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"Steroid-related meningitis cases rise to 47"
By MIKE STOBBE | Associated Press

"Steroid-related meningitis cases rise to 47"
Liz Szabo, USA TODAY

(Et Alia; on the number 47, see here.)

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"On Friday, officials said they have found fungal infections in nine sick patients. They weren't able to identify what types of fungus in every one of those patients, but did distinguish at least two types — Aspergillus and Exserohilum. ...Meningitis is an inflammation of the lining of the brain and spinal cord. Symptoms include severe headache, nausea, dizziness and fever.Fungal meningitis is not contagious like the more common forms." (Source)

"Aspergillus fungus at center of outbreak[:] The fungus blamed for the outbreak, Aspergillus, is very common and found in leaf mold, says William Schaffner, an infectious disease expert at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine in Nashville" (Source)

"Aspergillus" is given by Wiktionary as "From Latin aspergillum (“holy water sprinkler”), after their shape."

 "Exserohilum" seems to mean something like: "bring forth" (sero) "out of" (ex) the "black layer" (hilum) or "to scatter from the black layer" etc. Another word that is alleged to have the "sero"-root is: "Saturn" (definition) "O.E. Sætern 'Italic god,' also 'most remote planet' (then known), from L. Saturnus, Italic god of agriculture, possibly from Etruscan. Derivation from L. serere (pp. satus) 'to sow' is said to be folk-etymology. Identified with Gk. Kronos, father of Zeus. Also the alchemical name for lead (late 14c.). In Akkadian, the planet was kaiamanu, lit. 'constant, enduring,' hence Heb. kiyyun, Arabic and Pers. kaiwan 'Saturn.'"

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Both "aspergillus" and "exserohilum" are also words associated with maize/corn. (Cf. "Pathogens of Maize Seeds... 'Sensitivity of selected maize inbreds to three strains of barley yellow dwarf virus. ... An isolate of Exserohilum turcicum virulent on maize inbreds with ...'.")

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"On the tip of each corn kernel is a hilum, collectively known as the “black layer,” where it is attached to the cob. While corn is growing, nutrients are being transferred from the rest of the cob to the kernels through the hilum." (Source)

The "black layer" reference may signal the beginning of an alchemical working: "Putrefaction of the Wise, the Raven’s head; Putrefactio, Nigredo, transponas [sic.]; Penetrating and light black,Here find the bodies in putrefaction, and becoming earth, and when you will see the blackness like this, then you know this blackness is the beginning of your work." (Source: Aurei Velleris [Golden Fleece], "Spiegel der Philosophen," [Mirror of the Philosophers], 1708)

Pretiosissimum Donum Dei ["The most precious gift of God"]: "Here be the bodies put in putrefaction and be made black earth, and when you seest thy matter to be made black rejoice for that is the beginning of the operation. And it is necessary to be putrefied."

"The Black Crow sometimes also the Raven is the beginning of the great work of soul alchemy. This indicates the initial stages of the alchemist's encounter with his inner space, through withdrawing from the outer world of the senses in meditation, and entering what is initially the dark inner world of the soul. Thus this stage is also described in alchemical texts as the blackening, the nigredo experience, and it is often pictured as a death process, as in the caput mortuum, the deaths head, or as some alchemical illustrations show, the alchemist dying within a flask. Thus in the symbol of the Black Crow we have the stepping out in consciousness from the world of the physical senses the restrictions that bind us to the physical body." (Source)

"The first fruits of the season were offered to the gods of farm and field: Demeter [Ceres] received the first corn, Dionysos the first grapes, and Athene the first olives. The Thesmophoria festival of Athens was one such festival celebrating the offering of the first fruits. Similar rites were practised throughout Greece. More information on these rituals can be found in the various regional entries below." (Source) See also Hoffman regarding "Cereal Sacrifice"/"Serial Murder", and here.

