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FROM PICTOU SESSIONS CD BY SEVEN NATIONS
SEPTEMBER 12, 2004
RE: HOLY RELIC
This CD was
altered by
unknown sources
PARANORMAL ACTIVITY
on
9/12/2004
in Dixon, Ca @ 1:00 am.
All copies of this
CD
including
the master copy
WERE
altered.
I CALLED
SEVEN NATIONS
OFFICE
AND
LEFT SEVERAL MESSAGES...
Tracks 6 - 12
were moved up to Track 5. There is A SONG MISSING AND THE SONG TRAINS WILL PLAY BUT THE TITLE WILL NOT COME UP ON THE COMPUTER.
I PURCHASE 2 MORE CD'S TO MAKE SURE THIS REALLY HAPPENED...
The Pictou Sessions is an album released by Seven Nations in 2000.
Track listing
- 1. "The King of Oblivion" (called "King of Oblivion" on "Seven Nations")
- 2. "Seeds of Life"
- 3. "Fiddle Set" (called "Jig in E Minor" on "Seven Nations")
- 4. "Scream"
- 5. "The Surprise Ceilidh Band Set"
- 6. "God"
- 7. "O'er the Moor and Among the Heather"
- 8. "All You People"
- 9. "Skyezinha / The Egret"
- 10. "A Rare Auld Time"
- 11. "Pipe Set" (called "The Pipe Set" on "Seven Nations")
- 12. "Trains"
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God (Kirk McLeod)
No I never drink my poison No I never
let you see No I never drink my poison Unless it's good for me No I never ponder confusion no Or sit around
and wait to see Or watch the outcome of a certain situation I had in mind for eternity
Yeah it's up to me
What will be is up to me No I never make a choice unless it's up to me And I never give a reason
No I
never sink my teeth in No I never take a bite No I never sink my teeth in unless I feel the right No I never play
the jokerman Sit around and wait to see Or watch the outcome of a certain situation I had in mind for eternity
Yeah it's up to me What will be is up to me No I never make a choice unless it's got to be And I never
give a reason
It's up to me; It's up to me What will be is up to me No I never make a choice unless it's got
to be And I never give a reason
THE MOTHER'S OF DARKNESS
CHANGED THIS CD WITH A CHARGER
AND
BECAUSE AFTER I FEEL I HAVE DEFEATED EVIL I PALY A VICTORY LAPE
BUT
THEY SEVEN NATIONS
A
HOLY RELIC
THANK YOU
NINA ALVES
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PS... I READ IN YOUR NEWSLETTER TOMMY WAS LEAVING?
I HOPE YOU WILL ALL COME BACK TOGETHER SO WE CAN MEET...
IT WOULDN'T BE THE SAME WITHOUT ALL OF YOU AND TOMMY'S CRAZY PANTS AND
FANCY FOOT WORK...
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SOPHIA OF WISDOM III - YEAR OF BARBELO 2003
DECEMBER 9, 2006
LIBRARY OF SOPHIA OF WISDOM III SOPHIA OF ALL SOPHIA OF WISDOMS AKA
CAROLINE E. KENNEDY______________________________________
The Counterfactual... Year of Barbelo
2003...
Tom Coates
Preface, I'm not a particularly brilliant creative writer so I'm going
to suggest something and then retire away relatively gracefully to see what people make of it. This particularly interested
me because my recent reintroduction to the Gnostic Barbelites reminded me of all the inherently Christian bits of ideology
that still exist in my morals and preconceptions even as a staunch atheist. So this is an attempt at getting people to think
differently in terms of alternate histories - ways the world could have gone - with the objective of helping us to realise
the contingency of our own world, it's value systems and beliefs...
Year of Barbelo 196 AD:
The second century
Barbelite Christians believed that human bodies were vessels for fallen fragments of divine higher powers. Believing that
reproduction only drove the cycle of imprisonment, they ritually consumed semen (and
menses, according to some sources); they believed that the life energy bound therein would be bound
to the soul of the one who consumed them, and be able to escape this world with the eater's soul upon death. If
the eater had not gained enough energy and wisdom, he would be trapped by the Rulers and reincarnated again on Earth.
The Barbelites used sexual fluids as the sacraments of the Eucharist.
The suffering of Christ was re-enacted whenever a new being was born. The Barbelites
used non-reproductive sex to re-enact the descent of spirit into matter without actually trapping the spirit in physical form.
The Barbelites, believing Yaldabaoth (Yahweh [YHWH]) was the vile bastard son of Barbelo,
the pure reflection of the true God's conscious, felt that, by the desist of humanity, they would transfer
Barbelo's stolen energy back to her, weakening the mad, tyrranical Yaldabaoth. Needless to say, the Barbelites
were none too beloved by less eccentric religious groups. They were wiped out en masse, courtesy the
Christians.
But what if they weren't wiped out. What if - instead - Barbelite
Gnosticism became the major faith of the Western World - eventually taken up by Emperor Constantine
to reinspire his empire. What if Barbelite Gnosticism was a state religion...
