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Tara Carreon
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More clues to the "I AM" mystery. "I AM" as a cipher for "I AM NOT." More nihilism.
| Secret Rituals of the Men in Black, by Allen Greenfield wrote: |
http://www.american-buddha.com/lit.secretritualmenblack.toc.htm
4: NEW AGE OR NEW ÆON?
THE term “New Age” was restricted, until the late 1960s, to a relatively narrow group of people, although the New Aeon concept has been present in esoteric circles from the beginning of the Twentieth Century. The popular culture of the 1960s brought the idea into focus for large numbers of people, which have continued to increase.
One of the first ventures beyond the immediate confines of the occult movement (which had a hard core of mere hundreds) was in Guy Warren Ballard’s I AM movement. The term I AM became, for many years, a kind of “cipher signal” held in common by those ‘in the know’ about the New Age movement. In the 1960s, the term I AM began to be replaced by the metaphysical cipher WE ARE ONE.
Both terms can be linked, through New Aeon Qabalistic Cipher, to Frater Achad.
FRATER ACHAD = 117 = CLEAR LIGHT. The Value 117 also makes specific reference to the predictions in The Book of the Law, which was dictated at the very dawn of the New Aeon, that C.S. Jones (Frater Achad, or Frater Parzival) would provide the key to decoding the Cipher.
FRATER ACHAD = 117 = A FEAST FOR A-L-W (the first three letters of the code); LETTERS; ORDER & VALUE; NEW SYMBOLS and I WHO SHALL SAY “NOT”. The word “NOT” is a major key to the cipher.
The other magical name or motto mentioned, FRATER PARZIVAL (the name Jones used as an O.T.O. member and eventual chief), has a value of 175.
FRATER ACHAD = 117 = CLEAR LIGHT.
FRATER PARZIVAL = 175 = LIGHT IN ME, suggesting a cipher link, just as the names are linked in the concept behind the Tarot Card “The Fool” which represents the completely blank slate on which the lessons of life are written.
To appreciate “I AM” as used here, we must recall the Biblical account of the incident of the Burning Bush.
“(Moses) gazed, and there was a bush all aflame, yet the bush was not consumed.”
We are informed that this was a messenger of the divine.
In this Close Encounter, Moses, asks the name of the god to whom he is speaking.
“God said to Moses, “Ehyeh-Asher-Ehyeh.”
He continued,
“Thus shall you speak to the Israelites: ‘Ehyeh’ sent me to you.”
“This mysterious and numinous phrase has puzzled scholars for generations. The phrase is translated variously as I AM THAT I AM, I AM WHO I AM, I WILL BE WHAT I WILL BE, etc."
Whatever it means, and the JPS Hebrew-English translation leaves it untranslated, I AM is the standard translation, and the phrase that became the New Age “cipher key” in Ballard’s movement.
It is rumored that Ballard’s son Mark, who virtually disappeared during a period of legal trouble for his father, resurfaced as the famous trance channel Mark Prophet, one of the key players in the modern “New Age” movement.
I AM = 45 = NOT. I AM was replaced by the phrase WE ARE ONE = 112 = WHO AND WHAT I AM. It is also the value of Ballard’s student George Hunt Williamson’s magical name MARK III. WE ARE ONE also equals WORD OF THE LAW. NEW AGE = 79 = WILL KEY. |
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Tara Carreon
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The "I AM"s keep coming, and they are all fascist.
http://www.american-buddha.com/lit.silverlegionwiki.htm
| Wikipedia wrote: | William Dudley Pelley (March 12, 1890 – June 30, 1965) was an American extremist and spiritualist who founded the Silver Legion in 1933, and ran for President in 1936 for the Christian Party.
Family
Born in Lynn, Massachusetts, William Dudley Pelley grew up in poverty. He was the son of William George Apsey Pelley and his wife Grace Goodale. His father was initially a Southern Methodist Church minister, later a small businessman and shoemaker.[1]
Early career
Largely self-educated, Pelley became a journalist and gained respect for his writing skills, his articles eventually appearing in national publications. Two of his short stories received O. Henry awards, "The Face in the Window" in 1920, and "The Continental Angle" in 1930.[2] Following World War I, Pelley traveled throughout Europe and Asia as a foreign correspondent. He particularly spent a great deal of time in Russia and witnessed atrocities of the Russian Civil War. His experiences in Russia left him with a deep hatred for Communism and Jews, whom he believed were planning to conquer the world.[3]
Upon returning to the United States in 1920, Pelley went to Hollywood, where he became a screenwriter, writing the Lon Chaney films The Light in the Dark and The Shock.[4] By 1929, Pelley became disillusioned with the movie industry, and moved to Asheville, North Carolina.
