Craft Work

"My darling boy, you won’t last long in this world if you don’t know how to spot a witch when you see one." - From Dahl's, The Witches, as promoted in the billboard above. Image from earlier today, Kate glowing in a Christopher Kane coat.

In my post from yesterday - Magickal numbers and the return of Marilyn Manson - I noted the strange, numerical "magick" surrounding the Police Scotland helicopter crash at Glasgow's Clutha Bar almost two years ago, Marilyn Manson, the Glasgow refuse truck incident and the zombie movie World War Z.

As noted, the report into the Clutha was officially released today, some 693 days after. It leaves more questions than it solves. Some of the relatives of the deceased were advised of the content a couple of days ago, on the 21st.

Back to the future

"Coincidentally", Prince William, himself a helicopter pilot, is up here in Scotland today with Kate, in Dundee. They are meeting with a mental health charity at the Corner, visiting the cast of In Her Shadows at the Dundee Repertory Theatre as well as enjoying a trip on the RRS Discovery, the ship used by Robert Falcon Scott and Ernest Shackleton for their exploration of the Antartic beginning 1901.

Apparently, writer Arthur C. Clarke named the the Discovery 1 spacecraft in his book and conjunctionally produced movie, directed by Stanley Kubrick, 2001: A Space Odyssey, after the vessel. 

There are many theories swirling around the meanings of 2001 : A Space Odyssey. Too many to list. The basic premise of the film appears to be the future though, and the past, whilst many believe it also refers to the occult worship of the planet Saturn, a theme which is apparently constant in Kubrik's movies.

Awaiting capstone ?

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Magickal numbers and the return of Marilyn Manson

Occultist and artist, Marilyn Manson, graced the newspaceman back in  2014 with regard to the police helicopter mysteriously crashing into Glasgow's Clutha Bar at 22.22 hours on 29th November 2013. In the post, Marilyn Manson, Magick, Jodi Jones and the Clutha, I noted Manson's preoccupation with "conspiracy theorist", James Shelby Downard, and his essay, King-Kill/33: Masonic Symbolism in the Assassination of John F.Kennedy. 

The nachtkabarett - KennedyKingKill33 

Numerical "coincidences" were considered within the text, as was the fact that the helicopter appeared to be returning from a somewhat secret mission to Newhouses close to Dalkeith, where a schoolgirl called Jodi Jones was murdered on 03/06/03, her body mutilated. When her boyfriend, Luke Mitchell, was convicted of the crime, the trial judge, Lord Nimmo Smith, noted :

 "I do not feel able to ignore the fact that there was a degree of resemblance between the injuries inflicted on Jodi and those shown in the Marilyn Manson paintings of Elizabeth Short (the Black Dahlia murder)  that we saw.
 
"I think that you carried an image of the paintings in your memory when you killed Jodi," the judge said."

What I also noted was that Manson had played an "Antichrist Superstar" concert in Glasgow on 28th November 2012, exactly a year and a day prior to the Clutha incident. A year and a day allegedly carries some currency in magickal circles.

The report by the Clutha crash investigators is now finally complete. Apparently some of the families were told last night that the problem may have been a fuel switch turned off, or then again, it may not be. It appears that without the magic black box, for which there was none on this mission, matters will never be fully explained.

Nevertheless, the 102 page report is due out tomorrow, exactly 693 days after the event. Notwithstanding the plethora of threes, 693 is 21 x 11. (Dunblane was 13/3/96 - another story)

When the Glasgow refuse truck went out of control, on 22/12 last year, it mirrored events filmed in Glasgow on 19th August 2011 for the movie World War Z. From the date of filming to the date of the incident was exactly 1221 (11x111)  days. (Mirrors)

At the legal enquiry into  the matter, Matthew Telford, a member of the truck crew stated :

Recalling the moment he realised something was wrong, Telford says: "I felt the vehicle slightly veer to the left, I would say at about Tam Shepherd's joke shop" (Reflections)

Tam Shepherd's Joke and Magic shop is located at 33 Queen Street, the left hand path perhaps speaking for itself.

Marilyn Manson is due to play Glasgow this November again as part of his THE HELL NOT HALLELUJAH tour. Manson, being intimate with magick, sorcery, Downard, freemasonry and thus Scotland, has chosen what seems a fairly auspicious date, Sunday 22nd November, for the event; the 52nd anniversary of the 12.30pm Killing of the King. 52, perhaps "coincidentally", is the time it takes in weeks for the Earth to revolve around the Sun. Full circle, so to speak.

