You folks all know about the concentration camps Halliburton just got hired to build on American soil, right? And about all the other bizarre and disturbing coincidences between Bush and Hitler? If not, just Google the two names together and you’ll get all sorts of disturbing lists of connections.

Bush was born less than a year after Hitler died, and there are also some truly eerie connections between the astrological birthcharts of these two men. I know, I know, you probably don't approve of the study of astrology in this group. But be that as it may, it doesn't change the fact that some mighty bizarre mathematical and geometrical coincidences exist between the charts of these two men :

Bush's Sun is conjunct Hitler's North Node.

Bush's Ascendant is conjunct Hitler's Midheaven.

Bush's Midheaven is opposite Hitler's Ascendant.

They both have Moon conjunct Jupiter in strong aspect to the Sun.

Bush's Sun is opposite Hitler's Moon/Jupiter.

Bush's Ascendant is widely conjunct (11 degrees) his Saturn. Hitler's Midheaven was widely conjunct (11 degrees) his Saturn.

On September 11th, Hitler's progressed Sun was making an almost exact conjunction to his natal Jupiter, a strong aspect that would have been even stronger than normal because he had a Moon- Jupiter conjunction at his birth. Also on 9/11, his progressed chart was right in the middle of a full moon, within less than a degree of exactitude. Had he been alive, it would have been a mighty big time for him.

And in April 2003, when Bush was invading Iraq, Hitler's progressed chart was only a week past making an exact conjunction of his progressed Sun to his natal Moon. It too would have been a supremely momentous time in his life, a whole new beginning for him.

WAS he alive? As BushJr? I have just about convinced myself that George W. Bush is the literal reincarnation of Adolf Hitler, that, in other words, Hitler's spirit has returned and now lives in the body and mind of George W. Bush. Perhaps all those people who were so very convinced that Hitler was the Antichrist back in WWII weren't wrong after all. Jesus is supposed to have a Second Coming. So was Elijah. Why not the Antichrist as well?

Are we not currently all completely astonished at how utterly and effortlessly the Bush administration gets away with all their sins and lies and murders? Are we indeed not all "following" their every move now in the news? Is this the astonishment we were instructed to look for in Rev 13:3?

"One of the heads of the beast seemed to have had a fatal wound, but the fatal wound had been healed. The whole world was astonished and followed the beast."
- Revelation 13:3

I have read innumerable web reports detailing the amazing similarities between Bush and Hitler. Is this the meaning of the above passage, that the Nazi-like government we thought was defeated forever in 1945 is now popping back up only 60 years later, stronger than ever?

See
http://www.bushisantichrist.com
http://www.divisiontheory.com/antichrist...
http://semiskimmed.net/bushhitler.html

and don’t miss http://www.georgehitler.com/

As the prediction promised, after the fourth large (6.1 or better) earthquake, we have now gone four days without any new large earthquake after that. If the prediction holds out, we should continue to see no quake of that size for about another week and a half, shortly after which is supposed to come a major, much larger and more devastating quake, probably on an island again as were the previous four.

Again, this prediction comes from http://urbansurvival.com/week.htm

The expected quake is supposed to hit in the "Pacific Northwest", is supposed to directly affect 20 million people, is supposed to cause transportation limits, and is supposed to bring about shortages in the marketplace.

In fact all four of the quakes thus far have been on islands. If the phrase "Pacific Northwest" refers to the northwest corner of the Pacific Ocean instead of the northwest corner of the American continent, the "fifth toe" might be Japan, a place notorius for getting quakes anyway, and which has been especially active in the last week. If Japan was hit by something truly huge, it could easily produce all the effects listed above.

And as I recall, Edgar Cayce predicted something unpleasant for Japan around the turn of the century. In fact, I recall that he said that "the greater part of Japan must go into the sea before the end of the century" or something like that, and he was criticized for not having this prediction come true before Jan 1 2000. But if that prediction used the word "century" as meaning a hundred years, saying that Japan would fall into the sea in less than 100 years from the date Cayce made the prediction, it could still be considered an "active" prophecy that might still prove true.

The phrasing of the prediction, together with the fact that the last four quakes were all on islands, makes one think that the word "toes" means "islands", as if they were the huge toes of a giant, sticking up out of the water in the ocean.

Weird symbolism, but the unconscious is like that.

With the 6.3 magnitude quake in Alaska today.

See http://www.urbansurvival.com/week.htm

and http://earthquake.usgs.gov/eqcenter/rece...

Of course, for the prediction to hold true, we will now need to see an absence of any other major (~ 6.0+) earthquakes for about two weeks, until "the big one" hits.

Folks here should probably be aware that an ongoing experiment in prediction is taking place over at Urban Survival (http://urbansurvival.com/week.htm ) that is proving to be quite the success.