In 1928, Pelley said he had a near-death experience, detailed in an article for American Magazine called "My Seven Minutes in Eternity." In later writings, Pelley described the experience as "hypo-dimensional."[5] He wrote that during this event, he met with God and Jesus Christ, who instructed him to undertake the spiritual transformation of America. He later claimed the experience gave him the ability to levitate, see through walls, and have out-of-body experiences at will. His metaphysical writings greatly boosted Pelley's public visibility. Some of the original members of the original Ascended Master Teachings religion, the "I AM" Activity, were recruited from the ranks of William Dudley Pelley’s organization the Silver Legion. [6]
Political involvement
When the Great Depression struck America in 1929, Pelley became active in politics. After moving to Asheville, Pelley founded Galahad College in 1932. The college specialized in correspondence, "Social Metaphysics," and "Christian Economics" courses. He also founded Galahad Press, which he used to publish various political and metaphysical magazines, newspapers, and books.
On January 30, 1933, Adolf Hitler was appointed Chancellor of Germany. Pelley, an admirer of Hitler, was inspired to found the Silver Legion, an extremist and antisemitic organization whose followers (known as the Silver Shirts and "Christian Patriots") wore Nazi-like silver uniforms. The Silver Legion's emblem was a scarlet L, which was featured on their flags and uniforms. Pelley founded chapters of the Silver Legion in almost every state in the country, and soon gained a considerable number of followers.[7]
Pelley traveled throughout the United States and holding mass rallies, lectures, and public speeches in order to attract Americans to his organization. Pelley's political ideology consisted of anti-Communism, antisemitism, racism, extreme patriotism, isolationism, pyramidology and British Israelism[8], themes which were the primary focus of his numerous magazines and newspapers, which included Liberation, Pelley's Silvershirt Weekly, The Galilean, and The New Liberator.
Pelley was also a committed Protestant and opponent of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and the New Deal, and founded the Christian Party, running for president in 1936. His pro-fascist advocacy angered Roosevelt and his supporters, and charges were drawn up against the Silver Shirts in 1940. His Asheville headquarters was raided by federal marshals, his followers there arrested, and his property seized. Pelley was called to testify before the House Un-American Activities Committee.
Despite serious financial and material setbacks to his organization resulting from lengthy court battles, Pelley continued to oppose Roosevelt, especially as the diplomatic relationships of the United States with the Empire of Japan and Nazi Germany became more strained in the early 1940s. Pelley accused Roosevelt of being a warmonger and advocated isolationism, stances which would give political ammunition to the enemies of fellow isolationist Charles Lindbergh (according to A. Scott Berg's biography, Lindbergh had never even met Pelley). Roosevelt enlisted J. Edgar Hoover and the FBI to investigate Pelley for libel, and the FBI interviewed Pelley's subscribers.[9] Although the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941 led Pelley to disband the Silver Legion, Pelley continued to attack the government with a magazine called Roll Call,[10] which alarmed Roosevelt, Attorney General Francis Biddle, and the House Un-American Activities Committee. After stating in one issue of Roll Call that the devastation of the Pacific Fleet at Pearl Harbor was worse than the government claimed, Pelley was arrested at his new base of operations in Noblesville, Indiana and charged with high treason and sedition in April 1942. The sedition charge was dropped, but he was convicted on other charges and sentenced to 15 years imprisonment. He was paroled in 1952.
Later life
In his final years, Pelley dealt with charges of securities fraud that had been brought against him while he had lived in Asheville. Pelley died on June 30, 1965, at the age of 75 in Noblesville, where he is buried.[11]
Trivia
In the 1930s, Pelley predicted that his Silver Legion movement would succeed in wresting America from Jews and the Devil; he claimed the day of his ultimate victory would come on September 17, 2001.[12] |
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| Posted: Sat Mar 03, 2012 4:28 am Post subject: Thank you for this site. |
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Tara,
This is one of the most interesting and compelling sites that I have ever found. I used to post on SRF-Cultbusters and it was a life saver. Like you, I have a story to tell and recovery is an on-going process. This site is of immense value and reminds me and others that we are not alone.
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Susan Hunt
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Hi Tara,
It's been hell trying to log on here and getting my cruddy wireless mouse to work.
I do want to talk to you LIVE, on the phone, after so many years. Will call you later; but have only pre-paid primitive T-Mob, for when I break my leg alone somewhere- can you call me back on your more up-to-date phone?
Reading some of your posts, I feel glad that I was an atheist before I wandered into GR's orbit, took it with a willing suspension of disbelief. It was wonderful for me to get into the images, I had no bad stuff happpen besides ordinary human politics etc,, and it was easy to exit to my never-lost built-in rational atheistic brain with no sense of loss.
