Dagon Is National God

“When the Philistines took the ark of God, they brought it into the house of Dagon, and set it by Dagon.” (1 Samuel 5: 2)

A national god is something else than the Almighty. Fyodor Dostoevsky sketched a “national god” as something peculiar to nations. In his novel, The Possessed (also translated as Demons), Dostoevsky showed it to be an egotistical “god” which wants to impose its “truth” on everyone else. This is pre-eminently the situation with the Washington, DC (WDC) government. Tentative characteristics of the American “national god” include its being a tremendous busybody, wanting to tell everyone how to live their lives.

The U.S. government was once not too bad, until it got hijacked by busybodies. (This incidentally is the root for “old biddies” – they are, in other words, old busybodies.)

So we have a “national god” akin to a bunch of old biddies. But how do you actually define this “national god?” One aspect is a staggering volume of lies whenever it wants its way. This routinely happens when the old biddies are targeting some foreign nation. The WDC government will lie, and lie, and lie until it gets its way. And it must be its way. There is no room for conciliation. So, for example, when the old biddies decide that the Syrian government must abdicate within three months – then slam! The door is shut and the old biddy must get her way! There is no turning back! At this point the machinery of lies goes into high gear. A ridiculous story gets invented and is constantly repeated. This is called “the news.”

Dagon was the “national god” of the Philistines. It had the body of a fish but the head and hands of a man. Fish, which are cold-blooded and swim in water, signify an elevation of mere knowledge, distinct from worship of the Almighty. (Water generally signifies truth, and in the opposite sense falsity.) When the ark was placed in the house of Dagon, the head and hands of Dagon broke off and then it was only a fish. The ark destroyed the Dagon worship of its own intelligence. After its head and hands fell off, Dagon was revealed to be just a self-important fish. (Acknowledgement to Bible Study Notes (Vol. 3), by Anita S. Dole. West Chester, PA: Swedenborg Foundation Press, 2001)

So a tentative identifier for what is the American “national god” would be Dagon. We see the characteristic of wanting to impose its own “truth” on everyone else, based on its egotistical estimation of its own intelligence. But when confronted by the Supreme Being (represented by the ark), we see that Dagon is only a self-important fish, and not really all that smart.

Bombardment of Lies Intensifies

We are all imperfect. At times most of us have lied. If you are trying to live a good life, your conscience will bother you about having lied. If you are Christian or Jewish, you will remember the Commandment: Thou shalt not bear false witness. In some way you will repent and ask the Almighty for help.

Fyodor Dostoevsky, in his novel The Possessed (also translated as Demons), has one of his characters broach the idea of a “national god.” This national god is different from the Supreme Being:

“If a great nation does not believe that the truth is in it alone (precisely in it alone, and that exclusively), if it does not believe that it alone is able and called to resurrect and save everyone with its truth, then it at once ceases to be a great nation, and at once turns into ethnographic material and not a great nation.”

In this idea of a national god (as distinct from the God of the Bible), the nation is “the body of God. Any nation is a nation only as long as it has its own particular God and rules out all other gods in the world with no conciliation; as long as it believes that through its God it will be victorious and will drive all other gods from the world.”

The American “national god” is not easy to define. Some of its attributes are Darwinism, relativism, faith in “science”, and a deified “humanity” to replace the Supreme Being. This “national god” of America conflicts, however, with Judeo-Christianity: as the Commandment says, “I am the Lord thy God. Thou shalt not have other gods before me.”

An especial conflict between the “national god” and the Almighty is that the “national god” permits not just lies, but encourages a brazen, enormous avalanche of lies. The “national god” demands these lies whenever it is time to “offer sacrifices” (make war). Lately, the “national god” has demanded that the Middle East be re-shaped. All other “gods” (ways of life) are ruled out, with no conciliation. This means, for example, that the regime of Dr. Bashar al-Assad in Syria must be ruled out. And so, the machinery of lies paints a ridiculous caricature of what is happening. And various lies are repeated and repeated, loudly, until most in the United States can’t help but succumb and bow down to the “national god.”

