Douglas Mercer
November 9 2024
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Pope John 23 took his office at the holy see in 1958; Pope Paul 6 took over in 1963 and ran until 1978; Pope John Paul 1 was Pope for a scant month in 1978 and then John Paul 2 was Pope from 1978 until 2005. So for a period of 47 years every Pope was either named John or Paul or John Paul. The previous Pope Paul was in 1605 and the previous Pope John was in 1316. Other than Jesus Christ (the main character) the two names that are plastered all over the New Testament are John (five books written and appears in the Gospels as a character) and Paul (13 books written). John Lennon met Paul McCartney on July 6 1957 and had a working relationship with him which lasted until late 1969. Lennon continued his solo career until he was cut down by an assassin’s bullets in 1980, and McCartney’s career continues to this day. His album Memory Almost Full was released in the UK in 2007.
You hear them up there? Listen....it's the Beatles! They're here! The pilot of the craft did now know what to make of the whole crazy scene. I was caught up in the extraordinary fantasy. All those kids kept looking up the heavens as though God was descending to the Earth.
Carl Jung thought that the age of Aquarius would begin in 1964; others put that number back by at least four decades; in 1927 Jung had a dream of the city of Liverpool in which he had a vision of a building which down to specifics was later identified as the Cavern Club where the Beatles first played; a cavern (or cave) being the primary archetype in Jung’s system of archetypes; he called Liverpool the Pool Of life. So for some odd reason Carl Jung was dreaming of the Beatles in 1927; the latter returned the favor in 1968 by putting him on the cover of one of their albums.
In the ancient world the liver was often understood as the seat of action that was at times even called the heart or mind of the body. Divination by the interpretation of livers in the ancient world of the Mediterranean is a fascinating topic for the study of religion, magic and science. Prometheus was bound to a rock, and an eagle—the emblem of Zeus—was sent to eat his liver (in ancient Greece, the liver was thought to be the seat of human emotions). His liver would then grow back overnight, only to be eaten again the next day in an ongoing cycle.
The Four Beatles represent the Four Horseman of the Apocalypse; the locusts of the end time are the Beatles (ushering in universal devastation), the Beatles name comes from multiple sources including The Beat Poets and the Beatitudes (and the locusts looked like horses prepared for battle, with something like crowns of gold on their heads, and faces like the faces of men. They had hair like that of women, and teeth like those of lions. They also had thoraxes like breastplates of iron, and the sound of their wings was like the roar of many horses and chariots rushing into battle). The Winged Beetle was a book of poetry by Alistair Crowley and McCartney’s post Beatles band was Wings.
McCartney and Lennon make multiple reference to the sun: I’ll follow the sun, here comes the sun, here comes the sun king, sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun, standing solo in the sun, good day sunshine, when the sun shines. They have their sacramental song about the word (the word is love); McCartney says the world will go its own way no matter what the man said and then exhorts the listener to listen to what the man said (the man being Jesus Christ) and that what the man says is that our love will grow (our love grows more perfect, John 4:17, may the Lord make your love increase Thessalonians 3:12 Paul). Jesus is the door (I am the door John 10:17) and he knocks on the door (I stand at the door and knock Revelation 3:20 John) and Paul says someone is knocking at the door and then exhorts the listener let him, and the speaker mentions Martin Luther who posted theses on the door.
In Rocky Raccoon (Jesus is the rock: build your house on the rock) the main character habitually falls back in his room only to find a Bible; the story is a simple tale of the futility of revenge (love your enemies); in the song Rocky learns the Christian lesson the violence will not help and he will be better “when he is able”—that is Abel, not Cain. In the end the physician says he will help in good Rocky’s revival that is resurrection or outdoor Christian meeting; his song Follow Me (I can rely on you to guide me through any situation You hold up a sign that reads Follow me, Follow me Follow me, etc) requires no explication.
Lennon was famously an atheist, he said that God was a concept by which we measure our pain and that he did not believe in Jesus (or Hitler either apparently); but he also said we are all Jesus and all Gods and He is inside of us all; he said that the Beatles were bigger than Jesus, he said the way things are going they are going to crucify him and, famously, in 1968 he appeared at Apple Studios in London England and announced to his bandmates that he was in fact Jesus Christ in person and he was prepared to go on the air to make his statement; the other three were able to dissuade him from this action (Christ Complex). Lennon was obsessed about trying to find the spear of Christ (the one that lanced him on the cross) and he was killed by an obsessive Christian.
