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Post by rosabelbelieve on May 21, 2008 0:46:29 GMT
^ Good quotes and interview.
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Post by Adena on May 21, 2008 1:53:02 GMT
Interesting insight indeed! I've always been interested by the motives behind this song!
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Post by tannis on Jun 8, 2008 15:55:00 GMT
Kate Bush - Breathingwww.youtube.com/watch?v=w4FZgkH4ycEAt 4:11, Kate appears before the altar to the Sun. Two actors wearing solar disc masks and nuclear fallout gear present the rebirthed KaTe with a hazmat suit. Do the solar discs represent God the Father and God the Sun/Son? The video ends with Kate, Paddy et al sitting under magic mushrooms in a nuclear-colored environment. Kate turns knowingly to the camera, an effect she will repeat in the Experiment IV video treatment.Date: Mon, 11 Dec 89 14:23 PST Subject: Breathing
There are some really neat things about the end section of Breathing. First, the way the chorus asks questions and the lead vocalist makes statements recalls the interaction of chorus and actors in Greek theatre. Of more direct relevance to the song itself, though, is the double-entendre of the word "without". Right up until the last line, the chorus seems to be asking the simple question, "What are we going to do without?" In this case, the word "without" would seem to be meant as a synonym for "outside"--as the opposite of "within". The meaning of the question seems to be, therefore, "What are we going to do when we are born? When we leave the womb and must face the outside world?" Only in the crashing, climactic last line of the song does it become clear that this question is really incomplete--that the entire question is: "What are we going to do without breathing?" And you could also say that both of these questions by the chorus are answered by the chorus's final words: "We are all going to die without breathing." (Try reading it this way, as an answer to the first question, "What are we going to do without?": "We are all going to die without, breathing .") The really wonderful thing about this play on words is the way it dovetails with what the foetus itself (Kate's lead vocal) is saying: "Please let me breathe! Life is breathing." Only with that last note and that last word do the chorus and the foetus-heroine conjoin. Both the statement "We are all going to die without breathing" and the statement " Life is breathing" finish up with the common word, yet they are saying the same thing from opposite perspectives. Almost in reflection of that dichotomy, the last word, "breathing", is heard backwards (as though the breath is finally sucked in--or out?--for the last time), to give the listener a very direct sonic impression of "life/without/breathing".
The Best of Love-Hounds Never For Ever, "Breathing" gaffa.org/dreaming/nfe.html#breathing
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Post by tannis on Jun 15, 2008 14:20:01 GMT
On the original French single cover of "Breathing", KT is dressed as a black bat.In Western Culture, mostly due to European legends, the bat is a symbol of the night and its foreboding nature. Early Christian art, which depicted angels as having bird wings, similarly depicted demons as having bat wings. Legends often portray the bat as a form of the devil and, of course, as a vampire. Bats are also a symbol of ghosts, death, and disease. Some of the legends may be based on truths. For example, bats are night creatures. They shun the daylight, and even avoid bright moonlit nights.Kate Bush - French Breathing - 7" Vinyl Single - Original Batwing cover991.com/newgallery/Kate-Bush-BreathingBat-Slv-26552.jpgTo Dream of Bats
The dreamer is particularly unfortunate if he/she dream about these awful little ugly creatures as death almost always follows the dream of the bat, often it is the death of a child, or a youth. Seeing bats in your dream shows that many sorrows and grief is yours due to the evil that people direct against you. death of a family member is denoted by a dream of a white bat., while a black bat brings personal disaster. www.sleeps.com/dictionary/bbb.htmlThe bat is a symbol of the dark side of a dreamer's personality. Since the bat is hit by blindness, but has got a wonderful sense of direction, this dream may say to you that you are using more your intuition rather than logic, and you might be blind to some sort of things. But at the same time a bat is a symbol of a free will, freedom since it has wings! Seeing several bats means your worries about debts. Sometimes a bat can represent a black messenger betokening death, illness or a personal disaster. To interpret your dream, try to connect other elements in your dream with the bat symbol.www.experiencefestival.com/a/Dream_Interpreation_Bat_bats/id/252120To see bats in your dream, symbolizes uncleanness, demons, and annoyances. Alternatively, bats also represent your need to let go of old habits for your current way of life no longer suits your new growth and outlook. It is symbolic of a rebirth. It may also mean that you are entering blindly into a situation. You need to evaluate the facts more carefully The dream may also been a pun on feeling "batty" or feeling crazy. To see a vampire bat in your dream, represents that a person in your life may be draining your of self-confidence and/or your resources.www.dreammoods.com/dreamdictionary/b.htmKATE BUSH BREATHINGgaffa.org/sensual/p_br6.jpgFLY AGARICwww.philipcoppens.com/mush01.jpgThe regular single cover seems to show the Amanita muscaria, commonly known as the fly agaric or fly Amanita, a poisonous and psychoactive fungus. This red-and-white spotted toadstool is a common image in many aspects of popular culture. Garden ornaments, and children's picture books depicting gnomes and fairies, such as the Smurfs, very often show fly agarics used as seats, or homes. Fly agarics appear on Christmas cards and New Year cards from around the world as a symbol of good luck.
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Post by rosabelbelieve on Jun 15, 2008 16:48:40 GMT
Bats have interesting symbolism. I think they work very well on the album cover as an opposite to doves, and a representation of the darker and more intuitive aspect of life.
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Post by tannis on Jul 12, 2008 18:57:56 GMT
I'm traveling in some vehicle I'm sitting in some cafe...Interviews & Articles KB: "So many artists are looking for God, and this is where we find the voice to try and speak. It's also a kind of self-therapy, trying to heal yourself." Q: Of what? KB: "Probably a sense of inadequacy. And through this expression you at last have a voice, whether it's through painting, whatever. And I think it can be a much wiser voice. In your creativity there can be quite deep attitudes, and I think its got to be linked somehow with the unconscious that you're tapping into." Q: Which of your songs particularly connect with this form of spirituality? KB: "Breathing, I think, was one of my first, what I would call spiritual songs. The subject matter isn't necessarily, but the spark is. When I was writing it, it felt like: Hang on, I don't think I'm writing this-this is a bit too good for me! Rather than the song being my creation, I was a vehicle for something that was coming through me." Q/HMV special, "Follow That!", 1990gaffa.org/reaching/i90_q2.html"Breathing" KB: "Then I came to a chorus piece, and decided that the obvious word to go there was "breathing", and I thought automatically that it had been done before. But asking around, I couldn't understand why it hadn't, because it's such a good word..." Kate's KBC article Issue 6 (July 1980)gaffa.org/garden/kate7.html'Beside You' by Van Morrison (Astral Weeks, 1968)
Way across the country where the hillside mountain glide The dynamo of your smile caressed the barefoot virgin child to wander Past your window with a lantern lit You held it in the doorway and you cast against the pointed island breeze Said your time was open, go well on your merry way Past the brazen footsteps of the silence easy You breathe in you breathe out you breathe in you breathe out you breath in you breathe out you breathe in you breathe out And you're high on your high-flyin' cloud Wrapped up in your magic shroud as ecstasy surrounds you This time it's found you You turn around you turn around you turn around you turn around And I'm beside you Beside you Oh darlin'...In a plane flying back to winter In shoes full of tropic sand A lady in a foreign flag On the arm of her Marlboro Man...On the plane back to London the next day I ask her about Peter Gabriel. They did, after all, record together on Games Without Frontiers, and I thought I'd detected a Gabriel influence on Never For Ever. I ask about Peter Gabriel and she talks about Pink Floyd. KB: "That last album of his was fantastic, but I don't know if it was a direct influence on me. He may have opened up bits in me I hadn't thought of, but a more direct influence was The Wall... It got to the point when I heard it I thought there's no point in writing songs any more because they'd said it all. You know, when something really gets you, it hits your creative centre and stops you creating...and after a couple of weeks I realized that he hadn't done everything, there was lots he hadn't done... And after that it became an inspiration. Breathing was definitely inspired by the whole vibe I got from hearing that whole album, especially the third side. There's something about Floyd that's pretty atomic anyway." Melody Maker, "Paranoia and Passion of the Kate Inside", October 4, 1980gaffa.org/reaching/i80_mm.html"Breathing" KB: "It was a very personal song. I thought at the time that it was self-indulgent, and it was something I just did for myself, really. For me it's a statement that I hope won't happen." Kate's KBC article, Issue 6 (July 1980), "Convention was great!" gaffa.org/garden/kate7.htmlI just pray that someone there Can hit the switch...
