BEHOLD A COOPERPEDIA
Mystery Babylon #30- United Nations Meditation Room
Bill Cooper, aka Milton William Cooper, aka William Cooper
Catalog date: 1993-10-18
Tape: 206
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[00:00:00.000 to 00:00:25.470] The Hour of the Time may be contacted at HOT, that's H-O-T-T, P.O. Box 940, Eager, spelled E-A-G-A-R, in the state of Arizona, 85925. Our phone number is 928-333-2942, and our website is www.hourofthetime.com.

[00:01:29.010 to 00:01:44.210] Welcome. Once again, you're listening to the Hour of the Time. I'm William Cooper. Folks, I'll be in the San Francisco Bay Area October 29th through the 31st at the Dunphy Hotel, San Mateo, California.

[00:01:44.980 to 00:02:07.290] The number to call is area code 415-905-8874. That's area code 415-905-8874. Let me see, I'll be doing a lecture on Sunday, October the 31st.

[00:02:07.580 to 00:02:36.930] at 12.30 p.m., also a workshop later that same afternoon, October the 31st, at 3.30 p.m. And I'll be there the whole weekend. We'll have a booth. We'll have tapes of the hour, the time there. They'll be at a reduced rate because you won't have to pay postage. And my book will be available. And, of course, I'll be there if you just want to stop by and chat for a while. Remember, that's the Dunphy Hotel, San Mateo, California, October 29th through the 31st.

[00:02:37.550 to 00:03:05.570] The number to call is area code 415-905-8874. For those of you in the southeast segment of the United States, I will be in Atlanta, Georgia on November the 14th. I will be speaking in the Shambly Community Center on that date. And the number to call is area code 404-986-

[00:03:07.320 to 00:03:25.660] Once again, November the 14th in Atlanta, Georgia. I'll be speaking at the Chamblee Community Center. The number to call for information is area code 4049860802. Now, both of these...

[00:03:27.560 to 00:03:56.780] events in San Mateo and in Atlanta, Georgia. It costs some money. I don't know exactly how much because I'm an invited speaker. You need to call those numbers and talk to them, but as usual, when I get there, I will arrange for a lower rate for CAGI members. Make sure you bring your welcoming letter, anything signed by me, or your press credentials, and that will be good for your discount. If you have any problems, come and see me personally. I'll verify that you're a CAGI member and make sure that you get your

[00:03:57.960 to 00:04:26.780] Well, folks, tonight is going to be illuminating. I can tell you that for sure. Let me tell you first, right off the bat, before we get into the subject of tonight's broadcast, that the media corporation, well, first let me give you what happened on the stock exchange since we've been talking about this. All the stock for all the media corporations that we've discussed, including the Enquirer Star Group, has gone up.

[00:04:28.590 to 00:04:56.700] So it shows that somebody may be doing a little anticipatory buying out there, or it could just be an accident. The stock that we're going to purchase closed today on the New York Stock Exchange at $51.05 per share. That's $51.05 per share. The name of the corporation is the Gannett Company Incorporated.

[00:04:57.420 to 00:04:59.840] Seek out the lowest-commissioned broker

[00:04:59.760 to 00:05:22.180] in your area, ladies and gentlemen, buy as much stock in that company as you possibly can. The New York Stock Exchange symbol is GCI. GCI. Again, it's Gannett Company Incorporated. You want to make sure to tell your broker that you want to purchase only voting shares. Only voting shares.

[00:05:23.260 to 00:05:43.150] Do not buy stock unless the stock is voting shares. Make sure that you understand that perfectly. As soon as you've purchased your stock, make Xerox copies of your stock certificates. Make sure your broker knows to issue the certificates in your name. That way you know that you own the stock. You have the shares in your possession.

[00:05:44.380 to 00:06:14.310] Make Xerox copies of the shares, send them to us with a stamped, self-addressed number 10 envelope. We will send you back a proxy statement, which you will need to fill out, have notarized, and send back to us, giving us the proxy vote for your shares of stock. So, folks, you can get started on that tomorrow morning. We will be keeping you updated. We'll tell you if stock starts going up too precipitous, we'll tell you to hold off.

[00:06:15.240 to 00:06:36.980] until it comes back down. But this is not going to take a week or two. It's going to take us some time to do it. You need to motivate your neighbors, your friends. You need to get them involved. You need to make them understand what we're doing. Tell them if they're going to get in here and play games with us. In other words, if they're not going to go along with our scheme here to change this corporation around.

[00:06:37.630 to 00:06:59.370] then don't play at all because we don't need six or eight or ten bunch of patriots in here buying shares and giving their proxies to six or eight different people. If they do that, all we're doing, folks, is masturbating, and it's absolutely nonproductive. It may be a lot of fun. Everybody can say, oh, I'm really participating, but it's not going to amount to anything.

[00:07:00.290 to 00:07:29.080] Ladies and gentlemen, so make sure you understand that either participate and go along with what we intend to do so that we'll have the power of a large block of voting stock owned by citizens of this country who are sick and tired of what the news media has been doing to us and can turn this corporation around and make it work in our best interest or get the hell out of town and don't interfere with what we're doing. Please. Okay, folks, make sure.

