'Black cloud will make double sun appear'

Next, the 'sun' appearing is symbolic of the successor to Pope John Paul II, because he is the 'pope of the solar eclipse' (JPII was born during a solar eclipse May 18, 1920...). [So] the 'sun appearing' would metaphorically refer to the pope who follows the 'eclipse pope', John Paul II.

But the line says there would be 'two' suns. When combined with the 'black cloud' part (which means unsuccessful vote), it's not that difficult to derive the meaning of the whole line; it would refer to a situation of 'pope vs. antipope'  (i.e. one elected or claiming to be pope in opposition to the pope canonically chosen).  And the indications are that those two 'popes' will be the last popes. At least there are no more popes after them in Malachy's prophetic list of popes.

The coming of the final pope resonates with the Etemenanki interpretation that Schwarzenegger may well become the final US president in the near future. What does this 'two suns' interpretation mean for upcoming election and the potential exit of the Pope? Well, for papacy it may be quite literal - i.e. an imperfect election creating a pope vs. anti-pope situation. For the US presidency... well, it's not difficult to see that we will have a messy election process since the Bush White House is not the type to go down quietly. The already illegitimate presidency will do almost anything for survival. It's a really scary situation.

What I will be closely monitoring in the coming weeks and months, however, is the possibility of the exit of Vice President of Dick Cheney, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and some/many of their neoconservative minions who were behind the deceptive push for the Iraq invasion. As you probably know, this is something I've been projecting for quite a long time now - Cheney since last summer ('03), and Rumsfeld since spring.

These guys would effectively represent the 'war chief' who is to be (metaphorically) 'hung with cord' as per Quatrain II-48. After all Cheney is the real 'president' making all key foreign policy decisions and Rumsfeld is the head of the US military (the Pentagon). Rumsfeld is particularly intriguing in that the 'pentagon' is closely related to a pentagram (five-pointed star) which in turn happens to be a traditional symbol for Venus-Sirius. And the 'war' aspect of the Pentagon relates to Mars the planet/god of war.

There are so many scandals/wrongdoings surrounding these 'chiefs' at this point that it's becoming difficult to figure out which one would be directly responsible for their fall. (It is indeed absolutely ridiculous that they still haven't been put in jail, and I'm not exaggerating.) But I continue to closely monitor the Plame (CIA operative) outing investigation (for Cheney et al) and the Iraq prison torture scandal (particularly Abu Ghraib) for Rumsfeld.

In terms of timing, we should pay attention to the fact that we are apparently about to have a 'life on Mars' announcement coming from the Paris COSPAR conference. The regular Etemenanki readers will recall that Cheney's potential exit and the issue of life on Mars have been closely linked together from the very beginning, as demonstrated in my article The West Wing Cipher (Sept. 29, '03). And the latest news stories/rumors coming out on the Plame leak matter are suggesting that the investigation is getting ready to announce its conclusions within the coming weeks... An at the same time, the 'dump Cheney' rumor has recently gone mainstream (mid-July).

We may be dealing with a similar timetable for the Rumsfeld/Pentagon case. As we all know, the shocking Abu Ghraib prisoner-abuse pictures that came out in April/May nearly brought the Bush administration to its knees. The scandal shattered the credibility of the United States in the eyes of the international community. Well, if you think it's no longer news, you're mistaken. The worst is yet to come on this horrific war-crime scandal. As the legendary journalist Seymour Hersh recently revealed at an ACLU convention, there is evidence - tapes - of Iraqi children being sodomized in US prisons there and this biggest story of the Iraq war has not yet been reported by the US mainstream news media. But when they do - and they will soon enough, they have to - this thing should prove quite deadly. We are talking bona fide war crimes here that almost certainly will be traced back to the highest leadership level. And I'd say Rumsfeld would rather quickly step down or be removed from his position. Hersh, along with others I'm sure, will be reporting on the story in the coming weeks...

To complicate the matter, however, it's uncomfortably likely that we'll have a 'shock & awe' event, perhaps even comparable in impact to 9/11, designed to distract people's attention away from the extremely damaging revelation...

At any rate, I have the following strange but thought-provoking stuff that will correlate the disturbing prisoner-abuse scandal issue with the 'two suns' prophetic theme.

Turns out, there is a site called 'Abu Ghurob' in Egypt occupying the northern region of Abusir known for its crude but almost Giza-like pyramid complex. The picture below shows Abusir pyramids with Giza pyramids seen in the background.

The name 'Abu Ghurob' caught my attention first because of its similarity to 'Abu Ghraib', i.e. the Iraq prison-abuse central. Then I was intrigued further  by the name 'Abusir' as it evoked 'abuser' as in 'prisoner-abuser'. It was almost as if I was detecting some kind of word-play 'game' set up just beneath the surface of the Abu Ghraib scandal.

Next, I found that Abu Ghurob is known primarily for its two 'Sun Temples'.

[In this illustration Abu Ghurob is spelt 'Abu Ghauob']

Two Sun temples... 'two Suns'. As implausible as all this was, my curiosity was definitely piqued. And it seemed the more I explored this angle the more 'coincidences' I would find, pulling me deeper in the rabbit hole... I'll be reporting on these findings along with other stuff in the near future.

Coincidence or not, synchronicity does usually seem to signify a 'nod'/'wink' from the 'reality matrix program', so for now I'll just state my view that Iraq prisoner abuse matter is indeed part of the 'script' signified by the 'two suns' theme and that I expect the 'war chief' like Rumsfeld responsible for the war crimes to be publicly 'hung' (so to speak).

It should be noted that the Abu-Ghraib torture scandal blew wide open and persisted during May, the 'Month of Mary'. May's traditional association with Mary derives from Tricesimum - Thirty Day Devotion to Mary (Lady Month) - which was originally observed from August 15 through September 14 as noted earlier. So this gives us more reason to suspect that the prison-abuse issue is to be 'echoed' in August/September, closely coinciding with the Olympics.

But for the more immediate future, we can look forward to the 'destined' winning of Tour de France by Lance Armstrong (and he's almost there). And here is something that directly links together the race/Lance and the star of the 'super ritual', Arnold Schwarzenegger. As 'Rick', an Etemenanki reader, has informed me, Arnie and Lance are already linked via last year's Tour. We learn:

Actor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who is following part of the Tour, returned the overall leader's yellow jersey to Armstrong when the 31-year-old Texan ascended the podium.