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Post by tannis on Sept 8, 2008 20:52:31 GMT
KaTe's Promo Film for Breathing ("but we couldn't make it sexual") ...Kate wanted to put together the promo film for "Breathing" - and did. It became a visual presentation of the subject matter, and showed her as the unborn child at the time of nuclear attack. "We decided to make it very abstract. I had the image of me being a baby in the womb yet not a baby because it's like a spiritual being, surrounded by water and fluid in a tank because that's what a baby does, floats around inside this beautiful place." Keith Macmillan is the man who has been interpreting Kate's ideas and actually getting them on film for the great part of the 2 1/2 years she has been releasing records. He explained one or two problems to her with this particular idea. Like she might drown. Also no insurance company would underwrite the risk. Kate has total faith in Macmillan and was happy to leave it with him to come up with an idea for overcoming the problems. "He went away, he's got fantastic guys working with him who get all the props together. So he came up with he idea of inflatables which when filmed through would give a watery effect. So I would be inside one which would be inside maybe one or two others. "Then we had a problem with the costume because an embryo is of course naked but we couldn't make it sexual because of the innocence and sincerity of the thing. And we had a few problems with that because it is very difficult to look clothed but not clothed. Because we were working with inflatables which were basically just plastic we decided to use the same material which would be pretty cool for an embryo because it would just be flesh that was amongst all the other. So we just wrapped polythene all around me and then the whole thing became this sort of transient stuff that wasn't either costume or inflatables. The next thing with the video was to get from the break into the end where the baby has come out of the womb. Because of the fallout the first thing that would happen is that the baby would be put straight into a protective suit, probably sprinkled with Fuller's earth. "Again we tried to do that in an abstract way so that I would burst out of the bubble and land somewhere outside that was very weird. Then the two guys with the suns - the anti-nuclear sign - hand me the fallout suit as the symbolism of being in the outside world full of fallout. The end was getting as many people as I could in water - again water because that was the whole visual them - and say: 'What are we going to do without clean air to breathe?' "It took us two days of filming, one to do the studio lot and one to do the end sequence with all our friends in the water and for the nice quiet scene at the end. It was really quite an epic compared with all the other videos I've done. It wasn't that extravagant or expensive, not that long and not that anything. But as I said it felt so important because that one song for me - and quite a few people who are close - was like a mini-symphony or something. So everything had to go into it even if it wasn't going to be a big hit and that's how we felt about it. OK, people say: 'It didn't get into the top five.' "But I'm so pleased with how it went because for the subject matter I was dealing with, you know my previous associations with the public: that I'm a very harmless unpolitical songwriter." Sound International, "The Kate Gallery", September 1980 gaffa.org/reaching/i80_si.htmlKate Bush talks about Breathing on "Nationwide", April 25, 1980www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNMw5Te8iCEInterview with Hugh Scully, introduced by Frank Bough. "The video had elements of fetishism. Very appropriate considering who was hosting this show. You dirty old man Mr B...."
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Post by tannis on Sept 18, 2008 16:59:59 GMT
NEWSTATESMANWar of the worlds ~ The extraordinary design culture of the Cold War period reflects the twin obsessions of the age: utopia and oblivion The V&A's exhibition "Cold War Modern: Design 1945-70", opens this month. The exhibition cuts off at the start of the 1970s, when the postwar settlement began to collapse. Yet the Cold War returned as grim farce in 1979, with the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan and with geriatric ideologues such as Ronald Reagan and Konstantin Chernenko waving their fingers over the nuclear button. But if official culture would not register this, pop culture did. The sounds of paranoia and futurism were everywhere in 1979-83, from Joy Division's eastern bloc bleakness to Kate Bush's Protect and Survive lullaby, "Breathing".
"Cold War Modern: Design (1945-70)" opens at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London SW7, on 25 September. www.newstatesman.com/arts-and-cul....n-design-utopia
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Post by amy on Sept 18, 2008 18:52:54 GMT
I'm a big fan of Nick Drake and I read somewhere that both he and David Bowie believed that the world would end in 1980 through nuclear war. I've just looked through my biographies and I can't find it now but it's strange that Kate brought out this single in 1980....and she's a fan of Drake and Bowie too!
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Post by tannis on Apr 10, 2009 14:27:25 GMT
KATE BUSH and TWO SUNS Here comes the sunshine Here comes that son of mine Here comes the everything Here’s a song and a song for him THE BLACK SUNThe Black Sun: The Alchemy and Art of Darkness (Marlan, 2005) "In The Black Sun, Stan Marlan takes us on an unflinching and ultimately healing journey through the shadowed land of despair where most abandon all hope. There, we find, a strange light shines, and in that light we can discern what is otherwise invisible. Marlan teaches us how to see in the dark." - Murray Stein The black sun, an ages-old image of the darkness in individual lives and in life itself, has not been treated hospitably in the modern world. Modern psychology has seen darkness primarily as a negative force, something to move through and beyond, but it actually has an intrinsic importance to the human psyche. In this book, Jungian analyst Stanton Marlan reexamines the paradoxical image of the black sun and the meaning of darkness in Western culture.In the image of the black sun, Marlan finds the hint of a darkness that shines. He draws upon his clinical experiences and on a wide range of literature and art to explore the influence of light and shadow on the fundamental structures of modern thought as well as the contemporary practice of analysis.An important contribution to the understanding of alchemical psychology, this book draws on a postmodern sensibility to offer insight into modernity, the act of imagination, and the work of analysis in understanding depression, trauma, and transformation of the soul.The similarities are indeed striking! It makes me wonder about the origins of the 'sun-masked man' icon. Maybe the cover was used on another book which the Bush family owned? Maybe the cover is from an old Masonic source. There is what looks like a Palm Tree on the cover, which can be interpreted as a Freemasonry symbol, as can be the sun-disc...
The cover to The Black Sun is so like the Kate and Paddy Bush 'Delius' video, and very much suggests solar worship. The Sun is prominently featured on the AERIAL cover. The back cover to TKI and NFE both feature sunset with moon; and LIONHEART features a solar lion moving its slow thighs...Reaching out for the Star Reaching out for the Star that explodes Reaching out for Mama See how the flower leans instinctively Toward the light... The Black Sun (German Schwarze Sonne), also referred to as the Sonnenrad (the German for "Sun Wheel"), is a symbol of esoteric or occult significance, notable for its usage in Nazi mysticism.
The design has loose visual parallels in Migration Age Alemannic brooches (Zierscheiben), possibly a variation of the Roman swastika fibula, thought to have been worn on Frankish and Alemannic women's belts. Some Alemannic or Bavarian specimens incorporate a swastika symbol at the center. The number of rays in the brooches varies between five and twelve.~ Kate Bush "Breathing" 7" single center. ~ A depiction of the "Black Sun" the design of which bases primarily on the shape of the Wewelsburg sun wheel mosaic in the "Obergruppenführer"-Hall (SS Generals' Hall). ~ Alemannic brooch with design reminiscent of the Wewelsburg symbol.The shape of the symbol as it is used within Germanic mysticist esotericism and Neo-Nazism today is based primarily on the design of a floor mosaic at the castle of Wewelsburg (built 1603), a Renaissance castle located in the northwest of North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. During the Third Reich the castle was to become a representative and ideological center of the order of the SS. Heinrich Himmler, the leader of the SS, wanted to establish the "Center of the New World". A focus of the actual SS-activities at the castle were archaeological excavations in the surrounding region and studies on Germanic early history. Allegedly, the design was drawn for Heinrich Himmler from an "old Aryan emblem", and was meant to mimic the Round table of Arthurian legend with each spoke of the sun wheel representing one "knight" or Officer of the "inner" SS.
The sun wheel is significant for the Germanic light- and sun-mysticism which was propagated by the SS. In their studies on sense characters, the sun apart was interpreted as "the strongest and most visible expression of god". Rudolf J. Mund (also a former SS member and later also member of the Vienna Circle) discusses a relationship of the Black Sun with alchemy. The visible sun is described as a symbol of an invisible anti-sun: "Everything what can be comprehended by human senses is material, is the shadow of the invisible spiritual light. The material fire is - seen in this way - also only the shadow of the spiritual fire."
