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This will be an exercise in speculative paranoia. A conspiratorial dérive, wandering through the rubble of history in search of rhyme schemes. An attempt to decipher the Twilight Language of cabals and lesser elementals, peering into the nous of the historical current, excavating any artifacts we find from the sands of time. Our Rosetta Stone was forged by Downard and Hoffman, as we map the mystical onomatology and enchanted toponymy that haunt world history like wayward Djinn in the Rub al Khali.
“Egyptian priests, using a drop of ink for a mirror, undertook to reflect on the past for the purpose of sharing revelations to their devotees in return for offerings that were immediately consecrated. It seems that past events were considered to be matters to reflect upon as well as being a source of revenue. It has long been said that history repeats itself and that the past is a mirror of the future… Ancient Egyptians believed that the past and future had such a relationship, and that the present mirrored both, a belief that is associated with the double house of life myth. When the Egyptian priests reflected on the past, perhaps they were endeavoring to ascertain the future. However, it was generally believed that the future was best seen in a drop of wine.”
-James Shelby Downard
What is a ritual? If you are not familiar with the basics of the experimental hermeneutic I will be engaging with, then you may as well stop reading now. At its worst this will reek of paranoid bullshit, and at its best it will reek of schizophrenic bullshit. But it is precisely such a substance, bovine feces, that fertilizes all seasonal renewals, and as any high ritualist knows, all symbolic ones too. “You reek of bullshit sir!” “That is precisely the point!”
-Michael Hoffman
If you are not familiar with the usual suspects, wether human or numerical, then this fresh batch of nonsense will simply smell more nonsensical. If you are not paranoid enough to immediately shiver at the number 33 then this article is not for you. But in this forlorn epoch, in this age of future past, we have all been so inundated with the occult rhyme schemes that in the words of Hoffman, “we have all become initiates.”
Today we will be discussing a bizarre matrix of ritual murder and symbolism, a phantom thread that binds the city of London and the white city of the Chicago World fair. An alchemical process that was instigated over a hundred years ago. The connection between the ripper and H H Holmes has been suggested, but never solidified, as no one to my knowledge has looked at it from the view of mass ritual. The White Chapel and the White City. Societal alchemy.
Lets begin.
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The theory that the crimes of Jack the Ripper were actually a series of meticulously planned ritual murders involving the British Royal Family, the Freemasons, and corrupt police was first introduced by Stephen Knight in his book Jack the Ripper: The Final Solution. (Either by a stroke of cosmic irony, or genuine conspiracy, Knight would die at the age of 33). A short summary of the major points is found in Michael Hoffmans excellent book: Secret Societies and Psychological warfare.
The basic masonic significance was laid out by Knight. It is not my goal to prove any of the claims laid by Knight, this article isn’t some form of conspiratorial apologetics. And I am agnostic to several of Knights claims. But I reckon he brought to light a genuine undercurrent. I believe there was a bigger psychodrama occurring, connecting out across the Atlantic, employing a syncretic blend of occult practice and sign. A tantric flavor, which would explain the event of September 11, 1893, and the opening of the karmic floodgates. But there was also an unexplored alchemical dimension. All will soon become clear.
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“Ganesha is Vighneshvara (Vighnaraja, Marathi – Vighnaharta), the Lord of Obstacles, both of a material and spiritual order. He is popularly worshipped as a remover of obstacles, though traditionally he also places obstacles in the path of those who need to be checked. Hence, he is often worshipped by the people before they begin anything new…. He is depicted with the head of an elephant.”
When Alan Moore in his ingenious graphic novel “From Hell” decided to include a brief scene with Joesph Merrick (the elephant man), linking him to both Ganesha and Jack the Ripper, he was picking up on something profound. I doubt he grasped the full implications of this subconscious linkage, but his keen antenna was really tuning in. In our long journey through mass ritual encompassing murder, world fairs, and societal alchemy, we will begin with this often overlooked figure. (And yet a figure so ingrained in our collective consciousness. Isn’t that funny?)
Everyone knows about the Elephant Man and the image the key word conjures. But as stated above, few know the real figure.
Joseph Merrick was born in 1862 and was of perfect health, no abnormalities. Pale white skin and average as could be. But at age 5 he began to develop "thick lumpy skin ... like that of an elephant, and almost the same color." His condition would progressively worsen, developing monstrous growths, asymmetries that would put a leper to shame. His right hand in particular enlarged, while his left hand remained normal. In fact, it was the only normal thing about him physically. Curious.
The boy was too handicapped to find any meaningful employment, and so he thought his only opportunity for income was to become a living spectacle. He realized he had to whore himself out in freak shows. Similar to how so many good women in Victorian England, crushed by economic poverty, had to literally whore themselves out as prostitutes. Just like the women the Ripper killed. This was the pressure cooker of Victoria’s (whose victory?) England, a monstrous machine that put all the plebs in a vice grip, causing otherwise moral souls to resort to sin to survive.
From Merricks own remarks:
His “pimps” from the bee-hive inn came up with the moniker “the elephant man.” Half man, half elephant. The “freak show” found a permanent home in White Chapel, the district where the Ripper murders would occur. Also, something to keep in mind for later:
“Norman observed Merrick asleep one morning and learnt that he always slept sitting up, with his legs drawn up and his head resting on his knees. His enlarged head was too heavy to allow him to sleep lying down and, as Merrick put it, he would risk "waking with a broken neck".”
