemed) a notary - with the great person", and "after his lord had spoken a little to him, said aloud: "My lord would have you know, that it is not of pride, or greatness" tha he would not come aboard thei ship, but because they has sick among them. "We bowed ourselves toward him, and answered we were his humble servants; and accounted for great honor and singular humanity toward us, that which was already done; but hoped well that the nature of the sickness of our men was not infectious. So he returned; and a while after came the notary to us aboard our ship, holding in his hand a fruit of that country, like an orange, but of color between orange-tawny, which cast an excellent oder. He used it (as it seemed) for a preservative against infections." This fruit of a color "between orange-tawny" was mentioned either by George Sumer or Walter Ralegh. Plato's and Bacon's Atlantis "But the divine revenge overtook not long after those proud enterprises. For within less than a space of one hundred years the Great Atlantis was utterly lost and destroyed; not by a great earthquake, as you man saith (for that whole tract is little subject to earthquakes), but by a particular deluge or inundation, those countries having at this day rar greater rivers and far higher mountains to pour down waters than any part of the Old World. But it is true that the same inundation was not deep, not past fourty foot in most places from the ground, so that although it destroyed man and beast generally, yet some few wild inhabitants of the wood escaped. Birds also were saved by flying to the high trees and woods. For as for men, although they had buildings in many places higher than the depth of the water, yet that inundation, though it were shallow, had a long continuance, whereby they of the vale that were not drowned perished for want of food, and other things necessary." It was a particular deluge or inundation which poured down waters on the Old World. "So marvel you not at the thin population of America, nor at the rudeness and ignorance of the people; for you must account your inhabitants of America as a young people, younger a thousand years at least than the rest of the world, for there was so much time between the universal Flood and their particular inundation." I for one am not in the least surprised that Francis knew how the "teenager" on the "America Junior Red Cross" poster would behave, as Francis read to him how to learn to behave, and when I came here, I was taken aback many times at the rudness of expressions in langugage of the many, which persists to this day. On the other hand, the Germans are but a step behind, though with more arrogance. Good thing I'm the exception Charlotte
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Post by Charlotte on Nov 23, 2008 12:52:58 GMT -5
Anyone can read the 'New Atlantis" of Sir Francis Bacon. I will "cherry pick", as it is called, to highlight what I think is important for a general understanding to myself and others interested, as Francis advises one should begin with uncertainties...
So far, Francis briefly notes Plato's Atlantis about the Meditteranean, Oriental Seas and Europe, "assuredly such a thing there was - but certain it is there never came back either ship or man from that voyage." It all sank out of sight, the peoples memory is sparing, "but we have large knowledge thereof." Francis being the highest authority, methinks it more productive to study the New Atlantis to discover Plato's Atlantis, for it isn't in the seven Oceans of our Planet, but in "the waters."
And they of Peru or Coya came "through the South Sea upon this our island", and if it hadn't been for the wise and great King, Altabin, perhaps of "the White Land" or Albion, Britain "The Choosen Land", of this island America, the colonizers would not have survived. But, "he handled the matter so, as to cut off their land forces from their ships, and entoiled both their navy and their camp with a greater power than theirs, both by sea and land, and compelled them to render themselves without striking a stroke; and after they were at his mercy, contending himself only with their oath that they should no more bear arms against him, dismissed them all in safety."
Acknowledged by scholars of moist brain, 'The Tempest' treats of the colonization of America, so he who entoiled the men with a greater power than theirs would be Prospero, not to forget that all was instigated and written by Francis himself.
Fixt, as to chains, his powerfull Eloquence,
Holds them so fast, they dare not stir from thence. Such plenteous Streams pour from his
liquid voice, He draws the thirstly Cellar with the
Noise, ao Each empty Hogshed catches at y e
Sound, And Thrumkins voider Noddle eccho's
y e Rebound.
Should I his various Talents here re- hearse,
It were a Task too tedious for verse,
Yet that some nobler Instances be told,
A matter worthy of our Art we hold.
First hear him exercise that warlike Note, 30 When ratling Gutturals slake his Artful throat,
Then as 'twere drumming with a slower Tone,
Each lowing Hogshead murmers back a Groan.