This meeting of the two champions took place last summer when Arnie's Terminator 3 film was in theaters and his rise in politics was just beginning in California...

Okay, let's see... Let me just note that tomorrow, July 22, is the Mary Magdalene day. Three days after that (July 25) comes the finale of Tour de France. July 30 coming after that will be Arnold's birthday which will coincide with the opening of the new film, The Manchurian Candidate, a story about a mind-controlled sleeper put into the White House (hmm...). And August 6 is of course an important Arnie/Paris/Antichristic day, followed closely by the opening of the Athens Olympics on August 13... etc. etc.

More later...

So I cannot help but infer that we're in for some event(s) comparable in impact or at least in concept to the Reagan [passing/funeral] ('Osirian resurrection' theme) around July 4. The window would be something like July 1 through July 7.

July 7 was significant in that it was a 'transposed' John the Baptist day (June 24) based on the fact that July 7 Gregorian (calender) corresponds to June 24 Julian. And the John Day was traditionally meant to mark the summer solstice (now ~June 21) which is historically inseparable from Sirius and the Osirian resurrection (= birth of Horus).

And the resurrection, signifying the rise of Horus, who is the son of Osiris and Isis-Sirius, has symbolically been embodied by the rise of Schwarzenegger since last summer - now one of the main themes tracked on this website. (See The LTC Part 2 for instance.) And just recently in June we witnessed a striking 'ritual' involving Arnold and Reagan's funeral that reinforced this notion.

It was this presidential funerary ritual that I pointed out as something that was about to be 'echoed' during the window of early July.

Near midnight on July 7 local time, i.e. the beginning of the transposed John the Baptist day, the president of Austria passed away. After I heard the news, I quickly posted a link in the 'New Watch' section as I could not help but smell symbolic 'echoes' in the event, even if subtle at the time. I noted that: 1) like Reagan, Thomas Klestil was the president, 2) Austria is Schwarzenegger's home country, and 3) Klestil himself was a friend of Arnold.

Then came the next development... Schwarzenegger was selected to go to Austria and represent the United States in Klestil's presidential funeral! And just like his last one in California for Reagan, Arnold received a lot of media attention there (~July 10).

This was a rather sneaky sequence of events since it wasn't given much media coverage in the United States. But if this wasn't an echo of the Reagan 'Osirian resurrection' ritual, I don't know what is!

A 'super ritual' was detected; it was closely examined; it was projected forward; and an anticipated 'echo' did come during the specified 'early July' window. This makes it harder to deny that the ritual pattern is... real.

There is much more to talk about regarding the 'super ritual'. It's still continuing as we speak - especially the Tour de France presently being held in France as discussed previously.

Stay tuned...

This year's Independence Day was the ultimate 'torch bearer' day especially since, as discussed previously, the summer solstice - June 21, calendrically analogous to July 4 - is when the Sun becomes the 'torch' held up by the celestial figure - Osiris - represented by the Orion constellation a la the Statue of Liberty (the symbol highlighted on Independence Day).

Further, this July 4th was immediately preceded by the arrival of Cassini at Saturn and the ISS spacewalk around July 1. Saturn is a version of Osiris, both being the 'once and future king' god. And the ISS (International Space Station) evokes the sister-wife of Osiris, 'ISIS', the Egyptian goddess par excellence who is interchangeable with Venus the 'torch/light bearer' star. Isis-Venus is embodied by Lady Liberty holding the torch of freedom.

And as we have already seen, this is all neatly incorporated into the 'super ritual' going on right now involving the Olympic torch presently being carried around the world before arriving in Athens, Greece in mid-August. Indeed, the torch on July 4/5 was at the city of Kiev, directly to the north of Giza/Cairo/Nile, thus was crossing the esoteric Meridian, mirroring Venus' meridian-crossing above.

This 'super ritual' was highlighted by the 'foreshadowing event' of 2004 discussed in Part 2 of The Lucifer Time Code - i.e. the symbolic 'Black Madonna'/'Lady Liberty' role-playing done by Janet Jackson and Beyonce Knowles during the Super Bowl earlier this year. For Beyonce, it was the singing of the national anthem at the event and her appearance in a Pepsi commercial that debuted during the game. The theme of the Pepsi ad was three rebellious female gladiators in a Greek-looking coliseum overthrowing a Caesar-like 'king'. So we now realize that the ad certainly included among other things an allusion to the upcoming Athens Olympic Games in Greece, the homeland of the big sporting event.

So is it just a coincidence that Greece just made big news on July 4th as its national soccer team won the European Championship in what is called 'one of the biggest upsets in soccer history'? This was quite clearly one of the ritualistic events leading up to the Olympics in Greece next month. As far as the year 2004 is concerned, 'all roads lead to Athens'...

As for the depicted fall of the 'king', it directly correlates to our long-running 'Babylon leader falling' theme. I'd particularly watch for the fall of Team Bush/Cheney and the Pope. It will be interesting see if this 'fall' will directly coincide with the period of the Olympics.

On July 4, '04, another big sporting event (officially) began - the Tour de France. Not only does France represent the land of Mary Magdalene/Black Madonna, a biblical version of Isis-Venus, the biggest bicycle racing event in the world traditionally ends in Paris, the city of Isis-Sirius ('Par-Isis'), which has the esoterically important Paris Zero Meridian! In fact, the race will end at the Champs Elysees - none other than the 'historic axis of Paris' that pinpoints 1) the 'Antichristic' sunset of August 6 (associated with Schwarzenegger) and 2) the rising of Sirius, the star of Isis. (See Part 1 of The LTC for more detail.) Oh, and in Greco-Roman mythology, 'Paris' is a figure whom the pregnant mother foresaw as... a torch!

It will be interesting to see if Lance Armstrong will win the race again on July 25 at the 'axis of Paris'. Certainly the name 'Lance' is fitting for instance as it evokes the 'Spear of Destiny' of St. Longinus. We've already discussed how the spear and the name 'Longinus' (=> longitude) relate to the Meridian. In light of the ongoing 'super ritual', I'd say Armstrong is 'destined' to become the champion.