His handlers would utter a bizarre phrase when they would bring customers to gawk at him. “He’s not here to frighten you but to enlighten you.” Curious, what did an Elephant Man have to do with the Gnosis of the Bee-hive? Another noteworthy if seemingly obvious sentiment that Merrick continually expressed, is that he “felt like an animal in a cattle market.”
In 1886 Merrick entered the London hospital where he would spend the rest of his short life. And a curious thing began to occur, high society individuals came to visit him! Most notably, in 1887, the Prince and Princess of Wales came to see him personally. The princess insisted on shaking his hand, on touching his flesh. From pauper to the company of a princess! Very strange.
On 11 April 1890, at 3 pm, at age 27, Merrick died. The cause of death was asphyxia. But, and as we shall see with all the other deaths discussed today, the details of his death are suspicious to say the least.
Merrick always slept sitting up. But no, instead of a murder inquiry being made, we get this bittersweet tale of “the poor freak died trying to be normal.” What a lovely and poetic wrap up! Immortalized as a tale for children for centuries to come. Lets put him on the silver screen!
The authority who conducted the inquest to determine cause of death, was Wynne Edwin Baxter. He ruled it accidental. He was also the same man who conducted the inquests of the the Ripper murders, and a prominent Freemason.
"I have held over 30,000 inquests, and have not had one body exhumed yet"
The first of many links between Merrick and the murders.
After his passing, the elephant mans body was promptly dissected, much like the Ripper victims, and his bones put on display. Even in death, he could not escape the gawking eyes of the Johns.
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Let’s shift gears for a moment.
The high priests of modern science, practicing their bizarre rites of genetic engineering, are seemingly obsessed with the combining of human and animal genes. All under the decree of public health.
Merrick often remarked that he felt as if he was cattle in the market.
Here is a passage by the esteemed Michael Hoffman
There is much talk and rumor of human chimeras being grown in test tubes in labs in China or even (gasps!) the United States. We have no hard evidence of such things (or do we)? But the alchemical chimera is at least being produced, the merging of beast and man, wether for organ transplants or something darker. In a sense, the Elephant Man is the spiritual prototype, heralding the next hundred years of genetic transmutation that would unleash itself with the coming century. We really have no definite idea of what terrible affliction mutated Mr Merrick, God rest his soul. Even after all the scientific dissection it is still a mystery. What is certain is that he didn’t become “the elephant” until his pimps at the beehive inn spoke it so. Transforming his twisted polyps and gnarled limbs into an animalistic resemblance with the power of the word. From amorphous, androgynous flesh to the exotic form of an elephant. All by the decree of appellation. But his dehumanization started far earlier with the jeers of his peers. I can’t help but wonder, maybe, just maybe, the affliction wasn’t random, perhaps he was a test subject, a patient zero, and this is why the high society in his later years came to gasp at their archetypal creation. Even if the physical transformation wasn’t artificial, (or at least not the result of human tinkering) he was still patient zero for a different kind of transformation. An alchemical transmutation of society as a whole. The elephant man becoming the first chimera since the days of the old gods. And certainly not the last.
What is human alchemy?
(above quote courtesy of Hoffman)
The dark gnosis or enlightenment of the elite, is “not here to frighten you but to enlighten you.” There are alchemical undertones to the entire process of ritualistic killings and immolations that connected London and Chicago at the turn of the century. Urban altars where conjurers cast world wide spells through ritualistic suggestion, setting the stage for the great alchemical operation of the coming of the century.
It is noteworthy that one of the most notable hypothesis supplied to explain Merricks unexplainable condition, and what is most referenced, is that of Proteus syndrome. The word denotes something that is "versatile", "mutable", or "capable of assuming many forms." The God Proteus is associating with changing shape and prophecy. Proteus is also heavily associated with alchemical traditions. A kind of Prima Materia.
Alchemists were convinced that mercury transcended both the solid and liquid states, both earth and heaven, both life and death. It was the beginning of all alchemical operations. (Also, Heinrich Khunrath was the link between John Dee and Rosicrucianism.)
“In the ancient art of alchemy, mercury, sulfur, and salt were the Earth’s three principle substances. The Hindu word for alchemy is “Rasasiddhi”, meaning “knowledge of mercury.” Believing that mercury was at the core of all metals, alchemists supposed that gold, silver, copper, tin, lead and iron were all mixtures of mercury and other substances. While alchemists in different cultures had different beliefs, one of the central themes to European alchemy was the belief that the correct combination of mercury and other ingredients would yield riches of gold.”
The God Ganesha is also associated with mercury.
John Milton, aware of the association of Proteus with the Hermetic art of alchemy, wrote in Paradise Lost of alchemists who sought the philosopher's stone
Merrick was a living, breathing alchemical symbol. A perfect base in which to construct a mass ritual.
Did the Victorian elite go on pilgrimage to the white chapel, to touch the divine protean man, the new Adam of the new age? Did the Prince of Wales come to this avatar of Ganesha, one year before the Ripper murders, to invoke the Mercurial deities blessing before the alchemical operation commenced? The ritual killings of the five women who knew the catholic girl who allegedly married the Princes son?
The Prince of Wales, a dozen years before, himself traveled to India, where he no doubt came into contact with the elephant headed idols of the subcontinent. In fact, an idol of one of Ganesha’s 32 forms, associated with tantra, is still prominently displayed in the Prince of Wales museum.
