Anatolian

April 28, 2019June 28, 2021

The Proof that The Spirit of God or Divinity Can Exist on Planet Earth

The Proof that The Spirit of God or
Divinity Can Exist on Planet Earth

The search for proof that the spirit of god or divinity can exist on planet earth was what was accepted by the Oriental Orthodox, the Alexandrian Coptics as well as Judaism, Islam and some but not all Greek and Russian Orthodox as being one of the missions of The Church of Opposition. (1) The reason to support Howard Stanton’s Church was simple, everyone exchanged information about proof of divinity on earth. This was the first United States “National Multi-National Indigenous Church”

The name was never agreed on, so it ended up being legally called the [UN Named] CoS. We never use the name in public out of respect for the spirits of the Holocaust dead we stand in for. It was also called The Church of No Name at the Crossroads. The reason for “Jewish and Gypsy” (1) support of what was sometimes being called “The Pagan Church in Exile” was the fact that the bones and blood were mixed in the fires of Europe. Christian support was Eastern not Catholic and not Protestant. Which fits the European, Eastern European, Middle Eastern, North African and United States of America sentiments of the time.

Hahamonghna Watershed Park: Features: Dogs must be on leash: Yes Length of Hike: 3 Miles Difficulty: Moderate

In every human being on planet earth the oppositionists said there exists the capability for divinity to exist, we create it in ourselves. We will it into being. We share it with each other. Even if you do not believe in God this is the first proof. You need to ask Zeena how to explain it and she has done so very well, you can listen to her Karla or Howard Stanton on YouTube. Beliefs change over time as we all grow in spirit together. [The people of humanity AND/OR The people of the human spirit]

The Witches said it existed in nature and in various spirit forms that we could access singly and together. You could see evidence of divinity on planet earth if you knew where and how to look. [The people of the trees and the seeds (nature worship)]

We looked backwards in time, we needed to find the god or goddess that controlled the in-between time, the instant between knowing and not knowing some called it creativity or the creative force. The mother earth worshippers called one of their main goddesses Aphrodite/Venus some aspects are Love, Woman, Ancestress. We agreed with the modern Greeks and Romans that this was probably best split into the Greek Aphrodite–Woman–Love and Roman Venus–Woman–Ancestress. The primary or proto male god was undetermined but all could agree that the oldest one must be a horned god because if your women could not give milk a horned animal’s milk was safe and would raise your child. That must surely be the oldest god because his gift was milk. What were his names around the world? [The people of the ancients]

Hahamongna Park: https://www.coloradoboulevard.net/10-cool-parks-in-pasadena/

We searched and found that perhaps there was a older goddess with a triple spirit force form. Just like a woman’s lifespan her divine aspects were different depending on what epithet you were praying to. She was called Hekate and her temple worship was a total mystery. We are still learning today.

We could all agree that if there was one higher god it must be the same on all over the planet Earth because we all live on Earth together and a god on one side of the earth must have created the whole thing so when we talked to “the one god” it must be the same god. What were the thousand names of God?

Were all the indigenous religions praying to different aspects of god—spirit— ancestor—forces? Were they calling Hekate Aidonaia, Hekate Phosphoros, (the light bringer) Hekate Erodia, all of which are different aspects of Hekate. How that worked in real life we did not know but all could agree that she pre-dated most other Goddess forms and the Pagans agreed that she was appropriate for the Los Angeles Gypsy Pagan Holocaust Shrine as she had the capability to protect and ward off evil and control the crossroads to the underworld. She represented the cycle of death and rebirth like their twin goddess Morana and Vesna. Hekate would also stay with the spirits of the departed as companion after death. This was deemed appropriate by Judaism and the Orthodox as they could not be sure which soul they were laying to rest.

Hekate lit the way on the path to the other side with her torch or lantern. Nobody knew how to bury or pray for so many unknown souls so she was chosen as a caretaker until they could be properly prayed for. Islam agreed also as Hekate had the ability to control spirits and the time between time when men’s minds might be changed. More consultation was needed about male—spirit—force forms and Samael appeared but the translation of the name in the bible was done incorrectly if you looked at the context. Why would a angel be standing at the side of men. Why would an angel represent a opposing king. The search found the [New] Babylonian version of that Angel more accurate and a better fit to the biblical accounts. The Catholic Pope now uses the term The Devil rather than Satan, it’s taken 50 years for that change. The Catholic Pope now says it’s the same God all over the planet earth. Greetings and Welcome.

