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Article #130: The War on Women

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Merovingian/Secret Society Rituals: accepted and apparently acceptable
One of my fellow researchers on a site I 'conventional' thinking (?).
have been involved with for a few years "Many of their practices were purely
knows a lot more about genetics than I shamanistic, whilst others were more
do. He says healthy genes have polarity closely connected with medieval magical
that is harmonically tuned and this fits rite. But they were not the only
with many things I have read in mystical magicians among the Celts, for we find
treatises. Sir Laurence Gardner's Genesis that magic power was frequently the
of the Grail Kings has a sub-title possession of women and the poetic craft.
suggesting they even knew how to clone The art magic of Druidism had many points
people a very long time ago. I have of comparison with other magical systems,
addressed Gardner's work in great detail and may be said to have approximated more
and I have pointed out many disturbing to that black magic which desires power
and questionable things. The Druids or for the sake of power alone, than to any
Shining Ones and Heliopolitans are the more transcendental type. Thus it
origin of Gardner's Rosicrucianity and I included the power to render oneself
assure you they could affect the elements invisible, to change the bodily shape, to
and thus make genetic changes. I must produce an enchanted sleep, to induce
give the reader a little of the debate lunacy {Their foes were obviously already
before this kind of thing can be even quite there. The fact is that the
remotely accepted as a possibility, I communion is a blood ritual of a type
know. Dracula or Count Dracul of the
Having no likelihood of concern for Rosicrucian order that de Vere belongs
people not gaining insight to things some to, practice.}, and the utterance of
call dangerous, and being stubborn enough spells and charms which caused death.
not to cater to ignorance, I am including Power over the elements was also
much of these things in my writings. The claimed...
next quote is from the Encyclopedia of A manuscript preserved in the Monastery
Occultism and Parapsychology, 2nd. of St. Gall and dating from the eighth or
Edition by Leslie Shepard (pg. 215): It ninth century, has preserved magical
is of interest that Rhys mentions an formulae for the preservation of butter
Iberian origin that would relate to the and the healing of certain diseases in
Basque who are also linguistically the name of the Irish god Diancecht.
connected to the Mayan, Vietnamese and These and others bear a close resemblance
Denhe of Northwestern America. One of the to Babylonian and Etruscan spells, and
Kennewick Man scholars thinks he may be this goes to strengthen the hypothesis
Ainu (of Japanese white-skinned people) often put forward with more or less
and I see the possibility of a Mu ability that Druidism had an eastern
Atlantis group who went to Japan and the origin."
Jomon pottery therefrom is in Ecuador. I Your mother wears army boots! This is
think the Basque fit the type of people such great academic insight! Did it cross
who would be Druidic trained and fiercely this feeble-minded nitwit's brain that
independent with a possible original the reverse is true? The Etruscans
input to Druidism. weren't even in existence when Fell
"Celts showed the Druids in New England with the
According to Lewis Spence, magic among Maltese style of buildings that pre-date
the Celtic peoples in ancient times was Babylon. It obviously is not written by a
so closely identified with Druidism that Druid and there are those like D. J.
its origin may be said to have been Conway who we saw in 'CtIC' who would
Druidic. That Druidism was of Celtic cast a spell on the craziness of such an
origin, however, is a question upon which author. This image of Druidism is
much discussion has been lavished, some unfortunately the norm just as the
authorities, among them Sir John Rhys, Hermetic Gnostics and other heretics have
believing it to have been non-Celtic and been savaged by purely selfish
even non-Aryan origin. This is to say power-trippers seeking to destroy
that the earliest non-Aryan or so- called mankind's souls and make everyone equally
Iberian or Megalithic people of Britain in their power hungry grasp. I left out
introduced the immigrant Celts to the the story he told of a Druid who lost a
Druidic religion. An argument in favour battle over the elements with St. Columba
of this theory is that the continental who learned a lot in Iona about the
Celts sent their neophyte Druid priests spiritual side of reality. I did so
to Britain to undergo a special training because I don't really want to prove that
at the hands of the Druids there, {He Christianity is a black magic driven cult
isn't being specific about dates and if and that they are projecting their own
he were talking pre-Ice Age he might be weaknesses onto others. That is a matter
right. If he is talking about early Roman for other books to deal with. My comment
times Caesar's journals make it clear about de Vere may not make sense to any
there were many Druidic schools in Gaul. who haven't read 'CtIC'. He wrote the
If he were talking about after the fall foreword to Genesis of the Grail Kings by
of Rome he would be talking about Ireland Gardner and his own book was quoted in it
or Scotland where the Druids recaptured as well. The Sarkeny Rend Rosicrucians of
territory from England. Since he said the Masonic 'octopus' was a large part of
Britain it seems likely he is talking the Templarist regime that funded and
about a time when Tartessus in Spain was maintained the Columbus discovery of
flourishing and the Celts were re-joining America for so long.
their Phoenician brothers there. The "..Druids often accompanied an army to
Tarshis boats of Biblical record that assist by their magical art in
could travel the oceans are a most confounding the enemy.