[00:07:29.920 to 00:07:38.820] that you're in a chair, you're comfortable, you've got your mind open, you've got a pad of paper and a pencil by your side because we're going to spread some light in some dark corners.

[00:10:34.340 to 00:10:59.280] Visitors to New York City who venture in to the large building known as the United Nations are amazed to find that there is a meditation room. The meditation room, ladies and gentlemen, is 30 feet long, 18 feet wide at the entrance, which faces north-northeast, and 9 feet wide at the other end. It is, therefore, wedge-shaped.

[00:10:59.840 to 00:11:18.900] its only entrance is through two tinted glass-paned doors outside of which stands a united nations guard inside the room is another guard once through the doors the visitor finds himself in a darkened corridor which leads to the left the sharp transition from a world of light to one of extreme darkness

[00:11:19.370 to 00:11:48.570] forces a feeling of abrupt withdrawal from the outside world upon the senses of the visitor, who walks along the corridor, reaches the inner art entrance, turns right, and then looks into the room. The room is very dimly lit. The only source of light at first glance is that which is reflected squarely from the gleaming upper surface of the brooding, somber altar in the center of the room.

[00:11:49.010 to 00:12:13.260] A special lens recessed in the ceiling focuses a beam of light on the altar from a point above and just beyond its far edge. Thin lines of bluish light lap the edges of the shadow cast by the altar. The acoustical properties of the room are unique. The edges of padding material behind the paneling on the walls can be detected at the ceiling level.

[00:12:14.020 to 00:12:42.940] This absorbs sound, as does the Swedish woven blue rug which covers the floor of the corridor and the back of the room. The room is as quiet as an underground tomb. Its floor is paved with blue-gray slate slabs laid in a haphazard pattern. At the edge of the rug are two very low railings extending out from the east and west walls of the room. The center space between the railings is some six feet in width.

[00:12:43.940 to 00:13:00.420] to the right of the inner entrance are ten low wicker benches arranged in two rows of three and one back row of four against the corridor wall attempts by visitors to pass the railings are discouraged by the guard

[00:13:01.540 to 00:13:31.280] The mural is a fresco which was painted originally on wet plaster one section at a time by the artist with the aid of an expert in this work brought from Europe. It is set into a steel-framed narrow panel projected from the wall, behind which is an enclosed area some six inches deep which has its own light source. A small square projector set close against the front base of the altar throws a diffused beam of light from a recessed aperture upon the surface of the mural.

[00:13:32.160 to 00:13:57.550] There are also ten hidden lights, five on each side of the room, behind the upper edges of a thin suspended ceiling which extends out over the room from the top of the mural. The eighteen-inch space between the two ceilings contains the light control apparatuses. The lower ceiling is wedge-shaped and separated from three walls of the inner room by a foot-wide space. Thus the room appears.

[00:13:58.450 to 00:14:26.240] appears to be much longer than it really is because of the many converging lines leading into the narrow end, the corners of which are rounded off on either side of the mural. The altar is four feet high and rests on two narrow cross pieces. It is a dark gray block of crystalline iron ore from a Swedish mine and weighs six and one half tons.

[00:14:27.360 to 00:14:54.260] The Swedish government presented this block of ore, the largest of its kind ever mined, to the United Nations in early 1957. The chunk rests on a concrete pillar that goes straight down to bedrock. The area and passageway beneath the room are closed to the public. The chunk of ore has been described as a lodestone or magnetite, which is strongly magnetic and which possesses polarity.

[00:14:55.100 to 00:15:00.120] In northern Sweden are what may be the largest magnetite deposits in the world, believed

[00:15:00.040 to 00:15:27.680] to have been formed by segregation in the magma. Magma is the term for molten material held in solution under the pressure of the Earth's crust. The Cresco mural was described in the United Nations Review of January 1958 as having been designed, quote, to conform with the purity of line and color sought for what Secretary General Dag Hammarskjöld has called a room of stillness, unquote.

[00:15:28.580 to 00:15:58.380] It was painted predominantly in shades of grays and blues, but includes yellow and white patterns and a black half sphere. Light, pure colors intersect to form deeper shades. The New York Times described the fresco as being 8 feet 8 inches in height and 6 feet 8 inches in width, more brightly illuminated at the top than at the bottom. Bo Besko, an old friend of Dag Hammarskjöld, painted the mural.

[00:15:58.810 to 00:16:27.470] Quote, Dag had me start sketches on this last summer, unquote, he said. Quote, he wanted me to do the actual work right here in the room, so I have been here since October 6th, 1957, unquote. The mural was seen for the first time, ladies and gentlemen, on November the 11th, 1957. During the period of the remodeling, the guards were on hand during the day to keep out the curious, and at night the room was locked up with a chain and padlock.

[00:16:28.320 to 00:16:48.500] The artist said of his work, It has no title, and you can make what you wish of it. He explained that the geometric patterns in the mural repeated the proportions of the room and those of the focal point of the room, the piece of iron ore. He also said that he intended to give a feeling of space with the picture.