English western occultists were obsessed with Tantra at the turn of the 19th century.
Crowley and his followers (such as Kenneth Grant) experimented and syncretized its practices into their own magical systems. The Sanskrit word Tantra literally means to “loom, warp, weave.” (important to note, one of Jacks victims was killed next to a former weaving factory). Its the esoteric/magical dimensions of hindu practice, frequently antinomian and sexually transgressive. (No wonder Crowley had a hard on for it).
The left hand tantric rituals are known as Vamchara, a term used to describe a particular mode of worship or sadhana (spiritual practice) that is not only heterodox (Sanskrit: nāstika) to standard Vedic injunction, but extreme in comparison to the status quo. Left hand Vamcharis give the highest importance to Ganesha (Ganapati). There are 5 forms of Tantric or Shakta Ganesha. They are Ucchista Ganpati, Urdhva Ganpati, Pingal Ganpati, Maha Ganpati and Lakshmi Ganpati. What makes the occult tantric forms different is they are all depicted with a Shakti, a female consort. In depictions of the Tantric Ganesha couples, the nude goddesses are displayed on Ganeshas’ laps, with the elephant headed god touching the goddesses’ genitals with their hands or trunks.
Tantra can be contextualized as a form of eastern sex magic, of the left hand and so the symbolic significance of these tantric aspects of the deity are obvious. “As per Vamachara practices, the deity is worshipped when the devotee is in the Uchchhishta "ritually impure” state, that is, nude or with remnants of food (Uchchhishta) in his mouth. Uchchhishta Ganapati is also associated with six rituals of abhichara (uses of spells for malevolent purposes) by which the adept can cause the target to suffer delusions, be overcome with irresistible attraction or envy, or to be enslaved, paralysed or killed. It is believed by tantrics that no siddhi, or occult power, is possible unless one appeases Ganesha.”
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In left handed tantric ritual, Ganesha must be worshipped in an impure state. Antinomian sexual acts frequently are incorporated. All of the women in the ripper murders were prostitutes, found naked, and had been intoxicated. Just as there are 5 shakti, or divine consorts to tantric Ganesha, so were there 5 women. Jack the Ripper victims were famously murdered by a left hand assailant. The Vamchara tantric rituals to Ganesha are a form of Left Hand occultism. The Elephant Mans non disfigured hand was his left hand. In iconographic depictions of Ganesha Shakti, the gods arms or trunk is touching their genitals, just as the left handed ripper mutilated the victims genitals, and there are 5 fingers in a hand.
Before I go further, I want to clarify something. Joseph Merrick was a poor and gentle man who was raped by a cruel society. He was by all accounts a sensitive and beautiful soul, with a strong Christian faith. I am in no way making a ridiculous and offensive claim that he committed any of these crimes, I am merely suggesting he could have been used as a ritualistic lynch pin in the occult psychodrama. A pawn in a larger esoteric rite, his very being appropriated. A Prima Materia for a larger alchemical operation. A microcosm for the societal transmutation of the macrocosm, as above so below.
As stated before, after Merricks death, his body was eviscerated by the scientists scalpel. The soft tissue was placed in an unmarked grave and the bones kept by the state. They are not on display to the public, and petitions to have his bones buried have been denied. Anglo secret societies love their bones. And the real kicker? His soft tissue was buried in the same area as two of the ripper victims.
One more comment before we cross the Atlantic. Occult ritual and symbolism is by its very nature syncretic. One symbol can signify multiple things, to multiple people, like an origami vortex of significance folded in upon itself. Just got to peal back the layers.
(To recap, In regards to Elephant man we have two symbolic manifestations: 1. prima materia, alchemical protean man, chimeric forerunner 2. Tantric personification of Ganesha)
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So, what does any of this bizarre matrix of symbolism and murder have to do with Chicago? There was another big name in serial murder around the time of the Ripper. H H Holmes, the first modern American serial killer. The first of many. Out of all the serial killers in the United States, volumes have been written on the occult and conspiratorial links that many of them had. Odd that H H Holmes is not so frequently covered. Holmes, like Merrick, can be seen as a first man as well. An archetypal precursor. The first American serial killer. A pure platonic (or plutonic) form of evil, an embodiment of all the horrendous aspects that darken the American psyche.
Holmes made many claims, and he was a grifter, a conman, and so its hard to take his claims at face value. His victims could have ranged into the 200’s. But what is important is that the claim that is associated with him, that he himself popularized along with the media, is that there were 27 victims. Holmes in his early years showed no signs of psychopathy, no butchering of animals. It seems his possession (he claimed he was possessed by the devil) was late onset. He was highly intelligent, and a medical student. Another link between him and the ripper, the ripper was said to have surgical precision and therefore medical training. Holmes was obsessed with the bones of the dead, with cadavers. He also worked as a pharmacist. Pharmakeía is the greek word for sorcery in the New Testament. While pharmakós was the term for a ritualistic sacrifice of a human scapegoat or victim. Ill let y’all mull that one over.
Several theorists have tried linking the Jack the Ripper murders to the gruesome murders of American serial killer H H Holmes. Some have tried to either prove it was Holmes himself who was the ripper, to varying degrees of success. What is missed here is the possibility of an overlapping conspiracy, a symbolic connection. It didn’t have to physically be the same man for a connection. (even if it possibly could have been him). Lets get weird.
