If You Support Fully Banning Abortion, Here Are Eleven Things You Don't Know You Support

Table of Contents

I. Introduction
II. List
III. Post-Script on Sexual Ethics
IV. Post-Script on Planned Parenthood
V. Conclusion

Content

I. Introduction

     If you support a total ban on abortion, and/or support treating abortion as if it were murder, then here are eleven things that you also support, by implication. You may not be aware of it, but these are problems which are almost certain to result from the full legal prohibition of abortions.

     In my opinion, any extreme pro-life position, supporting a total ban on abortion, ought to have a general abortion policy which at least attempts to solve each one of these problems, if it is to be taken seriously.

II. List

     1. Dangerous back-alley abortions, and attempts at auto-abortion, including by intentional drug overdose.

     2. Putting abortion doctors in prison (i.e., next to rapists, child traffickers, and murderers of human beings whose mothers have already given birth to them).

     3. Forcing adult women who are the victims of rape, to give birth against their will. (Reminder: Telling a woman that she should have kept her legs closed, does not solve this problem. Not only can pregnancy, male orgasm, and implantation of the embryo, occur without the woman's orgasm; they can all also occur without the woman's consent.)

     4. Putting would-be mothers in prison, next to murderers, and (ironically) rapists.

     5. Treating women who seek abortions as if they were murderers, in the fullest sense possible; i.e, charging them with murder with malice of forethought, and potentially even executing women for seeking (or maybe even simply wanting) abortions.

     6. Forcing female children who have been raped, to give birth against their will. (Reminder: Telling an underage girl that she should have saved herself for marriage, does not solve this problem. Especially if the girl was taken advantage of by a significantly older male partner who ought to be mature enough to consider himself a supervisor of girls in his presence, rather than their potential sex partner).

     7. Executing children for aborting their rapists' fetus. (I consider this tantamount to executing children for the "crime" of getting raped - that is, with several important caveats - provided that the child is female, gets pregnant as the result of that rape, and seeks an abortion to remedy the problem).

     8. Child marriage, and having no punishment for adult men who impregnate underage girls and then intimidate and/or manipulate them into getting married in order to make their relationship acceptable to the law.

     9. Forcing children who were conceived in rape, to be near the father who raped their mother. As of 2017, seven states require a parent to share custody, even if the other parent is a convicted rapist. Allowing a child to grow up near a rapist, and learn their life lessons from that rapist - whether it's their biological father or not - could not only damage the child's ability to acquire a keen sense of ethical judgment, it could even expose the child to the risks of being physically or even sexually abused while in that parent's custody.

     10. The excommunication of women and children who seek abortions, as well as the excommunication of abortion doctors, by the Catholic Church. (That is, if you are a Catholic, and agree with the Church's extreme pro-life position that anyone who gets an abortion should be excommunicated.)

     11. Forcing mothers to give birth in states and regions in which the material conditions supporting childbirth-giving and life are sub-par, and thus not hospitable to the survival of either the mother or the child. These include locations with statistically low survival rates for babies and mothers who have recently given birth, as well as locations plagued by pollution and ongoing environmental catastrophes.

     I should also note that it would be especially absurd to support consequences #7 through #10 of banning abortion, considering the high death rate of women who give birth at especially young ages,  as compared to older mothers.

III. Post-Script on Sexual Ethics:

     Many extreme pro-life Christians, and other conservative groups who tend to oppose abortion, will argue that "not all cultures are equal". The implication of this slogan, to put it tactfully, is to assert that Christian ethics are superior to Islamic ethics. To put it less tactfully, it's to say that Christians are civilized, while Muslims are savages.

     While much of the notion that "Muslims are savages" are based on political and military relations with the Islamic world (especially with the U.S. and Israel), the notion is also motivated by the religions' compared sexual ethics, especially as it pertains to the treatment of women, and adult-child relationships.

     The pro-life, anti-Islamic Christian will often claim that Muslims are not only savages, but child rapists, because the prophet Muhammad married his wife Aisha when she was nine years old, took her virginity at 12, and commanded his followers to do something similar. Christians in the West will also criticize the Islamic world for the prevalence of F.G.M. (female genital mutilation) within it.

     These practices are appalling, as well they should be. But they do not necessarily prove that Christian sexual ethics are superior to Islamic sexual ethics; nor to Jewish sexual ethics for that matter.

     As a reminder, Jews and Christians practice male circumcision (Jews routinely, Christians less often), while eschewing female circumcision (a more radical procedure than male circumcision); while in most majority-Muslim countries, the opposite is true. Moreover, the Jewish coming-of-age ceremonies of Bar Mitzvah and Bat Mitzvah are celebrated at the age of thirteen, and there is a passage in the Talmud that says a man has not taken a girl's virginity if he has intercourse with her before she turns three.

     Additionally, Christian sects such as Catholicism, the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints (Mormonism), Jehovah's Witnesses, and others, have acquired a reputation over the last few decades as being plagued with child sexual abuse. Mormon sect leader and polygamist Warren Jeffs, for example, took brides as young as twelve, while his adult and older teenage brides were slowly manipulated and intimidated into accepting these new wives as their "sister-wives among equals" (although Jeffs' favoritism for his youngest brides nevertheless showed).

     Moreover, there are still states in the majority-Christian U.S. which are plagued with legal and illegal child marriage, as well as low thresholds in age of consent laws. Texas currently prohibits child marriage, but it has more legally married minors than any other state. New Hampshire recently raised its marriage age to 16, while New Jersey and New York still allow the marriage of children between 14 and 16 provided that a parent and/or a judge has given permission.

     Colorado was the most recent state that enforced an age of consent below 16 (it was 15). Many states used to set that age much lower, and some states even went years at a time without such laws in their early histories. Although "Romeo and Juliet laws" allowing teen relationships, are well-meaning, new federal laws establishing a range of ages of consent, is not necessarily a buffer against states having low ages of consent as intended; there's a federal law that accidentally lowered the age of consent laws of twenty states, and accidentally provided young child traffickers a loophole and legal incentive to take their victims over state lines. (And I use the word "accidentally" loosely; it's hard to tell whether these legislators indeed know what they're doing sometimes.)

     Granted, many "hippies" and left-wing groups have too, so it should not be discounted that leftist and liberal cultures experience these abuses too. But that should not figure into the issue of which of the major three Abrahamic faiths are the most attentive to the rights of women and children to be free from men's attempts to force them into sex, marriage, and ritual cutting of the genitals.

     In my opinion, on that issue, the jury is out. Especially if these American state and federal laws providing unreasonably low ages for consent to sex and marriage, are in any way inspired by Christian ethics. And the statement of Republican New Jersey Governor Chris Christie concerning why he opposed efforts to raise the age of legal marriage in that state - predicated on "respecting the liberty of religious groups" there - leads me to conclude that these laws on sexual ethics are motivated by a desire to stay true to Christian principles.
     And my observation that most of the people who support a low age for legal marriage, also oppose abortion, lead me to wonder whether some of these people simply want to keep child marriage legal for the purpose of raping and impregnating a child, whom they can then use as a brood mare to create children (and maybe even child brides) for them.


IV. Post-Script on Planned Parenthood:

     Finally, I have to comment about several issues related to abortion, which have been raised to me by pro-life libertarian-conservative activist Merissa Hamilton, with whom I've recently exchanged some tweets concerning the role of Planned Parenthood in all of this.
     I do not dispute the allegation that Planned Parenthood overlooks, and fails to report, underage mothers who come into their facilities in order to abort their fetuses, whether conceived in rape or not. While it is a tragedy that people rape children and get children pregnant, it is not the business of Planned Parenthood to act as if it were a law enforcement agency.
     Granted, there are some legal barriers to children, and women in general, reporting rape (because there are statutes of limitations on reporting sexual abuse and sexual assault in many states), but New York and Illinois have recently begun to dismantle such laws, a movement to do the same is underfoot elsewhere in the country, and turning Planned Parenthood employees into police officers is not going to help solve the problem of children suffering from unwanted pregnancies.
     A child who goes into Planned Parenthood is already pregnant, and has already been raped. Going after the child's rapist with criminal charges will undoubtedly make the child safer (if successful), but arresting the rapist does not make the child no longer pregnant. And terminating pregnancies is the business of Planned Parenthood; making arrests is not.

     Lastly, I cannot agree with Merissa Hamilton's assertion that it would be wrong for Planned Parenthood to give an abortion to an underage child because it would be tantamount to destroying the evidence that a rape has occurred. I say this for several reasons.
     First, because a fetus is not evidence that a rape has occurred, any more than it is evidence that a rape has not occurred. You cannot tell, by looking at a fetus - nor by examining its genetics - whether it was conceived in rape. Plenty of pro-lifers, in fact, will try to convince you that the fact that the baby exists, is evidence that the mother consented! This is rubbish, of course, as I explained in my defense of point #3.
     Second, because even if a fetus can be evidence that a rape has occurred, it is far from the only evidence that a rape has occurred. Rape usually leaves plenty of evidence, both physical and emotional. Ripped and bloody clothing and underwear. Torn and bruised genitalia. Emotional and mental scars that can be testified about in open court and sworn to. Aborting a fetus conceived in rape, by no means, gets rid of all the evidence that a rape has occurred.
     Third and last, it is patently ridiculous to describe a fetus as "evidence that a rape has occurred". Pro-lifers spend plenty of time explaining how "every fetus is a unique, innocent gift from God with the potential to do good", etc.. It's quite a leap from praising the holiness of the innocent fetus, to describing it as a mere piece of evidence in a criminal case, no different from any other piece, such as a piece of clothing, a murder weapon, a brick containing a bullet fragment, etc..


V. Conclusion

     To make a play on the popular pro-choice slogan, "If you can't trust me with a choice, how can you trust me with a child", Merissa Hamilton's absurd assertion that a fetus is criminal evidence, prompts me to make up a new slogan, and that is this:
      "If you can't trust me with a choice, then how can you trust me with physical evidence that a crime has been committed?"
     If a fetus is simply "evidence that a crime has been committed", then shouldn't it be removed from its mother's womb as soon as possible, because it belongs in a police evidence locker?
     Yes, I am joking, and yes, I am serious.

