Bohemian Grove

Who Goes There, Really?
"Sacrificing Dull Care"
Molech Revealed
Early Child Sacrifice: Evil or Just Plain Stupid?
The Grove's Babylonian/Druidic Connection
Giant Owls and Transvestites?
Light, Outer and Inner
The Cult of Isis Adopts Lucifer
The Great Owl: Symbol of The Cult of Isis

On the first Saturday of the camp, an elaborate ritual called the Cremation of Care is held just after dinner. It begins with the procession of a group of men, dressed in red pointed hoods and red robes, some of whom play a funeral dirge while others carry torches. These men also carry a rough, open coffin containing a body made of a black muslin-covered wooden skeleton. According to Domhoff [G. William Domhoff, author of The Bohemian Grove and Other Retreats], 'this is the body of Care, symbolizing the concerns and woes that important men supposedly must bear in their daily lives. It is Dull Care which must be cremated.'

[Bohemian Grove, the virtual-reality version]

"John DeCamp's book, The Franklin Cover-Up, includes Paul Bonacci's testimony about a snuff film of a child being murdered on July 26, 1984 in California in 'an area that had big trees.' At a meeting in Santa Rosa, DeCamp told a group that he had edited out Bonacci's references to an enormous, moss-covered owl and men in hooded red robes because he not know then about the owl at the Grove and thought it 'too far fetched for people to believe.' In the fall of 1992, Paul Bonacci was shown a black and white photo of the moss-covered owl at the Grove and quickly identified it as the site of the July 1984 snuff film described in DeCamp's book. Although this testimony has been available to law enforcement officials since mid-October 1992, no official investigation has been made." [3]

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  One of the more prominent aspects of the gathering seems to be to puff up the egotism of the newcomers.  The supposed exclusivity of the event is mentioned in almost every account I've read.  Besides being in itself an appeal to luciferic tendencies (egotism/selfishness), it also tends to make them feel as if they're part of the Establishment, and thus transfer their loyalty away from mankind in general to the Establishment.  The participation of high-profile lackeys and the speeches by others are apparently part of this strategy.  Based on what I've seen about the speeches, they're just another variety of disinformation.

  The rest of the two weeks is then a matter of experimenting with various sensual delights, and progressively discarding one's inhibitions against debauchery and even depravity.  The only women allowed are prostitutes, which tends to debase their attitude toward sex and undermine their marriages.  It's classic Hell-Fire Club strategy.

The typical expose of the Bohemian group claims that it consists entirely of high-rollers, but only a handful out of the approximately 1500 attendees are ever identified.   In contrast, early sources indicate that it was created by members of what would become the media, for people with a potential to influence public opinion:

So, there is conflicting information on the type of person who attends.  Because the Grove is isolated, the participants can come and go without being seen by many people.  As far as we know, the reporters who claim that the attendees are all bigwigs could have been put up to it to hide the true nature of the gathering.  Note that Alex Jones, who has recently been characterizing the Bohemian Grove event as exclusive and occultic, has his own radio show and spouts the standard populist rhetoric.  If he were truly anti-Establishment, he would not have his own radio show.

"Sacrificing Dull Care"

The phrase "dull care" is derived from an old ditty entitled Begone Dull Care:

Begone, dull care!

Begone, dull care!

Long while thou hast been tarrying here,

But i' [in] faith, dull care,

Too much care

Too much care

My wife shall dance, and I shall sing,

For I hold it is the wisest thing,

Hence, dull care,

Hence, dull care,

We'll hunt the wild boar through the wold,

And then at night, o'er a cheerful bowl,

In the same general time-frame, which corresponds to what Steiner called the Fall of the Spirits of Darkness (the beginning of an epic luciferic/satanic disinformation campaign), strange groups were forming in England as well:

  Tennyson's unambiguous endorsement of opium abuse was expressed in his well-known poem, 'The Lotus Eaters':

      an equal mind.

      and lie reclined,

      careless of mankind." [6]

The Great Owl of the Bohemian Grove is typically identified as Moloch, the chief god of the Ammorites who lived in Ammon, an eastern section of Canaan.  This form of worship spread to a few other cities in the region, including Tyre and Carthage, where, for example during a siege of the city in 307 B.C., two hundred boys of the best families were burned to death in sacrifice to Moloch.  Some sources claim that "passing through the fire" meant being quickly passed through flames, which would not harm the child, as a means of dedicating the child to the god.  However, there is archeological evidence of actual child sacrifice in areas corresponding to Moloch-worship. [7] This location, known as Gehenna, among other names, became the basis for the popular notion of Hell, which actually doesn't exist, although a person who commits evil deeds on Earth will suffer in the afterlife because of them, and in future lives on Earth.  This is not intended as retribution, but as an evolutionary lesson, as well as compensation.