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Post by Charlotte on Nov 24, 2008 11:37:44 GMT -5
"He gave us our oath, "By the name of Jesus, and his merits"; and after told us that the next day, by six of the clock in the morning, we should be sent to, and brought to the Stranger's House (so he called it), where we should be accomodated of things, both for our whole and for our sick. So he left us; and when we offered him some pistolets, he smiling said he must not be twice paid for one labor: meaning (as I take it) that he had salary sufficient of the state for his service. For (as I after learned) they call an officer that taketh rewards twice-paid.
The Stranger's House is a fair and spacious house built of brick, of somewhat a bluer color than our brick, and with handsome windows, some of glass, some of a kind of cambric oiled. He brought us first into a fair parlor above the stairs, and then asked us what number of persons we were? and how many sick? We answered we were in all (sick and whole) one and fifty persons, whereof our sick were seventeen. He desired us to have patience a little, and to stay till he came back to us, which was about an hour after; and then he led us to see the chambers which were provided for us, being in number nineteen. They having cast it (as it seemeth) that four of those chambers, which were better than the rest, might receive four of the principal men of our company; and lodge them alone by themselves; and the other fifteen chambers were to lodge us, two and two together. The chambers were handsome and cheerful chambers, and furnished civilly. Then he led us along a gallery, like a dorture, where he showed us all along the one side (for the other side was but wall and windows) seventeen cells, very neat ones, having partitions of cedar wood. Which gallery and cells, being in all fourty (many more than we needed), were instituted as an infirmary for sick persons. And he told us withal that is any of our sick waxed well, he might be removed from his cell to a chamber: for which purpose there were set forth ten spare chambers, beside the number we spoke of before. This done, he brought us back to the parlor, and lifting up his cane a little (as they do when they give any charge of command), said to us, "Ye are to know that the costum of the land requireth that after this day and tomorrow (which we give you for removing your people from your ship), you are to keep within doors for three days. But let it not trouble you, nor do not think yourselves restrained, but rather left to your ease and rest. You shall want nothing, and there are six of our people appointed to attend you for any business you may have abroad." We gave him thanks with all affection and respect, and said, "God surely is manifested in this land." We offered him also twenty pistolets; but he smiled, and only said:
"What? twice paid!" And he left us.
"Soon after our diner was served in; which was right good viants, both for bread and meat; better than any collegiate diet that I have known in Europe. We had also drink of three sorts, all wholesome and good; wine of the grape; a drink of grain, such as is with us our ale, but more clear; and a kind of cider made of a fruit of that country; a wonderful pleasing and refreshing drink. Besides. there were brought in to us great store of those scarlet oranges for our sick; which (they said) were an assured remedy for sickness taken at sea. There was given us also a box of small gray or whitish pills, which they wished our sick should take, one of the pills every night before sleep; which (they said) would hasten their recovery.
"The next day, after that our trouble of carriage and removal of our men and goods out of our ship was somewhat settled and quiet, I thought good to call our company together, and when they were assembled, said onto them, "My dear friends, let us know ourselves, and how it standeth with us. We are men cast on land , as Jonas was out of the whale's belly, when we were as burried in the deep; and now we are on land, we are but between life and death, for we are beyond both the Old World and the New; and whether we shall ever see Europe, God only knoweth. It is a kind of miracle brought us hither, and it must be little less than shall bring us hence. Therefore in regard of our deliverance past, and our danger present to come, let us look up to God, and every man reform his own ways. Besides we are come here among Christian people, full od piety and humanity: let us not bring that confusion of face upon ourselves, as to show our vices or unworthyness before them. Yet there is more, for they have by commandment (though in form of courtesy) cloistered us within these walls for three days: who knoweth whether it be not to take some taste of our manners and conditions? And if they find them bad, to banish us straight ways; if good, to give us further time. For these men that they have given us for attendance may withal have an eye upon us. Therefore, for God's love, and as we love the wheel of our souls and bodies, let us so behave ourselves, as we may be at peace with God, and may find grace in the eyes of this people." Our company with one voice thanked me for my good admonition, and promised me to live soberly and civilly, and without giving any the least occasion of offence. So we spent our three days joyfully, and without care, in expectation what would be done with us when they were expired. During which time, we had every hour joy of the amendment of our sick, who thought themselves cast into some divine pool of healing, they mended so kindly and so fast."