But no one can serve two masters. You cannot serve both the “national god” and the God of the Bible. For this reason, servants of the “national god” have consistently sought to undermine faith in the God of the Bible.

Red Cross Is Red

“I summon you to Comradeship in the Red Cross,” Woodrow Wilson is quoted as saying. The year was 1917. Mister Weelson, as John Dos Passos called him, was the U.S. President. The allies, and soon the United States, were fighting “the war that would end all wars.” The world would be made “safe for democracy.”

In 1910, a fund raising campaign for starting Red Cross had got most of its money from J.P. Morgan and a few ultra-wealthy New Yorkers. According to John Foster Dulles, during the First World War New York bankers “viewed the American Red Cross as a virtual arm of government, they envisaged making an incalculable contribution to the winning of the war.” A Red Cross mission to Russia began to be planned on May 29, 1917. Like the “Friends of Syria” aching to feed the hungry, the ostensible reason was “humanitarian purposes.”

The planning for the Red Cross mission to Russia occurred after the February 1917 revolution there, but before the October 1917 Bolshevik coup d’etat. A mysterious person named Raymond Robins was appointed head of the Red Cross mission to Moscow. Robins was the only man whom Vladimir Lenin was always willing to meet with, according to a source cited in G. Edward Griffin’s book, The Creature From Jekyll Island. A raw power over the Communist leaders “was concealed behind the innocent façade of the American Red Cross mission.”

Rami the Clothier, himself disguised as the “Syrian Observatory for Human Rights”, is as usual highly upset. This could be because Rami has only one eye, and cannot see both sides. (I don’t know if Rami has only one eye, but this might explain things.) The “Friends of Syria” will be meeting in Tunisia this Friday. (But someone forgot to invite Syria to the meeting.) Recorded violin music, courtesy of Rami the Clothier, will likely caress the emotions of “Friends of Syria.” And humanitarian assistance is a fine idea, except when it comes disguised as a Trojan Horse. Will something be hiding inside any generous gift waiting outside the walls of Syria?

And why exactly is it called a “Red Cross”? In 1095 Anno Domini Pope Urban II climbed atop a scaffold in Clermont, France. His exhortation was vehement: Jerusalem must be saved! The crowd went wild. “Deus vult, Deus vult!” (“God wills it!) they shouted. Pope Urban II urged the inspired listeners to wear a conspicuous cross, a red, a bloody cross, on their outer garments.

Egypt Joins “King of the South”

We were assured by the “news” that Muslim Brotherhood and Salafist Islamist al-Nour were not popular in Egypt. After the “Arab Spring” in Egypt, we were not to worry. The moderate Egyptians would replace the government of Hosni Mubarak.

In February 1917, in Russia, they too had a “glorious revolution.” The Bolsheviks were caught napping by the sudden events. In New York City, residing in the pocket of Jacob Schiff, Leon Trotsky packed his bags and hustled off to Moscow to help insert Communist control into the power vacuum. Agents of Lord Alfred Milner, disguised as Red Cross officials on a humanitarian mission, distributed monies to the “revolutionaries.” The October 1917 “Bolshevik revolution was not a spontaneous uprising of the masses. It was planned, financed, and orchestrated by outsiders.” (Source: The Creature From Jekyll Island, by G. Edward Griffin. American Media, 1999)

The Bolsheviks, like the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt, were not especially popular, but they were highly organized. They stepped into the power vacuum left by the February 1917 revolution and took over. We all know the horrible consequences. In Egypt, despite assurances from the “news” that radical Islamists were not popular, the highly organized Muslim Brotherhood and Salafist groups won 72 percent of all available seats in the lower house of Egypt’s parliament, subsequent to “Arab Spring” there. (Source: “They Said the Islamists Had No Chance”, by Richard Palmer. The Philadelphia Trumpet magazine, March 2012)

With nary a pause, the “news” then assured us these arriviste Islamists in Egypt were moderate. Forget what the “news” had said before, about them being not popular. The new version of this virtual reality is that Egypt’s arriviste Islamists are moderate.

