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Pointing out the LOL! *king* pelican.
I said I’d never post anything other than photos, but heeding the warning of the quote below, I felt that I had to voice my opinion. This needs to be said, out loud! Please read.
January 19, 2020
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Elonald... joined at the hip.
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The world is now being led by two mega-rich, egotistical, spiteful children, and their henchmen, whose only interests are power, their own fortunes, and how they can hurt anyone who dares to speak out against them. They care nothing for the poor, the widow, the meek, the stranger. Their rise was perpetrated on us when the power hungry republican hordes, along with over 60% of so called evangelical christians, together, turned a blind eye to donald's twisted truths and vulgarity, and eagerly voted this obscene megalomaniac (whose loyalty is only to himself) into power, accepting his proven lie(s) that he represents their blinded christian values. Brings to mind Dylan's lyrics
..."You're gonna have to serve somebody
Well, it may be the Devil or it may be the Lord
But you're gonna have to serve somebody".
Face this, you are either on the side of Christ, or you are on the side of trump. Choose you this day!
One has to wonder which copy of "christ" they follow, certainly not the one spoken about in the bible that they claim to love and live by. Jesus never came to bolster the rich, it was instead the poor, the outcast, the prostitute, the sick, the strangers that He surrounded Himself with, and loved. True Christians are left ashamed by the wilful selfishness of these christian mega heretics, and their so called pastors and leaders who promoted this abomination from their pulpits!
Look at how elon just demonstrated his childish fascination with his nazi upbringing, and not one evangelical called him out on it. Not one!
Truth is, they should all ponder the following fateful words.
"First they came for the socialists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a socialist.
Then they came for the trade unionists, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a trade unionist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I did not speak out—
Because I was not a Jew.
Then they came for me—and there was no one left to speak for me".
written by the German Lutheran pastor Martin Niemöller (1892–1984)
Unfortunately, history does repeat itself. Stop swallowing the red pill.
BTW, as a footnote: We are proudly Canadian, ten provinces and three territories, united under one flag, 🇨🇦 The Maple Leaf… forever! 🇨🇦 We have no desire whatsoever to become the 51st of your united snakes of america.
Marvel's Jackal and the Spawn of Cthulhu pose for this week's Crazy Tuesday theme, GREEN. It's a rare and special occasion to get them together.
We asked Greedo to join them, but he there wasn't enough money in the galaxy for him to bare so much of his green skin.)
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See the companion piece, Pretty in Pink.
You know how you know this trackage isn't owned by Pan Am? Well lack of weeds, heavy rail, well maintained....but don't worry, it's only this lead to the plant...the rest of the track leading up here is a derailment prone abomination typical of the railroad we all know and love!
Anyway here is another shot from a great day and the only time to date I've shot a train up on this really cool bit of trackage.
At the highest point reached by rail in the state of Connecticut, Pan Local PL-1 is at the end of Terryville Loop Track running light to reach into the Firestone building and pull a single empty coil steel car. This customer operates out of a portion of the huge 1.2 million square ft former General Motors New Departures ball bearing plant that was in operation from 1969 to 1995 and to this day remains the largest industrial building under one roof in all of the six New England states.
To learn more about this branch and Pan Am's Connecticut lines check out the long form captions with these earlier posts:
Bristol, Connecticut
Thursday March 5, 2021
Not long after sunrise finds Norfolk Southern local job G07 crossing the Ocmulgee River on its way out of Macon. It will take a right at Mogul to head north on an ex CofG branch now named the 'F' Line towards Monticello and the Cater Parrott RR interchange at Shady Dale. The local sports a pair of Altoona Abominations in the form of admiral cabbed SD40-2's. This local has been running with a pair of high hood GP38-2's for the past month but of course the day I decide to make a trip to chase it they slap these things on.
Ecco le donne. Quelle di oggi, pronte per andare al mare e le donne di un “ieri” mai così presente, così triste, così arretrato. Gli occhi stupiti di chi guarda, hanno la stessa tristezza delle donne nelle immagini.
Un abominio nato dal fallimento, dalla incapacità e anche, lasciatemi dire, dalla volontà di un occidente decadente e perverso.