Twice paid in double meaning
In the second charter of the Virginia Company, there was a Council of 52 members, and 8 promoters. According to the above, they were permitted on land by the 'Stranger', were given "our oath, "By the name of Jesus, and his merits", were given bread, meat, wine of the grape, drink of grain, pills and those scarlet oranges native to "this land", given to the whole and sick alike, the whole were full of joy, and the sick thought they were cast into some divine pool of healing and mended fast and naturally.
Charlotte
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Post by Charlotte on Nov 25, 2008 9:35:31 GMT -5
The Governor-Priest "The morrow after our three days were past, there came to us a new man, that we had not seen before, clothed in blue as the former was, save that his turban was white with a small red cross on the top. He had also a tippet of fine linen. At his coming he did bend tu us a little, and put his arms abroad. We of our part saluted him in a very lowly and submissive manner; as looking that from him we should receive sentence of life and death. He desired to speak with some few of us. Whereupon six of us only stayed, and the rest avoided the room. He said, "I am by office Governor of this House of Strangers, and by vocation I am a Christian priest; and therefore I am come to you to offer you my servoce, both as strangers, and chiefly as Christians. Some things I may tell you, which I think you will not be unwilling to hear. The state had given you licence to stay on land for the space of six weeks: and let it not trouble you, if your occasions ask further time, for the law in this point is not precise: and I do not doubt but myself shall be able to obtain for you such further time as shall be convenient. Ye shall also understand that the Stranger's House is at this time rich, and much aforehand; for it hath laid up revenue these thirty-seven years, for so long it is since any stranger arrived in this part; and therefore take no care; the state will defray you all the time you stay. Neither shall you stay one day the less for that. As for the merchendise ye have brought, ye shall be well used, and have your return, either in merchandise or in gold and silver: for to us it is all one. And if you have any other requests to make, hide it not; for ye shall find we will not make your countenance to fall by the answer ye shall receive. Only this I must tell you, that none of you must go above a karan (that is with them a mile and a half) from the walls of the city, without especial leave. "We answered, after we had looked awhile one upon another, admiring this gracious and parent-like usage, that we would not tell what to say, for we wanted words to express our thanks; and his noble free offer left us nothing to ask. It seemed to us that we had before us a picture of our salvation in heaven; for we that were awhile since in the jaws of death, were now brought into a place where we found nothing but consolations. For the commandment laid upon us, we would not fail to obey it, though it was impossible but our hearts should be inflamed to treat further upon this happy and holy ground. We added that our tongues should first cleave to the roofs of our mouths ere we should forget eithere his reverend person or this whole nation, in our prayers. We also most humbly besought him to accept of us as his true servants, by as just a right as ever man on earth were bounden; laying and presenting bothour persons and all we had at his feet. He said he was a priest, and looked for a priests reward; which was our brotherly love, and the good of our souls and bodies. So he went from us, not without tears of tenderness in his eyes, and left us also confused with joy and kindness, saying amongst ourselves that we were come into a land of angels, which di appear to us daily, and prevent (anticipated) us with comforts which we thought not of, much less expected. The next day, about ten of the clock, the Governor came to us again, and after salutations, said familiarly that he was come to visit us: and called for a chair, and sat him down; and we, being some ten of us (the rest were of the meaner sort, or else gone abroad), sat down with him; and when we were set, he began thus: "We of this island of Bensalem (for so they called it in their language) have this; that by means of our solitary situation, and of the laws of secrecy, which we have for our travellers, and our rare admission of strangers, we know well most part of the habitable world, and are ourselves unknown. Therefore because he that knoweth least is fitted to ask questions, it is more reason, for the entertainment of the time, that ye asked me questions than that I ask you." These are the lofty words of Francis speaking to us. It betokens the Old World Treasure of the Templar brought to America with the colonization, but also a Sacred Land of the Brotherhood to which they rarely admit stangers. The Governor-Priest wore a white turban with a small red cross and spoke of brotherly love as his reward, and they of the island of Bensalem are solitary and unknown but know us, those who know least and may ask questions, not forgetting either his reverend person or this whole nation in our prayers, should our hearts be inflamed to tread further upon this happy and holy ground, as in their chant Take thy shoes from of thy feet, For the Place whereon thou stand'st Is Holy Gound
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Post by Charlotte on Dec 1, 2008 9:19:02 GMT -5
The Governor of the Island of Bensalem and the shipwrecked of those who sailed from Peru to the New Atlantis.
