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Originally published 19 March, 2007
In These Signs Conquer by Ellis Taylor
“The purpose of this book is to explore the ways and means that human beings have been persuaded to believe deceptions about who we are, what we are and where we came from. We are not the ne’er do wells we are continually told we are. Evil is not a natural human trait. We are blessed beings otherwise we would not have been chosen to be the guardians of Creation’s most beautiful garden.”
Have you ever read a book that spoke to you in such a way that you weren’t so much reading it, but re-reading it? Having not ever encountered it before, it was strange that a book I’d never read seemed so familiar. I am lead to believe it is because the information imparted within comes from an ancient place. Researcher, writer, truth seeker, and seer Ellis Taylor reveals some very important information that has been long forgotten - until now. The subjects of numerology, symbolism, etymology, mythology, and cosmology are treated reverently, but not in a heavy or overbearing way. In fact, both while and after reading In These Signs Conquer, I felt a very serene, peaceful feeling settle deep within me. Again, this is something I haven’t often encountered with the written word. Taylor has turned in a masterful tome that will raise your spirit and enlighten your mind.
It is also interesting that throughout the book, Taylor describes a spiritual battle that continues to take place both within and all around us. This ancient occult blood feud is a meta-theme through which to view the world and its history. This journey takes the reader from the farthest reaches of our solar system to the deepest recesses of their own soul. Yet another distinctive feature of this book, and Taylor’s work in general, is that it does not come to any conclusions. He simply tells the story with the relevant facts without trying to convince. This tends to open up space for the reader to decide what, if anything, to believe. If nothing else, the information presented here is worthwhile because it is so thought provoking. I cannot recommend Ellis Taylor’s In These Signs Conquer: Revealing The Secret Signs An Age Has Obscured highly enough. Check it out and I think you’ll agree.
Ellis Taylor was kind enough to sit down for an interview about his book, work, and life. Considering just how phenomenal and rare this all is, you’re in for quite a treat. So settle back in your chair and get ready…
What is the main purpose and intention of your work?
These are actually much bigger questions than they appear to be at first and they are ones that I cannot answer fully at this time.
There have been several stages in my life where I thought, ‘Yes, this is it! This is what it has all been for and this is why I am here’ - only to discover that I had merely taken another step on a long, often hazardous and strange, journey. A journey that has encompassed many, many lifetimes, I should add. But then, I am not by any means unique in this. I think that every one of us have similar pass-ages, though with different purposes… and inevitably, experiences, of course.
It seems, if I understand correctly, that most souls’ assignments are designed to complete and converge at an ultimate juncture, predestined if you like, but not necessarily at the same time as every other. Of course, part of the responsibility of every soul is to inspire every other but amongst the souls who influence this reality some have a distinct responsibility to trigger in myriad ways the dormant (or suppressed) aptitudes that are present in every human being. It appears that I am one of the latter.
A significant truth that current convention does not understand yet is that we catalysts have by necessity a less retentive mind compared to everyone else. We are channels, fashioned to facilitate the free flow of information as it arrives. If we were to store everything we perceived the ensuing dam would prevent us from doing what we are equipped, and intended, to do. It is an important explanation for why seers et al rarely excel in school exams - and why they often decline or perform poorly when asked to conform to strictures or repeat data at a later date. In fact anything that may be considered materially valuable is a hindrance because along with that ownership comes responsibility for them, and a focus on that, and these concerns build their own dam. Having said that, Creation, in order to bring about some balance and sense, has recently been introducing new souls who are endowed with the ability to walk in both worlds more efficiently. I often see similarities with the state or progress of human consciousness and the advances of computer technology; an analogy can be made with the recent introduction of dual-core processors.
I have conscious recollections of a number of my past lives (and deaths). Not once have I died a natural death (from old age). I have been a priest (several times), a soldier, a prince (in Scotland), a student (in London), a white woman (in Africa) and many times I never survived my childhood. I had three lives in the 20th century including this one. Some of the details of my memories I have been able to verify to my satisfaction.