The ripper killings occurred in Whitechapel, while the majority of the Holmes killings are associated with the White City, the term for the Chicago world fair. White is associated with the Albedo phase in alchemy, "bringing light and clarity to the prima materia.” (but we will get into that later). Holmes stated he killed 27 individuals, while the ripper is canonically attested with 5 women. (the elephant man was 5 years old when he started showing symptoms of his transformation, and was 27 when he died). 5 + 27 = 32, and 32 is both the number of forms that the god Ganesha has and also an important masonic number. It represents the number before the perfect 33rd degree. The base of the pyramid before the tip and the eye. (also 3 ^ 3 = 27).
The 3 Juwes in masonic lore are both assassins and then ritualistically murdered themselves. H H Holmes would be hung in Philadelphia, the occult assassin becoming ritualistically killed himself. With his death, the number of victims becomes 33. (Philadelphia also being a name associated with masonry, especially Memphis Misraism, and magnetic masonry and mesmerism). H H Holmes was a fake name that he invented for himself. His original name was Herman Mudgett, he changed his name right before moving to Chicago, and right before the ripper murders. Masonic symbolism focuses on repetition of numbers and letters. H is the 8th letter of the alphabet. Three H’s, 888. The year the ripper murders occurred was 1888. A subtle wink and a nod? 888 is the number linked to Jesus in gematria, so here we have another antichristical inversion. H H Holmes would be hung 8 years after the ripper killings occurred. (he would die at age 34, possibly signifying the going one beyond the 33rd degree, one degree beyond perfection).
Before we continue, before we get into the alchemical meat of it all, we must note a few more bizarre aspects regarding Holmes and his death.
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What I am about to explain is going to be mind blowing for anyone familiar with Michael Hoffmans book Secret societies. Hoffman zeroes in on a particular phrase that repeats frequently in the vocabulary of the Twilight Language. “Wicker.”
He continues to explain the significance of Wicker in the Son of Sam killings. Here he shows Son of Sam using it in his title:
he continues:
Now for the kicker:
H H Holmes owned a glass bending factory in Wicker Park where he disposed of bodies. Glass bending. To wicker means to bend, as in the bending of reality. Where have we heard of bending earlier? Tantra means to loom, weave or bend reality.
Elephas Levi, the Elephas night club, meaning elephant.
The symbolic sigil of the elephant man returns to our psychodrama of ritual murder.
(to illustrate how bizarre this all is, I only even made this connection by noticing the wikipedia footnote 33 and decided to click it. Leading me to finding he owned a glass factory, and searching it up finding out it was in wicker park).
Oh we haven’t even begun.
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Holmes was hung in Philadelphia, cool as a cucumber on the scaffold. “The marvelous nerve of the man never deserted him to the end,” the reporter wrote. “Even on the scaffold, he was probably the coolest person in the solemn assemblage.”
“I was born with the devil in me.” -H H Holmes
“Until the moment of his death, Holmes remained calm and amiable, showing very few signs of fear, anxiety, or depression. Despite this, he asked for his coffin to be contained in cement and buried 10 feet deep, because he was concerned grave robbers would steal his body and use it for dissection.”
Now that is fascinating, is it not? Think about that one.
For a man so horrendously evil and apathetic towards human dignity, why would he be so terrified of his post mortem body? He was not scared of God, or what anyone would think of him, yet his dying wish was to ward off dissection? Did he know some secret of occult power that occurs in esoteric dissection? Did he have some bizarre belief about funerary rites and power, after having dissected so many himself? In Alan Moores novel From Hell, the Ripper is granted glimpses through time through the act of mutilating the bodies. Was Holmes worried someone else from his cult may dissect him like the Elephant Man? I don’t know bro, you tell me.
But even more bizarre:
“In 2017, amid allegations Holmes had in fact escaped execution, Holmes's body was exhumed for testing led by Janet Monge of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Due to his coffin being contained in cement, his body was found not to have decomposed normally. His clothes were almost perfectly preserved and his mustache was found to be intact. The body was positively identified by his teeth as being that of Holmes. Holmes was then reburied.”
“Even Hell has its Heroes.”
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It is time to now discuss the City of Chicago itself, and the parallel White City of the World Fair. None of this will make any sense, the alchemical ritualistic connections and purpose in this carefully orchestrated psychodrama, without understanding the World Fair of 1893.
There are four alchemical stages in the Magnum Opus, the great work. Nigredo- blackening, albedo- whitening, citrinitas- yellowing, and rubedo- reddening.
Nigredo, or blackness, means putrefaction or decomposition. Many alchemists believed that as a first step in the pathway to the philosopher's stone, all alchemical ingredients had to be cleansed and cooked extensively to a uniform black matter. But we are dealing with societal alchemy here.
As briefly remarked earlier, the White city or world fair would have been Chicagos Albedo faze. But what would its Nigredo phase have been before? Think, what big event occurred in Chicagos history before 1893?
The Chicago Fire of 1871. The first step, “the ingredients cleansed and cooked extensively to a uniform black matter.” This also immediately draws parallels to London, which had its own great fire, in 1666. Fire is the first of the classical elements, and Heraclitus considered fire to be the most fundamental of all elements, giving birth to the others. In the Chicago city flag, the first star represents the founding of the city, and the second star represents the fire.