"We answered that we humbly thanked him that he would give us leave so to do: and we conceived , by the taste we had already, that there was no wordly thing on earth more worthy to be known than the state of that happy land. But above all (we said) since that we were met from the several ends of the world, and hoped assuredly that we should meet one day in the kingdom of heaven (for that we were both part Christians), we desired to know (in respect that land was so remote, and so divided by vast and unknown seas from the land where our Saviour walked on earth) who was the apostle of that nation, and how it was converted to the faith? It appeared in his face that he took great contentment in this question: he said, "Ye knit my heart to you by asking this question in the first place: for it showeth that you first seek the kingdom of heaven: and I shall gladly, and briefly, satisfy your demand.
"About twenty years after the ascension of our Saviour it came to pass that there was seen by the people of Renfusa (a city upon the eastern coast of our island), within sight (the night was cloudy and calm), as it might be some mile in the sea, a great pillar of light; not sharp, but in form of a column or cylinder, rising from the sea a great way up toward heaven; and on the top of it was seen a large cross of light, more bright and resplendend than the body of the pillar. Upon which so strange a spectacle the people of the city gathered apace together upon the sands, to wonder; and so after put themselves into a number of small boats to go nearer to this marvellous sight. But when the boats come within about sixty yards of the pillar they found themselves all bound, and could go no futher, yet so as they might move to go about, but might not approach nearer: so as the boats stood as in a theatre, beholding this light, as an heavenly sign. It so fell out that there was in one of the boats one of our wise men, of the Society of Solomon's House; which house or college, my good brethren, is the very eye of this kingdom, who having awhile attentively and devoutly viewed and contemplated this pillar and cross, fell down upon his face; and then raised himself upon his knees, and lifting up his hands to heaven, made his prayers in this manner:
" 'Lord of heaven and earth, thou hast vouchsaved of thy grace, to those of our order, to know thy work of creation, and the secrets of them; and to discern (as far as appertaineth to the generation of men) between divine miracles, works of nature, works of art, and impostures and illusions of all sorts. I do here acknowledge and testify before this people, that the thing which we now see before our eyes is thy finger, and a true miracle. And forasmuch as we learn in our books that thou workest miracles but to a divine and excellent end (for the laws of nature are thine own laws, and thou exceedest them not but upon great cause), we most humbly beseech thee to prosper this great sign, and to give us the interpretation and use of it in mercy; which thou dost in some parts secretly promise, by sending it onto us.'
"When he had made his prayer, he presently found the boat he was in movable and unbound; whereas all the rest remained still fast; and taking that for an assurance of leave to approach, he caused the boat to be softly and with silence rowed toward the pillar. But ere he came near it, the pillar and cross of light broke up, and cast itself abroad, as it were, into a firmament of many stars, which also vanished soon after, and there was nothing left to be seen but a small ark or chest of cedar, dry, and not wet with water, though it swam. And in the fore-end of it, which was toward him, grew a small green branch of palm; and when the wise man had taken it with all reverence into his boat, it opened itself, and there were found in it a book and a letter, both written in fine parchment, and wrapped in sindons (pieces) Of linen. The book contained all the canonical books of the Old and New Testament, according as you have them (for we know well that the churches with you receive), and the Apocalypse itself; and some other books of the New Testament, which were not at that time written, were nevertheless in the book. And for the letter, it was in these words:
" 'I Bartholomew, a servant of the Highest, an apostle of Jesus Christ, was warned by an angel that appeared to me in a vision of glory that I should commit this ark to the floods of the sea. Therefore I do testify and declare onto the people where God shall ordain this ark to come to land, that in the same day is come unto them salvation and peace and goodwill from the Father, and from the Lord Jesus.'
"There was also in both these writings, as well as the book and the letter, wrought a great miracle, conform to that of the apostles, in the original gift of tongues. For there being at the time, in this land, Hebrews, Persians, and Indians, besides the natives, every one read upon the book and letter, as if they had been written in his own language. And thus was this land saved from infidelity (as the remain of the Old World was from water) by an ark, through the apostolical and miraculous evangelism of St. Bartholomew." And here he paused, and a messenger came, and called him forth from us. So this was all that passed in that conference."
The Old and New Atlantis.