Now, Paris also happens to be the site of the 35th COSPAR Scientific Assembly that will be held July 18 through 25, closely overlapping the Tour de France. The significance here is that the 'life on Mars' announcement I projected in the LTC series (and before that) may be realized to some extent there based on the interview Linda Howe did with Vittorio Formisano, Ph.D., Principal Investigator of Planetary Fourier Spectrometer (PFS) which detected methane in the Martian atmosphere. Based on the methane detection on Mars, he's getting ready to more or less declare that there is present life on the Red Planet. Here are excerpts from the interview:

BUT YOU ARE GETTING GOOD, SOLID DATA?

Absolutely, yes, and I hope in the future to be able to say something more.

DO YOU THINK THAT YOU WILL BE ABLE TO MAKE A REPORT ABOUT THIS INCREASINGLY SOLID DATA BEFORE SEPTEMBER?

I don't know. Possibly at COSPAR which is at the end of July in Paris." [...]

We agree with Dr. Mumma and Dr. Krasnopolsky on the average value of methane in the Martian atmosphere... [T]hanks to the spectral resolution sensitivity of the PFS instrument that I have produced, the data we are collecting are the best available to search for other molecules and to give an answer to the question that you were also raising previously.

WHICH IS?

Which is obviously the most important, interesting question: Is life present on Mars today?

WHAT IS YOUR GUESS?

You want me to give an answer now? I prefer to give an answer in September.

OR JULY IN PARIS?

Or July maybe, yes.

'Life on Mars', as expounded many times before, is symbolic of the 'birth of Horus' (Mars was 'Horus the Red' in ancient Egypt) which in turn signifies the 'resurrection of Osiris' - the biggest symbolic theme going in this '9/11' epoch. Indeed, the heliacal/dawn rising of Sirius - 'rebirth' of Isis - in ancient Egypt signaled the beginning of the annual inundation of the Nile, symbolizing the resurrection of Osiris/birth of Horus. So Paris, the city of Sirius-Isis, would be a very fitting place for the revelation of life on Mars.

And of course Mars is even very much part of the 'Meridian' symbolism. As I wrote on March 26 (also in The LTC Pt. 2):

...I saw the name of the area where [NASA's latest Mars rover] Opportunity landed - 'Meridiani Planum'. That is, 'Meridian Plane' - so called because the site is near the Prime Meridian, or longitude zero, of Mars! Very unexpected, but this certainly seems to confirm my symbolic interpretation regarding Longinus, i.e. the relevance of longitude zero/Prime Meridian/Rose Line.

It seems that this idea is subtly detectable in the logo of COSPAR conference. As you can see, there is a prominent vertical/meridional line and along which is written 'Paris, France' as if to allude to 'the Paris Meridian/Rose Line'. Curiously though, the line does not go through Pars; instead the 'meridian' together with a latitudinal line pinpoints... Israel.

It could have emphasized the Nile/Giza meridian nearby. After all, the esoteric Egyptian Prime Meridian is directly linked to the Osirian resurrection theme through the Sirius/Nile connection. (The Nile embodies Osiris.) We've detected the Martian meridian association, so why not a ritualistic allusion to the Nile here?

Well, the Nile has already been incorporated into the 'super ritual' in conjunction with the Reagan/Schwarzenegger event on June 11, as the torch traveled southward along the Nile just as Arnold was ritualistically receiving the 'torch of kingship' from the former president. (See LTC Pt. 2 for detail.) And as already mentioned, 'Paris' is mythologically analogous to 'torch'.

But there is more to the Paris-Nile link, a link that those not familiar with my Time River Theory may be finding strange - as the underlying 'Nile code' stuff is still a 'big secret', so much so that I'm practically the only one talking about it so far. In any case, turn out that the length of the Tour de France racing course going around France, ending in Paris, is 3390 km - which is very close to the latitudinal length of the Nile. Taking the Nile as flowing directly northward from the equator to 30°N latitude (which it essentially does), it can be calculated that the length between the river's two extreme latitudes (i.e. southernmost and northernmost points) is 3330 km (2050 miles)! The difference is mere 60 km (37 miles)... Coincidence? Maybe, maybe not. It warrants further examination...

So what's the relationship between Paris and Athens? Seemingly there should be one since both cities figure prominently in the 'super torch ritual'. Well, sure enough we find that the goddess 'Athena', from whom the name 'Athens' derives, is a version of Isis-Sirius! As Robert Bauval recently noted:

Minerva was, of course, the Athena of the Greeks. Both these goddess are traditionally associated to the more ancient goddess Neith of the Egyptians, and some scholars even suggesting that the name 'Neith' was the root for 'Athena'. But also in the Neith=Athena=Minerva equation comes the goddess Isis.

So both Paris and Athens are a 'city of Isis'!

As if this weren't enough, we find next that the scientific instruments/mission attached to NASA's Mars Exploration Rovers (Spirit and Opportunity) are collectively called... yes, Athena! And of course, Opportunity is at the Martian Meridian ('Meridiani Planum') to mirror the Paris Zero Meridian.

Finally, there was another significant event on July 4th last Saturday - the laying of the cornerstone for the 'Freedom Tower' at Ground Zero, the site of the WTC towers.

First of all, the notion of a 'tower' is inseparable from Mary Magdalene (= Isis-Venus) as the name/title 'Magdalene', as 'Magdala', denotes 'tower'. Secondly, the other building attacked on 9/11, the Pentagon, the five-sided structure, quite directly relates to the traditional symbol for Sirius-Venus, i.e. the five-pointed star. Thirdly, 2001 was the 225th year since the birth of the United States (1776) - '225' matches the orbital period (in earth days) of Venus around the Sun.

Curiously, the groundbreaking day for the construction of the Pentagon was September 11 (1941). And calendrically 'September 11' corresponds to the day of Sirius' heliacal rising signifying the resurrection of Osiris:

The date September 11 in the Gregorian calendar used today almost always coincides with the New Year's Day for the Ethiopian and Coptic or Christian-Egyptian calendars. The ancient Egyptian New Year's Day ('1st of Thoth') was originally set to mark the heliacal rising of Sirius which today takes place around August 6 Gregorian (as viewed from Giza/Cairo). So it can easily be said that August 6 is September 11!

At the time of ancient Egypt, the Sirius heliacal rising and New Year's Day also coincided with the summer solstice. Recall that July 4th is calendrically interchangeable with June 21, i.e. summer-solstice day!