Year of Barbelo 2003:
What kind of world could have made the Barbelites 'win'. What kind of world would exist today
if they had become the major religion of the Western world....
Qalyn (prev. Qualyn) 00:11
/ 06.09.03 Well, Tom, before we can really get rolling, we'd have to take into account the mystes of the Druidic Boibel-Loth,
which (reputedly) contained encoded instructions on all manner of statecraft pertinent to Celtic affairs, and its impact on
orthodox Barbelist thought.
rizla mission 19:24 / 06.09.03 Well a fairly inescapable suggestion is gonna
be;
A sect which exists in direct opposition to the idea of reproductive sex becomes the dominant religious force
in the Western world?
..there aren't gonna be many caucasians around in 2003..
Tom Coates 22:33 / 06.09.03 Well Christianity is pretty against people having sex outside wedlock, but
all the evidence is that people have been doing it pretty much since the beginning of time. You might use as a basis for any
counterfactual thinking that Catholic priests are supposed to be celibate and married to Christ - it could be that in order
for the cult to have 'won' it would have to split into a priest class and a follower class, where the priests tried to persuade
people to have as much non-reproductive sex as possible, lowering birth rates dramatically but far from totally - people having
ten children - four of which died - now have four - one of whom dies.
Discrimination on grounds of sexual act would be dramatically lower initially at least and indeed in a subsequent renaissance
that might happen again. The Church might have remained in the hands of the people rather than become institutionalised to
the same extent or it might not.
STDs would be much higher, but prostate cancer much lower. The status of women could have been dramatically higher earlier,
both because of the mother goddess and because of the celebration of less invasive penetrative sex... So with those things
in your head, WHAT COMES NEXT?
Tom Coates 22:40 / 06.09.03 PS. Also "Caucasian"? If you're talking in
the colloquial "white" sense of the word, then I'm not sure that the middle eastern population we're starting with fall under
that classification - and if you're talking about the stricter now-out-of-use scientific classification, then you're also
talking about people who came to undertake many other religions including but not limited to some of the peoples of India,
many muslims and peoples of North Africa.
rizla mission 00:14 / 07.09.03 Fair point. Poor choice of words.
I guess maybe "European" is closer to what I meant.
I still think though that, since according to the Barbelite cosmology
childbirth isn't just frowned upon - it's actually ultimate sin which the whole religion is organised in opposition to - it
would be pretty difficult for the leaders of the religion to tolerate any births within the ranks of the faithful..
Possibilities:
i.maybe people who had children would be banished from the religious community, creating parallel religious and secular
societies. I suppose the Barbelite ideology would have to be persuasive enough to convince a certain percentage of the secular
offspring to take it up again, thus ensuring that it doesn't die out..
ii.maybe, as a more extreme version of what
you've suggested, an extremely small carefully monitored birth rate would be permitted in the name of self-preservation and
perpetuating the religion..
(I know I'm maybe going off on the wrong tack on this, but it's fun trying to get my head
around how a sect that prohibits breeding could succeed in becoming a dominant world religion..)
Tom Coates 12:09
/ 08.09.03 So try to think about some of the shifts they'd have had to make to keep the core message intactish while permitting
them to become the dominant religion...
grant 23:05 / 08.09.03 I can easily picture a world where STDs
bear the taint of sin.
What would be interesting, however, would be the institution of marriage, which is seen as
the cornerstone of society. Human emotions being what they are, I imagine serial monogamy might become the norm -- and/or
massive orgies, probably during major carnivals, like Mardi Gras.
Also, for the Barbelo-gnostics to be in a position
of authority, the Bible as we know it would not exist. Significant portions of the New Testament would be different, primarly
the omission Paul's writings. These are the ones that set up the prohibitions surrounding marriage, but also have something
to say about homosexuality, as well as setting out some of what we know about the Trinity, and the rule of celibate priesthood.
John would stay -- weird visions of the End Times. The Whore of Babylon, however, would
have a whole different vibe.
I think in this world, prominent citizens might be required to "make face" by having
a same-sex consort.
Prostitutes would probably be mainstream working class, if not considered elite professionals.
I imagine there'd also be a substantial historical precedent for sex-slavery. Like, maybe not in 2003, but up to the 1800s
at least and probably much later.
Racial boundaries, as a result, might be a lot harder to police. This may have an
opposite effect from what you'd expect -- ideas of racial supremacy might be even stronger, especially with the "no children"
meme adding to the opprobrium heaped on the offspring of slave-master unions. So possibly a minority snow-white sex-worker/priest
class, with a lot of mixed race middle class folks.
I'm not sure if democracy would catch on in quite the same way,
but I imagine queens would be far more common, and women would never have had to march to get the vote.
Populations
would definitely be smaller. I wonder... Christianity might have spread a lot faster, if the sexuality was attached to the
idea of eternal salvation and a single, omnipotent, loving God. Hmm.
The current debate on abortion would be almost
identical, only with scientists & "rationalists" taking a minority "pro-life" view, and fundamentalist Christians taking
the close majority "pro-choice" view.