Always and forever the search for divinity on earth continues. IF the proof that the spirit of god or divinity can exist on planet earth CAN NOT be proven then how can you prove Jesus was the son of God created by the Holy Spirit in the Womb of Mary? How can you have miracles that God provides? How can you have Saints? Divinity must exist on earth as evidence of God or the Spirit of God otherwise it is all tricks, lies and deceit. Can you see the problem here? Recognition of what God is becomes the issue. If you have an example divinity, is it divided or a twin like Morana and Vesna? Or is it a triple like Hekate, which allows for the time-in-between-time AND the time-out-of-time? This was discussed in the CalTech and Pasadena talks.

If you like physics you can probably guess what a couple of those discussions were like. In academia proofs spread like wildfires. If the scientific questions asked were real or valid then the proof was part of the validation of divinity on earth, the answer would be found and it would fit within the Classical, Neo-Classical or Modern Systems. It would usually be found to be an aspect or epithet of one of the Ancients or the Syncretic Gods or Goddesses. Sometimes a hidden truth was in a ritual or a folk belief held by one faith group or another. If it sounded true then they would pursue it. You can think about it in terms of Gödel’s ontological proof that came out in 1970.

I want to go back here someday to the Hahamonga Watershed Park in Pasadena:

89.3 KPCC — Trees are being cleared from a favorite hiking spot to reduce flooding threat downstream
Credit Sharon McNary/KPCC

In answer to your unspoken question yes we hung out here as well as other places or rather we showed up and people gathered. They were called park talks sometimes. It was child visitations. He paid for the babysittters and gas money to visit him. I could usually be found in Southern California with the neighbor girls in the Pinto’s and at book signings sometimes. This is one reason why the original UNCOS is a very different church.

Devils Gate Dam

Arroyo Seco

Save Hanamogna

Personal Historical Note Sat April 27 2019 after receiving word that yet another Church shooting has occurred this time in Poway California. One woman was killed and three people were wounded. So I started writing this history note about The Hekate Sanctuary and Shrine in support.

Notes:
(1) We are not talking about spirits or souls but divinity.

Hekate Pagan Memorial Lantern — Hekate lantern lit again in support of people in Poway

Notes: (1) I am very aware of the pejorative aspects of being called Jewish or Gypsy or Romani. There is a movement in the UK within the Romani community to reclaim the name and use it for themselves. It’s the same thing as saying Meo but not Mọi for Montagnards which is French for Mountain People. All of it is a exonym. [External Name] In SoCal Gypsy Pagan was sometimes used as slang and it’s a keyword pair hence the usage here. Ask First was the whole point of the domain name. Asians usually get it instantly and ask.

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March 21, 2019April 18, 2019

UNCOS Hekate Memorial Los Angeles

The History of The UNCOS “Pagan” Hekate Memorial Los Angeles.
Excerpt warning: contains explicit links:

The History of The UNCOS “Pagan” Hekate Memorial Los Angeles 40+ years ago. The internationally recognized original UNCOS Hekate Memorial Los Angeles (@the_hekate) started as the Ukrainian National Holocaust Memorial Church Coalition Los Angeles and San Francisco. (a Pagan led United States of America Council) in exile under the USSR over 40- 50 years ago. This was done to represent the living survivors and the remnants of the Ukrainian and other national holocaust resistance shrines, sanctuaries, churches, the living and the dead in World War Two. The ancient Hekate sanctuary was chosen as the temple because it was perhaps older than the Titans (3–5000 BCE)

This was only 15-20 years after World War II when Greek Orthodox, Alexandrian Coptic, Russian Orthodox and people of the Jewish faith as well as a few other religions and organizations got together and decided that they should meet together to talk about inter-church issues. Due to the fact that in the Soviet Union the only religion was the state everyone agreed that the Church to head it up was the pagan church council. This was a LA and San Francisco Church Coalition or Council that was based loosely on supporting holocaust families in Los Angeles and San Francisco as well as social and cultural support in general. The “un named pagan church” (the name always changed for security reasons or it was called “the church with no name”) (*) was chosen to head it as it was recognizably famous and seemingly atheist or without god—they were the religion neutral national resistance church. It was organized and headed by a famous author and his family as well as other families across the United States of America. They had a newsletter and it was safe to meet with them in public without physical danger from the terrorists. (White supremacists, Racists and Nazi’s)

They represented the resistance not the terror, and would not totally trust the “other christians” ever again.