Abbiamo dato una speranza a queste donne per poi togliergli tutto nuovamente. Nulla di più aberrante.
Here are the women. Those of today, ready to go to the beach and the women of a "yesterday" never so present, so sad, so backward. The amazed eyes of the beholder have the same sadness as the women in the images.
An abomination born of failure, of inability and also, let me say, of the will of a decadent and perverse West.
We gave these women hope and then took everything away from them again. Nothing more aberrant.
OK, lets be clear right up front: This photo has been altered. We have ALL stood at the Bartonsville bridge cursing the abomination that is the power pole which otherwise mars this perfect Vermont shot. So I took it upon myself to see if I *could* remove it through the magic of photoshop. I am fairly thrilled with the results. While I took some creative liberty, ultimately, it's still pretty dang cool.
Me and some other Flickr members are doing a post for every single MCU movie and I got Incredible Hulk which came after Iron Man which James did. Go check his post out it’s really cool!
Left to right
Tony Stark: He has a cameo at the end of the movie if you don’t remember
Betty Ross: Nothin special
Hulk
Bruce Banner: Thought this torso worked
Emil Blonsky/Abomination: I think this head works pretty damn good
Thunderbolt Ross: Don’t think he has glasses
Sth Island Robin ( Petroica australis )
Am example of how tame our birds are when remote beyond the hand of man and his raft of abominations..This little fellow sits upon my wife boot curios as to what she is....
Babalon /ˈbæbælən/ (also known as the Scarlet Woman, Great Mother or Mother of Abominations) is a goddess found in the occult system of Thelema, which was established in 1904 with English author and occultist Aleister Crowley's writing of The Book of the Law, her name being later given in other works. In her most abstract form, she represents the female sexual impulse and the liberated woman.
I could have chased this instead of this: flic.kr/p/2ottE54 but I think I made the right choice!
CSXT/Pan Am train EDRJ (East Deerfield to Rotterdam Jct) sits tied down on Main 1 just east of CPF448 on the Pan Am Southern freight main (beside the old Boston and Maine passenger station out of sight to the left) with a pair of ugly patched former CSXT C40-8Ws on the point trailed by a blue C40-8 and two SD40-2s. This abomination stood in stark contrast to the timeless beauty of the spotless Alco I had chased down into the village along the Batten Kill. Despite its ugliness it was still worth a shot because soon enough scenes like these will be condemned to history's scrap heap, as the days of consists like this are surely waning with the start up of the new Berkshire and Eastern Railroad edging ever closer.
Eagle Bridge
Town of Hoosick, New York
Friday April 14, 2023
This time, a fritillary butterfly for the kids happy meal.
If you saw the other frames in this series you noticed how the background changes, This reflects my position and selecting sun lit background or shaded. background, as well as the perch (the bird seemed to chose the same one, and sit there long enough for me to reposition). Some post processing magic (we used to call this push and pull in the old photochemistry days) added to finish the image. No photoshop AI - that abomination is going to require a category of its own to be called "alternative" wildlife.
Take notice of the times!
To those who have the understanding only will know.
You pray for divine knowledge and discernment.
Matthew 24:15-17
"15 When ye therefore shall see the abomination of desolation, spoken of by Daniel the prophet, stand in the holy place, (whoso readeth, let him understand:)
16 Then let them which be in Judaea flee into the mountains:
17 Let him which is on the housetop not come down to take any thing out of his house."
The abomination desolation is happening now!
It is done in the temples with the breathe of Yahuah... don't wait for the 3rd temple erected, it's not even of Yah but of His enemies, that's too late as most duped christians look on that time when the time is now.
I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left.
Jorge Luis Borges
Hi Folks.
What a horrid mess this new flickr thing is. As it is my time is limited these days and this ''new and improved'' flickr does not help matters any. Truly it is an abomination to say the least.
I will be visiting many of your streams in the next couple of days. I need only to figure out how to navigate this ''new and improved flickr'' without a PHD in flickrnomics
:)
Anyway, if you would like to see the series of the above image above, please click on the link.
… the skyline to the East in dominated by the towers of Canary Wharf. The abomination on the right is the Royal Free Hospital.