     Pro-lifers are the reason why people abort their children. I don't want children to have to grow up in a world in which they're forced to submit to and marry much older men, and produce more child servants and child brides for them without the chance of legal repercussions.
     In my opinion, anyone who proposes banning abortion, yet doesn't have a solution to at least a few of the eleven problems I've enumerated herein, should not be listened to, nor should their ideas be entertained.

    Even televangelist Pat Robertson recently commented that an outright ban on abortion, without exceptions for rape and incest, is "going too far", especially in terms of its (ahem) viability in court.
     However, I still take a strong anti-government stance that abortions should not be publicly funded, even if the fetus was conceived in rape or incest, but I still think that those procedures should be legal (while funded privately or charitably).
     And when speaking about abortion laws (especially the Hyde Amendment), we should be careful to distinguish between motivations for abortion which are banned from receiving public funding, versus motivations for abortion which would be criminalized outright.

     While it is desirable to "lower the number of abortions", restricting access to abortion is not necessarily the solution to these problems, even if it does achieve that single objective.
     There are other things that can lower the number of abortions, without interfering with mothers' freedoms (freedoms, not positive rights) to get abortions. Namely, 1) keeping abortion legal while encouraging mothers to give their children up for adoption; 2) building a safer, cleaner world that treats children less harshly; and 3) continue to research and develop medical technology which will allow people to choose surrogacy, fetal transplants, and external incubation of extracted embryos, as alternatives to abortion.

To learn more about topic #9, please visit this link:

http://www.foxnews.com/us/in-7-us-states-rape-victims-can-be-legally-forced-to-share-custody-of-their-children-with-their-rapist-fathers

To learn more about topic #10, please visit this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Brazilian_girl_abortion_case

Thanks to Justin Addeo for contributing point #11.

To learn more about the federal age of consent law I mentioned in the post-script on sexual ethics, please visit:

http://www.huffpost.com/entry/supreme-court-unanimously-overrules-statutory-rape_b_592edaede4b017b267edff12

To learn more about the realistic and practical applications of "surrogacy, fetal transplants, and external incubation of extracted embryos" as alternatives to abortion, and the reasoning behind this idea, please visit the following links:
http://www.quora.com/What-would-it-take-to-transplant-a-fetus-from-one-womb-to-another

http://www.rfreitas.com/Astro/FetalAdoption.htm
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-39693851

http://liberty.me/live/abortion-and-evictionism-with-walter-block/

Based on notes taken on June 4th, 2019

Article (including post-script) written and published on June 5th, 2019
Edited and Expanded on June 26th, 2019

Eighty-Four Religious Texts Not Included in the King James Version of the Bible (Incomplete)

     I have compiled this list of antilegomena, Apocrypha and pseudepigrapha, so as to include:

     1) texts which were omitted from the King James Bible (i.e., the "normal books" of the Bible, or homologoumena, or anagignoskomena),
     2) texts which pertain to hermetic Christian and Jewish religious tradition but were never considered for inclusion in that Bible,
     3) other hermetic texts which could, just as well, have been included in the Bible, if the texts in #2 had been included, and
     4) books which are accepted as parts of the Bible by certain sects of Christianity, but not by others.

     The term pseudepigrapha refers to texts which are not formally considered to be considered part of accepted scripture; and/or to texts, the genuineness of whose origin, is doubtful. The term Apocrypha refers to probably falsely attributed texts composed by Christian patriarchs around the year 200 C.E.. The Roman Catholic Church calls the Apocrypha "Deuterocanonical Books".

     Due to my limited knowledge on this subject, I cannot include any more information than I include below. If I knew more, I would at least make a note as to whether these texts exist in the first place. Some do, and some don't; while (I would suspect) others exist in part, and there are disputes about others.

     I have organized this list as close to chronological order as I am aware. I'm positive that it's not correct, because I have not looked at any specific information estimating how long ago these texts originated.

     What follows is a list of hermetic Jewish and Christian texts, which would have been in the Old and New Testaments had they been included in the Bible. I have also included a short list of books which are likely to have much more information on these subjects.

     If I accidentally included a text that is in the K.J.V., then (at least I hope) it is probably a text that is still worth inclusion here, because it is not in all Bibles (and is accepted as part of the Bible by some Christian traditions or sects, but not by others).
     I would like to have included texts from Islam, and from non-Abrahamic religions and traditions (as well as texts regarding the Babylonian Talmud and Jerusalem Talmud), but those topics will have to lie beyond the scope of this article.

     You can find out more about hermetic religious topics by visiting the following link:
    http://aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2019/03/sixty-one-topics-in-esoteric-and.html

     And watch these videos to learn some background on pseudepigrapha and Apocrypha:
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srQcM0UrFkg
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VsCOLR7lCgs

     Please feel free to comment below, or email me at jwkopsick@gmail.com, if you have any comments or questions on these subjects; or any suggestions as to how to correct the chronological order of the texts. I would appreciate it if readers would share any links to reliable information about the origin of scriptural texts, whether included in the K.J.V. (King James Version) or not.
     

Old Testament Era

1. The Dead Sea Scrolls
      (including the Damascus Document / Cairo Damascus document / Damascus Rule;
          http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus_Document)

2. The texts of the Nag Hammadi Library
     (Note: These include:
          - "The Thunder, Perfect Mind", edited by George McRae;
          - "The Gospel of Truth" (which tells of Jesus as not a created being);
          - "The Gospel of Philip")

3. The Story of Lilith
     (Note: This is a sort of prologue to the Book of Genesis, which is included in some Jewish Bibles)

4. 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Books of Enoch

5. The Book of Knowledge / The Key of Enoch

6. "The Sixth and Seventh Books of Moses"

7. Kaballah
     (Note: Kaballah is not a single book, but a set of texts which includes The Zohar, and texts regarding the Hebrew gematria.)

8. The Book of Lamech

9. Twelve Patriarchs

10. Prayer of Joseph

11. Eldad and Modad

12. Testament of Moses

13. Assumption of Moses

14. Psalms of Solomon / Song of Solomon / Book of Wisdom

15. Apocalypse of Elijah

16. Ascension of Elijah

17. Apocalypse of Zephaniah

18. Apocalypse of Zechariah

19. Apocalyptic Ezra

20. 1st and 2nd Books of Esdras

21. The Songs of the Three Holy Children

22. The History of Susana

23. "Bel and the Dragon"

24. The Prayer for Manasses

25. The Book of Ezekiel

26. The Book of Proverbs






Apocrypha / Deuterocanonical Books
     (Between the Old and New Testament eras; included in the Septuagint)
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeVz-yvX39o

27. The Book of Tobit

28. The Book of Judith

29. The Book of Baruch / "Baruch, with the Epistle Jeremy"

30. The Wisdom of Solomon / The Book of Wisdom
     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Wisdom

31. Sirach / Wisdom of Sirach / The Book of Sirach / the Book of Ecclesiasticus
     (The Book of the All-Virtuous Wisdom of Yeshua ben Sira
     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sirach

32. 1st and 2nd Books of Maccabees

33. The Book of Daniel

34. The Book of Esther
     (remnants exist, one reason for exclusion is that it doesn't use the name of G-d)

New Testament Era

35. The Book of Jude (includes quotes from the Book of Enoch)

36. The Gospel of the Hebrews / The Gospel of the Nazarenes (might not exist)

37. The Gospel According to Jesus

38. The Gospel of Judas

39. The Gospel of Thomas / The Gospel of Thomas Didymus (or Didymos, or Didymos Judas)
     (Note: There may be more than one books of Thomas. Also, the Gospel of Thomas could not possibly have been written by Thomas.)

40. Gospel of Thomas, Son of Jesus

41. Rumored gospels of Christ, consisting of testimony by any of the "brothers" of Jesus named in the Book of Mark and the Book of Matthew.
     (Note: In those gospels, the brothers of Jesus - whether this means metaphorical brothers or actual blood siblings - include James, Joses/Joseph, Judas, Simon, and several unnamed sisters.)

42. Rumored gospels supposedly written by a twin brother of Jesus.
     (Note: Such a text, if it exists, may or may not be the same as one or more of the texts described in #39 and #41, above. Also, texts supposedly exist which further claim that a brother of Jesus - maybe even an identical twin brother - took Jesus's place on the cross, while the real Jesus went to Asia and learned about Eastern religions, including Buddhism, and maybe even martial arts.

43. Rumored texts alleging that Jesus turned water to wine by swallowing grapes and water, and using his own vomit to ferment the grapes and water into wine.
     (Note: I was told that the book The Bible As History discusses this possibility.)

44. Rumored texts alleging that Jesus killed another child when they were both young boys.

45. The Gospel of Mary, Mother of Jesus
     (Note: A text called the Gospel of Mary may be the testimony of the mother of Jesus or Mary Magdalene. Also, if gospels of Mary Mother of Jesus exist, there may be more than one of them.)

46. The Gospel of Mary Magdalene
     (Note: if the Gospel of Mary is the testimony of Jesus's mother, then it is less likely that the Gospel of Mary Magdalene exists, but still not impossible that a separate Gospel of Mary Magdalene exists, nonetheless.)

47. The Gospel of Peter
     (which tells of Jesus's mother Mary as remaining a virgin throughout her life)

48. I and II Peter / The First and Second Books of Peter / The 1st and 2nd Epistles of Peter
     (the author of the second book is almost certainly not Peter, however)
     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Epistle_of_Peter

49. The Apocalypse of Peter

50-55. The Galasian Decree, incl.
     50. Acts of Peter
     51. Acts of Philip
     52. Gospel of Matthias
     53. Gospel According to Barnabas (no texts may exist, but Epistle of Barnabas is a relevant text)
          http://depts.drew.edu/jhc/Blackhirst_Barnabas.html

     54. Gospel of Peter the Apostle

     55. Gospel of James the Less (which is probably the same thing as The Protoevangelium of James / The Infancy Gospel of James)

56. The History of James

     (Note: may or may not be the same as #41 &/or #55.)