TWO SUNS
The term Black Sun may originate with the mystical "Central Sun" in Helena Blavatsky's Theosophy. This invisible or burnt out Sun (Karl Maria Wiligut's Santur in Nazi mysticism) symbolizes an opposing force or pole.“I shall not dwell at great length on this unity of sun-force and earth, which this theory implies. But I may add that out of it, or out of the hypothesis of mere motion as force, and of virtue without substance, we may gather, as the nearest possible approach to the truth on this, the most complex and profound of all subjects, the following inferences: — “(a) Space, inter-stellary, inter-planetary, inter-material, inter-organic, is not a vacuum, but is filled with a subtle fluid or gas, which for want of a better term* we may still call, as the ancients did, Aith-ur — Solar fire, AEther. This fluid, unchangeable in composition, indestructible, invisible,† pervades everything and all [ponderable. — H. P. B.] matter,‡ the pebble in the running brook, the tree overhanging, the man looking on, is charged with the ether in various degree; the pebble less than the tree, the tree less than man. All in the planet is in like manner so charged! A world is built up in ethereal fluid, and moving through a sea of it. “(b) The Ether, whatever its nature is, is from the sun and from the suns§ the suns are the generators of it, the store-houses of it, the diffusers of it.|| “(c.) Without the ether there could be no motion; without it particles of ponderable matter could not glide over each other; without it there could be no impulse to excite those particles into action. “(d.) Ether determines the constitution of bodies. Were there no ether there could be no change of constitution in substance; water, for instance, could only exist as a substance, compact and insoluble beyond any conception we could form of it. It could never even be ice, never flint, never vapour, except for ether. “(e) Ether connects sun with planet, planet with planet, man with planet, man with man. Without ether there could be no communication in the Universe; no light, no heat, no phenomenon of motion.” Thus we find that Ether and elastic atoms are, in the alleged mechanical conception of the Universe, the Spirit and Soul of Kosmos, and that the theory — put it any way and under whatever disguise — always leaves a more widely opened issue for men of [[Footnote(s)]] ——————————————— * Verily, unless the occult terms of the Kabalists are adopted! † “Unchangeable” only during Manvantaric periods, after which it merges once more into Mulaprakriti; “invisible” for ever, in its own essence, but seen in its reflected coruscations, called the Astral light by the modern Kabalists. Yet, conscious and grand Beings clothed in that same Essence move in it. ‡ One has to add (ponderable), to distinguish it from that Ether which is matter still, though a substratum. § The Occult Sciences reverse the statement, and say that it is the sun, and all the suns that are from it, which emanate at the Manvantaric dawn from the Central Sun. || Here, we decidedly beg to differ with the learned gentleman. Let us remember that this AEther, whether Akasa is meant by the term, or its lower principle, Ether — is septenary. Akasa is Aditi in the allegory, and the mother of Marttanda (the sun), the Deva-matri — “Mother of the gods.” In the solar system, the sun is her Buddhi and Vahan, the Vehicle, hence the 6th principle; in Kosmos all the suns are the Kama rupa of Akasa and so is ours. It is only when regarded as an individual Entity in his own Kingdom that Surya (the sun) is the 7th principle of the great body of matter. The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky — Vol. 1, Page 527www.theosociety.org/pasadena/sd/sd1-3-07.htmAct thou for them to "day," and they will act for thee "to morrow." 'Tis from the bud of Renunciation of the Self, that springeth the sweet fruit of final Liberation. To perish doomed is he, who out of fear of Mara refrains from helping man, lest he should act for Self. The pilgrim who would cool his weary limbs in running waters, yet dares not plunge for terror of the stream, risks to succumb from heat. Inaction based on selfish fear can bear but evil fruit. The Selfish devotee lives to no purpose. The man who does not go through his appointed work in life -- has lived in vain. Follow the wheel of life; follow the wheel of duty to race and kin, to friend and foe, and close thy mind to pleasures as to pain. Exhaust the law of Karmic retribution. Gain Siddhis for thy future birth. If Sun thou can'st not be, then be the humble planet. Aye, if thou art debarred from flaming like the noon-day Sun upon the snow-capped mount of purity eternal, then choose, O Neophyte, a humbler course. Point out the "Way" -- however dimly, and lost among the host -- as does the evening star to those who tread their path in darkness. Behold Migmar [Mars], as in his crimson veils his "Eye" sweeps over slumbering Earth. Behold the fiery aura of the "Hand" of Lhagpa [Mercury] extended in protecting love over the heads of his ascetics. Both are now servants to Nyima [The Sun] left in his absence silent watchers in the night. Yet both in Kalpas past were bright Nyimas, and may in future "Days" again become two Suns. Such are the falls and rises of the Karmic Law in nature. [Nyima, the Sun in Tibetan Astrology. Migmar or Mars is symbolized by an "Eye", and Lhagpa or Mercury by a "Hand".] ~ The Voice of the Silence by H. P. Blavatskywww.theosociety.org/pasadena/voice/voice2.htmKB: "Because of the fallout the first thing that would happen is that the baby would be put straight into a protective suit, probably sprinkled with Fuller's earth. Again we tried to do that in an abstract way so that I would burst out of the bubble and land somewhere outside that was very weird. Then the two guys with the suns - the anti-nuclear sign - hand me the fallout suit as the symbolism of being in the outside world full of fallout. The end was getting as many people as I could in water - again water because that was the whole visual them - and say: 'What are we going to do without clean air to breathe?'" Sound International, "The Kate Gallery", by Ralph Denyer, September 1980 www.gaffaweb.org/reaching/i80_si.html~ Fredrik Sander's 1893 edition of the Poetic Edda. The three swan-maidens / valkyries of Völundarkviða with their swan-cloaks off. In the poem, they're spinning linen, not bathing nude.In Germanic mythology, Wayland (Old English) or Völundr (Old Norse) is a legendary smith. In Old Norse sources, Völundr appears in Völundarkviða (Völundr's poem), a poem in the Poetic Edda. Weyland had two brothers, Egil and Slagfiðr. In one version of the myth, the three brothers lived with three Valkyries: Ölrún, Hervör alvitr and Hlaðguðr svanhvít. After nine years, the Valkyries left their lovers. Egil and Slagfiðr followed, never to return. In another version, Weyland married the swan maiden Hervör, and they had a son, Heime, but Hervör later left Weyland. In both versions, his love left him with a ring. In the former myth, he forged seven hundred duplicates of this ring. The Valkyries feature among the Gods of the Third Reich.So could KaTe's swan-feather attire in the 'Delius' video represents the Valkyries of Völundarkviða... THULE SOCIETYBlack Sun symbolism formed a central doctrine to the pre-Nazi secret society, the Thule Society. The Thule Society (German: Thule-Gesellschaft), originally the Studiengruppe für germanisches Altertum ("Study Group for Germanic Antiquity"), was a German occultist and völkisch group in Munich, named after a mythical northern country from Greek legend. The Society is notable chiefly as the organization that sponsored the Deutsche Arbeiterpartei, which was later transformed by Adolf Hitler into the Nazi Party.
A primary focus of Thule-Gesellschaft was a claim concerning the origins of the Aryan race. "Thule" was a land located by Greco-Roman geographers in the furthest north. The term "Ultima Thule" ((Latin): most distant Thule) is also mentioned by the Roman poet Virgil in his epic poem Aeneid. This was supposed to be the far northern segment of Thule and is now generally understood to mean Scandinavia. Said by Nazi mystics to be the capital of ancient Hyperborea, they identified Ultima Thule as a lost ancient landmass in the extreme north: near Greenland or Iceland. These ideas derived from earlier speculation by Ignatius L. Donnelly that a lost landmass had once existed in the Atlantic, and that it was the home of the Aryan race, a theory he supported by reference to the distribution of swastika motifs. He identified this with Plato's Atlantis, a theory further developed by Helena Blavatsky, the occultist during the second part of the 19th century. The Thule-Gesellschaft maintained close contacts with Theosophists, the followers of Blavatsky.
Tell me More About Adolf Hitler and WWII [/center] Adolf Hitler: ‘By means of shrewd lies, unremittingly repeated, it is possible to make people believe that heaven is hell - and hell, heaven ... The greater the lie, the more readily will it be believed’ (Mein Kampf).The planning of the Second World War started when Adolf Hitler joined a secret society called the Thule Society in 1919. It was in this group that he found the perverted beliefs that were later to lead him in his control of the German government. In the Thule Society: "... the sun played a prime role... as a sacred symbol of the Aryans, in contrast to... the moon, revered by the Semitic peoples. The Fuhrer saw in the Jewish people, with their black hair and swarthy complexions, the dark side of the human species, whilst the blond and blue-eyed Aryans constituted the light side of humanity. ... Hitler undertook to extirpate from the material world its impure elements." In addition to sun (or light) worship, the Thule Society also practiced Satan worship: "The inner core within the Thule Society were all Satanists who practiced Black Magic."Some say that heaven is hell Some say that hell is heaven...The Society was not a working-man's group as it included amongst its members: "judges, police-chiefs, barristers, lawyers, university professors and lecturers, aristocratic families, leading industrialists, surgeons, physicians, scientists, as well as a host of rich and influential bourgeois.... " The membership of the Thule Society also became the foundation of the Nazi Party: "... the Committee and the forty original members of the New German Workers' Party were all drawn from the most powerful occult society in Germany—the Thule Society." One of the founders of both groups, the Nazi Party and the Thule Society, was Dietrich Eckart: "a dedicated Satanist, the supreme adept of the arts and rituals of Black Magic and the central figure in a powerful and wide-spread circle of occultists—the Thule Group. (He was] one of the seven founder members of the Nazi Party...." Eckart claimed to be the initiator of Hitler into the secrets of Satan worship. He is quoted as saying on his deathbed: "Follow Hitler. He will dance, but it is I who have called the tune! I have initiated him into the 'Secret Doctrine;' opened his centres in vision and given him the means to communicate with the Powers. Do not mourn for me: I shall have influenced history more than any German."AERIAL SUPREMACY: SUN, SYMBOLS, AND SWASTIKA
The Elder Futhark is a name given to a system of Runes and their predictive power and interpretations used by occultists in Europe. Still in existence today, these Runes are the systematic symbology adopted by the Nazis to represent various aspects (victory, power, etc) of life in the Third Reich. Many runes such as the swastika [hakenkreuz] and others were incorporated into military symbology as well.