Charlotte
Such was his Form, & from his Sparkling
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Post by Charlotte on Dec 2, 2008 10:57:55 GMT -5
Francis Bacon, Lord Verulam "One, though he be excellent and the chief, is not to be imitated alone; for never no imitator ever grew up to his author; likeness is always on this side truth. Yet there happened in my time one noble speaker who was full of gravity in his speaking; his language, where he could spare or pass by a jest, was nobly censorious. No man ever spake more neatly, more presly, more weightily, or suffered less emptiness, less idleness, in what he uttered. No member of his speech but consisted of his own graces. His hearers could not cough, or look aside from him, without loss. He commanded where he spoke, and had his judges angry and pleased at his devotion. No man had their affections more in his power. The fear of every man that heard him was lest he should make an end." And so it is with me. The Governor Speaker "The next day the same Governor came again to us, immediately after dinner, and excused himself, saying that the day before he was called from us abruptly, but now he would make us amends, and spend time with us, if we held his company and conference agreeable. We answered that we held it so ageeable and pleasing to us, as we forgot both dangers past and fears to come, for the time we heard speak; and that we thought an hour spent with him was worth years of our former life. He bowed himself a little to us, and after we were set again, he said, "Well, the questions are on your part." "One of our members said, after a little pause, that there was a matter we were no less desirous to know than fearful to ask, lest we might presume too far. But encouraged by his rare humanity toward us ( that could scarce think ourselves strangers, being his vowed and professed servants), we would take the hardiness to propound it; humbly beseeching him, if he thought it not fit to be answered, that he would pardon it, though he rejected it. We said we well observed those his words , which he formerly spake, that this happy island where we now stood was known to few, and yet knew most of the nations of the world, which we found to be true, considering they had the languages of Europe, and knew much of our state and business; and yet we in Europe (notwithstanding all the remote discoveries and navigations of this last age) never heard any of the least inkling or glimpse of this island. This we found wonderfully strange; for that all nations have interknowledge one of another, either by voyage into foreign parts, or by strangers that come to them; and though the travelers into a foreign country doth commonly know more by the eye than he that stayeth at home can by relation of the traveler; yet both ways suffice to make a mutual knowledge, in some degree, on both parts. But for this island, we never heard tell of any ship of theirs that had been seen to arrive upon any shore of Europe; no, nor of either the East or West Indies, nor yet of any ship of any part of the world that had made return from them. And yet the marvel rested not in this; for the situation of it (as his Lordship said) in the secret conclave of such a vast sea mought cause it. But then, that they should have knowledge of the languages, books, affairs, of those that lie such a distance from them, it was a thing we could not tell what to make of; for that it seemed to us a condition of propriety of divine powers, and beings to be hidden and unseen to others, and yet to have other open, and as in a light to them. "At this speech the Governor gave a gracious smile and said that we did well to ask pardon for this question we now asked, for that it imported, as if we thought this land a land of magicians, that sent forth spirits of the air into all parts, to bring them news and intelligence of other countries. It was answered by us all, in all possible humbleness, but yet with a countenance taking knowledge, that we knew he spake it but merrily; that we were apt enough to think there was somewhat supernatural in this island, but yet rather as angelical than magical. But to let his lordship know truly what it was that made us tender and doubtful to ask this question, it was not any such conceit, but because we remembered he had given a touch in his former speech that this land had laws of secrecy touching strangers. To this he said, "You remember it aright; and therefore in that I shall say to you, I must reserve some particulars, which it is not lawful for me to reveal, but there will be enough left to give you satisfaction." "It is an immense ocean that surrounds the island of Truth"
Sir Francis Bacon
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Post by Charlotte on Dec 3, 2008 11:45:28 GMT -5
Hog Currency and Current
S.O.W. Sons of Wisdom (and toil)
In all ages Hog and Bacon have been so near kindred that they should not be seperated, but a Hog is not Bacon until it is well hanged in a Loadstone, attracting every Nous and Noggin on this planet, without exception, like iron filings.
Each empty Hogshed catches a sound of his liquid voice, and in a slower Tone, each lower Hogshed murmers back a Groan.
In 1846, the Native Californians looked at their flag and were heard to say "Coche", their name for "pig or shoat".
In E. B. White's "Country Fair", Wilbur, William Tudor, known as Bacon, is "the greatest Hog in History".
