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 Manifesto of the
BLACK THORN LEAGUE
   by Hakim Bey
 http://hermetic.com/bey/blackthorn.html

 1.) According to orally-transmitted teachings
     of Noble Drew Ali, founder & Prophet of
     the Moorish Science Temple of America: --
     Ireland was once part of the Moorish Empire;
     that is, the celts were Moslems, & there
     were black moors from N. Africa also present
     in Ireland. But the moors were expelled by
     militant Christianity -- this event is
     disguised in the legend of St. Patrick's
     expelling the snakes - for which reason
     the MST celebrates St. Patrick's Day, in a
     mood of irony perhaps, in expectation
     of an eventual Return.

 2.) In Noble Drew Ali's system, celts are
     considered an "Asiatic race", & thus
     potential converts to Moorish Science.
     We consider NDA's theories to be racial but
     not racist, because (again according to oral
     tradition) they were based (at least in part)
     on spiritual affinity. "Europeans" who wished
     to Join the MST (including some of the later
     founders of the Moorish Orthodox Church) were
     declared to be really celts or "Persians" --
     (which may have something to do with the
     oft-remarked similarity of Eiran and Iran).

 3.) NDA's hidden history of Ireland may be taken
     as an esoteric metaphor -but it is supported
     in some surprising ways by archaeology & even
     "official" history. In the first place, the
     celts are an Asiatic race, or at least the
     most recent arrivals in the west from the
     mysterious "Hyperborean" heartland of the
     Aryans -- last of those nomadic migrations
     which settled India, Persia & Greece.

 4.) Second: What is one to make of those early
     Celtic crosses inscribed with the bismillah
     ("In the Name of God", opening words of the
     Koran) in kufic Arabic, found in Ireland?
     The Celtic Church, before its destruction
     by the Roman hierarchy, maintained a close
     connection with the desert hermit-monks
     of Egypt.  Is it possible this connection
     persisted past the 7th/8th centuries, & that
     the role of the monks was taken up by Moslems?
     by Sufis? in contact with a still-surviving
     underground Celtic Church, now become
     completely heretical, & willing to syncretize
     Islamic esotericism with its own Nature-
     oriented & poetic Faith?

 5.) Such a syncresis was certainly performed
     centuries later by the Templars & the
     Assassins (Nizari Ismailis). When the Temple
     was suppressed by Rome & its leaders burned
     at the stake, Ireland provided refuge for many
     incognito Templars. According to The Temple &
     The Lodge, these Templars later reorganized as
     a rogue Irish branch of Freemasonry, which
     (in the early 18th century) would resist
     amalgamation with the London Grand Lodge.
     The Islamic connection with masonry is quite
     clear, both in the Templar & the Rosicrucian
     traditions, but Irish masonry may have
     inherited an even earlier Islamic link --
     memorialized in those enigmatic crosses!

 6.) It's interesting to note that Noble Drew Ali's
     Masonic initiations may not have been limited
     to Prince Hall or black Shriner transmissions,
     but may also have included some hidden lines
     connected to Irish masonry, & dating back to
     Revolutionary days in American history. It is
     known that many common soldiers in the British
     Colonial Army were masons affiliated with the
     Irish rather than the London Grand Lodge.
     This "class" difference -was reflected in the
     American Revolutionary Army, whose officers
     were "official" masons but whose private ranks
     tended to be "Irish".

 7.) Historians sometimes forget that in the 18th
     century, in America, the Irish were generally
     considered "no better than Negroes". In 1741
     on St. Patrick's Day in New York a riot broke
     out, involving a conspiracy which included
     Irish, African, & Native American men &
     women -- naturally "of the meanest sort."
     Some Irish conspirators were overheard to
     swear they'd kill as many "white people" as
     possible. The uprising failed & the plotters
     were executed. As the bodies of two hanged
     in the open air decayed in an Iron gibbet,
     "observers noticed a gruesome, yet instructive,
     transformation. The corpse of an Irishman
     turned black & his hair curly while the corpse
     of Caesar the African, bleached white.
     It was accounted a 'wondrous phenomenon'"
     (Linebaugh & Rediker, "The Many-Headed Hydra").