Catholic involvement was only with the California Mission System San Gabrie l not the archdiocese, they did coordinate during the LA Riots, and afterwards asked for advice in special circumstances. The San Gabriel Mission is the base from which the pueblo became the city of Los Angeles. Land rights flow from the indigenous population through the mission system, Spanish colonial rule, mexico and finally the United States of America. It was and is impossible for the Catholics in California to not recognize the LACOS or UNCOS. Title to land ownership and recognizing international canon law is the issue. Los Angeles became a international city with multiple consulates due to everyone’s efforts at understanding and implementing the social program messages. (1)

The Ukraine was chosen to be the Non-Jewish Los Angeles memorial because in addition to the 1 million Jewish people, 3 million more civilians who might have practiced a dual belief system (2) were murdered systematically in the Nazi final solution during the years 1941 to 1943. Two million people were executed a year in addition to the civilian and military war dead. The Nazi’s stated written objective was wholesale population reduction in the occupied areas. The Ukraine general population was supposed to be reduced 60% by special groups of executioners the Einsatzgruppen, the Order Police battalions, and local Nazi collaborators. According to the Nazi records they achieved greater than a 50% reduction in two years.

With the loss of over half of the countries population to killings by Germans —the majority of them who were christian on both sides of the killing— everyone realized that perhaps preserving and reconstructing the original indigenous religions to demonstrate the common elements of culture across borders was a national consideration for multiple nations in Europe and around the world. These days I am heartened by Egypt spending money on preserving it’s Jewish Heritage sites especially in Alexandria. (Link 2) Why not, it’s a non-christian heritage site and the Egyptian government and the people are making a real cultural effort gesture on behalf of visitors from around the world. Someday maybe UNESCO will spend money on pagan sites as well. Turkish Universities are going to commence another archaeological dig at Hekate’s sanctuary in Anatolia Turkey very soon also. Things are moving forward again.

People were looking for answers to why it happened. How did the mass murder happen. Was it a disease? Was the answer lying dormant in some esoteric or “occulted or occluded” regional religion? What were the Nazi’s really after? What made them believe in Hitler? 40 million of them were Protestant 20 million were Catholic Christians in 1933. A full two thirds + (85%) of them were christians 60 million Germans out of 70 million in 1940. (rough numbers) Think about that for a minute, why would those Christians do that to other Christians. The majority of the people killing Christians were “the other” Christians.

That is not the total loss of people in the Ukraine during WWII, these are the numbers for 1941 through 1943 from Nazi German records:
The population of the Reichskommissariat Ukraine taken by census was 37,000,000 in 1941 and 16,910,008 in 1943 for a total of 20.1 million people killed. The Soviet census of just the Ukraine in 1939 was 30.96 million. We have no census data following the war. The German administrative district included adjacent areas of Belarus and the Second Polish Republic.

From the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Ukraine:
The general demographic loss of Ukraine including those killed; deported, evacuated, the victims of concentration camps, and those who went into exile along with the retreating Nazis add up to at least 14 million people. This is the greatest single loss compared with the losses of other countries and nations in World War II. The USSR lost about 26.6 million lives in World War II. In comparison, the total losses in Germany were about 6 million. In fact, the total Ukrainian losses likely vary between 40 to 44 percent of the total casualties of the USSR.

Notes:

(1) Safe Passage, Sanctuary and Safe Surrender were the official social program messages and were directly based on the Ukrainian holocaust experiences. Today they are publicly slightly different than the original program messages. One example is this statement: Police can not enter churches <–this was the original issue in the United States of America especially in California where secularization (taking church land) of the Catholic mission lands by Mexico was the original issue. Freedom of Religion and the Separation of Church and State means that the police cannot raid or drag people out of church for civil law enforcement actions.