Okay, so when was the groundbreaking day for the twin towers? The answer is: August 5, 1966. The date Aug. 5/6 is when the Sirius heliacal rising takes place today at Giza/Cairo! (Note that Aug. 5 US time largely overlaps Aug. 6 Egyptian time.)

As you can see, July 4th was a perfect day, in terms of the continuation of the symbolic pattern, for laying the cornerstone of the next incarnation of the 'Isis-Venus' tower. (Remember: Venus was crossing the Galactic Meridian on July 4', '04 very near Aldebaran, the 'torch-bearer' star.)

The Sirius/Isis-Venus connection is reinforced by the fact that the new Freedom Tower is designed to reflect the essence of the Statue of Liberty, the torch-holding Isis-Venus-Mary. We learn that:

The unique geometrical torque of the building's tower, located on the northwest corner of the site, gives the tower its asymmetrical form meant to evoke the Statue of Liberty. Its soaring offset spire echoes the profile of the Statue of Liberty's arm holding the Torch of Freedom, and the top of the spire, reaching to 1,776 feet, is symbolic of America's freedom and the signing of the Declaration of Independence.

So the beginning of the 'resurrection' of the twin towers on Independence Day this year signified the resurrection of Osiris (through the 'womb of Isis'). Horus, Osiris' son by Isis, is being born. This notion was also astronomically expressed by the Sun - embodying Horus the sun-god - being positioned right at the center of the constellation of Gemini, The Twin, on July 4th.

The catch here is that the Freedom Tower likely doesn't represent 'freedom' - but the very opposite... i.e. tyranny/oppression... or the establishment of the 'New World Order'. As you know, in the post-9/11 world, peace means war, patriotism means treason, etc. etc. Freedom would therefore mean enslavement.

This is where figures like Schwarzenegger - aka 'The Olympian' - come in. As I've been saying for nearly a year now, Arnold is a form of Horus and this was ritualistically demonstrated again recently on June 11 at the presidential funeral ceremony (see LTC Part 2). It should also be noted that Arnie played a genetically-engineered guy in the movie 'Twins'. (Shades of the Nazi 'superman'... Could this be literally true for Arnold?)

Schwarzenegger, along with the 'NWO Tower', is rising... The Tower is scheduled to be finished in 2008 - an election year in the US.

It may well be that the period around the Athens Olympics this summer/fall, emphasized by the 'super ritual', is to give rise to something dramatic that will pave the way for the further rise of 'The Olympian'. And chances are that it will involve in some way, if not directly, the US presidential election coming up in November. This year's election should probably be viewed as a key stepping stone set up for what's coming next. Bush is already old news. And Kerry might as well be. The next leader will only function as a temporary 'bridge'... between the old order and the coming new world order.

On Monday, 'Gary' gave me the following information in email:

The Sun will align along the meridian with Sirius on Thursday (July 1)...

His astronomical observations have proven useful before, as has this one. It opened up a path to a new string of significant 'signs'.

As explained in Part 2 of the Time Code series, the notion of a meridian (i.e. a longitudinal line) has emerged as a key part of the 'ritual' currently underway, symbolically linked to the 'foreshadowing event' represented by Janet Jackson's Super Bowl stunt earlier this year (Feb. 1). It has much to do with the recent Transit of Venus which coincided with the week-long funerary proceedings following Ronald Reagan's passing. The transit took place on June 8 at the edge of the Milky Way and very close to the Galactic Meridian (i.e. longitude 0°/180°).

Few days later on June 11 Venus actually crossed the Meridian, coinciding with the funeral/burying of Reagan down on earth which also simultaneously signaled the 'rise of Schwarzenegger'.

Thanks to Gary's observation, I have now found additionally that Venus' position in the galactic grid on the day of Reagan's demise, June 5, was also meaningfully aligned... with Sirius - an 'alter ego' of Venus (both embodying the Isis-Mary-Venus goddess complex). Sirius' galactic latitude is -8° 53' and that's exactly where Venus was found on June 5.

Now fast forward to July 1... today. Here is what we find:

• The Sun's galactic latitude, approximately 5 pm EDT July 1, is +8° 53', thus numerically matching Sirius' (-8° 53'). (The difference is Sirius is south of the galactic equator/Milky Way while the Sun is to the north.)

• The Sun at the same time is meridionally aligned with Sirius in the equatorial grid (RA 6h 45m).

Added to these are: 1) the original date for the so-called Iraq handover being June 30 (a day before July 1), 2) NASA's Cassini probe arriving at Saturn on July 1, 3) which is immediately preceded by a spacewalk by the ISS astronauts (International Space Station). Saturn is analogous to Osiris the god of the dead, who in turn was symbolically embodied by Reagan as discussed before. The ISS on the other hand would be 'Isis', the sister-wife of Osiris and the mother of Horus (embodied by Schwarzenegger). Not only do the names look and sound very close, the ISS is already symbolically intertwined with the Venus transit, as was pointed out at spaceweather.com:

SPACE STATION TRANSIT: Transits of Venus are rare, but this is unprecedented: The International Space Station (ISS) will cross the Sun four times during the 6-hour transit of Venus on June 8th. The double transit, Venus + the ISS, can only be seen from inside a narrow corridor about one mile wide. Four of these corridors criss-cross Europe, Africa and Asia.

So this tells me that the 'ritual' is continuing with the same underlying 'Lucifer' (Venus) themes. But it is July 4 or so that may see some unexpected fireworks. First, here is what I wrote in The LTC Part 2:

...Venus will be crossing the galactic meridian in early July again. (Venus is going back and forth in that region during this period.) The meridian crossing will occur on July 4 - Independence Day. This could be viewed as a key date especially when added that the crossing point's galactic latitude will be -19.5 degrees, an angle said to be the 'Holy Grail' message found geometrically encoded on the surface of Mars (Cydonia).

And here are further clues found since then:

• The Sun and Sirius will be meridionally aligned (104° 8') in the ecliptic grid the next day (July 5). [Not noted in the illustration.]

• Venus' crossing of the Galactic Meridian will take place very near the star Aldebaran, the brightest star of Taurus known as 'Bull's/God's Eye'. The star was also the 'Torch-Bearer' (according to Ptolemy) as well as the 'Messenger of Light' (Akkadian 'Dil-gan'). Aldebaran in other words can be viewed as an alter ego of Venus since Venus is traditionally Lucifer the 'light bearer'.