To mark 40 years since John Lennon’s murder, Israeli television on Tuesday aired a 1969 audio clip of the Beatle singing a Hebrew song Oath to Jerusalem, Lennon sings two lines from the song in the brief audio clip: Jerusalem, we have all sworn for eternity, we will not abandon you from here and forever. At one point, said Nof, I asked him if he knew any Israeli songs, and he replied, Only Hava Nagila. So I asked him if he would let me teach him two lines of a song of mine that at the time was being sung by the Israeli Army’s rabbinical choir. He said, yes, yes, yes. Lennon also famously remarked that show business is an extension of the Jewish religion.
At the tail of the Piscean Age the Beatles were entwined with the fate of the now defunct god Jesus Christ (son, sun, pun)—all you need is love, it’s the word I’m thinking of, don’t you know the word is love, of these three love is best.
The tale of our life is a tangled yarn, both good and ill together.
Here Come The Sun King
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In one of his stories (Kreutzer Sonata) Tolstoy has a character who is a fanatic who claims that music is so powerful that a wise ruler would banish it. Nietzsche likewise feared that Wagner’s music would send him toppling to the very bottom from dizzying heights and fearing this he retreated the serene and placid world of Bizet’s Carmen.
Helter-Skelter is an adverb that means in a confused or reckless manner, it can also mean in great disorder or pell mell or haphazard. The phrase Helter Skelter is used to described something that is chaotic or in a kind of fugue or hurly burly state. The origin is from the English of the late 16th Century, a rhyming jingle of unknown origin perhaps symbolic of running feet of from the Middle English “skelte hasten.”
It is also the name of a Conical English Fairground slide where a tall winding spiral wraps around a tower. One climbs up through the tower on a winding staircase and then appears at the top and then casts oneself down the slide and going round and round and wrapping round the tower until one reaches the bottom in exhilaration.
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The poet in his frenzy tunes in so naturally and finds another key, is seized by the god who speaks in its own name through the conduit of the poet, it explains itself, it speaks for itself. Information is free and the words no more belong to the poet than the bullet does to the gun once fired.
Paul was reading a music magazine and he read that Pete Townshend say that The Who had just recorded the dirtiest, rockiest thing ever; upon learning of this Paul determined to outdo him. In the Abbey Road Studio he told the other three that he wanted to see just how loud they could make it, that is he wanted to see the meters peak. Had he said that it was time to summon spirits from the vasty deep or play with dark forces he would not have been saying more. But the thing is sometimes when you call, if you call loud enough, and make it dirty and raspy and nightmarish enough, that is you really make the meters spike, and really peak, they actually show up; you get to the bottom of the slide and you see it again.
Yeah Yeah Yeah
When I get to the bottom
I go back to the top of the slide
Where I stop, and I turn
And I go for a ride
Until I get to the bottom
I see you again
The eternal return is a notion that Nietzsche had that human beings are in an eternal cycle where everything repeats ad infinitum, as if on a merry go round or roller coaster or loop from which there is no exit.
Do you, don't you
Want me to love you?
A direct question; the choice is yours, don’t be late. Paul McCartney and John Lennon were obsessed with nonsense lyrics such as by authors Edward Lear and Lewis Carroll, and English Nursery Rhymes. Lennon favored three blind mice (see how they run!) and used the tune in multiple songs. Paul said that in the shrieking Sixties everyone was nicking from everyone else all the time. In this lyric Paul borrows or lifts from the Mock Turtle:
Come and join in the dance
Will you won’t you
Join in the dance
Will you wont you
Join in the dance
(Alice In Wonderland)
I'm coming down fast
I'm miles above you
Tell me the answer
Conjuring a spirit in the sky who is coming back and who demands an answer.
You may be a lover
But you ain't no dancer
Helter-skelter
Supposedly all you need it love (the compassion of Christ, of these three love is best).
I do not know what the spirit of a philosopher should wish to be more than a good dancer. For the dance is the ideal and also his fine art, finally also the only kind of piety he knows, his divine service.
Nietzsche (or Nitz Ga as Lennon said to an Indica Bookseller when wanting something from the German Philosopher) considered dancing as a form of sensory education, most necessary for creating values that remain faithful to the earth. He likened thinking and philosophizing as being akin to learning how to dance. He emphasized that dancing in all of its forms should be a part of a noble education including dancing with feet, word, and with the pen. Nietzsche’s conceptual framework views dance as a shifting series of relations between forces and values involving improvisation (rhapsody).
According to Greek Mythology the Corybantes were the armed and crested dancers who worshipped the god in the divine frenzy of love.
In his song The Future Jew Leonard Cohen feared above all the time when the White Man began to dance. He was correct to fear it.
Do you don’t you
Want me to make you?
Do you don’t you
Want me to break you?
Do you don’t you
Want me to take you?