Very briefly, they have designed a computer program that takes huge samples of internet chatter and mines it for anomalous occurrences of words and phrases. The idea is that while human beings do not consciously know the future, our collective unconscious does, and will talk about that future, thru us, in our daily conversations and communications.

Anyway, they have made what seems to have been quite a few correct predictions, and may be, as I write, in the middle of their biggest success yet. The "web-bot" project has predicted that this summer would witness the occurrece of a sequence of five major earthquakes, occurring in a particular pattern. There would be four fairly large earthquakes and then the last would be a monster one.

The first earthquake would occur all by itself, and then a moderately short period of time would pas before three more earthquakes would occur in rapid succession, followed by about the same amount of time that separated the first and second earthquake before the last one hit.

The last one is supposed to be huge, and occur in the Pacific Northwest, and result in travel restrictions and marketplace shortages in America.

It seems that the third earthquake in the sequence may have just hit this weekend. The first earthquake seems to have been the 6.3 magnitude Indonesia quake of May 27, the second was the 6.1 magnitude Figi quake that arrived 13 days later on June 9, and the third would be the 6.3 magnitude Japan quake of June 11. If so, then another quake of around 6 magnitude or so should occur within just the next few days (around June 13th?), and the big one should arrive around 13 days after that, on or around June 26th.

Can you imagine the hoopla that would occur if this prediction actually pans out?

- Peter Novak

The Gospel of Judas is important for two reasons. One, it contains new evidence that the early Church taught the binary soul doctrine, and two, it portrays Judas not just as the most special and advanced of Jesus' disciples, but as a holy, divine, and almost equal partner to Jesus. Now, there is one precedent to this. In all of early Christian literature, there is only one other instance in which one of Jesus' disciples is portrayed as being His equal or near-equal, and that is found in the Syrian/Indian tradition about the Apostle Thomas, or Judas Thomas, who wrote the Gospel of Thomas, and who was widely thought to be Jesus' biological twin brother and co-Messiah. Now we find a second gospel that says the same thing, that a disciple named Judas is His equal or near-equal partner. Obviously from these two recovered texts we learn that significant portions of the early church believed that Judas and Thomas were the same man, and this Judas Thomas was a co-Messiah alongside Jesus.

If one twin died and the other lived, that would also explain why the legend has persisted that Jesus survived and went on to sire a family line, such as has been argued in Holy Blood Holy Grail and The Da Vinci Code.

- Peter

The Gospel of Judas is the best birthday present I've ever received. The text of Judas' long-lost scripture was published one day after I turned 48 years old, and it is almost everything I could have hoped it would be. Widely regarded as the most important archaeological discovery of the last 60 years, this lost scripture from the earliest days of Christianity had lain buried in Egyptian dust for over 1700 years. I had been on pins and needles ever since last summer's press release announced its impending publication, because I knew my 18 years of research into early Christianity would be put to the test by the unveiling of this new document. My research predicted that if any more lost scriptures from the earliest days of Christianity ever surfaced, they would contain text supporting the binary soul doctrine and the co- Messiahship of Judas Thomas. This new gospel does just that.

For almost two decades, I have supported the unpopular position that the original form of Christian theology revolved around the ancient binary soul doctrine (BSD), a once-world-wide belief that human beings possess two spiritual components, both a soul and a spirit, which are in danger of dividing apart at death. In my book The Lost Secret of Death, I delineate depth how this ancient belief is reflected in modern psychology's distinction between the conscious and the unconscious, or the left brain and the right brain, and I also demonstrate how the ancient idea of soul-division elegantly accounts for the majority of afterlife phenomena reported today, from deathbed visions, ghosts, and poltergeists to near-death experiences and past-life regression. BSD cultures around the globe believed that the afterdeath division of the soul and spirit was the worst possible fate, but that it was not inevitable and could be avoided if one took appropriate measures.

The newly recovered Gospel of Judas contains this same belief system. In passages 67-68 and 122-123, this recovered gospel specifically declares that human beings possess both soul and spirit, and that these two components of the self divide apart at death. This gospel also agrees with the BSD that the human spirit is immortal and never dies, while the human soul is vulnerable and can die. It also agrees that those whose souls and spirits divide at death are damned, while those whose souls and spirits stay together at death are blessed. All in all, the postmortem theology of the Gospel of Judas reflects remarkable alignment with the binary soul doctrine.