• Independence Day (July 4) would be most fittingly symbolized by the Statue of Liberty - which is a form of Isis-Mary-Venus and obviously a 'torch-bearer'!

And of course there is a Olympic torch currently going around the world and it was passing through Giza/Cairo on June 11 when Venus was crossing the Galactic Meridian and the day of Reagan's funeral, moving on southward along the Nile tracing the esoteric/ancient 'Prime Meridian'. Indeed the Nile has often been considered the terrestrial Milky Way (i.e. the galaxy). And as discussed in the LTC Part 2, the Olympic torch is a significant part of the 'ritual' and closely linked to the 'rise of Horus/'Antichrist'/Schwarzenegger'.

On July 4/5, in fact, the Olympic torch will be at Kiev, a city situated directly to the north of Giza/Cairo. (Those who have read The Time Rivers would know that Kiev is the 'transposed' Giza/Cairo.) In other words, the torch will again be marking the esoteric Prime Meridian.

What's more, the Athens Olympic Games itself, the destination of the torch, will begin on the 225th day of the year 2004 (August 13), designed to numerically match the orbital period of Venus which takes 225 earth-days.

Finally, July 4 is 13 days away from June 21, the summer-solstice day. As repeatedly stressed in the Time Code series, Sirius and summer solstice are calendrically inseparable: in ancient Egypt Sirius' heliacal rising coincided with midsummer, with the beginning of the annual Nile flood (symbolic of the Osirian resurrection), and marked the New Year. The Julian calendar had derived from this Sirius-based calendar system of ancient Egypt, and it is now 13 days behind the modern Gregorian calendar. This means July 4 is calendrically analogous to June 21/summer solstice! And it should also be noted that subtracting 13 days from June 21 gives us June 8, the very date of the Transit of Venus.

Notice that the position of the Sun on the summer solstice makes Orion, the constellation representing Osiris, look like the Statue of Liberty holding a bright torch (see image right).

So I cannot help but infer that we're in for some event(s) comparable in impact or at least in concept to the Reagan death ('Osirian resurrection' theme) around July 4. The window would be something like July 1 through July 7.

There is other stuff like Mars, Paris, etc.... but that's for later.

Robert Bauval Adds to The "9-11" Mystery

A few days ago writer and sometimes partner of Graham Hancock, Robert Bauval, posted a note on Hancock's web site concerning the September 11th attacks and the various "coincidences" around that date. Many of these we had already noted in our own story on the subject, "Who's the Enemy, Really?", but since Bauval added a few new twists to the tale, we decided to reprint the post and include a link to the original.

We have continued to watch with some amusement as Bauval and Hancock continue to parse words and dance around the obvious connections between various Masonic/Templar mysteries and many prominent modern day figures and events. They continue to deny the obvious, refusing to make the same kinds of connections in modern day events that they so willing assert into interpretations of ancient events and historical figures. It is our opinion that neither will ever truly figure out the truth of they have uncovered unless they are willing to think the unthinkable.

Still, some of these recent statements have added useful information to the debate, and for that reason we will continue to cite their work where it is applicable and encourage them to expand the basis of their belief systems.

C'mon guys, you're almost there ...

From: http://www.grahamhancock.com/phorum/read.php?f=1&i=75176&t=75176

SATAN’S CALLING CARD
SEPTEMBER 11: A DATE TO REMEMBER.
By Robert G. Bauval

Time and Place

Historical events are fixed by the time and place they occurred. And this, as we all know, is expressed in a calendar date and the name of location. On face value, this appears obvious enough. After all, I was born on the 5th March 1948 in the city of Alexandria, as officially recorded on my birth certificate. No discussion, period. Ah, but what about much earlier historical events such as, say, the famous battle of Kadesh between the army of Ramses II and the Hittites, as depicted on the pylon walls of the Rameseum near the city of Luxor in Upper Egypt? In this case there are as many ‘dates’ ranging from c.1280 BC to c. 1298 BC depending which textbook you pick up. Even the exact location of this battle is a matter of some contention, and there are disagreement as to whether the battle was a ‘victory’ or a ‘defeat disguised as a victory’ for Ramses II. But there is worse. When it comes to such popular historical events such as, for example, the Biblical Exodus, well, forget it. Historians can’t even agree if it happened at all, let alone give us an exact date or the exact route taken by the Jews. The problem with historical events such as these is that they are ‘dated’ i.e. recorded, on different calendar systems or by the ‘reigns’ of such and such a kings and suchlike methods, presenting a nightmarish confusion for the chronologist. As for the location’s name, that, too, is given in different languages often leading to totally wrong conclusions. Think of the Arc of the Covenant or Noah’s Ark and you’ll get the picture. There is, too, the possibility that certain locations are, in a sense, chosen for symbolic reasons. Think of the terrorist attacks on the US Embassies in Kenya and Tanzania in 1998, which were almost certainly masterminded by Ossama Bin Laden’s Al Qaeda organisation. In the minds of the terrorists these bombings were, of course, attacks on the ‘United States’ and thus, in a sense, projected elsewhere to geographical locations either arbitrarily or for strategic convenience. But wait, this surely does not apply to the 11th September attacks on American soil? These attacks were clearly aimed at the United States. Well, yes…and no. Let’s look at this more closely.