Fire in alchemy represents the start of the alchemical process. What better beginning than this. The entire event reeks of occult symbolism. The fire destroyed 3.3 square miles. The fire started on DeKoven street. De Koven, of the coven, like a witches coven. The famous cause now enshrined in popular culture is “ms O Learys cow.” Downard discusses how cows take on a symbolic dimension in the fertility/death cult, their feces being used for growth and fertilization, while certain occult circles believe the tree of knowledge in the Garden of Eden was a certain psychedelic mushroom that grows in cow dung. In the Hindu religion, the cow is associated with divinity, and it is verboten to slay one. In India, some statues of Ganesha are crafted with Cow dung. The perfect symbol to begin the alchemical operation, fertilizing the beginning of a new age. The idea that O Leary’s cow knocked over a lantern, is almost certainly spurious. But the rumor was started intentionally, as apart of the ritualistic effect in the psychodrama. “we didn’t start the fire…” the cow did. A poem was published in a news paper at the time.
The only sizable donation from foreign capital for the rebuilding of the city, came from the city of London.
hmmm…
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22 Years after the Chicago Fire, the 1893 World Fair, known as the White city, would commence. There were 22 years that the Elephant Man lived with his condition starting at age 5. (age 5 to 27). And 22 paths connecting the various nodes of the sephira in the Kabbalistic Tree of life. It was to show the world that “Chicago had rose from the ashes like a Phoenix” from the destruction of the fire. It was to commemorate the 400th year anniversary of Columbus crossing the Atlantic, bridging the Old World with the new, the east and the west. The conjunction of opposites. In the Albedo or whitening phase of alchemy, the stage of purification and the separation and conjoining of opposites. We will see much of this conjoining of opposites throughout the White City. (The third star in Chicagos city flag commemorates the World Fair of 1893). All the biggest, most powerful titans of industry invested heavily in the affair, all of the elites had a hand in the work. (And our good friend Alexander Graham Bell would make an appearance as well….)
The three captains of industry who had the most influence in bringing the fair to Chicago to New York, by offering to finance it, were Marshall Field, Cyrus McCormick Jr, and Charles Yerkes. Time to get really, really weird.
Charles Yerkes
Yerkes had business interests in only two cities. Take a wild guess which. Chicago and London. Also, an interesting little fact about the guy:
33 month sentence in a prison close to the prison where Holmes would be hung 30 years later. Bizarre coincidence.
Yerkes, like many occultists had a thing for the stars.
Yerkes decided in 1892 to bankroll the world's largest telescope after being lobbied by the astronomer George Ellery Hale and University of Chicago president William Rainey Harper. He had initially intended to finance only a telescope but eventually agreed to foot the bill for an entire observatory. He contributed nearly $300,000 to the University of Chicago to establish what would become known as the Yerkes Observatory, located in Williams Bay, Wisconsin.”
Yerkes observatory is called “the birthplace of modern astrophysics.” Yerkes would even have a crater on the moon named after him. Hmm..
To absolutely magnify the alchemical associations to 11, read this: “The Daily Inter Ocean outdid the other newspapers in its praise of Yerkes and Sidney Kent, who funded a chemistry lab for the University. "What Lorenzo the Magnificent did for art in Florence, Kent and Yerkes, each in his own way, are doing for science in Chicago," the Inter Ocean extolled.”
Yerkes was also enemies with the mayor, a detail that will become very important later.
“Thus began a bitter distrust and dislike between Yerkes and the City of Chicago. Mayor Carter Harrison wrote of Yerkes, "Trained in the public utility school he saw a roseate future ahead for the man who would apply eastern methods of official corruption to the crude halfway measures so far practiced by the novices in Chicago's best financial circles." The feeling was mutual. Popular lore says that after Harrison's newspaper, the Times, published an unflattering article about Yerkes's street railways, the businessman strode unannounced into Harrison's office and said, "Carter, I always knew you were a scoundrel. Good day, sir, " and left before Harrison could utter a word.”
Yerkes made most of his money developing the mass transit systems of both London and Chicago.
Marshall Field and Cyrus McCormick Jr
What we will find noteworthy about these two characters is their common denominator. First, both were in bed with the Rockefellers, Cyrus’ brother was married to one (Edith Rockefeller), and Marshall co-founded the university of Chicago with John Rockefeller. But the second and far more important similarity, is something any readers of James Shelby Downard will immediately recognize. Both were apart of the Jekyll Island Club.
The club consisted of some of the biggest names of the time. It was located on Jekyll island, and it was officially inaugurated in 1888. It is about as close to the stereotypical conception of a “spooky elite illuminati club” as one could possibly get.
It was also the site of the birth of the federal reserve, and it occurred in a manor spookier then you could possibly imagine. If you think im being crazy, just read wikipedias section on it.
yeah…. A bunch of the worlds elite and every notable banker on earth anonymously got together on Jekyll island using spooky nicknames under the cover of darkness for a full week doing God knows what….
Now James Shelby Downard seemed to be under the impression that Alexander Graham Bell (the inventor of the telephone) was like the star of the show there. That he had developed some manor of device for mind control, and that is why he worked with the deaf. Look, I have no idea if any of thats true, but it is a little bizarre. Downard claims that there was a caste system on Jekyll island, and that Bell was damn near at the top. That his nickname was “Solomon” or “the wizard of Oz.” Even if he didn’t have this hypothetical mind control device, his status would make a lot of sense. He invented the telephone, allowing banks to communicate with each other in real time, and engendering global finance.