Something else that has always accompanied my incarnations is a propensity to slip between worlds and participate with the beings that inhabit them. It is rarely something I have made any conscious efforts to do. For me they just happen; and on occasions they have been downright terrifying - at the time that is. For some reason I recover from the trauma immediately but unfortunately my memories of them are scant. They told me once, ‘We do not understand why you are so frightened.’ Well, if they’d have been just lying in bed reading and strange beings came and launched them through a window and took them to God knows where then returned them with drawings and scars on their bodies and feeling like they’d been run over by a truck I think they’d understand. They do try to soothe me though, bless ‘em. ‘Peace. No harm,’ they’ll say.
I’m a natural medium as well and it is something that I feel I would like to do more of. No end of spirits have appeared to me with messages or sometimes just wanting me to tell whoever I am with that they are there. I love that. One of the really profound things about this for me is that they are usually immediately corroborated so provide both comfort and substantial proof of continued life after death.
These kinds of things are what give me my knowing, not my belief, in the afterlife and other worlds and entities. Their unequivocal reality inevitably enhances and informs my life, my perceptions, my understandings, my views, my research and my writing. There is so much that I just know but I can’t explain. So many things that I have always taken for granted and been surprised are not common knowledge. I have always talked about my experiences. It never occurred to me that they were unusual and it wasn’t until I started to go public in the media that I encountered any hostility. It pissed me off but not for long. Wisdom is never dictated to by ignorance.
So, after wandering away from the question perhaps, I suppose I could say that the main purpose and intention of my work is twofold but concurrent. They are to present fresh ideas to demonstrate how intricately linked we all are to everything else, to show what a truly awesome privilege this experience called ‘life’ is; and to reawaken our knowledge of how exceptionally gifted we humans are.
For the few - but encouragingly growing in number - who are astute enough to recognise the meanings in the often very deep messages I relay it hopefully inspires them to recognise their own connections. I unconsciously (and often intentionally) use vocabulary that can be understood at different levels; most all of them being relative to the subject. I think it is to impart more information than language alone can communicate. To efficiently understand what someone is saying (or not saying) it is vital to employ every sense we have while listening and/or watching them, or reading what they have to say.
It is encouraging for me when readers of my work tell me that they have felt obliged to reread something at a later date and having done that grasped a deeper and sometimes entirely different perspective than they had done the first time. I do acknowledge that nearly everything I write is inspired so for me to say ‘I wrote something’ or ‘my work’ is not entirely correct. I also accept that many people through past and present societal and personal environmental circumstances are sadly incapable of seeing at the moment. But then, that is the great thing about books. They have an enduring potential that the internet is unlikely to ever have and because of this their messages remain available for many years. The net is an alarmingly vulnerable medium.
I always aim to leave readers with questions and hopefully more than they had before they started. I do not consider it possible to provide answers to the meaning of life etc because there are none really, and certainly not ones that apply to everyone. There are only questions – quest-i-(am) on. The meaning of one’s life, even life, will always be a question. Life is the greatest mystery (my-story), so it is a personal journey and many aspects of it may, and will be specific and meaningful to one person or just one particular path.
For all those unfamiliar, would you please define Albion and its significance?
Albion is an anciently used name for the British Isles and although a Latin dub it derives from their word alba meaning ‘white’ and thus segues well with the earlier Celtic names such as Alba or Albany (Scotland) and Yr Alban (Wales), which also mean ‘white’. What ‘The Isles’ were known as prior to this is a mystery but there is an intriguing hint deemed to us.
A 2,500-year-old merchants’ book, the Massaliot Periplus used by traders from Phoenicia and Tartessus (in Iberia) calls Albion ‘Ierne’. Unfortunately the book exists no more but a Roman poet copied extracts from it in the 4th century. This ancient name accords very well with the remote name for Ireland – Eriu or Erin; a name that means ‘peace’.
Place names deriving from ‘white’ abound throughout ‘The Isles’ and together with the Welsh and Scottish names make a nonsense of the theory that Albion is named after the white cliffs of Dover. Clearly there must be a far more pervasive reason why the early occupants of these lands associated them with ‘white’. It is clear to everyone that the earliest inhabitants of ‘The Isles’ had an intense spiritual connection to their environment so I would suggest that rather than going for the bleedin’ obvious (the white cliffs of Dover) we instead examine what it is that the colour ‘white’ traditionally represents. White is associated with grace, spirituality, peace, reflection, nurturing, brightness, purity, virtue, and innocence. And then ‘white’ is not one colour at all but the sum of all of the colours in the visible spectrum. It is a description of the true Goddess, the hidden white of the inner light – intuition and imagination. It makes sense to me that the Ancients of these lands called out to the world, “The Goddess lives here!”