Tell me the answer
Look out! (Da, da, da)
Because here it comes
Helter-skelter
A reprise of the Mock Turtle reference; a question and a threat: Manson’s band was called the Love And Terror Cult. An admonition to look.
It is coming down fast, as the English are wont to say.
In his ex post facto assessment of the song McCartney avers that Manson “hijacked” that song; but then as the man said (listen to what the man said for sometimes we shall remember the things we said today) everyone is always knicking something from someone in the art world and the word once spoken no longer belongs to the sayer anymore than the bullet belongs to the gun once fired, or the arrow to the archer once sent from the bow. That is things are always getting hijacked to serve other purposes than intended, and the road to hell is paved with good intentions: but execution is paramount.
McCartney was well satisfied with his song (as well he might have been) and said they really played the hell out of it, so much so that when it became too much the drummer shouted aloud: I have blisters on my fingers! He said that with this song the music preceding rock, the gentle and romantic dance music, had been kicked over, that they had been kicking that over with this song, it was the loudest and dirtiest thing one could imagine, a true rocker for the ages, and it made a lot more than the meters peak.
He might as well have said he had blisters on his soul.
Marianne Faithful recalled many years later that she could no longer remember what they believed in the sixties but that whatever it was they believed in it vehemently. In Vineland Thomas Pynchon averred that what they had really believed was that they were going to live forever. But then they forgot but recalled the intensity of the feeling and so were lost in a nostalgic haze of yearning without learning.
Poets light up the remainder of the future: that’s what the man said.
You have to let the future in.
Paul said that when they learned of the uses that Manson put the song the Fab Four were appalled and more than a little scared out of their minds as if shivers ran down their spine. My god, as has been said: what have we done? Who will wipe this blood from us? He said it was too twisted and for a long time he would never play it again, and he certainly has never played it in the original key with that kind of dramatic or demonic intensity, it was that kind of session. He did admit that “maybe Manson did detect something infernal in it.” This is man who is not owning up to his actions; who is engaging in mealy mouthed language; who is afraid of his own shadow. Of course Manson detected something infernal in it, the historical record is clear on that. Not the question: the question being: is there something infernal in it? I challenge anyone to listen to the original recording. At one point the man says: forces are come, though you will not find that in any rendition of the lyrics. Forces are come. And he emits a blood freezing laugh that is more than demonic, more than infernal. It is demented (like wild demented horses, See The Poet’s Calling, White Biocentrism, July 23 2024).
Forces are come
It’s coming down fast.
Helter skelter.
In one of his stories Tolstoy (Kreutzer Sonata) has character who is a fanatic who claims that music is so powerful that a wise ruler would banish it. Nietzsche likewise feared that Wagner’s music would send him toppling to the very bottom from dizzying heights and fearing this he retreated to the serene and placid world of Bizet’s Carmen. Plato said that when the music changes (when you kick it all over, when you play it dirty and loud, when you do the rockiest thing ever, when you make the meters peak, when you go from holding hands to doing it in the road, when the gentle dance music is suddenly old hat) the walls of the city shake. But when you really go richter and decibel and ballistic, when you go to the topper most or the chord scale, when you start sailing along different sets of coordinates, you end up in an unwalled city and letters are written on the walls in human blood. And if you emit chthonic waves of psychic energy and summon and play with dark forces that you don’t understand, when you play funny games, and you do so very vehemently, at least in the aftermath you can admit what you all believed; that is when you project images in both space and time, however twisted it is, like that slide twists around the tower.
Manson’s project of Helter Skelter was a prophesy that an apocalyptic war would erupt between the blacks and the Whites after blacks committed outrageous crimes against Whites; they would do an atrocious murder with stabbing, killing, cutting bodies to pieces, smearing blood on the walls, writing pigs on the walls in the victims' own blood. In the ostensible scenario frightened White people would then get retribution against blacks in murderous rampages; this violence would then be exploited by black militants to provoke a war to near extermination between racist Whites and anti-racist Whites; the black man would then swoop in and finish off the few White survivors and kill off all non-blacks; it was at this point that The Famous Family would emerge from the hollow middle Earth beneath Death Valley (if you’ve ever been there you know why they named it Death). When the inevitable occurred and the black man proved incapable of creating an orderly society The Family would scratch the fuzzy head of the black man, vanquish him, and tell him to go pick cotton and be a good nigger. When the black man seemed to Manson to lack the scale, vision, imagination and grandeur of this cosmic blueprint he decided to give the scenario its fatal push.
