Transcribed by frizshizzle (edited/formatted by wakingup72 @ http://www.waronyou.com/forums)
Good evening, folks, and welcome once again to the Hour of the Time. I’m your host, William Cooper.
We continue where we left off last Friday night, February the 12th, and I want to quickly reiterate that what you're going to hear does not necessarily reflect my beliefs or my religion or the beliefs of the staff or management of WWCR, Worldwide Christian Radio. What you are hearing, folks, is for the first time in history the public revelation of the origin, the history, the dogma and the identity of those who operate in secret to bring about a worldwide totalitarian socialist government. They are known to Christians as Mystery Babylon. It is an ancient religion.
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[reading from That Old-Time Religion, by Jordan Maxwell]:
"The Sun enters each heavenly Sign or House of the Zodiac in what is called the 30th degree and leaves at the 33rd degree. Thus, God's Sun is said by the ancients to begin his ministry at 30 and dies at 33. [William Cooper: A Freemason is not told the truth of the object of his worship until he attains the 30th degree, and] This is why the highest degree in Freemasonry is the 33rd [degree] -- for no one can rise higher than the Sun!
"When viewing the shimmering rays of sunlight on a body of water at dawn or sunset, one can still see today how God's Sun 'walks on water.'
"It was well understood by ancient man that our weather was caused and controlled by the Sun. It was a simple fact that God's Sun had the power to control storms at will. The ancient Egyptians taught that He did this as He rested in His heavenly boat while crossing the sky. Thus, we read that God's Sun quieted the tempest, or great storm on the sea, while in His boat. [William Cooper: Which boat? The boat of Isis.]
"Ra, the sun-god, [also known as Osiris,] in the Barque of Millions of Years in which he transversed the heavens. He wears on his head, and accompanies, a vast sun-disk symbolizing his powers as lord of the heavens. The boat, formed of a serpent, bears his Eye; and the god is seated on a pedestal representing Mayet, the divine order.
"[Folks,] when we stop to realize that every single king, prince, lord, governor, dictator, despotic ruler, civil and social institution, national flag, coat of arms, educational institution, military medal, award, organizational insignia, medallion, badge, emblem, citation, trophy, banner, pendant, political standard or ensign, agency of government or religion, uses the Sun as a primary symbol, then it can truly be said [in the Mystery School] that God's Sun is...'King of Kings, and Lord of Lords.'
"Here we note another cleverly disguised part of the whole, [according to the Mystery School] misunderstood [and plagiarized] story."
[William Cooper]: For they believe that Christianity is a perversion of the mysteries and that’s why they hate Christians.
"In the ancient world, months were counted according to the phases of the moon. They were called the 'lunar months' on the 'lunar calendar.' [Now,] since Scorpio/the Scorpion is the astrological sign starting in late October, the first month of autumn, it follows that October/the Scorpion, with his deadly, back-biting 'tale', betrays the Sun in autumn, leading directly to His death in winter!"
[William Cooper]: ...and is known as Judas, and that’s where the October surprise comes from, and I’m telling you right now that Barbara Honegger was a plant.
"And the 30 pieces of silver were, as the North American Indians would say, 30 moons of silver needed for the month to 'betray' the Sun and cause His unhappy death!
"In relation to this, another interesting point: Factually speaking, when a person is bitten by a deadly scorpion the wound appears to be, or looks like, two human lips. The ancients called this 'The Kiss of Death!' This is why we read that Judas [or] (October) gives God's Sun 'the kiss' -- leading to His death in winter!"
[William Cooper]: ...and that is the original October surprise. There was an October surprise in France on Friday, October the 13th in the year 1307. Look it up, but in case you don’t, I will cover it extensively later.
"The next point to be made requires first, a little background. Christians have always referred to God as 'The Father.' But viewing God as a father didn't start here -- it goes back far into the ancient world. The reason is: [according to the Mystery Religion] Our planet was always viewed as our 'Mother Earth or Mother Nature.'"
[William Cooper]: ...and that's where all of this Mother Earth and Earth Goddess comes from in the New Age movement.
"And since rain (the life-bringing fluid [William Cooper: or the semen]), falling from heaven, impregnated and brought life to Mother Earth, it was therefore believed that our Father was in Heaven.
"All this life-bringing intercourse between God the Father and Mother Earth would be after a proper marriage ceremony at a spring wedding. In the area today called Israel, anciently called 'The Land of Canaan,' the (sexual/fertility) rites of spring were celebrated each year in what was called...'The Marriage Feast of Canaan.'
"And so the New Testament story was...Mother Earth asked God's Sun to draw water (from the sea) for the grapes to make fine wine for the wedding feast. [And] this marriage feast story is over 5000 years old -- 3000 years before the New Testament story...[And the mystery schools believe it is] Just one more case of pious plagiarism.
"[Now] it is at this point we need to go back to the ancient Egyptians to further understand [this story]. Though all of the essential pieces of the Christian story were long in existence before Egypt, [William Cooper: the only thing different, folks, is the names were changed to protect the innocent,] it was with the coming of the Pharaohs that the story was finally codified and became religious dogma. Though the story varied in some details from place to place in Egypt, the essence was always the same: God's Sun [spelled S-U-N]/our risen Savior was the 'Light of the World,' who gave His life for us."
[William Cooper]: Now remember, this is according to the belief of the Mystery Religion of Babylon.
"From the Egyptian records we learn that the new born Sun, Horus, was given the title 'The Logos,' which means 'The Word.' Egyptians further said 'The Word' was made flesh and dwelt among us. And since we enjoy only one Sun in heaven, He was said to be 'The Only Begotten' (of the Father)."
[William Cooper]: The word was lost and that story is told in the Osirian cycle of Isis, Osiris and the child Horus, and you will learn that the symbol of the word today is the obelisk, the monolith, the stone. It is also called the Lost Word of Freemasonry, and I will explain the meaning of all of those things later.
"Another interesting point not to be missed concerning Horus: Later in Egyptian history He was given a second name -- Iesos, or Iesus, meaning 'holder of the light.' Still later, in Roman Latin, 'I' became interchangeable with 'J.' So from Iesus, we get Jesus.
"All of this can be read by anyone in a public library!! [William Cooper: If you so desire.]
"In ancient Egypt it was said that if you wanted to follow the life of God's Sun and thereby 'live in the light of God's Word' [or] (Logos), one would first have to leave his old ways of life to 'Follow the Sun [faced to the east].' But before beginning this new life in 'The Word,' one must die to the old way of life and be 'BORN AGAIN.'"
[William Cooper]: George Bush, when asked at a press conference by a reporter if he was a Christian, Mr. Bush said this: "If you’re asking if I have been born again, the answer is yes."
"Your first birth was 'out of the water' your mother formed you in. Because her water broke and your new life began, rebirth is symbolized by coming out of total immersion in water -- [or] baptism -- or being born again.
"These points here mentioned are just some of hundreds, if not thousands, of direct connections that can be made between the Judaic-Christian Bible Story and the far more ancient, original Story. [The] purpose for drawing your attention to this literary plagiarism [William Cooper: according to the Mystery School; this is what they believe,] is best stated by Alfred North Whitehead who said, 'No lie can live forever.'"
[William Cooper]: They hate Christians; they hate Christianity, and the first object is to destroy the Christian church and Christians, to wipe them off the face of the earth. If you are a Christian, you are in the greatest danger that you can even imagine at this moment as the New World Order takes shape around you.
"...Egyptologist Gerald Massey [said], 'They must find it difficult, those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority.'
"[And now] for a few thoughts on the 'Old Testament' Word of God..."
[William Cooper]: ...according again to the Mystery Religion. Remember, I am revealing the secrets of the Mystery Religion of Babylon during this broadcast.
"At Malachi 4:2 the God of Heaven is described as the 'SUN of Righteousness with healing in His wings [William Cooper: and it is spelled S-U-N]. The Sun with healing in His wings?? [Then in] the New Testament at [Matthew] 23:37 and Luke 13:34 we see God's Sun wanting to gather all under 'His wings.' This is most appropriate for, in Egypt, the Sun was always pictured with His wings."
[William Cooper]: ...and you see a disk with wings. Now, all these pitiful little twits running around calling themselves ufologists and Zecharia Sitchin, who has perverted the interpretation of the ancient writings, claims that this means that the Egyptians -- whenever they drew these, or put these hieroglyphics in their writings -- were indicating that UFOs came from other planets, and nothing could be farther from the truth. But this is part of the Mystery Babylon deception trying to convince the people of the earth that we are threatened by some other species from some other planet so that they can more quickly bring about their New World Order, their one-world totalitarian socialist government. Don't fall for it, folks. I have found that most of these people involved with the so-called "UFO research," who are trying to convince you of this, are Freemasons. Most of them, 32nd degree of the Scottish Rite. And evidently they are attempting to do their best toward the furtherance of the Great Work in order to attain the 33rd degree, which can only be attained by meritorious work to bring about the completion of the Great Work, which is the destruction of the church, the state and the enslavement of the mob, which is all of us. I hope you hear me out there.
"In the most ancient Egyptian understanding of things, mankind was called 'the sheep of God.' And the great Orb of Day, God's Sun, was the overseer or, in the exact words from the ancient Egyptian manuscript, 'The Good Shepherd' -- and we are His flock. All ancient kings thought of their people as sheep to be pastured, with themselves as 'the shepherd.' Sheep are ideal followers, you see, for they do not think for themselves but will blindly follow anyone without question [William Cooper: and that is why I call most people 'sheeple']. [It's truly] admirable behavior for animals, but [it is very, very] unwise for humans. Sheep were born to be fleeced, and have 'the wool pulled over their eyes.'"
[William Cooper]: ...and are eventually always led to the slaughter.] Lastly, they end up as a tasty meal, eaten by their masters [William Cooper: and their skin, or their hide or their wool, is worn as an apron around a Freemason’s waist. (laughs) How about that?
"[Keep] all of the foregoing in mind, [folks,] we read again from the Old Testament Book of Psalms. At Psalms 23:4 we read that old, dog-eared, tired exhausted and equally misunderstood chestnut [according to the Mystery Schools], used by every 'man of the cloth' to put the sheep to sleep, we quote it here: 'Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for thou art with me. Thy Rod and thy Staff, they comfort me.' 'Thy Rod and thy Staff'!!??
"Here in the Book of Psalms the Old Testament God is pictured with His...Rod and Staff.
"The rod here mentioned is the king's 'Rod of Discipline.' And the staff is the 'Shepherd's Staff,' or crook. Now for the correct understanding of this old verse. Any good library book on the Egyptian religion will tell you that the ancient Pharaohs were said to be ruling for God's Sun [spelled S-U-N] on Earth. He was called 'King of the Kingdom' and 'The Great Shepherd of His Sheep.' In the hands of the Pharaoh/God (who's arms form the 'sign of the cross' on his chest), were placed the royal symbols of heavenly power...the Rod [William Cooper: which was a flail] and [the] Staff."
[William Cooper]: The rod was used to beat those who were disobedient and the staff, with the crook, was used to herd the sheep.
"Incidentally, Jesus is pictured not only with His shepherd's staff but, at [Revelation] 12:5 & [Revelation] 19:15, is also said to...'rule with a rod of iron.'"
[William Cooper]: And I have pictures here of all of this. You can’t see it, but you can go to the library and find this stuff. Our research has been thorough and we have managed to place members of CAJI within the Masonic lodges and we have verified everything that we are telling you now. We have infiltrated the lodge.
"In [Jeremiah] 18:2-6 and [Isaiah] 64:8 we see the God of the Old Testament portrayed in a different way. Here He is said to be The 'Great Potter' who fashions man on a potter's wheel. All Mighty God...The Great Potter??"
[William Cooper]: In Jeremiah 18, let me read to you what it says: "The word which came to Jeremiah from the Lord, saying, 'Arise, and go down to the potter's house, and there I will cause thee to hear my words.' Then I went down to the potter's house, and, behold, he wrought a work on the wheels. And the vessel that he made of the clay was marred in the hand of the potter: so he made it again another vessel, as seemed good to the potter to make it. Then the word of the Lord came to me, saying, O house of Israel, cannot I do with you as this potter? saith the Lord. Behold, as the clay is in the potter's hand, so are ye in mine hand, O house of Israel."
[William Cooper]: In Isaiah 64: "But now, O Lord, thou art our father; we are the clay, and thou our potter; and we all are the work of thy hand." The potter story was Egyptian, 1000 years before it was written by the writers of the Bible, and I have a picture here taken from Egyptian hieroglyphics, and you can find this in a book called, The African Belief in God. It shows the hieroglyphics taken right of the Egyptian temples and it shows the god Khnemu fashioning the body of one of Ptolemies on his potter's wheel. And here is another picture: the god Khnemu fashioning a Man upon a "Potter's Table," [and] behind him stands Thoth marking his Span of Life [on a staff].
"In Egypt, God's Risen Sun was Horus. At 12 noon he became the 'Most High.' In this exalted position, He became the mediator between God and man. His name was Amen-Ra. Ra = ray (of the sun). His shepherds on Earth were called 'Priests of Amen.' They would direct their prayers to the invisible God -- The Father -- through His mediator, Amen-Ra. [And] God's Sun was 'The Great Amen' with His Rays. In the New Testament He -- The Sun -- is still called (at 2 [Corinthians] 1:20 & [Revelation] 1:7 & [Revelations] 3:14) 'THE AMEN.' At the end of prayers in the temples of Egypt they would say 'Amen.'"
[William Cooper]: How does that grab you? Now look at the word Israel. I-S (Isis), R-A (Ra), EL (God). It is the androgynous God, and it’s been in front of your eyes all the time...all the time, folks. Anyone who goes to any library and does the research that we have done can reveal that the religion of Mystery Babylon is exactly as I have stated it last Friday night and during this broadcast, and will continue to state it because there is a lot more, folks. We have, in fact, not even yet begun, for this is only the ancient portion, the beginning of the ancient worship of Baal. Or 'Bay-yel' as some pronounce it. Ba was the Sun, al means God.
[William Cooper]: And that was the beginning of the end of our civilization as we know it if we do not wake up now. I firmly believe and I live my life according to this: that I owe my first allegiance to my God and Jesus Christ, my second allegiance I owe to the Constitution of the United States of America and my third allegiance to my family. And the reason my allegiance is in that order is because God endowed man with unalienable rights. The Constitution protects those rights, and the family is thus able to survive and be protected and thrive. And the family is the basic unit of civilization, period. And I further believe that any man or woman without principles that they are ready and willing to die for at any given moment that they are called upon to do it, are already dead and are of no use or consequence to anyone -- not even themselves. Understand what I just said. I have to take a short break, folks. Don’t go away. I’ll be right back after this short pause.
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[reading from Freemasonry of the Ancient Egyptians, by Manly P. Hall]:
"Isis was the patroness of the magical arts among the Egyptians. The use to which magic should be put is revealed in the Osirian cycle where Isis applies the most potent of her charms and invocations to accomplish the resurrection of Osiris. In other words, the redemption of the human soul. That the gods of Egypt were elements of a profound magical system and possessed a significance far different from that advanced by modern Egyptologists is certain. The various deities of the Nile valley were elements of an elaborate magical metaphysical system, a kind of ceremonial Cabbala. This cannot be denied. But even when impressed with the reality of this fact, the modern Egyptologist still balks. “Supposing,” he asks, “that the Egyptians did possess an elaborate metaphysical doctrine? Of what value is its rediscovery in an age when the natural has been demonstrated to be mediocre and the supernatural non-existent? Even if these extinct persons whose mummies clutter up our museums were the custodians of some mysterious lore, we have simply out grown it. Let the dead pass bury its dead [William Cooper: they say]. We prefer to live in an era of enlightenment, an enlightenment which you would blight by asking us to espouse the superstitions of our remote ancestors.