An ancient Cretan name for the mother-goddess was allegedly "Labyrinthos Potnia" [the "Lady of the Labyrinth"] (Source cf. Here)

"labyrinth (n.) ...    "...'labyrinth, maze,' figuratively "bewildering arguments," from L. labyrinthus, from Gk. labyrinthos 'maze, large building with intricate passages,' especially the structure built by Daedelus to hold the Minotaur near Knossos in Crete, from a pre-Greek language... ...Used in English for "maze" early 15c., and in figurative sense of "confusing state of affairs" (1540s)."

The Alchemical Labyrinth/Maze of Pan. The word "labyrinth" is: "perhaps related to Lydian labrys 'double-edged axe,' symbol of royal power, which fits with the theory that the labyrinth was originally the royal Minoan palace on Crete and meant 'palace of the double-axe.'" (Source)

According to some sources, a "labrys" is "A double-headed axe. So named because the double-headed blades symbolized the vaginal lips (the labia) spread open to reveal the clitoris and the passage into the cervix. The small orb adorning the top of the double-headed axe symbolized the clitoris."

"Iambe is also associated with, or sometimes another name for, Baubo, who also made Demeter laugh with her sacred guesture of ana-suromai: lifting the skirt to reveal the vulva." (Source)

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"Pan is the son of Mercury [Hermes]; his head and body form the hieroglyph of the mercury of the philosohers..., at once solar and lunar" (Stanislas K. De Rola, Alchemy), in other words, androgynous.

Demeter and Pan: "When Demeter was wandering in search of her daughter, she was followed, it is said, by Poseidon, who lusted after her. So she turned, the story runs, into a mare, and grazed with the mares of Ogkios [in Arkadia]; realising that he was outwitted, Poseidon changed into a stallion and enjoyed Demeter ... Afterwards, they say, angry with Poseidon and grieved at the rape of Persephone, she put on black apparel and shut herself up in this cavern for a long time. But when the fruits of the earth were perishing, and the human race dying yet more through famine, no god, it seemed, knew where Demeter was hiding, until Pan, they say, visited Arkadia.. Roaming from mountain to mountain as he hunted, he came at last to Mount Elaios and spied Demeter, the state she was in and the clothes she wore. So Zeus learnt this from Pan, and sent the Moirai to Demeter, who listened to the Moirai and laid aside her wrath, moderating her grief as well." (Source: Pausanias, Guide to Greece 8.25.5 & 8.42.1)

The two serpents of Hermes are displayed with Pan/Baphomet. Demeter's chariot was pulled by the "Dracones" - two serpents.

"...the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil, or Satan..." (Revelation 20:2, NIV; for more, see here.)

* Dennis Hauck has written that "An early cipher for Saturn was Rx, which medieval alchemists wrote on a slip of paper and prescribed as a cure" (The Complete Idiot's Guide to Alchemy, p. 125). Although, most other commentators on the prescription symbol claim for it a beginning that is more Jovian than Saturnine. (Cf.: http://www.endomail.com/articles/ad13rx.html where the author also links it to the "Eye of Horus".)

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In other news:

"Charles Manson follower won't be freed any time soon"
(LA Times | October 5, 2012 | 12:27 pm)

47 (Or How Romney Lords It over Inferior Fools with Euclidean I-Ching)

There's a whole lot of buzz surrounding the Mormon-Freemason (for which, see Hoffman), anti-populist, anti-Iranian, and Zionist shill (cf., e.g. here) Mitt "Romney and his 47% remark...".

But, aside from Romney's Plutocratic blathering, the number 47 itself is part of an interesting symbol-complex, about which I will herein be occupied.

Perhaps we may begin by noting that, treated as addends, the sum of "4" and "7" is "11." Now the number "11" has occupied a conspicuous place in the news over the last week. Of course, this year was the 11th anniversary of 9/11. And there have been some nasty goings on in the Middle East. Some of this has been excavated both by Loren Coleman and by VISUP here and here.