So did KaTe consult The Elder Futhark when creating the secret service KT sign? Is there a runic or alchemical significance to the other seemingly 'hidden signs' on the Aerial cover? And is Pi really concerned with tarot, transmitting light, and the Qabbalistic/Gematriac Approach to Magic? ...
n.b. The Aerial KT sign is broken. Deciphering any other secret Aerial signs is impossible for the 'uninitiated'. The use of the swastika was associated by Nazi theorists with their conjecture of Aryan cultural descent of the German people. Following the Nordicist version of the Aryan invasion theory, the Nazis claimed that the early Aryans of India, from whose Vedic tradition the swastika sprang, were the prototypical white invaders. It was also widely believed that the Indian caste system had originated as a means to avoid racial mixing.KB: "Hitler is the closest personification of evil and I mention him not to glorify but to point out he was a man who fooled a tremendous amount of intelligent people and there's no way you could blame anyone for being fooled by that man..." "Love, Trust and Hitler" (1989)gaffa.org/reaching/i89_tr.htmlYou talked me into the game of chance. It was '39, before the music started, When you walked up to me and you said, "Hey, heads we dance." Well, I didn't know who you were Until I saw the morning paper...Our world has been greatly infiltrated with sun symbols and sun worship, from the corporate logos you see everyday to religions and cultures. According to Vedic scripture, sun worship is used for temporary results by unintelligent people for gaining power, as a corrupted replacement to worshipping the Supreme Lord. The Vedic scriptures say that the sun god is a demigod, or inferior to God, a servant of God, not the Supreme God. Demigod worship is said to be for the unintelligent, lustful, and ignorant, and brings temporary results unlike worshipping the Supreme Lord who bestows eternal results.
Here is what Vedic scriptures say about worshipping demigods (sun, earth, moon, every planet, wind, fire, etc.): Sri Isopanisad 12: Those who are engaged in the worship of demigods enter into the darkest region of ignorance, and still more so do the worshipers of the impersonal Absolute. BG 7.20: Those whose intelligence has been stolen by material desires surrender unto demigods and follow the particular rules and regulations of worship according to their own natures. BG 7.23: Men of small intelligence worship the demigods, and their fruits are limited and temporary. Those who worship the demigods go to the planets of the demigods, but My devotees ultimately reach My supreme planet. SB 12.3.48: By one's engaging in the processes of demigod worship, austerities, breath control, compassion, bathing in holy places, strict vows, charity and chanting of various mantras, one's mind cannot attain the same absolute purification as that achieved when the unlimited Personality of Godhead appears within one's heart. SB 4.29.45: Despite the cultivation of Vedic knowledge, which is unlimited, and the worship of different demigods by the symptoms of Vedic mantras, demigod worship does not help one to understand the supreme powerful Personality of Godhead.
There is also a story in the Samba Purana about a boy who was cursed with leprosy and was advised to worship the sun god for healing. Another story tells about sun worship healing blindness. So, sun worship was prescribed for sick and cursed people. Another story in the Mahabharata tells about the son of the sun god, Karna, who fought on the side of the demons in the great Battle of Kuruksheta, along with the kings of Egypt. Vedic scripture describes the lower planets and realms that have no sun or light, so it makes perfect sense for demoniac beings from lower places to worship the sun. According to the Vedas, demoniac kings began civilizations throughout the world with corrupted Vedic culture. Egypt is one of the oldest sun worshipping civilizations, which has spread everywhere through symbols and logos in paganism and freemasonry. The major difference is that the Egyptians and other sun worshipping civilizations worship the sun as God, and Vedic teachings honor the sun as a servant and creation of God.
Hitler was apparently really into sun symbols, giving the Jews the Star of David and the Nazis the Swastika. The swastika existed as a symbol of the sun and good fortune thousands of years before the Nazis existed.
The word “swastika” comes from the Sanskrit word Svastika. The true meaning is given as Su - means good, asti - means “to be”, ik – means “what is in existence, and will continue to exist “ a – denotes feminine gender
So, Swastika simply means 'let good-prevail' and not to be destroyed and remains in a good condition. Its deeper meaning is permanent victory. In the context of the cultural origins of the swastika, this means the victory of dharma - the fundamental spiritual nature of humanity. The word Swastika also denotes blessings for everyone.
The traditional Swastika is with straight standing character, slightly angled individual arms and four dots inside the four squarish designs. It originally represented the revolving sun, fire, or life. The swastika is used in both direction, but in Indian culture, clockwise swastika symbolizes fortune, good health, life and progress whereas anti clockwise swastika is treated as misfortune and bad-luck. The major difference between the ancient Swastika and the Nazi Swastika is that the Nazi swastika is at a slant (twisted by 45 degree angle), while the ancient swastika is rested flat.
The sun is described in the Vedas as the eyes of the universal form of God, and the moon is His mind's eye. The sun worshippers that want to be as powerful as God use this all seeing eye symbolism everywhere. Just as Hitler took the good symbol of the swastika and used it as a symbol for racism, horror, and hatred, other sun worshippers have also corrupted these concepts of the sun as the eyes of God and a servant of God.
Here are Vedic descriptions of the sun as God's eyes: SB 5.21.13: The chariot of the sun-god has only one wheel, which is known as Samvatsara. The twelve months are calculated to be its twelve spokes, the six seasons are the sections of its rim, and the three câtur-mâsya periods are its three-sectioned hub. SB 3.6.15: Thereafter, the two eyes of the gigantic form of the Lord were separately manifested. The sun, the director of light, entered them with the partial representation of eyesight, and thus the living entities can have vision of forms. BS 5.52: The sun who is the king of all the planets, full of infinite effulgence, the image of the good soul, is as the eye of this world. I adore the primeval Lord Govinda in pursuance of whose order the sun performs his journey mounting the wheel of time. BG 11.19: You are without origin, middle or end. Your glory is unlimited. You have numberless arms, and the sun and moon are Your eyes. I see You with blazing fire coming forth from Your mouth, burning this entire universe by Your own radiance.Two Suns in the Sunset Pink Floyd www.youtube.com/watch?v=ox2B0VLXPQs
"Two Suns in the Sunset" is the final song on Pink Floyd's 1983 concept album, The Final Cut. Partway through the song, the lyric "the sun is in the east, even though the day is done" is a metaphor referring to the glowing fireball of a nuclear explosion. The Final Cut's main proponent was the band's bass player and songwriting frontman, Roger Waters, previously a chair of the youth branch of the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament in Cambridge. "Two Suns in the Sunset" was his view on the world's end, thermonuclear war, which would ultimately end in nuclear winter. Waters later returned to this theme in his solo albums, most prominently so in Radio K.A.O.S., which dealt with this theme throughout the album.see more: REVERIES OF THE AERIAL ALCHEMIST katebush.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=leaveitopen&action=display&thread=1998&page=4 SOLAR MONOTHEISM: Reaching Out for the Sun katebush.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=leaveitopen&action=display&thread=1998&page=5 Experiment IVkatebush.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=tww2&action=display&thread=1819&page=2Army Dreamerskatebush.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=neverforever&action=display&thread=1700&page=2The Da Vinci "Canciones de Kate Bush" Codekatebush.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=partone&action=display&thread=426&page=2I'M LOOKING AT THE BIG SKY...katebush.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=houndsoflove&action=display&thread=1716&page=2Völuspá (The vision of the Seeress)katebush.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=leaveitopen&thread=1998&page=6Sources of Inspiration for the Delius (Song of Summer) Videokatebush.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=neverforever&thread=1692&page=2
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Post by tannis on Apr 11, 2009 17:27:40 GMT
~ Kate Bush, 'Delius' video ~ Kate Bush, 'Breathing' 7" vinyl single center ~ Kate Bush, 'Breathing' videoKB: "Because of the fallout the first thing that would happen is that the baby would be put straight into a protective suit, probably sprinkled with Fuller's earth. Again we tried to do that in an abstract way so that I would burst out of the bubble and land somewhere outside that was very weird. Then the two guys with the suns - the anti-nuclear sign - hand me the fallout suit as the symbolism of being in the outside world full of fallout. The end was getting as many people as I could in water - again water because that was the whole visual them - and say: 'What are we going to do without clean air to breathe?'" Sound International, "The Kate Gallery", by Ralph Denyer, September 1980 www.gaffaweb.org/reaching/i80_si.html'Breathing' was released 14 April 1980, by which time the dominant anti-nuclear sign was that of CND. So maybe, Kate's "two suns" represent alchemaic and hermetic tradition. The Hermetic Principle of Polarity alerts us to the truth that Spirit and Matter are but two poles of the same thing, the intermediate planes merely being different degrees of vibration and manifestation. The conscious reconciliation of good and bad, love and hate, dark and light, positive and negative as being part of the same, part of the 'all' (just as there is no beginning and end to a circle). The principle reminds us there are no absolutes or ultimate separation.
Reaching out for the hand. Reaching out for the hand that smacked. Reaching out for that hand to hold. Reaching out for the Star. Reaching out for the Star that explodes. Reaching out for Mama.