The relationship between the Church and scientific rationalism would also be
somewhat different, probably, since gnosticism in all forms is based on personal revelation, not authoritative truth. Galileo
might never have been persecuted. Hard to say, though, since we monkeys seem to like authorities.
I wonder, also,
what urges would be repressed -- y'know, Freud's big thing was, "Hey, sex - it's pretty important! And we don't like to admit
we're thinking about it!"
What would the Barbelo-Freud discover?
grant 16:49 / 09.09.03 Actually,
if Emperor Constantine took up Barbelite Gnosticism, it would find a way to become authoritarian pretty darn quickly.
Most
of the authoritarianism in the early church can be traced to him, the first Christian emperor. (Or, more properly, "Christian").
bjacques 16:03 / 15.09.03 Is Gnosticism the source of the
Jorge
Luis Borges
quote that "copulation and mirrors are both abominable, because they increase the number of men?"
But I think an anti-reproductive religion would have been self-limiting.
The Shakers, (SEE MOTHER ANN LEE)
in the northern US of the 1700s, were also
against sex, and are pretty much extinct. If Constantine had championed it, it would probably have been a religion practiced
publicly and in the Emperor's court, while people practiced their real religion privately, and it would have died with him,
as did Ikhnaton's solar monotheism and Julian's "Apostasy."
But since preference for barbelite Christianity would
have come at the cost of the "our" Christianity, then the latter might not have gotten the critical boost it needed to become
one of the Big Three monotheisms. There's an excellent book by Karen Armstrong called something like
the History of God, supposing Islam, Judaism and Christianity arose and consolidated their hold in the Axial Age,
about 400BC-600AD, when general historical conditions favored it. That also suggests a niche existed and that a later Emperor
might have seen which way the wind was blowing and championed regular Christianity with roughly similar results.
So
the world would have been very different, but still not very barbelithic, except that that religion would probably have about
as many adherents as Jehovah's Witnesses.
I like this, I just wish I knew enough about Gnosticism to imagine the alternate
world instead of just playing, er, Devil's Advocate.
grant 21:04 / 15.09.03 "Gnosticism" is a single label
for a bunch of different strands of belief -- Barbelite Gnosticism being just one of 'em.
Emphasis
is on personal knowledge (gnosis) of the divine as opposed to scripture and traditional/authoritative sources of revelation.
There *is* a tradition (a set of beliefs) within these gnostic strains, elements
of which were accepted or rejected by various groups throughout history. So that set of beliefs is by no means uniform from
group to group.
The main thing all the gnostics have in common is that they lost out to orthodox Christianity
(as political entities) at about the same time Constantine adopted the faith.
I wonder if the Barbelites would have
been more plural and less monolithic than the version of Christianity that came to the fore in the 300s -- less
apt to condemn heretics, laying the foundation for a far broader church.
bjacques 00:53 /
16.09.03 Thanks! I'd picked up a few strands from reading tons of Borges' stories;
last week I was amazed to see Gnostic themes in Orson Welles' version of Kafka's
"The Trial." Anyway...
You're probably right about a kinder, gentler Christianity resulting. A possible
example is the Ottoman Empire whose state religion was of course Islam, but it was a more tolerant Islam than that practiced
in Saudi Arabia. Non-Muslims were welcome there as long as they paid taxes and didn't stir up trouble. There was a lot of
intellectual ferment in the Ottoman Empire.
Oh. Fertility images, like the classic Demeter
and her Cornucopia, used a lot in American art in the 1800s, would probably be unknown. Maybe Barbelo-Freud would discover
repression of fertility drives? Also, the ecstatic side of Christianity would be more respectable, and probably de rigeur,
but maybe you'd only have to fake it on festival days. A dark side of a religion like this could be outbreaks of mass panics,
fundamentalist frenzy. Maybe the state would make use of them and channel them into participatory public executions like the
"salvagings" of Margaret Atwood's "The Handmaid's Tale," only people wouldn't pull on a long rope but instead tear the victims apart themselves.
Burning
Man would be government-subsidized, and have darker connotations, at least in states that had the death penalty...
at
the scarwash 03:26 / 30.09.03 Religions of aesceticism, if they are to thrive, seem to very quickly generate more
easily-consumable versions of themselves. A good example of this is perhaps Pure-Land Buddhism, which offers potential enlightenment
to those who can't find it though the path of wisdom, or in other words, by doing the damned hard (and selfish) work of the
aescetic. Even Catholicism as it is today would be a good example. My impression of Catholic doctrine is that the real O.G.'s
of the Catholic world are found amongst the priesthood and the orders; the laiety have their place, but they are somehow less
holy than their clergy. It's not that they actually could or should all be ordained--they are in the position intended for
them.
So anyway, I'd imagine that the Barbelo-Gnostics would probably evolve a similar system: a real hard-ass Barbelo-Gnosis
for the expert, and a Barbelo-lite Home Edition (TM) for the people too concerned with raising crops to feed the priesthood
to be able to go off and be awesome pervert-heretics themselves.
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