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"Now is the time..." 

~ Barack Obama (Sources: 1, 2, & 3)

"Running swiftly, balancing on the razor's edge, bald but with a lock of hair on his forehead, he wears no clothes; if you grasp him from the front, you might be able to hold him, but once he has moved on not even Jupiter [Zeus] himself can pull him back: this is a symbol of Kairos [Tempus, Opportunity], the brief moment in which things are possible." (Aesop, Fable 536) "Rove: After Four Bleak Obama Years, an Opportunity" (Source)

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"Now is the time to make real the promises of democracy. Now is the time to rise from the dark and desolate valley of segregation to the sunlit path of racial justice. Now is the time to lift our nation from the quicksands of racial injustice to the solid rock of brotherhood. Now is the time to make justice a reality for all of God's children." (M. Luther King, Jr., "I have a Dream," Qtd. on NPR.)

Saturn-Chronos-"Father Time" (See here)

"There's a storm coming..."

~ Selina Kyle (Dark Knight Rises [2012])

"In the U.S., the Tea Party movement is one of the first physical, political manifestations which indicate that there is a great storm coming."

~ Anders Behring Breivik, "Manifesto," Qtd. by USA Today.

"Saturn's Hexagon --'One of the Most Bizarre Things Seen in the Solar System'" (Source) "The last visible-light images of the entire hexagon were captured by NASA's Voyager spacecraft nearly 32 years ago, the last time spring began on Saturn."

("Swirling Storms on Saturn 11.28.12"; Image Source)

(Thanks to Jim Brandon for pointing out to me Saturn's Spinning Hexagon-Shaped Storm; Image Source)

(Sacred Saturnian Geometry; Image Source)

Loren Coleman has cataloged a number of prominent examples of the "storm coming" leitmotif. See here. Here are a few more - all the way back to 1984.

"There's a Storm Coming."

~ Anton Heese (Morgan Stanley interest rate strategist, "referring to the market for Treasury Inflation Protected Securities, or TIPS"; Source)

"Myth Number 6: The 9/11 attacks came as a surprise to the Bush administration. Nothing is more essential to the official story than this idea. About 10 months after 9/11, for example, FBI Director Robert Mueller said: 'To this day we have found no one in the United States except the actual hijackers who knew of the plot.'... There is much evidence, however, that counts against this claim. The Put Options: One type of evidence involves an extraordinarily high volume of 'put options' purchased in the three days prior to 9/11. To buy put options for a particular company is to bet that its stock price will go down. These extraordinary purchases included two, and only two, airlines–United and American–the two airlines used in the attacks. They also included Morgan Stanley Dean Witter, which occupied 22 stories of the World Trade Center. The price of these shares did, of course, plummet after 9/11, resulting in enormous profits for the purchasers. These unusual purchases, as the San Francisco Chronicle said, raise 'suspicions that the investors . . . had advance knowledge of the strikes.'... It would appear, in other words, that those who made the purchases knew that United and American airliners were going to be used in attacks on the World Trade Center." ~ David Ray Griffin, "9/11: The Myth and the Reality," URL. 

"You think I'm crazy? Well, listen up, there's a storm coming like nothing you've ever seen, and not a one of you is prepared for it."

~ Curtis (Take Shelter [2011]) 

"It's changing out there. Just like last time. There's a storm coming, Harry. 

And we all best be ready when she does."

~ Rubeus Hagrid (Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix [2007])

 "Storm's coming."

~ Batman (Batman Begins [2005]) 

"...there's a storm coming in..."

Gas Station Attendant 

"I know."

~ Sarah Connor (The Terminator [1984], Final lines) 

 

("Pan ... is the innermost moon of Saturn. It is a walnut-shaped small moon about 35 kilometres across and 23 km high that orbits within the Encke Gap in Saturn's A Ring. Pan acts as a ring shepherd and is responsible for keeping the Encke Gap free of ring particles." Source)

(Pan: Source)

Additionally, some websites are rewarming the "solar storm" prediction that was hot during the recent spate of "Mayan Apocalypse" prognostications. See here. (Cf. Here.) But cooler heads often prevail. So don't pan-ic.

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"USA-207, international COSPAR code 2009-047A, also known as PAN, officially meaning Palladium At Night, or P360, is a classified American communications satellite, which was launched in September 2009. The US government has not confirmed which of its intelligence agencies will operate the satellite." (Footnotes omitted, Source) For more on Pan, see here and here.

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Mention of "Palladium" also fits into a pattern of "Periodic Table" references. E.g., see: silver, cadmium, and gold and aluminum. 

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Palladium (mythology): "In Greek and Roman mythology, a palladium or palladion was an image of great antiquity on which the safety of a city was said to depend. 'Palladium' especially signified the wooden statue (xoanon) of Pallas Athena that Odysseus and Diomedes stole from the citadel of Troy and which was later taken to the future site of Rome by Aeneas. The Roman story is related in Virgil's Aeneid and other works." (Source; On Virgil's Aeneid, cf. here.) "[A]n object known as the Felix Gem..., cut on carnelian,...was considered to be the most valuable of all the carved gems in the collection of Pope Paul II (1464-71)...(The original purpose of such gems was to serve as seals on documents). The Felix Gem was made for Capurnius Severus, a member of the court of the emperor Tiberius (AD 14-37) by the gem cutter Felix. It bears a scene of the seizure of the Palladium - an image of the goddess Pallas Athena (or Minerva) - from the citadel at Troy. Ulysses remonstrates with his companion Diomedes for having murdered Athena's priestess. The reference is to Rome's earliest legendary history: without possession of the Palladium, the Greeks could never take Troy..." Michael J. Vickers, The Ancient Romans (London: Phaidon P., 1989), p. 6. 

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Is someone or something trying to turn back the clock? 

("Doomsday Clock Holds at 5 'Til Midnight" Source; Image Source)

I have touched on this theme previously. See, for example, here, here, and here. 

("1865 baseball card expected to fetch six figures" Source; Image Source)

(Just reported: "Glenn Beck Sees Civil War Brewing in America" Source; Image Source)

(Thanks to John Cole for pointing this out; Source)

What year comes to mind? (Cf. Here and here.)

"[Y]ou're going to have a fraction of people that are going to take a stand, and I can just predict a Waco-style standoff in some rural area and it's not going to end well" 

~ Mayor Dayton King (Source; Thanks to Paul Joseph Watson for the information)

(33 + 11 = Oh...never mind. Image source)

"Mike O'Neal, Kansas House Speaker, Emails Prayer Some Say Wishes For Obama's Death" (Source) "One of Lincoln's favorite books from the bible was Psalms; his favorite poem was 'Mortality' (1828) by William Knox." (Source; on parallels with John F. Kennedy as well as with the Hollywood movie In the Line of Fire, see HERE.)

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"How Obama can avoid the second-term curse? The promise and perils of second terms" (Source)

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"Now my good rats, now is the time..."

~ King Boris (A Riddle a Day Keeps the Riddler Away [1966])

See also:

"Iatrogenic Allegations"
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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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