(2) Dual belief system refers to a practice of having two belief systems.
The official church of the state. Usually this was what the King practiced or what kind of prayers were said at state functions (if any)
The private religion your family practices i.e., which god or goddess your house follows. Which is your home temple was a usual question.

Wikipedia sheds some light on the twin faith issue here:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavic_paganism

The Christianisation of the Slavic peoples was, however, a slow and—in many cases—superficial phenomenon, especially in what is today Russia. Christianisation was vigorous in western and central parts of what is today Ukraine, as they were closer to the capital Kiev, but even there, popular resistance led by volkhvs, pagan priests or shamans, recurred periodically for centuries.^[2] Even though the Byzantine Christianization firstly has slowed down the Eastern Slavic traditions in Rus’, it has preserved the Slavic traditions in the long term. While local Slavic figures and myths, such as Baba Roga in Croatia were forgotten,^[4] Slavic culture continued to exist and even flourish in the Eastern Slavic countries. In the case of a Christian Latinization of the Eastern Slavic countries, this may not have been the case.

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Please stop copy pasting for dark social here.

After this is a personal note to my two biological sister(s) and maybe a brother who I have not seen in 10 years now. Go ahead and please use this image:

(*) (Double edged sword, yes I see the double edged sword Z, nice choice but I wanted to make you one when I grew up.)

Painting by Rado Javor: -https://www.deviantart.com/radojavor/art/Sunflower-fields-562097517-Click Picture Link to Abramovich Artem Volodimirovich at -ukraine-memorial.org-

Image and story from Euromaidan Press

[ED: These two tanks (Russian and Ukrainian) did not shoot at each other in 2014 but rammed each other,.. both reactive armor systems exploded.]

http://euromaidanpress.com/2019/02/18/russian-war-with-ukraine-a-clash-of-civilizations-ikhlov-says/

Artist: Rado Javor Link 2 Link 3

Interesting:
http://euromaidanpress.com/2015/09/09/for-russians-ukraine-is-a-south-korea-to-russias-north-zhordan-says/

https://medium.com/practice-of-history-2018/euromaidan-social-media-in-the-revolution-of-dignity-142084c30202

–https://medium.com/practice-of-history-2018/euromaidan-social-media-in-the-revolution-of-dignity-142084c30202

Featured image is from:
https://pxhere.com/en/photo/591272
License:
https://pxhere.com/en/license

November 18, 2018April 3, 2020

A White Dove A Lantern and Keys

A White Dove at Hekate’s Lantern and Keys

Observing the signs:
I see things like this all the time around Xxxxx’s roadside shrine and magic spot. that’s why it’s called Magic. The best kinds of daily magic are the real ones you can see the signs of, if you just open your eyes and think about things a little differently. If you are new to this website my front property was dedicated by the un-named church as a “Hekate, Venus/Aphrodite” sanctuary and shrine.

Explanation:
At it’s very simplest (in this context) if you had to explain it to a young male or female legends of magic reading American child it is the Goddess sanctuary and shrine of Hekate (Magic, Spirit, Protection) and Venus/Aphrodite (Woman/Ancestress). Within the context of a secret “magic” religion this would be appropriate and correct. Hopefully, I am finally presenting and explaining these things so people can understand it.

The daily ritual or ceremony:
I burned phosphorus and said the single word: Enough.
This is my private ritual not for the public to do.
If the public wants me to burn phosphorus and say some words for them then that becomes a votive offering. The shrine keepers can do that for people if people leave their wishes at the shrine. People can also come to the roadside shrine and say their words either silently in their mind or out loud if they want to. You just need to remember which spirit or goddess or god you are talking to and be appropriate. If you leave a problem for Hekate to show you the way forward on your path in life, you might want to read about how it works first. I can tell you that at the very least you can leave a problem at the crossroads by speaking the words then forget about it and leave it to god. You just have to be open to the small signs of magic in your every day life to be able to hear the answers back.

The coincidences or signs/answer:
The next day I received a white dove, and a raven from the south east flying towards the north west with a lizard in its beak. I took pictures of the dove because it was sitting still but not the raven. This is NOT auspicia or Roman auspicia publica some call it augury. This is not exactly bird omens where you release the dove and see where it lands in your temple although it involves birds but rather auspicia oblativa and auspicia privata. For what a Roman festival that might include auspicia publica looks like please see this post. I am using the Roman pagan language to explain things consistently.