It is weird that in 1915 the first transcontinental telephone line between New York and San Francisco connected to three other cities and…. to Jekyll Island. Only 6 locations, all major cities, and then Jekyll Island. “Watson was at 333 Grant Avenue in San Francisco to receive the first transcontinental telephone call, placed by Bell from the Telephone Building at 15 Dey Street in New York City. President Woodrow Wilson and the mayors of both cities were also involved in the call.”
Time for one more bit of weird “sacred toponomy” by James Shelby Downard”
“Alexander Graham Bell invented the telephone in 1877 and in this endeavor was assisted by Thomas Augustus Watson of Salem… The first telephone exchange went into operation on May 17, 1877 in Boston. The switchboard connected 6 banks. The telephone exchange was in the office of Edwin Thomas Holmes, who was in the burglar alarm business. So, according to the story, Watson and Holmes were Bells co workers. Is it any wonder that a telephone exchange is on Holmes street in Memphis Tennessee, and that the General Telephone and Electronics seek to identify Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson through advertisements?”
-James Downard
Where have we heard this name Holmes before?
Also, the first phone call ever was in 1876, with Bell calling to his assistant, “Mr Watson, come here.”
(Bell was at both Jekyll island and the world fair of course.)
But back to Jekyll island, is it any wonder, that the Chicago world fair of 1893 chose Hyde Park as its area of operations? Isn’t it odd, that the first ever world fair in 1851, was in Hyde Park London?
The plot of Jekyll and Hyde published in 1886 revolves around a Dr Jekyll who is an upstanding citizen, but with a serum changes and does terrible things. “Jekyll's letter explains he held himself to strict moral standards publicly, but indulged in unstated vices and struggled with shame. He found a way to transform himself and thereby indulge his vices without fear of detection. Jekyll's transformed body, Hyde, was evil, self-indulgent, and uncaring to anyone but himself. Initially, Jekyll controlled the transformations with the serum, but one night in August, he became Hyde involuntarily in his sleep.”
I wonder what those folks were doing on that island. One of the themes of Jekyll and Hyde is duality, the separating of the psyche into the two personas, before being conjoined once more in death. Remember we talked about the albedo phase in alchemy, which occurred in the white city of Chicago in Hyde park? “The Albedo or whitening phase of alchemy, the stage of purification entailing the separation or splitting of opposites and then conjoining of opposites.”
Another theme of the book is the private vs public life distinction.
Interestingly its been flipped, inverted once more in the symbolic usage, with Jekyll island being the secluded and secretive area where strange rites occur, and all the Hyde parks of the world being public spaces, like the White City of 1893. Where a Jekyll and Hyde character, H H Holmes, would run rampant, murdering men at night, while at day being a jolly old entrepreneur. Just as it was rumored the ripper had medical knowledge, implying your friendly neighborhood doc could be eviscerating prostitutes at night.
It is also interesting, that Arthur Conan Doyle states he based Sherlock Holmes on a Scottish doctor born in Edinburgh named Dr Bell. The Scottish inventor of the telephone and attendant of Jekyll island named Alexander Graham Bell who attended the White City in Hyde Park was also born in Edinburgh and had an assistant named Mr Watson. He partook in the first ever phone call, when he said “Mr Watson, come here.” Where does one Holmes end and another Bell begin?
Dr Jekyll and mr Hyde was released 2 years before the Ripper murders began.
Dr Jekyll and mr Hyde was adapted into a stage production the same year as the Ripper murders began, and while the actor who so convincingly played Mr Hyde was performing the part of the killer in the west end of London, the mr Hyde (the ripper) was actually murdering women in the east end. Another duality, another split. The ripper was even first referred to as Mr Hyde in the media. And just as Dr Jekyll first loses control in August in the book, so too does the first of the Canonical Five ripper victims die in late August.
The actor played the role of Dr Jekyll so well that many audience members were convinced he was the killer.
The outcry was so intense, that the production had to stop. The duality mended with the disappearance of the “acting Mr Hyde” in the west end, and the whole subsuming of his identity by the real Mr Hyde (the ripper) in the east end, in White Chapel. Remember that talk of Albedo?
This is the essence of psychodrama, the very essence of psychic attacks on the public. My God, everything about this is the perfect representation of occult mockery and psychic assault. Reread that last part again, soak it in, feel it. The splitting, the subsumption, this is one of the greatest acts of ritual psychodrama ever. This is societal alchemy. This is the stage of Albedo.
And who is the trusty detective who pursues the Ripper, the Sherlock Holmes of the psychodrama? (Holmes as a character is first unveiled to the public one year before the killings). The detective Frederick George Abberline. But the jolly old detective is outwitted at every turn. He would retire from police work a year later.
And so how eerie, that the serial killer who pops up in the white city, so utterly connected to the ripper, bears the name Holmes as well. Another inversion, another mind fuck of twilight language on the populace. The famous literary detective becoming Mr Hyde. Arthur Conan Doyle would kill his character in a story in 1893, the same year as the worlds fair.
Quite a yarns been spun indeed.
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If you thought it couldn’t get any weirder, you are in for a treat. Its time we return to the white city, the Albedo phase, the alchemical joining of opposites, and the tantric magic referenced before. The conjoining of the split, the east and the west.