"These so-called superstitions, however, it is interesting to note, die hard. In fact they do not die at all, but insinuate themselves as a discordant note in our matter-of-fact existences. McCall’s magazine published some time ago an article by Edgar Wallace entitled The Curse of Amen-Ra, dealing with the phenomena attendant upon the opening of the tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamen. After vividly describing the curse of Amen-Ra the author sums up the effect of this curse upon those who came in contact with the tomb or its contents. His statements are in substance as follows: At the time the tomb was opened the party present at the excavations included the Earl of Carnarvon, Howard Carter and his secretary, Dick Bethel, M. Benedite the French archaeologist, and M. Pasanova. Of these, only one, Howard Carter, remains alive. [William Cooper: Now, that was at the time of the article.] Colonel Aubrey Herbert, Carnarvon's half-brother, and Evelyn-White who also entered the tomb were both dead within a year, one by suicide. Sir Archibald Douglas Reed, the radiologist who took an X-Ray of the mummy, was also dead within twelve months; and Professor Laffleur of McGill university, the first American scientist to examine the death chamber, did not leave Luxor alive. Woolf Joel visited the tomb and was dead within a year. Jay Gould was taken ill within the tomb and died. Attendants whose duty it was to look after the exhibit from the tomb in Cairo Museum also sickened and died. Seven French authors and journalists visited the tomb and six were dead within two years. When they unveiled Tutankhamen they found a mark upon his face, and by a strange coincidence (?) the mark left upon the face of Lord Carnarvon, which presumably caused his death, was in exactly the same spot and of similar appearance. Nor does this list include the numerous native workmen who perished from the curse. Only recently another name was added to the long list associated with the tragedy. Arthur Weigall, after a long and mysterious illness similar to that defined in the curse, is the most recent victim. The eminent authority on antiquities, Dr. Mardus, said, 'The Egyptians for seven thousand years possessed the secret of surrounding their mummies with some dynamic force of which we have only the faintest idea.'
"Over the entrance to the tomb of Tutankhamen was a magical tablet inscribed with strange hieroglyphics. Dr. Mardus named this tablet the 'Stela of Malediction,' for it pronounced a fearful curse upon any sacrilegious person who might violate the sanctuary of the deified head [William Cooper: and it was called the stele]. The words upon the stela were as follows: 'Oh ye Beings from Above, Oh ye Beings from Below! Phantoms riding the breasts of men, ye of the crossroads and of the great highways, wanderers beneath the shade of night! And ye from the Abysses of the West, on the fringes of the Twilight, dwellers in the caverns of obscurity, who rouse terrors and shuddering: and ye, walkers by night whom I will not name, friends of the Moon; and ye intangible inhabitants of the world of night, Oh People, Oh Denizens of the Tombs, all of you approach and be my witnesses and my respondents! Let the hand raised against my form be withered! Let them be destroyed who attack my name, my foundation, my effigies, the images like unto me.'
"Can modern Egyptologists and scientists and all branches and departments view likely the culture of the Egyptians if their researches into the forces of nature gave them such strange power and enabled them to master natural laws of which modern learning has no knowledge or conception?"
[William Cooper]: Did you know that Lars Hansen was reared in The Stelle Group? Did you know that a very famous talk show host who covers for the Masons all the time was a member? Also was heavily involved with the Communist party? Did you know these things? Do you ever bother to check, you who listen to these people and believe them blindly, you, the sheeple of the world?
"Circumstances so extraordinary is the curse of King Tutankhamen simply overtax the theory of mere coincidence [folks]. Nor is this an isolated case as those will remember who read the accounts of the Cleopatra mummy curse many years ago. It will also be noted that in this age of moral certitudes the story of the Tutankhamen curse had no sooner been broadcast than several of our large museums were deluged by gifts of Egyptian antiquities from private individuals who no longer desired to own them. And these, persons most of them well educated (as modern education goes), were not superstitious -- they were just careful.
"The following article appeared in an English newspaper in 1923: 'The death of Lord Carnarvon has been followed by a panic among collectors of Egyptian antiquities. All over the country people are sending their treasures to the British Museum, anxious to get rid of them because of the superstition that Lord Carnarvon was killed by the 'ka' or double of the soul of Tutankhamen. These fears are, it is hardly necessary to state, absolutely groundless.'
"It’s also hardly necessary [folks] to add that the journalist fails to give his authority for the last sentence. The newspaper article continues:
"'An avalanche of parcels containing mummies' shriveled hands and feet, porcelain and wooden statuettes and other relics of the ancient tombs descended this week on the British Museum. Fear inspires these gifts, brought by every post. The belief that a dead king's curse is potent for evil after thousands of years won thousands of adherents on the day when Lord Carnarvon became ill. *** Few of the parcels received at the museum bear the sender's name. The owners, in their eagerness to wash their hands of the accursed things, have tried to keep their identity secret. *** The British Museum is a godsend to the superstitious. It offers a means of shifting the liability to expert shoulders. The museum authorities are used to such liabilities, having harbored the coffin lid of the powerful priestess of Amen-Ra for years, but they are not at all grateful for the present flood of gifts. The museum weathered a similar storm some years ago when the story of the curse of the priestess of Amen-Ra became public. Sufficient scare gifts were received to fill a large showcase. A long chain of fatalities has been attributed to the curse of the priestess. Men who have made fun of the superstitious have died within the year. Another story is that a photographer took pictures of the priestess and placed the plates in his safe. When he went to look at them some weeks later, the glass had become a thin brown powder.'
"[Now,] let us consider the 'rational' explanations, so-called, adduced by science in disposing of the superstition of the king's curse. Dr. Frederick H. Cowles, F.R.G.S., famous British scientist, declared in an interview...years ago that Lord Carnarvon and a number of workmen engaged in excavation met their deaths as the result of a poisonous and almost invisible dust placed there purposely by the wily priests to bring destruction upon the violators of the dead. 'This poisonous dust,' says Doctor Cowles, 'analysis of which has baffled scientists, was scattered about the tomb. *** Lord Carnarvon was not the only to note its fatal property, as a number of workmen engaged in the excavation were likewise stricken. Most of these died a lingering death, but others, greatly impaired in health have recovered.' There is nothing in the learned doctor’s explanation, however, to account for the fact that Howard Carter did not chance to breathe any of the noxious vapors, although he was more steadily engaged in the work of excavation then even Lord Carnarvon. [It’s also questioned] how much science actually knows about this mysterious dust which defies analysis, for if it cannot be analyzed how can it be either identified with certainty or even proved poisonous. The term 'poisonous dust' is evidently the charitable term that covers a multitude of scientific shortcomings."
[William Cooper]: Several years later there was another revelation: that they were stricken with some virus that inhabits ancient tombs, and who knows what the real story is.
"Though sorcery has been accorded no official recognition by modern science, there is, nevertheless, a certain quasi-official acceptance of the reality of occult phenomena through out the civilized world. In a newspaper interview Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle illustrates the wide-spread recognition of the idea that the Egyptians knew how to surround their dead with mysterious guardian agencies which throughout the centuries visited their vengeance upon grave-robbers, scientific or otherwise. In discussing with the correspondent of the Daily Express the death of a certain Mr. Fletcher who had felt the wrath of Egypt’s dead, Conan-Doyle declared that the tragedy was caused by Egyptian 'elementals' guarding a female mummy because another student of Egyptology, a Mr. Robinson, had begun an investigation of the stories of the mummy's malevolence. 'I warned Mr. Robinson,' he says, 'against concerning himself with the mummy at the British Museum, he persisted, and his death followed.'"
[William Cooper]: You may wonder where all this is going, but it becomes clear when you understand that the Egyptians inherited the religion of Babylon.
"[So] are we to presume...that the single phase of ceremonial magic constituted the entire repertoire of Egyptian thaumaturgists. [You see,] if they could manifest such surprising power, is it not probable that they possessed a knowledge of natural hidden forces -- forces as yet unknown to the modern public world which is possibly of inestimable value?"
[William Cooper]: Which may still be contained within what is called the Secrets of the Ages? Which is guarded by the modern Mystery School? Which is still the ancient Mystery School brought forward through the ages?
"We are assured in the 'authorized version' [William Cooper: and note, I say 'authorized version'] of Holy Writ that the magicians of Egypt changed their staves or rods into serpents in the presence of Pharaoh. The modern scientist does not live who can duplicate that phenomenon, yet if he happens to be a good Christian he is in somewhat of a dilemma...
"...We [can] pass over all the desperate efforts to disprove the magical powers of the Egyptians as arising, not from a mature knowledge, but from a desperate prejudice. [You see,] magic is too ancient and too universal to be explained away by mirrors, wires and hinges. In Egypt we are dealing unquestionably with true manifestations of occult power. The learned author of Art Magic presents what maybe accepted as a reasonable accurate estimation of the priest-magicians of the old Egyptian Mysteries. 'They were highly educated, scientific men. They understood the nature of the lodestone, the virtues of mineral and animal magnetism, which, together with the force of psychological impression, constituted a large portion of their theurgic practices. They perfectly understood the art of reading the inner most secrets of the soul, of impressing the susceptible imagination by enchantment and fascination, of sending their own spirits forth from their body which many modern metaphysical teachers claim that they can do, as clairvoyance, under the action of powerful will -- in fact, they were masters of the art now known as mesmerism, clairvoyance, electro-biology, etc. They also realized the virtues of magnets, gums, herbs, drugs and fumigations, and employed music to admirable effect.'"
[William Cooper]: And no one since has been able to perfect and even come close to their art of embalming the dead.
"The highly gifted Egyptologist Lenormant acknowledges Egyptian magic as an essential part of their religious philosophy. James Bonwick, F.R.G.S., thus summarizes the powers possessed by Egyptian adepts: 'Egyptian mystics could levitate, walk the air, handle fire, live under water, sustain great pressure, harmlessly suffer mutilation, read the past, foretell the future, make themselves invisible and cure disease.'"
[William Cooper]: Now, I have no idea whether to believe that or not, but that is what this expert says. Now, if you doubt the power of magic wielded by the priests of Mystery Babylon listen to this, for we can compare James Bonwick’s account with some other news from Tibet, another land long famous for magic.
"...Dr. Alexander Cannon, a distinguished scientist, a Doctor of Medicine, a celebrated psychiatrist, a Master of Arts, and a Fellow of the Royal Geographic Society, brought back a strange record from the land of the Lamas. He [claimed he] saw a tree withered by a pointed finger, a dead man raised to life, the Grand Lama surrounded by a blue aura three inches thick, and a human being lifted into the air by pure mental effort. The London County Council called upon Dr. Cannon to resign his post, as the head of a noted institution, for his remarks, but later, strangely enough, after further enquiry, withdrew the demand. It would seem [folks] that the age of miracles or at least magic is not dead."
[William Cooper]: You know, Plato -- I wrote this in my book -- was an initiate of Mystery Babylon and was actually initiated in the Great Pyramid in Egypt where he lay in the sarcophagus for three days and three nights. He entered as a mortal man and, according to his writings, emerged as a god given, or imparted, knowledge which [with] he was to guard and keep. Remember, they called themselves the "Guardians of the Secrets of the Ages."
"From the writings of Proclus and Iamblichus we can gain a considerable insight into the principles of Egyptian magic. To the old philosophers, even Pythagoras and Plato, magic was no mystery. According to Proclus the initiated priests so fully understood the mutual sympathy between the visible and invisible worlds that they were able to change the course of action and focus divine virtues upon inferior natures. And according to Plato the highest form of magic consisted in the divine worship of the gods [William Cooper: plural], and according to Iamblichus the priests, through sacerdotal theurgy, were able to ascend from a material state of [unconsciousness (*note - book says, 'consciousness')] to a realization of the universal essence, thus coming to an understanding of universal purpose by which the performance of high feats of magic became possible."
[William Cooper]: Thousands of years later Aleister Crowley claimed the same thing. Now this is significant.
"[It’s] proper at this point to establish a clear line of demarcation of magic and sorcery. [You see,] the term magic was not associated with occult jugglery by the Egyptians but arose from a profound understanding of natural law...
"...[William Cooper: 'Magic,' said General Albert Pike, and you will be hearing an awful lot of General Albert Pike during this series of shows,] 'Magic,' says General Albert Pike, 'is the exact and absolute science of nature and its laws.' From the knowledge of this absolute science arises occult science. [William Cooper: Occult merely means "hidden", folks.] From experience in occult science in turn arises the theurgic art, for as surely as man has adapted his physical universe to his purposes so surely the adept of the Mystery School adapts the metaphysical universe to his purposes. To acknowledge that the Egyptians possessed the power of adapting mystical forces to physical ends is to bestow upon them proficiency in the most perfect and difficult of the arts [William Cooper: according to the Mystery Religion of Babylon]. Yet to deny this ability on the part of the Egyptian priests is to deny the evident, and we must resign ourselves to the undeniable fact that they possessed a form of learning which has not been conferred upon this present race..."
[William Cooper]: ...at least publicly. Men like Aleister Crowley have proven that it has been passed down through the ages and is kept and practiced secretly by those who call themselves the "Guardians of the Secrets of the Ages."
[William Cooper asks for donations and advertises CAJI memberships]
Good night, folks, and God bless you, and remember this is what can happen if you just wake up.
(closing music: Make It Big, performed by the Beach Boys)
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
The Zionist Deception
By Pat Anderson
I was originally working a piece with which I was struggling to finish. I was attempting to bring much research to a head covering the history, belief system, and out and out lies of modern day Zionist Israel and Zionism itself. As I was reading through it, I came to the realization I was simply rehashing research that had already been done by others before me, and the information I was presenting was nothing new. It can already be found easily by those willing to do a little digging in their search for the truth. There are literally volumes of works to be found on this subject alone, and it basically boils down to one statement no matter how much research you read. Zionism is a LIE. It is based on a lie, and it perpetuates that lie daily.
See, the popular misconception of Zionism is the belief in it merely being the right of the Jewish state of Israel to exist. Sounds harmless enough, right? As long as we discount the fact that some other people may have been living there beforehand and would have to be kicked out of their homes, off their land, and be treated like animals. But, they’re just crazy Muslims, it’s not like they have any rights in the first place. They’re just all crazy terrorists who hate Jews, Christians, and anyone else different from them, and of course love to kill innocents by blowing shit up. Besides, God promised the Jews would be given back their homeland. He was just shuffling His feet on the matter, so why not allow the Zionists to take matters into their own hands, get the British to take control of Palestine from the Ottoman Empire after WWI, generate a little sympathy after WWII by claiming 42 million Jews were killed because of this terrible blind hatred called anti-Semitism (okay it was six million, but you get the point), and kick out, slaughter, murder some brown people to allow the white European Ashkenazi Jews to go back to their homeland of the “chosen ones” in 1948. Makes sense to me. You conspiracy people must be nuts if this doesn’t make any sense to you.
This isn’t the first time outrageous amounts of Jews have been killed by the evil anti-Semites. The wise writings of the Talmud tell of the Romans killing 4 billion Jews who lived in one city, the city of Bethar, Gittin 57b. [1]. It doesn’t matter if there were not even that many Jews in the entire world at the time, and most likely, there never have been. To say so is clearly anti-Semitic and you clearly have hatred deep in your heart. You are the reason Zionism began in the first place. Just ask Theodore Herzl:
"An idea rose on my heart to bring on anti-Semitism and to obliterate Jewish wealth.”[2]
See, we can’t smash anti-Semitism if it’s not there in the first place. We can’t blame it as the scourge of civilization as we know it if it only exists in small pockets here and there. It would seem the Zionists have heard of Hegel. Have you?
I did a lot of bouncing around on the internet when I was researching the other piece I was writing, and I was looking to find one mainstream definition for Zionism or the Zionist as it’s always good to see how they love to paint themselves as being harmless little do-gooders, being the righteous defenders of the Jewish people that they are. Did you know these people can’t even come up with one set upon definition for themselves? It’s obvious they are so involved in so many righteous activities, one can’t even begin to define their goals. So, I decided to go to the horse’s mouth. Check this out. We’ll start with how this website defines Zionism.
Okay, that seems to be what your average sheep believes as well. Let’s move on.
Many definitions? Okay, many words have a few definitions depending on their context and usage in a sentence. I just find it interesting we started with a definition, and move on to a disclaimer that states it’s “intended” to be correct. Old saying time, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. The word “intended” automatically means to me it’s not the actual definition, but I’ve been told I’m not all there. What’s even more interesting is after our well “intended” Zionist friends make that statement, it’s followed up by telling us there are many definitions of Zionism. Hmmm… let’s move on.
Okay then, when someone starts with asking what is Zionism, and is basically answered with “Uh, dunno” I have a slight problem with their credibility. I thought we started off by defining it, and now, we don’t know what it is, just that not all definitions are accurate. What? There seems to be some Orwellian doublespeak going on here that will have to be examined in our next part.
To be Continued…
[1] The Truth About the Talmud, Michael Hoffman
[2]Herzl’s Diary pg 68
I was originally working a piece with which I was struggling to finish. I was attempting to bring much research to a head covering the history, belief system, and out and out lies of modern day Zionist Israel and Zionism itself. As I was reading through it, I came to the realization I was simply rehashing research that had already been done by others before me, and the information I was presenting was nothing new. It can already be found easily by those willing to do a little digging in their search for the truth. There are literally volumes of works to be found on this subject alone, and it basically boils down to one statement no matter how much research you read. Zionism is a LIE. It is based on a lie, and it perpetuates that lie daily.