It is likely, according to an article by Richard Palmer (op. cit.), that the Camp David agreement, basis of peace between Israel and Egypt and of stability in the Middle East, will be cast aside by these moderate Egyptian Islamists. It has been consistently predicted, since 1996, that Egypt will ally with Iran. From this alliance emerges the “King of the South.” This alliance will do battle with the “King of the North” (Europe and the Western powers). Against her will, Russia will reluctantly be dragged into the Final Battle. The armies of the various kings shall meet in the vicinity of where the borders of Syria, Lebanon and Israel intersect, at a place called Har Megiddo, better known as Armageddon.

Roman Empire Conquers World

All those “Arab Spring” countries – Libya, Tunisia, Egypt, Syria – once belonged to the Roman Empire. Israel also was once a colony of Rome. The “big picture” is explained in my book, Tales of the Holy Lance, available as a free download.

The Roman author Juvenal described the Rome of his time…

• “Now that no one buys our votes, the public has long since cast off its cares; the people that once bestowed commands, consulships, legions, and all else, now meddles no more and longs eagerly for just two things – Bread and Circuses!”
• “…no deity is held in such reverence amongst us as Wealth; though, as yet, O baneful money, thou hast no temple of thine own…”
• Juvenal reports unprecedented gambling.
• “Male effeminates agree wondrously well among themselves…”
• “Behold! Here you have a man of high birth and wealth being handed over in marriage to a man… ‘a friend is taking to himself a husband; quite a small affair.’ Yes, and if we only live long enough, we shall see these things done openly…”
• The souls of men of power seethe and burn “with secrets that must never be disclosed.”
• Those who are ill are perishing, wrote Juvenal, from want of sleep, “the illness itself having been produced by food lying undigested on a fevered stomach.”
• Spies are everywhere. “…even the sea shores [are] crowded with informers…”
• Meals offered by friends are “scored against you.” This is like the yuppie custom of today, where the friend insists he will pay for the meal. How nice, but it is scored against you.
• “…in the rage for gluttony our own seas have given out.”
• Presence of “she-tyrants.” If you are devoted to one woman (married), “then bow your head and submit your neck ready to bear the yoke.” “Thus does she lord it over her husband.”
• “Who ever sneered at the Gods in the days of old?” (Compare with today’s materialism and “science.”)
• “What avail your pedigrees? [Today’s college diplomas] Though you deck your hall from end to end with ancient waxen images, Virtue is the one and only true nobility.”
• Juvenal notices the “impoverished provincials” (today’s homeless) ”whose very bones you see sucked dry of marrow.”
• “What day is there, however festal, which fails to disclose theft, treachery and fraud: gain made out of every kind of crime, and money won by the dagger or the bowl?… We are living in a ninth age; an age more evil than that of iron – one for whose wickedness Nature herself can find no name, no metal from which to call it.”

Mere Clothier Caused Armageddon

How can it be that a mere clothier caused Armageddon? Read on to find out.

Through serendipity, in 1961 Edward Lorenz stumbled upon chaos theory. He had been “running the numbers” and decided to double-check the calculations. Instead of the exact same numbers, Lorenz substituted abbreviations and put them through an early Royal McBee LPG-30 computer. When Lorenz got back vastly different results by merely tweaking the original data – for example 0.506 instead of 0.506127 – he was astonished. Such a little thing as 0.506 instead of 0.506127 could have immense consequences. This became known as the “butterfly effect” when, in 1972, Lorenz presented a paper entitled, “Predictability: Does the Flap of a Butterfly’s Wings in Brazil Set Off a Tornado in Texas?” (Source: “The meteorologist who formulated chaos theory”, The Week magazine, May 2, 2008)

Something called “The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights” (SOHR) is frequently cited in the so-called “news” reports. For example, the Associated Press (AP) cited SOHR only last week for a claim that troops and security forces of the Syrian government had opened fire on anti-regime protesters as they left a mosque. (Source: “Regime, rebels blame bombings on each other. AP. Published in the Champaign-Urbana News-Gazette, Feb. 11, 2012)

But the “Syrian Observatory for Human Rights” (SOHR), it turns out, is run by only one person living in a small house in England! This one man, variously called Rami Abdulrahman or Rami Abdelrahman, who would otherwise be running a clothes shop, is the high-falutin’ “Syrian Observatory for Human Rights” (SOHR). A mere clothier has been leading the Associated Press around by the nose!