The largest congress and perhaps most important event in the Chicago fair to occur was the World Parliament of Religions. Organized by a Swedenborgian on September 11, 1893, it is considered the beginning of the world wide interfaith movement.
Religious leaders from every denomination imaginable was invited to the event. (Mormons notably absent, Masons were probably still pissed about them gyping their rituals). The merging of the religions of the east with those of the west. This was the beginning of something world changing.
This was the beginning of religious syncretism in the west, the idea that all faiths had truth in them, that they all came from the same source.
The defining event of the congress, was a speech by Swami Vivekananda.
“At ten o clock, ten solemn strokes of the new liberty Bell which was inscribed, a new commandment I give unto you…”
“seven thousand people rose to their feet as a tribute to something they knew not what.”
Some more about Mr Swami
This was the beginning of the arrival of eastern spirituality and tantra to the western world. The conjoining of opposites in the White City. The beginning of the eastern syncretism, where Christ has the head of an elephant and “just cares about like love and peace mannn” no talk of hell or metaphysical redemption. Just a groovy hippy who meditates on Sunday. Far out dudeee.
Father Seraphim Rose, in his excellent book “Orthodoxy and the Religion of the Future,” discusses how hindu syncretism was destroying souls. The melding into a one world religion, where every faith has its truth, a spiritual melange, everything soiled through conjunction. This is the religion of the anti christ.
Behold! The Christ of the White City!
This syncretism of eastern faiths would define 20th century “new spirituality” in the west. The 50s beats, the so called “dharma bums,” giving way to the acid soaked psychedelia of the hippies who were all into “buddha and chakras mannn.” Esoterically, Aleister Crowley and his occultists were syncretizing tantric rites into their western esotericism. The blending of the east and the west, spawning the syncretic banal whitewashed “all is one” nonsense that defined the decade, the leading forth to the one world religion of the antichrist and the spiritual despondency of the 21st century, had its roots in the White City of 1893. Albedo, the conjoining of opposites.
But the west was brought in to the east as well, through this “handsome oriental.” He studied western logic and western philosophy, and became an adept in western esotericism.
Hinduism was being brought West. The melding of the two spiritualities, into a new, self worshipping, easily digestible religion.
And the real kicker? “Narendra became a member of a freemasonic lodge at some point before 1884.”
One more quote from his mother: “His mother said, "I prayed to Shiva for a son and he has sent me one of his demons”
The spiritual chimera of Neo hinduism, the joining of opposites, Christ of the new age with the head of an elephant, leading his flock to hell.
I can’t help but think of Ganesha, sitting in his white chapel. Surrounded by his five dead tantric shakti.
Now its time to crank up the craziness from 9 to 11.
The congress of world religions was supposed to represent the bonding of east and west, the conjoining of opposites in a productive way, the birth of the idea that the whole world could bond in brotherhood.
In eastern religions the number 108 is especially sacred.
It also has meaningful properties in the physical universe
“The distance between the Earth and the Moon is also about 108 times the diameter of the Moon. The coincidence that the Sun and Moon both have approximately the same ratio between their diameters and their distances to Earth means their apparent sizes in Earth's sky are about the same, which is what makes total solar eclipses possible.”
108 years to the day after the first congress of world religions, September 11, 1893, two planes would come from the religious east, destroying the World Trade Center.
The joining of east and west in fraternal progress, would be shattered by the supposed religious animosity of an eastern faith. To add to the “coincidences” binding the World Trade Center and the 1893 council, is that the first time the council would meet again would be 100 years later in 1993. Coincidentally, that same year the WTC would be bombed.
From international dream to Globalist nightmare, this is the Fata Morgana of the White City. (Was it ever even real at all?)
I could fill books with all the occult, ritualistic weirdness that occurred in the 1893 world fair. All you have read today is the research of two days. What I want to impress is the alchemical albedo, the whitening.
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Now, there is one more thing to say about the 1893 world fair.
Im sure my readers are familiar with “Killing of the King” rituals, the most famous of course being the ritual assassination of JFK. But what if I told you there was an earlier one?
Carter Harrison, the mayor of Chicago (serving his fifth term), was the King of the White City. Two days before the ending of the 1893 world fair, he was shot dead. The assassin Prendergrast had no rational motive for gunning him down.
The original Sirhan Sirhan? Who knows. Do you remember the stories of Mr Bell and his mind control experiments? Or how about this:
MK Ultra would arrive soon after.
But what is really strange is this. The assassin fired three shots. The first two at his body, killing the King. But the third shot, the third shot was fired point blank. Want to know where he fired at after killing him? His left hand.
Remember we discussed one of the financiers who lobbied to have the Fair brought to Chicago? Who had connections to both London and Chicago? Who helped finance and plan the fair? Heres a screenshot to remind you.
Curious.
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With the Albedo ritual over, the joining of opposites, the white city was taken down. Almost all the exhibits and buildings, poof, gone. I can only wonder the psychic effect that had on the population. They say in magical operations, that after one is conducted, you should try to forget about it, so that the effects can get to work in the subconscious.
One more thing to mention in regards to 1893. After the spectacle was deconstructed, the university of Chicago arose on the fair ground. The white city is memorialized in its alma mater. "The City White hath fled the earth,/But where the azure waters lie,/A nobler city hath its birth,/The City Gray that ne'er shall die.”