57. The Didache

58. The Itinerary and Teaching of the Apostles

59. The Epistle of Barnabas

60. Acts of Paul

61. Apocalypse of Paul

62. Didascalia of Clement / Teachings of Clement / Ordinances of the Holy Apostles Through Clement / The Apostolic Constitutions

63. Didascalia of Ignatius / Teachings of Ignatius

64. Didascalia of Polycarp / Teachings of Polycarp







After New Testament Era, incl. 1st-4th Centuries and Renaissance Era

65. The Testaments of the Twelve Patriarchs
     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testaments_of_the_Twelve_Patriarchs

66. The Apocryphon of John / The Secret Book of John
     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocryphon_of_John

67. The Book of Revelation / The Revelation to John / The Apocalypse of John / The Revelation of Jesus Christ

68. The First, Second, and Third Epistles of John

69. The Book of Jubilees

70. The Pseudo-Clementine Pieces (incl. Paul's Letters)

71. The Hermetica / The Corpus Hermeticum
     (Note: These texts are Egyptian-Greek texts from the 2nd century C.E., are attributed to Hermes Trimegistus ("Thrice-Great Hermes"), and include 18 chapters. Among these are the Emerald Tablet (also known as the Emerald Tablet of Thoth, the Smaragdine Tablet, and Tabula Smaragdina), and The Discourses of Isis to Horus.
     There is also a book called The Kybalion, claimed to be written under influence of Hermes Trimegistus, which was published in 1908: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kybalion.)

72-74. The Three Rosicrucian Manifestos, incl.
          72. Fama Fraternatis (Rosae Crucis [oder Die Bruderschaft des Ordens der Rosenkreuzer])
          73. The Confessio (Fraternatis) / Confessio oder Bekenntnis der Societat und Bruderschaft                     Rosenkreuz)
          74. The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz

75. The Book of Mormon
     (book of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints)





Alternative Bibles, and Modern Books, Containing Sets of Scriptural Texts
Which are Significantly Different from the King James Version of the Bible

76. "The Jefferson Bible" (The Moral Teachings of Jesus of Nazareth by Thomas Jefferson)

77. The Aitken Bible (early American Bible)

78. The Bible As History

79. The Pre-Nicene New Testament: Fifty-Four Formative Texts

80. "The List of Sixty" (books; from the 7th century C.E.)
     http://depts.drew.edu/jhc/Blackhirst_Barnabas.html
     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocrypha#List_of_Sixty

81. The Coptic Bible (which contains 109 or 111 books, including the Pistis Sophia, and The Gospel of Truth)
     http://gnosis.org/library/pistis-sophia/index.htm
     http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Truth

82. The Ethiopian Bible

83. The Catholic Bible

84. The Orthodox Bible





     This is only a partial list. Please see the following links to learn more.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deuterocanonical_books
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Gospels
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_apocrypha

Compiled in 2018 and early 2019

Published on March 22nd, 2019

Edited and Expanded on April 18th and 30th, 2019,

and January 17th, 2021

Sixty-Seven Topics in Esoteric and Hermetic Spiritual Thought

1. Secret Societies (esp. Freemasonry and the Bavarian Illuminati, and their roles in the founding of the United States)

2. Bohemian Grove and the Cremation of Care ceremony

3. Skull and Bones (secret society at Yale)

4. The Twelve Apostles as Symbols for the Zodiac, and Christian Sun Worship (esp. as explained by Thomas Paine); and also the twelve cranial nerves as symbols for the twelve apostles (esp. as explained by Santos Bonacci)
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06Gn-_7z82k

5. Pagan Origins of Christmas and Easter

6. Caesar and Venus Worship

7. Luciferianism (incl. Lucifer vs. Satan, Lucifer vs. Jesus, and Iblis in Islam)

8. The Council of Nicaea (325 A.D.)

9. Lost Gospels, Pseudepigrapha, and Apocrypha
     (for more information on #9 and #10, see the following link:
      http://aquarianagrarian.blogspot.com/2019/03/sixty-three-scriptural-texts-not.html

10. The Books of Enoch (I, II, and III), Angelology, and the Nephilim

11. The Annunaki

12. Ezekiel, Ezekiel's Description of G-d's Chariot, and Merkabah Mysticism

13. The Last Scion (and relationship to the Divine Right of Kings and the idea of a Holy Empire)

14. The Rosicrucians (incl. the A.M.O.R.C.)

15. "Royal Blood, Holy Grail" & "Holy Blood, Holy Grail"

16. Alchemy and Christian Rosenkreutz

17. The Planets as Symbols for Elements (esp. Mercury)

18. The Music of the Spheres

19. Fertility Cults and Nature Religions

20. Ancestor Worship, Santeria, and "Saint Worship"

21. Pan, Pantheism, Animism, and Panentheism

22. Entheogens (incl. Genesis 1:29)

23. Sex Magick

24. Krampus and Black Peter

25. Alistair Crowley and Thelema

26. Geomancy

27. Life Energy (incl. Chi and Orgone Energy)

28. Planet and Star Worship

29. Saturn, Satan, and Set Worship (incl. the Hexagon on Saturn)

30. The Devil as the "Lord of the Flies" (Ba'al and Pazuzu)

31. Books of the Dead (incl. Egyptian, Tibetan, Necronomicon)

32. Necromancy

33. The Spiritual Meaning of the Number 6 and the Star of David (or "Israel star") (including "Star Numbers")
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c4NuOPH0qJc&fbclid=IwAR17yebpWOupqpbiNhb7AzpYH-oLFFmJz3JTT06-Fw4rBxgfFJCsyU3rpN4

34. The Star of David as a sum of its components (i.e., the Chevron and Chalice, and the letters of the Aleph-Bet)

35. The religious symbolism of the Black Cube (which has to do with Saturn worship)

36. The Qa'Ba (or Ka'ba; in Mecca, Saudi Arabia; Muslims circumambulate around it in mimicry of the rings of Saturn)

37. Tefillin (black boxes containing Jewish prayer scrolls, worn by some Jews during prayer)

38. The Kabbalah (and the Babylonian Talmud)

40. Theosis and Christosis

41. Christian Cabalism, and Coptic and Gnostic Christian Thought

42. Sacred Geometry (incl. the Golden Ratio / Golden Mean)

43. The occurrence of the number 29 in the mathematics of physics and planetary relationships, including:
     - the latitude of the Great Pyramid of Giza, expressed in degrees;
     - the speed of light, expressed in meters per second squared;
     - the number of Earth days in a lunar month; and
     - the length of the Saturnian year, expressed in Earth years. And also:
     - the number of times the phrase "Lamb of God" is mentioned in the Book of Revelation.
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-aVeV0YbAcA

44. Greek Isopsephy, Pythagorean Numerology, and Chaldean Numerology

45. Gematria (incl.:
     - Hebrew Gematria / Alephbet;
     - the "English Simple Gematria" [and the relationship of this phrase to the number 74];
     - Greek "gematria" / Greek isopsephy / Pythagorean numerology;
     - Masonic numerology)

46. The Number 666 (and its relevance to the book of Revelation, and also the 66.6-degree tilt of the Earth from spinning on its side)

47. The Number 23 (the "Chaos Number"; incl. Eris, Discordianism, and the Principia Discordia)

48. Chaos Magick (incl. sigil magick, scrying, casting lots, etc.)

49. The Sefirot

50. Trees of Life (incl. the Sefer Yetzirah in Judaism, and Yggdrasil in Norse religion)

51. Hermes, Hermeticism, the Corpus Hermeticum, and the prisca theologica

52. "Corpus Mysticum"

53. Avatars and Emanations (incl. of the Buddha. Also, the Holy Spirit and how it pertains to the meaning of the root "phan" in "hierophant", "phantom", and "epiphany")

54. The Theotokos

55. Tzevakot (the full meaning of the many names of G-d; and also, its gematric value, 1165, which is 233 [the gematric value of the Tree of Life] plus 972 [the gematric value of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil])

56. Theosophy (see also: Madame Helena Blavatsky, and Rudolf Steiner)

57. The Dead Sea Scrolls (incl. The Thunder, Perfect Mind, The Gospel of Truth, and the Gospel of Philip)

58. The Torah Codes / Hebrew Codes (incl. Equidistant Letter Sequences [E.L.S.s] and the use of Jewish cryptanalysts to help the Allies win WWII)

59. Oracles (including the Tarot, the Oracle at Delphi, Elsie Wheeler's Sabian Symbols, and the Ouija board)

60. Meaning of Abracadabra, esp. in ancient languages (see also: meaning and origin of the phrase "Avada Kedavra" in J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter)

61. The Eye of Horus (and the Pineal Gland ["Third Eye"])

62. Moloch, Melek Taus, the Yazidi religion, and the Spiritual Symbolism of Peacock Feathers (esp. the Eye of the Peacock Feather)

63. The Malocchio, the Cuckold, and the Winged Phallus

64. Axis Mundi (and the Foundation Stone / Pierced Stone in the Dome of the Rock, in Jerusalem; see also "T&O maps" which had Jerusalem at the center of a circular world)

65. The Number 33 (years in Jesus's life, degrees in Masonry, and vertebra in the human spine)

66. Jacob's Ladder (and its relationship to Axis Mundi, and symbolism as it pertains to human anatomy)

67. Flat Earth Theory (esp. as defended in the context of Biblical texts supporting Flat Earth Theory), and also Hollow Earth Cosmogony (incl. its endorsement by the Nazis). (Esp. see Santos Bonacci's explanation of torus, hyperbole, and Hyperborea; and the relationship of the torus to electromagnetism, Biblical symbolism, and Jacob's Ladder).
     http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvud5oVM2XA&pbjreload=10

Compiled in 2018

Originally Published on March 20th, 2019

Edited and Expanded on March 21st, 22nd, 26th, and 27th, and April 18th, 2019

Ascetic Austerity: Demurrage is the Demiurge, by Jack Sampson

     Yes, Eye confess! I hath killed J.C. Meyers.