 8.) Clearly the Celt & African were linked not
     only in the gaze of the oppressor class, but
     also in their own world-view -- as comrades,
     as somehow the same -- in a solidarity which
     extended to Indians & to other "Europeans"
     who fell beneath the level of the "respectable
     poor" into the category of slaves & outcasts.
     Racist feelings did not divide the 18th century
     poor & marginalized -- as would become the
     case under later Capitalism. Rather the
     marginalized of all races constituted an
     underclass & moreover, an underclass with
     some awareness of itself, hence with a certain
     power (the power of the "strong victim").
     This consciousness might well have been
     developed in part by Irish-black "masonry"
     of some sort. And Noble Drew Ali might have
     known of this tradition, which he masked
     (or perhaps unveiled) in his parable of the
     snakes - & celebration of March 17th.

 9.) In another interpretation of St. Patrick's
     anti-reptilism, the "snakes" he banished
     were in fact "druids", i.e. Celtic pagans.
     The snake may have been an emblem of the
     Old Faith, as it is for many forms of
     paganism, including African (Damballah) &
     Indian (the Nagas) -- & even for the Ophite
     Christianity of Egypt (Christ himself
     depicted as a crucified snake).

10.) Celtic pagan lore was embedded in the Romance
     traditions especially in the Arthurian
     material -- & here once again, we find
     ourselves in the world of the Arabo-Celtic
     crosses. For the romances are permeated with
     "Islamic" consciousness. In Malory's Morte
     dArthur & Eschenbach's Parzifal many Saracen
     (i.e. Moslem/Moorish) knights are depicted
     not as enemies but allies of the Celts -- &
     in the latter book the entire story is
     attributed to Moorish sources (which are
     now lost). Saracens, Christians, & crypto-
     pagans are united in a mystical cult of
     chivalry which transcends outward religious
     forms, & is emblematized not only in pagan
     symbols like the Grail & the Questing Beast,
     but even in such cultural borrowings as the
     lute (al-'ud in Arabic), or indeed the cult
     of romantic/chivalric love, transmitted from
     Islam to the west by Sufis in Spain.

11.) Ireland's contacts with Spain certainly extend
     back into the Islamic period, & the so-called
     "Black Irish" may have as many Moorish as
     castillian genes. Medieval Irish monks probably
     absorbed Sufism & Islamic philosophy along with
     the art of the illuminated manuscript -- witness
     the extraordinary stylistic resonance between
     the Book of Eells & the Kufic Korans of Omayyad
     Spain. If St. Francis could visit N. Africa &
     come back to Italy wearing a Sufi's patched
     cloak, so the Irish might easily borrow from
     Egypt & al-Andalus.

12.) All speculation aside, the Moorish Orthodox
     Church entertains its own esoteric
     interpretation of NDA's teachings on these
     matters. We heartily endorse his "elective
     affinity" theory of affiliation with a
     greater spiritual Celto-Asiatic "race".
     DNA counts for something, but soul for a
     great deal more. "Every man & woman their
     own vine & fig tree" (one of NDA's slogans)
     is not a matter of fate but of character,
     not of birth but of choice.

13.) In our historical/imaginative exegesis &
     unfolding of NDA's parable, we have uncovered
     a complex of heretical Islamic & Moorish
     cultural strands linking Celtic neo-paganism,
     esoteric Christianity, & the Arthurian cycle,
     thru Sufism & masonry, to the perennial
     libertarian struggle of the marginalized &
     oppressed peoples of the "Atlantic" world.