  When Marduk became Bel, there was a trend toward monotheism, and all of the gods in the pantheon became aspects of Marduk.  Thus, the term Bel-Moloch referred to Moloch, but as an aspect of Marduk.  I assume this was intended to reflect the spiritual hierarchy, the beings of which are aspects of God.

"Worshiped as a sun god, Moloch embodied the savage and devastating aspects of the sun's heat." [8]

During that period which is absent from the Mosaic books -- from the exile of Eden to the allegorical Flood -- the Jews worshipped with the rest of the Semites Dayanisi [Dionysus] "the Ruler of Men," the "Judge," or the SUN. Though the Jewish canon and Christianism have made the sun become the "Lord God" and Jehovah in the Bible, yet the latter is full of indiscreet traces of the androgyne [androgynous] Deity, which was Jehovah the sun, and Astoreth the moon in its female aspect, and quite free from the present metaphorical element given to it. God is a "consuming fire," appears in, and is encompassed by fire." It was not only in vision that Ezekiel (viii., 16) saw the Jews "worshipping the sun." The Baal of the Israelites (the Shemesh of the Moabites and the Moloch of the Ammonites) was the identical "Sun-Jehovah," and he is till now "the King of the Host of Heaven," the Sun....[9]

  A passage beginning on page 117 of the world-shaking 12th Planet by Zecharia Sitchin provided the clues I required to solve the mystery.  There, he mentions that one of the Anunnaki, named Utu/Shamash, was known by several epithets associated with bright light and the Sun.  One example is "Utu ... [the one who] lights up Heaven and Earth."  But the clincher was that "Shamash ... in  Semitic languages, means Sun."

  The connection between Jehovah and Shamash appears to be that Shamash was working with Jehovah, a God of Form connected with the Moon.  (Some of the Anunakki, such as Ea/Enki, had to have been initiates.)  The famous Code of Hammurabi was given to him by Shamash, and the Biblical account of Moses obtaining the Ten Commandments indicates that they were delivered to him by Shamash or some of his underlings.  Perhaps they were delivered by rocket-ship to impress their importance upon the Israelites.

  Although it appears that Shamash's association with the fire and the Sun were the inspirations for the way Moloch was worshipped, I assume that he was still considered to be an aspect of Bel, and that the sacrifices were intended for Bel.

It is obvious from Ezekiel that Shamash, or his underlings which interfaced with Ezekiel, acting as Jehovah's emissaries, strongly discouraged the veneration of pagan idols, including those which represented themselves, and especially through such means as the atrocious Molochian rites.  So, the sacrifice of children was probably the invention of a priesthood which was at the very least grossly misguided, and at worst demonically possessed (a phenomenon which as reported in the Bible did occur in ancient times).

  I will not presume to know the ulterior motive of the Molochian priests which Daemonalatria [8] describes as dancing around an altar in a frenzy, as if possessed, during sacrifices to Moloch.  Perhaps they truly regarded it as the best possible means of obtaining blessings from their god for their society.

  The Luciferic antics conducted in Ascona, Switzerland, which also include wild dances, are echoes of this Luciferic drive to regress consciousness. (See The Lucis Trust by Scott Thompson.)  Note that LSD, which Ascona acolyte Allen Dulles pushed on America in enormous quantities, is a favorite means of the Aquarian Conspiracy for SIMulating this atavistic clairvoyance, which they call "visitation of the gods."  But their actual, hideous goal is to facilitate Lucifer's theft of our free will by stimulating visionary clairvoyance:

  This happens if the element of free will is transformed, for example, into visionary clairvoyance [hallucinations].  When this is the case, a man is already in the Eighth Sphere.  This is a matter of which occultists are reluctant to speak, because it is an awful, terrible truth." [10]          

The Grove's Babylonian/Druidic Connection

  In fact, the Grove in and of itself is an indication of a Druid heritage.  Although information on Druidism is sketchy because of the eradication of the Sun Mysteries from civilization beginning in the fourth century A.D., there are some sources which trace them back to Phoenicia and the Babylonian pantheon.  The following source indicated that it was "handed down," implying by means of oral tradition.

Here's yet another indication of a connection between Bohemian Grove and Druidism:

Alex Jones of infowars.com, who videotaped the proceedings, has proven that such vestments are worn, and the transcripts of the ritual prayers indicate a Druid-like veneration of trees.  But the Owl is not Moloch.

Giant Owls and Transvestites?