Manson believed he was getting messages from the Beatles’ self-titled album which was subsequently called The White Album. In 1969 Paul recorded the song The Two Of Us where it is said that latches are being lifted, matches are being burned, and letters are being written on the wall (see The Moist Star, White Biocentrism, June 30 2024 as well as The Witching Hour, White Biocentrism, October 12 2024). Due to the concatenation of time Manson could not have heard that song prior to the August murders, so it is a case of birds of a feather flocking together or great minds thinking alike, or frequencies and wavelengths being joined.
Jew Roman Polanski made a movie in 1967 set in the Dakota Building where he has Satan rape a WASP woman to spawn the Beast. Jay Sebring and Victor Frytowski were on a ten-day mescaline high when the intruders entered. Sharon Tate would solicit young girls from among the Hollywood Boulevard riff raff and take them back to her Cielo Drive home to be sadistically whipped and become the subject of pornographic films. Sebring was known to be sadist. Rosemary Labianca was dealer of amphetamine (Rosemary’s Baby, Rosemary Is For Remembrance).
Manson said his goal had been to re-order the lifestyles of the American upper classes, to be a tuned in guy who leveled their karma.
The term Helter Skelter was taken from the Beatles' song of the same name, which Manson purportedly interpreted as concerned with the concept of war. The song was on the band's self titled double album which came to be known as The White Album which Manson heard within a month or so of its November 1968 release.
At the Labianca home one of the murderesses wrote the key phrase on the wall in the blood of the murdered but she misspelled it as Healter Skelter.
Manson (here comes the sun king) in the psychodrama being played out for our consideration performs the role of the deus ex machina or scourge of nemesis or just plain Necessity in the drama of the Greeks which, like Hamlet, often ended in a bloody mess. After all it was Sammy Davis Jr (the Candy Man!) who told us that all of Hollywood at least dabbled around the edges of witchcraft and the occult if only for sexual kicks. And it is well known that when the murders were publicized all over the city the beautiful people were flushing drugs down the toilet. And even the man on the street can tell you that on August 8 1969 you could don some jeans and a vest and hold out your thumb on any highway in California and you’d be picked up without a problem to get you anywhere you wanted to go; but a few days later you could do the same thing and as the cars whirred by to someplace else your name, well, you’re name might as well have been mud. That is the event kicked all that romantic stuff over.
That is the fear of the god had been put in them. The moral of this story, and there is moral to all stories, is when you play with fire you get burned; or another way to put it is it’s coming down fast (forces are come).
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The poet in his frenzy tunes in so naturally and finds another key, is seized by the god who speaks it its own name, it explains itself, it speaks for itself. Information is free and the words no more belong to the poet than bullet does to the gun once fired. That is knowingly or unknowingly, wittingly or unwittingly, the poet assumes the voice of the god and speaks in its name.
You never give me
Your money
You only give me
Your funny paper
And in the middle
Of negotiations
You break down
I never give you
My number
I only give you
My situations
And in the middle
Of investigation
I break down
I never give you
My pillow
I only send you
My invitations
And in the middle of
Your celebrations
I break down
The god wants only the authentic, one cannot put one’s finger on it (the god is near but impossible to grasp) but can be sensed in dim outline as the shape of things to come; and everything seems to be breaking down (to break down as in nervous breakdown or explain). Never celebrate anything because if you do you do a disservice to all the steps on the way---there is no place to rest and the invitation is not engraved but is one that no one can decline.
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Nobody told me there would be days like this Lennon warbled; not true, someone did but he was not listening, being too busy consuming in a fury of conspicuous consumption at a rapid rate, noodling with his cats, raffling through the I Ching, and doing fuck all.
There’s Nazis in the bathroom
Just below the stairs
You bet your life there is
There’s UFOs over New York.
Strange days indeed
Most peculiar mother—roll!
So as we wind on down the road they will hear something faintly rustling in their hedges; they should be alarmed now! For when the time is right The White Visitation will come, those White Gods recollected from the dim memories of every race on Earth; and a pale rider will appear on a white horse named Traveler; he will have blood dripping from his right hand, will be tall and handsome, taller by far than any man; and he will turn our wide world a whiter shade of pale.
So cry baby cry cry; we will make your mothers sigh; because we’ve heard the lie too many times and we are by now old enough to know better. And when the whirling and whirring whirligig of time is ushered in a lot more than a fetus will be untimely ripped. But no worries as is said—it’s only a Northern Song.
For those who do not understand ask your mother--she should know even though it was born a long long time ago.
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Notes:
We got early warning, we have Trojan Football.
Love is kind--Paul McCartney, Listen To What The Man Said
Love is kind--Paul of Tarsus, First Corinthians 13: 4-8
Son/Sun
Sol Invictus (Classical Latin Invincible Sun or Unconquered Sun) was the official sun god of the late Roman Empire and a later version of the god Sol.
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