Firstly the 11th September of the year 2001 AD (Anno Domini) is based on the Gregorian calendar. For the Islamic calendar this date fell on the 23rd Jumaada Al Thani of the year 1422 A.H. (Anno Hegira); for the Ethiopian calendar it was the 1st Meskerem of the year 7501; in the Coptic (Christian Egyptian) calendar it was the 1st Thout of the year 1725, and according to the Jewish calendar it was the 23rd Elul of the year 5761. Confused? There’s more. The Ethiopian 1st Meskerem and the Coptic 1st Thout are the New Year’s Day for both these calendars. The Ethiopian and Coptic ‘New Year’, in fact, always fall on the 11th September of the Gregorian calendar (except on leap years, where an extra day is added). But check this. In the year 1999 of the Gregorian calendar, the “11th September” marked not only the Coptic and Ethiopian ‘New Year’ and also the Jewish New Year (which fell on 1st Tishri 5760). This is because the Jewish ‘New Year’, which is a bit like the Christian Easter, is not fixed by changes because of the complex way it is determined such as the sighting of the new moon and also that it must not fall on certain days of the week. The Jewish ‘New Year’ can fall anywhere between the first week of September and the first week of October and, statistically, more than often somewhere in the middle like, for example near or on 11th September. The historical roots of all these ancient calendars are to be found mostly in ancient Egyptian going as far back as 3000 BC. The ancient Egyptian civic calendar, probably established in the forth millennium BC, was made up of 12 months of 30 days with each month having 3 ‘weeks’ of ten days called Decans. But to keep up with the (approximate) solar year of 365 days, the Egyptians also added 5 extra or epagomenal days, known as the Birth of the Neters (divine principles or ‘gods’), which included the celebrated mythological couple, Osiris and Isis. The ‘Beginning of the Year’ or New Year’s Day of the Egyptians was marked by the first dawn rising of Sirius, a star sacred to the goddess Isis, which originally occurred on the day of the summer solstice i.e. on the 21st June Gregorian. This special day was called 1st day of the 1st month of Thoth. But because of the ¼ day difference as well as a small variance the sidereal year and the tropical year, this after all man-made calendar slowly ‘drifted’ away from both the heliacal rising of Sirius and the summer solstice, such that by the early Christian times the 1st of the month of Thoth had drifted to the 11th September Gregorian, which is why the Egyptian-Coptic ‘New Year’ i.e. 1st of Thoot, starts on that date.

Fine so far. But what does all this have to have with the 11th September attacks?

Peace Treaty

In September 1999 a long-awaited peace treaty, known as WYE II, was signed between the PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat and the Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak. The signature, which had taken place on the 4th September 1999 at the Egyptian Red Sea resort of Sham El Sheikh, was, in fact to become officially effective seven days later i.e. on the 11 September 1999. The actual wording on the Wye II treaty reads "This Memorandum will enter into force one week from the date of its signature. Made and signed in Sharm El Sheikh, this Fourth day of September 1999." The WYEE II agreement was so named because it followed the so-called Wye I negotiations that begun on the 9th and 10th September 1993 by an secret exchange of private letters between PLO chairman Yasser Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. These letters revealed that the two bitter enemies had, in fact, been engaged for many months in secret negotiations in Oslo, Norway. In Rabin's letter it is confirmed that the PLO, which so far had been unofficially represented in the Palestinian Delegation established under the so-called Madrid formula, was to be recognised by Israel as the only representative of the Palestinian people. Rabin's official recognition, which is dated 10th September 1993, came in reply to a letter from Arafat dated 9th September 1993, in which the PLO also recognised the State of Israel and further pledged to delete certain articles in the old PLO Charter which had denied the existence of Israel. These negotiations ended in the so-called ‘Declaration of Principles’ signed on the 13th September 1993, and finally led to the WYE II peace treaty that came into effect on the 11th September 1999. To many radical Islamic fundamentalists and, to be fair, to many radical Jewish fundamentalists, the peace treaty was seen as a terrible betrayal of the worse possible kind and it probably was the main cause of the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin in 1995. Not surprisingly, many regarded the date of “11th September” as the 'Day of Infamy' when their historical religious cause was finally sold out by Arafat and Barak. Ironically, this ‘Day of Infamy’ also happened to be in the year 1999, when the ‘New Year’ of the Jews and also the ‘New Year’ of the Egyptian Copts fell on the 11th September. The Jewish ‘New Year’ is generally known as Rosh Hashanah (which means ‘Beginning of the Year’), but itt is also called Yom Hadin (the Day of Judgement); Yom Hazikaron (the Day of Memorial) and is thought of as ‘The Day of Penitence’ when starts a period of ‘ten days of penitence’ leading to Yom Kippur (Passover) ‘The Day of Atonement’. But the Jewish ‘New Year’ has a much deeper meaning to orthodox Jews. It is associated to the Messianic Age, and many Jews today actually believe that it will be on that ‘Feast of Trumpets’ that their long awaited Messiah will come and make his appearance on the ‘Temple’ at Jerusalem. This day, it is said, will be the ‘ultimate redemption’ of Israel. Curiously, in recent years fundamental Christians have also associated the 11th September with the Second Coming of Christ, probably to conform with the ‘Rosh Hashanah’ Judaic prophecies but also, apparently, because some believe the true ‘star of Bethlehem’ appeared to the Magi on the 11th September 3 BC in the east, when a bright light was seen at the conjunction of the ‘star of kings’, Regulus, and the ‘planet of kings’, Jupiter, and when the sun, Venus and Mercury were in Virgo.

Pentagon, Pillars and the Temple of Jerusalem

Eerily, the date of September 11 is also actually incorporated in the construction history of the US Pentagon, one of the terrorists’ most coveted targets in 2001. Any self-respecting employees of the US Pentagon will quickly tell you these days that ‘ground breaking’ ceremony took place on 11th September 1941 during the presidency of Franklin D. Roosevelt. This ‘dual’ dating tag that is now forever locked in the annals of the US Pentagon is too much of a coincidence to be simply ignored. Could the terrorists have intended to draw attention to the year 1941 or, more specifically, to the year 1941 and something to do with President Roosevelt? But why? Let’s take a closer look. 1941 was, of course, the year that the US entered World War II. September 11, 2001 is an attempt to drawn the United States into a ‘World War III’. So far, there seems to be some ‘sense’ in making this link. But how does President Roosevelt himself fit in this ‘message’? What has Roosevelt got to do with the present PLO-Israeli conflict?

Roosevelt was sworn in on the 4th March 1933 as the 32nd President of the United States. Coincidence would have it that he was also a 32nd Degree Freemason of the Scottish Rite. His Vice-President was Harry Truman, who was a 33rd Degree Freemason. In 1945 Truman became America’s 33rd President. But so what? Surely these are just coincidences? Perhaps; but, perhaps they are not seen as ‘coincidences’ by Anti-Masons and religious fundamentalists in view of what these two man participated in ‘creating’: the modern State of Israel. In this respect, the “32nd and 33rd degrees’ bear a curious relevance to all this. Let us see why.