See, the popular misconception of Zionism is the belief in it merely being the right of the Jewish state of Israel to exist. Sounds harmless enough, right? As long as we discount the fact that some other people may have been living there beforehand and would have to be kicked out of their homes, off their land, and be treated like animals. But, they’re just crazy Muslims, it’s not like they have any rights in the first place. They’re just all crazy terrorists who hate Jews, Christians, and anyone else different from them, and of course love to kill innocents by blowing shit up. Besides, God promised the Jews would be given back their homeland. He was just shuffling His feet on the matter, so why not allow the Zionists to take matters into their own hands, get the British to take control of Palestine from the Ottoman Empire after WWI, generate a little sympathy after WWII by claiming 42 million Jews were killed because of this terrible blind hatred called anti-Semitism (okay it was six million, but you get the point), and kick out, slaughter, murder some brown people to allow the white European Ashkenazi Jews to go back to their homeland of the “chosen ones” in 1948. Makes sense to me. You conspiracy people must be nuts if this doesn’t make any sense to you.
This isn’t the first time outrageous amounts of Jews have been killed by the evil anti-Semites. The wise writings of the Talmud tell of the Romans killing 4 billion Jews who lived in one city, the city of Bethar, Gittin 57b. [1]. It doesn’t matter if there were not even that many Jews in the entire world at the time, and most likely, there never have been. To say so is clearly anti-Semitic and you clearly have hatred deep in your heart. You are the reason Zionism began in the first place. Just ask Theodore Herzl:
"An idea rose on my heart to bring on anti-Semitism and to obliterate Jewish wealth.”[2]
See, we can’t smash anti-Semitism if it’s not there in the first place. We can’t blame it as the scourge of civilization as we know it if it only exists in small pockets here and there. It would seem the Zionists have heard of Hegel. Have you?
I did a lot of bouncing around on the internet when I was researching the other piece I was writing, and I was looking to find one mainstream definition for Zionism or the Zionist as it’s always good to see how they love to paint themselves as being harmless little do-gooders, being the righteous defenders of the Jewish people that they are. Did you know these people can’t even come up with one set upon definition for themselves? It’s obvious they are so involved in so many righteous activities, one can’t even begin to define their goals. So, I decided to go to the horse’s mouth. Check this out. We’ll start with how this website defines Zionism.
A Definition of Zionism:
Zionism is the national revival movement of the Jewish people. It holds that the Jews have the right to self-determination in their own national home, and the right to develop their national culture. Historically, Zionism strove to create a legally recognized national home for the Jews in their historical homeland. This goal was implemented by the creation of the State of Israel. Today, Zionism supports the existence of the state of Israel and helps to inspire a revival of Jewish national life, culture and language.”
Okay, that seems to be what your average sheep believes as well. Let’s move on.
Controversy - Definitions of Zionism are controversial. The above definition is intended to be historically correct and tries not to exclude any Zionist group or make Zionism the "property" of a particular political faction. Other definitions may either delegitimize Zionism intentionally, or may do so unintentionally and may introduce distortions of various types. There are many definitions of Zionism that we will explore below.
Many definitions? Okay, many words have a few definitions depending on their context and usage in a sentence. I just find it interesting we started with a definition, and move on to a disclaimer that states it’s “intended” to be correct. Old saying time, the road to hell is paved with good intentions. The word “intended” automatically means to me it’s not the actual definition, but I’ve been told I’m not all there. What’s even more interesting is after our well “intended” Zionist friends make that statement, it’s followed up by telling us there are many definitions of Zionism. Hmmm… let’s move on.
What is Zionism?
Zionism is a political movement that includes many shades of opinion. Different factions of the Zionist movement and different commentators have offered different definitions of Zionism that suit their purposes and outlook. Not all of them are historically or ideologically accurate as generalizations.
Okay then, when someone starts with asking what is Zionism, and is basically answered with “Uh, dunno” I have a slight problem with their credibility. I thought we started off by defining it, and now, we don’t know what it is, just that not all definitions are accurate. What? There seems to be some Orwellian doublespeak going on here that will have to be examined in our next part.
To be Continued…
[1] The Truth About the Talmud, Michael Hoffman
[2]Herzl’s Diary pg 68
Saturday, August 21, 2010
William Cooper's Mystery Babylon: Part 01 – The Sun of God
Transcribed by Dok (edited/formatted by wakingup72 @ http://www.waronyou.com/forums)
You’re listening to the Hour of the Time. I’m your host, William Cooper.
Tonight, ladies and gentleman, we begin the origin, the history, the dogma, and the identity of the ancient Mystery Religions, which are now known as the Mystery Schools, the Order of the Quest, Freemasonry, the Ancient Order of the Rose and Cross, The Knights Templar, the Sovereign and Military Order of the Knights of Malta, the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, the Prieuré de Sion, the Thule Society, or sometimes known as the Thuley Society, the Order, the Skull and Bones, the Russell Trust, the Jason Society, the Scroll and Key, the Illuminati, and I could go on, and on, and on, and on.
But the most important thing to realize is that they all have been collectively known throughout the ages as the Mystery Schools. The Illuminati, which literally means, "illumined ones". International Socialism, Communism, they are all one and the same as you will come to know, and you will understand perfectly how they've been able to infiltrate all of our society.
What you hear tonight does not necessarily reflect my views, or beliefs, or religion...nor those of WWCR.
(opening music: I Can See Clearly Now, written by Johnny Nash, performed by Liza Minnelli)
That song will have a clearer meaning to you as we progress in your education into the Mystery Religion. But we have to begin in the beginning, with every story and every history. And we have to begin at the beginning of mankind. And the beginning is the beginning according to the Mystery Religion. And they believe, wholeheartedly, that man is a product of evolution, not of an extraterrestrial race, and not of the creation of some benevolent god.
[Reading from The Future of Man, written by Robert Klark Graham]:
"[They believe that] the tree-dwelling ancestors of man were among the most intelligent beings of their distant age.
"And when these creatures finally abandoned the trees and walked fully upright, freeing their hands to serve as implements of their minds as well as their bodies, there began the most successful evolutionary drive toward higher intelligence ever witnessed in Nature.
"As ground dwellers, these creatures were easy victims of the great predators, who hunted them down by day and surprised them at night as they huddled in clearings or in caves. They could not compete in strength, ferocity or speed with their attackers. Armed with little except their hands and what their complex brains enabled them to do with those hands, they had to think or die. For untold thousands of years most of them met early, violent deaths. Only a few in each generation had the good fortune and the ability to outwit their enemies. [And] these favored ones survived long enough to have and rear offspring. The unwary, maladroit or stupid died early. [William Cooper: And folks, I'm afraid that the stupid, who live today, are going to die early also. But back to the beginning.] Their offspring, if they had any, were left to starve or be eaten by predators.
"Natural selection was operating on the earliest types of man with grimmest intensity. Perhaps no other extant creature has undergone so severe and protracted a period of selective elimination. Yet here and there small groups managed to survive because they had the intelligence to use sticks, stones and clubs to defend themselves. Crude and puny as these implements were, they were weapons and their possessors were the first creatures who could kill without having to come in direct contact with their antagonists.
"'As the great beasts grew larger and either faster or more formidable, man became ever more watchful, ever more successful in pitting his wits against mass and power, more and more adept at slipping out of trouble, and as the challenge grew greater, so did his brain, for the laggards on both sides got left behind in the race for the future.' [Quoted from Norman J. Bernill's Man's Emerging Mind]"
[William Cooper]: ...and we are still engaged in that race for the future.
"The steps in the development, of man's brain are revealed by the progressively larger braincases which appeared with the passage of centuries. Basing our judgment on the improvements in tools and weapons which took place as the intelligence of their inventors increased, we can construct some of the ways in which natural selection may have worked to bring about a doubling in size of the human brain.
"Many edible nuts are too hard for even a caveman to crack between his teeth. Accordingly, they were useless to early man, until some genius of his day discovered that any nut could be opened if it were just placed up on one stone and stuck hard with another. Better fed, the family of this innovator proliferated while the others died off.
"Perhaps centuries later, while a man sat cracking nuts between two stones, one stone broke and the broken edge cut his hand. Previously, men in the same situation had thrown the broken stone away and nursed their cuts. But this man, this man started thinking. [William Cooper: He possessed an original thought.] Since the edge had cut through his skin and drawn blood, it might also cut through the skin of the small animals he caught, making it easier to get at the meat. The first knife was invented! He and those close to him, and those intelligent enough to imitate him, increased in number [William Cooper: and the rest died off]. They had a cutting tool which made it possible for them to skin and eat meat in less time, so they had more time for hunting. Many of the descendants of this exceptional man became increasingly skillful at breaking and chipping hard stones into sharper tools and weapons."
[William Cooper]: And if you’ve been to a museum of natural history, and you’ve seen these fine, beautiful flint arrowheads and spearheads, then you know that it took patience and great skill, and this means a further development of the human mind.
"Natural selection, favoring better knife makers, went on for hundreds of thousands of years [William Cooper: according to those who guard the Secrets of the Ages, and even according to modern science].
"A great many centuries later a young father foraging for his brood, may have come upon a long straight stick, splintered at one end. [Well] he pulled and chewed at the splinters until only one stout point was left [William Cooper: or at least that's how we can imagine that it was done]. It seemed to him a very useful stick, for it was sharper than the digging sticks, which the women used. He may have remembered a night during his boyhood, when a great cat had charged his family's campsite and dragged away a younger sister. Now that he had small children of his own, the memory of that attack was ever present. Lately, he had seen fresh panther tracks. Another family, not far away, had been attacked and the mother had been killed. His dawning intelligence told him his pointed stick might be a better weapon against big cats than the clubs which he and the other men carried. [So] for many days he kept the long stick near him, even when he was laughed at for having what was regarded as a woman’s tool."
[William Cooper]: Not only did he possess a greater intellect than his fellow man, but he possessed more courage to resist their laughter.
"Then one night, he heard a faint rustling. He whispered a quick warning to his family. Suddenly, a dim shape charged at him in the darkness. Kneeling, he raised the point of his long stick toward the beast. It sprang, clawed at him savagely, then fled! The creature had struck the point so hard that the blunt end of the stick was shoved deep, deep into the ground.
"Next morning, following a trail of blood, the man found a panther dead from a punctured chest. The long, sharp stick had saved his life and the lives of his family members. In the same situation less perceptive men, armed only with clubs, would have been killed.
"From that time he, his sons and their sons, carried impaling sticks whenever big predators were near. Foresight, genetically transmitted to their descendants, had given them a new weapon, which they used with devastating effect against their natural enemies.
"Perhaps many generations later a bright descendant of the inventor of the impaling stick mated with the daughter of a man who had thought of throwing a club at fruits, nuts and small animals on the lower branches of trees. Now and then, this brought down an extra meal.
"The man who knew how to defend his family from feline prowlers soon learned from his woman the new way to collect additional food. [And] their young family thrived and some of the children, with good mental inheritance from both sides of the family, showed an even higher order of intelligence than either of their parents.
With impaling sticks added to their clubs and cutting stones, men no longer had to be such furtive food gatherers. The hunted gradually evolved into hunters. And in times of famine when battles over food were fierce, those with impaling sticks threw them with deadly accuracy at members of other hunting bands. Sharper stone knives and spears gave a double survival advantage during times of crisis, but the most telling gains were the increasing sharpness of minds.
"'However incomplete our knowledge of human ancestry, there [was] scarcely any doubt that the development of brain power, of intelligence, was the decisive force in the evolutionary process which culminated in the appearance of the species to which we belong. Natural selection [they believe] has brought about the evolutionary trends towards increasing brain power because brain power confers enormous adaptive advantages on its possessors. It is obviously brain power, not body power, which makes man, by far, the most successful, biological species which living matter has produced.' [quote from Theodosius G. Dobzhansky's book, Evolution, Genetics and Man]"
[Reading from That Old-Time Religion, written by Jordan Maxwell]:
"[Even with man's new weapons and tools] it did not take him very long to decide that in this world the single greatest enemy to be feared was the darkness of night, and all the unknown dangers that came with it. Simply stated, 'MAN'S FIRST ENEMY WAS DARKNESS.'
"Understanding this one fact alone, one can readily see why the greatest and most trustworthy friend the human race could ever have was, by far, heaven's greatest gift to the world...that Glorious Rising Orb of Day [the Sun]."
[William Cooper]: And with this simple truth understood, we can now begin to unravel the most ancient, and still the most successful, religion upon the face of this earth. Its success lies in its ability to remain hidden from the rest of the people. But first, let me assure you, folks, that no people of the ancient world believed that the Sun to be God. In point of fact, every ancient culture and nation on earth have all used the Sun as the most logically appropriate symbol to represent the glory of the unseen creator of the heavens. In the Old Testament, it says, “The heavens are declaring the glory of God.” That's in Psalms 19, verse 1. In the Old Testament, “The sun of righteousness will arise.” Malachi, chapter 4, verse 2.
"The ancient peoples reasoned that no one on Earth could ever lay claim of ownership to the Great Orb of Day. It must belong to the unseen Creator of the Universe...[It became], figuratively speaking, not man's, but 'GOD'S SUN'. Truly, 'God's Sun/Son was...THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD.
"As I stated before, [folks,] in the dark cold of night man realized his utter vulnerability to the elements. Each night, mankind was forced to wait for the [rising of the sun] to chase away the physical and mental insecurity brought on by the darkness. Therefore, the morning Sun focused man's attention on heavenly dependence for his frail, short existence on Earth, and in doing so, it became the appropriate symbol of divine benevolence from heaven."
[William Cooper]: For without the sun, there was no light, there was no warmth, and nothing could grow or live upon the face of this earth. So, just as a small fire brought limited light into man's own little world of darkness, likewise, the great fire of day served the whole earth with its heavenly presence. For this reason, it was said that the God of the Bible was a consuming fire in heaven, and so he was.
"It was accepted by all that man was bound to a life on Earth, but the sky was the [William Cooper: abode of God's son. He resided up there, in heaven].
"Ancient man saw in his male offspring his own image and likeness, and his own existence as a father was proved by the person of his son. It was assumed that God’s 'Sun' was but a visible representative of the unseen Creator in heaven. So it was said, 'When you have seen the Sun, you have seen the Father.' [Said another way,] 'The Father is glorified in his Sun.'
"Ancient man [William Cooper: even with his limited intelligence at that time] had no problem understanding that all life on Earth depended directly on life-giving energy from the Sun. Consequently, all life was lost without the sun. It followed that God's 'Sun' was nothing less than [man's savior].
"Since...energy from the Sun gave life, and we sustained our very existence by taking energy in from our food (which came directly from God’s Sun), the Sun must give up its life supporting energy so that we may continue to live. 'God’s Sun [must give] his life for us to live.'"
[William Cooper]: I know that if you are intelligent out there listening, you are making some connections here. You see, the Mystery Schools believe that Christianity is a perversion of the Mysteries.
"While it was plainly true that our life came from and was sustained each day by 'Our Savior...God's Sun', it was and would be true only as long as the Sun would return each morning. [And] our hope of salvation would be secure only in a 'RISEN' savior. For if he did not rise from his grave of darkness, all would be lost. All the world waited for his 'imminent return' [each morning]. The...Father would never leave us at the mercy of this world of darkness. [The] Heavenly promise...was surely that...'He would come again'...to light our path, and save those lost in the darkness...
"Logically, even if man himself died, as long as the Sun comes up each day, life on Earth will continue forever. Therefore, it was said in the ancient texts that everlasting life was 'the gift'...the Father gives through his Sun. For... 'God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten SUN that we may have life everlasting'...on Earth! [William Cooper: And the ancient text did not mean] for you personally - but ON EARTH...everlasting life!"
[William Cooper]: That is the interpretation of the Mystery Schools.
"Since evil and harm lurked at every turn in the fearful dark of night, all evil or harmful deeds were naturally, the...'works of darkness.'
"[And] with the return of the Sun each morning, man felt more secure in his world and therefore, was at peace. Therefore, God's 'Sun' was with his warm rays of hope...The Great 'Prince of Peace'.
"And of course the reverse was equally true. The...evil of night was ruled over by none other than...[the] 'Prince of Darkness' [William Cooper: Hence, evil is of the dark, or the Devil]."
It was only a short step to see [that] 'The Light of God's Sun' equated with [righteousness and] truth - and evil with darkness. From then on, it was simple to understand...LIGHT was GOOD - DARK was BAD."
[William Cooper]: And the priests of the ancient Mystery Religion always followed the light. They always looked toward the East. They considered themselves to be illumined.
"That being true, then the Great Orb of Day (God's Sun) could rightly say of itself [that], 'I AM THE LIGHT' [and the truth].