The vinyl center to 'Breathing' seems very much to represent The Black Sun. Indeed, the vinyl center looks almost like a negative image of the solar disc worn by Paddy Bush in the 'Delius' video, or the masks worn in the 'Breathing' video. Leo is the Sun Sign. On Lionheart KT is dressed as Leo the Lion, and on Aerial, Bertie steps into KaTe's red shoes to play the role of The Sun (a sort of solar initiation rite of passage). And is there something magical and Cabbala-like to the photographic image accompanying 'Aerial' in the Aerial booklet? ... The Two Suns in the Hermetic Tradition Aerial and Splendor Solis Image 1: citrinitas and rubedo There is a persistent belief in alchemaic and hermetic tradition in the existence of two suns: a hidden one of pure "philosophical gold," consisting of the essential Fire conjoined with aether, and the apparent one of profane "material gold." The "dark, consuming fire" of the material sun leads to its being called the "Dark" or "Black Sun." According to the Book of the Holy Trinity, after Adam's fall, tainted by Original Sin, man is made "from the black sun's fire."
It is possible that these teachings influenced Philolaus in the development of his groundbreaking theory of the Central Fire. This is supported by the fact that the various teachings regarding multiple suns are sometimes attributed to Empedocles, who was a contemporary of Philolaus, and his senior. However, this connection may be coincidental, and it is likely that the attribution of these ideas to Empedocles stems from an imperfect understanding of his cosmology in regard to the reflective nature of the Sun.
Sol niger (black sun) is also the name of the result of the first stage of the Opus Magnum in alchemy, the blackening (nigredo). The complete Opus magnum (Great Work) ends with the production of gold.
See the cover booklet to Aerial: Could the gray, black, white, sun-yellow, and maroon-red soundwave booklet colors represent ALCHEMICAL WORK? Nigredo (black), albedo (white), citrinitas (yellow), rubedo (red) among others? ...
Contemporary usage of the term "Black Sun" can be found in the works of esoteric musicians such as COIL and Boyd Rice, and occult groups such as Black Sun Rising (a Pylon of the Temple of Set). The philosophy of the Temple of Set may be summed up as "enlightened individualism": enhancement and improvement of oneself by personal education, experiment, and initiation. Here is a magical, Cabbala-style image from the 18th Century, by one Georg von Welling. It shows the division of light and darkness in the creation myth of the Genesis story. What interests me about this is the depiction of the Dark Star as the source of all, alluded to with the imagery of the 'innermost central fire, the grim mire in which Lucifer dwells until the Day of Judgement'.
Is there also an allusion to two suns in the second division of light and darkness? The Sun is 56, the Dark Star is 57. It's an intriguing possibility, that God and Lucifer are epitomised by the two Suns in the solar system; one light, one dark.I absolutely adore this alchemical painting in the Splendor Solis series. Two Kings are depicted, the older one seemingly drowning (King Urizen?) whilst the younger contemplates his sudden royal ascension clothed in garments clearly intended for a bigger man! The younger king's sceptre is adorned with seven stars, and in his left hand he holds a yellow orb upon which sits a dove. Dark Star symbolism abounds in this image! The orb and seven stars, associated with a bird, are central Dark Star symbols. To be then associated with Kingship is even more critical, and draws parallels with some Gnostic Christian symbolism, e.g. the Talisman of Orpheus.
But the real clincher in this compelling painting is the clear allusion to the Duality of Suns. Our familiar Sun, shown to the right, is joined by a smaller sun which seems to shoot up into the sky like a comet. Thus the Dark Star comes towards the Sun, creating the beginning of a New Age and the Ascension of a new King on Earth. The self-evident duality of Suns, known secretly to the Alchemists of old.
"The black sun is the outer sun, whose "dark, consuming fire" brings everything to decay. After Adam's fall, tainted by Original Sin, man is made "from the black sun's fire" according to the Book of the Holy Trinity" (Alexander Roob "Alchemy and Mysticism", p234).
Indeed. The creation of Humanity finds its source in the heavens, the denizens of whom came here from the black sun; known in these pages, and in my book, as the 'Dark Star'."In Dante's Divine Comedy (1307-1321), the soul on its pilgrimage rises from the realm of Hell, which projects spherically into the earth, via the mountain of Purgatory and the nine spheres of the planets, the fixed stars and the crystalline sphere, all of which are kept in motion by angels, up to Paradise, where it finds its home in the white rose of heaven, illuminated by the divine light" (Alexander Roob "Alchemy and Mysticism", p41).
Looking at the image above, Dante has spiritually ascended out of the solar system and has entered a new 'system' which remains connected to the Sun. This connection is 'loosely bound' in Dante's words. This is a very bizarre description, even for a poem that is full of archaic and esoteric references. Dante was versed in plenty of esoteric wisdom and tradition, and his poem was a double-edged sword for the Church. Did Dante know of the Eighth Sphere above the Solar System, the location of the home of the 'immortal' gods? Standing on their heavenly world and looking up into the sky one would see two Suns: the immediate and divine radiance of Nibiru, a brown dwarf that is the planetary centre of their system, and our Sun. Our Sun would appear to them like a large star at that distance, around which the Dark Star system winds in its great, loosely bound orbit.Two Suns Theory: Terrace 3, Purgatorio 16 Marco Lombardo articulates Dante's view of the Empire and Papacy as separate, autonomous institutions. Rome used to possess "two suns," he says, one showing the world's path and the other God's path; but over time these two lights have extinguished one another, and, switching metaphors, the sword and the shepherd's staff are now joined, much to the detriment of humanity (16.106-11). Dante's model of "two suns," each deriving its authority directly from God, challenges the medieval Christian notion of the pope as "sun" and the emperor as "moon" (based on Genesis 1:16), with the lesser sphere wholly dependent on the greater sphere for its authority and influence. Dante later writes a treatise dealing specifically with this issue of spiritual and political power: he argues in Monarchia that even the sun-moon analogy fails to prove papal dominion over temporal matters because the two spheres possess their own powers, including (Dante believed) their own light (3.16). Although he concedes that the emperor must show reverence to the pope, like a son to a father, Dante believes strongly in their independence as divinely sanctioned guides for humanity: "one is the Supreme Pontiff, to lead humankind to eternal life, according to the things revealed to us; and the other is the Emperor, to guide humankind to happiness in this world, in accordance with the teaching of philosophy" (Monarchia 3.16). A measure of the daring (and risk) in Dante's political philosophy is readily seen from a comparison of his ideas with sentiments expressed by Pope Boniface VIII in a papal bull of 1302 ("Unam Sanctam"). Adopting the common metaphor of "two swords," one each for spiritual and temporal authority, Boniface declares that they both "are in the power of the Church" and "one sword ought to be under the other and the temporal authority subject to the spiritual power." He continues by proclaiming a sort of papal infallibility, a highly ironic notion in light of Dante's treatment of the papacy, particularly under Boniface, in the Divine Comedy: "Therefore, if the earthly power errs, it shall be judged by the spiritual power, if a lesser spiritual power errs it shall be judged by its superior, but if the supreme spiritual power errs it can be judged only by God not by man." Later Church leaders evidently felt much as Boniface did, for they condemned Dante's contrary ideas as heretical and repeatedly censored his Monarchia: in 1329 a prominent cardinal ordered all copies of the work to be burned, and in the sixteenth century the book was included in the Church's Index of banned books. It wasn't until 1881 that Dante's book was removed from the list.
Dante views Marco's condemnation of the Church's claim to both worldly and spiritual authority as a modern confirmation of the biblical injunction to Levi's sons (16.130-2): God instructs Aaron that he and his descendents (of the tribe of Levi), chosen to perform priestly functions in the tabernacle, have rights to only what is required for "for their uses and necessities" and "shall not possess any other thing" (Numbers 18:20-4). see more: Dark Star Symbolism www.darkstar1.co.uk/darkstaralchemy1.htm Suns in alchemyen.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suns_in_alchemyTwo Suns Theorydanteworlds.laits.utexas.edu/textpopup/pur1602.html
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Post by tannis on May 30, 2009 17:27:12 GMT
KATE BUSH: The Transit of Venus "Every Man and Woman is a Star." The Book of the Law, Aleister Crowley The eight-point star was a symbol of the goddess Ashtart of Phoenicia. In ancient astrology, this star, usually pictured as black, represented all the stars.
The Sumerians used an arrangement of lines as a symbol for both star and God. The linear eight-point star represented the goddess Inanna, Sumerian queen of the heavens and Ishtar (Astarte), the Babylonian goddess known as “The Lightbringer.” An eight-point star enclosed within a circle was the symbol for the sun god (see the optical illusion on the Aerial cover, where the sun is enclosed within a circle). The Babylonian star-cult is the core and the archetype of subsequent astrology.
~ A Phoenician star of Venus, symbol for the goddess Astarte. ~ Astronomical and astrological symbol of planet Venus, alchemical symbol of copper, and gender symbol for female. ~ KT Symbol (This Woman's Work). ~ KT Symbol (Fan Club 1979). ~ early KaTe Bush 'Venus/Astarte' KT Badge. ~ 11th Century Graffiti, St Nicholas Church, Compton. Knights Templar? ~ The Transit of Venus.