[00:16:49.500 to 00:17:15.500] The United Nations Review story stated that, quote, he sought to open up the room so that the eye can travel in the distance when it strikes the wall. To give a slight upward movement, he said he designed winding circles and a spiraling diagonal line which might be compared to a vibrating musical chord. As a resting spot for the viewer's eyes, he provided one spot of black amid the light colors.

[00:17:16.130 to 00:17:24.980] a half-circle at which all lines of the fresco and the room converge. In the New Yorker's story cited earlier,

[00:17:25.670 to 00:17:49.350] Besko was quoted as saying, Unquote.

[00:17:50.910 to 00:18:15.690] The mystic P.D. Ouspensky has written that in, quote, real art nothing is accidental. It is mathematics. Everything in it can be calculated. Everything can be known beforehand. The artist knows and understands what he wants to convey, and his work cannot produce one impression on one man and another impression on another, presuming, of course,

[00:18:16.220 to 00:18:38.870] They are people on one level. At the same time, the same work of art will produce different impressions on people of different levels, and people from lower levels will never receive from it what people of higher levels receive. This is real objective art. An objective work of art affects the emotional and not only the intellectual side of man."

[00:18:40.670 to 00:19:09.890] Mr. Besko's picture is described as non-objective, yet its composition admittedly reflects the dimensions of the room and the chunk of iron ore. This, ladies and gentlemen, involves mathematics. He said of his mural, quote, you can make what you wish of it, unquote, yet he admittedly sought to create a specific subjective effect in the mind of the spectator. Consequently, Mr. Besko's remarks create confusion rather than understanding.

[00:19:11.900 to 00:19:39.000] The leaflet made available to those who visit the meditation room was written under the direction of Dag Hammarskjöld himself. Its description of the room is deliberately couched in abstruse language. It contains terms which have meaning to the esoterically inclined, but not to the uninitiated, or those called the profane. These terms will be explained

[00:19:39.840 to 00:19:59.580] and have, in fact, been explained during the Mystery Babylon segments of the Hour of the Time. But for those who may be just beginning to listen to this program, esoteric means that which is hidden and is kept only for the initiated, those

[00:19:59.860 to 00:20:19.880] who have studied the mysteries. The profane, ladies and gentlemen, is you. I leave myself out because during the process of studying the mysteries, I, I, with great irony, have become illumined. And if you continue to listen to the hour of the time, so shall you.

[00:20:21.370 to 00:20:46.690] The leaflet reads, We all have within us a center of stillness surrounded by silence. People of many faiths will meet here, and for that reason none of the symbols to which we are accustomed in our meditation could be used. However, there are simple things which speak to us all with the same language. We have sought for such things, and we believe that we have found them in the shaft of light striking the shimmering surface of solid rock.

[00:20:47.130 to 00:21:12.580] So in the middle of the room we see a symbol of how daily the light of the skies gives light, life to the earth on which we stand, a symbol to many of us of how the light of the Spirit gives life to matter. But the stone in the middle of the room has more to tell us. We may see it as an altar, empty, not because there is no God, not because it is an altar to an unknown God.

[00:21:13.180 to 00:21:40.370] but because it is dedicated to the God whom man worships under many names and in many forms. The stone in the middle of the room reminds us also of the firm and permanent in a world of movement and change. The block of iron ore has the weight and solidity of the everlasting. It is a reminder of that cornerstone of endurance and faith on which all human endeavor must be based.

[00:21:41.480 to 00:22:09.750] The material of the stone leads our thoughts to the necessity for choice between destruction and peace. Of iron man has forged his swords, of iron he has also made his plowshares. The shaft of light strikes the stone in a room of utter simplicity. When our eyes travel from these symbols to the front wall, they meet a simple pattern, opening up the room to the harmony, freedom, and balance of space.

[00:22:10.850 to 00:22:25.560] There is an ancient Chinese saying that the sense of a vessel is not in its shell, but in the void. So it is with this room. It is for those who come here to fill the void with what they find in their center of stillness."

[00:22:28.670 to 00:22:53.990] The World Goodwill Bulletin is published by Lucis Press Limited, owned by Lucis Trust at 88 Edgware Road, Marble Arch, London, W2, England. The New York branch, the Lucis Publishing Company, 11 West 42nd Street, 32nd Floor, issues materials on its arcane school, three-member triangles, and World Service Fund, and publishes The Beacon Magazine.

[00:22:55.070 to 00:23:19.220] This company, ladies and gentlemen, was originally established as the Lucifer Publishing Company, but changed its name on November 11, 1924, to the less startling one it bears today. A third branch of the Lucis Trust is located at 1 Rue de Verembe 3E, Geneva, Switzerland. Alice A. Bailey, the now deceased High Priestess,

[00:23:19.590 to 00:23:47.430] of the occult arcane school, established and headed the trust and its self-identified society of illumined minds. This powerful group has intimate connections with the United Nations. The Goodwill, the World Goodwill Bulletin, issued a special edition on the United Nations in July 1957, which contained an article entitled, quote, Lodestone, unquote.

