Rubaiat`s Blog: December 2010

Friday, December 31, 2010

The Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Seal and Origin

According to Gould's History of Freemasonry Throughout the World:

The double-headed eagle was probably first introduced as a symbol in Masonry in the year 1758 . In that year, the body calling itself the Council of Emperors of the East and West was established in Paris. The double-headed eagle was possibly assumed by this Council in reference to the double jurisdiction which it claimed and which is represented so distinctly in its title.

Every Supreme Council in the world, and the subordinate bodies thereto, extensively employ this emblem in their Degrees, jewels, lectures, paraphernalia and stationery, making it the distinctive emblem of the Rite.

The highest degree achieved in the Scottish Rite of Free Masonry is the 33rd degree
'Ordo ab chao' "Order from chaos"

More on the Scottish Rite: Scottish Rite of Freemasonry

Words of Wisdom by the Ancient Greats

'Time is a river...And books are boats. Many volumes start down that stream, only to be wrecked and lost beyond recall in its sands. Only a few, a very few, endure the testings of time and live to bless the ages following.' - Dan Brown, The Lost Symbol

'If the infinite had not desired man to be wise, he would not have bestowed upon him the faculty of knowing.' -Manly P. Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages

'The Universe is a cryptogram set up by the Almighty' -Sir Isaac Newton

'Laus Deo' "Praise God" - Inscription on eastern face of Washington Monument capstone

'Nullius in verba' "Take nobody`s word for it" - Motto of the Royal Society

'Je ova Sanctus Unus' "one true God" - (anagram) aka Isaacus Neutonus

'Service to others is the rent that you pay for your room here on earth'

-Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon him); quoted by Mahatma Gandhi

'And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.' -Revelation 21:4

'Lo! some we loved, the loveliest and best

That time and fate of all their vintage prest

Have drunk their cup a round or two before,

And one by one crept silently to rest

-The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayum

"When death is regarded not (as with us) as an ultimate dissolution, but rather as a transitional (and crucial) stage of a journey, then the apparent Egyptian preoccupation with death becomes exactly the opposite of what it seems to be. It is, in fact, a preoccupation with life in the deepest possible sense." -John Anthony West, Serpent in the Sky

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

TARGET: Julian Assange, A Pattern of Conspiracy?

-BREAKING NEWS: Julian Assange released on bail

-EXCLUSIVE Julian Assange Interview with Cenk Uygur (host of The Young Turks)-(12/22/10)

As we all know, Wikileaks founder, Julian Assange, handed himself over to London police last week to answer a European arrest warrant from Sweden, who wants to question him about alleged sex crimes. He was granted bail on Tuesday (14-Dec-2010) but remained behind bars due to the Swiss prosecutor`s immediate appeal against the decision.

Meanwhile, Wikileaks` release of thousands of secret U.S. diplomatic and military documents is under criminal review in the United States. The website angered U.S. authorities last month by publishing the first of some 250,000 confidential U.S. diplomatic cables and the website continues to publish more and more cables daily. Amazon, PayPal, Mastercard and other companies and banks have ceased their relations with Wikileaks and Julian Assange, which gave way to computer hacker groups who are are targeting those same companies. The groups are thought to be supporters of Wikileaks and Julian Assange.

The whole ordeal with Julian Assange begs the question and thought, is this an ongoing conspiracy against exposing or uncovering the truth? Whenever there is government opposition to anything, those who voice their concerns, those who advocate and bring forth the truth against the government - they are targeted, and targeted in a specific way to demoralize them, discredit their reputation and eventually wreck their lives - by essentially blasting them with sex charges. Its always a sex charge when you think about it, which not only will it tarnish a person`s reputation but ties them up in legal limbo for as long it takes.

For example, remember Scott Ritter, former chief U.N. weapons inspector in Iraq, who was a very outspoken vocal critic of the Iraq war and the U.S. goverment, whose voiced his opposition to the 2003 Iraq war invasion and publicly said many times that Iraq did not have WMD`s and did not pose a threat. Immediately there after, sex charges against Scott Ritter appeared. Since 2001, Ritter has been arrested and subsequently released twice on charges related to sexual exploitation of minors.

Another comes to mind - Eliot Spitzer, former NY attorney general and governor who went up to challenge the big banks and Wall Street and said, "hey I`m going to stop your crimes, fraud and insider trading...etc". All of a sudden, sex charges against Spitzer coming from a bank - "oh he spent this amount of money, maybe the federal government should look into it - oh well will you look at that, its for a hooker".

And now a day after Julian Assange released the first leaks of the diplomatic cables, sex charges against him were announced. Surely, this can all be a wonderful coincidence but really it can`t be. All of a sudden, now there`s a great "interest" in pursuing these sex charges by the Swiss government?

Time will tell if the truth is truly free, till then it seems the truth comes at a heavy cost.