Rolling The Wheel, to the cycles of human breathing... The circular 8-spoked wheel was very important to the ancient Celts, who saw in this design their yearly round of eight holy days. The Celtic Welsh goddess Arianrhod was connected with the Silver Wheel (the stars that turn in the heavens). The hub of the Silver Wheel was her spirit-castle, Caer Sidi, where the dead came. However, the wheel in general was associated with many other world deities. The Hindu goddess Kali's wheel is the Wheel of Time (the Kalacakra), for she rules over destiny and karma.
~ Kalachakra, a Sanskrit term used in Tantric Buddhism that means "time-wheel" or "time-cycles". The Kalachakra tradition revolves around the concept of time (kâla) and cycles (chakra): from the cycles of the planets, to the cycles of human breathing, it teaches the practice of working with the most subtle energies within one's body on the path to enlightenment. The phrase "as it is outside, so it is within the body" is often found in the Kalachakra tantra to emphasize the similarities and correspondence between human beings and the cosmos; this concept is the basis for Kalachakra astrology, but also for more profound connections and interdependence as taught in the Kalachakra literature.
~ Jokhang Temple, Lhasa. The rooftop statues of two golden deer flanking a Dharma wheel is iconic. The "Wheel of Dharma" is a symbol that has represented dharma, the Buddha's teaching of the path to enlightenment, since the early period of Indian Buddhism. It is also sometimes translated as 'wheel of doctrine' or 'wheel of law'. A similar symbol is also in use in Jainism. It is one of the Ashtamangala Symbols. In its simplest form, the Dharmacakra is recognized globally as a symbol for Buddhism. Thai people also use a yellow flag with a red Dharmacakra as their buddhist flag.
~ Domkhar Trashi Chholing Dzong Dharmacakra wheel. The Dharmacakra symbol is one of the oldest Hindu and Buddhist symbols, found in Indian art from the Vedic time and the time of the Buddhist king Aúoka, and used by all Buddhist nations ever since.
The eight spokes represent the Noble Eightfold Path of Buddhism. Other symbolism in the eight-spoked Dharmacakra in Buddhism: its overall shape is that of a circle (cakra), representing the perfection of the dharma teaching; the hub stands for discipline, which is the essential core of meditation practice; and the rim, which holds the spokes, refers to mindfulness or samâdhi which holds everything together. The dharma wheel can refer to the dissemination of the dharma teaching from country to country. In this sense the dharma wheel began rolling in India, carried on to Central Asia, and then arrived in South East Asia and East Asia.
~ Siddhartha Gautama ~ early KaTe Bush 'Lotus' KT Badge. ~ Lord Shiva meditating
The lotus position is a cross-legged sitting posture originating in meditative practices of ancient India, in which the feet are placed on the opposing thighs. It is an established posture of the Hindu Yoga tradition. The position is said to resemble a lotus, to encourage breathing proper to associated meditative practice, and to foster physical stability.
Famous depictions of the lotus position include Shiva, the meditating ascetic god of Hinduism, and Siddhartha Gautama, the founder of Buddhism. It may also be depicted on an ancient seal found in Harappa. According to traditional texts, sitting in lotus position destroys all disease and awakens kundalini energy (one’s dormant spiritual energy). It calms the mind, stimulates the pelvis, spine, abdomen, and bladder, and stretches the ankles and knees. In women it alleviates menstrual discomfort and sciatica and helps ease childbirth.
~ Reverse Coin of Alexander Jannaeus (103 BC to 76 BC). Eight-spoke wheel or star within diadem. Hebrew legend inside the spokes: "Yehonatan the King".
Alexander Jannaeus was the first of the Jewish kings to introduce the "eight-ray star" or "eight-spoked wheel" symbol, in his bronze "Widow's mite" coins, in combination with the widespread Seleucid numismatic symbol of the anchor. These coins are thought to be the ones referred to in the Bible in Luke 21:1-4: "and Jesus sat over against the treasury, and beheld how the people cast money into the treasury; and many that were rich cast in much. And He called unto him His disciples, and saith unto them, Verily I say unto you, that this poor widow hath cast more in, than all they which have cast into the treasury: For all they did cast in of their abundance; but she of her want did cast in all that she had"
Depending on the make, the star symbol can be shown with straight spokes connected to the outside circle, in a style rather indicative of a wheel. On others, the spokes can have a more "flame-like" shape, more indicative of the representation of a star within a diadem.
It is not clear what the wheel or star may exactly symbolize, and interpretations vary, from the morning star, to the sun or the heavens. The influence of some Persian symbols of a star within a diadem, or the eight-spoked Buddhist wheel (see the coins of the Indo-Greek king Menander I with this symbol) have also been suggested. The eight-spoked Macedonian star (a variation of which is the Vergina Sun), emblem of the royal Argead dynasty and the ancient kingdom of Macedonia, within a Hellenistic diadem symbolizing royalty (many of the coins depict a small knot with two ends on top of the diadem), seem to be the most probable source for this symbol.
~ The octagram of creation according to the Gnostic tradition, or Star Of Regeneration ~ The Chaos Star, symbol of chaos magic. ~ DarkAges Octogram ~ early KaTe Bush 'Chaos' KT Badge. ~ Kate Bush 1985 Red 8-Pointed Star Shaped interview disc, UK Bush7
The Gnostic symbol 8-pointed star is known as the octagram of creation. It is related to the planet Venus as the goddess of fertility, and is also sacred to Ishtar. This design has also been used in the Nordic countries as an invocation of magic and a protecting ideogram carved into doors and walls.
The 8-Pointed Star or Octagram corresoponds to the Wheel of the Year and the 8 Sabbats of Wiccan and Pagan traditions. It is representative of the cycle of time and the power of regeneration and return. 8 is also the number of harvest, allowing you to reap the seeds you have sown in the past and gain from your projects and learning.
In the Aurum Solis tradition, the number eight, in the form of the eight-pointed star, is our great symbol of regeneration, magical attainment, and new life, pulling together these threads in one powerful and great symbol. The eight-pointed star is of paramount importance to the Order.
Eight Pointed Star, Star of Regeneration: Jewish circumcisions are traditionally performed on the 8th day of life, and with baptism being the New Testament equivalent of circumcision, the base of baptismal fonts often have eight sides.
~ Eight of Wands: Swiftness (Mercury in Sagittarius). The Crowley Thoth Tarot Deck. Created by Aleister Crowley and painted by Lady Freida Harris.
If this card doesn't electrocute you, it may tickle you to death. Harris departs dramatically from the Golden Dawn model, and offers us a portrait of energy becoming matter: "Light-wands turned into electrical rays, sustaining or even constituting Matter by their vibrating energy." without mentioning Einstein or the formula e=mc2, Crowley goes so far as to state: "This card, therefore, represents energy of high velocity, such as furnishes the master-key to modern mathematical physics." Swiftness is the perfect title for this card, because it represents everything that requires speed and a high-frequency level to hold together, whether that be a business endeavor, a romance, or the sum of all the matter in the universe. All this is fine and good, but what does all that mean when this card appears in a tarot reading? Let's look at the formula. Mercury is in Sagittarius, where the element fire has become stabilized, and is eminently comfortable. This partnership is double energized by being in Hod, the sphere of Mercury. Even Hod's low and unbalanced position on the Tree of Life does little to diminish the intense activity of this almost overly stimulated coupling. This card is like two people who have had too much coffee who stay up all night, talking simultaneously. A lot may be said. A lot may be learned. But, inevitably, they are both going to crash. www.aeclectic.net/tarot/books/understanding-thoth-tarot/
Chaos Star: The Symbol of Chaos originates from Michael Moorcock's Eternal Champion stories. In them, the Symbol of Chaos comprises eight arrows in a radial pattern. Moorcock contends that he conceived this symbol while writing the first Elric of Melniboné stories in the early 1960s. It was subsequently adopted into the pop-cultural mainstream. There are a number of traditional symbols that have the same geometrical pattern as Moorcock's symbol of Chaos – for example: the star of Ishtar/Venus; the Eastern Dharmacakra; and the Wheel of the Year – but none of these were symbols of chaos and their limbs are not arrows. Furthermore, the '8' of Wands in Aleister Crowley's Thoth Tarot deck features prominently an eight-pointed star with arrows at the ends. Crowley described the card as representing "energy" scattering at "high velocity" that had managed to create the depicted eight-pointed figure.