"We should all [William Cooper: in their words, not mine] 'give thanks' to the Father for sending us His 'Sun'..."
[William Cooper]: ...spelled S-U-N, in case some of you are getting confused. In every instance where I have mentioned the word sun, it has been in reference to the sun, S-U-N.
"For the peace and tranquility he brings to our life is even called 'Solace' [William Cooper: solace is from the word solar, which means sun]..."
[William Cooper]: Are you beginning to see the light? (laughs)
"We now have before us two cosmic brothers - one very good, and one very [bad]. One brings the 'truth to light' with the 'light of truth'. The other is the opposite, or in opposition to the light - 'The Opposer'...[the] Prince of [the] World of Darkness...
"It is at this point...we come to Egypt. More than 3,000 years before Christianity began, the early morning [Sun, the Savior] was pictured in Egypt as the 'New Born Babe'. The infant savior's name was 'HORUS'.
"The early morning Sun, or 'New Born Babe', was pictured in two ways: the Dove - [known as the] Bringer of Peace, the Hawk - [the] God of War (who punishes the enemies of God!)."
[William Cooper]: Today, in government, we still use these terms, doves and hawks, and that’s how powerful this hidden religion is; is that we use the terms of this religion even today and know it not.
"At daybreak, this wonderful newborn child is of course 'Born Again' (hallelujah). Horus is Risen. [William Cooper: That is what hallelujah means.] Even today, when the Sun comes up, we see it on the "Horus-Risen", or "HORIZON". His life was also divided into 12 parts or 12 'Horus=hours' [William Cooper: the twelve signs of the Zodiac].
"But now, what about the evil brother of God's Sun, that...old Prince of Darkness himself? In the Egyptian belief system he was called 'SET' [William Cooper: or sometimes Typhon]. We are told in the Bible that when God's Sun died, the world was left in the hands of the Prince of Darkness at... SUN-SET."
[William Cooper]: SUN-SET. Do you understand? God's Sun was killed by the Prince of Darkness, "SET", at SUN-SET.
"It was generally observed that 'God's Sun' could be depended upon to return in the same manner that he left - namely, 'On a Cloud'...and 'Every eye will see Him'...(unless, of course, you're blind or dead).
"Keeping in mind that 'God's Sun' not only represented the light of truth, but was put to death by His enemies who could not endure the light of truth in their life, it was taught by the ancients that the very act of opposing or denying the light of truth to the point of killing it, happened in one's own mind! When we are confronted with harsh realities of life [the truth], the light of truth, which we do not wish to face, and which runs counter to our views, such truth is put to death by your mind, and in your head! Therefore, 'God's Sun' - The Truth and The Light - is put to death at the 'PLACE OF THE SKULL,' or 'SKULL PLACE,' located somewhere between your ears! This putting to death of the light of hope in your mind is always accompanied by the two thieves: Regret for the past and Fear of the future."
[William Cooper]: Don’t go away folks, we have to take a short break. I'll be back right after this pause.
(break music: unknown instrumental piece)
[continuing reading from That Old-Time Religion]:
"And of course 'God's Sun' goes to his death wearing a 'corona' - [Which in] Latin [means] 'CROWN OF THORNS'. Remember the Statue of liberty? [William Cooper: It was given to us by Masonic France.] To this day, kings still wear a round crown of thorns, symbolizing the [rays of the sun].
"[Now] as far back as we can go into the ancient world [in our research], we find that all known cultures had a 'THREE-IN-ONE' [or] TRIUNE GOD. The very first trinity was simply the three stages of life of the sun: New Born at dawn, Mature or full grown [in its full power] at 12 noon, and old and dying, at the end of day (going back to The Father. All three were of course ONE DIVINITY! THE TRINTIY IS NOT MYSTERY [in the Mystery Schools]!!
"The Egyptians knew that the Sun was at its highest point in the sky (or high noon) when no shadow was cast by the pyramid. At that point, all Egypt offered prayers to the 'Most High' God!
"As stated before, to the ancients, the sky was the abode, or heavenly temple of the 'MOST HIGH.' Therefore, 'God's Sun' was doing his heavenly Father's work in the temple at [noon].
"The world of ancient man kept track of times and seasons by the movement of the Sun - daily, monthly and yearly. For this, the sundial was devised. Not only was the daily movement of the sun tracked on the round dial, but the whole year was charted on a round calendar dial. Examples [are]: Ancient Mexican, Mayan, Inca, Aztec, Sumerian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Egyptian, Celtic [or Celtic as some pronounce it], Aryan, etc. [And] with this method, certain new concepts emerged in the mind of ancient man.
"Since the Earth experienced four different seasons, all the same and equal (in time) each year, the round calendar was divided into four equal parts. This represented the complete story of the life of 'God's Sun'. This is also why we have, in the Bible, only four gospels. Of this point there can be no doubt. [For] Tertullian and many early church fathers stated this [exact fact themselves in their own writings].
"[And] this [the Mystery School claims] is why the famous painting of the 'Last Supper' pictures the 12 followers [or houses] of the Sun in four groups (of 3)...the seasons [with the Sun in the center alone.]!
"On the round surface of the yearly calendar, you draw a straight line directly across the middle, cutting the circle in half - one end being the point of the winter solstice, the other end being the point of the summer solstice. Then draw another straight line (crossing the first one). One end of the new line being the spring equinox, the other end being the autumn equinox. You now have the starting points for each of the four seasons. This is referred to by all major encyclopedias and reference works, both ancient and modern, as 'The Cross of the Zodiac'. Thus, the life of God's 'Sun' is on 'the Cross'. This is why we see the round circle of the Sun on the crosses of Christian churches. The next time you pass a Christian church, look for the circle (Sun) on the cross.
"On December 22nd, the Sun, going south, reaches its lowest point in the sky (our winter solstice). At that lowest point, the Sun stops moving on the sundial for three days, Dec 22nd, Dec 23rd, and Dec 24th in the Southern Constellation known as the Southern Cross. Hence our Savior (dead for three days) died on THE CROSS. The 'SOUTHERN CROSS CONSTELLATION,' that is.
"This is the only time of the year [folks] that the Sun actually stops its movement in our sky [William Cooper: according to the Mystery Schools]. On the morning of Dec. 25th, the Sun begins its annual journey back to us in the northern hemisphere, bringing, of course, our spring. Therefore, on Dec 25th, the Sun is BORN AGAIN. And to this day, His worshipers celebrate His BIRTHDAY!
"It is at this point that we should look at the significance of the recurring number 12 in the Bible. First, 13 is said to be unlucky for humans. It is a heavenly number and represents...the Sun + 'the 12' = 13!"
[William Cooper]: Or Christ plus the 12 disciples equals 13. It's unlucky for a different reason, folks, and I will explain that on another program. But it has to do with the persecution of the Mystery School, the Mystery Religion.
"It would be well to get a Bible Concordance and look to see how many times the number 12 is used in the entire Bible."
[William Cooper]: Remember, the Mystery Religion is a religion of the heavens. Also, in the Bible you will find many combinations of the number seven. In the Mystery Religion, that represents the seven stars of the Pleiades. And you can see the emergence of the Mystery Religion in the UFO movement, when the Pleiadians come to talk to Billy Myers in Switzerland. (laughs) Oh my, how we are deceived by these people!
"[Here are a few examples of the use of the number 12 in the Bible]: the 12 Months of the Year, the 12 Apostles of the Sun, the 12 Tribes of Israel, the 12 Brothers of Joseph, the 12 Judges of Israel, the 12 Great Patriarchs, the 12 [Old Testament] Prophets, the 12 Kings of Israel, the 12 Princes of Israel, God's Sun in Temple at 12 [and there are many more.]
"All of these examples and countless more derived directly from the ancient world's fascination with the 12 Signs of the Zodiac."
[William Cooper]: Now remember, folks, what I'm given you is the teachings of the Mystery Schools. This does not necessarily reflect any of my own beliefs, or my own religious beliefs, or those of WWCR. We cannot fight against these manipulators unless we know who they are and what they believe. Now, what you want to believe is your own business.
"As we noted before [folks], the year was divided into 12 equal parts, or months. And to each month was appointed a heavenly symbol or astrological 'SIGN.' [William Cooper: Each of these signs made up one season in the world of the heavens, thus divided into four separate seasons.] Each of the 12 monthly signs were called 'HOUSES' OF THE HEAVENLY ZODIAC...
"...The astronomers of Babylon divided the sky into twelve 'houses.' [William Cooper: They did this to account for the fact that the planets were not always exactly in the ecliptic, but appeared to wander a certain number of degrees either side of it.] They [therefore had to assume that] each sign of the Zodiac extended its influence through a fixed [portion] of the sky, which they thought of as a house [William Cooper: to which a planet could return when it completed one of its journeys about the sun]...The great god of the day had its house in Leo [William Cooper: Leo, the Lion of Judah], where he ruled at the head of his splendor; the Moon ruled in Cancer, at the right hand of the Sun...The other planets were given two houses. One for day and one for night. And since the Zodiac divided the sky into twelve equal [portions], each of these houses was also equal, comprising 30°, [or] one-twelfth of the 360° circle.
"[And] THE HOUSES/SIGNS OF THE ZODIAC were as follows: Aries was THE RAM or LAMB of God. Taurus THE BULL/GOLDEN CALF, Gemini THE TWINS [which represented] Cain-Abel, Jacob-Esau [or] Jesus-Satan [William Cooper: for in Mystery Babylon, Jesus and Satan are brothers, and in some sects of the mystery religion, they are the same entity], Cancer THE CRAB, Leo THE LION/of the tribe of Judah [that can be found in Revelations 5, verse 5], Virgo the VIRGIN/spring birth of God's Sun..."
[William Cooper]: or Mary. Mary or Marie means pure, thus Mary the virgin, the mother of God, when God is reborn or born in the spring. And that is where the mother holding the child, Isis with the child, Horus, and all through the history of the world you will find a virgin holding a child in every culture, every language, in every continent, of this Earth.
"...Libra THE SCALES, Scorpio THE SCORPIAN, the back-biting traitor...Judas, Sagittarius THE ARCHER, Capricorn THE SEA-GOAT [or the goat of Mendes]. Aquarius, MAN WITH THE WATER PITCHER, Pisces THE TWO FISH."
[William Cooper]: The age that we are leaving at this point in time, is the age of Pisces. And, according to the Mystery Religion, we are entering into the Age of Aquarius very soon in our future. And to them this has great meaning, for it means the dawn of the New Age, the age of the illumined man. The number of the man is 666 in the Mystery Religion.
"Today we have expressions when someone dies. We say things like, 'They passed' or 'They Passed On' or 'They Passed Away.' The ancients said 'They Passed Over' (from one life to another). [William Cooper: Over what? Over the river.] And so it was with the coming of spring, as God's Sun is 'Resurrected' from the Death of Winter to His New Life (in spring). This is why Christians celebrate 'The Resurrection' with a Sun-Rise service at...'EASTER'...and the Jews, who knew [William Cooper: this ancient religion from their time in captivity in Babylon] celebrate the same with their...'PASSOVER.'
"With this knowledge, we now add the fact that the first [Decan] of the astrological sign of Virgo is 'Coma' - or the 'desired one' - of the nations. This was pictured by the ancient astrologers as a virgin girl holding a new born babe. Hence, our 'Madonna and Child' motif, so in the spring, or Virgo, God's Sun is 'Born of a Virgin.' Incidentally, the astrological symbol for Virgo is the letter 'M' [or] 'Marie' [which] means 'pure', hence 'M'-ary...the pure virgin!"
[William Cooper]: And all through every culture, you will sign...find other representations by other names of the virgin mother with the child. Isis with the child Horus, born of a magical intercourse, when Isis changes into a bird and flutters over the dead Osiris. Osiris representing the sun, Isis representing the moon. I will tell you the meaning of the child Horus, other than the Sun in the morning, probably on another episode of the Hour of the Time. Now, we belong to one another, according to the Mystery School. We are part of God's creation. We are part of a great fraternity of man, according to them. We are creations voiced to sing praises to God as we gather in the morning, (laughs) the morning, folks, to pray. The very time of day recalls our creation and our new creation in Christ during the gathering time reflect on this mystery [sic]. Using the silence, the sounds of morning, the Psalms and other scriptures, be aware that the rising sun is the image of Christ, our sun and source of life, and that is taken right out of a Protestant church's leaflet calling for the congregation to gather for the Easter sunrise service.
"Next, we read at I Peter [chapter 5 verse 4] that God's Sun is the 'Chief' shepherd. This word 'chief is very important. For at I Peter [chapter 2 verse 6] and again at [Ephesians chapter 2 verse 20] God's Sun is called the 'Chief Cornerstone'.
"[William Cooper: Now in our research in the mystery schools we find that the] word in Greek for 'Chief Cornerstone' simply meant the 'Peak of a Pyramid'. [The 'Peak of a Pyramid.] [The] corner foundation (stone) or, peak of the pyramid.
"The prefix akro- [or] (topmost) was added by the Jews to the already existing Greek adjective, goniaios [or] (at the corner). In that way the translators of Isaiah rendered the Hebrew word for 'corner' (pinna Isaiah 28:14), describing the stone which was a 'sure foundation' and which probably had reference to the future Messiah...well understood by the Christian writers, was that of an important Stone which was both akro- (a Peak) and a goniaios (a cornerstone). But there are four or more corners to a building, and a stone and a corner cannot be uniquely significant."
[William Cooper]: Although you will find in Freemasonry the ceremony of laying a cornerstone for every building that is built, and you look at all the buildings in Washington, DC. You will see a cornerstone with the Masonic symbols and Masonic date of the Mystery Schools of the calendar of six thousand years.
"[Well, we found that we don’t believe that it can be] significant unless the stone be at the apex[, apex,] of a pyramid where all corners meet and bond together."
[William Cooper]: ...and that is the secret of the truncated pyramid missing the cap stone, on the reverse of the Great Seal of the United States. For we have found in our research, that in the Mystery Religion the Master Mason is the cornerstone, or the peak, of the pyramid. The illumined man who functions as the eye of Horus, or the spy for the Mystery Schools, wherever he is at.
"Just as the great pyramid near Mexico City is called...the 'Pyramid of The Sun,' so also The Great Pyramid of Egypt was [actually] dedicated to Horus, 'The Sun.' A picture of this you may see on the back of any one-dollar bill. Above the pyramid [folks] is The Eye, the Sun - The Eye of Horus, The Sun (of God).
"The New Testament tells us three different times that God's Sun was taught by and learned all things from the Father. He was...the PUPIL.
"We are told at Matthew [chapter 14 versus 17 and 19] that God's Sun tends to His people's needs with 'Two Fishes'. The two fishes being the astrological sign all astrologers know as Pisces.
"Thus, we have had for almost 2000 years God's Sun ruling in His 'kingdom' or sign of Pisces/Two Fishes. As stated before, these signs are called houses. Therefore, Pisces is the 'Lord's House' at this time. Truly, the Greatest 'Fish' Story Ever Told!
"According to astrology, sometime after the year 2010..."
[William Cooper]: Catch that date, folks: the year 2010 and remember when I told you about 2001. Arthur C. Clark is obviously a member of the Mystery Schools, and Stanley Kubrick, who's responsible for making the movie, is obviously a member also.
"According to astrology, sometime after the year 2010 the Sun will enter into His new Sign, or His new Kingdom, as it was called by the ancients. This next coming Sign [or] Kingdom, soon to be upon us, will be, according to the Zodiac, the House or Sign of Aquarius. So when we read at Luke [chapter 22 verse 10], we now understand why God's Sun states that He and His followers, at the last Passover, are to go into 'the house of the man with the water pitcher'. So we see in the coming millennium, God's Sun will bring us into His new Kingdom or House of Aquarius (the man with the water pitcher).
"Once we realize that in Astrology, each month is assigned one of the so-called 'Houses' of the Zodiac and in heaven are 12 houses [or] (12 monthly signs), then the words we read of God's Sun saying 'In my Father's house are many mansions', makes sense (when translated correctly). The proper translation is as follows: Father's House = Heavenly Abode, Mansions = Houses.
"So, correctly read in the original text, we read: 'In my father’s heavenly abode are many houses.' Yes, 12 to be exact [according to the Mystery Religion of Babylon]!
"...[By careful intention and study of the houses,] you will be enable to interpret Horoscopes. [It is well to] remember [that] just as the influence of one Planet in one Sign may be affected for good or ill by another Planet in another Sign, so the influence of Planets in Signs in general may be [strengthened, weakened, enhanced, afflicted or otherwise altered] by the influence of Planets and houses [according to their beliefs].