The Scottish Rite, which belongs to an elite branch of Freemasonry known as the Supreme Council of the 33rd Degree, was founded in 1801 at the city of Charleston in South Carolina. Its origins are obscure, but it is generally agreed by Masonic historians that it started in the 1740s in the city of Bordeaux, France and brought to the American Colonies soon after. The idea was to link the normal or ‘craft’ Freemasonry with the elitist medieval order of the Knights Templar, a powerful political and financial organisation that originally was formed to protect the Holy Land --and especially Jerusalem-- from the Muslims. The Knights Templar, in fact, got their evocative name from the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, where had once stood Solomon’s Temple, and where these Christian knights had established their first camp during the Crusades. Jerusalem had been wrenched from the Muslims in the 11th century AD, and was the ‘Kingdom of Jerusalem’ was placed under the protection the Christian knights, mostly Knights Templar, who had sworn solemn oath to protect it. But in 1187 AD the Holy Land was lost again to the Muslims, when the army of Saladin crushed a Knights Templar’s army at the battle of Hattin on the 4th July. The Kingdom of Jerusalem eventually surrendered to Saladin on the 2nd October 1187, and from this time onwards, it remained in Muslim hands until modern times. Not surprising then, the rituals of Scottish rite Freemasonry are Judeo-Christian and those of the top degrees between the 30th and the 33rd are intensely ‘Templar’ in as such as they advocate the symbolic ‘rebuilding’ of the Temple of Solomon. Today, where once stood this much-fantasised Temple of Solomon, are to be seen the Mosque of Omar and the Mosque of Al Aqsa, two very sacred Muslim shrines and where the Prophet Mohamad is beleived to have ascended to heaven. To put it mildly, the Temple Mound in Jerusalem is Islam’s most venerated place, some saying even more sacred than the Kaaba at Makka. By a terrible twist of fate it is also the most haloed place in Judeo-Christian tradition and, mostly, to neo-Templar secret societies such as the Scottish Rite. Central to the Scottish Rite rituals are the so-called Masonic ‘Tracing Boards’, which are usually cloths placed on the floor of the lodge on which can be seen symbols representing the Temple of Solomon, usually two tall pillars, called Jachin and Boaz, and in the centre a five-pointed star, pentagon known as the ‘Blazing Star’. The ‘Blazing Star’ is identified s ‘Lucifer’, but not in the malevolent sense that this name generally has today, but to the classical ‘Lucce-Ferre’ or ‘Morning Star’ of the Romans i.e. Venus, which in the Bible is associated to Messianic events. But it can easily be seen how, to terrorist groups such as Hamas and Al Qaeda, such and elitist and secret society in America might be perceived as ‘Satanic’, hence the crude name allocated by radical Arabs of ‘Great Satan’ to describing the United States and it leaders. But to be fair, all this is not altogether surprising. In 1881, for instance, a huge scam was mounted against the Scottish Rite Freemasons of Charleston by a French author called Leo Taxil, who ‘exposed’ the ‘Satanic’ rituals of this fraternity and named many senior politicians and clerics as being involved. The ‘Leo Taxil Hoax’, as it is know in Masonic circles, caused much bad press for the Masons, and brought a wave of anti-Masonic attacks from the general public and the Church. Now the 32 degree rituals of the Scottish Rite (the 33rd is a title an not a ritual) are said to be related to the 32 Paths of Wisdom of the Sephiroth or Tree of Life found in the Judeo-Christian Kabala. The Kabala is a mystical system of learning or initiation based on the idea that the Holy Scriptures, such as the Torah, the Talmud and the Old Testament, are somehow encoded in the ‘language of God’ the key of which (Kabala) was handed to Moses and passed on to the Jewish sages and Rabbis. Apparently the secrets of the Kabala are in the mystical understanding of the 22 letters of the Jewish alphabet. These letters, which are seen as ‘paths’ or ‘roads’, link up the 10 ‘emanations of God’ that make up the Sephiroth, and thus together make up the 32 Paths. The same idea, interestingly enough, is also found in the modern esoteric Tarot Cards which was invented by a Scottish Rite Freemason, Court de Gebelin. Even more interestingly, the 31th, 32nd and 33rd degrees, which are the most crucial to the ‘rebuilding’ of the Temple of Solomon, also are found in the actual geographical latitudes or parallels that encompass the modern State of Israel. The 32 parallel passes, in fact, just a little south of the city of Jerusalem. It has often been remarked that the ‘Mother Lodge’ of the Scottish rite Supreme Council of the 33rd Degree was fixed at the city of Charleston in South Carolina because the 33rd degree parallel passes almost right through it. Also on some certificates of the Scottish Rite 33rd degree, the actual geographical latitude in degrees of the issuing lodge is given alongside the name and location of the lodge, indicating some sort of mystical connection between this ritual and the geographical location of the lodge. One can easily see, therefore, how radical fundamentalists might perceive the creation of the State of Israel which was encouraged by F.D. Roosevelt and ‘recognised’ in the 14th May 1948 by Harry Truman.

Many ‘Founding Fathers’ of the United States were, in fact, Freemasons. A year after the signing of the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, 1776, Benjamin Franklin, the most famous of the signatories, was sent to Paris to obtain funds and military support for the American War of Independence against the British. Franklin, too, was a Freemason, and he immediately joined the famous and very influential Nine sisters Lodge in Paris. Also members of this lodge are said to have been the famous hero the marquis de Lafayette, the future US President Thomas Jefferson, and the future leaders of the French Revolution, Danton and Marat. Also at the Nine Sisters lodge were registered the inventor of the Tarot cards Court de Gebelin, the celebrated astronomer, Gerome de Lalande, and the mathematician, Gaspard Monge. Interestingly, the last two were largely responsible for the creation of a new ‘Republican’ calendar based on 12 months of 30 days, with each months divided into three ‘decanis’ or ‘weeks’ of ten day, giving a total of 360 days. Five extra days, known as the ‘5 days of virtues’, were then added to make up 365 days of the solar year. This calendar was almost certainly based on the ancient Egyptian prototype and was probably masterminded at the Nine Sisters lodge. It was at that time that Court de Gebelin made the link between the ‘Blazing Star’ of the Freemasons with the five-pointed star symbol of Sirius, the ‘star of Isis’ (on which the original ancient Egyptian calendar was based). More intriguing, Court de Gebelin identified this star to the Tarot card No. 17, known as ‘The Star’, which depicts a woman wearing a large star on her head. Court de Gebelin, as well as other scholars at the time, knew very that at the Egyptian calendar had originally been fixed on the first dawn rising of Sirius i.e. the ancient Egyptian ‘New Year’, which takes place at the summer solstice, 21 June on the Gregorian calendar. But at the time of Gebelin’s ‘discovery’, the Gregorian calendar had only recently been introduced to replace the old Julian calendar established by Julius Caesar in 46 BC. The conversion of the Julian calendar into the Gregorian calendar had, in fact, been imposed by Pope Gregory XII in 1582 but had not been adopted until 1752 in the American colonies. According to the old Julian calendar the 21 June was no longer the summer solstice but, instead, fell on the 4th July of the new Gregorian calendar. It was then customary during those early transitory years of the two calendars to include both the Julian and the Gregorian date on official documents. Interestingly, Freemasons consider their own ‘New Year’ to begin at the summer solstice, which in the old Julian calendar would be the ‘4th July’. Was the Declaration of Independence signed on that date for ‘Masonic’ reasons? Who knows.