Chaos Magic: The eight-arrow symbol of Chaos is used in chaos magic. Chaos Magic was first formulated in West Yorkshire, England in the 1970s. Through a variety of techniques often reminiscent of Western ceremonial magic or neoshamanism, many practitioners believe they can change both their subjective experience and objective reality, though some chaos magicians dispute that magic occurs through paranormal means. Visionary artist and mystic Austin Osman Spare, who was briefly a member of Aleister Crowley's Argenteum Astrum but later broke with them to work independently, is largely the source of chaos magical theory and practice.Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn: The Octangle and The Spirit Wheel Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn: The Octangle as a whole is referred to the Eighth Sephirah, Hod. The Octangle naturally represents the power of the Ogdoad, and the Octagon showeth the Ogdoad operating in Nature by the dispersal of the rays of the Elements in their dual aspect under the presidency of the 8 letters of the name Yod Heh Vau Heh and Aleph Daleth Nun Yod. The Octagram reflected from every fourth point is the Star of Mercury, and is especially applicable to his nature. It is further a potent symbol representing the binding together of the concentrated Positive and Negative forces of the Elements under the name of YHVHADNI. And forget not that ADNI is the key of YHVH. The Vault of the Adepti, or the Tomb of Christian Rosenkretuz, is at the very heart of the Rosicrucian mythos in general and of the Golden Dawn tradition in particular. The Tomb of CRC is described in the Fama Fraternitatis as a seven-sided vault. "The seven sides are all alike in size, shape and subdivision, and the forty squares on each side bear the same symbols. But the colouring is varied in the extreme, no two sides are alike in tint, and none of the squares are identical in colour excepting the single central upper square of each wall, that square bearing the Wheel of the Spirit." Note that the Spirit Wheel also symbolizes the Quintessence of the alchemists. The eight pointed star is the star of the spirit. In several traditions, there are seven rungs on a ladder that lead to heaven and a state of human perfection. One way of representing those rungs is as the seven planets of ancient astronomy, called the Wanderers because they are constantly moving. Each of these is a lesson to be learned and a step to be taken in spiritual evolution. When all this is completed, the eighth level of perfection, the level of the fixed and eternal stars of heaven, is reached. The eight pointed star is also the symbol of the morning and evening star (actually the planet Venus), said to be the most beautiful of all. The eight pointed star can be found in The Fool and The Star. In the Fool, the twelve stars on his tunic infuse the perfection of the eight pointed star into the twelve signs of the zodiac. In The Star card, the entire path of spiritual ascent, represented by the seven lower stars, is completed in the perfect beauty of the eighth star. The Star card is called the natural intelligence and represents the perfection at the heart of nature. The simple lesson of the eight pointed star is the feeling of beauty and perfection that rewards the completion of an inner journey. Eight pointed stars are also in the canopy of The Chariot, which is a Masonic symbol. In Freemasonry, the starry canopy is the symbol of the whole universe: above and below, inside and outside, mystical and manifest, all of which is considered to be the scope of the work of an initiate. The stars in the canopy are also a reference to the esoteric title of The Chariot, The House of Influence, by which all good things are brought from above to below and from below to above. The simple lesson of the stars in The Chariot is that they represent the whole universe and all the good things in it. The Secret Language of Tarot, Ruth Ann Amberstone, 2008.~ Kate Bush, 'Breathing' 7" vinyl 'Black Sun' single center ~ early KaTe Bush 'Octangle' KT Badge. ~ Depiction of the "Black Sun", the design of which bases primarily on the shape of the Wewelsburg sun wheel mosaic in the "Obergruppenführer"-Hall (SS Generals' Hall).The number 8, in esoteric literature, signified a journey into a higher consciousness - the crossing point from earthly life to the spiritual world and vice versa. In other words, you open yourself up to Satan and he is standing by, waiting to possess you and take your soul. So materialistic is the number 8 that occultists interpret it to mean an obsession with Spiritualism; in other words, a love for the mixing of materialization with the spiritual work. It is a desire to see the Devil in the flesh - the Abomination of Desolation (Eden: The Knowledge of Good and Evil 666, Joye Jeffries Pugh, 2006).see more: KATE BUSH and TWO SUNSkatebush.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=neverforever&thread=1701&page=2
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Post by tannis on Jun 2, 2009 14:27:19 GMT
KATE BUSH: The Rising Sun and The All-Seeing Eye "O Nuit, continuous one of Heaven, let it be ever thus; that men speak not of Thee as One but as None; and let them speak not of thee at all, since thou art continuous!" The Book of the Law, Aleister Crowley Kate toured only once. The venture was touched by tragedy when lighting engineer Bill Duffield was killed in an accident after the tour's warm-up date at Poole Arts Centre, Dorset, UK on April 2, 1979. Although Bill was not a member of The K.T. Bush Band, Kate performed a commemorative concert for him on 12 May 1979 at the Hammersmith Odeon. Also appearing on the bill were special guests Peter Gabriel and Steve Harley, who had each worked with Duffield in the past. The trio performed The Beatles' "Let It Be", later released on a Japanese Fan Club commemorative 7" flexidisc.
On 5 July 1969, the Rolling Stones performed a free concert in Hyde Park, two days after Brian Jones's death. The concert had been scheduled weeks earlier as an opportunity to present the new guitarist. The band decided to proceed with the show as a tribute to Jones. Before the concert began, Jagger read excepts from "Adonais", a poem by Percy Shelley about the death of his friend John Keats, and stagehands released hundreds of white butterflies as part of the tribute. The Stones opened with a Johnny Winter song that was one of Brian's favourites, "I'm Yours And I'm Hers".
So perhaps the Stones in the Park tribute to Jones inspired KaTe to mark the death of Bill Duffield with a benefit concert? In 1987, during David Bowie's The Glass Spider Tour, a lighting engineer, Michael Clark, was tragically killed at the Stadio Comunale, Florence, after falling from the scaffolding before the show commenced. Bowie proceeded with the show, but I do not know if any dedication was ever made to Clark.Kate Bush – Japanese Fan Club 7" flexidisc in picture sleeve KB-PRO-001/L 28244 (ca. 1981)
Side 1: A. Special Kate Bush Message B. Kate Bush and Friends "Let it Be" LIVE! (from "The Pink Kick") Side 2: Kate Bush Brother John Carter [sic!] Bush Very Long Message
Poster sleeve, white paper inner, color vinyl, white label with big black side numbers and eight KT-symbols around it.
A live performance of the Beatles song "Let It Be", sung by Steve Harley, Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush during a one-off London benefit concert (1979). This appeared in a very limited edition red/blue/green/yellow plastic flexi-disc, made officially by the Kate Bush Club for the Japanese branch of the Club; in addition to the song, it includes a brief spoken message from John Carder Bush and Kate.The cover to the Japanese Fan Club flexidisc combines Japanese kanji, calligraphy ('Kate Bush') and militarism, with secret messages, the all-seeing eye, the inverted triangle, the diamond lozenge, and a batty Kate Bush from the French 'Breathing' cover. ['The Kick Inside' album cover also shows a marked Oriental influence, and the all-seeing eye.] The all-seeing eye within an inverted triangle could be a sign of the demonic or the occult; and the diamond lozenge might also represent witchcraft.~ War flag of the Imperial Japanese Army (1870–1945) ~ The Eye of Providence, or the all-seeing eyeThe Rising Sun Flag is the military flag of Japan. It was used as the ensign of the Imperial Japanese Navy and the war flag of the Imperial Japanese Army until the end of World War II. It is also presently the ensign of the Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force and the war flag of the Japan Ground Self-Defense Force. The Imperial Japanese Army and the Imperial Japanese Navy both had a version of the flag; the naval ensign was off-set, with the red sun closer to the lanyard side, while the army's version (which was part of the regimental colors) was centered. It was adopted in 1889. The flag was used in overseas actions from the Meiji period to World War II. When Japan was defeated in August 1945, the flag was banned by Allied Occupation authorities. However with the re-establishment of a Self-Defense Force the flag was re-adopted in 1954. The flag with 16 rays is today the ensign of the Maritime Self-Defense Force while the Ground Self-Defense Force uses an 8 ray version. They exemplify the name of Japan as "The Land of the Rising Sun". The flag is often considered offensive in countries which were victims of Japanese aggression, particularly China and Korea, where it is considered as a symbol of Japanese imperialism.
The Order of the Golden Kite: The gold-coloured bird at the top is probably an allusion to the golden kite (a bird of prey) that supposedly appeared to the mythical first emperor, Emperor Jimmu, and ensured his victory over his enemies by advising him to attack at dawn from the east so they would be blinded by the sun. The Order of the Golden Kite was Japan’s main military decoration until it was abolished in 1947.
"Behold the rays of Dawn, like heralds, lead on high The Sun, that men may see the great all-knowing god. The stars slink off like thieves, in company with Night, Before the all-seeing eye, whose beams reveal his presence, Gleaming like brilliant flames, to nation after nation. With speed, beyond the ken of mortals, thou, O Sun! Dost ever travel on, conspicuous to all. Thou dost create the light, and with it dost illume The universe entire; thou risest in the sight Of all the race of men, and all the host of heaven. Light-giving Varuna! thy piercing glance dost scan, In quick succession, all this stirring, active world, And penetrateth too the broad ethereal space, Measuring our days and nights, and spying out all creatures. Surya with flaming locks, clear-sighted god of day, Thy seven ruddy mares bear on thy rushing car. With these, thy self-yoked steeds, seven daughters of thy chariot Onward thou dost advance. To thy refulgent orb Beyond this lower gloom, and upward to the light Would we ascend, O Sun! thou god among the gods." ~ Hymns from the Rig-Veda The Masonic Sun: The Masons took much of their ceremony from Egypt, the Sun being the most prominent symbol in their temples. They were forced to do this in secrecy because they feared persecution from the priests of the Christian God. They would have been burned at the stake or worse if their, so called, heresy, had been found out. The religion of the Druids was also the same as the ancient Egyptians. The priests of Egypt were their teachers, whose theology came from Heliopolis, the City of the Sun. The sun, moon and stars may also be references to navigation, as they were used for navigation at that time.