What we look for in modern paganism is auspicia oblativa and auspicia privata. These are signs that “the gods favor you” or god favors you and you will have good fortune. If the gods are favoring you—meaning they are literally paying attention to you—then you stand a good chance of having good things happen. At the very least being able to see the signs of gods or goddesses favor in daily magic gives you the hope that there is something beyond death. That there is another existence waiting for you after this life. This does not mean that other faiths and beliefs and religions are wrong. It just means that there are older belief systems that came before the modern ones. Some of them make sense and some of them do not.

Please remember this shrine is a Hekate crossroads shrine. it’s just a magic spot on the side of the road on a property where a priestess said a blessing to get rid of the ghosts and evil spirits and invite certain deities to pay attention to this spot. You have to invite the spirits and provide a place for humans to stop and think about it for a moment.

In the ancient world people would leave a piece of paper or something of significance at the niche or on a offering plate and then the next time a ritual or ceremony was performed the staff would read the requests to the spirit of the roadside shrine. If the request was granted the shrine became known for real magic and people would start to support it with gifts of food for the people that lived there or money or things they said they wanted.

How the auspicia privata fits into my life:
Hekate’s answer of a white dove at the lantern and a black raven with a lizard is about something that happened in the past that I and only a few people know about. That’s why it’s called auspicia privata (private signs or private answers). If I tell you what the signs were, you need to figure out what that means in your private life. Then the signs become Auspica Publica and Auspicia Oblivata. The signs that the gods favor you, your family and/or “your public family” and the signs that people can come to that spot and request signs for their own life. I don’t need or want to know what you do, only that it works or not. If you are happy with the results then you should give thanks back. Simple eh?

Back to how it fits in my life:
This goes back to a troubling historical story (1) from Arcadia where there was someone competing with the Szandor newsletter and he called it the Salamander newsletter. In later years this possibly became the “lizard coven” in Redlands California. Inadvertently I moved into the center of their night time circles 19 years ago from the Los Angeles area and until now there has been some not so insignificant conflict between the two groups, one which has a decidedly Crowley leaning and of course us. The Crowley person is a man who was publishing and distributing a copycat newsletter at the racetracks for money. They even took our newsletter, cut the title off of it, photocopied it in Arcadia and sold it in the tunnels under the track to the infield. Our [un-named church] newsletter was given out to the travelling jockeys and the horse people in their trailers away from the general public. The other man’s newsletter was sold in the parking lots and the tunnels. The Arcadia Police Department mixed the two up of course and spoke to Howard about the wrong one. Giving newsletters to subscribers is one thing, copying and selling them is another thing entirely.

The newsletter was a special kind of a church, it is amazing to think about it now but all you needed to go to church was the newsletter. It was the non sanctuary old world shrines (?) church. Nobody knew about it at first. The secret was that it was a old gypsy and pagan magic newsletter like they sold at carnivals and circuses. Grandma’s and Grandpa’s read it. It had a list of convocations, a prayer list and who did what ceremony where. It also had old herbal remedies and recipes. This was over 50+ years ago. If you subscribed to it they had a post office box you could send general questions and prayer requests to. You could also send letters to other members if they dropped off the map and had no address. The office would hold the letters for you and let you know if someone was still alive if they got in contact with them.

Supposedly there is a local legend of how my father from afar got ahold of that newsletter AND later he received the racetrack, circus and entertainment distribution franchise which was a whole different worldwide thing in Los Angeles. He was supposed to sell flyers to get money for his kids including the one that was in the hospital and got adopted in Southern California. This was the start of the new legends (post WWII) of the world wide gypsy pagan nomad caravan church. It’s the very lowest gypsy pagan caravan franchise or legal job you can hold in a territory: handing out the flyers for the “nomad caravan” at the crossroads and maintaining the shrine/signpost. There is a very dark side aspect of the crossroads newsletter business that we will not tell here. Today we are writing the story in the light of day because the opposition religions are finally legal in the USA.