[00:23:48.730 to 00:24:18.810] We quote from its description of the meditation room. The visitor will be totally unprepared for what he will see as he steps in the door for a moment of quiet. Because of the converging walls and the dim light, he will experience a peculiar spatial disorientation and dimension and perspective will seem difficult to establish. In the center of the room, he will see illuminated by a single point of light from the ceiling, a rectangular mass. The oar piece.

[00:24:19.400 to 00:24:45.650] is many millions of years old one feels as though one is in a repository for some natural talisman of significant and noble importance rather than in a chapel in the ordinary sense those who are wedded to seeking communion in traditional settings may be somewhat ill at ease here this is a sudden break with prior experience one is thrown violently upon his own resources

[00:24:46.820 to 00:24:59.880] The room and the concept do not seem indicative of the supplications or the dualistic concept of the mystic in which illumination is sought as a boon granted by deity, rather seemingly inherent in the decoration of the

[00:24:59.880 to 00:25:18.090] room in the pinpoint of light playing on the ore is the concept of a personal concentration of forces creating a focus that illumines the field of attention. The pinpoint of light, the void of space, the illuminated crystalline ore

[00:25:18.700 to 00:25:42.980] One feels projected into a setting of cosmological symbolism rather than one of planetary or even solar intent. It is interesting to speculate on what the long-term influence of this new departure will be on current religious thinking. Ensconced here in the highest hall of man, it cannot be inconsiderable.

[00:25:43.810 to 00:26:12.660] Whatever interpretations one may attribute to the United Nations meditation room, it can be said with certainty that the words and the repercussions have only just begun. Folks, the new departure in religion referred to did not occur by chance. Tremendous pressure was brought to bear on Trigivli and Dag Hammarskjöld to install such a room at the United Nations by such organizations.

[00:26:13.890 to 00:26:43.220] as the World Council of Churches. Traga Bly announced on April 18, 1949, that such a room would be established. The Fifth General Assembly opened with one minute of silence as a religious observance. Shortly thereafter, a temporary meditation room was provided at Lake Success, New York. On February 9, 1951, a meditation room was opened for one day at the United Nations Secretariat building.

[00:26:44.190 to 00:27:14.390] Then on October 14, 1952, the opening day of the 7th General Assembly, a permanent meditation room was made available to the public. Since then, each assembly has opened with one minute of silence. In 1955, the meditation room contained a 300-year-old, 800-pound, 37-inch-wide upright section of an agba, or mahogany tree, from French Equatorial Africa.

[00:27:15.430 to 00:27:34.930] It was the idea of Wallace Harrison, director of the International Board of Architects, which planned the United Nations, co-architect and director of Rockefeller Center, and member of the board of directors of the socialist New School of Social Research in New York City. See Who's Who in America for 1959 for reference.

[00:27:35.650 to 00:27:51.610] The room contained a philodendron plant on the altar to symbolize some unknown person killed in a war, an olive green rug, 25 russet-colored chairs, and a blue-and-white United Nations banner set in front of a ceiling-to-floor white drape.

[00:27:53.120 to 00:28:23.310] On February 16, 1953, a group known as the Friends of the Meditation Room, numbering 1,500 members, presented through its officers a set of guest books to the United Nations, wherein visitors to the room could inscribe their names, addresses, and religious affiliations. Since then, many, many millions have been estimated by the United Nations to have entered the room. Of these visitors,

[00:28:24.540 to 00:28:50.860] Of these visitors, millions have signed these books, each containing 7,000 names. What purpose, ladies and gentlemen, is served by the accumulation of these thousands of names of individuals with their religious affiliations who visit the room and who, by the act of signing their names, indicate that they do not object to the existence of this pagan temple?

[00:28:52.320 to 00:29:13.190] The Friends are a product of the non-sectarian layman's movement for a Christian world incorporated, the international headquarters of which is located at Wainwright House, Milton Point Rye, New York. Warren R. Austin, a past permanent United States delegate to the United Nations, headed a Friends committee which presented $12,600.

[00:29:14.600 to 00:29:34.860] to Dag Hammarskjöld on April 24, 1957, as first payment on $25,000 needed to remodel and enlarge the room. The movement has issued United Nations meditation room identification cards to 300 men and women who go periodically to this room for prayer.

[00:29:36.710 to 00:30:00.090] It once issued prayer cards to visitors containing prayers from the world's great living religions, namely Hinduism, Buddhism, Judaism, Islamism, Sikhism, Christianity, and St. Francis of Assisi. I was not aware that St. Francis of Assisi was one of the world's great religions, were you? The friends

[00:30:00.080 to 00:30:25.080] held vigils of prayer in the room in 1953 and 1954. Back in 1946, the movement had sent Dr. Frank Blaubach, Union Theological Seminary graduate and author of, quote, Letters of a Modern Mystic, unquote, to the Paris Peace Conference to lobby for the establishment of the meditation room. Speakers for the movement's meetings have included Norman Cousins,

[00:30:25.500 to 00:30:56.000] Ralph Bunch and Frank P. Graham of the United Nations, and William Ernest Hawking and Kirtley F. Mather of Harvard, all of whom have communist front records. See the May, June, and July, August 1959 and July, August 1962 issues of the Layman's Movement Review. The movement has included among its members Dwight David Eisenhower. The most important friend of the movement from its inception, however, has been John D. Rockefeller, Jr.