The Gospel of Judas also provides substantiation for my argument that Jesus and Judas were equal partners in a dual or binary Messiahship. In my book Original Christianity : A New Key to Understanding The Gospel of Thomas and Other Lost Scriptures, I pointed out that the ancient Jewish ritual sacrifice of Yom Kippur was a precise reflection of the BSD's vision of the afterdeath fates of the soul and spirit. Two identical goats were brought to the sacrifice, and like the spirit that goes on to reincarnate after death, one goat would be allowed to go free, while the other would be put to death, just like the soul that goes on to heaven or hell after death. I then noted that the Biblical report of Jesus and Barabbas was also strikingly similar to this Yom Kippur ritual. Two men were brought before Pontius Pilate, and just like the identical goats of Yom Kippur, they too seemed to have been virtual twins. Both had the same name, the same title, the same history, and the same status. And just like on Yom Kippur, one of them was randomly allowed to live and the other sacrificed, even though both were saddled with a similar burden of blood guilt. The apparent connection between the BSD, the Yom Kippur ritual, and the story of Jesus and Barabbas also seemed to provide support for the ancient belief in the Syrian and Indian churches that Jesus' brother Judas Thomas was in fact not only His biological twin, but also His co-Messiah, who also performed great miracles and, seemingly, also rose from the dead.

As everyone expected, the Gospel of Judas supports the ancient hypothesis of a secret partnership between Judas and Jesus, but it goes much farther than that, and actually indicates the existence of the sort of co-Messiahship I described in Original Christianity. This newly recovered scripture describes Judas as Jesus' closest intimate friend and ally, the most holy of all the disciples and the only one who truly and fully understood His teachings. In one remarkable passage where Jesus challenges His disciples to prove they are ‘perfect' enough to stand before Him, only Judas is able to do so, suggesting that Judas is, on some level, on an equal par with Jesus Himself. Indeed, in this newly unearthed text, Judas is transfigured into a radiant cloud just the way Jesus was in Matthew 17:1-5, suggesting for the second time in this lost gospel that Jesus and Judas shared a similar divinity. According to this scripture, Judas turned Jesus over to the authorities at Jesus' own request. In handing him over, the text suggests, Judas not only performed the highest service to his master, and not only facilitated Jesus' redemption of humanity, but essentially sacrificed himself right alongside Jesus in the process, voluntarily becoming the most loathed man in human history. Just as I claimed a year ago in Original Christianity, there were not one but TWO men who sacrificed themselves to save humanity. It is no surprise to historians that Judas' gospel presents this view, because the ancient Christian apologist Irenaeus of Lyon briefly mentioned Judas' scripture around 180 AD. However, it is a surprise to the world that this ancient scripture links this perspective to the binary soul doctrine, just as I did in Original Christianity the year before Judas' gospel was made public. Written around the same time as the Biblical gospels, Judas' gospel demonstrates that a significant portion of the earliest Christian community viewed Judas not as a traitor at all, but as a hero on par with Jesus Himself, just as I claimed in Original Christianity. This gospel also declares that Judas would eventually rise, as Jesus did, to an exalted position of honor and authority in heaven. If in fact this is the same Judas Thomas who went on to found the church in India and write the Gospel of Thomas , that prophecy would indeed seem to have been fulfilled.

For the last 18 years, my books have advanced the hypothesis that Christianity originally revolved around the binary soul doctrine, and that Jesus and Judas Thomas were co-Messiahs who worked in concert, each sacrificing themselves in different ways to save humanity. Today's unveiling of the long-forgotten Gospel of Judas contains powerful evidence that my line of research has been on the right track.

CNN has a new survey out asking "Do you agree that the U.S. government covered up the real events of the 9/11 attacks?" So far the results are 82% (7720 votes) saying YES, and 18% (1677 votes) voting NO .

You can go to http://edition.cnn.com/CNN/Programs/show... to cast your own vote.

- Peter

Skull & Bones is held by many to be the most powerful organization in America. Variously described as everything from a "college fraternity" to an "occult lodge", President Bush is a member of this group, as his father and uncle are, and their father before them. It seems to be a fundamentally anti-Christian organization, believing in a number of patently anti-Christian principles such as the ideas that "might makes right" and that "true power must depend on confusion, secrecy, deception, ambiguity, and constructive chaos".

One of the most elitist societies in history, Skull & Bones has only inducted about 2,500 members since its founding. At any given time, only about 600 or so members of the Order are alive, who are always among the most powerful men of their generations.

Skull & Bones is steeped in occult symbolism and rituals. New inductees into the organization are ritually placed inside a coffin, chanted over, and then given a robe with occult symbols on it. The meeting place for the group is referred to as "the Tomb," and above the entrance is inscribed: "Who was the fool, who was the wise man, beggar or king? Whether poor or rich, all's the same in death". These words above the entrance reinforce the idea that Skull & Bones is anti-Christian. These words deny the very foundation of the Christian belief, that the afterdeath fate of one man is different from that of the next, depending on the moral quality of each person's life. Without that foundational belief, men are freed to view life as a satanic free-for-all with no consequences to those who lie, cheat, steal, and murder to get ahead, and that is, indeed, precisely the criticism most regularly leveled against the group's members. At the start of every meeting, a bone with the members's name on it is tossed into the bone heap, a tacit reminder of the group's belief that no matter what one does in life, it all ends in death anyway, and the same fate awaits all.