     Granted, I understand where J.C. Meyers is cumming from. Eye no how it feels to stand corrected by Dirt. It happens to me all the Time.

     Being made to feel lower than Dirt is no more contemptible than pointing out that we are all the moistened, aerated, speaking soil, and that, as from ashes and dust we come, so to ashes and dust we go. All Must Serve the Cycle®.

     But She Who Threw a Binder at Me^TM can never be forgiven. As I have killed J.C. Meyers before, so shall I kill her again, and $ave you heathens from her treachery.

     At Issues magazine, we appeal to a F.I.R.E. authority (that is, Finance, Insurance, and Real Estate). We invoke the gods of $alvation by building our church upon the fire-proof rock. And upon that which penetrates the rock, too; that saber of interrogating, golden-plating, all-Americating Light – once golden, once red - that cauterizes while it cuts, and witch we have all cum to know and glove so well.

     And through the whole of that rock, we shall ©. But you've heard all that before.

     What ye have knot yet heard, though, is how to fasten this hole tapestry together, by building upon this fire-proof rock not only our church, but our homes. For, just as all must either serve or be served – just as we shall submit to God, by killing God, by killing the god within ourselves, by killing ourselves – the F.I.R.E. authority must be submitted-to through (and hence overcome by) that same Hegelian sublation.

     This is to say that when we refuse to recognize that God has resolved not to stop us should we decide to usurp His throne, we build our homes and our churches (that is, our lives and our beliefs) out of flammable materials. Which creates an artificial need for fire insurance. All the insurance companies in the world could never insure against the wages of sin we will experience in Hell!

     Although this may sound like a statement assuring death, this is actually why it is within the reach – of any of us – to live forever, to judge all of mankind! Judge this notion if ye may, but if ye do, know that ye be judging as if ye thunk ye be but a god. Judgment of human value is necessary for a well-ordered civilization. At some level of the pyramid, each must serve.

     And that is why we all must starve ourselves to death.

     This program I call “Ascetic Austerity”.

     Just as I previously recommended saving money by eating less, and by eating parts of your own body, I now aim to advance a more general theory of shamanomics. This method of attaining financial and spiritual $aving$ simultaneously will help the Order of Celestial Integration and its members achieve moksha. And also to kill God.

     Did I mention that we're cutting your tithe to the low, low rate of 9.99%? This is the lowest tithe ever offered; not only in the history of the Order, but of mankind. It's not even strictly a tithe anymore, so We don't know how long we'll be able to continue this offer. So (Book of) Act(s) now, 4 this is a once-in-a-deathtime opPORTunity! We'd love to ti(th)e you off, so cum except the invocation!

     Before we 4get, Issues would like to remind its readers that SHAVINGS IS $AVING$. Did ewe no that 33.3% of what you remove when you shave is skin cells? And that includes little dried pieces of blood. But God does knot intend to waste those blood cells! EVERY HUMAN SELL IS PRE¢IOU$; read John 6:12. Sew please, SEND US YOUR BLOOD - or at least the surplus, which you are not planning to immolate - to 824 N. Howell St., Rocky Mount, North Carolina, 27803, c/o Commodity Fetish Records.

     We promise that your efforts will knot be in vein.

     As I have elaborynthmaieuticated* in previous particles, part of the key to our $alvation is to overcome currency; just as Christ overcame death (and – lo – just as my dick over-came at your mom's house). And that means “Coins-On-The-Temple-Floor” -level savings for ewe!

     What this means, once again, is that we must replace all money and currency with either YIC (Yap Island stone Coins), some variant thereof, or BSTS (BloodCoin-SweatCoin-TearCoin-ShitCoin). That is, unless we are serious about implementing my Crypto-Oracle plan.

     Let's face it, most people have a soul, and most people have a Madonna single on compact disc in their home. And if you don't have one, then you have the other. It only takes a split-second to ask yourself why this fact does not virtually guarantee a fail-safe, free-floating, competitive, dual currency system.

     Yes, Crypto-Oracles are people. Just be glad you don't have to eat them. We here at Issues would never ask you to eat an artist; the industry eats them alive well enough as it is. You only have to ingest the artists' pre¢iou$ bodily fluids.

     For oracles are specially protected by our prayers, and by the Wall. Oracles are minor gods, and have access to portals to other dimensions about which we, their audience, know nothing. Just like the martyrs, they are more like real gods than the real gods, for we have proof of their existence, and they veritably died for our sins. Even if our gods and saviors are made-up, and never died in the first place, then we still have the martyrs and the saints as proof that humans can behave divinely. In a way, martyrs are a greater proof of God's existence than any savior could ever be.

     The only problem remaining to be solved is what to do given the intrinsic worthlessness of both the human soul and the Madonna single. Fortunately, that is where shamanomics comes in.

     That's right, I'm proposing auto-sarcophagic (self-eating) taxation.

     Why, you ask? It is only through seeing the snake-eyed dice of immortality floating like a magic 8-ball in the grimacing eye of Ouroborus, that we may be revealed the divine $e¢ret$ of “Tack-Say-Shun”. If Ewe say something bad about taxation, they'll shun Ewe, and then they'll at-tack Ewe, and tack Ewe up onto something.

     Unlike the divine Bush through witch God revealed Herself (some call this Bush “Kathy”), our efforts must give of ourselves. We must consume, while being consumed. As our souls burn with passion, we must allow that fire to consume us. After all, one man's insatiable quest that ends up killing him, is another man's free white whale ride!

     As Bukowski said, find what you love and let it kill you. Aren't humans and God just doing that do each other? Think of death as a love-hug. You can't overthrow God unless you disobey His commandment to not cling to loving one's hatred. You can't disappoint Richard Nixon unless you learn to hate your enemy just as much as he hates Ewe.

     This is why – or how, I forget – we will implement auto-sarcophagic taxation, and enforce Ascetic Austerity. Or else austere at you until you agree with me. Forsooth, we must envelop ourselves in a crystalline chrysalistic sarcophagus for our Christ crisis – a sort of womb-tomb – in order to devour ourselves through the self-flagellating taxation of our essences for prophet.

     We must allow the Order to continue to acquire new lands, tax-free. The Tithe Cut and the FloorCoin fund Will pay for it (because I Will It!^TM).

     I mean, how else are today's edgy teens going to learn to dab, plank, nae-nae, t-pose and flex, so that they can go on yeeting in a spainging economy? By becoming Crypto-Oracles, of course! Not only this, but I also plan to implement a Voucher Program to supplement the Crypto-Oracle plan.

Simply put, we are eliminating all currency – even C.F.R.-issued 999 Economic Unit notes (though only as a temporary measure) – in order to usher in an experimental, moneyless intentional society.

     What this will involve, is finding artists, designating them Crypto-Oracles (which, to refresh your memory, is a crypto-numerological-magick-based device which generates divine symbols and domain names, and, eventually, the One True Name of God^TM), and issuing a promise that any Crypto-Oracle can opt to ask the Order to provide them with the skills necessary to become a voucher.

     What this means for Ewe, is that if Ewe are in need of anything, then one of our vouchers will come to your location, and vouch four you. If anyone refuses to give you something you need, based on the fact that the piece of paper you're trying to give them for it has the wrong set of numbers or the wrong dead man's face on it, then you can call one of our vouchers, and they'll show up and kick the ass (read: donkey) of whomever is fucking with you.

     After all, Ewe wouldn't want to cause a fasces faux pas, and get Coins On the Temple Floor^®! For using standing armies to guard warehouses full of resources witch we need to survive, against the people whose needs give those goods all value, is the root of all evil. I mean value.

Time Money Moon Value.

     ...Yeah.

     Any weigh, the Oracle al0ne – especially while acting as The Holy Voucher – may proffer us the AURA-CLEAR^TM-ing clarity of meaning which comes through $alvifi¢ $alvation®. Only the Oracle extends this holey hand to us. As Christ puts His hand over the wound in His side, we must extend a finger into Him as our holy indulgence.

     Remember that DEMURRAGE IS THE DEMIURGE. Money burning a whole in your pocket is the main driver and motivator of all mortal action, and the cause (and collateral) of all investment.

     Which prayer does a Christian duck say when he is required to render his feathers for a place to stay? “And Now I Pay Me Down to Sleep”. The lesson of this is that the only weigh to pay down our debt, and the only weigh to make our hearts lighter than a feather, is to give of our own flesh, and to be taxed out of our own bodies.

     While usury is a fee paid for the privilege of using money, demurrage is a rent paid for the privilege of keeping money. The difference is eons apart! That's why to save money is as useless as it is to save a human being; just like currency, human beings are not meant to be saved, they are Meant 2 B Spent^TM. That is, spent, through difficult labor; through hard, taxing work. Spent, before they lose value. TMMV (pbuh).

     For all we know, it's clinging to salvation that keeps us attached to this world, and stops our souls from transcending.

     Think!: Whose money is in your pocket? Whose face is on it? Give it back to him. Lay it on his grave if you have to. It is better to have to draw only Muhammad, than to have to draw a Lot. Paying interest on your money is the only way to - as the great Grey the Grey deGrey the Great taught us - “show an interest in what you save, show an interest in who you save”.

     And so, verily, I say unto thee: doest thou a thing!

     For God does not close a window without opening a million other tabs.

     * = elaborynthmaieuticate (verb): 1. To act as both an “intellectual midwife” (or “maieutic doula”) and a “maze tour guide” at once; to elaborate and explain, in order to assist in the expression or birth of a thought, as if guiding that thought through a labyrinth.

Written and Originally Published on September 18^th, 2018

Appeared in the October 2018 edition of Issues magazine

The Alt-Right, and Nietzsche's "Slave and Master Morality"

     Nietzsche described Christianity as having a "slave morality"; essentially because it lionizes a murder victim as a god, reveres martyrs, and rewards those who submit. Christianity asserts "Christ conquered death"; that our god did not die, and transcended death. The Alt-Right and neo-Nazis fall victim to the same "slave morality" for which Nietzsche criticized Christians for falling, however.