"O thou, great symbol of all mortal wisdom, Owl of Bohemia, we do beseech thee, grant us thy counsel," [12]

  A simple web-search using the terms "owl" and "symbol" turned up many references to owl as a symbol of Athena, a.k.a. Ishtar, a prominent member of the Babylonian and related pantheons, known among other things as the goddess of wisdom.  (Although the owl is  referred to above as a male deity, it's useful to understand its connection to Ishtar as well, as a means of demonstrating the multiple allegiances of the Cult of Isis.) For example,

  These birds were abundant in ancient Greece. Athenian coins bore the likeness of Athena on one side and an owl on the other. Indeed, these coins were called "owls." King Arthur's Merlin was always depicted with an owl on his shoulder. The owl is the unrivaled symbol of intelligence." [13]

  Even better, there is photographic evidence of DeCamp's statement.  In the illustration-section which follows page 128 of his book, there is a photograph captioned in part as follows: "1923 Ak-Sar-Ben festivity, showing male Ak-Sar-Ben members dressed up as EGYPTIAN DANCING GIRLS."  [emphasis added] 

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Anne Draffkorn Kilmer's lecture and slide presentation on "Gender Ambiguity in the Cult of the Goddess Inanna/Ishtar" will begin at 3:30 p.m. Tuesday, March 25, in the Kyle Morrow Room of Fondren Library.

Kilmer, a professor of Assyriology and ancient Near Eastern languages and literature at the University of California-Berkeley, will discuss the ancient Mesopotamian pantheon and the role of the goddess Inanna/Ishtar, said Scott Noegel, a Rice visiting assistant professor of religious studies.

During at least one religious festival dedicated to Ishtar the participants would cross dress. Kilmer's lecture also speaks in general to what happened to female deities, such as Ishtar, who was the most important female deity in the Middle East before the rise of monotheistic religions. [14]

The implications should be obvious by now: the Ak-Sar-Ben club and the Bohemian Grove are contemporary manifestations of the ancient Cult of Isis!

Recall the following supplication before the Great Owl:

I have placed a stress on "all mortal wisdom," in order to bring attention to the fact that Ishtar, the "Lady of the MEs" (data banks), might have been able to provide information to mankind, but that without the capacity to understand, mankind would not be able to absorb it.  So, there is an inner, God-given aspect to wisdom, which is one meaning of owl symbology.

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Now, on to the somewhat more complex subject of "inner light":

  [A]t the beginning of the formation of the earth, [the luciferic beings] were further advanced than men, but still were at the stage where knowledge must be acquired through inner organs. These beings were in a special position. They were too far advanced to pass through the physical human body [i.e. they could not incarnate], male or female, but on the other hand, were not [sufficiently advanced to] act through full clairvoyance like the leaders of love. They could not yet be beings of love, [but] they could no longer be "men." Thus they could only continue their own development as half superhuman beings, in which they were aided by men. They could speak to creatures with a brain in a language which the latter could understand. [Translation might be a good analogy, as implied below.] Thereby the human soul energy which was turned inward was stimulated, and could connect itself  with knowledge and wisdom [like a translator connects people who speak different languages]. It was thus that wisdom of a human kind first appeared on earth.

[T]he creation of the understanding is related to the activity of the sun. The dawn of the understanding in human nature is the lighting up of an inner sun. This is said not only in a metaphorical, but also in a quite real sense. When the epoch of the fire mist had ebbed from the earth, these spirits found within man an opportunity to resume their activity connected with the sun.

One must be quite clear about the fact that only later did man assume the dense substantiality which he has today, and that he did this very gradually. If one wants to form an idea of his corporeality on the level of development which is being discussed, one can best do this by imagining it as similar to water vapor or to a cloud suspended in the air. But of course this idea approaches reality in a completely external way. For the fire cloud "man" is internally alive and organized. In comparison to what man became later, however, one must imagine him at this stage as in a state of soul slumber, and as only very dimly conscious. Everything which can be called intelligence, understanding, reason is lacking in this being.

[Luciferic] beings now acquire power over this upper half ["head"]. In earlier stages of their development, these beings advanced further than men, but not as far as the moon gods. They could not exercise their power in the fire mist [as could the moon gods]. But now that something they themselves had lacked previously [the capacity to understand] has been formed in the human organs of understanding through [the influence of the higher beings on] the fire mist, their time has come.

  Now, however, [a capability to understand] is present. It exists in men. These beings seize upon this human understanding in order to act on the things of earth by means of it.  [Elsewhere, Steiner indicates that our urge to create is a luciferic tendency, whereas the urge to destroy is satanic.]

  The Luciferic gods thus complete their own development by making use of the awakened human powers of understanding....  At the same time they give man the predisposition to freedom, to the discrimination between "good" and "evil."