"...[A rule of thumb to remember is that] signs measure your inherent qualities, the Planets influence those qualities, and the Houses indicate directions for them. In other words, the Houses indicate certain things, and a Planet in a House influences or activates the things indicated."
[William Cooper]: Now, this is all according to their religion. If you want more explanation, please ask Nancy Reagan.
"Anyone familiar with modern-day Christianity must surely know we are said to be living in the 'Last Days'. This teaching is, in part, based on the idea expressed in Matthew [chapter 28, verse 20] of The King James Bible. Where God's Sun says, “I will be with you even to the End of the world.” End of the world??!! [In] another simple mistranslation to clarify [William Cooper: and there are many in the Bible] with a proper understanding of the actual words used. This 'end of the world' is translated differently in the various Bibles. Some say 'End of Time', [some say] 'End of the Days', and still others say 'Conclusion of this system of things.' So what does all this talk of the 'End Times/End of Days' really mean?
"[Well] here is the simple answer [folks, according to the Mystery Schools]. When the scripture speaks of 'the end of the world,' the actual word used is not, I repeat, is not end of the world. The actual word in Greek is 'Aeon, which, when correctly translated, means 'Age,' that’s spelled [folks] A-G-E! Any library will have Bible concordances. Strong’s Bible Concordance is a good reference work to use here. Look up the word 'age' in any secular dictionary or Bible Concordance. There you will find the word for 'age' is from the Greek 'Aeon' [or A-E-O-N]. Remembering that in Astrology each of the 12 houses (or signs) of the Zodiac corresponds to a 2000 year period of time, called an 'age,' we now know we are 1992 years into the House or Age of Pisces. Now, correctly understood, it can rightly be said that we today, in fact, are living in the 'LAST DAYS.'
"Yes, [according to the Mystery Schools] we are in the last days of the old 'Age of Pisces'. Soon, God's Sun will come again into His New Kingdom or 'New Age' [William Cooper: and that is where all this new-age movement and new age comes from...'New Age'] of Aquarius (man with the water pitcher - Luke [chapter 22 verse 10])."
[William Cooper]: That’s right, folks, the new Aeon or the New Age. This, according to the Mystery Schools, is the perversion of Christianity. This is the theme of the Bible, God's Sun in his coming kingdom age, the new age of Aquarius. Now, what you choose to believe is your business. Remember, don’t get mad at me. I am teaching you the Mystery Religion of ancient Babylon, and I am telling you right now many people practice this mystery religion in secret, and they hate Christians. They hate Christians because they believe that Christianity is a perversion of their religion, and thus is their enemy.
"When viewing the shimmering rays of sunlight on a body of water at dawn or sunset, [according to the Mystery Schools] one can still see today, how God's Sun 'walks on water.'"
[William Cooper]: Good night, and God bless you all.
(closing music: Walk on the Water, by Creedence Clearwater Revival)
You’re listening to the Hour of the Time. I’m your host, William Cooper.
Tonight, ladies and gentleman, we begin the origin, the history, the dogma, and the identity of the ancient Mystery Religions, which are now known as the Mystery Schools, the Order of the Quest, Freemasonry, the Ancient Order of the Rose and Cross, The Knights Templar, the Sovereign and Military Order of the Knights of Malta, the Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, the Prieuré de Sion, the Thule Society, or sometimes known as the Thuley Society, the Order, the Skull and Bones, the Russell Trust, the Jason Society, the Scroll and Key, the Illuminati, and I could go on, and on, and on, and on.
But the most important thing to realize is that they all have been collectively known throughout the ages as the Mystery Schools. The Illuminati, which literally means, "illumined ones". International Socialism, Communism, they are all one and the same as you will come to know, and you will understand perfectly how they've been able to infiltrate all of our society.
What you hear tonight does not necessarily reflect my views, or beliefs, or religion...nor those of WWCR.
(opening music: I Can See Clearly Now, written by Johnny Nash, performed by Liza Minnelli)
That song will have a clearer meaning to you as we progress in your education into the Mystery Religion. But we have to begin in the beginning, with every story and every history. And we have to begin at the beginning of mankind. And the beginning is the beginning according to the Mystery Religion. And they believe, wholeheartedly, that man is a product of evolution, not of an extraterrestrial race, and not of the creation of some benevolent god.
[Reading from The Future of Man, written by Robert Klark Graham]:
"[They believe that] the tree-dwelling ancestors of man were among the most intelligent beings of their distant age.
"And when these creatures finally abandoned the trees and walked fully upright, freeing their hands to serve as implements of their minds as well as their bodies, there began the most successful evolutionary drive toward higher intelligence ever witnessed in Nature.
"As ground dwellers, these creatures were easy victims of the great predators, who hunted them down by day and surprised them at night as they huddled in clearings or in caves. They could not compete in strength, ferocity or speed with their attackers. Armed with little except their hands and what their complex brains enabled them to do with those hands, they had to think or die. For untold thousands of years most of them met early, violent deaths. Only a few in each generation had the good fortune and the ability to outwit their enemies. [And] these favored ones survived long enough to have and rear offspring. The unwary, maladroit or stupid died early. [William Cooper: And folks, I'm afraid that the stupid, who live today, are going to die early also. But back to the beginning.] Their offspring, if they had any, were left to starve or be eaten by predators.
"Natural selection was operating on the earliest types of man with grimmest intensity. Perhaps no other extant creature has undergone so severe and protracted a period of selective elimination. Yet here and there small groups managed to survive because they had the intelligence to use sticks, stones and clubs to defend themselves. Crude and puny as these implements were, they were weapons and their possessors were the first creatures who could kill without having to come in direct contact with their antagonists.
"'As the great beasts grew larger and either faster or more formidable, man became ever more watchful, ever more successful in pitting his wits against mass and power, more and more adept at slipping out of trouble, and as the challenge grew greater, so did his brain, for the laggards on both sides got left behind in the race for the future.' [Quoted from Norman J. Bernill's Man's Emerging Mind]"
[William Cooper]: ...and we are still engaged in that race for the future.
"The steps in the development, of man's brain are revealed by the progressively larger braincases which appeared with the passage of centuries. Basing our judgment on the improvements in tools and weapons which took place as the intelligence of their inventors increased, we can construct some of the ways in which natural selection may have worked to bring about a doubling in size of the human brain.
"Many edible nuts are too hard for even a caveman to crack between his teeth. Accordingly, they were useless to early man, until some genius of his day discovered that any nut could be opened if it were just placed up on one stone and stuck hard with another. Better fed, the family of this innovator proliferated while the others died off.
"Perhaps centuries later, while a man sat cracking nuts between two stones, one stone broke and the broken edge cut his hand. Previously, men in the same situation had thrown the broken stone away and nursed their cuts. But this man, this man started thinking. [William Cooper: He possessed an original thought.] Since the edge had cut through his skin and drawn blood, it might also cut through the skin of the small animals he caught, making it easier to get at the meat. The first knife was invented! He and those close to him, and those intelligent enough to imitate him, increased in number [William Cooper: and the rest died off]. They had a cutting tool which made it possible for them to skin and eat meat in less time, so they had more time for hunting. Many of the descendants of this exceptional man became increasingly skillful at breaking and chipping hard stones into sharper tools and weapons."
[William Cooper]: And if you’ve been to a museum of natural history, and you’ve seen these fine, beautiful flint arrowheads and spearheads, then you know that it took patience and great skill, and this means a further development of the human mind.
"Natural selection, favoring better knife makers, went on for hundreds of thousands of years [William Cooper: according to those who guard the Secrets of the Ages, and even according to modern science].
"A great many centuries later a young father foraging for his brood, may have come upon a long straight stick, splintered at one end. [Well] he pulled and chewed at the splinters until only one stout point was left [William Cooper: or at least that's how we can imagine that it was done]. It seemed to him a very useful stick, for it was sharper than the digging sticks, which the women used. He may have remembered a night during his boyhood, when a great cat had charged his family's campsite and dragged away a younger sister. Now that he had small children of his own, the memory of that attack was ever present. Lately, he had seen fresh panther tracks. Another family, not far away, had been attacked and the mother had been killed. His dawning intelligence told him his pointed stick might be a better weapon against big cats than the clubs which he and the other men carried. [So] for many days he kept the long stick near him, even when he was laughed at for having what was regarded as a woman’s tool."
[William Cooper]: Not only did he possess a greater intellect than his fellow man, but he possessed more courage to resist their laughter.
"Then one night, he heard a faint rustling. He whispered a quick warning to his family. Suddenly, a dim shape charged at him in the darkness. Kneeling, he raised the point of his long stick toward the beast. It sprang, clawed at him savagely, then fled! The creature had struck the point so hard that the blunt end of the stick was shoved deep, deep into the ground.
"Next morning, following a trail of blood, the man found a panther dead from a punctured chest. The long, sharp stick had saved his life and the lives of his family members. In the same situation less perceptive men, armed only with clubs, would have been killed.
"From that time he, his sons and their sons, carried impaling sticks whenever big predators were near. Foresight, genetically transmitted to their descendants, had given them a new weapon, which they used with devastating effect against their natural enemies.
"Perhaps many generations later a bright descendant of the inventor of the impaling stick mated with the daughter of a man who had thought of throwing a club at fruits, nuts and small animals on the lower branches of trees. Now and then, this brought down an extra meal.
"The man who knew how to defend his family from feline prowlers soon learned from his woman the new way to collect additional food. [And] their young family thrived and some of the children, with good mental inheritance from both sides of the family, showed an even higher order of intelligence than either of their parents.
With impaling sticks added to their clubs and cutting stones, men no longer had to be such furtive food gatherers. The hunted gradually evolved into hunters. And in times of famine when battles over food were fierce, those with impaling sticks threw them with deadly accuracy at members of other hunting bands. Sharper stone knives and spears gave a double survival advantage during times of crisis, but the most telling gains were the increasing sharpness of minds.
"'However incomplete our knowledge of human ancestry, there [was] scarcely any doubt that the development of brain power, of intelligence, was the decisive force in the evolutionary process which culminated in the appearance of the species to which we belong. Natural selection [they believe] has brought about the evolutionary trends towards increasing brain power because brain power confers enormous adaptive advantages on its possessors. It is obviously brain power, not body power, which makes man, by far, the most successful, biological species which living matter has produced.' [quote from Theodosius G. Dobzhansky's book, Evolution, Genetics and Man]"
[Reading from That Old-Time Religion, written by Jordan Maxwell]:
"[Even with man's new weapons and tools] it did not take him very long to decide that in this world the single greatest enemy to be feared was the darkness of night, and all the unknown dangers that came with it. Simply stated, 'MAN'S FIRST ENEMY WAS DARKNESS.'
"Understanding this one fact alone, one can readily see why the greatest and most trustworthy friend the human race could ever have was, by far, heaven's greatest gift to the world...that Glorious Rising Orb of Day [the Sun]."
[William Cooper]: And with this simple truth understood, we can now begin to unravel the most ancient, and still the most successful, religion upon the face of this earth. Its success lies in its ability to remain hidden from the rest of the people. But first, let me assure you, folks, that no people of the ancient world believed that the Sun to be God. In point of fact, every ancient culture and nation on earth have all used the Sun as the most logically appropriate symbol to represent the glory of the unseen creator of the heavens. In the Old Testament, it says, “The heavens are declaring the glory of God.” That's in Psalms 19, verse 1. In the Old Testament, “The sun of righteousness will arise.” Malachi, chapter 4, verse 2.
"The ancient peoples reasoned that no one on Earth could ever lay claim of ownership to the Great Orb of Day. It must belong to the unseen Creator of the Universe...[It became], figuratively speaking, not man's, but 'GOD'S SUN'. Truly, 'God's Sun/Son was...THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD.
"As I stated before, [folks,] in the dark cold of night man realized his utter vulnerability to the elements. Each night, mankind was forced to wait for the [rising of the sun] to chase away the physical and mental insecurity brought on by the darkness. Therefore, the morning Sun focused man's attention on heavenly dependence for his frail, short existence on Earth, and in doing so, it became the appropriate symbol of divine benevolence from heaven."
[William Cooper]: For without the sun, there was no light, there was no warmth, and nothing could grow or live upon the face of this earth. So, just as a small fire brought limited light into man's own little world of darkness, likewise, the great fire of day served the whole earth with its heavenly presence. For this reason, it was said that the God of the Bible was a consuming fire in heaven, and so he was.
"It was accepted by all that man was bound to a life on Earth, but the sky was the [William Cooper: abode of God's son. He resided up there, in heaven].
"Ancient man saw in his male offspring his own image and likeness, and his own existence as a father was proved by the person of his son. It was assumed that God’s 'Sun' was but a visible representative of the unseen Creator in heaven. So it was said, 'When you have seen the Sun, you have seen the Father.' [Said another way,] 'The Father is glorified in his Sun.'
"Ancient man [William Cooper: even with his limited intelligence at that time] had no problem understanding that all life on Earth depended directly on life-giving energy from the Sun. Consequently, all life was lost without the sun. It followed that God's 'Sun' was nothing less than [man's savior].
"Since...energy from the Sun gave life, and we sustained our very existence by taking energy in from our food (which came directly from God’s Sun), the Sun must give up its life supporting energy so that we may continue to live. 'God’s Sun [must give] his life for us to live.'"
[William Cooper]: I know that if you are intelligent out there listening, you are making some connections here. You see, the Mystery Schools believe that Christianity is a perversion of the Mysteries.
"While it was plainly true that our life came from and was sustained each day by 'Our Savior...God's Sun', it was and would be true only as long as the Sun would return each morning. [And] our hope of salvation would be secure only in a 'RISEN' savior. For if he did not rise from his grave of darkness, all would be lost. All the world waited for his 'imminent return' [each morning]. The...Father would never leave us at the mercy of this world of darkness. [The] Heavenly promise...was surely that...'He would come again'...to light our path, and save those lost in the darkness...
"Logically, even if man himself died, as long as the Sun comes up each day, life on Earth will continue forever. Therefore, it was said in the ancient texts that everlasting life was 'the gift'...the Father gives through his Sun. For... 'God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten SUN that we may have life everlasting'...on Earth! [William Cooper: And the ancient text did not mean] for you personally - but ON EARTH...everlasting life!"
[William Cooper]: That is the interpretation of the Mystery Schools.
"Since evil and harm lurked at every turn in the fearful dark of night, all evil or harmful deeds were naturally, the...'works of darkness.'
"[And] with the return of the Sun each morning, man felt more secure in his world and therefore, was at peace. Therefore, God's 'Sun' was with his warm rays of hope...The Great 'Prince of Peace'.
"And of course the reverse was equally true. The...evil of night was ruled over by none other than...[the] 'Prince of Darkness' [William Cooper: Hence, evil is of the dark, or the Devil]."
It was only a short step to see [that] 'The Light of God's Sun' equated with [righteousness and] truth - and evil with darkness. From then on, it was simple to understand...LIGHT was GOOD - DARK was BAD."
[William Cooper]: And the priests of the ancient Mystery Religion always followed the light. They always looked toward the East. They considered themselves to be illumined.
"That being true, then the Great Orb of Day (God's Sun) could rightly say of itself [that], 'I AM THE LIGHT' [and the truth].
"We should all [William Cooper: in their words, not mine] 'give thanks' to the Father for sending us His 'Sun'..."
[William Cooper]: ...spelled S-U-N, in case some of you are getting confused. In every instance where I have mentioned the word sun, it has been in reference to the sun, S-U-N.
"For the peace and tranquility he brings to our life is even called 'Solace' [William Cooper: solace is from the word solar, which means sun]..."
[William Cooper]: Are you beginning to see the light? (laughs)
"We now have before us two cosmic brothers - one very good, and one very [bad]. One brings the 'truth to light' with the 'light of truth'. The other is the opposite, or in opposition to the light - 'The Opposer'...[the] Prince of [the] World of Darkness...
"It is at this point...we come to Egypt. More than 3,000 years before Christianity began, the early morning [Sun, the Savior] was pictured in Egypt as the 'New Born Babe'. The infant savior's name was 'HORUS'.
"The early morning Sun, or 'New Born Babe', was pictured in two ways: the Dove - [known as the] Bringer of Peace, the Hawk - [the] God of War (who punishes the enemies of God!)."
[William Cooper]: Today, in government, we still use these terms, doves and hawks, and that’s how powerful this hidden religion is; is that we use the terms of this religion even today and know it not.
"At daybreak, this wonderful newborn child is of course 'Born Again' (hallelujah). Horus is Risen. [William Cooper: That is what hallelujah means.] Even today, when the Sun comes up, we see it on the "Horus-Risen", or "HORIZON". His life was also divided into 12 parts or 12 'Horus=hours' [William Cooper: the twelve signs of the Zodiac].
