THE FORTY DAYS OF AWE

Tomorrow August 29th is the new moon and signals the entering into the Hebrew month of Elul. This month goes on for thirty days, and then it's Hosh Hashana or the Jewish New Year. People think that the Jews only blow the ram's horn or shofar for those ten days in the seventh month. But actually the shoffar, as far as I've learned, is blown throughout the whole forty day period from the new moon of tomorrow, through to Yom Kippur. This period represents the period that Moses was on Mt Sanai - on his second trip, to bring the ten commandments - again. And since these would remain unbroken they represent Christ's keeping the full law. This forty day period is a preparation for the Day of Atonement or Yom Kippur. But as you know we have predicted some sort of supernatural "rapture" on the evening of September 28th - - just next month. So we are kind of claiming you should prepare for this by whatever means you deem expediant. We spoke of it suddenly "not being this Universe as we know it" a couple of postings back, and since I have been "cleaning up the text" and amplifying on it- - I recommend you go back and read it. However there is no physical danger of THAT happening any time soon, at least by normal physical processes. But perhaps the Almighty has other tricks up his sleeve.

August 24th is St. Barthalamew's Day. It also happens to be the second time the Beatles dropped acid, and this time at least they knew they were taking it. John, George and Ringo chose to set sail on an LSD trip this evening. Paul chose not to partake. But this holiday was a holiday in the Federation before the Beatles became "Enlightened" in August of 1965. As you may know from history on this date in 1572 was the St. Barthalamew's Day Massacre in France. It's kind of the Federation's version of Bastille Day. (and some people celebrate then, too) This was a "popular uprising" of the French people, who were Catholics, against the Calvinist Huganaut influence in their country. Some say there was trouble when John Calvin in a publication decided in a publication to advocate the violent overthrow of a King if that King were "in violation of God's word". Sound fermiliar? Well the French people loved their King but despized the Huganauts, so that there was a "popular uprising". It was perhaps the most effective "political cleansing" since Joan of Ark. (who is also a revered figure) It's kind of an ironic twist of fact that a similar "stepping up of the violence" did not work nearly so well on August 24th 1970 when four radicals blew up a building on the campus of the University of Wisconsin. They said it was important that the explosion didn't kill anybody but one person was killed and others were injured. Because of this "failure to take the high ground" left wing protest activity languished on the University of Wisconsin that fall. It's interesting to note how the left and the right deal with undesirable behavior. Ted Bundy is practically a patron saint among the James Dobson crowd. And he killed remorselessly. But the left makes one slip up and the whole movement is consumed with guilt forty years later. I guess the lesson here is that it's important that we all read up on our Ghandi, so that we don't make any other mistakes.

It's been pointed out that Homosexuals are in fact logically consistent in their demand that man be allowed to marry man and woman be allowed to marry woman. Because in the case of polygamy and bestiality laws, they state that anybody who violates these laws shall be guilty of an infraction, be they straight, gay, Black, Chicano or White. Whereas on the whole marriage of the person of your choice law- - this law applies only to homosexuals and not to straights. My feeling is that marriage is pretty much an obsolete institution to begin with and it is regularly made a mockery of by multiple marriage celebrety weddings. Nobody seems to be bothered by that. Some like Dennis Prager may say to me "Well some people have high morals that they don't always live up to, and so that makes it allright". That of course is a non-sequetor. It's a solemn vow to remain with your spouse "till death do you part". Any person with an even vaguely legal bone in their body would say, "I am not going to be the one who files for divorce". One can well make the argument that laws without penalties are not really laws. Some have, for instance, said that these "Wall Street reforms" are a little on the toothless side and won't really do anything to clean up corruption. The whole idea with Christians is to "keep it vague enough for my own moral piety not to come under scruteny". In no way am I condoning the gay life style. I still it is a form of mental disturbence. It may not be a treatable condition, but it is a condition nontheless just as lepracy is a condition. People think "because you can't do anything about it, that somehow that means it's no longer wrong". I disagree. "Wrong" and "disfunctional" are terms that can exist per se in a vacuum. (Selah)

It was Stewart Sutcliffe that said that Sirius "0" was the planet associated with early rock and roll history. The Federation doesn't talk about this but all the scenes they show of it are some sort of industrial, military setting, where they mine silicon dioxide - - Sand. Oh yes. Conservatives say that is Obama were in charge of the Sahara Desert, there would soon develop a shortage of Sand. On both Sirius O and A the star Sirius doesn't make that bright of a "sun" in the sky because of the distance from both planets from the star. The letters A and B are not really given in the standard manner either. There is something called a karmic "Reigellian immunity factor". Sirius A people have the "A" factor and Sirius "B" people have the "B" factor and those on Sirius "0" have neither factor. Obviously the parrellel to blood types can't be missed. There is an African tribe that claims they are originally from Sirius. They are called the "Dogon" tribe or "That dog gone tribe". This whole "dog" metaphor is carried over because the Cleveland Browns have Sirius "O" as their guiding spirits, not to mention that Stewart is a partisan of the team. But the Federation has stopped talking about Sirius "O".