14.) We propose to embody this poetic complex in
     a popular chivalric order, devoted symbolically
     to the cause of "bringing the snakes back to
     Ireland" - that is, of uniting all these
     mystical strands into one patterned weave,
     which will restore the power of its synergistic
     or syncretistic power to the hearts of those
     who respond to the particular "taste" of its
     mix. We have borrowed this slogan from
     contemporary neo-pagans in order to symbolize
     the special mission our order will undertake
     toward Celtic-Moorish friendship. The BLACK
     THORN LEAGUE will be open to all, regardless
     of whether they are MOC members or not,
     providing only that they support this
     particular goal.

15.) "Black" in our title signifies not only the
     black banners of the moors but also the black
     flag of anarchy. "Blackthorn", because the
     tree symbolizes druid Irelands & is used to
     make cudgels. "League", in honor of the various
     Irish rebel groups which have organized as such.
     Other organizational models include such
     Masonic-revolutionary groups as the Carbonari,
     or Proudhon's anarchist "Holy Vehm", or Bakunin's
     Revolutionary Brotherhood. We also emulate
     certain anarcho-Taoist Chinese tongs (such as
     the Chaos Society)~~ & hope to evolve the kind
     of informal mutual aid webworks they developed.

16.) The League will bestow the Order of the
     Black Thorn as title & honor, & will hold
     an annual conclave & banquet on St. Patrick's
     Day in memory both of Noble Drew Ali's vision,
     & of those rioters of 1741 who conspired in
     low taverns to overthrow the State.

     Bring The Snakes Back To Ireland!

 http://hermetic.com/bey/blackthorn.html

On Sun, 7/24/11, Prescott Sheldon Bush
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"Modern polar bears are partly descended from extinct
 brown bears that lived in Ireland during the last ice age,
  scientists have discovered.... [Living] Polar Bears have
   mitochondrial DNA found in the bones of ice age bears
    discovered in caves in Ireland." [...]
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"Vixen Strangely" <ivkraykvk@nby.pbz> wrote:

Grover Norquist's Stupid-Ass Ice Cream Cone
 http://tinyurl.com/Grover-Stupid-Ass-Ice-Cream

I've been thinking about Grover Norquist's ice cream cone
lately since his name has been coming up regarding the
  anti-tax pledge. If you haven't heard of it, you can just
   Google Norquist--most profiles of him mention that
    when he was a little kid, his dad would get him an
     ice cream cone, and then take bites out of it,
      labelling each bite after some kind of tax:
       "income tax", "sales tax".
        You get the idea.

    So you have an
   impressionable youngster,
  and he's being given something nice,
and then, imagine his dismay when that
something nice is being nibbled away! Darn those taxes!

     Which is all very well from the point of view of a kid
of six or seven (and don't get me started on my opinion
of his daddy....), but once a person is an adult, you realize
that this is not a good analogy for what taxes are.
See, Grover's purloined dairy treat just slid down his
old man's throat, but the tax money that everyone pays
goes to lots of things that people depend on, voted for,
built up over time--and shouldn't be taken for granted.
Without that revenue, what do we get?

Police forces with bites taken out?  Fire companies with
bites taken out? Social safety nets with bites taken out,
that real people fall through? Health inspection agencies
with bites taken out, so they are less effective at making
sure your ice cream is safe before you eat it? The nation's
infrastructure with actual bites taken out--bad roads and
crumbling bridges? A country with bites taken out?

Our tax dollars support our government, which is made
up of, by, and for us. We couldn't have licked Hitler or
put a man on the moon without tax money.  Tax money
built the Bomb, helped cure polio and got the Internet
started.  Acting like taxes are evil is just...un-American
to me.  Honestly--would Reagan have rather won the
Cold War--or eaten a whole ice cream cone?