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Gone to the dogs

I wrote Water Closets just a couple of weeks ago, concerning Uri Geller and his spoon statue, which he erected in "energy infested" Sonning; noting in the process his previous deposit of magickal crystals on Scotland's myth-ridden Lamb Island.

It seems his sculpture did not go down well in certain quarters with obscene messages and even a bag of dog waste being left upon it. Then, as if by magic, the statue vanished into thin air. (BBC)

However the mystery has been solved. Uri, allegedly fearing he would not get retrospective planning permission for the structure, has removed it and taken it to Jerusalem where it will somehow act as a "symbol of peace" in the occultus work that Uri is doing in respect of Israel and Palestine.

It appears that Uri is involved in a pivotal role with the Red Cross and an offshoot called Red Crystal, albeit there is minimal information on the latter other than from Uri's own site which contains images of him with various bigwigs and suchlike. As you can imagines crystals are involved in the process, whilst Uri appears to have deserted Lamb Island.

It's worth noting too, that there have been no further press reports concerning Neetinder Boparai, the lucky charity fundraiser who was walking along the towpath, training to climb Ben Nevis - Scotland's highest mountain, when she encountered Uri's statue unveiling and was presented with a bent golf club for her trouble. 

The closest I could come was Labour top-dog, Jeremy Corbyn, who allegedly skipped out of his Privy Council meeting with the Queen, where he was expected to kiss her hand, by visiting Fort William, specifically the Ben Nevis tavern, where he tucked into fish and chips before cycling in a red-striped tracksuit. (here)

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The hair of the dog....

Edinburgh's Greyfriars Kirk and it's consecrated yard, are fairly infamous, globally.  It's where Bobby the Dog allegedly waited some fourteen years at the graveside of his master for, one assumes, the resurrection. It was banker's grandchild, Angela Burdett Coutts, who opened her drawers and arranged  the tributary statue and fountain for the loyal Skye terrier to be erected, a year or so after the animal's death, close by, on (King) George 4th Bridge. Enthusiastic and energy gushing tourists still flock there, in abundance, some touching the brass nose of the effigy, for luck (here) . Rich people, royalty and celebrities today still frequent Coutts for their banking facilities. Coutts founder, like those of the Banks of England and France (Paterson and Law), was Scottish (Campbell).

Greyfriars Bobby statue with Donald Trump mask attached. On the Autumn equinox 2009, similar masks were placed on prominent statues in other Scottish locations - a sandwich full of nonsense

More recently, it was rumoured that Potter's Rowling had taken Lord Voldermort's birth name from a gravestone located at Greyfriars. Hence the slightly scruffy throngs, pottering through the place to leave energy infused hand written notes. Rowling has moved on from Potter, her new offering is based on "severed limbs and paedophilia". (666) .

Further back in time the Kirk in question holds a premier league position in Scottish history. For it was at Greyfriars that the National Covenant was signed, a document which, let's say for simplicity, distanced itself from the Catholic religion, espousing instead that of the Presbyterian persuasion. From wiki, History of the Jews in Scotland :

Reverence for the tenets of Judaism was a hallmark of 17th century fundamentalist Protestant thinking when the National Covenant of 1638 seemed to set the seal on the belief that by returning to the "true religion" at the Scottish Reformation the Scots had become a chosen people.

Scotland, whom our Lord took off the dunghill and out of hell and made a fair bride to Himself... He will embrace both us, the little young sister, and the elder sister, the Church of the Jews. (Rev. Samuel Rutherford)^[4]

The late-18th century author Henry Mackenzie speculated that the high incidence of biblical place names around the village of Morningside near Edinburgh might indicate that Jews had settled in the area during the Middle Ages. This belief has, however, been shown to be false, the names originating instead from the presence of a local farm named "Egypt" mentioned in historical documents from the 16th century and believed to indicate a Gypsy presence.

Yeah, the unaccountable Gypsies.

It was Morningside that the Pope lunched with now-disgraced Cardinal Keith O'Brien after his Holyrood rendezvous with Her Majesty on the two-third Pythagorean resonating 16/9/10. I went on a bit about it at the time, seeing it as fairly symbolic.

