The Great Game, the Vril-ya and Theosophy

[Helen Reyes]

The motif of John the Baptists skull is extensive, as is the Templar "talking head" skull Baphomet. Then we have another female skull that features in Southern France and, of course, not to forget the crystal skulls of current fame. And on it goes.

And then there's Pope Sylvester II's oracle computer skull thing.

Examples of the Nine Unknown Men making contact with the outer world are rare. There was, however, the extraordinary case of one of the most mysterious figures in Western history: the Pope Sylvester II, known also by the name of Gerbert d’Aurillac. Born in the Auvergne in 920 (d. 1003) Gerbert was a Benedictine monk, professor at the University of Rheims, Archbishop of Ravenna and Pope by the grace of Otho III. He is supposed to have spent some time in Spain, after which a mysterious voyage brought him to India where he is reputed to have acquired various kinds of skills which stupefied his entourage.

For example, he possessed in his palace a bronze head which answered Yes or No to questions put to it on politics or the general position of Christianity. [cf. "Max the Crystal Skull" of current notoriety -B:.B:.] According to Sylvester II this was a perfectly simple operation corresponding to a two-figure calculation, and was performed by an automaton similar to our modem binary machines. This "magic" head was destroyed when Sylvester died, and all the information it imparted carefully concealed. No doubt an authorized research worker would come across some surprising things in the Vatican Library.

In the cybernetics journal, Computers and Automation of October 1954, the following comment appeared:

"We must suppose that he (Sylvester) was possessed of extraordinary knowledge and the most remarkable mechanical skill and inventiveness. This speaking head must have been fashioned ’under a certain conjunction of stars occurring at the exact moment when all the planets were starting on their courses.’ Neither the past, nor the present nor the future entered into it, since this invention apparently far exceeded in its scope its rival, the perverse ’mirror on the wall’ of the Queen, the precursor of our modern electronic brain. Naturally, it was widely asserted that Gerbert was only able to produce such a machine because he was in league with the Devil and had sworn eternal allegiance to him."

I have been interested in the Black Madonnas of Southern France for some time and the Egyptian connection you speak of Helen, may well connect to the centre of Gypsy faith at the fortified church of Notre Dame de la Mer in the Carmargue.

It's a very plain, masonry church I saw on some Templar special on Discovery or National Geographic once. It should be in the west of Luangedoc somewhere. The bay you mention is where the Cathars say Jesus and Mary reached France by boat.

Although not recognized by the Vatican, Sara is depicted as having black skin and is said to have been Egyptian. Of course one can also trace Gypsies back to their Egyptian origins so the whole thing comes full circle. ...

The last word in Gypsy research I heard put them as natives of Punjab or somewhere in modern India (Rajastan?), but I have to wonder:

LOC Country Studies Afghanistan - Chapter 2 The Society and Environment - Ethnic Groups - Other Groups - Jat

Afghanistan
Jat

There are other small marginal communities of occupational specialists based in eastern Afghanistan in provinces such as Laghman. They are commonly referred to as Jat which is a generic term indiscriminately applied by others with derogatory connotations implying low descent and low occupations. The groups reject the term and refer to themselves by specific names. Of Mediterranean-Indian type physically, speaking Indo-Aryan dialects in addition to Pashto and Dari, they are primarily gypsy-like itinerant petty traders, bangle sellers, fortune-tellers, musicians, jugglers, snake-charmers and performers with animals such as bears and monkeys. Some are specialized craftsmen, working as weavers, potters, sievemakers, knife-makers, and leather-workers. Some hire out as seasonal itinerant farm laborers. They rank lowest on the social scale and are stigmatized by many in the society.

Data as of 1997

It is indeed most interest that Himmler's personal wizard, Nazi Satanist Karl Maria Wiligut claimed to be the King of the Gypsies and used to attend the annual gatherings linked above and was, apparently, well known at them.

Hmm. Two points: "King of the Gypsies" is a title held by mutiple people simultaneously, it refers to the leader of a single band or group, traditionally. The other is the notion that Gypsies were inhabitants for a time in Agartha, and Fred Crisman's association with them, and early alien contact reports and MIBs describing swarthy Gypsy-type men.

I wonder if the creed of the Ebionites or "Poor Men" were adopted in some sense by the Poor Knights of Christ and the Temple of Solomon, more commonly known as the Knights Templars? Both were very active in the very same part of France as were the Cathars and the composed fable we know as the Priory of Sion.

That's what I was thinking. You can't gainsay the notion the Templars really did receive an early Christian Gnostic text in Alexandria either; the Masonic lore records it, and such manuscripts existed namely there. According to Mead the early Ebionites were strictly Jewish Christians and were banned from Jerusalem for being Jews by the Romans when they rechristened the Jewish capital. The Alexandrian gnostics who were more likely to persist underground until the Middle Ages would be Carpocratians perhaps or some further configuration of thought that is unrecorded.

Of course there would actually need to be the physical historical personage of Jesus Christ for the Nazoræans to follow, and I am unconvinced that what we nowadays regard as JC actually did live and breath (however, that there was a "wise man" named Joshua Ben Joseph I don't really doubt but also don't know very much about to argue the toss either). But that is not to say that the compound story of JC is not a remarkable occult/alchemical cipher in its own right that deserves much attention and even more understanding.[/QUOTE]

From the gnostic perspective the outer exoteric church, or corpus of believers, were unable to perceive the inner teaching, and had to be taught with parables and fables really. The birth story of Jesus and his living in Nazareth is probably made of whole cloth, pure fable. Nazir is a priestly office in the Mandaean religion, it's the first phase of priestcraft I think, like an acolyte priest. He's supposed to separate himself from the world for 40 days or something very much like Jesus's temptations in the wilderness. I'm not certain but I think nazir is related to the Arabic word for reader, someone who reads. Nazareth is just a way to explain away why Jesus was called Nazoraean by earlier Christians. Betheleham is a connexion with the Book of Ruth I believe, the "make-it-so" school of Christian Old Testament prophetical exegesis.