Of the Aquarian Age, Sir Francis Bacon, the man into whose life-time the height and depth of a whole period of human development was contracted.
Washington DC, Pork Barrel spending stifling Mankind's development and journey back to the stars of which we are carbon copies.
The Governor of the island of Truth, Sir Francis Bacon
"I shall now give you an account by itself; and it will draw nearer, to give you satisfaction, to your pricipal questions.
"There reigned in this island about 1,900 years ago a king, whose memory of all others we most adore; not superstitiously, but as a divine instrument, though a mortal man: his name was Solamona; and we esteem him as the lawgover of our nation. This king had a large heart, iscrutable for good, (unfathomable, inexhaustible) and was wholly bent to make his kingdom and people happy. He therefore taking into consideration how sufficient and substantive (self-sustaining) this land was to maintain itself without any aid at all of the foreigner, being 5,600 miles in circuit, and of rare fertility of soil in the greatest part thereof; and finding also the shipping of this country mought be plentifully set on work, both by fishing and by transportations from part to part, and likewise by sailing unto some small islands that are not far from us, and are under the crown and laws of this state; and recalling into his memory the happy and flourishing estate wherein this land then was, so as it mought be a thousand ways altered to the worse, but scarce any one way to the better; though nothing wanted to his noble and heroical intentions, but only (as far as human foresight mought reach) to give perpetuity to that which was in his time so happily established. Therefore amongst his other fundamental laws of this kingdom he did ordain the interdicts and prohibitions which we have touching entrance of strangers; which at that time (though it was after the calamity of America) was frequent; doubting novelties and commixture of manners. It is true, the like law against the admission of strangers without licence is an ancient law in the kingdom of China, and yet continued in us. But there it is a poor thing; and hath made them a curious, ignorant, fearful, foolish nation. But our lawgiver made his law of another temper. For first, he hath preserved all points of humanity, in taking order and making provision for the relief of strangers distressed; whereof you have tasted."
It might be noteworthy that the king Solamona reigned 1,900 years ago, "after the calamity of America", that he preserved all points of humanity, and that we may reach this happy land, he made provisions for the relief of us stressed strangers.
"At with speech (as reason was) we all rose up, and bowed ourselves. He went on:
"That king also still desiring to join humanity and policy together; and thinking it against humanity to detain strangers here against their wills; and against policy that they should return and discover (reveal) their knowledge of this estate, he took this course: he did ordain that of the stangers that should be permitted to land, as many (at all times) mought depart as would; but as many as would stay should have very good conditions, and means to live from the state. Wherein he saw so far, that now in so many ages since the prohibition, we have memory not of one ship that ever returned, and but of thirteen persons only, at several times, that choose to return in our bottoms. What those few that returned may have reported abroad I know not. But you must think whatsoever they have said could be taken where they came but for a dream. Now for our traveling from hence into parts of the abroad, our lawgiver thought fit altogether to restrain it. So it is not in China. For the Chinese sail where they will or can; which showeth that their law of keeping out strangers is a law of pusillanimity and fear. But this restraint of ours hath one only exception, which is admirable, preserving the good which commeth by communicating with strangers, and avoiding the hurt: and I will now open it to you. And here I shall seem a little to digress, but you will by the by find it pertinent.
"Ye shall understand, my dear friends, that amongst the excellent acts of that king, one above all hath the pre-eminence. It was the erection and institution of an order, or society, which we call Solomon's House; the noblest foundation, as we think, that ever was upon the earth, and the lantern of this kingdom. It is dedicated to the study of the works and creatures of God. Some think it beareth the founders name a little corrupted, as if it should be Solamona's House. But the records write it as it is spoken. So as I take it to be denominate of the king of the Hebrews, which is famous with you, and no stranger to us; for we have some parts of his works with which you are lost; namely, that Natural History which he wrote of all plants, from the cedar of Libanus to the moss that groweth out of the wall; and of all things that have life and motion. This maketh me think that our king finding himself to symbolize, in many things, with that king of the Hebrews (which lived many years before him) honored him with the title of this foundation. And I am the rather induced to be of this opinion, for that I find in ancient records this order or society is sometimes call Solomon's House, and sometimes the College of the Six Days' Works; whereby I am satisfied that our excellent king had learned from the Hebrew that God had created the world, and all that therein is, within six days: and therefore he instituting that house, for the finding out of the true nature of all things (whereby God mought have the more glory in the workmanship of them, and men the more fruit in the use of them), did give it also that second name."