Throughout, the landscape, names and iconography of ‘The Isles’ are references to white, peace and very revealingly, the Goddess. She might go by various names but they are only descriptions of aspects of her character as the Ancients saw them or later lingual and cultural changes (mostly) by invading blow-ins. The name itself, is born from the great Goddess known variously as Bride, Brigit and Bridget. From this we get Britannia. Until recently Britannia graced the reverse of our penny coins, our coppers, a metal associated with the goddess Venus. This familiar portrayal of Britannia is intriguingly reminiscent of the shape of mainland Britain. Indeed the premier river of England, the Thames, is alternatively called ‘The Isis (I-siss, Venus). The Goddess, who she is and how she has been portrayed are major themes in my book, ‘In These Signs Conquer ~ Revealing the secret signs an Age has obscured’. And she is rising once more in the hearts and minds of humankind across the globe because now, more than we have for a very long time, we need Her. She is the natural counterbalance to the gross, materialistic view and agenda that currently assaults every facet of our lives.
This acknowledgement of the power of our Goddess, and the attendant devotion to what it is that she represents, has always been, and still is, wrought with danger. Only courage and a true heart will succeed. The Seige Perilous is unforgiving but it offers itself to us all. And, do you know, we can all take up that seat, we can do it. We, every one of us have it in us to be Galahad. (emphasis mine - OoP)
There have been many who have taken up the challenge and they include da Vinci and the even more remarkable (in my view) Francis Bacon. One person I haven’t mentioned much, but perhaps should have done more, was the visionary poet and artist William Blake who left us a wealth of clues to our travails, our heritage and our destiny. One line in his poem, ‘Jerusalem’ conveys this significant message:
‘All things begin and end in Albion’s ancient, Druid rocky shore’.
I have lived in or near Oxford for most of my life and from my observations it is now clear to me why this has been so. This ancient city built on books; to where the greatest minds amongst humankind (I don’t mean me in case you’re wondering) have been drawn and dispersed, for 800 years, is presumed to be the symbolic womb of the Earth. At Oxford the River Cherwell (Spring of Love) and The River Isis (Thames) meet and then flow down through London and into the North Sea between the counties of Essex and Kent. The latter county name, Kent, the Garden of England, being derived from the same root as (avert thine eyes if you can’t take the truth) cunt. And this is very telling because the mouth of the Thames is the vulva of the Goddess, the river itself is the birth canal and the swollen land mass of East Anglia, her belly. To cut a long story short, Oxford is deemed to be where the New Age will be conceived in an anciently conceived plan.
Long ago Carfax (meaning four ways – or the force of four) in the centre of Oxford was promoted as ‘the geographical centre of England’. This was because Merlin had said that Oxford was the centre of Albion but what he meant was that the lands upon which Oxford sits are the spiritual heart of Albion. In those days this was a landscape of marsh, islands and networks of streams – the mists of Albion, so sacred that no buildings were allowed. T’was here that Merlin told of two dragons that fought out of sight (under ground). Yet again he was misinterpreted over centuries of retelling. One was a white dragon and the other a red dragon. In the Welsh Mabinogion it is said that Llud discovered them under Carfax and took them back to Wales. But this teaching applied not to real creatures but to the white dragon of the Isles, the Goddess, to imagination and inspiration and the fateful assault by the red dragon of the Darkness, materiality, ego, greed and intellectualism. It was a prescient warning of the coming of the Piscean Age and what not only Oxford and Albion were to suffer (and apparently condone and nurture) but the world too. As Blake said, ‘All things begin and end in Albion’s ancient, Druid rocky shore’.
Your insights about numerology are astounding to me. Are these things obvious to you, do you have to work at it, or the process something altogether different?