My only "spirtual" experiment, disappointing in that it is a regular old religion.
Well some have the "god gene", where they appreciate an authoritative heirarchy to tell them what to do, and some do not, I like GR personally, but not the whole rap.
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Susan Hunt
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| Posted: Mon Mar 05, 2012 5:40 pm Post subject: NOT WHAT I MEANT |
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Tara,, once again I blurt out thoughts and phrasing that could be construed as different than I meant them, and maybe hurtful.
I have been a fascinated follower of developments in evolution since high school (popular genetics- not smart enough for the full scientific trail). The "god gene" comment did not mean to demean anyone who has ever been drawn by religion or spirituality, and I stupidly conflated it with a desire for authority figures.
Sorry if I offended you or anyone.
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You certainly didn't offend me. I've just been too tired the last few days to post. It was interesting to hear you synthesize your experience. I started out as an atheist as well when I entered into Tibetan Buddhism. I thought I'd give it a try after I met GR. I was very opposed to anything spiritual before that. Charles was the spiritual cultist in the family, and begged me to go see GR with him. I was FIRMLY opposed to it, and not at all happy about it. We argued a lot about it. Our deal was that he would never ask me to do anything like that again. But being young, I hadn't gotten firm in my mind that the idea that anyone had some spiritual realization over me or anyone else was simply absurd. Or that the idea of spiritual realization itself was absurd. So when GR cast his magical spell on me during that first meeting, handed me a rose, told me Charles and I were already his "heart" students, I decided to check it out. It was more than just my ego being teased. GR was magic. And I thought I had never fallen into "belief" during those 22 years. I always felt lke I had an open mind, checking, checking, to see if there was anything there. Well, there was a lot there, and at the same time, nothing at all. I remember the day I was finished. Have you seen the Truman Show? It was exactly like that. I realized that everything I was doing was totally artificial, and had not the complexity of even one tiny leaf from nature. I was done. Or at least I thought I was. Then came the very difficult separation.
I would recommend separation to every Tibetan Buddhist. There's nothing like thinking your own thoughts if you can keep from killing yourself long enough to get some. Tibetan Buddhism is nothing but a mind-prison. |
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| As far as the "god gene" goes, I don't believe a word of it. People don't believe in god/gods/goddesses/devils because they believe, but because they've been threatened with punishment if they don't go along with the plan. No child believes in this nonsense. It's the saddest thing in the world that people are so fearful that they have to submit to Big-Daddy-Cleric. Fuck him! And just try and be a REAL atheist. You'll soon find yourself attacked by "gnostic atheists," "pagan atheists," "illuminati atheists" -- all fake atheists -- atheists about YOUR god -- because REAL atheists -- atheists about ALL gods -- are not allowed in this world. Well, here I am -- THE FIRST REAL ATHEIST NOT BELIEVING IN ANY OF IT. And hopefully you're one of those kind too. Not even Thomas Paine had the guts to say what he really believed: "gods do not exist." You'll notice that phrase is quite different than the one Nietzsche chose, which was "God is dead." That's because Nietzsche was just another Rosicrucian/Gnostic/Pagan/Nutcase talking about Jehovah. "Satan is the God of our planet, and the only god," said Madame Blavatsky, the mother of them all, shill for spiritual idocy. |
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Susan Hunt
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| With all due agreement, at least as far as you and I go you are the 2nd RA. I'm lots older than you, and one of my first formulations, aside from realizing that my mother was a nut case, was that of total non-interest in any concept of deism- even at 5 I knew I would make my own mind up about everything. With such an egregious example of self-delusion in front of me (tho she was not religious), I hoped I would be able to admit to myself when I chose to do something forbidden or hurtful to others, just because it was worth it to me. |
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Jonathan Nolan
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Hi Tara,
I agree that the god gene is nonsense.
I also agree that Tibetan "Buddhism" is a mind prison, or following PKD I would call it a Black Iron Prison.
What strikes me is that demonological belief systems all involve mental slavery whilst preaching mental empowerment- an equivalent to schemes to get people to use credit cards rather than savings. It makes me wonder about the entities, human and nonhuman, who profit by it and feed on the worshippers... |
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Susan Hunt
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The "god" gene is simply a cartoonish way of naming one side of what some evolutionary psychologists see as inborn genetic tendencies to be either logical, self-determinate or alternatively, wanting to be told what to do by some outside "greater" authority, Big Daddy as it were.
Not surprisingly, some studies have shown that the god/big daddy brains are more likely to be attached to conservative people, the logical, investigative brains to the more curious, open thinkers.
Anyone who has raised animal/human newborns to maturity can see the great differences in emotions and reactions to stimuli from birth onlwards. |
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