Shangri La
It has been seriously suggested by the US Pentagon that one of the aborted targets of the 11th September 2001 attacks may have been Camp David, in Maryland. ‘Camp David’ is, to say the least, very evocative of ‘Camp Temple Solomon’ of the original Knights Templar. And to the Arabs ‘Camp David’ is, above all else, the place where the Egyptian President. Anwar Al Sadat, signed the first peace treaty with Israel with Prime Minister Menahim Begin on the 17th September 1978. The original name of Camp David was, in fact, Shangri La, and was first established by President F.D. Roosevelt in 1941-2. It was subsequently renamed ‘Camp David’ during the administration of President Eisenhower in 1953, apparently after his grandson, David Eisenhower. Camp David is the traditional place of retreat of US presidents since F.D. Roosevelt created the ‘camp’ and where many of had come to ‘see the whole world very clearly during times of conflict and strife.’ To Arab and especially Egyptian fundamentalists, however, Camp David is thought of as the place where Sadat ‘betrayed’ the Muslim people. So much was Sadat’s action vilified by the fundamentalists, that it caused him his life in 1981. Camp David was, quite obviously, a very hot target for 11th September terrorists.

But could there have been an undetected ‘fifth’ target other than the twin towers of the WTC, the Pentagon and the aborted Camp David targets? And if so, what would the terrorists have selected? Again, we must resort to the same symbolic ‘language’ made up from the strange Kabalistic-Judeo-Christian-Templar brew that appears to be the trade mark of the 11th September attacks.

The Woman with the Star

We have seen how the so-called 32 Paths or ‘degrees’ of enlightenment were associated with the ‘rebuilding’ of ‘Solomon’s Temple’ as well as with the idea of the Masonic ‘Blazing Star’ or pentagon. We have seen how this ‘star’ was also linked to the Egyptian five-pointed symbol of Sirius, especially in the Tarot card called the ‘Star’ and represented by a woman wearing a seven-pointed star on her head. Often the Kabalistic Sephiroth or Tree of Life, with it’s distinct 22 ‘paths’ and 10 ‘emanations’ is also shown next to the woman with the star. ‘The Star’ is card numbered 17 and is preceded by cards 16, known as ‘The Tower’, and then card 15 known as ‘The Devil’. ‘The Tower’ card, which is thus in the middle of this series, depicts a gruesome scene showing a very tall building whose top part has been struck by lightning and has caught fire, and with people falling off the building. Often next to this burning tower is shown the Sephiroth. Card 15, ‘The Devil’, shown the ‘goat of Mendes’ (Satan) fronted by a five-pointed star or pentagon. In view of the striking imagery of these series of Tarot cards to the actual targets of 11th September, as well as the connection of the Tarot to the Scottish Rite, we cannot be blamed to wonder if the terrorists had the Tarot in mind when they planned the attacks? For when we project these Tarot images on the actual geographical landscape of the 11th September attacks, we can easily identify two of the target areas: the ‘Tower’ with the WTC, and the ‘Pentagon’ (Devil), the latter the ‘Great Satan’ of the terrorists, with the US Pentagon. But if we are reading this grusome ‘message’ correctly, there should also be the ‘women with the star’ in this scheme, and more precisely somewhere on the ‘other side’ of the WTC towers. And when we look for her, there she is: the Statue of Liberty, a ‘women’ wearing a tiara or crown in the form of a ‘star’. Less known to the general public is that the cornerstone for the Statue of Liberty was placed in a solemn ceremony in 1884 organised by the Masonic lodges of New York. Again, if we are reading the ‘message’ correctly, there should be some association between the Statue of Liberty and the ‘Blazing Star’ or Tarot ‘Star’. We recall that the latter were identified to Sirius, the star sacred to the Egyptian goddess Isis. But how could there possibly be a connection with this Egyptian icon and the Statue of Liberty? Odd enough, there is. For the Statue of Liberty, which was designed by the French sculptor Bartholdi and actually built by the French Engineer, Gustave Eiffel (both well-known Freemasons), was not originally a ‘Statue of Liberty’ at all, but first planned by Bartholdi for the opening of the Suez Canal in Egypt in 1867. Bartholdi, like many French Freemasons of his time, was deeply steeped in ‘Egyptian’ rituals, and it has often been said that he conceived the original statue as an effigy of the goddess Isis, and only later converted it to a ‘Statue of Liberty’ for New York harbour when it was rejected for the Suez Canal. The ‘star’ on the head of the Statue of Liberty might, therefore, be seen as the star of Isis, Sirius, who rising marked the ‘New Year’ of the ancient Egyptian calender and which now had ‘drifted’ to the “11th September” of the Coptic-Egyptian calendar …and by a fluke of destiny to the ‘Date of Infamy’ of PLO-Israeli peace treaty when it coincided with the Jewish and Coptic ‘New Years’. Bearing in mind that Anwar Al Sadat was attempting to bring together the three major religion, Islam, Christianity (Copts) and Judaism, this date now takes a particular sinister meaning in the wake of the terrible 11th September attacks.

But could the terrorists have known all this? Mystical Kabala has been practiced by Muslim mystics for centuries. As for Knights Templar mysticism, these are said to have originally derived from the contact of the Christian knights with Muslim sages and Sufi mystics during the Crudades and even after. In short, for any self-respecting Muslim mystic like many found in organisation such as Al Qaeda, all this is, quite clearly, is kids’ stuff.

The question is: who’s talking to whom?…

Far fetched? But so was the 11th September attack.

Only ‘Time’ will tell.

Heliacal Rising (Wikipedia)