So Rami the Clothier might be a good example of the “butterfly effect.” But hold on. It gets worse.

Will the real SOHR please stand up? There are now two web sites claiming to be the real “Syrian Observatory for Human Rights” (SOHR). Each of the two respective SOHRs calls the other an imposter. And yet the Associated Press keeps citing the “Syrian Observatory for Human Rights” as if it were a reliable, authoritative source. Of course, the impartial Associated Press and other so-called “news” organizations will tell you that they police themselves. And there is a National Propaganda Radio (NPR) radio show, On the Media (lately lame), which purports to keep an eye on the media. Sed quis custodiet ipsos custodes? (But who will guard the guards themselves? From Juvenal’s Satires)

And so it was that Rami the Clothier became routinely and authoritatively cited by the mainstream news. And their reports, in turn, were believed and influenced the United Nations. This led to the armies of the various kings gathering in the vicinity of where the borders of Israel, Lebanon, and Syria intersect, at a place called Har Megiddo, otherwise called Armageddon.

And that is the story of how a mere clothier caused Armageddon.

Russian Names Are Too Hard

In Fyodor Dostoevsky’s novel, The Possessed (properly translated however as Demons, according to the latest thinking), there are all sorts of amazing Russian names: Nikolai Vsevolodovich Stavrogin; Pyotr Stepanovich Verkhovensky; Semyon Yegorovich Karmazinov; and many more. It helps to jot little notes on who all these people are. For example: Marya Timofeevna Lebyadkin – lame sister of Ignat Lebyadkin, she is “mad”; and Pavel Pavlovich Gaganov – led around by the nose.

This last, Pavel Pavlovich Gaganov, is an aging general who frequently exclaims, “I will not be led around by the nose!” Then one day, in polite society, the general exclaims this for the umpteenth time and Nikolai Vsevolodovich walks up to him, grabs him by the nose, and leads him around the room!

Of course everyone is shocked and there is a minor scandal about it. But the point is, these Russians are “wild and crazy guys.” There is no telling what they might do! These are, after all, The People Who Ate Cthulhu. 

So, for instance, when the Russians recently vetoed the United Nations resolution to bring caring kindness to the cute, cuddly activists in Syria, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Victoria Nuland her spokesperson, and Susan Rice ambassador were all aghast! They had been used to saying, “We will not be led around by the nose” and then the Russians did precisely that.

This is like the U.S. Presidents (not just the current one) who are always saying, “Let me be perfectly clear.” And then one day Nikolai Vsevolodovich is in the room and interrupts: “No, I won’t let you.”

But the Washington, DC (WDC) government is just filled with love, don’t you see? One of the Wikileaks “Cablegate” files shows this aching love in the hearts of the WDC leaders. In “Bosnia: Women’s Small Grant Proposals” (Feb. 23, 2010) we find one small example of this tender sympathy, this time for the women of Bosnia. The Bosnian women are to be advanced. An academy is to be established to augment the women’s political skills. A recognized, vocal group of women commentators is to be established. Student forums to promote “gender issues” are to be started, “among university students to cultivate Bih’s [Bosnia and Herzegovina’s] next generation of politicians.”

In Syria also, the WDC leaders positively ache to bring in the Western fashions. Too bad the Wikileaks “Cablegate” files do not have the latest dispatches on Syria. (They only go up to 2010.) But maybe a future Wikileak will disclose that the men of Syria are to be wearing seersucker suits and the women of Syria are to be wearing the miniskirts and the sly booties.