[00:30:56.770 to 00:31:16.230] a Methodist missionary, Wayman C. Huckabee, secured and received grants from John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s Davison Fund and from his New York City Riverside Church Funds for five consecutive years, 1937 through 1941, for a health center in Hiroshima, Japan.

[00:31:17.410 to 00:31:33.880] Huckabee then became the secretary of the movement in New York in 1941 and secured two grants a year for the organization from the Davison Fund until it was liquidated. It is not coincidence, ladies and gentlemen, that the funds...

[00:31:37.730 to 00:31:52.750] John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s Davidson Fund and from his New York City Riverside Church Funds for the years 1937 to 1941 were for the Health Center in Hiroshima, Japan, a city which we ultimately dropped an atomic weapon.

[00:31:56.020 to 00:32:07.220] Rockefeller, ladies and gentlemen, continued his yearly grants without fail from his own personal funds. During the 22 years Huckabee remained with the movement, a million dollars was raised for its work.

[00:32:08.380 to 00:32:38.510] When the movement first sought to secure Wainwright House for its headquarters in 1951, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. gave $5,000 of the $25,000 needed. Since 1951, 10,000 individuals have signed the guestbook of Wainwright House. 5,000 have attended its public meetings. Its members have been addressed by the President of the National Council of Churches. Its conference rooms have been used by the Episcopal, Presbyterian, Methodist, Baptist, Congregationalist, and Quaker churches.

[00:32:39.610 to 00:33:03.470] When the friends of the meditation room agreed to raise $15,000 to pay for the redecoration of the room, John D. Rockefeller Jr. gave $5,000 of the amount sought. Dag Hammarskjöld personally raised another $10,000 from the Marshall Field family for the cost of the fresco in the room. The United Steelworkers, AFL-CIO, gave $500.

[00:33:05.690 to 00:33:22.030] The movement was formed, ladies and gentlemen, in 1940. The man who started it was Dr. Arthur Compton, the scientist who first brought the identified communist and accused agent espionage, Professor J. Robert Oppenheimer, into the Atomic Energy Project in 1942.

[00:33:23.390 to 00:33:38.810] Wainwright House has its own meditation room on its second floor. The room contains the Agba wood altar first used in the UN meditation room and the cherry wood chairs and drapes from that room presented to the Friends by the United Nations in 1957.

[00:33:40.450 to 00:34:04.250] The house also contains a large library centered around the Thomas Sugru Memorial Library, a $1,600 collection of books on religion and occultism, where one may read up on spiritualism, Zen, Taoism, yoga, Judaism, etc. Every book in the library has a book plate therein designed by the artist Fritz Eichenberg.

[00:34:05.030 to 00:34:33.400] His bookplate depicts the ancient cross in the shape of a T, surrounded by a serpent symbolizing wisdom and healing and forming the letter S. The T and S, Thomas Zagrou's initials, are crowned by the lotus, vendantic representation of all being. In the background lies the city of Jerusalem, over which shine two stars, the star of the east of Christianity and six-pointed star of Judaism.

[00:34:34.630 to 00:34:59.910] A flame spreads an arc of light above, proclaiming the continuity of life and the immortality of the soul. M. Oldfield Howey tells us in The Encircled Serpent that in the symbolism of Egypt, the serpent is constantly represented as surmounting a cross. The brazen serpent was a palladium or talisman in the form of a

[00:34:59.900 to 00:35:27.530] serpent coiled around the mystic Tao, or Ti. The serpent set up by Moses was originally the Egyptian sun god who is now known to his people as Jehovah. Joseph von Hammer, in the history of the assassins, explains the Tao as the figure of the phallus. Among the Egyptians, the lotus was the symbol of Osiris and Isis.

[00:35:27.940 to 00:35:57.780] It was esteemed a sacred ornament by the priests. The six-pointed star is the great oriental talisman known as the seal of Solomon. Its meaning, ladies and gentlemen, and the identity of Osiris and Isis has already been explained in past episodes of The Hour of the Time. It will also be explained on a later edition of The Hour of the Time when we discuss the great seal of the United States of America.

[00:35:59.100 to 00:36:20.700] The arc of light on the book plate is the insaf from the Kabbalistic writings, or mystical theosophy, which teach that it created the world by virtue of ten emanations from the Infinite One. The emanations, or sephiroth, are arranged into a form called the Tree of Life, which in turn is vertically composed of three pillars.

[00:36:21.640 to 00:36:53.510] C.W. King, in his Gnostics, states that the two outer pillars figure largely amongst all the secret societies of modern times. And naturally so, for these Illuminati have borrowed without understanding it the phraseology of the Kabbalists. Dag Hammarskjöld called the altar a reminder of that, quote, cornerstone on which all human endeavor must be based, unquote. The meditation room faces north-northeast.