In Freemasonry the 'rising sun' also represents the Master Mason and the New World Order. It has been written: “The sun is the symbol of sovereignty, the hieroglyphic of royalty, it doth signify absolute authority,: By analogy, if the lodge is the symbol of the world, then the Master, who controls the time of opening and closing, may well have one of the Lesser Lights as his symbol. Mackey goes further to say that the Master is “himself” a symbol of the rising sun , the Junior Warden of the sun at meridian, and the Senior Warden of the setting sun, just as the Mysteries of India the three chief priests symbolize Bramha, the rising sun, Siva, the meridian, and Vishnu the setting sun.
There's a hole in the sky with a big eyeball Calling me The Eye of Providence, or the all-seeing eye, is a symbol showing an eye surrounded by rays of light or a glory and usually enclosed by a triangle. It is sometimes interpreted as representing the eye of God keeping watch on humankind. Imagery of an all-seeing eye can be traced back to Egyptian mythology and the Eye of Horus. It also appears in Buddhism, where Buddha is also regularly referred to as the "Eye of the World" throughout Buddhist scriptures (e.g. Mahaparinibbana Sutta) and is represented as a trinity in the shape of a triangle known as the Tiratna, or Triple Gem. In Medieval and Renaissance European iconography, the Eye (often with the addition of an enclosing triangle) was an explicit image of the Christian Trinity. Seventeenth-century depictions of the Eye of Providence sometimes show it surrounded by clouds or sun bursts. In 1782, the Eye of Providence was adopted as part of the symbolism on the reverse side of the Great Seal of the United States. Today, the Eye of Providence is usually associated with Freemasonry. ~ Kate Bush – Japanese Fan Club 7" flexidisc in picture sleeve ~ A drawing by Eisenstein combining Christian, occult, and Mexican elementsTo my knowledge, this is the only Eisenstein illustration that appears to combine Christian, alchemical-occult, and Mexican elements to express the theme of coniunctio, the brother-sister pair, the unification of the solar/male and the lunar/female principles. Eisenstein's eclectic combination of the inverted triangle with God's all-perceiving eye gives the impression of a falling wedge ready to split the paradisal couple under the influence of Sol and Luna. The presocial, innocent unity between brother and sister can be seen as threatened by the snakelike figure behind and above the couple. Is this a variant of the one-eyed Wotan (Odin), who in Die Walkure represented the new social morality that sought to destroy this unity and condemn the pair in the drawing - and the world - to eternal division and duality? Eisenstein's drawing presents an archaic couple, seemingly under the spell and threat of some supernatural being. This Arcadian, presocial world is threatened by a caricatured symbol of the Supreme Being, the inverted triangle (sometimes a sign of the demonic) and the all-seeing eye, a frequent symbol in occult and Masonic contexts. If we see this image as an anticipation of the conflict between Wotan, who represents the law, and the twins Siegmund and Sieglinde, who together represent passion and innocence, one could also perceive it as a reflection of Eisenstein's contempt for the casuist who kills all genuine (religious) passion with dogma. The implication might also be that only by transcending Christian culture and religion, by simultaneously moving backward and forward in time, would the two cultures, the ancient and the new, close the circle like Uroboros and create a new synthesis. Such a process would guarantee the efficacy of the work of art, according to Eisenstein... The Occult in Russian and Soviet Culture, Bernice Glatzer Rosenthal, 1997, pp.289-292.Some of the symbolism that has come to us from the Saracen Mystery schools are the Triangle, the Pentagram, the Circle, the Diamond Lozenge and the Square. The upright triangle delineates the God, and in a triad arrangement, the representative of the God would be in the north. The inverted Triangle would represent the Goddess. This is also commonly called the “Delta of Venus” which refers to the pubic patch. The Pentagram and the Circle have a very rich and varied symbolism. However the use of the Circle and the Square is all but forgotten by modern Crafters. The Square itself is delineated with the Northern part open. This is because the North is the realm of the God and He cannot be limited, bound, or qualified. The Square represents the LIFE aspect, and is ascribed to the God. The Circle within the Square represents the aspect of FORM, and is ascribed to the Goddess. The initiate “squares the circle” by balancing the male and female aspects of his/her whole being. Becoming the self-conscious, self-perfected God. The Diamond Lozenge, inverted triangle and Circle have all been associated with Scandinavian Fertility Goddesses for thousands of years. The Diamond Lozenge represents the yoni, or vaginal opening, and can be divided into both an upright and an inverted triangle. This arrangement suggests the sexual polarity, divided into both an upright and an inverted triangle, which was observed by the French Craft. www.ladyishtar.org/witchcrafthistory.html Top row: Aleister Crowley (occultist) The Beatles were satanists that had made a pact with the devil, and the bill had to be paid to the coven. Every band that has made a pact with satan has had a member die. Rolling Stones [Brian Jones], Led Zeppelin [John Bonham], Beatles [John Lennon], The Who [Keith Moon], etc. In an interview with Barbara Walters, Lennon assassin Mark David Chapman clearly demonstrated that he was a satanist. In other words he was an errand boy collecting the payment for satan’s bill. stargods.org/BeatlesEvil.htmlsee more: KT: Garway Church and The Knights Templarkatebush.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=general&thread=2557&page=1
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Post by stufarq on Jun 9, 2009 20:59:18 GMT
The Beatles were satanists that had made a pact with the devil Every band that has made a pact with satan .. Rolling Stones , Led Zeppelin, Beatles, The Who, etc. Really? I'm sure their respective lawyers would be very interested to hear that.
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Post by tannis on Jun 10, 2009 9:27:14 GMT
^ ;D ;D ;D ~ A Phoenician star of Venus, symbol for the goddess Astarte. ~ Astronomical and astrological symbol of planet Venus, alchemical symbol of copper, and gender symbol for female. ~ KT Symbol (This Woman's Work). ~ KT Symbol (Fan Club 1979). ~ early KaTe Bush 'Venus/Astarte' KT Badge. ~ 11th Century Graffiti, St Nicholas Church, Compton. Knights Templar? ~ The Transit of Venus. Mary Magdalene, the Great Work, Venus and the Pentagram "Do not cease seeking day or night, and do not let yourselves relax until you have found all the Mysteries of the Kingdom of Light, which will purify you and make you into Pure Light and lead you into the Kingdom of Light... And the soul which receives the Mystery of the Ineffable will ascend to the Hight, being a great outpouring of Light." ~ Yeshua, in "Pistis Sophia", The Book of Faith-Wisdom ~ Lily begins with The Gayatri, one of the most sacred mantrams from the Rigveda. KaTe then references The Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagram & the Golden Dawn tradition of Ritual Magic.
~ Mary Magdalene's Feast Day and Pi Approximation Day are both 22 July (22/7). Disney's Ariel is a powerful metaphor for the plight of the "Sacred Feminine" and an allegory to Mary Magdalene.The pentagram has long been associated with magic and the occult. Occult simply means hidden, a secret body of knowledge reserved only for the initiated. Alchemy represents the medieval quest to turn base metal into gold, or base man into pure spirit. Key to the alchemists was "As Above, So Below", reflecting their continual search for an earthly counterpart to the immensity of God's cosmos. For the occult initiates of the middle ages, Mary Magdalene was regarded as a medium of revelation. The planet of Venus has been closely associated with Mary-Magdalene through the ages, chosen by initiates as her symbol in the cosmos. A saint and a star! So is there a connection between Mary Magdalene, the Pentacle, and the planet Venus?
The medieval mind viewed the earth and not the sun as the center of the universe. Each planet has its own pattern of movement around the sun when seen from the earth; and for medieval astrologers those differing movements allowed them to draw geometric shapes based on the positions of the planets when they are aligned with the sun. All are irregular with the exception of Venus that, regular like clockwork, draws a pentacle every eight years. As above, so below, said the ancient alchemists. Here is Venus, drawing the symbol of the Magdalene in the sky over the perfect pentacle below on the ground at Rennes-le-Château where the church is devoted to her. The music of the spheres! ~ see Shadow of the Templars (1979; a precursor to the bestselling Holy Blood Holy Grail). Music of the spheres or Musica universalis is an ancient philosophical concept that regards proportions in the movements of celestial bodies as a form of music. see more: TWO SUNS: Aerial and Splendor Solis katebush.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=aerial&action=display&thread=2447&page=8 Mary Magdalene and The Milk of Human Kindness katebush.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=aerial&action=display&thread=2447&page=7 The Lesser Banishing Ritual of the Pentagramkatebush.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=theredshoes&action=display&thread=1749KT: Garway Church and The Knights Templarkatebush.proboards.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=general&thread=2557&page=1
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