Explored #4 on November 12th 2022.
Watch it properly @ Gallery Minimal!
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This abomination is only after one thing...to eat everything it senses. This demon has neither skin nor eyes, but has no trouble finding its prey.
Revelation 17:5: A mysterious name was written on her forehead: “Babylon the Great, the Mother of All Prostitutes and of the Abominations of the Earth.”
“Calgary pastor jailed for refusing ‘forced apology’ in drag storytime dispute”
“Derek Reimer rejects court-ordered remorse, claiming a Charter-protected stand against compelled speech and children’s exposure to drag events.”
www.westernstandard.news/opinion/slobodian-calgary-pastor...
Proverbs 29:27 “An unjust man is an abomination to the righteous, but one whose way is straight is an abomination to the wicked.”
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Looking into Valle de Tena, Huesca, Aragon, Spain. The highest peak is the Pyrenean mountain of Peña Telera, at 2764 metres. Just 30 minutes later, the heaviest rain I've ever seen drenched the entire region.
The Spanish have no reservations about erecting hideous pylons in beautiful settings. Such abominations would be met with outrage in the UK. I've removed them during post-processing.
In the golden light at the end of the day, the Elven ranger faces off against the (very scary) Yuan-ti abomination. Who will win?
Macro Monday: Fictitious
Flickr Lounge: Scary
Minis from our Dungeons and Dragons gaming collection; painted by me, terrain made by my son.
I went off-trail today at Riverwood and into the 'Wildwood." This is the one time of year when it's possible to walk through here. In the Spring it's flooded, and toward the end of that season the black-flies swarm relentlessly. During the Summer the underbrush is high, and the mosquitoes are an abomination--joined quickly by biting deer flies. But in the Fall, ah bliss. The biting bugs have finished for the year. The water table is low enough that it's completely walkable And today I was rewarded by a find of about 10 or so clusters of Honey Mushroom like this. The whole mushroom community really appreciated the rain we've had recently.
No, you are not seeing things. No, I am not high or drunk and simply decided to create a blue crosswalk. I can't vouch for the people responsible for this abomination, though. Well, actually, I don't really think this is an abomination - I was pleasantly surprised to find a blue crosswalk. Incidentally, the first one I've ever seen.
Sure, there are the generic white or yellow crosswalks that we all know, but there is something to be said for creativity. Now, if only I could find a red or a green one...
Downtown Miami, Florida, USA.
We May Not All Agree Politically,
But I Hope We Can All Agree That Cauliflower Ice Cream Is A Fuckin' Abomination.
“Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
Looking down river from the Glen Canyon Dam which forms Lake Powell.
This is 3 images from a 7 image Auto-bracket set. The images were digatally blended using photoshop and layer masks, and several different adjustment layer masks were used to finish the blending and to bring out some of the colors.
Wikipedia:
The Glen Canyon Dam is a dam on the Colorado River at Page, Arizona, USA. It provides water storage for the arid southwestern United States, to generate electricity for the region's growing population, and to provide water recreation opportunities. The dam generates an average of 451 megawatts, 6% of the total electricity generated in Arizona and 13% of that generated in Utah where most of Lake Powell resides, which amounts to a total carbon dioxide savings of over 5 million metric tons, although it has a maximum capacity of 1300 megawatts. Damming the river flooded Glen Canyon and created a large reservoir called Lake Powell. Just downstream from the dam is an arch bridge that carries U.S. Route 89. Also nearby is the 2280 megawatt, coal-fired Navajo Generating Station.
The Dam inspires deeply felt opposition. Eco-novelist and essayist Edward Abbey railed against the dam, and considered Glen Canyon the "living heart" of the Colorado River. In his 1975 novel, The Monkey Wrench Gang, the protagonists view the dam as an abomination, and fantasize about blowing it up. On March 21, 1981, Abbey was among the onlookers as a small group of Earth First! activists unfurled a 300-foot (91 m)-long, tapered sheet of black plastic from the top of the dam, making it look as though a gigantic crack had opened in the concrete.
Thirty-one years after the dam's completion, Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona, who originally supported the project, stated in an interview that he would be happier without the lake and expressed regret for voting in favor of its construction.