[00:36:54.010 to 00:37:21.020] To enter the room, one must proceed from darkness to light, from darkness to light. With these facts in mind, note the Kabbalistic symbolism of the following description of the cornerstone by an authority. In its situation, it lies between the north, the place of darkness, and the east, the place of light, and hence this position symbolizes

[00:37:21.950 to 00:37:48.270] progress from darkness to light, and from ignorance to knowledge. The permanence and durability of the cornerstone is intended to remind us that long after our death we have within ourselves a sure foundation of eternal life, a cornerstone of immortality and emanation, which purveys all nature and which therefore must, must survive the tomb."

[00:37:51.100 to 00:38:17.490] On a higher level of esoteric knowledge, the metal altar or stone can be likened to the ancient stone of foundation, which according to the same authority cited above was supposed, quote, to have been placed at one time within the foundations of the Temple of Solomon and afterwards, during the building of the second temple, transported to the Holy of Holies. It was in the form of a perfect cube, or as the Freemasons call it, ashlar.

[00:38:17.930 to 00:38:44.580] and had inscribed upon its upper face, within a delta or triangle, the sacred tetragrammaton, or ineffable name of God. In a scurrilous book of the Middle Ages, The Life of Jesus, there was another account of the stone. Quote, At that time there was in the temple the ineffable name of God inscribed upon the stone of foundation. Unquote.

[00:38:45.440 to 00:39:12.290] This scandalous book proceeded to state that our Savior, quote, cunningly obtained a knowledge of the tetragrammaton from the stone of foundation, and by its mystical influence was enabled to perform his miracles. There was a very general prevalence among the earliest nations of antiquity of the worship of stones as the representative of deity, and in England the Queen sits upon a throne under which is a stone.

[00:39:14.430 to 00:39:38.110] This happens in almost every ancient temple, and in every ancient temple there was a legend of a sacred or mystical stone. The mystical stone there has received the name of the, quote, stone of foundation, unquote. And the scribes who had come down from Jerusalem said, quote, he has Beelzebub, and by the prince of devils he casts out devils, unquote.

[00:39:39.460 to 00:40:00.080] Alfred Edward Waite, in his study of the Zohar, the Kabbalistic textbook of the 14th century, entitled The Secret Doctrine of Israel, wrote on page 62 of a, quote, mysterious stone called Shathia, unquote, which was cast by Jehovah into

[00:40:00.040 to 00:40:20.850] the abyss so to form the basis of the world and give birth thereto. One might say otherwise that it was like a cubical stone or altar, for its extremity was concealed in the depth, while its surface or summit rose above the chaos. It was the central point in the immensity of the world, the cornerstone.

[00:40:21.690 to 00:40:43.120] the tried stone, the sure foundation, but also that stone which the builders rejected, unquote. And where have we heard that before? Well, folks, nowhere else but in the teachings of Freemasonry. But what really, in the Christian meaning, is the cornerstone? Isaiah said,

[00:40:59.600 to 00:41:05.470] The cornerstone is Jesus Christ, the stone which the builders rejected.

[00:41:06.920 to 00:41:34.630] One need go no further than the inner entrance of the meditation room to see concrete evidence of the godlessness of the United Nations. That word sticks in my throat, godlessness. The stone, the metal altar, and its stark setting in that room is in itself a symbol of idolatry. Quote, stone worship was perhaps the earliest form of fetishism.

[00:41:38.540 to 00:42:07.010] Porphyry as saying that the ancients represented the deity by a black stone, because his nature is obscure and inscrutable. The reader here will be reminded of the black stone, Hajar el-Aswad, placed in the southwest corner of the Kaaba at Mecca, which is worshipped by the ancient Arabians. The Druids, it is well known, had no other images of their gods, but cubical, or sometimes columnar stones.

[00:42:08.290 to 00:42:32.580] To use the language of Dudley, the pillar, our stone, was a death that is a symbol of strength and firmness, a symbol also of the divine power, and by a ready inference a symbol, our idol, of the deity himself, the god Hermes. Our mercury was represented without hands or feet being a cubical stone because the cubical figure betokened his solidity and stability."

[00:42:34.860 to 00:42:58.500] Hammersholt, in the speech quoted earlier, said, We had another idea. We thought we could bless by our thoughts the very material out of which arms are made. The description of the altar as a natural talisman by the World Goodwill Group also is significant.

[00:42:59.230 to 00:43:24.670] Talisman is a term which means a stone, or other object engraven with figures or characters to which is attributed the occult powers of the planetary influences and celestial configurations under which it was made. Altars among the ancients were generally made of turf or stone, usually in a cubical form. Altars were erected long before temples.

[00:43:25.440 to 00:43:54.460] The shaft of light upon the altar in the meditation room casts a shadow to the north. The use of the north as a symbol of darkness, a portion of the old sun worship, of which we find so many relics in Gnosticism, in Hermetic philosophy, in Freemasonry, in the temples of all of the secret societies which exist in a membership in the shape of a pyramid with a whole bunch of slathering idiots thirsting after the secrets which they will never know, and a few at the top.