     The Alt-Right see Nazi sympathizers and white nationalists as victims, and characterize anyone and everyone in conflict with them as "the real fascists". Including by pointing to their tactics, which they baselessly use as evidence to connote ideological agreement between the two groups. The use of violence alone does not make one a Nazi.

     The Alt-Right gives in to the "slave morality" concept, by endorsing its swapping of the positions of master and slave. They are every bit as willing to look like the victim, as are the "leftists" and "social justice warriors" whom they criticize. And they do this while claiming that the real victimizers are the people who admit that some people have been victimized, and those who try to draw attention to it. Additionally, those who admit that even when institutional, governmental discrimination ended in one sector, the effects last until this day.

     Most perplexingly of all, it seems that the Alt-Right are so committed to reinforcing this master / slave relationship, that they are not even willing to dismantle it, nor create a state of classlessness, even if solely to prevent themselves from becoming the underclass. That's because the “slave morality” rewards both submission and dominance.

     When the white nationalists marched on Charlottesville, Virginia in August 2018 - shouting "the Jews will not replace us" - they weren't saying "we refuse to let the Jews replace white people as the race that controls America". "The Jews will not replace us" means that they don't want the Jewish people, whom they believe to be controlling the U.S., to replace white people with non-white people, as the Jews' favored race of non-Jews. The idea is that whites would earn a place high in the racial hierarchy, and that then, as the Jews' favored non-Jewish race, they would be inferior to Jewish people, but otherwise in charge of the country, and allowed to keep the other races down. That's what they think.

     Of course, some of them do want to defeat and destroy and replace Jewish people, and it would be naive to suggest that many of them don't want to do that. But the Alt-Right are so cucked by their own ideology, that they seem more willing to assent to a place in the middle of the racial hierarchy which they perceive, than to destroy it altogether.

     As confusing as it seems, I think the rationale for this is fairly simple: it would be too difficult for them to admit that there is a racial hierarchy without using Jewish people in positions of power and influence as the evidence, without exposing white dominance of avenues of control at the same time. Additionally, if, by the phrase, they had meant “Jews will not replace white people as the dominant race”, then that would have been to admit that they are afraid of a Jewish take-over. That shows fear, and showing fear is not acceptable to people whose ideology is based on control.

     On the other hand, the Alt-Right is also unable to claim that whites are in control. They would like to do this, because that would be a way to express dominance. However, to say that whites are in control would be to admit that Jewish people have not taken over white society. It would dismantle the whole crux of their argument; which is that whites need to be in control, and therefore need to do something. They also believe that "cultural Marxism" is a Jewish conspiracy to destroy nations, by introducing multiculturalism and immigration, as a way to make them homogenous. This, the Alt-Right believes, leads to the erosion of social cohesiveness - which they believe to be based on common nation, heritage, and/or language – and also leads to the breakdown of welfare states. Which, for some reason, many of them support; just not for everybody, of course, only for white people.

     In a society which respects and protects individual rights, the whims of fleeting majorities can change constantly, without threatening the most important of anyone's natural rights.

     In the sense that they refuse to challenge the racial hierarchy which they oppose, even when it could benefit them, the Alt-Right are just like the Republicans. The Alt-Right and Republicans both refuse to recognize individual rights, and the illegitimacy of hierarchy, even if only as a way to prevent the disaster they fear, which is that America will get overtaken by a non-white majority.

     Likewise, the Republicans are just like the Democrats, because they too refuse to recognize individual rights, but also oppose stronger supermajoritarian measures to prevent the oppression of minorities by majorities. And Democrats refuse to do so, even if only as a way to prevent the disaster they fear, which is that America will get taken over by Republicans (which happens every several years, and which, for all intents and purposes, is unavoidable).

     In a way, the Democrats, Republicans, and the Alt-Right, are all enabling each other; by subscribing to the same master / slave system; the same hierarchical system, whether racialized or not, and the same reckless disregard for individuals' natural rights to be free from control by majority and minority alike. They even support the same economic system; a right-wing system uniting aspects of capitalism, mercantilism, Keynesianism, liberal-conservatism and a neoliberal market economy, and “state socialism” (which is really just capitalism, but with a welfare system which benefits the select few).

The Shibbolethic Talisman

     Like Big Bill Heywood and Milton Friedman, Karl Marx understood that all value created upon Land is created through the combination of labor, capital, and myth.

     That's why Marx was apt to cite principles of Christian liberation theology in order to defend his profoundly theoskeptic ideas. The irony of this ought not escape the reader of Marxian thought, as elsewhere in his writing, Marx explained that religion can only be understood in the context of what social and economic purpose it serves.

     And how true that is! I mean, if you're going to say that religion controls people, and claim that it replaces our ideals with its own ideals, and instills upon society a false reality and impossible expectations, then you might want to start with a nice hearty “I love Jesus”. I mean, Give Yourself Some Credit^TM! Lend yourself A Little B-Leaf (ALB).

     As is etched into the Rock of Ages, “If you don't have anything gneiss to say, then don't carve any graven images on Tuesdays.” But why wait Til Tuesday to get The Rock you deserve? The Wailing Wall is the hardest part. Don't get caught between the Dome of Iraq and a hard place! Buy this Book; it says you qualify! Get right with God to make Him mollified!

     All of this is to say, of course, that an economy which respects and reveres a mutual alchemy of ideas and a free exchange thereof, will not arise until The Phoenix does. The rebirth of The Phoenix is the rebirth of the ancient monetary system: the backing of currency by full reserves, natural resources, and/or a set of resources that can be consumed in an emergency.

     So do God a Solid; use solid currency before you get sol(i)d yourself!

     For the Sun of God is like the gold in Fort Knox: When you stick Him in the Vault, He disappears in three days or less. For the Source of His Value is backed by both His annihilation and His reification (1 → 0 and 0 → 1). This is the meaning of “Deus Vault”.

     This “Missing God” – this wandering, disappearing trickster-magician-deity – is Our God. Our lack of Him – Our want of Him, Our longing for Him – is what keeps both Us and God coming back for more Turns and more Turnings.

     Just like the three days between the Crucifixion and the Resurrection – when darkness washed over the land, and the people hung their heads in confusion and shame at the thought of what they might have done – so too have economists stood at the precipices of their economics books. Gazing at the abyssal-plain-meaning of the wor(l)ds assembled before them into a tidal pool of significance, they have pondered for centuries whether and when this Schrodinger's-Cat-like Christ will emerge; with His Thorny Crown of Doom, and His currency backed by the worry of human hands, with His map bearing directions to the golden treasure buried in the human heart, hidden in a Geraldoan vault full of empty (or perhaps just invisible) promises. It's all here in this pamphlet.

     Just like some of us enjoy smoking, some of us enjoy our god poisoned and our rock stars dead. We all like our God cooked a little differently, and we all like to sit in different spots while we enjoy Him. And so, we lift a chalice: To each his zone! The cup is raised, the toast is made... yet again. Tomb rhymes with womb.

     For if you seal the tomb too tightly, God will not be able to breathe. But if you don't seal the tomb – and The Mummy's wrappings – tightly enough, then the Celestial Accountant won't know that the parcel was supposed to remain intact. Instead, the Accountant will scrap the parcel into its constituent parts, and, like coins given to a bank instead of loaned, give them out to the people upon request.

     If faith is a form of credit, then a priest is a spiritual banker, and a banker is a secular (or non-shamanized) priest.

     Nowhere is this clearer than in the practices of the Juju priests of West Africa, who sacrifice animals and perform incantations in order to seal contracts. A woman who becomes a prostitute in order to pay off her debts might recruit one of these priests to bless their I.O.U., through offering up underwear, fingernail clippings, pubic hair, and menstrual blood (which otherwise would have been sent to a America for use in a feminist art project, or an Illuminati sacrifice at MoMA). To bind the woman to her covenant, the priest then binds the offerings into a bundle, blesses the bundle, and places it at a shrine, never to be moved. Just like the Gold In Fort Knox®, YHVH right!?

     Like the Earth and “Universe” themselves, a currency is a work of Art, and as such, should appreciate, while itself being appreciated (dissolving the subject-object dichotomy). All Value and Meaning flow through these Celestial Accountant banker-priests; and We^TM should give them Indulgences. Remember: You Are Dog Shit^®, and until you pay tribute to the Dead God of Dead Money (Mammon), you cannot have your debts forgiven. It is impossible to serve two masters; therefore if thou cannot wholly, holey, and solely serve Mammon, then thou must serve only Meyers.

     It seems wrong, but oddly enough, He hath commanded us to eat Him; God hath given us a cent. So don't throw the Cat out with the bath water; Garfield doesn't like Moon-days either. The Cat (Sphinx; immortality) will rise when The Phoenix (solid currency; God) rises, so sayeth the Book of Judie.

     If the Sun of God is a betting man (and I wager She is), then She must have known how that tomb worked. You pay your money and you takes your choice. He knew how to wake Lazarus up inside! As the lead undertaker of existence, Jesus must have undertaken some effort in hedging His bets; must have made a Bushian “Deal With God”, as psychopompous as that Might sound. Maybe all He had to do was wiggle His big 2.

     Christ up in the chrysalis like a womb-tomb-room. Butterfly saviors got they broom and they go zoom-boom.

     That is what the Kingdom of God is like.

     But therein lies the logic of economics: that there be no logic.

When words and numbers have been revealed as nothing – as ever-changing, mutable social constructs that blend into, up in, and out of one another – then their value is not only diluted, but also deluded. So too are their values confused, through the fact that words are numbers, which those of us familiar with gematria and numerology will comprehend.

     And without alchemy and numerology, it is impossible for humans to overcome the conflicts between divisibility, duplicability, and rarity, which arise in attempting to ascertain which type of currency is likely to achieve the optimal balance of the characteristics which we desire a currency to have. And the duplicability paradox cannot be overcome while the currency continues to be backed by blood. Essentially, cloned money is counterfeit money. You are You; nothing can ¢hange that. You hear that? None of that Thomas Didymus, Jesus-had-a-twin crap.