"My senior year, I joined Skull & Bones, a secret society,
so secret, I can't say anything more."
- George W. Bush

Although Bush professes to be a Christian, the central figure in his initiation into Skull & Bones, the social organization he still remains loyal to, was not Jesus, but the devil. The initiation ceremony of The Brotherhood of Death includes one figure dressed like the devil, another in a skeleton costume, and others in robes, who chant the following three-line initiation mantra : "The hangman equals death, the devil equals death, death equals death". Between their death's head symbol, their afterlife-denying credo, and the devil-like authority figure and the (staged?) human sacrifice in their initiation ceremony, there is certainly alot that seems satanic about this group. Inside their crypt-like meetingplace, one finds a pentagram adorning the wall, which, along with the death's head that serves as the symbol of the group itself, would seem to be indications of the true nature of the group. The same "death's head" symbol is used by pirates, poisons, the Nazis, and the "Skull & Bones" organization. Its diabolic symbolism is specifically designed to stir feelings of terror, which is why it appears on bottles of poison and is the chosen symbol of pirates and death squads. It was for this same reason that the death head was once the symbol of Hitler's SS (another group that may or may not just coincidentally also call themselves "the Brotherhood of Death").

The Bonesman of Yale share much more than just the death's head symbol with the SS Nazi elite; they also practice many of the same rituals and recruit their members from the same strata of society. And both groups hail from Germany. Just as the walls of Himmler's SS headquarters were heavily decorated with Nazi symbols and regalia, numerous reports maintain that the walls of the Skull and Bones' meetingplace are also covered with Nazi symbols and regalia, such as swastikas and SS iconography, almost as if it is a Nazi shrine.

Two questions hang over Skull & Bones :

(1) is the Skull & Bones group what it seems, a satanic, evil, anti-Christian organization, or is it just a bunch of frat boys pretending to be so?

(2) is the Skull & Bones group just a group of ordinary men, or is there something supernatural about it?

The study of DivisionTheory may provide us with a unique tool to test these questions. If DT is correct and Jesus' solution to mankind's spiritual dilemma revolved around healing, ending, and/or reversing mankind's inner and outer divisions, then one would have to assume that any truly ANTI- Christian order would seek to achieve the exact opposite, embracing, encouraging, and enlarging those divisions.

And that, unfortunately, seems to be exactly what Skull & Bones is all about. They embrace Hegelian philosophy, which advocates creating and maintaining a state of duality where one side is always able to play off the other. This philosophical approach tends to polarize societies into extremist equal-but-opposite sides that can never arrive at any common ground. America's last Presidential election is a perfect example of this philosophy in action; both candidates were Bonesmen, and they perfectly played their assigned roles of equal opposites. This approach to life, business, and politics is like a pendulum that is purposely kept swinging widely back and forth; each side of the swing receives its own share of power and energy, but there is never any balance for the middle. This approach allows people such as Bonesmen to ride the swinging pendulum of society just like they are surfing a wave, and as long as they always embrace one extreme or the other, they are able to build personal successes and fortunes from the energy that amasses on each side of the swing. In short, Skull & Bones believes that controlled conflict is good for business. But secrecy is essential to successfully create opposing forces and then manipulating them into engaging in a controlled conflict. All this, of course, is at the expense of keeping the societies in which they live in a state of perpetual disequilibrium, always buffeted about by one extreme after another. It is, in short, the recipe for the rich getting richer and the poor getting poorer. The rich not only keep the poor continuously off-balance and disoriented with this system, but they feed off the swing of the pendulum at the same time, growing stronger and stronger by sapping the strength of the whole like parasites sucking the life out of a defenseless host.

THE MYSTERY OF THE ORDER OF SKULL & BONES

What makes Skull & Bones so important to its members? Bonesmen are fiercely devoted to The Order, and remain steadfastly loyal to upholding its secrets throughout their adult lives, even, we learned during the recent election, at great personal cost. All initiates are sworn to secrecy, and they take this oath very seriously. They are obligated to leave the room if Skull & Bones comes into discussion, and cannot answer any questions on The Order and its organization. Even during their presidential campaigns, Bonesmen George W. Bush and John Kerry refused to break their vows of silence about this secret group.