[00:43:55.040 to 00:44:08.060] who really understand that the only secret is how to control those on the bottom. The east was the place of the sun's daily birth, and hence highly revered. The north, the place of his annual death.

[00:44:08.930 to 00:44:38.550] Finally, it must be emphasized above all that the altar in the meditation room is unsanctified and unhallowed. It has no sacred meaning, can inspire no reverence, and is not inviolable. This altar cannot be used for sacrifice in any other than an unholy sense. Ladies and gentlemen, one clue to the mural's symbolism is given in Hammerscholl's and Beskow's description of its purpose.

[00:44:39.040 to 00:44:59.930] It was to open up the wall, to give a feeling of space, of the void, in effect, to extend the room further out into another dimension, as it were. The friend's leaflet, The Call to Prayer, states the theme of the mural is, quote, infinity, unquote. Now let us look at this mural squarely from the viewpoint of the esoterically inclined, the

[00:44:59.920 to 00:45:25.850] occultist, the adept, the initiate. There is an asymmetrical arrangement of the entire mural into what is called a magic square, which is a square arranged in an equal number of cells, in this case nine, three rows up and three rows down. The game tic-tac-toe is based on this type of square. The talismanic magic square has a series of numbers in the cells.

[00:45:26.490 to 00:45:50.430] The enumeration of all of whose columns, vertically, horizontally, and diagonally, will give the same sum. The following nine digits, so arranged as to add up to fifteen in any direction, were regarded as sacred because fifteen is the numerical value of the Hebrew word for God, Yah, spelled J-A-H, which is one of the forms of the Tetragrammaton.

[00:45:50.910 to 00:46:14.270] And in the rows, going across from left to right in each row, the first row, the numbers are 4, 9, and 2. In the second row, the numbers are 3, 5, and 7. And in the third row, the numbers are 8, 1, and 6. Whether you add them up diagonally, vertically, or horizontally, no matter in which direction you go, it always adds up to the number 15.

[00:46:15.460 to 00:46:39.320] The predominantly dark blue rectangle, which occupies most of the middle tier of the mural, the upper side of which passes through the exact middle of the small bisected sphere, represents the altar. The yellow rectangle, set at an angle into the lower and middle tiers so that one corner touches the bottom of the mural, is a second representation of the altar. They indicate, ladies and gentlemen, duality.

[00:46:39.810 to 00:47:07.660] Remember the yin and the yang, positive, negative, male, female, the androgynous god, the yellow figure, light, the sun, the blue figure, earth, the altar. Both rectangular figures are overlaid in part by other patterns in other colors. The all-important sphere in the left upper middle section symbolizes, among other things, the sun. Sun worship was the oldest and by far the most prevalent of all the ancient religions.

[00:47:08.580 to 00:47:32.160] The sphere is bisected and quartered. The phenomena of nature that made the deepest religious impression on archaic man were the outstretched heavens above him and the outspread earth beneath, both of which he naturally divided into four quarters. This fourfold heaven and earth he signified by a circle, or a square divided crossways.

[00:47:32.800 to 00:48:04.040] The circle, ladies and gentlemen, is met with in every form of sorcery. The circle in quadrants is called the magic circle. The objects in the meditation room are intended to be evocative in the religious sense. Of what? Well, the mural and altar are admittedly symbols. By symbolism, the simplest, the commonest objects are transformed or idealized and acquire a new, and so to say, an illimitable value.

[00:48:05.340 to 00:48:34.230] An expert on these subjects has written, quote, Under occult dominion art, music and politics all tend to the same end. Confusion, a calculated and inducted confusion. Chaos, for minds that are confused, will obey and bow to the hidden masters, and out of chaos, out of chaos, comes order. And isn't that, isn't that the motto of the 33rd degree of Freemasonry? Ordo ab teo?

[00:48:35.270 to 00:49:04.680] The rule of the triangle and the ellipse together with a crude geometry in modern art is the rule in aesthetics. Standing before a meaningless cubist canvas at an art exhibition, one day a puzzled amateur asked, But what does it mean? To which the painter replied, It's not a question of what it means. It's a question of what is its effect on the observer. Consciously or unconsciously, the artist spoke the truth.

[00:49:05.930 to 00:49:32.850] Psychiatrists tell us that this school of insidious humbug is simply an elaboration of the policy of the interruption of ideas, leading to total incoherence and madness. Cubist art is an effort to produce certain psychic effects obtainable by optical illusion. Beauty has nothing, nothing to do with it. The cubist school is not the realm of art at all. It belongs to that of medicine and psychic science.

[00:49:33.730 to 00:49:59.930] Those who forget that this devastating fad of the interrupted idea can be extended to music, literature, and every other phase of human effort do so at their own peril. For instance, listen closely to the beat of the rap musician. Quote, a mind that is positive cannot be controlled, for the purpose of occult dominion minds must therefore be rendered passive and negative in order that control

[00:49:59.940 to 00:50:25.870] can be conceived. Minds consciously working to a definite end are a power, and power can oppose power for good or for evil. The scheme for world dominion might be doomed by the recognition of this principle alone, but as it is unfortunately unrecognized, it remains unchallenged until we decided to purchase.