Charlotte
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Post by Charlotte on Dec 4, 2008 11:46:58 GMT -5
Actually, I wanted to write more about WDC, but then veered off into the New Atlantis, which Capital it is, below. Further on, it is more obvious that Francis writes about transformation and re-birth of the individual and world to the New Atlantis, the island of Truth.
It is also obvious, that by the House of Solomon, the institution of an order or society of pre-eminence, the noblest ever erected, is that of Masonry and Rosicrucians.
Francis grew up in the Home of Sir Nicholas Bacon, built from the ruins of the original St. Albans Abbey "erected in the eight century by King Offa and the Hond operative masons to the memory of St. Alban."
The extensive Home was called "The Temple", where the learned of the time held their philosophical discourses. The Liberal Arts depicted on the walls, and pictures of such men as had excelled in each. "Under them were verses expressive of the benefits derived from the study of them as Geometry, Arithmetic, Logic, Music, Grammar, and Astronomy."
Francis grew up "with the customs and manners of the Court of Elizabeth", learning of "the proud histories of Kings and Queens, "in blazen of sweet beauties best", poetry praising "Ladies Dead and Lovely Knights, Chronicles of Wasted Time", and "the solemn mystery of the Knights Templar."
"After-events prove that they gave a new setting of the Rites of Ancient York Masonry and a resurrectd Templar Degree of Christian Chivalry in the Higher orders of Freemasonry. Here we see the first motifs toward the role which he afterwards adopted with such success that "the Uninstructed World" has never suspected it . . . the role of a concealed Ethical Teacher. Francis Bacon "was a 'SOLOMON' in a specific Masonic sense, the creator of the Rosicrucian and Masonic Fraternities that arose in his life in their new garbs and framed in Modern English."
All this, Francis confirms in his New Atlantis as "the Governor" of the blessed and happy island which he ruled, and to which he allows "strangers", any one of us reverently seeking "the divine pool of healing", above, and the island which allows strangers from all over the world seeking Freedom from outlived traditions, below.
I would post one more chapter of the New Atlantis.
"But now to come to our present purpose. When the king has forbidden to all his people navigation into any part that was not under his crown, he made nevertheless this ordinance: that every twelve years there should be set forth out of this kingdom two ships, appointed to several voyages; that in either of this ships there should be a mission of three of the fellows or brethren of Solomon's House, whose errand was only to give us knowledge of the affairs and state of those countries to which they were assigned; and especially of the sciences, arts, manufactures, and inventions of all the world; and withal to bring us books, instruments, and patterns in every kind: that the ships, after they had landed the brethren, should return; and that the brethren should stay abroad till the new mission. These ships are not otherwise fraught than with store and victuals, and good quantity of treasure to remain with the brethren, for the buying of such things and rewarding of such persons as they should think fit. Now for me to tell you how the vulgar sort of mariners are contained from being discovered at land, and how they that must be put on shore for any time, color themselves under the names of other nations, and to what places these voyages have been designed, and what places of rendezvous are appointed for their new missions, and the like circumstances of the practice, I may not do it, neither is it much to your desire. But thus you see we maintain a trade, not for gold, silver, or jewels, nor for silks, nor for spices, nor any other commodity of matter; but only for God's first creature, which was light: to have light, I say, of the growth of all parts of the world."
Such is y e Language of y e Gallick Court,
To w ch all Europe's Princes do resort,
Taught there to ring the modish clang of France,
Bridle their Tongues, & teach them how to prance.
But that for w h he's most of all revere'd, It's History is worthy to be heard. At that glad season where the joyful
year
In all its gayest Beauty did appear, When ev'ry object lookt benign and kind, And banish't cares & sorrows from y e mind; A time thus fit for Mirth, & made for
jy>
Did Granta's Sons thus solemnly employ. Proclaim'd a Feast, & summon'd from
afar, The friends thought worthy in her joy
to share.
Oh might I but, at his Lamps purer light, Have catch't the flame, by which I this
indite. What glittering lines had shone in ev'ry
page To grace the subject, that do's them in-
gage. But now great Promo, let our want of 40
skill At least be pardon'd, for our better will.