We outsiders don't know precisely how this level of loyalty is achieved, but we do at least know when it begins. Each member of Skull & Bones is initiated at the same time in their lives, in their Junior year at Yale, just in time to spend their last year there together as "Bonesmen". Whatever it is that, year after year, convinces another group of fifteen spoiled and self-absorbed Yale students to devote the rest of their lives to this organization, it occurs in that single year. Whatever it is that compels this loyalty is far stronger than most of the other things that normally tug on the human heart; marriages and families may come and go, but a Bonesman's loyalty and commitment to The Order is apparently unassailable. Whatever it is that generates this dedication is far more powerful than the normal bonding that occurs in college fraternities. While most frat boys leave their bonds behind as they venture out into the world, Bonesmen do not. Even 20 years after leaving Yale, both Bush and Kerry remained so committed to this group that they chose to risk the 2004 election rather than disclosing Skull & Bones' secrets to the press. Neither would say anything about their memberships in Skull & Bones during their presidential campaigns, even though both of them had relied heavily on The Order in their lives. Kerry married two fabulously rich women who were both relatives of Bonesmen, and Bush repeatedly went to his Bones brothers when he needed money for his business ventures, and has appointed 10 members of Skull & Bones into his administration since becoming President. This is typical. Somehow, The Order inspires a loyalty that borders on fanaticism. Members have even been known to stab their Bones insignia into their flesh while showering or swimming. What could inspire this sort of loyalty?

Some say that the group is nothing more than a bunch of immature sons of America's most powerful families, and that the point of the club is just social bonding. But if so, where does the devout loyalty come from? Juvenile rich kids are not normally associated with personally demanding qualities like loyalty and dedication; on the contrary, they are more commonly portrayed as petty, shallow, and unaccustomed to strenuous effort, perseverence, or self-sacrifice.

INITIATION RITES

Fifteen new members are chosen in their junior years at Yale, but don't start meeting together formally until their senior year. When they are approached with an invitation to join The Order, they must respond with their decision immediately, which leads one to assume that prospective inductees are given some sort of advance notice of the invitation, with some indication of what the group has to offer them, and hopefully some idea of what The Order will require from them in exchange.

Three prerequisites for "Bonesmen" are (A) boarding school, (B) game hunting, and (C) military experience in war, insuring that everyone in the order possesses a common set of experiences, talents, and outlooks on life. They will all have (A) felt abandoned by their loved ones at an early age, and learned to view others as their inferiors; they will have (B) killed innocent creatures considered to be their inferiors; and they will have (C) participated in a group killing of other human beings. If the devil was going to design a curriculum to shape little followers for himself, he probably couldn't come up with a better plan than this.

In order to become members, they must be initiated into the group. These mysterious initiations are often described as being "harrowing". While my dictionary defines this word as "extremely upsetting because connected with suffering", one of the most frequent uses of that obscure term is a religious reference involving hell, and since so much of the symbolism and iconography of Skull & Bones revolves around death and the devil, this connection may be relevant. Scripture tells us that the "harrowing of hell" occurred when Jesus Christ died and descended to preach to the souls in hell before His Resurrection. The story of Christ's descent into Hades is found in both the Acts of Pilate and the Gospel of Nicodemas, two ancient scriptures from the earliest days of Christianity. Why do Skull & Bones members so frequently refer to their initiations with this term "harrowing"?

Their initiation rites are said to be quite strenuous and traumatic. Strange cries, screams, and moans are often heard coming from the Bonesmen's meeting place (which they call "the tomb") during these initiations. While we don't know all the details, their initiation ritual reportedly involves being immersed naked in mud, buried in a coffin, and witnessing a (hopefully staged) human sacrifice.

The initiation rites also involve a rite called "connubial bliss", when all 15 members review their sexual histories with one another in great depth. This communal sexual autobiography reportedly breaks down the psychological defenses of the new initiates, paving the way for a powerful bond to arise between them. Throughout the remainder of their lives, the allegiance they form in that one year is often given first priority, coming before family, friends, career, country, or even God. It is interesting that Bonesmen refer to the ritual that creates these strong ties as "connubial bliss", because this term usually refers to the consummation of a wedding night. Curiously, Bonesmen seem to use confession of their sexual histories as a sort of psychological glue that bonds them together in the same way that a wedding night's sexual consummation bonds a married couple. And considering that they identify so strongly with occult and Satanic rituals and symbolism, it is also curious that Bonesmen refer to their union together as a sort of marriage. In much the same way, Christianity also refers to the union of Christ and the church as a "marriage" between a bridegroom and a bride. Given this apparent parallel, one must ask if the real bonds being formed by this "connubial bliss" ritual is between the fifteen initiates themselves, or between their whole group and some other unnamed entity. Are they, together, a "bride" for some mysterious "bridegroom"?