important part of the history. The Veneti There is little doubt that the conception
who we saw in Gaul fighting Caesar were of a Druidic priesthood has descended
related to the people of Venice who came down to our time in a more or less
from Hallstatt across the Alps in 2,000 debased condition in British Celtic
A.D. I do not think these people were areas. Thus the existence of guardians
without Druids because they had them in and keepers of wells, said to possess
Genoa in 2000 BC; but if that were the magical properties, and the fact that
case then the Basque might be the certain familiar magical spells and
original Druids and Mu might be the formulae are handed down from one
original cultural developer of all generation to another is a proof of the
languages. I try to keep an open mind, to survival of Druidic tradition, however
alternatives, but there are too many feeble. Females are generally the
facts that point me another direction.} conservators of these mysteries, but that
and there is little doubt that this there were Druid priestesses is fairly
island was regarded as the headquarters certain..."
of the Cult {There is much doubt unless The Ostrogoth leader Totila was such a
he is incorporating Eire as part of barbarian in the sixth century that he
Britain, which would be a time when the freed the slaves. Didn't he know that
Emerald Isles were without any Brutus slaves are a symbol of status and
offspring or the name Britain.}. The cultural refinement? 'Ostro' means
people of Cisalpine Gaul, for instance, 'light' as in the 'white light' and
had no Druidic priesthood. (See T. Rice spiritual adepthoods of the Druidic
Holmes, 'Caesar's Conquest of Gaul', 'kapnobatai' who taught Orpheus and
1899). Caesar stated that in Gaul, Pythagoras. Did the Druids have
Druidic seminaries were very numerous, concubines in their celibate priesthood?
and that severe study and discipline were Who was screwing the children in the
entailed upon the neophytes, the monasteries of Roman Domain? It is
principle business of whom was to commit impossible to capture 'the deceit of the
to memory countless verses enshrining psychopomps and priests who hide in
Druidic knowledge and tradition. There is temples. The Druids still conduct their
some evidence that this instruction was ceremonies in the open, and perhaps the
astrological and magical." starting point of all mans' problems can
But the Druids were in Cisalpine Gaul, in be traced to the building of Temples and
Genoa with the Legurians. Here it becomes the resultant buying of favorable
clear we are dealing with extremely poor divinations in the Mediterranean. Here
scholarship on the matter of Druidism: are a few words from a woman who has a
when he says 'women and the poetic different perspective if for no other
craft'. He does not know that women were reason than that fact.
a vital and equal part of the Druidic "In the most popular myth, Ariadne's
order and the Dryads may have been the story has been rewritten, her voice
first priestesses according to many. The almost obliterated. Yet she was the
poets or bards (Bairds) were a stage in legitimate head of church and state
this training and in secular matters the regarded as the cradle of European
equal of the Druids. There were perhaps civilization. Ancient Crete in its prime
more than three divisions of the order at ruled the Mediterranean, thriving on the
early times but there were always bards export of its crafts and the exploitation
in the Druidic order. The Sibylls and of relatively uncivilized tribes in the
oracles of the classical civilizations to Aegean area. Among those 'barbarians'
whom we owe all the war and misogyny to, were the ancestors of Plato and Aristotle
were also Druidic trained and motivated. {A major 'woman-hater' and part of the
This is well documented in many other reason why Aquinas and the Catholic
places. Perhaps the person he is quoting Church worked his 'science' into their
is at fault because Rhys even clarifies dogma.}... Some time between 1800 and
the importance of women later in this 1400 B.C., the last matriarchies in the
description. western world were crushed...
"The Druids were magi as they were She devours the Manuscripts as if after a
hierophants in the same sense that; the long famine. And yet she continues in the
American-Indian medicine-man was both ceremony as if untouched by thought. A
magus and priest. That is, they were battle rages between her and Minos for
medicine men on a higher scale, and control of the worship. He has inserted a
possessed a larger share of prayer and expanded it, and he is having
transcendental knowledge than the shamans scribes record on tablets the story of
of more barbarous races. Thus they may be his receiving the laws from Zeus on the
said to be a link between the shaman and mountaintop {Moses is not the first to
the magus of medieval times." come up with this idea and neither was
I am sorry to have to butt in again but Minos.}. It is remarkably like a
medieval times were the most barbarous Babylonian tale I once heard. Only there
and disgusting times; I wonder if this the king's name was Hammurabi." (3)
author ever heard of the Dark Ages? They Hammurabi (1792-1750 B.C.) was a great
are called that because they spread MAN who had the vision and wisdom to
darkness over the mind and soul of all pronounce and codify that a girl is the
people. They destroyed knowledge and legal property of her father until sold
technology with the Church and the feudal by him to her husband. In Athens women
lackeys seeking ever more power. Sure, were brought up to be ignorant so that
some of them pranced around in lace and men could feel important and manlier as
padded powders on their faces. Some even they abused and lorded it over 'the
had the occasional bath, every month weaker sex' during the time of Socrates.
after they went out and raped a few new He felt differently and it probably
brides among their serfs. The idea of contributed to his being forced to drink
medieval times and all the gallant hemlock. He said: "If the difference
knights is pure unadulterated fiction and consists only in women bearing and men
they spread the Grail legends as a major begetting children, this does not amount
part of their propaganda. We will deal to a proof that a woman differs from a
with this more later but it truly speaks man in respect of the sort of education
volumes when one reads this kind of she should receive.






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