Despite opposition from many environmental groups, the dam, Lake Powell, and the Glen Canyon National Recreation Area remain popular tourist destinations. Continued population growth in the western and southwestern United States places more demands on the system of dams and reservoirs on the Colorado River for water, power, and recreational purposes, which are important to the infrastructures and economies of the western United States.
Bébé chouette à pont de Gau incommodé par la lumière - Baby owl
The modern West generally associates owls with wisdom. This link goes back at least as far as Ancient Greece, where Athens, noted for art and scholarship, and Athena, Athens' patron goddess and the goddess of wisdom, had the owl as a symbol.[40] Marija Gimbutas traces veneration of the owl as a goddess, among other birds, to the culture of Old Europe, long pre-dating Indo-European cultures.[41]
T. F. Thiselton-Dyer in his Folk-lore of Shakespeare says that "from the earliest period it has been considered a bird of ill-omen, and Pliny tells us how, on one occasion, even Rome itself underwent a lustration, because one of them strayed into the Capitol. He represents it also as a funereal bird, a monster of the night, the very abomination of human kind. Virgil describes its death-howl from the top of the temple by night, a circumstance introduced as a precursor of Dido's death. Ovid, too, constantly speaks of this bird's presence as an evil omen; and indeed the same notions respecting it may be found among the writings of most of the ancient poets."[42] A list of "omens drear" in John Keats' Hyperion includes the "gloom-bird's hated screech."[43]
In France, Belgium and the Netherlands, where owls are divided into eared owls (fr. hiboux / d. oehoes) and earless owls (fr. chouettes/ d. bosuilen), the former are seen as symbols of wisdom while the latter are assigned the grimmer meaning.source wikipédia
Ein einsamer Riese, eine Abscheulichkeit, ein Monument, ein Monolith.
A lonely giant, an abomination, a monument, a monolith.
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Dear Diary:
While I may on occasion refer to events of the previous year, it is time to begin a record of my now-ordinary life here in NeoExtropia (though I still long for proper spaces between words!).
I have completed my course of study at the Dark Temple and am now an ordained minister: my “spatio-temporal displacement” (thankfully not SpatioTemporal!) had no effect on my ability to master doctrine and commune with the Deep Ones.
While I often consider taking an apartment in the Gagarin District of SkyPort Bury, I do enjoy walking to my ministry at the temple, and spending much of my free time in Café HELIUM (gods, the typography!), where the proprietress, Miss Aeon – no, the manager, Kassi – holds a table for me much as Vivienne did at the – well, the *first* - Ravenwood.
Vivienne. Gods, the year she has had. Whether it was Miss Frost’s death, or the liberation of this new world, I do not know, but from being assigned work in a tavern in the then utterly run down SkyPort Bury, she quickly rose to commanding an empire of businesses both legitimate and much less so.
The new Ravenwood is a gilded temple to the darker passions, the centerpiece of a now immense complex in the sky where once only stood an abandoned monastery and a trans-shipment (I refuse to write “transshipment:” that is quite a typographical abomination) hub from ships traveling between cities and even worlds, and the city below.
She reigns in the skies, and I fear her far more than I ever did poor Perspicacity Frost.
Perhaps that is another reason why I maintain my house in staid Port Gynoid.
Cy and I see each other several times a week, as I often dance all night (how much my stamina has grown!) in ARGENT, now located up in Vivienne’s celestial empire.
Nowadays, though, we are only occasional lovers. Sociability is her profession, and I confess to enjoying the “hookup,” particularly in some of the Ravenwood District’s seedier alleys.
Ahem.
But I must fly – or at least walk sedately – to work. We have a maiden to initiate, and I look forward to unholy tentacles, rather than human fingers, deep inside me.
I do so utterly love my life here.
Next entry, my dearest Diary – fashion!
(for Hannah's life before NeoExtropia, see her album: www.flickr.com/photos/163927619@N03/albums/72177720319474... )
New! From, Azoury !
This paralyzing skull,
the; The alliance of the foreigner,
is out now!
At Azoury
As well the beautiful,
De Chair et D'Os Heels,
out now! At Dubai
Also! New From, Aii The Ugly & Beautiful !