It may be worth contemplating that forcing a group of college seniors to seriously review their sexual histories with one another would primarily achieve one thing : it would remind them of their unfulfilled needs. It would make them collectively aware that they each feel like they lack something urgently important. They tried to fill these barely-definable psychological needs with physical sex, but in the end sex failed to fill those needs. Now, considering that this ritual would have placed them in a position where they were acutely aware of their unfulfilled needs, it is all the more remarkable that they somehow emerge from these "group therapy" sessions apparently convinced that they have now in fact found, in and through Skull & Bones, what they had been erroneously trying to find via sex and sexual relationships.

These initiation rituals are commonly described as being "intensely, personally important" to Bonesmen, and seem to induce many of the characteristics of an authentic spiritual transformation (even though the spirituality involved may be the polar opposite of that found in Christianity).

On April 14th, 2001, the long-secret initiation rite of Skull & Bones was secretly videorecorded by a team of outsiders using high-tech night-vision equipment to peer into the inner courtyard of the group's meeting place in New Haven. Remarkably, the 2001 report of this initiation rite found its way into the New York Observer . The report described the initiation rite as primarily revolving around two figures, one dressed as the devil, and the other playing the role of George W. Bush. Can it merely be a coincidence that the Bonesmen have designed their initiation rites around these two figures, as if they already view them as belonging uniquely together? Do they view Bush as the devil's Antichrist? The figure dressed as George W. Bush issued death threats to the new initiates while another dressed as the devil commanded them to kiss a human skull while a human sacrifice was being very convincingly acted out. The following description ran on page one of in the 4/23/01 edition of The New York Observer : "The footage was ghostly, it was grainy, but from the angles of the night-vision cams, we were able to piece together a narrative of what happened when the initiates emerged one at a time from the preliminaries inside the Tomb. First they were led forward by a figure in a devil costume. [...] A shrill, menacing and sometimes blood-curdling chorus of cries and screams and imprecations accompanied the emergence: [...] The devil figure pulled them into a white tent in the courtyard [...] When they reemerged from the tent, they were led to the centerpiece of this part of the ritual. Whey were forced face-to-face with a shocking tableau: a guy holding what seemed like a butcher knife, wearing a kind of animal-skin "barbarian" look, stood over what seemed to be a woman covered in fake blood and not much else. The neophyte then approached a skull a few feet away from the knife-wielder-and-victim tableau. The neophyte knelt and kissed the skull, at which point the guy with the knife knelt and cut the throat of the prone figure. "

WEEKLY MEETINGS PRIOR TO GRADUATION

During their senior years, the fifteen new Bonesmen meet together every week at the Yale home of Skull and Bones, a stone building resembling a mausoleum. Members reportedly dine off Hitler's personal china and silverware, enjoying expensive gourmet meals cooked by their own private chef. Why do they eat off Hitler's dishes? On some level, this act must cause them to identify with Hitler, implanting ideas in their unconscious minds like "I have what Hitler had", "I value what Hitler valued", "My hands are touching what Hitler's hands touched", "This fork in my mouth was once in Hitler's mouth," and "I am tasting what Hitler tasted."

During their year together at Yale, Bonesmen call themselves "knights," and call everyone who is not in their organization "barbarians." The term "knight", of course, carries some hefty psychological weight behind it. Since a knight is a soldier sworn to loyal duty to a king, we are left asking "who is their king?" Secret societies are usually like pyramids. They have many members on the lowest levels, higher up they have a smaller number involved in administrative functions, higher still they have a core group, and still higher they usually have a single leader or ideal upon which their attentions are focused and to which their loyalties are promised. What, or who, is the singularity at the top of the Skull & Bones pyramid?

Who indeed? As far back as the 1870's, the organization was publically associated not merely with Satanism or devil-worship, but specifically with the Antichrist. In an editorial, the Yale newspaper the Iconoclast wrote :

And on their breasts they wear a sign
hat tells their race and name
It is the ghastly badge of death
And from his kingdom came
The son of Satan, son of sin
The enemy of man.

The Bonesmen at Yale seem thoroughly preoccupied with death; their group even fancies itself the "Brotherhood of Death". This sort of morbid preoccupation seems completely out-of-place for 20-something college students, most of whom usually act instead as if they were immortal and death did not even exist. But Skull & Bones' crypt-like "tomb" is decorated with innumerable human skulls, bones, skeletons, and the walls are awash in artwork depicting death. A figure dressed as the devil plays a prominent part in their initiation rituals, and Bonesmen even indulge in grave-robbery, stealing the bones of famous dead people to offer as sacrificial gifts to some mysterious figure they call "the goddess in the tomb". Why do they need the skulls of famous dead people, and who is this "goddess in the tomb"? According to numerous reports, George H. W. Bush stole the skull of the famous Indian Geronimo, and when this bizarre act of grave-robbery became public knowledge, the Skull & Bones organization went through quite a lot of trouble to avoid giving it back.