I'll leave that for right-thinking patriots
 everywhere to decide.  ?
  Posted by Vixen Strangely at 11:56 PM
   http://tinyurl.com/Grover-Stupid-Ass-Ice-Cream

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On Sat, 7/23/11, Winifred Barton <jonegba@ernpu.arg>  wrote:

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urchin you meet as his helper and
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or hesitation. You say that you want to
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and you kneel to God." [...] Pgs 135-136;
The Conversation; THE KEY -
  A True Encounter by Whitley Strieber;
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[...] "GOP doing to Obama what CIA did to
Allende in Chile; Republicans appear ready
to destroy U.S., global economies to gain
power; Bush administration deficits
deliberately structured to force end of
New Deal social programs; Tea Party
fascists providing 'boots on the ground'
for this effort." [...] [For The Record #747
  "Bringin' It All Back Home"]
 http://spitfirelist.com/for-the-record/for-the-record-747-bringin-it-all-back-home/

Grover Norquist:  http://tinyurl.com/469caq5
 http://spitfirelist.com/tag/grover-norquist/

 http://www.jihadwatch.org/2003/12/grover-norquist-and-radical-islam.html

     Frank Gaffney has written in FrontPage magazine
an article that is much needed and long overdue:

"A Troubling Influence,"
 http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=11209
about the extensive ties that conservative activist
Grover Norquist has with radical Islamic elements.

This is a lengthy and exhaustively documented piece
about a man who has stood as a singular obstruction
to efforts to alert people to the gravity of the
threat from radical Islam. All of it should be read
carefully, but here are a few highlights:

     The association between Grover Norquist
and Islamists appears to have started about
[thirteen] years ago, in 1998, when he became
the founding chairman of an organization called
the Islamic Free Market Institute, better
known as the Islamic Institute. The Institute's
stated purpose was to cultivate Muslim-Americans
and Arab-Americans whose attachment to
conservative family values and capitalism made
them potential allies for the Republican Party
in advance of the 2000 presidential election. ...
Unfortunately, some associated with the Islamic
Institute evidently had another agenda.
Abdurahman Alamoudi, for one, a self-described
"supporter of Hamas and Hezbollah," the
prime-mover behind the American Muslim Council
(AMC) and a number of other U.S.-based
Islamist-sympathizing/supporting organizations,
saw in the Islamic Institute a golden opportunity
to hedge his bets. [...]
 http://www.jihadwatch.org/archives/000376.php

     "... After the defeat of the Soviets in
Afghanistan, the MAK evolved into al Qaeda.
Mr. Loftus traces the evolution of this
Islamic fascist organization from
World War II right on up through its
alliances with GOP heavyweights
Grover Norquist and Karl Rove." [...]
 http://tinyurl.com/469caq5

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    Fascism Anyone?
  [Excerpt] by Laurence W. Britt
 http://secularhumanism.org/index.php?section=library&page=britt_23_2

  ]_[ ]_[ ]_[

"Koyaanisqatsi Fahrvergnugen" escribio:

On Sat, 7/23/11, 3:33 am, "0LT15515" wrote:
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  "...To ancient initiates Isis was a
symbol of Sirius and Osiris a symbol
of the Dark Companion of Sirius;
... the traditional secret revealed
in the Eleusian Mysteries was that
'Osiris is a black god!'"

     "... The familiar symbol of Isis, with
a star above her and one of her feet in
water and the other on land, is a symbol
of the Sirius connection..."
(Atu XVII of the Tarot - The Star)
"Temple [Robert Temple, The Sirius Mystery]
also demonstrates that the whole Egyptian
calendar revolved around the movements of
Sirius - the year began with the 'dog days'
when Sirius started to rise behind the sun
(July 23 in our calendar) ...that the
earliest hieroglyphic for Osiris (the God
of Resurrection and of Eternal Life) was
an eye plus a throne; and that the most
secret of the rituals of Osiris, the
'black rite,' is described on one
Hermetic text as being so cryptic
in its total meaning that men will
only understand it fully when they
pursue the stars 'unto the height'..."

     "... The number 23 appears in many
mysterious coincidences but only to those
who notice it.  The 23 Enigma is a belief
that the number 23 is of particular or
unusual significance, especially in
relation to disasters.