"11" is also prominent in the Apollo 11 moon rite, which I mentioned here and here, and which Loren Coleman covered here.

Furthermore, as Jim Brandon reminded me, the number 11 invokes the sex magic rituals used in the highest degree of the occult Ordo Templi Orientis, see here.

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Again, as Coleman has previously noted, around the Summer Olympics hoopla, "...Romney turned himself, by making several gaffs, into a clown, a court jester, and, yes, a joker". There is a Kabbalistic connection to "The Fool" symbol, via the number 47, as reckoned in Gematria: The word [LamedYodVauAleph] means: "wry, perverse; foolish; a fool; wicked; godless." The Fool symbolism has been pervasive this Summer, beginning (at least) with the Aurora shooting. See here and here. Interestingly, other words Kabbalistically "calculated" to signify 47, tie in with the Armstrong-Apollo moon business, and the Aurora Rising events. (Viz., [DaletMemGimel]: "to cut off; divide; measure; bind together; be strong, valiant; a dividing; ell or cubit; mighty men, warriors"; and [HayMemBet]: "an elevation, height, sacred or altar-height, shrines or chapels built on eminences; strong-holds; fastness; grave-mound, sepulcre." (related to [MemVauBet]: "...to be high, to rise upwards, to tower"; Source.)

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There are also a number of connections between the god Saturn and the religion of Judaism. See, for example, Eric Zafran, "Saturn and the Jews," Journal of the Warburg and Courtauld Institutes, Vol. 42 (1979), pp. 16-27. (Thanks to Jim Brandon for bringing this work to my attention.) And, as it turns out, the Mantegna Tarocchi represents Saturn in card number 47.

Allegedly, "...'accursed' in Hebrew gives also 47 = 1+20+6+20." The same source connects "Jesus, the innocent Victim" to the same numerical equivalence, 47. Recall that Mitt the Twit suggests to us that 47% "believe they are victims" (Source). (I wonder where these people ever got that notion!) Of course, the connection of Jesus to the idea of being "accursed" comes right out of the Babylonian Talmud where Jesus is said to be boiling in human feces: "...He then went and raised by incantations the sinners of Israel.[(Note)3. [MS.M. Jesus]]  He asked them: Who is in repute in the other world? They replied: Israel. What about joining them? They replied: Seek their welfare, seek not their harm. Whoever touches them touches the apple of his eye. He said: What is your punishment? They replied: With boiling hot excrement, since a Master has said: Whoever mocks at the words of the Sages is punished with boiling hot excrement. ..." (Gittin 57a). See Hoffman here and here (or the digest version here) and Schaeffer here.

Is this "accursed" status remediable? Some Kabbalists say, "Yes!" And in so saying, they wave one of their hands towards the book of Exodus and extend the other, palm up. Exodus 30:11-15: "Atonement Money[:] Then the Lord said to Moses, 'When you take a census of the Israelites to count them, each one must pay the Lord a ransom for his life at the time he is counted. Then no plague will come on them when you number them. Each one who crosses over to those already counted is to give a half shekel,... according to the sanctuary shekel, which weighs twenty gerahs. This half shekel is an offering to the Lord. All who cross over, those twenty years old or more, are to give an offering to the Lord. The rich are not to give more than a half shekel and the poor are not to give less when you make the offering to the Lord to atone for your lives.'"

Chabad Kabbalists opine: "Moses was perplexed by the idea that the soul can be redeemed by a piece of silver. ... Not only is silver of the lowest of the four elements - fire, water, air, and earth (it is usually found deep within the earth), it is the lowest of the low. ... In the case of the half-shekel, opposites can become one...So Moses was shown a coin of fire - not by an angel, but by G-d Himself...A coin given without feeling is cold and unremarkable. But a coin given with the warmth and enthusiasm of the soul's essence can atone for the gravest sin. ... In their spiritual counterparts, silver coins and fire are opposites. Fire, which is constantly moving and soaring upward, expresses the ardent yearning to transcend the limited self and become one with the Divine. In contrast, the silver coin, which is earthly and stable, represents the recognition that one must submit to G-d's will and therefore remain within the physical realm in order to fulfill His plan for Creation."