"But now, what about the evil brother of God's Sun, that...old Prince of Darkness himself? In the Egyptian belief system he was called 'SET' [William Cooper: or sometimes Typhon]. We are told in the Bible that when God's Sun died, the world was left in the hands of the Prince of Darkness at... SUN-SET."
[William Cooper]: SUN-SET. Do you understand? God's Sun was killed by the Prince of Darkness, "SET", at SUN-SET.
"It was generally observed that 'God's Sun' could be depended upon to return in the same manner that he left - namely, 'On a Cloud'...and 'Every eye will see Him'...(unless, of course, you're blind or dead).
"Keeping in mind that 'God's Sun' not only represented the light of truth, but was put to death by His enemies who could not endure the light of truth in their life, it was taught by the ancients that the very act of opposing or denying the light of truth to the point of killing it, happened in one's own mind! When we are confronted with harsh realities of life [the truth], the light of truth, which we do not wish to face, and which runs counter to our views, such truth is put to death by your mind, and in your head! Therefore, 'God's Sun' - The Truth and The Light - is put to death at the 'PLACE OF THE SKULL,' or 'SKULL PLACE,' located somewhere between your ears! This putting to death of the light of hope in your mind is always accompanied by the two thieves: Regret for the past and Fear of the future."
[William Cooper]: Don’t go away folks, we have to take a short break. I'll be back right after this pause.
(break music: unknown instrumental piece)
[continuing reading from That Old-Time Religion]:
"And of course 'God's Sun' goes to his death wearing a 'corona' - [Which in] Latin [means] 'CROWN OF THORNS'. Remember the Statue of liberty? [William Cooper: It was given to us by Masonic France.] To this day, kings still wear a round crown of thorns, symbolizing the [rays of the sun].
"[Now] as far back as we can go into the ancient world [in our research], we find that all known cultures had a 'THREE-IN-ONE' [or] TRIUNE GOD. The very first trinity was simply the three stages of life of the sun: New Born at dawn, Mature or full grown [in its full power] at 12 noon, and old and dying, at the end of day (going back to The Father. All three were of course ONE DIVINITY! THE TRINTIY IS NOT MYSTERY [in the Mystery Schools]!!
"The Egyptians knew that the Sun was at its highest point in the sky (or high noon) when no shadow was cast by the pyramid. At that point, all Egypt offered prayers to the 'Most High' God!
"As stated before, to the ancients, the sky was the abode, or heavenly temple of the 'MOST HIGH.' Therefore, 'God's Sun' was doing his heavenly Father's work in the temple at [noon].
"The world of ancient man kept track of times and seasons by the movement of the Sun - daily, monthly and yearly. For this, the sundial was devised. Not only was the daily movement of the sun tracked on the round dial, but the whole year was charted on a round calendar dial. Examples [are]: Ancient Mexican, Mayan, Inca, Aztec, Sumerian, Babylonian, Assyrian, Egyptian, Celtic [or Celtic as some pronounce it], Aryan, etc. [And] with this method, certain new concepts emerged in the mind of ancient man.
"Since the Earth experienced four different seasons, all the same and equal (in time) each year, the round calendar was divided into four equal parts. This represented the complete story of the life of 'God's Sun'. This is also why we have, in the Bible, only four gospels. Of this point there can be no doubt. [For] Tertullian and many early church fathers stated this [exact fact themselves in their own writings].
"[And] this [the Mystery School claims] is why the famous painting of the 'Last Supper' pictures the 12 followers [or houses] of the Sun in four groups (of 3)...the seasons [with the Sun in the center alone.]!
"On the round surface of the yearly calendar, you draw a straight line directly across the middle, cutting the circle in half - one end being the point of the winter solstice, the other end being the point of the summer solstice. Then draw another straight line (crossing the first one). One end of the new line being the spring equinox, the other end being the autumn equinox. You now have the starting points for each of the four seasons. This is referred to by all major encyclopedias and reference works, both ancient and modern, as 'The Cross of the Zodiac'. Thus, the life of God's 'Sun' is on 'the Cross'. This is why we see the round circle of the Sun on the crosses of Christian churches. The next time you pass a Christian church, look for the circle (Sun) on the cross.
"On December 22nd, the Sun, going south, reaches its lowest point in the sky (our winter solstice). At that lowest point, the Sun stops moving on the sundial for three days, Dec 22nd, Dec 23rd, and Dec 24th in the Southern Constellation known as the Southern Cross. Hence our Savior (dead for three days) died on THE CROSS. The 'SOUTHERN CROSS CONSTELLATION,' that is.
"This is the only time of the year [folks] that the Sun actually stops its movement in our sky [William Cooper: according to the Mystery Schools]. On the morning of Dec. 25th, the Sun begins its annual journey back to us in the northern hemisphere, bringing, of course, our spring. Therefore, on Dec 25th, the Sun is BORN AGAIN. And to this day, His worshipers celebrate His BIRTHDAY!
"It is at this point that we should look at the significance of the recurring number 12 in the Bible. First, 13 is said to be unlucky for humans. It is a heavenly number and represents...the Sun + 'the 12' = 13!"
[William Cooper]: Or Christ plus the 12 disciples equals 13. It's unlucky for a different reason, folks, and I will explain that on another program. But it has to do with the persecution of the Mystery School, the Mystery Religion.
"It would be well to get a Bible Concordance and look to see how many times the number 12 is used in the entire Bible."
[William Cooper]: Remember, the Mystery Religion is a religion of the heavens. Also, in the Bible you will find many combinations of the number seven. In the Mystery Religion, that represents the seven stars of the Pleiades. And you can see the emergence of the Mystery Religion in the UFO movement, when the Pleiadians come to talk to Billy Myers in Switzerland. (laughs) Oh my, how we are deceived by these people!
"[Here are a few examples of the use of the number 12 in the Bible]: the 12 Months of the Year, the 12 Apostles of the Sun, the 12 Tribes of Israel, the 12 Brothers of Joseph, the 12 Judges of Israel, the 12 Great Patriarchs, the 12 [Old Testament] Prophets, the 12 Kings of Israel, the 12 Princes of Israel, God's Sun in Temple at 12 [and there are many more.]
"All of these examples and countless more derived directly from the ancient world's fascination with the 12 Signs of the Zodiac."
[William Cooper]: Now remember, folks, what I'm given you is the teachings of the Mystery Schools. This does not necessarily reflect any of my own beliefs, or my own religious beliefs, or those of WWCR. We cannot fight against these manipulators unless we know who they are and what they believe. Now, what you want to believe is your own business.
"As we noted before [folks], the year was divided into 12 equal parts, or months. And to each month was appointed a heavenly symbol or astrological 'SIGN.' [William Cooper: Each of these signs made up one season in the world of the heavens, thus divided into four separate seasons.] Each of the 12 monthly signs were called 'HOUSES' OF THE HEAVENLY ZODIAC...
"...The astronomers of Babylon divided the sky into twelve 'houses.' [William Cooper: They did this to account for the fact that the planets were not always exactly in the ecliptic, but appeared to wander a certain number of degrees either side of it.] They [therefore had to assume that] each sign of the Zodiac extended its influence through a fixed [portion] of the sky, which they thought of as a house [William Cooper: to which a planet could return when it completed one of its journeys about the sun]...The great god of the day had its house in Leo [William Cooper: Leo, the Lion of Judah], where he ruled at the head of his splendor; the Moon ruled in Cancer, at the right hand of the Sun...The other planets were given two houses. One for day and one for night. And since the Zodiac divided the sky into twelve equal [portions], each of these houses was also equal, comprising 30°, [or] one-twelfth of the 360° circle.
"[And] THE HOUSES/SIGNS OF THE ZODIAC were as follows: Aries was THE RAM or LAMB of God. Taurus THE BULL/GOLDEN CALF, Gemini THE TWINS [which represented] Cain-Abel, Jacob-Esau [or] Jesus-Satan [William Cooper: for in Mystery Babylon, Jesus and Satan are brothers, and in some sects of the mystery religion, they are the same entity], Cancer THE CRAB, Leo THE LION/of the tribe of Judah [that can be found in Revelations 5, verse 5], Virgo the VIRGIN/spring birth of God's Sun..."
[William Cooper]: or Mary. Mary or Marie means pure, thus Mary the virgin, the mother of God, when God is reborn or born in the spring. And that is where the mother holding the child, Isis with the child, Horus, and all through the history of the world you will find a virgin holding a child in every culture, every language, in every continent, of this Earth.
"...Libra THE SCALES, Scorpio THE SCORPIAN, the back-biting traitor...Judas, Sagittarius THE ARCHER, Capricorn THE SEA-GOAT [or the goat of Mendes]. Aquarius, MAN WITH THE WATER PITCHER, Pisces THE TWO FISH."
[William Cooper]: The age that we are leaving at this point in time, is the age of Pisces. And, according to the Mystery Religion, we are entering into the Age of Aquarius very soon in our future. And to them this has great meaning, for it means the dawn of the New Age, the age of the illumined man. The number of the man is 666 in the Mystery Religion.
"Today we have expressions when someone dies. We say things like, 'They passed' or 'They Passed On' or 'They Passed Away.' The ancients said 'They Passed Over' (from one life to another). [William Cooper: Over what? Over the river.] And so it was with the coming of spring, as God's Sun is 'Resurrected' from the Death of Winter to His New Life (in spring). This is why Christians celebrate 'The Resurrection' with a Sun-Rise service at...'EASTER'...and the Jews, who knew [William Cooper: this ancient religion from their time in captivity in Babylon] celebrate the same with their...'PASSOVER.'
"With this knowledge, we now add the fact that the first [Decan] of the astrological sign of Virgo is 'Coma' - or the 'desired one' - of the nations. This was pictured by the ancient astrologers as a virgin girl holding a new born babe. Hence, our 'Madonna and Child' motif, so in the spring, or Virgo, God's Sun is 'Born of a Virgin.' Incidentally, the astrological symbol for Virgo is the letter 'M' [or] 'Marie' [which] means 'pure', hence 'M'-ary...the pure virgin!"
[William Cooper]: And all through every culture, you will sign...find other representations by other names of the virgin mother with the child. Isis with the child Horus, born of a magical intercourse, when Isis changes into a bird and flutters over the dead Osiris. Osiris representing the sun, Isis representing the moon. I will tell you the meaning of the child Horus, other than the Sun in the morning, probably on another episode of the Hour of the Time. Now, we belong to one another, according to the Mystery School. We are part of God's creation. We are part of a great fraternity of man, according to them. We are creations voiced to sing praises to God as we gather in the morning, (laughs) the morning, folks, to pray. The very time of day recalls our creation and our new creation in Christ during the gathering time reflect on this mystery [sic]. Using the silence, the sounds of morning, the Psalms and other scriptures, be aware that the rising sun is the image of Christ, our sun and source of life, and that is taken right out of a Protestant church's leaflet calling for the congregation to gather for the Easter sunrise service.
"Next, we read at I Peter [chapter 5 verse 4] that God's Sun is the 'Chief' shepherd. This word 'chief is very important. For at I Peter [chapter 2 verse 6] and again at [Ephesians chapter 2 verse 20] God's Sun is called the 'Chief Cornerstone'.
"[William Cooper: Now in our research in the mystery schools we find that the] word in Greek for 'Chief Cornerstone' simply meant the 'Peak of a Pyramid'. [The 'Peak of a Pyramid.] [The] corner foundation (stone) or, peak of the pyramid.
"The prefix akro- [or] (topmost) was added by the Jews to the already existing Greek adjective, goniaios [or] (at the corner). In that way the translators of Isaiah rendered the Hebrew word for 'corner' (pinna Isaiah 28:14), describing the stone which was a 'sure foundation' and which probably had reference to the future Messiah...well understood by the Christian writers, was that of an important Stone which was both akro- (a Peak) and a goniaios (a cornerstone). But there are four or more corners to a building, and a stone and a corner cannot be uniquely significant."
[William Cooper]: Although you will find in Freemasonry the ceremony of laying a cornerstone for every building that is built, and you look at all the buildings in Washington, DC. You will see a cornerstone with the Masonic symbols and Masonic date of the Mystery Schools of the calendar of six thousand years.
"[Well, we found that we don’t believe that it can be] significant unless the stone be at the apex[, apex,] of a pyramid where all corners meet and bond together."
[William Cooper]: ...and that is the secret of the truncated pyramid missing the cap stone, on the reverse of the Great Seal of the United States. For we have found in our research, that in the Mystery Religion the Master Mason is the cornerstone, or the peak, of the pyramid. The illumined man who functions as the eye of Horus, or the spy for the Mystery Schools, wherever he is at.
"Just as the great pyramid near Mexico City is called...the 'Pyramid of The Sun,' so also The Great Pyramid of Egypt was [actually] dedicated to Horus, 'The Sun.' A picture of this you may see on the back of any one-dollar bill. Above the pyramid [folks] is The Eye, the Sun - The Eye of Horus, The Sun (of God).
"The New Testament tells us three different times that God's Sun was taught by and learned all things from the Father. He was...the PUPIL.
"We are told at Matthew [chapter 14 versus 17 and 19] that God's Sun tends to His people's needs with 'Two Fishes'. The two fishes being the astrological sign all astrologers know as Pisces.
"Thus, we have had for almost 2000 years God's Sun ruling in His 'kingdom' or sign of Pisces/Two Fishes. As stated before, these signs are called houses. Therefore, Pisces is the 'Lord's House' at this time. Truly, the Greatest 'Fish' Story Ever Told!
"According to astrology, sometime after the year 2010..."
[William Cooper]: Catch that date, folks: the year 2010 and remember when I told you about 2001. Arthur C. Clark is obviously a member of the Mystery Schools, and Stanley Kubrick, who's responsible for making the movie, is obviously a member also.
"According to astrology, sometime after the year 2010 the Sun will enter into His new Sign, or His new Kingdom, as it was called by the ancients. This next coming Sign [or] Kingdom, soon to be upon us, will be, according to the Zodiac, the House or Sign of Aquarius. So when we read at Luke [chapter 22 verse 10], we now understand why God's Sun states that He and His followers, at the last Passover, are to go into 'the house of the man with the water pitcher'. So we see in the coming millennium, God's Sun will bring us into His new Kingdom or House of Aquarius (the man with the water pitcher).
"Once we realize that in Astrology, each month is assigned one of the so-called 'Houses' of the Zodiac and in heaven are 12 houses [or] (12 monthly signs), then the words we read of God's Sun saying 'In my Father's house are many mansions', makes sense (when translated correctly). The proper translation is as follows: Father's House = Heavenly Abode, Mansions = Houses.
"So, correctly read in the original text, we read: 'In my father’s heavenly abode are many houses.' Yes, 12 to be exact [according to the Mystery Religion of Babylon]!
"...[By careful intention and study of the houses,] you will be enable to interpret Horoscopes. [It is well to] remember [that] just as the influence of one Planet in one Sign may be affected for good or ill by another Planet in another Sign, so the influence of Planets in Signs in general may be [strengthened, weakened, enhanced, afflicted or otherwise altered] by the influence of Planets and houses [according to their beliefs].
"...[A rule of thumb to remember is that] signs measure your inherent qualities, the Planets influence those qualities, and the Houses indicate directions for them. In other words, the Houses indicate certain things, and a Planet in a House influences or activates the things indicated."
[William Cooper]: Now, this is all according to their religion. If you want more explanation, please ask Nancy Reagan.
"Anyone familiar with modern-day Christianity must surely know we are said to be living in the 'Last Days'. This teaching is, in part, based on the idea expressed in Matthew [chapter 28, verse 20] of The King James Bible. Where God's Sun says, “I will be with you even to the End of the world.” End of the world??!! [In] another simple mistranslation to clarify [William Cooper: and there are many in the Bible] with a proper understanding of the actual words used. This 'end of the world' is translated differently in the various Bibles. Some say 'End of Time', [some say] 'End of the Days', and still others say 'Conclusion of this system of things.' So what does all this talk of the 'End Times/End of Days' really mean?
"[Well] here is the simple answer [folks, according to the Mystery Schools]. When the scripture speaks of 'the end of the world,' the actual word used is not, I repeat, is not end of the world. The actual word in Greek is 'Aeon, which, when correctly translated, means 'Age,' that’s spelled [folks] A-G-E! Any library will have Bible concordances. Strong’s Bible Concordance is a good reference work to use here. Look up the word 'age' in any secular dictionary or Bible Concordance. There you will find the word for 'age' is from the Greek 'Aeon' [or A-E-O-N]. Remembering that in Astrology each of the 12 houses (or signs) of the Zodiac corresponds to a 2000 year period of time, called an 'age,' we now know we are 1992 years into the House or Age of Pisces. Now, correctly understood, it can rightly be said that we today, in fact, are living in the 'LAST DAYS.'