Throughout my life I have had countless experiences that have not fitted with the decreed doctrine of reality. I’d always just taken them for granted, accepted them and not given them any deep consideration. This all changed in the early 90s when I had a Damascus moment which, looking back, catapulted me into the work I am doing now. Following this, instead of the steady stream of supernatural events I was used to I was all of a sudden engulfed in them. I was being made to recognise and appreciate true reality instead of wandering about in the somnambulist state I now recognise I was in. People came into my life, often in bizarre circumstances, and usually for a brief moment, who encouraged me to look into things that I’d given no attention to previously. One thing that happened was that I met a woman who started telling me, out of the blue, about numerology. She insisted on giving me two books on it. I took them home and read them. Immediately I could see that there was something to it so I began giving readings to friends and family. Everyone was impressed but I had a strong feeling that something was lacking, though I couldn’t put my finger on it at the time. Anyway, I carried on my studies and gradually new insights came to me. At the same time I studied the Tarot in depth, and spiritual healing and astrology to a degree, and later hypnotism. It dawned on me that in fact I was not learning these things but rather re-learning them. Veterans of all of these disciplines, who I met, were astounded at the insights and apparent knowledge that I had when they knew I was, to all intents and purposes, just a novice. Many of them came to me for private readings.
I found that I would awake after meditation, sleep, even day-dreaming with new information; not just applicable to numerological processes but to every facet of life. I applied these teachings to my life and my perceptions exploded into what I can only describe as a multidimensional view of possibilities that nevertheless exist within a designated structure. (It is very hard to describe something like this to the satisfaction of intellect. To understand it requires the innate multidimensional capabilities that we all have but rarely use.)
Eventually, through writing very often (I trance write really), I learnt that written language, the alphabet, is a darkly-designed mind-control system and this is why numerology works. Our letter and numerical systems actually curtail our subliminal abilities to transverse and interact with other realms. They clip our wings then. Numerology is a valuable device, and a valuable ally, if properly understood. The Science of Numbers, as it is also called, is a means of describing frequencies, vibrations and resonance as they are recorded in the sound, light and other impulses etc of a word, name and date. Numerology lifts the veil and reveals the real motives behind everything that occurs within the universe as it is recognised by humans. It is another remarkable clue to the extraordinary abilities we humans have always had because this science has been around for thousands of years.
Like so called supernatural events, esoteric knowledge is now being explained remarkably well by Quantum Science, much to the chagrin of the gatekeepers of Castle Darkness, posing as sceptics.
Please write a few words about “The Darkness,” as you call this Saturnian force, and how it affects us all. What is one way we can begin to fight it within ourselves?
The full title is The Darkness Invisible. It is a light that hides within light, a false light, one that poses as The Light. Rather than nourish us it feeds off us.
Long confused memories (or psychic information) had left traces in the mythology of our forebears of inter- solar and planetary activity that resulted in Saturn (‘the man’ in Genesis) being cast out of the garden and a new sun taking its place (‘The Adam’). To them it suggested that a New Age had begun, not an astrological Age but an etheric one - a change from one realm of existence to another. They viewed it, in accordance with their observations, as part of the eternal cycle of birth and rebirth; what once was will come again; and they feared this one. It was an Age that bore monsters, creatures that had terrorised humans. In fact some of them had developed into highly intelligent, though emotionless predators (though thankfully not all of them). Their time had come however and Creation had ordained that it was now humanity’s chance to see how they could better look after the Earth.
Because nothing ever dies but just moves over (and that goes for whole species too) the dinosaurs and their ilk did not become extinct and their consciousness continues. Most of them reside in another realm (dimension) now but occasionally though accident, dint or desire they are able to visit ours. What concerned our ancestors was that these former Lords of the Earth being the territorial beasts they are might still consider this planet their home and attempt to wrench it back. They weren’t wrong!
Although, especially throughout this now (thankfully) failing Church-suppressed Age, we have abandoned the authenticity of eternal cycles and reincarnation our earlier forebears were much wiser, and they were cautious of what might manifest or re-manifest. Reincarnation applies to everything and that includes environments both earthly and cosmological.
The planet Saturn became the symbol of this fearsome force both to those who feared it as well as those who cheered it.
Some thought it more prudent to appease this glowering pretender rather than ignore it and from amongst them, yet others, through psychic interaction probably, fully expect it to either return to our perception again or for themselves to be transported to that domain where they will be rewarded for keeping the faith. These are who I term the Dark Ones who (unfortunately for us) control this world and are forever seeking more ways to satiate the insatiable.