     This is to say that to adopt a subjective system of assigning value to goods and services, is to adopt the orphan Christ, and thus, it is to play the role of Joseph and God at once. For, though the Branches of His “family” (his adoptive father's lineage) be cursed, the Root of His claim to the Thrown remains embedded firmly in the zenith of the cupola of the Orb of the Firmament, held up by the Vault of the Heavens. So His claim is anchored in the Sky.

     And so, sayeth the Christ-carrying Black Sheep, “Oh, thank you, little roots! Please stay strong.” It is like a Root growing out of dry ground, after seeds have been scattered by the wayside. The body (of Works) mattereth not; for the Will-Into-Existence of the Spirit makes the Flesh less weak. That's the difference between a spirit and a ghost; the ghost stays dead. Or so we have been led to B-leave.

     But perhaps Christ, up on His Cross like a scarecrow erected to frighten demons away, is more like a bee stinger than a flower which Osho would caution us not to pluck. You can pick a peck of Princes of Heaven and put 'em in your pocket, but some poor Sap on a yellow brick road might lose his Way because he's been robbed of his handy, heavenly anointed weather-vane.

     You don't need a whether-man to know which way the wind blows, but like Moses said, one man's staff is another man's weather. If, through His Cross, Christ is tethered to the Earth, then how is He to ascend to Heaven? This is why God sends the storms; to kick up the dust, to whip the soil and the water together into speechifying whirlwinds of cotton-candy-like Good Intentions^TM (humans).

     But trying to use your ego to dissolve your ego is all fun and games until somebody loses an I. As the main recipient of the tribute and credit paid by a society, the divine figure at the helm is the most economically powerful member of society. But just as when a despot or tribal leader dies, his country becomes unstable; when that god dies, the currency becomes unstable, and the economy usually has to be totally restructured.

     In a highly superstitious society, that could mean almost anything: the introduction of totally novel rituals, the introduction of ritual sacrifice, the resumption of sacrifices, the introduction of new gods, the syncretistic reconciliation of the religion of the conqueror with the religion of the conquered, the introduction of new moneys and currencies made from materials that were previously inaccessible, the cancellation of large-scale building projects (such as palaces, fortifications, and burial grounds or mounds), et cetera.

     But most importantly of all, the economy will be restructured around the construction of large-scale building projects. Take churches and temples as another example. You see how long it's taking to build La Sagrada Familia? That's no accident, that's quite literally by design.

     So if your church is the whole Earth... well, you see what I'm gettin' at.

     Just as Proudhon said private property cannot survive without the assistance of the state; neither can an economy which is based on private property survive without the state. Similarly, in the absence of government force, God, myth, and superstition would be the only things powerful enough to hold an economy together. Simple changes in beliefs and values can go a long, long way towards changing our lives and changing the change in our pockets.

     This is why the article “The Business Secrets of the Pharaohs: How the Kings of Ancient Egypt Can Help You Manage Your Team, Your Time, and Your 'Pyramids' More Effectively” by banker Mark Corrigan has been so instrumental in aiding the author's understanding of the pyramid scheme (which novices naïvely call “the economy”). Namely, that the era in which the Pharaohs lived “was so completely different from our own that almost all cultural, political and, particularly, business parallels we draw between the two eras [the Pharaonic era vs. modern times] are bound, by their very nature, to be wrong.”

     This is to say that a subjective theory of economic value precludes the possibility of the evaluation schema of two or more people – or societies, for that matter – to be compared to one another in any real or objective way. Forget the vast differences between societies across time; we haven't even figured the sunspot cycle into our agricultural planning yet! This is chaos; The End is built into The Beginning. God is the only Constant; without God no Number has Value. God is coagulum; a Euclidean glue that holds all Value together.

     But, not yet knowing whether the Messiah Will Be singular or collective, individuals cannot be rightfully excluded from the deity market, because, simply, any one of them might be God. And if God's body is for sale, You Better You Bet He should be allowed to make a bid. As long as He doesn't try to collude to set prices on Himself, God remains free to buy Himself back from the flames at any Time.

     What do you think God's first bid on His own Corpse (corpus; body of work; the Holy Word; the Bible) would be?

     Exactly how much silver is a “piece” of silver anyway? How much Time does silver take to Mine? How can it B Mine when it Leaves the Mine?

     If our hearts are as good as gold, and the day is as precious as silver, than wood not twenty-nine and a half pieces of silver have sufficed as a ransom for this god; this Ransom To End All Ransoms^TM? This is the Value of the silvery Moon in the velvet sky if we count the days and count the ways, is it knot?

     What is this star-studded night-cloth anyway, which is toss'd over our a planet like a dream-cover o'er a Birdcage? What, ho, more, even, is this cloud-covered dayscape (or Day's Cape), enveloping our heads in sunlight? Be ye not deceived! The Heavens are merely the eyelids of God. Would that they never drop, never reveal that Wizard behind the Curtain, lest our sins be in full sight of God, and bring Him dishonor. In a See of sin, we are drowning, and there is no island, because there is no eyelid.

     That's right; the Heavens exist because of shame. What did Adam and Steve (which may or may not be short for Stephanie) cover their Genesis-Penises with? Leaves (ALB). Heaven. The Blood of Christ. Eyelids. The foreskin that covered the Eye, but which is now used as a wedding ring. Like Brother Lopez said, “It's the same shit.”

     For we are all created in the image of God, and frankly, God can't stand the sight of Himself in The Mirror anymore. This is the source of His fractured identity, referred to by theologians as “trinity”, but by mental health professionals as “Dissociative Identity Disorder” (formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder).

     So if God doesn't even know how many people He is worth, then how can We know the Value of our Bread, the Value of our dear, deer Dough?

     As Nietzsche recommended, if God does exist, it is necessary to kill Him. And so, we have.

     It was a community decision, and nobody took blame nor credit; it was just something that We all decided that We had to do in order to move forward. Just like that Ken McElroy guy. And what could oppose Our Will? Nothing, only God.

     How do you make a work of art (that is, Creation) more valuable, when no copies of it exist? You kill the artist, which, in this case, is God.

     But how do you dispose of the evidence that you've killed God, when the entire face of the Earth is the Face of God? There's only one way: let everyone weigh-in on what God's Face is worth, and let them buy up little chunks of It, privatize It, and hide It away from everyone. Which, as You'll recall, is the best way to ensure its lasting value. I repeat: Is there anything more priceless and precious than something that has been destroyed? You don't know what you've got until you lose it.

     And so, if you love God, then you must go it aloan. Just as you must not look for homies to back you up, but rather you must back yourself up, just as a resource backs a currency.

     That is, your investments must be commensurate with, and backed by, the savings which you have stored up in your personal Heaven, your inner Sanctum. You must have faith in yourself, and give yourself credit, in order to back up Your Value, so that you have something to fall back on. It's basically the same kind of “trust fall” you'd do as a team-building exercise at a company retreat, except it's backwards off a cliff. They call this the Leap of Faith. And you must redeem yourself (for cash) before you go about lending yourself out to help others. Mortal investments must be backed by faith, but unlimited faith allows unlimited investment.

     Although it seems counter-intuitive, to the experienced alchemist-economist, this should come as second nature. As easily as the ideas that human beings have no objective intrinsic worth, that making more of them dilutes their value, and that getting rid of them makes their value increase. It's a simple matter of $upply and Dem@nD. Human value is not objective, and therefore it is inestimable, except in a comparative context.

     That's where the field of comparative labor necronomics come in. So bee there or B²!

     Now it's getting interest-sting!

     We all know, as has been foretold by the ancient prophecies – as well as having been “back-tell'd” in the more recent “backrophcies”, in which the prediction comes after the miracle – that humans only acquire Value through watching the Moon.

     Human beings' praise for one-another? All Is Vanity!^(R) This praise provides no real appraisal of value. As the Moon is Our Witch, the Moon is Our Watch. She alone bewitches and Watches us, and She aloan grants and lends worthiness to mortal men. For our worth is measured by our worthiness. This is how superstition imbues value into an economy.

     By now, if you can't read between the chicken bones, so to speak, then you probably never Will. To see this Truth is to walk; to moon another man to mock his sins. But to fully value the Moon, you must see the Many-Moon. By witch I mean that you must see the Mini-Moon (Asteroid 2016 HO3), a little and little-known satellite of Earth. For this is the full meaning of my Name; “God Wills it that the value of even the most insignificant hundredth of a cent shall be increased.”

     That is how you enhance the value of the objects which inhabit and run this ol' celestial Skee-Ball game.

     As I have blown a hole in the idea that There Can Be Only One Moon, and holes in our currency and in the reader's mind – and as the Earth and the Moon shall be pierced like a Fabergé egg, and then have their contents ejected, and then eventually crack – so too must we blow a hole in the Mini-Moon.

     For, just as the currency-hole was created by interest (and inflation), so too did my interest in the subject help pry that zound open a little wider. To paraphrase Rabbi Kohan: “The egg has to crack; that's how the God gets in.” And in-flat-ion is what results when you pierce an object, deflate it, and flatten it. It's as natural as it is flatural.

     As God has redeemed us, so too must we redeem God for all He is worth. Take Him for all he's worth – just like in the Divorce – as if the Face of God were free real estate. Just don't take Him at His Word. Take my god, please!

     To make the Longest Story Ever Told short, the only way for God to ascend, is for us to free Him from the mortal coil which is His anchor and tether to human concerns, instead of His anchor to the Heavens which stakes His claim as their King. But, like a bag of sand taking the place of a golden idol, a sacrifice must be made in God's place.

     Though before, ye have believed that the time of sacrifices were over, God demands yet another sacrifice (surprise), and an equal sacrifice in His place! But for the lack of another god, this problem would be easily remedied. :( That is why, to see what is equal to God, we must look to the planets. For they are the original gods; those wandering stars wondered about by starry-eyed ones who wander at Will as their starry eyes well as well.