Charlotte
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Post by Charlotte on Sept 28, 2009 10:58:44 GMT -5
I watched a bit of the Founding of America and its Fathers, on the History Channel. Much about Benjamin Franklin and his 16 year soujourn in London and the Masons. It was a conspiracy (such as generally understood), the Experts asserted, "they didn't just grab the Declaration of Independence out of thin air", the legacy behind being 5000 years old etc. They're onto something, most missing and much misinterpretation, but it's a start relative to my 2 cents worth.
Charlotte
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Post by Charlotte on Oct 3, 2009 11:05:00 GMT -5
Has anybody read the interesting story about Thomas Paine, born 1737, wrote the "Rights of Man", and George Washington? "Did you know that in 1783, George Washington and Thomas Paine made an important scientific discovery right here in New Jersey? "I never heard about this episode until Professor Doug Eveleigh of Cook College gave me the lowdown. I'm forwarding it to the list on the assumption that other New Jersey fans will find it interesting. "Seems that Paine, the author of Common Sense, was visiting General Washington at Rocky Hill, where the General was in residence at Rockingham. The conversation got around to the local tradition that water in the Millstone River could be set on fire when mud at the bottom was disturbed. Two of Washington's officers argued that the fire was due to "bituminous matter" that rose to the surface, whereas Paine argued instead that it was due to "inflammable air" that got loose from the mud. "To settle the matter, on November 5, 1783, a party that included Paine and Washington took a scow out on the river. Some soldiers stirred up the mud with poles while Paine and Washington held lighted paper close to the surface. The gas that bubbled up ignited, which Paine said confirmed his "inflammable air" hypothesis. "According to Professor Eveleigh, this experiment duplicated the discovery seven years before by the Italian scientist Alessandro Volta that methan was a biologically formed gas." However, Washington was probably not aware of Volta's finding, so "it was an important independend discovery", and Professor Eveleigh hopes "that subsequent American presidents will maintain the keen interest in science expressed in the first major scientific experiment of the young Republic." As Below so Above! I would have loved to be on this boat with these two Gentlemen. mahalo.com/apotheosis-of-washingtonCharlotte
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Post by Charlotte on Apr 22, 2011 8:06:37 GMT -5
The priceless Contribution of the 'divine' Marcilio Ficino concerning the Hermetic Origin of the United States of Amerika.
"Contemporaries shared with Ficino his estimate of the extreme importance of the Hermetic writings for, as P.O. Kristeller has pointed out, his Pimander had an immense diffusion. A very large number of manuscripts of it exists, more than of any other work by Ficino. It was printed for the first time in 1471 and went through sixteen editions to the end of the sixteenth century, not counting those in which it appears with the other works. An Italian translation of it by Tommaso Benci was printed in Florence in 1548. In 1505, Lefèvre d'Etaples brought together into one volume Ficino's Pimander and the translation of the Asclepius by Pseudo-Apuleius. The bibliography of the editions, translations, collections, commentaries on the Hermetic writings in the sixteenth century is long and complicated, testifying to the profound and enthusiastic interest aroused by Hermes Trismegistus throughout the Renaissance."
Frances A. Yates Giordano Bruno And the Hermetic Tradition
Saluting the Diviner Ficino!
Charlotte
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Post by Charlotte on Jul 4, 2014 7:08:41 GMT -5
I declare myself independent from the current House of Representatives of the People. Washington's Vision "Son of the Republic,' said the same mysterious voice as before, 'look and learn.' At that moment I beheld a dark, shadowy being as an angel standing, or rather floating , in mid-air between Europe and America. Dipping water out of the ocean in the hallow of his hand, he cast some on Europe. Immediately a cloud raised from these countries, and joined in mid-ocean. For a while it remained stationary, and then moved slowly westward until it enveloped America in its murky folds. Sharp flashes of lightening gleamed through it at intervals, and I heard the smothered groans and cries of the American people. A second time the angel dipped water from the ocean and sprinkled it out as before. The dark cloud was then drawn back to the ocean, in whose billows it sank from view." "As my ears listened to the thundering of the cannon, the slashing of swords, and the shouts and cries of millions in mortal combat, I again heard the mysterious voice saying, 'Son of the Republic, look and learn.' . . ." www.snopes.com/history/american/vision.aspPeace in the World, Good will to Mankind, A sunny weekend to All Charlotte
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