"Yes, [according to the Mystery Schools] we are in the last days of the old 'Age of Pisces'. Soon, God's Sun will come again into His New Kingdom or 'New Age' [William Cooper: and that is where all this new-age movement and new age comes from...'New Age'] of Aquarius (man with the water pitcher - Luke [chapter 22 verse 10])."
[William Cooper]: That’s right, folks, the new Aeon or the New Age. This, according to the Mystery Schools, is the perversion of Christianity. This is the theme of the Bible, God's Sun in his coming kingdom age, the new age of Aquarius. Now, what you choose to believe is your business. Remember, don’t get mad at me. I am teaching you the Mystery Religion of ancient Babylon, and I am telling you right now many people practice this mystery religion in secret, and they hate Christians. They hate Christians because they believe that Christianity is a perversion of their religion, and thus is their enemy.
"When viewing the shimmering rays of sunlight on a body of water at dawn or sunset, [according to the Mystery Schools] one can still see today, how God's Sun 'walks on water.'"
[William Cooper]: Good night, and God bless you all.
(closing music: Walk on the Water, by Creedence Clearwater Revival)
Raising A Child With Asperger's Syndrome: the Shonda Schilling Story
By Sherwood Ross
To many women, being the wife of an All-Star major league pitcher may seem like a dream existence. Behind her celebrity husband’s glamorous network TV appearances on the diamond and the sports page headlines, though, a baseball wife must grapple with raising a family alone for a good part of the year when her husband is away on the road, no easy task under normal circumstances, and a daunting one for a family that had to move 40 times because of spring training and trades to five different ball clubs. And if the wife is also battling skin cancer and has one child with Asperger’s Syndrome, and another with anorexia, she is apt to write a book about her trials as Shonda Schilling has done, titled, “The Best Kind of Different: Our Family’s Journey with Asperger’s Syndrome(HarperCollins).” Fortunately, Shonda was a journalism major at Towson State College, Maryland, and knows how to tell a difficult story.
Shonda is the wife of Curt Schilling---a dominating hurler for two decades for the Philadelphia Phillies and Boston Red Sox, among other contenders, and a man who struck out a phenomenal 3,116 batters while compiling an enviable 216-146 won-lost record over nearly 20 years in the Big Time, collecting three World Series championship rings in the process for his performances in 2001, 2004, and 2007. With Curt away so much it wasn’t always possible to be a typical family, Shonda writes. In an interview on Comcast on “Books of Our Time,” produced by the Massachusetts School of Law at Andover, Shonda told law professor/TV host Holly Vietzke:
“I think that when you’re married to somebody who’s a professional or a celebrity, you’re often thought of as never having to do anything. So I was always trying to live up to what people thought, to prove that I was doing it. And I was raising my own kids…at a cost of killing myself in the process.” After a while, Shonda said, she stopped trying to change peoples’ minds and determined “to live my life the way that I am, and true to who I am (and after the fourth child)..to get some help in there.” Married in 1992, the Schillings have four children: Gehrig, 1995; Gabriella, 1997; Grant, 1999; and Garrison, 2002.
While she recognized that son Grant was different “in a way I’d never seen before,” Shonda said, “I had no idea that anything such as Asperger’s ever existed…I just kept chalking everything up to that he was the baby of the family.” At times, Grant would not obey her in public and threw temper tantrums, causing passers-by to stare or offer advice, which Shonda regarded as humiliating. The Schillings did not know Grant had Asperger’s until he was diagnosed with it at the age of seven. What followed in her family, she believes, could happen in any family. “There is no perfect family, and (it’s best) to go with your instinct and just be kinder to people. I mean, knowing now what I know, if I see someone who’s really struggling, the last thing I’m going to do is throw a look at them. I smile at them because it is humiliating, you know, and if someone would have thrown a smile at me, it would have meant everything in the world to me. Instead, I got all the unwanted advice about what I was doing wrong, and what kind of child he was and…that I was failing so miserably. But we just do really (have to) realize that there are all different kinds of kids in the world.”
Shonda learned that the simplest change in routine---such as entering school by a different door---could provoke a crisis. On one occasion Grant began to cry because “I never have gone in the front door of the school and I don’t know how to go in that way.” Grant struggled repeatedly but could not make himself walk through the door but after 20 minutes, though, Shonda calmed him down and had him walk through the entrance when a teacher was present “and he was fine for the rest of the day” but “it was emotionally draining (for me).”
A child with Asperger’s, Shonda says, does not think that other people have opinions that count. “He only thinks that he has an opinion, so if you’re in a parking lot and he sees a dog he really wants to pet, his thinking is, ‘I want to go pet the dog, what’s wrong with that?’ Not safety, not anything…so I found myself always having to be a step ahead of him, often putting my hand on him rather than the younger one(Garrison), because the younger one got it.” There were occasions, she continued, when Grant did not want to be at a baseball game when his father was pitching. “He didn’t...care that I wanted to see the game. It was too much for him and he wanted out of there, so he would rock back and forth and stuff and say ‘I want to go’, and loudly, and he didn’t care who was around.” Other fans would lean over and say, ‘Oh, you need to listen to your mother.’ There’s nothing worse than your child not being in your control and having to listen to other people’s opinions,” Shonda says. Some people suggested that if Shonda spanked Grant the misbehavior would stop. “But I knew in my heart that a spanking wasn’t going to work.” “It had gotten to the point,” she continued, “when he was seven years old, that I knew if I put my hands on him, I might hurt him because he wasn’t responding to me at all, and, in fact, he would give me a giggle that was almost like a slap in the face, like “You can’t affect me.’ It was his nervous way of trying to deal with my yelling.”
Although outsiders tend to notice the acting out of Asperger children and complain of their anti-social behavior, they don’t recognize the syndrome has some positive aspects, Shonda writes. “I think people need to recognize children with Asperger’s are not doing anything by being malicious…that they’re over-talking, over-talking…our first reaction is ‘this is really weird.’” Kids, though, don’t see that the listener has had enough. They have this wealth of information and they want to get it to you. Nothing they do is to be mean but(for them) it’s a deep conversation and they’re saying it from the heart. They’re not saying things you (necessarily) want to hear.” Grant, for example, was obsessed with Naked Mole Rats, featured in the cartoon “Kim Possible,” and spent hours finding every book in the library that mentioned them.
Shonda goes on to say, “I think one of the best qualities about my son is that he’s not going to be influenced in the world by status or money because he doesn’t really understand that. He’s going to get into a career that he loves and be really good at it because he’s in love with it and he’s going to research it and he’s going to have a wealth of knowledge.” She adds, “He’s going to have to be taught and understood, when it comes to social interactions and stuff like that but if you understand what kind of a person he is on the inside, you realize that it’s really a gift that he gets to live like that.” Asperger children learn better to socialize as they age and their maturity levels when they’re twenty-five or thirty, Shonda says, are the same as their peers and their quirkiness does not stop them from getting married and raising families.
Shonda says her other children “were mad at Grant all the time. They’d say, ‘Why does he always get his own way and can do what he wants?’ And one of the great lessons is that life isn’t always fair…and so that’s where I’ve seen my kids come a long way, to understand there’s a lot of different kids out in the world, and there’s a lot of different approaches and a lot of different ways to sit back and go, ‘Okay, well, I can let that go.’ It’s really not that important.’” Shonda said her children fought a lot until they came to that point and, being forced to handle the fighting with her husband away, she believed her own situation might be considered “not fair,” either.
Far from attempting to hide Grant’s condition from his teachers out of fear that it would label him, Shonda was open about it. “I think in a society that we are recognizing that there is so much different, that understanding it would be the best tool, and it would help my son to be the best person that he could be to be understood, and that the people in his classroom could help him by saying, ‘Grant, you’re talking too much, you’re in my space.’ They need to go ahead and tell him and help him so that he would be learning lessons in school and in sports and in his everyday life.”
Shonda says that Grant is “very proud of himself” to have overcome his problems and that the best feeling for her about the book “is that he has no reason to be ashamed. It’s not a disease, it’s the way his brain is wired, and he should not be treated any differently because of that. My youngest son has dyslexia, but we don’t mind using that term. That doesn’t mean my son isn’t going to read. It just means that he has to learn a different way to reading. It doesn’t mean that my son with Asperger’s is not going to grow up and be a successful human being. It means that his route is going to be a little different than the typical route.” For the most part, Shonda says, Asperger kids “are gifted in their minds, often very, very bright, and you think back when we were in school that these kids were just pushed to the side because they weren’t understood or labeled ‘behavioral.’ And so it’s just really neat to know that people get them now and will be able to bring out the best in them and make them actually contribute to society. A lot of them grow up to be scientists because they are able to hyperfocus on things that they really enjoy.”
Shonda learned to make use of the strategies that would help Grant adjust to an often tumultuous life. Her parents brought him to the baseball park to participate in what they hoped would be a celebration if the Red Sox swept the Colorado Rockies (Curt had won the second game 2-1) only in the eighth inning of the fourth game to avoid sensory overload on the seven-year-old. “He never cared about baseball, couldn’t care less,” the worried Mother said, thinking about the tumult that would erupt after the last out of a Red Sox victory, “so a World Series win is the last place you want to be.” Ordinarly, loud noise and commotion would cause Grant to shut down. Shonda feared Grant “might go fetal” so she explained beforehand to him exactly what would happen, including the barrage of flashbulbs. As it turned out, “nobody was jumping higher than he was...he’ll just remember that it was a fun family experience, being on the field and all the kids and parents, with everybody hugging and taking pictures…and there’s Grant running back and forth in the outfield and he sees himself on the JumboTron…and he’s having fun and that’s what’s important, and I took one of my first deep breaths, it was so overwhelming what my life is going to be like.” Shonda added, “Just being able to sit back and watch Grant’s euphoria made me almost as happy as the fact that we’d just won the World Series. Nothing will ever compare to witnessing Grant’s excitement and joy, and the feeling of relief that came over me. It warmed my heart as nothing else could.”
Being a baseball player, Curt missed a lot and now that he has retired from baseball “he realizes how much of his life he did miss,” Shonda says. “It’s hard. It’s hurtful. There’s a lot of making up to do and there’s no way to go back.” She says her husband “never fully understood Grant until he retired” and never recognized the burden Grant’s differences imposed on her. She says Curt was thinking, “I’m providing this wonderful life for you and you’re complaining” while she was thinking, “I’m doing everything and you don’t appreciate what I’m doing.” Writing the book, she explained, alerted Curt to the scope of her problems and the couple got counseling “He came in and said, ‘I had no idea that you were going through all this stuff.’ And that was all I needed. I didn’t blame him or need to be angry at him. I just needed him to understand that I really was trying my best, and I was frazzled, and I felt like a failure, and I was covering it all up so that he could go out and pitch every five days, that I could handle it all…”
In February, 2001, Shonda, then 33, was diagnosed with stage 2 malignant melanoma. The affliction required five surgeries that left 25 scars crisscrossing her back, arms, legs and chest. “We lived a lifetime in 2001,” Curt said. “In a 365 day span we experienced probably the highest of highs, from a professional standpoint and from a personal standpoint, and the lowest of lows on both fronts, too. The thing that worried me the most that year was losing my wife and my children not having a mother.” That October Curt won the World Series co-MVP honor pitching for the Arizona Diamondbacks, and the media wrote up his wife’s battle with cancer. The overwhelming response inspired Shonda to create the Shade Foundation of America. She travels the country warning people to avoid overexposure to sunlight and to have their skin checked regularly. Her foundation has worked to teach thousands of school children about sun-safety and her work has been recognized by the American Academy of Dermatology. She also runs the Boston Marathon each year to raise money for the work. “Every year we provide grant money for schools and community groups to create shade on playgrounds and public spaces,” Shonda says. “In the classroom, we introduced the SunWise program with the help of Environmental Protection Agency. We also run a school poster contest to drive home the message of prevention.”
Since her husband retired at the end of the 2007 World Series, Shonda’s life has become “absolutely easier, because for the first couple of months he said, ‘Whose kids are these?’ and he could see that Grant was exhausting. He would come home and sit down and think we’re all going to eat a balanced meal and you’ve got one (child) who’s not putting food in his mouth (Gehrig was anorexic) and one that won’t touch certain textures…and so he realized that parenting was a lot more than let me raise your voice. But Curt loves parenting. I don’t think anything could drag him back to baseball right now.”
Asked about the positive effect Grant’s Asperger Syndrome had on her, Shonda replied, “I cannot even begin to tell you how much happier I am, just because I realize that there’s just so many things in life that don’t matter, and how neat it is to live truthfully through someone else’s eyes, like his. One great example is I read the thank yous’ at the end of the book, the dedications, and I said, ‘I want you to listen to this and tell me what you think.’ And I read it to Grant and his eyes filled up and he jumped on me and he hugged me and he kissed me and he’s crying and he says, ‘I just want you to know how much that means to me.’ And he was just nine years old and I am so proud of him and it’s so awesome that he gets to live his life so true…He’s always a blessing. He’s always with you when he’s with you and that’s just a neat thing.”
The Massachusetts School of Law at Andover, producers of “Books of Our Time” on which Ms. Schilling appeared, is a non-profit educational institution purposefully dedicated to providing a rigorous, affordable legal education to students from low-income, immigrant, and minority backgrounds who would otherwise be unable to obtain a legal education. For further information, contact Sherwood Ross, a media consultant to the law school, at sherwoodross10@gmail.com
To many women, being the wife of an All-Star major league pitcher may seem like a dream existence. Behind her celebrity husband’s glamorous network TV appearances on the diamond and the sports page headlines, though, a baseball wife must grapple with raising a family alone for a good part of the year when her husband is away on the road, no easy task under normal circumstances, and a daunting one for a family that had to move 40 times because of spring training and trades to five different ball clubs. And if the wife is also battling skin cancer and has one child with Asperger’s Syndrome, and another with anorexia, she is apt to write a book about her trials as Shonda Schilling has done, titled, “The Best Kind of Different: Our Family’s Journey with Asperger’s Syndrome(HarperCollins).” Fortunately, Shonda was a journalism major at Towson State College, Maryland, and knows how to tell a difficult story.
Shonda is the wife of Curt Schilling---a dominating hurler for two decades for the Philadelphia Phillies and Boston Red Sox, among other contenders, and a man who struck out a phenomenal 3,116 batters while compiling an enviable 216-146 won-lost record over nearly 20 years in the Big Time, collecting three World Series championship rings in the process for his performances in 2001, 2004, and 2007. With Curt away so much it wasn’t always possible to be a typical family, Shonda writes. In an interview on Comcast on “Books of Our Time,” produced by the Massachusetts School of Law at Andover, Shonda told law professor/TV host Holly Vietzke:
“I think that when you’re married to somebody who’s a professional or a celebrity, you’re often thought of as never having to do anything. So I was always trying to live up to what people thought, to prove that I was doing it. And I was raising my own kids…at a cost of killing myself in the process.” After a while, Shonda said, she stopped trying to change peoples’ minds and determined “to live my life the way that I am, and true to who I am (and after the fourth child)..to get some help in there.” Married in 1992, the Schillings have four children: Gehrig, 1995; Gabriella, 1997; Grant, 1999; and Garrison, 2002.
While she recognized that son Grant was different “in a way I’d never seen before,” Shonda said, “I had no idea that anything such as Asperger’s ever existed…I just kept chalking everything up to that he was the baby of the family.” At times, Grant would not obey her in public and threw temper tantrums, causing passers-by to stare or offer advice, which Shonda regarded as humiliating. The Schillings did not know Grant had Asperger’s until he was diagnosed with it at the age of seven. What followed in her family, she believes, could happen in any family. “There is no perfect family, and (it’s best) to go with your instinct and just be kinder to people. I mean, knowing now what I know, if I see someone who’s really struggling, the last thing I’m going to do is throw a look at them. I smile at them because it is humiliating, you know, and if someone would have thrown a smile at me, it would have meant everything in the world to me. Instead, I got all the unwanted advice about what I was doing wrong, and what kind of child he was and…that I was failing so miserably. But we just do really (have to) realize that there are all different kinds of kids in the world.”
Shonda learned that the simplest change in routine---such as entering school by a different door---could provoke a crisis. On one occasion Grant began to cry because “I never have gone in the front door of the school and I don’t know how to go in that way.” Grant struggled repeatedly but could not make himself walk through the door but after 20 minutes, though, Shonda calmed him down and had him walk through the entrance when a teacher was present “and he was fine for the rest of the day” but “it was emotionally draining (for me).”