Anyone want to guess the "atomic number" for silver? It appears that I've already given it away.

(See here.)

Can the souls of the accursed really be redeemed with silver? Now I see! Romney must be genuinely concerned with the condition of the souls of the "47 percent," when he mentions them in conjunction with the "income tax": "Mitt Romney's 47 Percent: Who Does Not Pay Income Taxes?"

In any case, the word "Gematria" is given by Dictionary.com as being the Hebrew word for "geometry": "Hebrew gēmaṭriyā < Greek geōmetría geometry".

This notion of "geometry" is imported into Freemasonry as "sacred geometry" and, wouldn't you know it, has a prominent place for the number 47: "GEOMETRY AND MASONRY: SACRED GEOMETRY ... The address to the Immediate Past Master and the depiction on his jewel refer to the 47Th proposition of Euclid.  It also refers to 'our brother Pythagoras'."

How closely, then, is "Mr. Romney’s '47 percent' fantasy" associated with his Mormon-Masonic ideology? (For more information on Freemasonry and Mormonism, see: Revisionist History #63.) Discussing the significance of the numbers 23 and 33 in his book The Rebirth of Pan (on p. 173), Jim Brandon observed that "A British researcher, John Williams, has studied more than 3,000 standing stones, ley lines, and other landscape features arrayed in complex alignments across the countryside. He observes that '...the angle of 23 1/2[degrees] or its mulitples of 47[degrees], 701/2[degrees], and 94[degrees], occur repeatedly.By the law of averages, this should happen only about 4 times in 180.' But it appears in 60 percent of the cases."

In Rebirth Brandon also gestured towards Robert Anton Wilson's treatment of the number 23 in the book Cosmic Trigger. In his ponderous recital of the various noteworthy occurrences of the number 23, Wilson writes - on pages 45 and 47 no less (of my edition) - that: "...in conception Mom and Dad each contribute 23 chromosomes to the fertilized egg...". See also HERE.

If a "normal" human embryo has 46 chromosomes (23 + 23) one might suppose that adding one more, thus obtaining our magic number for the day (47) would yield some sort of an Uebermensch. But, typically, the addition of a chromosome causes trouble. In horribly politically-incorrect language (you know, the sort of language that, we might imagine, a random, nonspecific, conceited Mormon-Masonic elitist might use), we might even say that 47 chromosomes signals an "inferior" being; for example in Down's Syndrome: "Down syndrome (DS) or Down's syndrome, also known as trisomy 21, is a chromosomal condition caused by the presence of all or part of a third copy of chromosome 21. ... Down syndrome is the most common chromosome abnormality in humans....The extra chromosomal material can come about in several distinct ways. A typical human karyotype is designated as 46,XX or 46,XY, indicating 46 chromosomes with an XX arrangement typical of females and 46 chromosomes with an XY arrangement typical of males.[57] In 1–2% of the observed Down syndromes.[58] some of the cells in the body are normal and other cells have trisomy 21, this is called mosaic Down syndrome (46,XX/47,XX,+21) ..."

Apparently, though, this is not always the case. The so-called 47,XYY-Syndrome also known as XYY-Syndrome may not cause the difficulties seen in Down's Syndrome: "XYY syndrome is an aneuploidy (abnormal number) of the sex chromosomes in which a human male receives an extra Y-chromosome, giving a total of 47 chromosomes instead of the more usual 46. This produces a 47,XYY karyotype, which occurs in 1 in 1,000 male births."