There are gates between dimensions that are accessed through frequency attunement. Everyone in early human cultures was aware of them but this knowledge was gradually ceded to the priests alone and after them, through conquest, torture, murder and chicanery, was restricted to a very small number of El-ites who continue to use them. With this, seemingly magical and certainly undetected (by nearly everyone) capability they are equipped to influence events and people in ways that seem impossible to the somnambulists that make up the vast majority of today’s human population. Every outrage they manufacture is food for the Beast - and kudos for the Dark Ones, they believe.
Through these gates too come the possessive entities that beset human beings who for one reason or another hold attraction for them.
What is one way we can begin to fight it within ourselves? Run for the hills man! And don’t look back! Nuh! Not really, I’ve tried that and it don’t work (pardon the Oxonian). This does though:
Remind yourself that YOU ARE INTENDED TO BE HERE and IT IS NOT. That is a confirmation of your spiritual integrity and your Creator-given right to free passage without hindrance. We are all on a divinely ordained mission. Any challenge to that is, by definition, evil (distorted ‘live’). With this realisation comes respect for every other inhabitant of our reality so we have to accept that we will not hinder any other’s passage either. Abuse of this comes in many guises from ownership of land to control of people’s thinking and anything else where one is the winner and someone else loses out. There is such a thing as fair exchange and there isn’t anything wrong with that.
Learn to discern the difference between instinct and intuition. Instinct is something that we have learnt through earthly and inherited experiences and is important as a mechanism that is designed to safeguard our personal and special physical survival. Intuition is the device whereby we are given ideas and insights, from the Great Unconscious, into the future and panoramic views of circumstances we have not experienced before. It is closely aligned to imagination which derives from the same source and enables us to travel into worlds outwith this physical one as well as into the Great Unconscious. Both are super-tools that we have been given and they are specifically designed to recognise and counteract subliminal attack and provide access to spiritual assistance. But, it is almost like ‘use them’ or ‘lose them’. Almost, but not really. Like any talent they require discipline and practice to get the best out of them. Contemplation, quiet, day-dreaming and meditation are the prime means by which we enhance these abilities.
Some of us do these things easily but for others this is not so. Being bound up in materialist, intellectual or physical tasks and desires tends to big-up the me, the ego, the intellect, which is an aspect of the conscious mind that likes to think it knows all there is to know. This is the target area of the Darkness which, once it takes hold it becomes visible as an inflated ego that can’t abide anything it has no experience of and insists that no one else should either. If people are caught up in this then please give yourselves a break, give the old intellect a holiday do something that requires YOUR imagination. It isn’t about having an open mind but rather flexible, fully functioning minds.
In an effort to balance, please describe “The Goddess” and how this force also affects us. What is one way to become more receptive to this energy?
Hopefully, I’ve already answered that one in the above. The Goddess is our imagination and intuition.
Would you please describe your relationship with Merlin and how being mentored aided your work?
Long, long ago I sat on a Scottish mountain precipice one night with Merlin and we watched a shooting star. He told me then that he was my brother and that the falling star was once our home. It was called Mininova, he told me. He seemed old then but he looks much older now. I thought ‘How can you be my brother?’ I seemed too young. I was but a boy.
Merlin has been around forever it seems. He is my teacher. He told me once that ‘Merlin’ means teacher. He has never said, as far as I can recall, that he is the Merlin of King Arthur legend but I like to think he might be. He looks like what we would expect him to look like – a lot like Gandalf in the Lord of the Rings films, as played by Sir Ian McKellen too. Mostly though, I never see his face but just feel his powerful presence. He can also materialise as someone who looks completely different. I have a long standing relationship with a being that has so much of the same demeanour and wisdom as Merlin that I suspect it is him. This being is about four feet, or so, tall. He has large black eyes, and a light brownish-fawn skin. His face and his torso (I seem to know - though I don’t remember seeing it) is composed of folds of skin running horizontally. He is always dressed in a white gown, with a hood which he sometimes leaves across his shoulders. He communicates with me telepathically.
My lessons with Merlin have been conducted over many lifetimes. In some he has been a physical presence and in others spectral where I am being encouraged to tune in psychically to see and hear him. He is stern but he has an impish sense of humour too. He enjoys word games.
Not once has he told me what to do he allows me to make my own mistakes and then wryly smiles at them. In other words, ‘You didn’t get that did you?’ It encourages me to be a little more attentive but he still gives me that smile often. One little joke of his is ‘the wheel isn’t the cart, neither is the axle but put both together and you are close to getting somewhere.’