We are able to understand each other as easily as we do only because the Luciferic powers gave us this common intelligence.  Intelligence - this Luciferic spirituality - came into being because Michael [acting on behalf of God] imbued humanity with Luciferic influences....  [L]uciferic spirituality, which we think of as our intelligence, is widely consdered today as the most distinctive characteristic." [18]                     

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Lucifer's influence was primarily one towards freedom, enabling [mankind] to overcome a passive submission to random external powers, allowing them ... a capacity for acting independently. p 103

"How, then, does the luciferic influence act?  It penetrates into the astral body and is thus able to work upon all three 'bodies' of the human being - astral, etheric and physical....  In the etheric it brings about IMPULSES OF FALSEHOOD AND LYING." P103, emphasis added

"The ahrimanic influence is therefore a result of the luciferic: Lucifer takes possession of [i.e. penetrates and influences] us from within, and we are as a result susceptible to attack from without [by beings from Ahriman's subphysical realm]. p 100

This will hopefully provide some idea of how we obtained what we call intelligence.  There is much more to it, but the upshot for purposes of this section is that Lucifer is associated with wisdom, knowledge, freedom, egotism, falsehood, sickness, and death.  Keep these traits in mind for later.

[According to HPB, these branches were all sourced in "the great Oriental mother-root" and its "primitive Oriental Cabala" -- Cabala meaning (esoteric) "tradition." Then she briefly traces some of its branchings, alluding to the Egyptian, Pythagorean, and Greek mysteries, primitive Christianity, its early Gnostic divisions, and their relation to the origin of the Rosicrucian brotherhood in the 13th century.]

The Rosicrucian Cabala is but an epitome of the Jewish and the Oriental ones combined, the latter being the most secret of all. The Oriental Cabala, the practical, full, and only existing copy, is carefully preserved at the headquarters of this Brotherhood in the East, and, I may safely vouch, will never come out of its possession. . . .[20]

There are a few more direct indications linking Lucifer and Ishtar.  Among many other titles, Ishtar was known as "The Lightbringer," "Light of the World," "Exalted Light of Heaven," and "Torch of Heaven and Earth."  Ishtar is also known as Venus, and according to Steiner, Lucifer is the planetary being of Venus. [21]

  While searching the web for information on the significance of owl symbology, I found, along with indications that it represents Athena/Ishtar, indications that it represents various qualities besides wisdom which Steiner connects with Lucifer.  One web page mentions several cultures that regard the owl as an omen of death, or as evil. [22]

  The sacrifices to Moloch are a good example of this luciferic influence, since as I noted above they were probably intended as an attempt to regress the consciousness of the participants to the atavistic (outmoded) unthinking clairvoyance which was fading at that time.  They saw this as begging the gods to "speak" to them.

In the final analysis, the Great Owl symbolizes the Cult of Isis, by symbolizing all four of its gods:  Ishtar, Lucifer, and by virtue of the associated flames representing abandonment to Lucifer-stimulated desires, Dionysus and the "greater Moloch," Satan.  The main difference between the original form of sacrifice and the Establishment's current mode of sacrificing its minions to Satan is that their bodies aren't cremated, but hijacked.

  So, if you're ever invited to attend the annual Bohemian bacchanalia [23], you might want to consider politely declining.
 

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[1] "The Bohemian Grove (Monte Rio)"

[2]  from Treason In America by Anton Chaitkin p 234 (2nd ed.)  Available through http://www.larouchepub.com/pubinfo.html

http://www.sonic.net/~doretk/ArchiveARCHIVE/MARK
%20EVANS/MarkEvans.html, and take "Bohemian Club" link at bottom of page)

http://www.historicana.com/general/california.html

[5a ]Poets' Corner home page

[6] from Dope, Inc. by EIR, p 270 (1992 ed.) Available through http://members.tripod.com/~american_almanac/source
s.htm

Were Living Children Sacrificed to the Gods in Punic Carthage? http://www.bib-arch.org/aond00/debate-y.html

[9]   from The Secret Doctrine, Vol 1 p 397 http://www.sacred-texts.com/the/sd/sd1-2-09.htm

[11] Brenda Scott & Samantha Smith, The Trojan Horse: How the New Age Movement Infiltrates the Church, Huntington House:1993 pp 59,60

http://www.mt.net/~watcher/bohemiangrove.html

ARCHIVE/MARK%20EVANS/BohemianClub.html

http://menc.iqhost.com/archives/index.html

[15] Rudolf Steiner, The Spiritual Beings in the Heavenly Bodies and in the Kingdoms of Nature, Lecture 10 (available online)

[17] Steiner, Cosmic Memory, Ch 10

[19] The Influences of Lucifer and Ahriman, page 43)

W. T. S. Thackara (The only way I found to access this article was to search Yahoo for the title)

[22]  Owls in Lore and Culture (go tohttp://www.owlpages.com/mythology  and click on "General Article" link)