During their year together at Yale, Bonesmen are programmed to desensitize themselves from the world outside of Skull and Bones so they can cease identifying with it. Clocks in their "tomb" are intentionally set five minutes fast to reinforce the sense that the Bonesmen's space is a totally separate reality that is always one step ahead of the rest of the world outside.

I wonder if anyone has ever tried to see what would happen if the Bonemen's "Tomb" was sprinkled with Holy Water?

AFTER GRADUATION

Upon graduation from Yale, each new member of Skull & Bones receives a grandfather clock, and in their annual group photos each new class of Bonesmen are always photographed with a human skull and two crossed thighbones placed prominently in front of them and a grandfather clock prominently placed behind them. The fifteen new members are always posed exactly the same in each new class's photograph, and the clock is always set precisely at 8:00. Since they obviously make a special point to set the clock at the same time in each photo, it seems reasonable to suppose that doing so holds some special significance to them. At 8:00, a clock is exactly 2/3 of the way through its twelve hour cycle. Stated in decimals, 2/3 is .666, or 66.6%.

Why is the grandfather clock apparently so important to them, seemingly as important as the Skull & Bones symbol itself? And is there any significance to the fact that one of these symbols is in front of them and the other is behind them? A grandfather clock, of course, is a symbol of "Father Time". In astrology, "Father Time" is one of the names for the planet Saturn, and of course Satan and Saturn are really the same word, one merely being 'Early Latin' and the other 'Late Latin'. Many artistic depictions of "Father Time" are virtually indistinguishable from that of Satan, showing him wearing a shroud that hides his face and carrying a large scythe to harvest his crop of human souls. In mythology, Saturn was the son of Uranus (Heaven or Sky-Father) and Gaea (Earth-Mother), but Saturn castrated his father, separating Heaven from Earth. Thus it is that Father Time was mythologically credited for doing the same thing that Satan does in the Christian religion : coming between God and man. Given all the other occult and Satanic symbolism Skull & Bones surrounds themselves with at Yale, the prominent placement of a classic symbol of Satan in their class pictures and their graduation gifts cannot be mere coincidence.

Each year, every living member of the group receives a complete list of all the names of all the members. This membership list comes in two black leather-bound volumes, Volume One with the names and personal information of all living members, and Volume Two with the names and personal information of all deceased members. Why do they need a list of dead members? To call themselves "The Brotherhood of Death" is one thing, but to fastidiously update, publish, and distribute a new record of all the dead members of their society each year is quite another. This seems to make no more sense than a town publishing and distributing a second phonebook each year with the names and phone numbers of everyone who had once lived in that town but had since passed on, unless those dead Bonesmen can somehow still be contacted and interacted with. After all, what sort of a "Brotherhood of Death" would it be if they were not, indeed, maintaining fraternal ties with the dead?

If there is no such thing as a devil or an Antichrist, none of this makes any sense, or any difference. But if these legendary beings do exist, then all the bizarre details of Skull & Bones start to add up. And if, as DivisionTheory suggests, the devil is an amalgamation of the souls of the evil dead, for a person to be possessed by the devil would in turn be to possess the means of communicating and interacting with those departed souls, in which case some sort of directory might indeed come in handy.

What could possibly transform a group of self-absorbed, spoiled rich kids into lifelong devotees of a weird occult-leaning organization in less than a single year?

It is said that there are three stages of demonic possession. It starts out as obsession, in which the person's own thoughts start to experience some degree of overlap with the thoughts of another. In the final stage, the two sets of thoughts become one, but this degree of possession cannot occur unless the individual has willingly agreed to accept it. However, that agreement can be tricked out of a person, and once given, is irrevocable. All forms of exorcism are powerless against this level of possession, and depend on the individual having not yet given his consent to being fully possessed. It occurs to me that spoiled rich kids wanting to get into the most elite and powerful social club on the planet could easily be cajoled into granting that permission during the Skull & Bones initiation rituals, especially since they would not believe in it, and would be viewing the whole ritual as an elaborate charade.

But once those initiations are completed, what Bonesmen do with their lives after that suggests that it was no charade at all. Bonesmen regularly reach the heights of human status, power, and achievement; Jesus was offered similar worldly power if He would only worship the devil. While Jesus rejected the offer, there is much about the Skull & Bones organization to make one wonder if the devil has always made this offer to humanity's best and brightest, and indeed, if he might be building an empire for himself in such a fashion.

The creation of a New World Order is reportedly the ultimate goal of the Bonesmen; it is said that they intend to create a world empire ruled by America, which in turn will be ruled by Bonesmen themselves (who in turn are ruled by - - who?). If so, such a design would fit quite nicely into into the Biblical prophecies of the Antichrist, who is supposed to arrive on earth with a world-wide-empire already prepared and waiting for him to assume control over. Of course, throughout much of the last century members of Skull & Bones have dominated the American government, and so it would seem that the Antichrist's empire, based on secrecy and deception, the empire christened "Mystery Babylon" by the Bible, may already be in place.