Often he will give me answers rather than questions and then I have to discover the information trail leading from the answer to the question. Then there are times when I start writing something and without realising it I find myself jogging along on a different subject altogether until I realise. When I look over what I’ve written I think ‘Blimey! Did I write that!’ I see them as little gifts. They mean something to me and I can only hope they will have value to others too.
I find your ideas about Sion and the Moon rather compelling and original. This is a notable accomplishment in itself. Would you tell us briefly about Alcyon and the process you went through to arrive at this revelation?
Cor blimey! That’s a very difficult one because I really didn’t have much at all to do with it. It was one of those sessions that I describe in the above answer, whereby the information just flowed out and I followed it as best I could. Once I had it down I did all I could to support what I had been given and then presented it in my book. I have to admit that what came out blew me away. Hopefully in the not too distant future there will be confirmation for us all to see.
I also had several other supernatural events occur during the writing of the book that didn’t have anything to do with the content really. They were more affirmations of presence.
Alcyone is the brightest star in the Pleiades star system which is situated in the constellation of Taurus. It was considered by several ancient peoples to be the central sun of our galaxy and possibly because of this it represented the supreme deity. They may have had other reasons though.
Basically I was told that both Venus and our moon originated in this region. Venus is the serpent in the Old Testament and that it was instrumental in the reorganisation of our solar system. The moon, I was informed, is a hollowed out planetoid that journeyed from the Pleiades following (or during) a cataclysmic war and was set in its orbit around the Earth to replenish the Earth.
What is your opinion of the Saturnian moon Iapetus? IMO, the evidence seems to point to exactly what you’ve said about the Earth’s moon in terms of an artificial, or modified satellite. What role, if any, do you think Iapetus played in this pre-historical drama?
Yes, the Great Wall of Iapetus, for example. When I read about this, some time after the revelations regarding our moon I did wonder whether I had maybe confused information about Iapetus. Channelling information is always wrought with the possibility of error because the intellect is necessarily involved just through the act of manifesting the message. I’m as sure as I can be though that they are different, although of course the Iapetus moon anomalies came to light during the very same time I was writing the book. I suspect that Iapetus is another ship from the Pleiades but I haven’t looked into it. Maybe it is the one that was reported to have dogged our moon during its journey.
From my perspective, it seems we are approaching a fork in the road of humanity’s future. Would you agree, or do you think that our path has already been chosen?
I think we are at a juncture that is similar to what occurred to the dinosaurs as described in a previous answer. I can only relate something which I was told a number of years back during a meeting with otherworld beings. They told me that humanity will continue, the Earth will continue too but certain souls that are currently incarnate when the time comes (not far away they said) will be transferred to another realm, another version of Earth, to start anew. Meanwhile, back on the current Earth everything will carry on as normal. Even the souls who transferred will have an aspect still experiencing Earth life (in this dimension). Nobody will be aware of any change. Humans will be allowed to reap what they have sown.
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Regarding the occult, Freud wrote “if I were at the beginning rather than at the end of a scientific career … I might possibly choose just this field of research, in spite of all difficulties”.[1]
Continuing our theme of profiling famous occultists in history, we examine Dr. Sigmund Freud. He has been called one of the most influential thinkers in western civilization, and rightly so. He is the originator of, or contributor to, many concepts; including psycohanalysis, psycho-sexual development, philosophy and is widely recognized throughout popular culture. To say that Freud was an influential man, not only in his own time, but also from that time to the present day, would be an understatement. His ideas are recognized and taught throughout the world, at many levels of academia.
What is not as widely recognized is Freud’s great interest in the occult. Again, we see that a man who was a member of the elite in many respects, was not just a dabbler, but was completely immersed in the subject. Luckily for us, the legacy of his interest was documented to some degree.
Freud was fascinated by ancient civilizations. His collection of artifacts and relics was quite extensive, and later in his life, he refused to travel without his collection.[2] These items are said to have included:
“… more than 2,000 statues, vases, reliefs, busts, fragments of papyrus, rings, precious stones and prints. In Freud’s study at Berggasse 19, Vienna, every available surface was so crowded with antiquities that he barely had room to move.