From white to grey, like the skin of the elephant man. The alchemical transformation of the city, into one with one of the greatest crime rates in the USA. Beautiful to bulbous and bloody. Ephemeral to eternal. The City Gray that ne'er shall die.
Reflecting on everything we have talked about earlier, east and west, isn’t it interesting that this violence is emphasized with Chicagos nickname, CHIRAQ?
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How much of the psychodrama was carefully staged by the magicians? How much meticulous detail was put into coordinating the gematria? Or did it all just kind of manifest, did the gnostics nous just kinda meet them half way?
I wonder if pagan deities and demons can bend or wicker reality themselves, adjusting the rhyme schemes which mar our earth, manifesting through the actions of their knowing or unknowing devotees. Did Ganesha materialize himself, tearing a tantric portal into the west, opened via the viscera of his five sacrificial shakti? Latching on to the alchemists operations? Whose hoodwinking who? Not all cabals operate on a level of awareness that is all together human. Wether all the coincidence is intentional or not, it sure is getting weird out there.
Were all initiates in this late age, were all familiar with the profane logic of the gods. Just remember, that they are “not here to frighten you but to enlighten you.”
What did these alchemical rituals accomplish? They sure did a number on us by the looks of it.
You seen Chicago lately? Or London for that matter?
The ritualistic gateways have been christened, the floodgates open to a bloody century of two world wars and an IV drip of spiritual delusion and drug addiction, a potent cocktail of instant gratification and sexual degradation. The 20th century. And not to be outdone, the 21st began with a crash as well. So excited to see what’s in store…
The alchemical Albedo rituals of the White Chapel and White City, with the splitting and conjoining of opposites, Jekyll/hyde ritual killings, and the eastern/western spiritual conjuctions, a perfect microcosm of what was to come.
The two new men. A world full of half human half beast chimeras, thrown in a genetic blender by men in masks, pretty soon we may all resemble such antediluvian horrors- or elephants. Being prayed upon by Jekyll/Hyde predators, wacked out on occult radio waves and a whiff of blood. “Behold, the Son of Man!” “No wait, its just Charlie ManSon and the Son of Sam.” what does that sound like? Oh no, you caught the Downard bug too!
MARCONI PLAYS THE MAMBA, LISTEN TO THE RADIOOOO
You can’t wake up because this nightmares never going to end. The only antidote? In the words of Hoffman, “The Grace of GOD.”
Find Christ. Time is running out friends. The fact that recent things are even being allowed to come to light signals that the hour is at hand.
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Another remark on the tantric undercurrent. Is it any wonder, that when the greatest of all the alchemists operations came to pass many years later, at the trinity site, at the end of the trail of death, on the 33rd parallel, the morning the sun rose twice, that the phrase most associated with the event comes from the Bhagavad Gita.
“I am become death, destroyer of worlds.”
A choice that at the time must have seemed odd, but after all that has been said today, is it really?
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A final note on Mr Merrick.
I consider the man a Saint, a true hero. While his essence was utilized in the bizarre twilight language of the bee hive, his chakras wickered by the tantric forces of darkness, Mr Merrick stood resolute and defiant against the Prince of the World. He was a strong, devout Christian, and never harmed a soul. Many of his acquaintances remarked on his steadfast commitment to the LORD. And most beautiful of all, he signed his letters with the following poem:
There is something heroic in the life of Merrick. He defied the occult forces who preyed upon him, and kept his soul in the process.
Merrick “whored” himself out because he had too. His deformity and chimeric nature was not welcomed or self imposed. The new man whores himself out because its trendy, they welcome the alchemical transformations of the transhumanist gospel with open arms. They wish to be elephants, they wish to renounce their humanity, to transmute themselves, voluntarily undergoing the alchemists experimentation. Change me! Rearrange me! Give me a dick! Give me a snout! I wish to be a man, now a woman, today a goat! Bestialize me, fuck me! I crave the atavistic gnosis of the Elephant! “He’s not here to frighten you, but to enlighten you!”
Eliphas Levi, could have just as easily substituted an elephant head for his rendering of Baphomet.
Maybe later I will describe the final stages of the Magnum Opus, the Rubedo phase and its relation to Chicago, and the fourth and final star of the flag.
But I will leave you with this.
There is much I left unsaid here, and you can break your back searching through the names and numbers to find that which I left only hinted at. But you would be missing the point.
Emulate Joseph Merrick, and not the Elephant Men walking the streets today.
When confronted with the gnosis of the bee hive, stay frightened and unenlightened, it’s the only way to react.
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“Egyptian priests, using a drop of ink for a mirror, undertook to reflect on the past for the purpose of sharing revelations to their devotees in return for offerings that were immediately consecrated. It seems that past events were considered to be matters to reflect upon as well as being a source of revenue. It has long been said that history repeats itself and that the past is a mirror of the future… Ancient Egyptians believed that the past and future had such a relationship, and that the present mirrored both, a belief that is associated with the double house of life myth. When the Egyptian priests reflected on the past, perhaps they were endeavoring to ascertain the future. However, it was generally believed that the future was best seen in a drop of wine.”
Were gonna win in the end anyways
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Yes, this is definitely a major milestone, looking forward to your piece describing the yellowing and reddening.
Incredible piece, among your best work I've read so far. Well done. Nice to see you've taken the Fr Seraphim pill.