Someone else who has the event, albeit on a different string from myself, in their sights, is themanthebheastscanttame. The author realises "history is repeating itself", whilst blaming it squarely on "the Catholics" :

"In this blog I will mainly want for you to cast your mind back to the obscene waste of the United Kingdom and Northern Ireland’s public money wasted on the disgraced ex Pope Benedict XVI’s visit to the United Kingdom from 16 to 19 September in the year of our Lord 2010.

In doing so we will find out the Roman Catholic Church’s plan to usurp our Nation once again with the use of their puppets and the useful idiots in their pay or blind obedience goes a long, long, long way back in History."

Actually, what the author has discovered in his PROJECT MARGARITA post is ritual, and kudos for that element. Magickal ritual. (Whilst, if he happens to read this, he has to look into the Glasgow Rangers "MARGARITA" aspect.)

Eccentric, Comyns Beaumont, believed that Scotland was the holy land depicted in the Bible. He wrote about the premise of such. He utilised Greyfriars Kirkyard for one of his scant illustrations. The Castle, which nowadays contains the alleged Stone of Destiny (Jacob's pillow stone), is built on the "capstone/plug" of volcanic Arthur's Seat where Royal Holyrood sits.

One wonders what the Covenantors would make of current events within Greyfriars Kirk. According to the Daily Record it's taking the lead, according to the Evening News it's a "pet blessing ceremony". What is happening is that animals, mostly dogs, are being taken into the Kirk to be blessed; the minister also happy about most other species, the exception being snakes. It's pioneer, cutting edge, ground breaking.

Last week I ritually popped out to the shops. On returning I noticed in the distance two ladies, delivering leaflets. It was clear they were not your average distributors, maybe mid thirties to fourties, very well attired, and they positively skipped, almost floated, to and from the generally uniform and mundane concrete slab paths, en route the letterboxes. I swear there was a hint of perfumery lingering as I returned home, certainly "our" still puppy-loved five year old dog appeared most mellow, surely wallowing in the fragrance residue, all four paws held high. 

The delivered flyer is imaged above, albeit the one I received also helpfully noted the cafe was open during school term time. It's from the New Life Christian Fellowship. They are offering much "new-age" stuff. A look at their website shows a future one-and-a-bit-days-long workshop - Developing Your Prophetic Gift - unfortunately this time not free at £28.00. Attending will allow you to somehow open yourself to help you hear God, this in turn will help you help God to help build the church. All in the name of Jesus.

As a schoolboy I regularly attended Greyfriars Kirk. I still remember the horse-haired pew seats scratching my bare legs. We had to wear shorts till aged 11, even in the depths of winter. I remember Sunday School, then back to my Grandad's where I would be told to stay quiet, indeed to freeze. For it would be one of the church-elders at the door, invariably looking for ready money or, better still, a tax efficient annual "covenant"; after all, even in the mid-seventies, it was apparent congregations were shrinking

The manthebheastscantame has it half right. He just goes for the wrong enemy. It's not the Catholics who are to blame, his philosophy is maintained by the strategy of divide and conquer.

When Liam Gallacher, of the band Oasis, came to Edinburgh, he chose the Jinglin' Geordie bar as his watering hole. The pub is named after George Heriot, goldsmith to James 6th & 1st. George was a philanthropist like Rowling and Coutts; he opened a school, directly beside Greyfriars, in his name, for the "poor faitherless bairns". Nowadays it is fee paying although takes in some fatherless "foundationers". Liam, at the time, declared Edinburgh as "Fucking Biblical".

One does not have to pay £28, to see what's round the corner.

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Firmly on the square.

The above image is the front page from a publication called The Skinny, which bills itself as containing "independent cultural journalism". It reminds me a bit of one of the Sunday newspaper supplements that cover entertainment.

This month sees it's 10th anniversary - "celebrating a decade of defiance". It's issue number 121 which happens to be 11x11, or squared. If one counts the right angles of the pencils depicted, they total 11.

I'll just use the opportunity to remind the reader that "New Agers", and suchlike, see the numerals 11 11 as some sort of awakening code, hence Prince William's dark issue 1111 front page of Hello magazine, which is firmly embedded in the sidebar here. 