Nobody made very much money from it, it paid for the post office box, dinners and gas money to drive around and sell it and books. Supposedly it was to be like the handouts you got at the crossroads when there was a carnival or a circus or the gypsies or pagans were staying nearby. (+ the travellers, the ones in the caravans)

It was very exclusive you could only get it from the legitimate church. You had to find the church first, then arrange to meet them, then have your background vouched for and sometimes it took years to do this to become a member. Originally It had a very small number of member families that I can remember. This was the “gypsy pagan and nomad caravan convocation” “church newsletter”.

The Salamander’s had a presence in the tunnels under the Santa Anita Arcadia Racetrack and at the LA County Arboretum. They used LSD in their practice sometimes and felt that if they used LSD near XYZ, the “messages and visions” would come to them. Some of them drove up to Richmond and parked next to The Xxxxx Xxxxx Xxxxxxxx. I was not involved with them but the police department let me know when they were around. Apparently some of them came by a few years ago and said they were the ones who took XXX to the Zoo.

Summary:
This was Anatolian Greek and Roman if you wanted to know from Xxxxx’s sanctuary and shrine in Redlands CA The Roman is honored today as Venus Woman Ancestress not as Roman auspicia publica although if they need the legal observance for a unspecified reason here it is.

Xxxxx Xxxxx in Los Angeles says the signs were:
White Dove at the lantern and keys. See pictures. Raven with lizard in mouth flying E/SE towards W/NW on 10/18/18 No pictures. The meaning of these signs in your life is up to you. This is what the newsletter is for. This is our gift to you:

The symbolic continuity of the religions of the indigenous nations.
The sacred fire has never gone out all around the world.

It’s obvious that the whole world wants to know how to do “Magic” in real life which is simply witnessed by the fact that 3/4 of a billion books have been sold with a total focus or partial focus on Magic. That’s 10% of all the people on the whole blue planet you are standing on. How you get there is up to you. People want to do it and see it and have it explained to them.

The next morning: Nov 18 2018 7:10 AM —Shrine Journal this is just a running commentary of what I do and what the observed results are.

I posted on Legitimus-usa.comand here plus Nextdoor.com saying that I had a white dove on top of the roof next to the Hekate lantern and if it was yours (banded) could you please come pick it up? (Totally forgetting what I did with the phosphorus the night before -BTW)

Someone drove by and I heard the random words: “I put it there”, (we have a family near here that flies homing doves) but Christians have been messing with me for so long now that after I posted it and got a comment, my alternate perspective on it is:

IF someone put it there as a token of peace to somehow absorb something from the lantern somehow, THEN that was a neat thing to do. That’s their magic not mine, I don’t ask questions like that. Maybe their family has a white dove of protection and peace now. That still does not explain the raven with the lizard from a particular direction flying towards the Xxxx’x house later the same day. After posting this yesterday the Christians said it was a trained Raven. With a lizard in its beak? Maybe we should ask the Carians.

This is a legal observance this organization, activity and the people participating are protected under the following relevant international treaties and codes:

Hague conventions apply worldwide including Rule 38 attacks against cultural property. Temple/Sanctuary/Shrine members and keepers also qualify as religious personnel protected Under Geneva Convention II Additional protocol I Article 15(5) and Additional Protocol II Article 9(1) and Section 9.4 of the 1999 UN Secretary-General’s Bulletin wherever they go. This also includes the participants and the un-named church who dedicated it and participated in the opening ceremonies.
US federal government recognition of the pagan religions: including classical, neo-classical and modern paganism are available from the Faith-and-Belief-Codes-for-Reporting-Personnel-Data-of-Service-Members-ocr Link to the DOD Source This took effect on March 31, 2017.

-end of message

George from Arcadia

Historical Note:

Yes this was “the fairy tale” told in Los Angeles to people about the Pagan, Romani, Sinti and Traveller newsletter business. The problem is some of the Sxxxxxxx and Cxxxxxxxxx argue about what was said and done. I think they are flat out evil because the people believed in it. Once people believe in something trying to take it away with lies makes people very upset.

XXX references deleted by cease and desist letter from Cxxxxx XXX’s agent for process in Berlin not by XXX. We consider receiving that letter literally a heart stopping moment but will comply for sensitivity reasons. We are not compensating for any one particular historical perspective or record. There are many stories from that time period in Los Angeles. XXX told me to change my last name.

A White Dove at Hekate’s Lantern and Keys

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