A child with Asperger’s, Shonda says, does not think that other people have opinions that count. “He only thinks that he has an opinion, so if you’re in a parking lot and he sees a dog he really wants to pet, his thinking is, ‘I want to go pet the dog, what’s wrong with that?’ Not safety, not anything…so I found myself always having to be a step ahead of him, often putting my hand on him rather than the younger one(Garrison), because the younger one got it.” There were occasions, she continued, when Grant did not want to be at a baseball game when his father was pitching. “He didn’t...care that I wanted to see the game. It was too much for him and he wanted out of there, so he would rock back and forth and stuff and say ‘I want to go’, and loudly, and he didn’t care who was around.” Other fans would lean over and say, ‘Oh, you need to listen to your mother.’ There’s nothing worse than your child not being in your control and having to listen to other people’s opinions,” Shonda says. Some people suggested that if Shonda spanked Grant the misbehavior would stop. “But I knew in my heart that a spanking wasn’t going to work.” “It had gotten to the point,” she continued, “when he was seven years old, that I knew if I put my hands on him, I might hurt him because he wasn’t responding to me at all, and, in fact, he would give me a giggle that was almost like a slap in the face, like “You can’t affect me.’ It was his nervous way of trying to deal with my yelling.”
Although outsiders tend to notice the acting out of Asperger children and complain of their anti-social behavior, they don’t recognize the syndrome has some positive aspects, Shonda writes. “I think people need to recognize children with Asperger’s are not doing anything by being malicious…that they’re over-talking, over-talking…our first reaction is ‘this is really weird.’” Kids, though, don’t see that the listener has had enough. They have this wealth of information and they want to get it to you. Nothing they do is to be mean but(for them) it’s a deep conversation and they’re saying it from the heart. They’re not saying things you (necessarily) want to hear.” Grant, for example, was obsessed with Naked Mole Rats, featured in the cartoon “Kim Possible,” and spent hours finding every book in the library that mentioned them.
Shonda goes on to say, “I think one of the best qualities about my son is that he’s not going to be influenced in the world by status or money because he doesn’t really understand that. He’s going to get into a career that he loves and be really good at it because he’s in love with it and he’s going to research it and he’s going to have a wealth of knowledge.” She adds, “He’s going to have to be taught and understood, when it comes to social interactions and stuff like that but if you understand what kind of a person he is on the inside, you realize that it’s really a gift that he gets to live like that.” Asperger children learn better to socialize as they age and their maturity levels when they’re twenty-five or thirty, Shonda says, are the same as their peers and their quirkiness does not stop them from getting married and raising families.
Shonda says her other children “were mad at Grant all the time. They’d say, ‘Why does he always get his own way and can do what he wants?’ And one of the great lessons is that life isn’t always fair…and so that’s where I’ve seen my kids come a long way, to understand there’s a lot of different kids out in the world, and there’s a lot of different approaches and a lot of different ways to sit back and go, ‘Okay, well, I can let that go.’ It’s really not that important.’” Shonda said her children fought a lot until they came to that point and, being forced to handle the fighting with her husband away, she believed her own situation might be considered “not fair,” either.
Far from attempting to hide Grant’s condition from his teachers out of fear that it would label him, Shonda was open about it. “I think in a society that we are recognizing that there is so much different, that understanding it would be the best tool, and it would help my son to be the best person that he could be to be understood, and that the people in his classroom could help him by saying, ‘Grant, you’re talking too much, you’re in my space.’ They need to go ahead and tell him and help him so that he would be learning lessons in school and in sports and in his everyday life.”
Shonda says that Grant is “very proud of himself” to have overcome his problems and that the best feeling for her about the book “is that he has no reason to be ashamed. It’s not a disease, it’s the way his brain is wired, and he should not be treated any differently because of that. My youngest son has dyslexia, but we don’t mind using that term. That doesn’t mean my son isn’t going to read. It just means that he has to learn a different way to reading. It doesn’t mean that my son with Asperger’s is not going to grow up and be a successful human being. It means that his route is going to be a little different than the typical route.” For the most part, Shonda says, Asperger kids “are gifted in their minds, often very, very bright, and you think back when we were in school that these kids were just pushed to the side because they weren’t understood or labeled ‘behavioral.’ And so it’s just really neat to know that people get them now and will be able to bring out the best in them and make them actually contribute to society. A lot of them grow up to be scientists because they are able to hyperfocus on things that they really enjoy.”
Shonda learned to make use of the strategies that would help Grant adjust to an often tumultuous life. Her parents brought him to the baseball park to participate in what they hoped would be a celebration if the Red Sox swept the Colorado Rockies (Curt had won the second game 2-1) only in the eighth inning of the fourth game to avoid sensory overload on the seven-year-old. “He never cared about baseball, couldn’t care less,” the worried Mother said, thinking about the tumult that would erupt after the last out of a Red Sox victory, “so a World Series win is the last place you want to be.” Ordinarly, loud noise and commotion would cause Grant to shut down. Shonda feared Grant “might go fetal” so she explained beforehand to him exactly what would happen, including the barrage of flashbulbs. As it turned out, “nobody was jumping higher than he was...he’ll just remember that it was a fun family experience, being on the field and all the kids and parents, with everybody hugging and taking pictures…and there’s Grant running back and forth in the outfield and he sees himself on the JumboTron…and he’s having fun and that’s what’s important, and I took one of my first deep breaths, it was so overwhelming what my life is going to be like.” Shonda added, “Just being able to sit back and watch Grant’s euphoria made me almost as happy as the fact that we’d just won the World Series. Nothing will ever compare to witnessing Grant’s excitement and joy, and the feeling of relief that came over me. It warmed my heart as nothing else could.”
Being a baseball player, Curt missed a lot and now that he has retired from baseball “he realizes how much of his life he did miss,” Shonda says. “It’s hard. It’s hurtful. There’s a lot of making up to do and there’s no way to go back.” She says her husband “never fully understood Grant until he retired” and never recognized the burden Grant’s differences imposed on her. She says Curt was thinking, “I’m providing this wonderful life for you and you’re complaining” while she was thinking, “I’m doing everything and you don’t appreciate what I’m doing.” Writing the book, she explained, alerted Curt to the scope of her problems and the couple got counseling “He came in and said, ‘I had no idea that you were going through all this stuff.’ And that was all I needed. I didn’t blame him or need to be angry at him. I just needed him to understand that I really was trying my best, and I was frazzled, and I felt like a failure, and I was covering it all up so that he could go out and pitch every five days, that I could handle it all…”
In February, 2001, Shonda, then 33, was diagnosed with stage 2 malignant melanoma. The affliction required five surgeries that left 25 scars crisscrossing her back, arms, legs and chest. “We lived a lifetime in 2001,” Curt said. “In a 365 day span we experienced probably the highest of highs, from a professional standpoint and from a personal standpoint, and the lowest of lows on both fronts, too. The thing that worried me the most that year was losing my wife and my children not having a mother.” That October Curt won the World Series co-MVP honor pitching for the Arizona Diamondbacks, and the media wrote up his wife’s battle with cancer. The overwhelming response inspired Shonda to create the Shade Foundation of America. She travels the country warning people to avoid overexposure to sunlight and to have their skin checked regularly. Her foundation has worked to teach thousands of school children about sun-safety and her work has been recognized by the American Academy of Dermatology. She also runs the Boston Marathon each year to raise money for the work. “Every year we provide grant money for schools and community groups to create shade on playgrounds and public spaces,” Shonda says. “In the classroom, we introduced the SunWise program with the help of Environmental Protection Agency. We also run a school poster contest to drive home the message of prevention.”
Since her husband retired at the end of the 2007 World Series, Shonda’s life has become “absolutely easier, because for the first couple of months he said, ‘Whose kids are these?’ and he could see that Grant was exhausting. He would come home and sit down and think we’re all going to eat a balanced meal and you’ve got one (child) who’s not putting food in his mouth (Gehrig was anorexic) and one that won’t touch certain textures…and so he realized that parenting was a lot more than let me raise your voice. But Curt loves parenting. I don’t think anything could drag him back to baseball right now.”
Asked about the positive effect Grant’s Asperger Syndrome had on her, Shonda replied, “I cannot even begin to tell you how much happier I am, just because I realize that there’s just so many things in life that don’t matter, and how neat it is to live truthfully through someone else’s eyes, like his. One great example is I read the thank yous’ at the end of the book, the dedications, and I said, ‘I want you to listen to this and tell me what you think.’ And I read it to Grant and his eyes filled up and he jumped on me and he hugged me and he kissed me and he’s crying and he says, ‘I just want you to know how much that means to me.’ And he was just nine years old and I am so proud of him and it’s so awesome that he gets to live his life so true…He’s always a blessing. He’s always with you when he’s with you and that’s just a neat thing.”
The Massachusetts School of Law at Andover, producers of “Books of Our Time” on which Ms. Schilling appeared, is a non-profit educational institution purposefully dedicated to providing a rigorous, affordable legal education to students from low-income, immigrant, and minority backgrounds who would otherwise be unable to obtain a legal education. For further information, contact Sherwood Ross, a media consultant to the law school, at sherwoodross10@gmail.com
Wednesday, August 18, 2010
New study: 85% of Big Pharma's new drugs are "lemons" and pose health risks to users
(NaturalNews) For years, natural health proponents have been sounding the alarm about the dangers of new drugs being pushed on consumers. But is that a one-sided, inaccurate view? Not at all. In fact, new research now shows the problems with Big Pharma's hugely hyped medications are far worse than most people have even dreamed. Independent reviewers found that about 85 percent of new drugs offer few if any new benefits -- but they carry the risk of causing serious harm to users.
According to Donald Light, Ph.D., a professor of comparative health policy at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey who authored the study, the pharmaceutical industry is a "market for lemons" and Big Pharma spends a fortune to sell those lemons to the public.
"Sometimes drug companies hide or downplay information about serious side effects of new drugs and overstate the drugs' benefits," Dr. Light, who presented his findings on August 17 in Atlanta at the 105th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, said in a press statement. "Then, they spend two to three times more on marketing than on research to persuade doctors to prescribe these new drugs. Doctors may get misleading information and then misinform patients about the risks of a new drug. It's really a two-tier market for lemons."
Dr. Light's paper, Pharmaceuticals: A Two-Tier Market for Producing 'Lemons' and Serious Harm, is an institutional analysis of the pharmaceutical industry and how it works. He based his conclusions on a wide range of data from independent sources and studies, including the Canadian Patented Medicine Prices Review Board, the Food and Drug Administration, and Prescrire International (a French language journal which publishes extensive research on pharmacology, toxicology and pharmaceutics ). Much of research for the study was conducted for a forthcoming book Dr. Light edited, The Risk of Prescription Drugs, which is slated for publication this fall by Columbia University Press.
In both his paper and his book, Dr. Light emphasizes what he dubs the "Risk Proliferation Syndrome", which refers to the way Big Pharma has grossly maximized the number of people exposed to new drugs with relatively low effectiveness but a heightened risk of adverse and often severe side effects. The pharmaceutical giants have accomplished this by failing to put each new medication on the market using a controlled, limited launch which would allow evidence to be gathered about the drug's effects, positive and negative. Instead, Big Pharma builds hugely hyped drug launches based on clinical trials that were designed in the first place to minimize evidence of harm and are published in the medical literature to only emphasize a drug's advantages.
Pharmaceutical companies spend millions of dollars on massive campaigns to sell a new prescription med, recruiting leading doctors to use the drug for conditions other than those for which it is approved, Dr. Light revealed. By promoting such off-label or unapproved uses, Big Pharma goes after even more sales and physicians inadvertently become what Dr. Light calls "double agents" -- they work to push sales of the new drug while they are supposed to be stewards of their patients' well-being.
And what happens when patients complain that the drug is making them sicker and/or producing side effects? Studies show their doctors usually just discount or dismiss these complaints, Dr. Light said.
According to the new study, the big drug companies are successful in getting away with selling their "lemon" drugs because of three main reasons: Big Pharma is in charge of testing their own new drugs; the pharmaceutical companies have invested millions in building "firewalls" of legal protection to hide information about a drug's dangers or lack of effectiveness; and the bar for drug efficacy is set fairly low to make it easier for Big Pharma to get a new drug approved.
Dr. Light pointed out that despite the extensive requirements for testing the efficacy and safety of each new medication, drug companies use a strategy of "swamping the regulator" with large numbers of incomplete, partial, and substandard clinical trials. For instance, in one study of 111 final applications for approval, 42% lacked adequately randomized trials, 40% had flawed testing of dosages, 39% lacked evidence of clinical efficacy, and 49% raised concerns about serious adverse side effects.
"The result is that drugs get approved without anyone being able to know how effective they really are or how much serious harm they will cause," he said. "The companies control the making of scientific knowledge and then control which findings will go to the FDA or be published."
As Mike Adams recently reported in NaturalNews, statin drugs are a prime example of the Big Pharma push to market drugs as safe and effective while glossing over the fact they often harm far more people than they help -- in the case of statins, causing everything from liver damage, acute kidney failure, and extreme muscle weakness to cataracts (http://www.naturalnews.com/028988_s...).
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According to Donald Light, Ph.D., a professor of comparative health policy at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey who authored the study, the pharmaceutical industry is a "market for lemons" and Big Pharma spends a fortune to sell those lemons to the public.
"Sometimes drug companies hide or downplay information about serious side effects of new drugs and overstate the drugs' benefits," Dr. Light, who presented his findings on August 17 in Atlanta at the 105th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, said in a press statement. "Then, they spend two to three times more on marketing than on research to persuade doctors to prescribe these new drugs. Doctors may get misleading information and then misinform patients about the risks of a new drug. It's really a two-tier market for lemons."
Dr. Light's paper, Pharmaceuticals: A Two-Tier Market for Producing 'Lemons' and Serious Harm, is an institutional analysis of the pharmaceutical industry and how it works. He based his conclusions on a wide range of data from independent sources and studies, including the Canadian Patented Medicine Prices Review Board, the Food and Drug Administration, and Prescrire International (a French language journal which publishes extensive research on pharmacology, toxicology and pharmaceutics ). Much of research for the study was conducted for a forthcoming book Dr. Light edited, The Risk of Prescription Drugs, which is slated for publication this fall by Columbia University Press.
In both his paper and his book, Dr. Light emphasizes what he dubs the "Risk Proliferation Syndrome", which refers to the way Big Pharma has grossly maximized the number of people exposed to new drugs with relatively low effectiveness but a heightened risk of adverse and often severe side effects. The pharmaceutical giants have accomplished this by failing to put each new medication on the market using a controlled, limited launch which would allow evidence to be gathered about the drug's effects, positive and negative. Instead, Big Pharma builds hugely hyped drug launches based on clinical trials that were designed in the first place to minimize evidence of harm and are published in the medical literature to only emphasize a drug's advantages.
Pharmaceutical companies spend millions of dollars on massive campaigns to sell a new prescription med, recruiting leading doctors to use the drug for conditions other than those for which it is approved, Dr. Light revealed. By promoting such off-label or unapproved uses, Big Pharma goes after even more sales and physicians inadvertently become what Dr. Light calls "double agents" -- they work to push sales of the new drug while they are supposed to be stewards of their patients' well-being.
And what happens when patients complain that the drug is making them sicker and/or producing side effects? Studies show their doctors usually just discount or dismiss these complaints, Dr. Light said.
According to the new study, the big drug companies are successful in getting away with selling their "lemon" drugs because of three main reasons: Big Pharma is in charge of testing their own new drugs; the pharmaceutical companies have invested millions in building "firewalls" of legal protection to hide information about a drug's dangers or lack of effectiveness; and the bar for drug efficacy is set fairly low to make it easier for Big Pharma to get a new drug approved.
Dr. Light pointed out that despite the extensive requirements for testing the efficacy and safety of each new medication, drug companies use a strategy of "swamping the regulator" with large numbers of incomplete, partial, and substandard clinical trials. For instance, in one study of 111 final applications for approval, 42% lacked adequately randomized trials, 40% had flawed testing of dosages, 39% lacked evidence of clinical efficacy, and 49% raised concerns about serious adverse side effects.
"The result is that drugs get approved without anyone being able to know how effective they really are or how much serious harm they will cause," he said. "The companies control the making of scientific knowledge and then control which findings will go to the FDA or be published."
As Mike Adams recently reported in NaturalNews, statin drugs are a prime example of the Big Pharma push to market drugs as safe and effective while glossing over the fact they often harm far more people than they help -- in the case of statins, causing everything from liver damage, acute kidney failure, and extreme muscle weakness to cataracts (http://www.naturalnews.com/028988_s...).
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