These stellar orbs, the Bento Orb Censer,
is out! At The Ugly & Beautiful Mainstore
The art of wearing shoes without socks. That's right, no more boring, mundane socks suffocating your feet. It's time to embrace a daring and dashing look that is sure to turn heads. Are you ready to join the sockless revolution?
No chance. Personally the sockless are an abomination.
“Garlic is divine. Few food items can taste so many distinct ways, handled correctly. Misuse of garlic is a crime. Old garlic, burnt garlic, garlic cut too long ago and garlic that has been tragically smashed through one of those abominations, the garlic press, are all disgusting. Please treat your garlic with respect. Sliver it for pasta, like you saw in Goodfellas; don't burn it. Smash it, with the flat of your knife blade if you like, but don't put it through a press. I don't know what that junk is that squeezes out the end of those things, but it ain't garlic. And try roasting garlic. It gets mellower and sweeter if you roast it whole, still on the clove, to be squeezed out later when it's soft and brown. Nothing will permeate your food more irrevocably and irreparably than burnt or rancid garlic. Avoid at all costs that vile spew you see rotting in oil in screw-top jars. Too lazy to peel fresh? You don't deserve to eat garlic.” ― Anthony Bourdain
I like to use squeeze garlic in soups, dishes although sometimes a clove of garlic is required for example on garlic bread! Anthony Bourdain says in "Kitchen Conflidencial", no way this is junk! :-)
This artwork was inspired by Tiffany windows, which I just love. In person, they are almost beyond belief! I used an old photo of mine, of a tree in the Atlanta Botanical Gardens, overlayed with a tree bark texture, and this texture:
www.dreamstime.com/vintage-french-book-cover-1901-edition...
And I heard a loud voice from heaven saying, "Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and He will dwell with them, and they shall be His people. God Himself will be with them and be their God. . . The city had no need of the sun or of the moon to shine in it, for the glory of God illuminated it. The Lamb is its light. . . But there shall by no means enter it anything that defiles, or causes an abomination or a lie, but only those who are written in the Lamb's Book of Life." Revelation 21: 3, 23, 27
Among the sources of Western esotericism, the Hermetica is the most prominent. It is a collection of writings on cosmology, astrology, alchemy, and magic, and it has its origins in the Egyptian city of Alexandria. The Hermetica is attributed to Hermes Trismegistus. Thoth, the Egyptian god of wisdom and magic, is a significant figure in the Hermetica. Greeks in Egypt came to identify Thoth with their god Hermes.
Hermetism, in its ancient context, is closely related to pagan Neoplatonism. Neo-Platonists practiced Theurgy, a form of pagan mystical practice and magical ritual. The concept of theurgy came from the Chaldean Oracles, which describe the physical world as a prison from which the higher human soul must escape.
Gnosticism is a heresy from the early Christian era. The word Gnosticism comes from the Greek word gnosis, meaning “knowledge” or “insight,” and it pertains to hidden or secret spiritual knowledge. Gnostics believe that their souls are trapped in an imperfect world and that through esoteric knowledge they can be freed from the prison of this material world.
During the Italian Renaissance, a priest named Marsilio Ficino taught new spiritual concepts of Platonism and the Hermetica. This caused a revival of Neoplatonism and Hermetism. During this time, Giovanni Pico della Mirandola blended Kabbalah with Hermeticism. Then came figures such as Johannes Reuchlin, Johann Trithemius, and Henry Cornelius Agrippa, who mixed forms of Hermeticism with Neoplatonism, Neopythagoreanism, magic, astrology, alchemy, and Cabala. After came John Dee, who was an advisor to Elizabeth I. He immersed himself in astrology, alchemy, and Cabala. John Dee and Edward Kelley collaborated in angel magic for several years. And an influential figure in medicine named Paracelsus, combined alchemy with Hermetic and Neoplatonic ideas to form his medical theories. The Emerald Tablet, one of the oldest alchemical writings, played a major role in Renaissance esotericism. The saying, “as above, so below,” comes from the Emerald Tablet.