It was the mysterious, self-proclaimed time traveler John Titor, I believe, who warned us in 2001 that "2008 was when we all realized that the America we thought we were living in was gone forever" or something to that effect.

I think I may know what that was a reference to.

What happens in 2008 in America? Or rather what is scheduled to occur in America in 2008, just like it is scheduled to occur every four years?

Yes, the presidential election. The very centerpiece of our entire democracy.

And who is widely held to have stolen the last two elections via election fraud? Of course, GW Bush.

But it's a little harder to steal an election when you're not legally allowed to be on the ballot, so if GW wants to keep his power in 2008 he'll have to come up with something a little more drastic.

Would he really dare do something like that?

Before you answer, spend a few hours mulling the arguments found in the following link -- http://www.bushisantichrist.com

Now, when I first stumbled upon this site, I laughed. Then after reading a little I went "hmmm." Then after reading a little more I went "huh". Then after some more I went "damn!".

Then I couldn't sleep all night.

The news lately has been illuminating. It seems our government has been secretly turning you, me, and every other American into monsters. In our name, they have been hiding people away in secret prisons and torturing them. In our name, they have been (oops!) melting the flesh off women and children with chemical (white phosphorus) munitions. In our name, they have been resorting to tactics that every civilized nation condemns. It seems, in short, that they have turned us into the very criminals we set out to fight against.

Our leaders justify these acts by insisting that our enemy is so dangerous that we have to resort to these tactics to have any chance to win our fight against them. In other words, our enemy’s strength is in his evilness, and so we must become evil as well. Our enemy is evil, so we must become evil.

But aren’t we fighting our enemy for that very reason, because he is evil? If we take on our enemy’s evilness, then what right do we have to condemn our enemy’s evilness? Wouldn’t that be the epitome of hypocrisy?

Our leaders got themselves (supposedly) elected by claiming to be guided by Christian ideals and Christian faith, but can any Christian subscribe in good conscience to such perverted logic? Christians are to fight the devil by becoming as evil as the devil, by becoming one with him in spirit and practice? Preposterous! Instead, don’t we all recall something about returning good for evil, and love for hatred? To resort to the patently evil tactics of the Bush administration and still claim to be Christian is hypocrisy of the highest order. It is not without significance that, of all the sins in the world, Jesus railed against hypocrisy above all others. Not theft, not murder, not blasphemy. Hypocrisy.

What does this mean? To me it means that, whatever else our nation's leaders may be, they do not deserve to call themselves Christians, and are the last people who ought to be leading a purportedly Christian nation. What are their actions telling us? That we have to abandon Christ in order to fight Islamic terrorists? What sort of faith is that?

Nonetheless, the Bush administration represents us, which means that their sins are our sins, and their hypocrisy as well. Since they have received our permission to act in our names, their guilt is our own. This means that you, me, and our neighbors down the block are all personally responsible for the hundreds of thousands of civilian deaths in Iraq, and for those faceless, nameless people being tortured in America's secret prisons around the world, and for all those children and infants whose bodies were found melted to the bone after we rained white phosphorus down upon them in Fallujah.. Their grisly deaths are on OUR hands, and we might well worry if their innocent blood will cry out from the great beyond for justice. If there is such a thing as divine justice, we will each of us be called to answer for those deaths. Not just our President. Not just our armies. Us. Grade school teachers, insurance salesmen, all of us.

One might have assumed that the horrors of 9/11 could not get any worse, but it turns out they’ve been used like yeast in dough to greatly multiply the overall cost to mankind. Bush used the tragedy of a couple thousand deaths in NYC as an excuse to extinguish hundreds of thousands more lives overseas. For every one of us who were killed in 9/11, we are killing a hundred or more others, and yet still have the audacity to call ourselves Christian. If there is such a thing as blasphemy, that has to qualify.

Knowing this, how can we look ourselves in the face? How can we go about our daily business as if nothing is happening, browsing the grocery isles, flipping through channels on TV, casually greeting our friends and neighbors as if neither they nor we had fresh blood on our hands, as if hundreds of thousands of other human beings were not currently being put to death for our sakes?

Our tragedy, our loss, is beyond measure. Which loss? Nothing important – just our own integrity. No matter what any enemy ever chooses to do to us, it always remains beyond their power to turn us into monsters. That step we must do on our own, and, with Bush’s guidance, we have. The original Christians chose to die before they would betray their ideals, becoming martyrs. In stark contrast, the Bush administration chooses to torture adults and melt little children rather than honor the Christian ideals they pay lip service to.

- Peter Novak