[00:50:27.010 to 00:50:42.880] a media corporation. And thus now, now, we have minds consciously working to a definite end, and we are now a power, a very great power.

[00:50:44.450 to 00:51:08.350] A striking feature of the mural is the white half crescent in its upper right quadrant. The inner curve of the crescent closest to the bisected black, pale blue, and yellow sphere is equidistant at all points from the exact center of the bisected figure. Therefore, ladies and gentlemen, if the curve of the crescent is continued full circle, the figure which results is a hidden point within a circle.

[00:51:08.830 to 00:51:18.590] the symbol which was adopted by the astronomers as their sign of the sun, and of course you know that the crescent is the sign of the moon, Isis and Osiris.

[00:51:19.260 to 00:51:43.770] In the ancient mysteries, the point in the circle denoted the principle of fecundity, and has been carried down through the ages as a sign of various secret societies, including the Illuminati of Adam Weishaupt in 1776, and you will find the dot in the circle in the temples of Freemasonry. It is the symbol of the phallus. We always come back.

[00:51:44.220 to 00:52:11.750] to the generity force. The female principle is also emphasized in the crescent moon, our lunate figure of Isis. There are 72 geometrical figures and shadings in the mural. The two crescent shapes and the four long triangles, white, yellow, blue, and black, which are located in the two upper tiers of the mural, are each counted as one figure. The number 72 denoted from the earliest days the divine name of 72 words.

[00:52:12.540 to 00:52:38.670] 72 words. This number is derived from a permutation of the values assigned to the four letters of the Tetragrammaton, or J-H-V-H, Jehovah, the ineffable, unpronounceable name of God. This name and its multitude of forms can be used to work miracles or magic, so say the Kabbalists. It was derived from Exodus.

[00:52:40.100 to 00:53:04.810] Chapter 14, verses 19, 20, and 21, which each consist of 72 letters. Now, if these three verses be written at length, one above another, the first from right to left, the second from left to right, and the third from right to left, or as the Greeks would say, they will give 72 columns of three letters each.

[00:53:05.600 to 00:53:30.630] Then each column will be a word of three letters, and as there are seventy-two columns, there will be seventy-two words of three letters, each of which will be the seventy-two names of the deity alluded to in the text. And these are called the Shem Hamphoresh. Seventy-two is also the number of the quinaries, are sets of five degrees in the three hundred and sixty degrees of the Zodiac.

[00:53:31.710 to 00:53:53.770] The number of triangles in the mural are difficult to count. There are 22 isosceles, equilateral, scalene, right angles, triangles. There are also 22 numbered letters in the ancient Hebrew alphabet with values of 1 to 400. The triangle is an ancient emblem of the deity. It is also a sign of the female element.

[00:53:54.200 to 00:54:23.390] However, if the apex of the triangle is pointed down, it becomes the male element. Thus inverted, it may also represent Lucifer, particularly if it is black in color. The sphere figure, or the spiral figure, intertwined with a mural-length diagonal line symbolizes the caducus of Hermes, or Mercury, which mythologically is represented as two serpents twined around the winged wand of Mercury. Nine arcs are formed by the intersections of the spiral line with the diagonal.

[00:54:23.930 to 00:54:50.080] The ninth Hebrew letter, Teth, with the value of nine, has the signification of serpent. The number of the beast of Revelation is 666, which tabalistically is nine, the number of generation. The twin serpents of the Kadukas are negative and positive, representing polarity, and twine around the spinal column. They are the kundalini, our sex force.

[00:54:50.940 to 00:55:00.000] in the encircled serpent the chapter on the caducas contains references on page seventy two to the ancient use of the symbol without wings as seen in the

[00:55:00.000 to 00:55:25.020] mural. The caduceus is also the symbol of peace, the propaganda term associated with the United Nations. The serpents are male and female, the sun god and the moon god, and are symbols of generation, or the phallus. Buddha was symbolized by the serpent, and in mythology is identical with Mercury. The center sphere and the outer circles around it form the all-seeing eye.

[00:55:25.710 to 00:55:52.850] This bisected sphere overlays an isosceles triangle bounded on one side by the diagonal line. According to Manly Palmer Hall in his occult treatise on the secret destiny of America, the all-seeing eye is that of the great architect of the universe, whenever it appears as a symbol of God. His explanation is that which is generally accepted. It is, however, erroneous, a full commentary on the meaning of this all-important symbol.

[00:55:53.290 to 00:56:05.230] has already been dealt with in previous episodes of The Hour of the Time. The mural, if viewed from the top or the roof overhead of the meditation room,

[00:56:08.390 to 00:56:28.190] is the truncated top of a pyramid. Behind the mural is a small, smaller pyramid, which is that which contains the eye, the all-seeing eye of Lucifer.

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