Christian theosophy emerged in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in reaction to the strict orthodoxy of the Lutheran Reformation. Jacob Boehme was the figure behind the start of this movement. His ideas influenced intellectual movements such as Romanticism and Idealism in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Platonism and Hermeticism are an essential part of theosophy. Rosicrucianism also arose in the seventeenth century. “From its obscure origins, the Rosicrucian myth would inspire literature, eighteenth-century Masonic adaptations, the rituals of the Golden Dawn, the leading magical order of the modern occult revival, and still exerts a powerful mystique today.”
Many secret societies formed in the eighteenth century, with their different esoteric beliefs. Many of these societies had relationships with the various Masonic lodges. Continental Freemasonry latched onto many of the esoteric ideas of these societies. The higher degrees of Freemasonry usually incorporated themes of theosophy, Rosicrucianism, and alchemy. Therefore, in the eighteenth century, Freemasonry was a major conduit for the spread of Western esotericism.
Emanuel Swedenborg had a great influence on eighteenth-century theosophy and was a major player in the development of modern esotericism. The Enlightenment influenced esoteric ideas, and they were accepted by many eighteenth-century illuminists. Then came Franz Anton Mesmer, who developed the theory of animal magnetism. His legacy can be traced to the early beginnings of modern Spiritualism. Animal magnetism was rooted in esoteric traditions. A key figure in animal magnetism was Justinus Kerner. His work became well-known throughout Europe. Another key figure was Baron Jules Dupotet de Sennevoy, who used animal magnetism to “unlock the secrets of magic.” His ideas influenced modern occultism. Helena Blavatsky, one of the founders of modern Theosophy, was a big fan of Dupotet. She also linked animal magnetism to magic. A man named James Braid coined the term “hypnotism” to describe animal magnetism. Hypnosis played a major role in the development of modern psychology. (Though they stripped the occult “ideas” from animal magnetism (hypnotism), I consider hypnotism to be an occult “practice.” Both Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung experimented with hypnosis.
In the mid-nineteenth century, occultism was introduced to America, predominantly through forms of animal magnetism, Swedenborgianism, and Freemasonry. Animal magnetism was introduced to America by Charles de Poyen. It quickly spread among occultists and spiritualists and was often combined with Swedenborgian ideas. Then came Andrew Jackson Davis, who communicated with a spirit he later identified as Swedenborg. He wrote a book called The Principles of Nature, which utilized Swedenborg’s ideas. His book sold many copies and became one of the founding texts of modern Spiritualism. Out of animal magnetism came the movements of New Thought and Christian Science, which integrated traditional Christian ideas with nineteenth-century metaphysical traditions. Next came modern Spiritualism, with its entertaining showmanship (self-moving furniture, self-playing musical instruments, and body levitation). Although the concepts of Swedenborg and animal magnetism were part of modern Spiritualism, the movement emerged independently of these influences.
The modern occult revival of the nineteenth century was complex. Romanticism sparked interest in the mysterious and unknown, thus creating an interest in animal magnetism, Spiritualism, and magic. A man named Eliphas Lévi became a pioneering figure in this Western occult revival. Lévi mixed ideas of animal magnetism with his philosophy of magic. Lévi used the Kabbalah and the Tarot as a source of magical symbolism. Much of modern occultism recognizes the Tarot as a root of mystical symbolism and imagery. Aleister Crowley believed himself to be a reincarnation of Lévi. Helena Blavatsky was also a fan of Lévi. In the second half of the nineteenth century, a Freemasonry order called the Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia was founded. In turn, some of its members founded the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. The Golden Dawn produced various offshoots, impacting Western esoteric traditions during the twentieth century.
Arthur Edward Waite came out of the Golden Dawn. He was a poet, scholar, mystic, and occultist. He was a prolific writer on esoteric matters. He was also a co-creator of the Rider-Waite TAROT card deck, which is one of the most popular Tarot decks. Aleister Crowley also came out of the Golden Dawn. Crowley wrote “The Book of the Law,” which stated, “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law!” Crowley used sex magick as a major tool for his magical system. Crowley referred to himself as the Great Beast 666. “Gerald Gardner, the founder of modern witchcraft, introduced Crowleyan magick into the neopagan Wiccan movement.” Dion Fortune, who had a great impact on modern Western esotericism, also came out of the Golden Dawn. She was one of the most influential twentieth-century occultists and ceremonial magicians. She had a significant influence on both later ceremonial magic and Wicca. “She was perhaps one of the first occult writers to approach magic and hermetic concepts from the psychology of Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung.”