“Despite Freud’s modest assertion that he was “no connoisseur in art but simply a layman”, his taste was precise and discerning, making his collection an intriguing catalogue of world civilisations where objects rare and sacred, useful and arcane, ravaged and lovely are on display: neolithic tools, delicate Sumerian seals, a great goddess of the middle bronze age, Egyptian mummy bandages inscribed with magical spells and stained with embalming ointment, superb Hellenistic statues, images of the sphinx, erotic Roman charms, luxurious Persian carpets and Chinese jade lions no bigger than a baby’s fist.”[3]
Pieces from Freud’s collection can be viewed at the Freud Museum and are quite marvelous.
Much of Freud’s theory about dream interpretation derived from his occult research. He also spent considerable effort investigating the phenomena of mental telepathy and thought transference.[4] He was also a practitioner of the Tarot. The implications of the connections between Tarot and psychology have been investigated by Dr. Arthur Rosengarten, who concludes that the Jungian school of thought is a better way to integrate the symbolism inherent in the two studies.[5]
Freud was a member of the Vienna lodge of the B’nai B’rith (Sons of the Covenant), which he joined in 1897. It has been written that this association comforted him greatly during his time of outcast over his theories of dream interpretation.[6] In 2004, there was even a new lodge in Paris dedicated and named after him.[7]
The ultimate achievement of Freud, the occult researcher, may have been his introduction of the theory that Moses was connected to Akhenaton, the Egyptian pharaoh. His book Moses and Monotheism brought this idea to the wider world. The theory has been picked up by many modern researchers including Michael Tsarion and Ahmed Osman, among others. This idea is so important because accepting its premise completely alters the understanding of biblical history and all that stems from it.
“Freud said that there were two subjects that always baffled him: the occult, and the identity of Shakespeare. Late in his life, he read about the Oxfordian view of Shakespeare, and became quite certain that Shakespeare was the pen name of the Earl of Oxford. But he never attained any certainty regarding the occult, though he did become more receptive to the occult in the latter part of his career. Ernest Jones describes Freud’s position on the occult as “an exquisite oscillation between skepticism and credulity so striking that it is possible to quote just as many pieces of evidence in support of his doubt concerning occult beliefs as of his adherence to them.”[8]
“It is wrong to regard Freud as a rationalist who rejected the occult outright; Freud listened to the arguments in favor of the occult, and he believed in the occult, at least partly. It should be remembered that Freud’s theory of life- and death-instincts, which looms large in his later work, is mystical rather than materialistic. Freud was a great thinker, a thinker willing to go beyond the visible world, and enter the realm of the invisible and the mysterious.”[9]
Perhaps “…the best explanation of why people believe in the occult was offered by Freud himself in ”Psychoanalysis and Telepathy.” He stated that this type of belief was an attempt to regain by supernatural means “the lost appeal of life on this earth.”[10][11]
[1] Burke, Janine. “Freud’s affair with pagan splendour”, The Age. http://www.theage.com.au/news/books/sigmunds-great-obsession/2006/09/28/1159337277484.html
[2] ibid.
[3] ibid.
[4] Drayer, Rebecca A. “Freud’s Studies of the Occult”. http://afgen.com/freud.html
[5] Rosengarten, Arthur E., PhD. “Tarot, Freud, and the Wise Doctor From Zurich”. http://www.artrosengarten.com/tarotfreud.htm
[6] http://mill-valley.freemasonry.biz/marin_bnai_brith.htm
[7] http://www.bnaibrith-europe.org/culture/CultureMain-us.html
[8] The Life and Work of Sigmund Freud, vol. 3, ch. 14, p. 375
[9] Hammond, James L. “Phlit: The Hermetic Tradition, Freud, etc.” http://www.ljhammond.com/phlit/2003-10b.htm
[10] Freud, Sigmund. “Psychoanalysis and Telepathy,” p. 57. (in Devereux, Psychoanalysis and the Occult.)
[11] Drayer, Rebecca A. “Freud’s Studies of the Occult”. http://afgen.com/freud.html
Other additional material used as a resource was ultimately published in the following book: Tsarion, Michael. “The Irish Origins of Civilization: Part 2″.
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Throughout history, the date of April 19 has been more than a bit significant. Just take a look at a few of the events that occurred on this date in the past:
The holidays are worth a look as well.
419 also refers to the well-known e-mail scam, whose origin is The Spanish Prisoner.