     And that is why we must handcuff the pierced Earth, Moon, and Mini-Moon to one another; into a holey cosmic matrimony. We must bind all the gods – our deities, our planets, our coins, and ourselves – to one another, in a sort of spiritual choker-necklace-turned-human-centipede. It is only through piercing the Moon that we may prevent the next Blood Supermoon – and the next Blood Super-Mini-Moon – lest it grow red with blood-mooney. Preventing these Blood Supersatellites will help keep Our Treasure Earth-Bound.

     Basically, the ethereal Christmas tree needs a string of popcorn, donuts, and blood cells, in order to “lighten up”, and help God lighten up. For the Holy Word of God was scrawled upon the blood platelets of the Son even before His Holey Berth, and the Word is Light. If being the Light makes you light, then Jesus was probably pretty easy to tie down. Unfortunately, that doesn't help explain one bit why He never found a wife.

     Anyway, we must Brobdingnagianly tie these planet-gods down, onto the Tree of Life – which is the True Cross, and also the Ethereal Insect Corpse Sample Collection Tray – and entymologically pin-down their Meanings, and the Value of their Word.

     But the Word is also a Number.

     Ludwig von Mises was, of course, wrong to assert that economics should not be left to “esoteric circles”. As I have previously explained, esoteric circles run our universe. And which circles are more esoteric than the orbits of the gods?

     The Great Cosmic Arcade Game cannot continue to function so long as our coins, our planets, our gods, and ourselves do not have the same shape. Until then, they cannot be described as fully interchangeable with one another. And as has been elaborated, interchangeability is next to godliness; it's as close to God as you can get. It's As God As it Gets starring Jack Nickels-Sin.

     All this, and more, is why God is a nickel. He stands alone, on a side that you always knew inside that He had but often forget, and proclaims three faces to the world; two Sides and an Edge. Just like the West African god Eleggua does with his hat – black on one side and red on the other - He presents two façades to the world, causing men on opposite sides to fight. All the while, He keeps His True Face hidden, never showing Himself for what He is; the only Face that any of Us are fighting over. And that is why God is the edgiest motherfucker of all time.

     This is why the Catholics, to this Long Day, eat a nickel of grain to commemorate the death of the God That We Miss. That is why the Pierced Beef-Nickel (PBN on the stalker market) is the holyest currency of all, in part because most cows are raised on grain. Therefore PBN, as the sole Eucharist capable of forgiving sin and conferring spiritual value, is likely to become a durable and dominant worldwide currency wherever it is used (except in vegan communes, or the subcontinent of India).

This is why if you are not a jewel, then you can still be a coin.

     A god that is not mass-manufactured cannot circulate. There's simply not enough god to go around! The only thing that can be easily mass-manufactured is murder, and murder not only keeps the blood flowing (like liquid, volatile current-sea), it raises the Worth of each person not murdered! So hold onto your head (caput) for Dear Life^TM, or else find something for people to exchange which is not murder, and witch has forborne the carnal Knowledge of blood.

     As George Carlin explained, when human population was lower, “everybody had his own angel”, but also that, with population increase, the angel-to-human ratio has, sadly, plummeted. Ironically, one would think that religion, being designed for mass consumption by huge populations (just like capitalism), would have some way to get around this problem. That's where icon worship enters the mix. But unfortunately, the presses just can't print communion wafers quickly enough to satisfy demand. People need those things every darn Weak!

     For a while, this icon-worship of an edible currency made of Christ's flesh was a good enough way to re-present the original god who backed the currency with His Life. But eventually, speculation that He did not actually exist in tangible fully-backed assets led to volatility in the deity market, and caused the value of the stock we put in our beliefs to plummet.

     According to the coroner's report, this was also caused by injections of questioning, apprehension, and dying physical matter by a central board that lacked legitimate authority. Onto this central board was mounted another board, affixed to it perpendicularly with several nails.

     And We all know what happened next. Or do We?

     God is right there in your heart, and right there in your pocket! Are you gonna pretend you don't know how He got there!?

     Remember: your god is your property. He can only become yours by taking Him back into your Own (hands). If you don't fight back when people claim that your property is worthless, then the theoskeptics win. And that is why you must never fight back, but Give 2 Those Who Ask You^®. Even if they ask for the coordinates of your god, your greatest Treasure.

     You must guard the physical body of God (i.e., our money), but also reveal Truths about Him to whomever asks. Even though He repeatedly warned us not to tell a living soul about Him; this was only a test. Had there been a real deity shortage, you would have been informed as to where to take shelter behind an occult veil of secrecy in your area. And just as A Mighty Fortress is Our God, there is no better shelter and cover than the Lord's loving arms.

     Except to be covered by His delicious, nutritious blood.

     For the Blood that pours out of the Grand Skee-Ball Game – which, as the Clock of the Universe, and the Clock of the Heart, makes the planets run on time – is the Blood from the Hand which God got caught in the Eternal Vending Machine of Immortality. Rumor has it, He was trying to Fish coins out of the machine, as if His Hand were the Claus in a claw game, and Rob all the Worth out of the Arcade to give to the mortals. Like a Robbin' Hood thing.

     A complete exegesis of biblical scripture (and Kevin Smith films) will reveal that God frequently gets lost in arcades, from not being able to differentiate any particular game from the ones that humans are playing with each other all the time. For those who have not yet had their fill of the Tree of Knowledge, the Cosmic Coin Counter runs the Eternal Pinball Game, which runs the Cosmic Clock of the Solar System. All of this takes place within the Ancient Arcane Arcade, which we are foolish enough to call “the Universe”.

     For some literally obscure reason, “mortals” (dubious) wish to play a game with our gods, and pit them against the Lion and against Nature. But Life is not a game. And so, we must refrain from playing The Game^TM to begin with, by playing The Game^TM, while releasing ourselves from the secondary Game of trying to hold onto our value. That's because we must be Willing to depart with that Value in order to assist this debilitated, trapped God, to do His Will byproxy, like some sort of Divine Last Will and Testament.

     This is to say that we must rescue God from the Cosmic Arcade; the Bank Vault of the Heavens, the Crypt full of change in the Vending Machine of Immortality.

     We must sacrifice one of our own coins to, quite literally, get God out of the machine (deus ex machina). For a God that needs to be repeatedly rescued and re-rescued and re-skewed and re-schism'd, is of utmost Value; it is as pretty as a Peach. If you love your coin, let it go; if the machine returns it, you'll know it was meant to Be. Mamma mia!

     But before we can get God out of the machine, we must first get our heads out of the machine, get our heads out of the gutter, and get our heads out of the oven (same thing). This is why – whether it's Fitcoin or Sweatcoin, Shitcoin, Shitecoin, We Are Precious In His Sight-Coin, or 54°40'-Or-Fight-Coin – currencies that touch blood will never suffice as cryptocurrencies; for the simple reason that they've never even been inside a crypt.

     Just as meat mustn't be taken from an animal while it is still alive, neither may blood, nor value, unless the animal gives assent (a cent). Just as the value of a sigil-currency often lies in its non-possession, the value of cryptocurrencies that touch blood (like Shitcoin) always lies in its non-possession.

     But Jesus has been inside a crypt. And Milton Friedman, being the only one who has successfully peered through the camel-eye-plank-hole in our currency, $€€$ that yes, indeed, He does have an exit strategy, and did the whole time. Like Churchill said, “If you find yourself going through Hell, keep going.” The only way out is through. ...Through the treasure room.

     And the true treasure lies in your chest, your own Heaven. That is to say, the only way out is through the Sacred Heart, which acts as the womb-tomb in which the Dead God grows while dying.

     And that is why the Sacred Heart must be pierced; for the sake of Appreciation.

     That God does not understand money should not surprise us any more than that the president does not understand money. Human beings' difficulty understanding money lies in deciphering God's views through His mad scrawlings, which is unfortunate, because consulting their pineal glands often works just as well or better.

     The simpler the creature, the easier for it to comprehend money. Our monkey-prostitute ancestors “understood” (stood-under) this, in the same way that they stood underneath the electrified banana in the famous ladder experiment. To stand under the banana is to obey the banana. As far as we know, non-human animals do not believe in, nor value, money; but some of them have resigned themselves to accepting it as a fact of human life, and as a fact of living around humans. Just like we have!

     But what can monkey-prostitutes tell us about the nature of God, and of mon(k)ey? A better question would be What can't they tell us? It all depends on whether the monkey-prostitutes in question can talk. For “God”, as we all know, is an anagram for “dog”; the words share gematric value (or at least they do in the anguished language of English). But the map is not the territory. Dog knows how easily money flows from the Hallowed Ground.

     According to various reports from early 2018, in Colombia, a black Labrador retriever dog named Negro has been purchasing cookies for years, obtaining them from a cafeteria at the Diversified Technical Education Institute of Monterrey Casanare. How does he do it? He presents a leaf, usually a green one. Evidently, the dog saw humans obtaining cookies after they gave up something flat, green, and made out of an Earth-material. And that's when a good boy became a great boi, and also an entrepreneur: “I know where to get tons of those!”

     This dumb animal has single-pawedly shattered everything we know about money; his simple discovery ought to bring shame to each and every one of us who didn't think of it first. I mean, if Kendall Jenner can hear “Money doesn't grow on trees” and immediately come back with “Yes it does, it's paper”, then how is it that the rest of us have held onto this false Little B-Leaf (ALB) for so long? Of course money grows on trees; just like a god grows on a cross, which is made out of trees. So God grows on trees.

     Sadly, the staff of the cafeteria reacted to Negro's ingenuity – and to the virtually unlimited supply of leaves to which he has access – by limiting his purchases to several cookies per diem, thus ensuring our financial doom. Which begs the questions: Can we all make purchases with dog leaves? Most importantly of all, what happens when the dog leaves?

     Verily, we must keep this stupid doG, who can't even fucking talk, alive forever with a robotic exoskeleton, and give him a Nobel Prize in Economics. If He dies, we eat Him to gain his purchasing power, just like God said to do with His body when He died. Investing in this project now will yield plentiful R.O.I. (not to be confused with rai).

     We might also want to take a look at his taxes.