The Theosophical Society was founded by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky and Henry Steel Olcott. Blavatsky combined elements of Neoplatonism, Renaissance magic, Kabbalah, Freemasonry, ancient Egyptian and Greco-Roman mythology and religion, Buddhism and Advaita Vedanta into her religious system. Her new religious movement played a major role in the spread of esoteric traditions in the modern era, and it was likely the biggest Influence behind the modern occult revival. In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Theosophy gained a large international following. Her work prepared the foundation for what is now known as the New Age movement.
Alice A. Bailey authored many books on Theosophy. She was one of the first writers to use the term New Age, and her works have significantly influenced the New Age movement. Alice and Foster Bailey founded the Lucifer Publishing Company, which was later named the Lucis Publishing Company. (The Theosophical Society had also used the name “Lucifer” for its early magazine.) World Goodwill, which is part of Alice Bailey’s Lucis Trust, is an accredited Nongovernmental Organization with the Department of Public Information at the United Nations. The Lucis Trust is also on the Roster of the United Nations Economic and Social Council.
Carl Jung, the famous psychiatrist, had a profound impact on the world of psychology and spirituality. Esoteric traditions profoundly shaped Jung’s understanding of the human psyche. Gnosticism deeply resonated with Jung’s theories. His ideas have had a significant influence on the New Age movement. Western esotericism gained renewed momentum from Jung’s implied spiritualization of the psyche.
“Ever since Plato’s separation of the body and the soul, Western esotericism has traced a path in which the soul has been granted some share in divinity.” Hermetism, Neoplatonism, and modern-day Western esotericism provide people with a vision of the cosmos in which their soul has divine purpose. With the popularity of New Age and neopagan philosophies in the West today, esoteric traditions will continue to evolve and lay claim to some sort of enlightened gnosis.
I think that modern esotericism will lead down the road to Alice Bailey’s vision of a world religion—the fusion of faiths. This concept has been around for a long time. Here is the concept: a one-world government is needed to unite mankind in order to create a world of peace and prosperity (political Gnosticism). To accomplish a one-world government, all religions must unite under one umbrella (spiritual Gnosticism). Many groups have been working towards this goal, such as the Parliament of the World’s Religions, the International Association for Religious Freedom, the World Congress of Faiths, Nostra Aetate, and Religions for Peace.
Nietzsche’s murder of God is an element of parousiastic Gnosticism, which seeks to destroy everything that is perceived as unjust (imperfect), and to replace it with a just (perfect) order through the power of human means and intellect. Therefore, the Christian God of the West has to go, and so does Western democracy. Just like the murder of God, Nietzsche’s transformation of man into the superman is an attempt to murder man. “Historically, the murder of God is not followed by the superman, but by the murder of man.” The Marxists must destroy capitalism and instate communism, thus killing off bourgeois society. They are trapped in this world of capitalism; thus, their world is a prison. The Marxists are trapped in a system of private property and must transcend private property, abolishing it forever. Marxists must transcend the evils of this capitalist world and evolve into the “socialist man”/“communist man.” They must destroy the current system to gain their utopia. Indeed, “socialism is man’s positive self-consciousness,” his gnosis.
“Communism is the riddle of history solved, and it knows itself to be this solution. The entire movement of history, just as its actual act of genesis—the birth act of its empirical existence—is, therefore, for its thinking consciousness the comprehended and known process of its becoming.” – Karl Marx
“The positive transcendence of private property as the appropriation of human life, is therefore the positive transcendence of all estrangement—that is to say, the return of man from religion, family, state, etc., to his human, i.e., social, existence.” – Karl Marx
Political Gnosticism is seen in communism and National Socialism. Political Gnosticism is alive and well today, with affluent people and organizations who want to transform our world into their utopian dream. The United Nations, with its Sustainable Development Goals, is the chief example. The World Economic Forum is another. Through their gnosis, they can bring peace and prosperity to the world.