According to Pythagoreans, the numbers 1, 4, and 9 are square because if considered as a number of dots, each can be arranged in a square pattern. And when thinking of numerology, it seems only natural to think of qabala:
419. The Daughter of Mizaheb because She hath nourishment from the two Countenances (Chokmah and Binah, which are within Kether); and shineth with two colours–namely from ChSD, Chesed, Mercy; and from DIN, Din, Judgment.
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In the past year, there has been a virtual explosion in the field of eso-research on the internet. I include myself in these ranks as Occult of Personality 1.0 went live in October of 2006. This proliferation of new researchers and web sites has provided for growth of excellent resources, many of which I have highlighted, whether in written or audio format. While many of us may find this research and the conclusions it may lead to fascinating, there is far more significance to this then simply looking at current events through a Hermetic lens or reading about ancient civilizations and their rituals. Many people use derogatory labels in an attempt to sideline, minimize, and relegate our ideas to a dustbin, easily emptied when it gets too full.
That time is over.
Eso-research is shedding light on questions of the ultimate significance to mankind: What is the origin and nature of religion and theology? What is the origin of mankind? Are we alone in the universe? What, or who is God? Who, or what controls our future? And what kind of future do we want that to be? These are just a few of the major concepts being investigated and analysed in this endeavour. In light of the information being uncovered, I’d say that if nothing else, the underground stream has been located and we’ve entered its chilly depths. This stream has many, many tributaries - but its source is the same.
Whether the subject is geo-political intrigue, banking and economics, social planning, world history, entertainment, celebrities and pop culture, or religion and spirituality, the ancient Mystery schools and their ideas have had some (or a lot) of influence, in some way or another, on all of them. The analysis being presented via the internet is not only timely, but I believe it to be crucial to accurately understanding who we are and where we are going.
It is important to stress here that it is not enough to simply point out synchronicities in entertainment. If we are to progress consciously, I believe that we must uncover the greater meaning behind synchronicity for each of us. This involves using ancient and accepted occult methods for finding the deeper meaning of symbols and events. Qabalah (spell it however you like) is a good example of an ancient and accepted occult school of thought. From Qabalah, we derive Sacred Geometry, Tarot, and many other very old systems of knowledge. These ancient and accepted methods are that way because they resonate with Truth. This does not change from age to age, regardless of what some may believe. Truth is always true - it is ageless.
Of course, when this information is truly understood and assimilated, it will very likely shatter many beliefs or ideals that existed previously. In a way, this really must happen if we are to move forward beyond the state we’re in now. Although often disruptive and a shock, this can be necessary to jar one from complacency and contentedness. This underworld journey is a necessary one and must be recognized as such.
Almost everyone that is involved in this research, myself included, has been through something that caused them to question the world around them and stop accepting the ridiculous answers that are usually proffered to their questions. Once upon a time, I was lost in a world that made absolutely no sense whatsoever to me. The mists of illusion and deceit were thick enough to obscure the reasons for my wandering. The winds of wisdom blew away the mists and cleared my vision to allow me to understand much better what was going on around and within me. This transformation of consciousness only occurred with the help of others who have walked this path before. It is to them that I dedicate this work. It was occultist and alchemist Sir Isaac Newton who said, “If I have seen further it is by standing on ye shoulders of Giants.”
Can the world truly be improved by focusing on the problems that this research uncovers? Perhaps, but only after improving the inner world of our consciousness. The concept of “as above, so below” should be applied here in that as above in our consciousness, so below in our material world. I want to be clear that I am not implying that consciousness is the ultimate arbiter of our world, but it is such a huge factor that we ignore it at our peril. By choosing how we think, act, and react very thoughtfully we endeavour to create a harmonious outer existence that may match the inner. Conversely, being reckless and thoughtless can set up a discordian outer existence that might be very uncomfortable.
Ultimately, I can only hope that this proliferation of researchers and web sites is a reflection of a wider awakening among people all over the world. Much has been made of ideas about a cosmic consciousness and connections between us, perhaps observing the effects of this virtual explosion will provide more clues as to how this really functions. But more importantly, real changes in the way the world itself functions in all those ways that aren’t hidden from us will be the real test. As Ellis Taylor said, “Only courage and a true heart will succeed. The Seige Perilous is unforgiving but it offers itself to us all. And, do you know, we can all take up that seat, we can do it. We, every one of us have it in us to be Galahad.”
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