     "Unusual circumstances being linked to 23
are mentioned by William S. Burroughs. He tells
the story of meeting a ferry captain named
Clark who claimed to have sailed the same
route without an accident for 23 years.
That very day, however, the ferry sank.
Later that day, Burroughs writes, he was
thinking about Clark's ferry accident when
he heard that a Flight 23 on a New York-Miami
route had crashed. According to Burroughs,
the pilot's name for the flight had also
been Clark. Burroughs began collecting
incidences of the number 23 in a scrapbook
and referred to them in his writings.

     "The 23 Enigma can also be traced to
Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea's
The Illuminatus Trilogy (there called the
'23/17 phenomenon'), Wilson's
Cosmic Trigger I: Final Secret of the Illuminati
(there called 'The Law of 23s'), as well as
to the Principia Discordia. In these works, 23
is considered to be alternately lucky, sacred
to the goddess Eris, or just plain weird.
The Principia quotes 'The Law of Fives' in
explaining this, as 2+3=5. ..."

"Robert Anton Wilson"  (Born: January 18, 1932
                        Died: January 11, 2007)
                        http://www.rawilson.com

     OSIRIS is only 150 light years from Earth,
and calculations suggest that the planet has a
mass around 63% of Jupiter's, but a radius
around 60% larger. This fits well with current
theories that planets like this, that are
orbiting very close to their parent stars,
will be "bloated".

     HD 209458b, nicknamed Osiris, which orbits
a Sun like star in the constellation Pegasus,
150 light years away...

     "The steam that was predicted to be there was
nowhere to be found," said L. Jeremy Richardson
of NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.

He led one of three teams that reported the results
of observations of two planets with the
Spitzer Space Telescope in a news conference
Wednesday. Richardson's results are being published
in the journal Nature... Richardson's data suggest that
at least one of the planets is swaddled in high-level
clouds of dark dust. "The water could still be there,"
he said. "We just can't see it."

     Water Mysteriously Absent from
     Extrasolar Planets' Atmospheres

     Contrary to predictions, two planets
orbiting distant stars show no signs of
water and other simple compounds; dark
clouds or haze may hide them...

Scirus - for scientific information:  http://www.scirus.com/

  _/-_/-_/-_/-_/-

     "Sirius is about 23 times as bright as our sun,
2.35 times its mass and 1.8 times our sun's
diameter (our sun is about 1 million miles wide)."

     "...About July 23, when the whole country was almost
desiccated by the heat and the drought, just before
sunrise, Sirius (the Dog Star, or the star of Isis) would
make its first appearance of the season on the horizon.
This was the sacred New Year's Day for the Egyptians,
and the festival of the Nile flood..."

     J U L Y      T W E N T Y      T H I R D

    23: It's Everywhere I Tell Yah'

July 23 "Mysterious Eyes" of comet Hale-Bopp
        first sighted.
July 23 More reported UFO sightings on this
        day than any other day of the year.
        This is the flapday of the year. (Well...!)
July 23rd is both the Sumerian and Egyptian New Years.

EGYPT

     2800 B.C. Some pyramids are aligned with significant
orientations of the bright stars. Imhotep, the architect
of the first pyramid, enters mythology as the
first astronomer.

Calendars

     Planting seasons governed by annual flooding
of the Nile. Egyptians observe that the star
Sirius ("Sothis") rises just before dawn ("heliacal
rising") coincides with the rising of the Nile.
This defines the Sothic year, which the Egyptians
observe to be about 365 1/4 days long. (The year
based on motions of the stars is called a sidereal
year.) The Egyptians also used a lunar calendar
based on the motions of the Moon. For numerical
convenience they had a third, civil calendar of
365 days. The task is to reconcile these calendars.
(12 x 29 1/2 365 1/4) Until late in their history,
the ancient Egyptians did this empirically, that
is, by observation, without the aid of mathematics.



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