Thunder and lightning
The hexagram Chên represents the eldest son, who seizes rule with energy and power. A yang line develops below two yin lines and presses upward forcibly. This movement is so violent that it arouses terror. It is symbolised by thunder, which bursts forth from the earth and by its shock causes fear and trembling.
The shock that comes from the manifestation of God within the depths of the earth makes man afraid, but this fear of God is good, for joy and merriment can follow upon it.
When a man has learned within his heart what fear and trembling mean, he is safeguarded against any terror produced by outside influences. Let the thunder roll and spread terror a hundred miles around: he remains so composed and reverent in spirit that the sacrificial rite is not interrupted. This is the spirit that must animate leaders and rulers of men - a profound inner seriousness from which all terrors glance off harmlessly.
From the I Ching, Hexagram 51 - Chên - The Arousing (Shock, Thunder)
(Michael Keaton in " Birdman ", 2014)
(Mark Hamill in " Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker ", 2019
There’s a new Smirnoff Seltzer commercial out, featuring Dave Bautista, who is an American actor, retired professional wrestler, former mixed martial artist and bodybuilder. And who, by the way, also has an all-seeing-eye tattooed on his chest. In the commercial, he drinks the product, then, in the last frame, is shown levitating while cross-legged. The last thing Dave says is “I’m floating.”
(Dave Bautista, Smirnoff Seltzer commercial, 2020)
Now, three successive examples of Black magic-practicing, levitating Illuminists will in no way sway a committed Coincidence Theorist, whose subconscious will grasp any straw, no matter how thin, to stay off the hook of personal responsibility in any and all matters. But it’s enough for sane people, so I’ll stop at three.
As you can see, it’s not like the folks who are still for this one last moment in charge of things in all the nations aren’t right up front about what they’re doing, and what they’re into.
In another related example, they’ve been worshipping “bird men”, well, all the way back to Babylon, and before. Here’s a number of them, inscribed on one of the Neanderthal’s earliest human sacrifice temples, at Gobekli Tepe in Turkey:
And here’s Michael Keaton playing one in the blatantly-entitled “Birdman”:
While, years ago, they were not yet quite so bold, and hid their dark god behind the thin veil of “Batman”:
(Michael Keaton, in " Batman ", 1989)
Mr. Keaton’s getting to play his tribe’s favorite demon not once, but twice shows that he’s a very important Illuminist.
And here’s a stylized birdman mask on Kylo Ren in “Star Wars: Episode IX – The Rise of Skywalker”, from 2019:
Same shit, different Millennia.
In “The Rise of Skywalker”, Luke’s hideaway is a remote island located off the coast of Ireland called Skellig Michael. It is best known for its Gaelic monastery, founded between the 6th and 8th centuries,
“Many of the islands of the west coast of Ireland contain early Christian monasteries, which were favoured because of their isolation and the abundance of rock for construction.”
What would cause a religious person to travel as far away from other human beings as possible?
They wanted to build their stone human sacrifice temples in private, and then perform their ritual human sacrifices in peace. Using the then-new “this is my body, eat it, this is my blood, drink it” cannibalism choreography of their new “Paganism lite” religion.
“We know - from Julius Caesar and other ancient witnesses and from incontrovertible archeological evidence - that the Celt’s practiced human sacrifice. There is no reason to think that the Irish stopped this practice before Patrick. Since we know that culture changed little in Ireland over many centuries, the likelihood is that human sacrifice was still being carried out in Patrick’s day.”
From " How the Irish Saved Civilization ", by Thomas Cahill, 2010
"Moreover, after Rome fell, the Irish monastaries also became refuges for vast numbers of Christian scholars and monks fleeing the barbarians, streaming in from all across Europe and even as far away as Egypt, Armenia and Syria. As a result, says historian Kenneth Clark, surprising as it may seem, “for quite a long time - almost a hundred years - western Christianity survived by clinging to places like Skellig Michael, a pinnacle of rock 18 miles from the Irish coast.”
From " The Christian in Today’s Culture ", by Charles W. Colson and Nancy Pearcy, 1991
"Now Saint Michael’s festival (September 29) concurs with the autumnal equinox, and consequently with the autumnal sacrifices and Baaltines of the Druids; and it is observable that the largest of the Skelligs, wherein are two sacred wells, the most celebrated in perhaps all of Ireland, is named Skellig Michael; that the sacred promontory called the Scillean , in Greece, has also been dedicated to Saint Michael, and is now called Cape S. Angelo; and that many craggy promontories, formerly celebrated for Druidic sacrifices of human offerings made to the devil, and for lustrations and wells of Druidic worship, have been, by the foundations of monasteries on them, dedicated to Saint Michael, to abolish the pagan rights and ideas which they recalled.
So at Mont Saint Michael, off Normandy, and our own Michael’s Mount, where the god Bel was worshipped in pagan times: all curious high rocks seem to be dedicated to the Archangel Michael, the successor of Bel and the Dragon - the saint of lofty places."
From " Vacations in Ireland ", by Charles Richard Weld, 1857
Now, if you think that the literally-blood drinking, cannibal Romans suddenly changed their ways when they were driven to the world’s remotest known spots by literally torch-carrying mobs, there’s a bridge for sale here in Brooklyn that I think it might profit you to look at.
No, they built some more stone human sacrifice temples, just like they’d used in Rome, and kept right on doing what they’d been doing, albeit with a fresh new cover-religion a-brewing, the one with all the claptrap about cannibalism and blood drinking in it.
In public relations terms, they rebranded and relaunched, and the rubes to this moment have never noticed.
Here’s the “pious monks” of Skellig gathering human sacrifice victims:
“Perhaps the oddest folkloric custom to emerge from, or rather about, the Skelligs is the now-abandoned practice of composing “Skelligs Lists” targeting unmarried young people in the south of Ireland. These were, in the 19th and early 20th centuries, bits of slightly scandalous poetic doggerel aimed at those who, though eligible, were yet unattached before the coming Lenten season when no matrimonial celebration was permitted. The story may have developed because it was understood that the monks at Skellig Michael used an older calendar to compute the date of Easter, thus extending the period when marriages might be performed. Thus it was “off to the Skelligs ” for these late-date marriage candidates.”
From ancient times, Ba’al was worshipped “in the high places”. Here, in the year 900, long after they’d supposedly cleaned up their act, the pious monks went right on sacrificing to him:
"Although earlier observers of the pilgrimage noted what seeme d to be artificial ledges and stairways on its route leading up to the summit, it wasn’t until 1990 that researchers, after removing the covering vegetation, determined that the South Peak was once the site of a remote hermitage, with three distinct terraces, likely dating from the ninth century. The researchers named them the Garden Terrace, the Oratory Terrace, and the Outer Terrace. As this site surpasses the monastic site in its height, it once exceeded it in its expression of piety , as we can imagine individual monks leaving the monastery to climb to this barely accessible hermitage for solitary prayer and penance. "
You can see how the folks in charge kept it a secret as long as they could, and then, when it was discovered, claimed it was some sort of medieval reading room . There is, indeed, a sucker born every minute.
Three distinct terraces, up on the mountain peak, built long after the Irish had supposedly “gotten religion” and given up their evil ways.
I’m afraid you’re going to have to use your personal discernment to determine if they were used for ritual human sacrifice or for solitary prayer and penance.
I recently consulted the I Ching about my job search, and the changed hexagram was #51, Chen, the Arousing (Shock, Thunder).
I’m fearlessly seizing rule with energy and power. Because I’m animated by a profound inner seriousness from which all terrors glance off harmlessly.
Jeff Miller, Brooklyn, New York, July 5, 2020
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