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Water closets

When I write regarding mysterious Uri Geller, it's usually regarding his purchase of Scotland's Lamb Island and/or his fascination with the digits eleven eleven and their occult meaning.

Uri allegedly bought The Lamb due to it's "mythology" concerning an Egyptian Princess, Scota,(rumoured to be legendary King Tutankhamen's half-sister and carrying the Stone of Destiny)  who lent her name to Scotland. Apparently, Uri believes there is treasure stashed on the island and he undertook a  single visit some years ago to locate such, a visit which was fruitless.  However, he left a crystal orb there, which once belonged to Albert Einstein, in order to enhance the mystical powers he believes the place contains.

Today we read that Uri is returning to Israel to help with humanitarian projects of some description. To mark his long stay in the U.K., he arranged for a blood-red spoon shaped statue to be erected in his home town of Sonning (originally Sunning) - "The village is spiritual, it’s an incredible centre of energy with the river" - just across the road from George Clooney's new abode. The opening ceremony was this morning, around 20 hardy residents attending the unveiling to see Uri bend a golf club with the power of his mind which, as luck would have it, fell into the hands of  charity fundraiser, Neetinder Boparai, who happened to be passing as she undertakes training to climb Scotland's highest mountain, Ben Nevis, just next week. I wonder if she will take the club with her, maybe even stop off at keen mountaineer and occultist, "Aleister Crowley's", energy infested Loch Ness.

The news report also advises that Uri alleges that Tayor Swift is interested in buying his old home; I leave you with a couple of numerically-tainted images.

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Hinging oot the dirty washing

Half Way There

Some people believe that the programme Star Trek has deeper, symbolic, connotations.

Alex Salmond, ex Scottish political top-dog, is allegedly a life-long fan of the series, so much so that he often uses the name James T Kirk when booking flights and suchlike to travel incognito. Apparently though, last summer, this arrangement came unstuck when he was temporarily refused air-travel until the discrepancy between his ticket name and passport details was noted by a check-in attendant. The story is reported in today's mail on line and also claims that, as a child,  Alex used to attach a clothes peg to his eyebrow in an attempt to emulate the facial expressions of Dr. Spock, the human-Vulcan. It does not mention any attempt at any Jewish cabalistic hand symbol or elvish ears.

Alex is also pleased because he was born in (royal) Linlithgow, which was the  "birthplace" of chief engineer, Scotty, in the year 2222 (here). How they love those double elevens.

Linlithgow sits only some 15 road miles from once Stone of Destiny holding, and UFO hot spot, Bonnybridge, as noted last week, here.

A further 15 road miles east sits Cramond. Last week's BBC carried a fascinating article regarding a mass burial discovered in 1975 during the excavation of a Roman Bathhouse. Initially, the 9 "bodies" were believed to have been victims of the plague, however after utilisation of  cutting-edge "forensic, isotopic and DNA techniques", it appears "the burials belonged to more than one generation of a single family with two of the bodies thought to be warriors due to their multiple healed wounds...

Due to the unique nature of the burial and positioning of bodies, it is thought the victims could be members of a noble family, raising the question of whether Cramond in Edinburgh could be the site of a Royal stronghold.

Richard Lewis, Edinburgh city council's culture convener, said: "In 1975, work was under-way to construct a new car park when builders came across a mass burial at what would become one of Scotland's best preserved Roman buildings, the Bathhouse for Cramond Fort.

"For decades, the circumstances surrounding the burial were unanswered.

"Thanks to developments in modern science, the council has been able to revisit the remains and carry out an extensive investigation.

"The findings have unravelled a story even more mysterious than the one we started out with.

"With theories of ancient warriors, murdered nobles and a lost Royal stronghold - you could be forgiven for mistaking the resulting story for a plot from Game of Thrones...

"If this grave was indeed the burial crypt of a noble or Royal family, it suggests Cramond just might be a royal stronghold of the Gododdin."

Like Star Trek, Scots appear to like to explore elsewhere. Even to the extent of colonisation. Kirks, which are Protestant/Presbyterian churches, not captains; and lodges, for masons, not beavers, quickly manifest themselves. Jim is short/colloquial for James, you may remember the name from the Bible reviser, the amalgamating King of the present United Kingdom and her dilapidated, to be swiftly rebuilt, global and sure to expand, Commonwealth. 

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