     If Negro's method of monetary expansion does not earn him the job of next Chairman of the Federal Reserve, then perhaps it really is time to look to China for the answer, and adopt as our new currency a set of live animals trapped inside small plastic bags, fashioned into keychains. The Chinese say that the sale of these toys has boosted their economy; so imagine how much good it would do them to adopt this into their basket of official currencies (which includes the Yuan, the Renminbi, and Hong Kong and Macau dollars).

     Maybe if a populous country like China were to take that first step, it could inch the animal-bags closer to becoming a world reserve currency! Then each of us could have a Lamb In A Bag^TM, and keep them in little pockets we can sew onto our shoulders, to trade as we please! We could literally put live stock in our beliefs, by wearing our faith on our sleeves! The Bible makes it quite clear: The Lamb is the only Source of Worth, the only Source of Value; but only as long as its Value stays free-floating near thirty pieces of silver, no ewe-sury allowed.

     So don't dilute your currency; delude your thinking in order to induce trance states!

     Specifically, buy in (Now^TM) to the delusion that the tides of the waters in our bodies (vessels) are controlled by Luna and Neptune. That the blood flowing through your blood vessels renders your body a mass of land Crossed by rivers. That, being mostly water, the body is permeable to thought, which is electric. That others' thoughts and unheard words float through the æther, and electrocute us, causing our ears to burn. That water or light, electrocuted by and to a slow vibration, will become as solid as a currency and as Solid As A Rock. That a single whim can give rise to a whole life or a whole Arcade (Universe), or that one wandering thought can poison the mind and pollute the day.

     That vegetables, being even more of water than humans are, have their Worth controlled by the Moon even more. That the Moon is more valuable when it is full, and so are the many creatures whose tides it governs. And those creatures – those animals whom we think below us, simply because they are short – they know it.

     The Moon is a giant dreidel. Which face does it show to you?

     Read Jung and the Bhagavad Gita, then ask yourself which anima(l) you see in the Mirror.

     Now we are beginning to ¢ the importance of listening to, having star(t)ing contests with, and, yes, making love to, our witch's familiars, in order to regain the carnal (i.e., meaty) understanding of Nature which Men have lost.

     Think on the Lilies of the Field (2 B confused with the 1963 Sidney Poitier film of the same name, for a lily by any other name is the same shit). As we can infer from Matthew 6:26-29, rats don't give one of their own asses about money, because they don't consider anything but the four classical elements (Earth, Water, Air, and Fire) to be currency. That's because those classical elements make up all food, or else cook it.

     Essentially, most of our pets don't use money, or understand money differently from the way we do, such that, when we feed them, they think we're paying them. But that doesn't mean that a cookie-loving black lab or a capuchin prostitute won't pretend to use currency, or can't be tricked into using currency, respectively. ...Look it up.

     During a backrophcy, it's normal to be unsure what you're seeing, and even what time frame it's happening in, and what vantage point you're seeing it from. But Hark Like a Lark!^®; Right before us, we are seeing the birth and the end of the Arcade at once; the in-holding of the crown-molding of the crowd-funding of the Unfolding (that is, Revelaymond).

     This Anubis-like dog Negro is George Clintonianly chasing the cat Sphinx, inciting and inviting it to catch the Phoenix. After Nut nutted into the Nile and birthed all Creation and all Water, Negro's actions were those which precipitated the rise of all economaieutic wisdom which cum'd into the Arcade. If you want to literally “make money”, cum on a video game.

     Hey, it's like they always say, if the Phoenixian partridge-cartridge isn't working, blow on it. If Jesus and Kanye can both T-pose on a cross while making love to other gay fi$h, then why should that stop you? It's not like they're immortal or anything.

     Or are they? More importantly, have you ever seen them together in the same room at the same time?

     What am I getting at? I'm glad you finally asked. The Shibbolethic Talisman.

     First, the shibboleth.

     A shibboleth is a word, slogan, phrase, or catch-phrase, that serves as a “watch-word”, “test-word”, or “test-phrase”. It can also refer to a cliché, truism, platitude, manner of speaking, speech pattern, accent, behavior, or mode of dress. Shibboleth additionally refers to some quality or characteristic which is viewed as outdated or outmoded, and empty of meaning. A shibboleth is perceived, and used, as a test, to distinguish someone, often according to class, nation, language, profession, or faith.

     The Bible alludes to the shibboleth in Judges 12:5-6. Judge Jephthah and his men of Gilead told a group of Ephraimites, supposedly refugees, to pronounce the word “shibboleth”. Their inability to pronounce the “sh” sound correctly gave them away as invading impostors. The Ephraimites pronounced the word as “sibboleth” because of their lack of familiarity with the Hebrew word, which means “ear of grain”. The use of the word shibboleth for that purpose, led to the word shibboleth being adopted as the term used to denote the test-phrase.

     Aside from serving as a linguistic distinction between two peoples, the pronunciation difference itself serves to reveal the speaker's degree of depth of understanding of the meaning of the greater concept attached to the word; and, moreover, the speaker's appreciation of the value which that full understanding of the word holds. Essentially, the shibboleth is the key to assigning Value and Worth to individuals according to their ability to understand the words that are comin' outta my mouth.

     An etymological analysis of the usages of the word in Scripture reveals that to the ancient Hebrews, the word shibboleth carried the meaning of “ear of corn”, “ear of grain”, or “spike of grain”, in addition to meaning water, flood, stream, channel, or branch. This volatile (i.e., watery) additional meaning might seem like a connotation rather than a denotation to the novice, but it makes perfect sense if you have seen a close-up image of the vessels in a leaf, next to an aerial view of the “arteries” of the highway, looping around a city, and if you know that water and nutrients flow through a seemingly solid branch (zemach).

     We as Americans ought to understand this better than anyone, as our national anthems and Americana theater are filled to the brim with songs of “amber waves of grain” and “the waving wheat can sure smell sweet”. We, with our “sea to shining sea” of wheat and grain and corn, should sea that the crops, being more Water than We, are more moved by the tides of Mother Moon than We ®. Which, of course, is why we eat them to acquire their Value. And we as Americans ought to know how converting grain to a liquid makes it easier and cheaper to transport across the land. So get drunk and fuck with a sigil, Jesus built a distillery in His stomach!

     This is to say that the Ephraimites' understanding of the word shibboleth caused them to view food (particularly grain) as something solid, and as a burden that must be carried across the land, while the Hebrews understood that the crops flow freely from the land like water from a spring. Food is not something that really needs to be carefully stored away; I mean, throw some seeds by the wayside, dump your leftovers on top of it, and see what comes up. I ב you'll have meals for meal-ennia!

     Once we understand that the crops and our food are gifts that spring from all corners of Creation, rather than a burden which is difficult and expensive to transport to those who need it, we can, to rephrase the admonitions of Brother Sam, “put people closer to where the fucking food is”.

     So if you can't lead the horse to water, lead the water to the horse.

     Corns are coins. Haven't you ever heard of ear-igation?

     The talisman, on the other hand – as anyone familiar with magick will recall – is a seal, sigil, symbol, logo, figure, character, or image, used as a good luck charm, such as an amulet, medallion, or rosary.

     Traditionally, “talisman” refers to a charmed image, carved under superstitious observance or ritual, which bears representations of observances of the configurations of the Heavens. Stones and metals associated with particular planets are often used as talismans, or as components of talismans, in order to manifest the most accurate symbolic representation of the heavenly bodies being conveyed, through manifesting the most accurate visual and material representation of those objects. This practice is thought to charge the object with the full force or power which the heavenly body is thought to possess.

     All I'm really getting at is that a talisman can be used as a sigil as long as the sigil re-presents the talisman adequately, and that the talisman can be used as a shibboleth if its use or possession can be utilized to distinguish people. Only by comprehending this, may we bring the Shibbolethic Talisman to bear as a Holey Money, representing the unrepresentable; itself. ...In court.

     The Mark has many meanings, largely determined by zoning. If on the forehead, palm, or wrist, the Value may be different; the meaning of the Mark must be inquired of the bearer alone, and no Øne else. So too might a holey hand, a holey head, a holey wrist, or a black hole on the center of the Palm, mean something else. But a hand held aloft – in question, rather than in statement or command – this is our Shibbolethic Talisman; this is our currency. For, whether the hand is empty or holey, it is empty enough to communicate the meaning of the gesture. For, though the hand be empty, the gesture is not. The meaning of an empty hand is understood by all.

     This fulfills Gandhi's requirement regarding of what purpose the talisman should serve, namely, that it serve some purpose to the poorest among us.

     For what poor person lacks both hands, and lacks holes in his hands? He who is without hands, having no hand-water and thus not touching blood, may be put to work as a rial currency, for, lacking hands, he cannot throw the first stone, so he may as well know that he has sinned. And that is why, as Jodorowski made clear, he without arms will inherit the Kingdom of God.

     Grab that vinegar, we just gotta relieve that stigmata!

     It is appointed unto men, once and only once, to die. But You, being of water, are in flux. If your personality dies once, then your oath is fulfilled, and you are released.

But that puts a Juju priest out of a job.

     What is Coming is a Harvest of Men. As prayer is a form of insurance against the Divine not existing (for it is like a bet that it does), our sacred vestments are investments. As such, they should be our most valuable (and, if need be, only) possessions, for they, in covering us, are like God and his tasty blood.

     For Eternal Meaning and Value are the Secrets which we Confess to the Great Celestial Accountant, whose name is the Angel Gematria, the Queen B of the jibber-jabber of geometry. Her Guardian Angel is the Recording Angel MatthewTron (the Artist Formerly Known as Metatron), Sparrow Fashionista.

     Verily I say unto Thou that Her Name – the fullest Value of each and every one of the many Characters of Her Fullest Name – means “To Save A Coat”. And, just like someone who's half-insane and trying to read the Bible backwards and upside-down, I discovered this after looking at the matter from every possible angle.

     But in witch gematria? Better break out your gematria tables, it's gonna be a Long Night.

     And that is why, to this Day, Jesus always stays at Double Tree.

     That'll be $11.65.

     Shut the fuck up.

Written on May 8^th, 9^th, and 11^th through 13^th, 2018
Edited on May 15th, 2018