“Queer theory brings knowing and being into the education of young children.” In queer theory, people are born (trapped) in the wrong body; their bodies are prisons. “Young people are absorbing the idea that the physical body is not part of the authentic self—that the authentic self is only the autonomous choosing self. This is ancient Gnosticism in new garb.”
Transhumanists want mankind to transcend into the superman. Man is trapped in this mortal body, but the goal is to someday attain immortality. They will use technology and super intelligence to solve man’s problems, to bring about a perfect world of peace and prosperity.
The Bible warns about the forming of a future one-world religion—the mother of harlots and abominations of the earth. It warns of a one-world cashless currency system, which will be connected to the Mark of the Beast. Without this one-world digital ID Mark, which will be located on the right hand or forehead, a person will not be able to buy or sell. The man who implements this system will be the Antichrist. His Mark will plunge mankind into the first stages of transhumanism. Those who refuse this transformation into the superman will be put to death—the murder of man. The Western religion of Christianity will be replaced with the worship of Caesar (the Beast). Western democracy will be replaced with totalitarianism.
The gnosis: if you eat the fruit, your eyes will be opened, and you will be like God.
For those of you out there who often criticize me for why I prefer to shoot 500mm head on shots I present to you Exhibit A.
Yes, I have a 500mm tele mash of this exact train and I'll probably post that one later on. With most of UP's power looking like hammered dog shit except for the recent rebuilds coming out of Ft Worth, why would anyone chance ruining a decent scene with such an abomination such as this?
UP's finest.
I just put this together using Autopano Pro by Kolor and I have to say I'm amazed at the results.
If you have any challenging panos this is the app for you store.kolor.com/autopano-giga-4-x.html?___store=eng&_...
I tried stitching these 6 shots together in Photoshop and the results were an utter abomination.
This is the first time I've tried Autopano and I had no clue how to use it and pretty much went with the defaults. I'm pretty much blown away.
I'll do a full review soon at my blog www.fototripper.com
Now I'm off to shoot more panos.
When we stand in awe, our lips do not demand speech; we know that if we spoke, we would deprave ourselves. In such moments talk is an abomination. All we want is to pause, to be still, that the moment may last. It is like listening to great music; how it reaps the yield from the fertile soil of stillness; we are swept by it without being able to appraise it. The meaning of the things we revere is overwhelming and beyond the grasp of our understanding. We possess no categories for it and would distort it if we tried to appraise it by our standard of values; it essentially surpasses our criteria.
-Thunder in the Soul To Be Known by God, Abraham Joshua Heschel
separation from you feels like abomination
of mine soul ... a journey away from salvation
how selfish of me to hold you back ... ah the temptation
forgive me for expressing my heart's translation
what is it i feel ? is this desperation ?
or is it a yearning to approach my destination ?
a lack of emotion you reckon ? or merely isolation?
no..? yes..? no..? insane is this fascination !!!
unlike ever felt before... tremendous dedication
composed of loyalty inspiring endless motivation
sometimes i wonder will i find an explanation ?
a revelation perhaps to fulfill this levitation ?
uncertainty encompasses the realm of this situation
truly it is from Allah a difficult tribulation
steer will i away from your eternal congregation?
or cling will i to this endeavour without hesitation?
harsh criticisms i have heard of my determination
shall not that deter me from my occupation
verily if that were even a slight consideration
would my world collapse ..... total annhilation
Oh Lord of the worlds i request some simplification
that removal of pain that divine recuperation
Thy knowledge i seek eagerly with anticipation
grant me my soul's obsession and avoid my victimization
I confirm oh Allah your magnificent predestination
rescue me from this devastation of separation
-MAK
Ezekiel 7:8
'Now I will shortly pour out My wrath on you and spend My anger against you; judge you according to your ways and bring on you all your abominations'.
Very old photograph, taken from the steps of a Welsh asylum. It was quite common in older times, for families to throw away unwanted children. Especially if they thought their off spring were somehow 'different'. Here it seems a more tolerant family have decided to look after a 'discardent' until he can fend for himself.
Further visits here this time with Andy Dinnage