In the case of 47,XYY: "This sex chromosome aneuploidy is not characterized by distinct physical features and, because there does not appear to be recognizable pattern of neurodevelopment or behavioral characteristics, the use of the term syndrome may be inappropriate. Males with an extra Y chromosome are phenotypically normal and most never come to medical attention." Nevertheless, one might be forgiven for wondering whether our would-be handlers use "47" as a sort of code for "the other half".

In the I-Ching, Hexagram 47 is described as follows: "47. K'un / Oppression (Exhaustion) above TUI THE JOYOUS, LAKE below K'AN THE ABYSMAL, WATER The lake is above, water below; the lake is empty, dried up. ... When the water has flowed out below, the lake must dry up and become exhausted. That is fate." The dried up lake recalls our 50-odd year record drought Summer. See here and here. On "fate" and related words such as "fata," "fata morgana," heading towards "Morgan Le Fay" (and the Fortean "Fayette factor")... see HERE.

(See, esp., here and here.)

Proceeding with the hexagram: "Exhaustion is expressed in yet another way: at the top, a dark line is holding down two light line; below, a light line is hemmed in between two dark ones. The upper trigram belongs to the principle of darkness, the lower to the principle of light. Thus everywhere superior men are oppressed and held in restraint by inferior men. ... The great man brings about good fortune. No blame. ... Times of adversity are the reverse of times of success, but they can lead to success if they; befall the right man. ... No inferior man is capable of this." Maybe underneath his expensive suits, Mitt Romney sports a tee silk-screened with the sentence: "No inferior man is capable of this."

Interestingly, Hexagram 2 appears to be named "K'un" also.  Is it just me (and maybe I've been at this too long), or does that look like an "11"? Of this hexagram, we read: "This hexagram is made up of broken lines only. The broken lines represents the dark, yielding, receptive primal power of yin. The attribute of the hexagram is devotion; its image is the earth. ...It represents nature in contrast to spirit, earth in contrast to heaven..." This description is reminiscent of Chabad's Kabbalistic statement regarding the significance of silver (see above).

"[T]here is a clearly defined hierarchic relationship between the two principles. ... For the Receptive must be activated and led by the Creative; then it is productive of good. Only when it abandons this position and tries to stand as an equal side by side with the Creative, does it become evil.  The result then is opposition to and struggle against the Creative, which is productive of evil to both." (Source)

 (Climax-Anticlimax)

"Just as the light-giving power represents life, so the dark power, the shadowy, represents death. When the first hoarfrost comes in the autumn, the power of darkness and cold is just at its beginning. After these first warnings, signs of death will gradually multiply, until, in obedience to immutable laws, stark winter with its ice is here." (Ibid. See here for follow ups on ice, fire, and the name "stark".)

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The 47th Degree (Masonic Order of Memphis and Mizraim) - Knight of the Seven Stars: "The Columns fall; scene changes; flaming star shows the route the adept should take. Downfall of the traveler; passage of the obscure vault; candlestick of seven branches which gives light to all the world, its influence acts unceasingly on nature and man; new calculation of numbers; use and virtue of the mapped signs of the Zodiac, and their spiritual influence invention of the Compasses. Sign: incline head, place right index on brow. Touch: with both hands seize each other's shoulders. Password: Spero (hope). Secret Word: Vigilo (watch)." See also here and here.

(This image is entirely gratuitous.)

For more on 47, see: here and here (of particular interest might be the "inside joke" bit) and here.

Willard Mitt Romney was born March 12, 1947. 

[Update 4 October 2012]

Romney on '47 Percent': I Was 'Completely Wrong' cf. Here.

Possible meanings of "wrong" include: "not proper or usual; not in accordance with requirements or recommended practice: the wrong way to hold a golf club. ...deviating from or unacceptable to correct or conventional laws, usage, etc... not intended or wanted: the wrong road ... not working properly; amiss: something is wrong with the engine..." (Source)

[Update 5 October 2012]

47:

For more, see HERE.

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