Wednesday, March 31, 2010
CARBONARI cybugs
Cyborg Insects Take Flight
DARPA is funding a good deal of cyborg insect research for surveillance purposes. DARPA’s goal is to create cyborg insects that can fly at least 100 meters from their controller and land within 5 meters of a target, then stay put until commanded to leave.
Free Flying Cyborg Beetles
"Creating cybernetic insect spies and rescuers involves implanting electrodes into beetles while they are still pupae. As the beetle matures, their capacity to carry electronics on their head increases, but it’s quite a battle to get devices small enough to be carried by the bugs. Batteries are heavy, and the beetles still haven’t been saddled with GPS trackers, cameras, microphones, or any of the various gizmos a spy might require." Is the same possible of humans?
"Still, it’s pretty cool that electric pulses applied to vague areas of beetle brains can essentially turn them into insect-sized beasts of burden. The next course of action should be to see if the Berkeley team can get their wireless flying bugs to navigate an obstacle course reliably." Pretty fucked up.
Monday, March 29, 2010
OCCULT
Re: Weishaupt and the occult
It is the mystics and occultists of his era that he had disdain for - i.e. the Masons playing at being Templars; the Rosicrucians fleecing people out of their money for crucibles and elixirs and promising gold from lead; the Swedenborgians professing contact with spirits. To Weishaupt, it was the wisdom of the ancients that was authentic - the ancient mysteries, Pythagoras, Plato, the Gnostics, and even the more eclectic teachings from the Gherbers and the Parsees, the Gymnosophists, the Priests of Isis and the Mysteries of Eleusis.
On the Fire Cults of the Parsees and Zoaroastrians etc., he was no doubt influenced by a particular set of books published in the early 1770s. M. Anquetil-Duperron went to India and wrote of what he found still extant of the fire cult of the Parsees. It was read by a lot of people and it probably captured Weishaupt’s imagination as well. Before the Duperron publications, authentic knowledge of Zoroastrianism on the European continent was almost non-existent.
And even though he had reverence for ancient knowledge, it was only that - reverence and respect. You asked me in the email if there was evidence of operative occultism in the Illuminati; I said no; and there wasn’t. The Templar Strict Observance and the Rosicrucians and the Swedenborgians and the Martinists and the Illumines of France did, however. And this is what Weishaupt and his rationalists disliked and fought against. He thought they were all scam artists, zealous fools, and/or Jesuit-infiltrated.
Perhaps if the final grades in the Illuminati had been able to evolve and mature before the Order was suppressed, some of Weishaupt’s fascination with the Fire Cults would have been translated into tangible rituals for the initiates - but this didn’t occur. The final Grade even (of Man-King Docetist), was passed on to a select few of initiates. They were only given the chance to read it. It was akin to a philosophy paper and represented ideas only. It was a mixture of left-wing Wolffian philosophy, gnosticism, and the doctrine of metempsychosis.
All the hardcore occult initiatory groups today get their teachings and rituals directly from those 18th century rivals of Weishaupt and his Order - not from the Illuminati. Strict Observance, Golden and Rosy Cross, Elus Cohen, Martinists, Swedenborgians and the Illumines of Avignon. What the OTO and the Golden Dawn engage in is precisely what the latter groups invented and had already perfected - an amalgamation of them all.
SPAGHETTI WESTERN
Tools of the CARBONARI
ROPID Robot Runs, Skips, and Jumps to Your Voice Commands
Kondo Robots – Now With Awesome Hands
Motoman Robot Does It All in Videos
Rituals
Adam Weishaupt had grand illusions about clothing the higher mysteries of his Order in fire worship. “The Order, in the higher grades, will be called again: the Cult of Fire, the Fire Order, or the Order of the Parsees,” he wrote to his disciple Cato-Zwack on 6 Pharavardin 1779. “The ultimate aim of the Order is for the Light [or Enlightenment] to blaze bright; we fight against the darkness; this is the Cult of Fire,” Weishaupt reiterated (Einige Originalschriften des Illuminatenordens, pp. 330-1).
In hindsight, it’s obvious that, for the Illuminati May 1st had significance as the day in which the “cult of fire” was/is celebrated throughout Europe and Britain as Walpurgisnacht and Beltane. I don’t think it is accident that they chose the date. I also don’t think it is accident for May Day to have become a sacred revolutionary holiday for socialists, communists and anarchists. The Illuminati were the forebears of these, and acknowledged as such by the likes of Louis Blanc, Buonarroti and his secret societies (the Sublimes Maîtres Parfaits, Adelphi and Philadelphes), Speshnev and the Petrashevsky circle, and no doubt the Spartacist League
While he was beaten and interrogated in his prison cell, Buonarotti was able to organize the Sublimes Maitres Parfaits, a Masonic organization that began to exert influence on a new generation of revolutionaries by the 1810s.
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