Nikola Tesla: Calling All Freethinkers!

Tesla Coil

by Rand Clifford for Veterans Today

Humanity’s horizons glowed from the brilliance of Nikola Tesla. But to our horrible misfortune, the glow was much too bright for the Power Status Quo (PSQ). Money means power, and Tesla cost tycoons a lot of money by slaying with alternating current (AC) the dead-end direct current (DC) power distribution system of Thomas Edison (financed by J.P Morgan). More than forty of Tesla’s patents from 1888 cover the entire system of “polyphase” AC that, virtually unchanged, powers civilization to this day—a monumental lifetime achievement for any man.
But polyphase AC didn’t lead directly to the PSQ’s campaign of erasing Tesla from history. It was “Tesla’s Coil”, key to unlocking “Aether” and harnessing “Radiant Electricity”. The ultimate forbidden technology, Aether and Radiant Electricity was a primary focus of Tesla’s last forty years on Earth.
By tapping the Aether, by touching “…the wheelwork of nature”, Tesla illuminated visions of humanity freed from domination by the likes of Rothschild, Morgan, Rockefeller…the entire global tyranny machine powered largely by fossil energy, private central banking, war.
One man found an antidote for pathocracy, humanity’s premier poison.
[1] His name was Nikola Tesla; that remains one of the few things about the man that has not been altered by the PSQ. The name survives, but little else about Tesla has not been violated. His crime, or “sin” was competition tycoons couldn’t control.
Tesla always knew he would triumph. In his own words, regarding tycoons such as J.P. Morgan:
“I am unwilling to accord to some small-minded and jealous individuals the satisfaction of having thwarted my efforts. These men are to me nothing more than microbes of a nasty disease. My project was retarded by laws of nature. The world was not prepared for it. It was too far ahead of time, but the same laws will prevail in the end and make it a triumphal success.”
Tesla’s “…triumphal success” has the power to unwind tyranny. All we need is for enough humans to awaken from the PSQ’s spell. Tesla obviously thought awakening was possible even while insisting that, “No free energy device will ever be allowed to reach the market.” Tesla knew that mass awakening was the wildcard. If we let him down, we let humanity down.
Tycoons throw enormous wealth at protecting people from reality by keeping them asleep. But waking up is free, the only ticket to freedom of development of the human potential.
Freedom…a gorgeous concept increasingly hollowed-out by the PSQ. Try to imagine what humanity might achieve without being kicked in the face by the psychopathic elite.
George Orwell said in his novel, 1984, “If you want a vision of the future, imagine a boot stamping on a human face – forever.”
If we have any chance at proving Orwell wrong, Tesla might be our best hope. So he gets the boot. But they haven’t stamped out Tesla’s spirit. His ultimate technology is still alive not only in Black-Ops, but in laboratories of valiant researchers cheating death-by-truth.
The PSQ’s perpetual fouling of Tesla accents his elevation of what it means to be human. That most salient testament to Tesla’s brilliance, his suppression by the PSQ—it’s all around us, hidden in plain sight.
Style of the PSQ exhibits fear of people thinking for themselves. As long as pockets of human intelligence resist brainwashing, and independent thoughts fly around uncontrolled, that means the PSQ’s choke hold on power is not “safe”.
Similar alarm flourished in America’s top Rothschild agent, J.P. Morgan.
[2] He knew monopolistic fortunes were not safe with Tesla a funded free spirit. Morgan and other tycoons stung by the “War of the Currents”
[3] went into a defensive blitz. And when Tesla denied Morgan control of Radiant Electricity, Morgan had Tesla’s laboratories burned down. Works of genius were destroyed, but not the man. Morgan also instructed the four publishers of school textbooks to never mention Nikola Tesla; ditto for the Smithsonian—Nikola Tesla was an unperson. Morgan stamped like a professional on truth about Tesla. And the money boot keeps stamping with help from public ignorance, fear of the unknown, trust in “authority”….
Creativity…humans working outside “the box”—writers, inventors, scientists and researchers and free spirits soaring above dogma embody what the PSQ fears in humanity. Nikola Tesla is a stellar example of what the PSQ fears most.
Tesla revered nature, not money. That got Tesla the electrical wizard off to a bad start with the PSQ—a moral eminence compounded by Tesla’s public declaration: “Science is but a perversion of itself unless it has as its ultimate goal the betterment of humanity.”
Those were fighting words to the tycoons—especially the part about, “…betterment of humanity.” Tycoons seek “arrested human development”, conspire to fit humanity with cement overshoes. Tesla’s treasures remain difficult to fathom with the PSQ so good at not only mangling and suppressing them, but misrepresenting many as works of Edison, Marconi and others.
On his deathbed, Edison said his biggest mistake had been in trying to develop direct current, rather than the superior alternating current system that Tesla had put within his grasp.
Tesla’s reply about Marconi’s work in radio: “Marconi is a good fellow. Let him continue. He is using 17 of my patents.”
If Tesla doesn’t terrify the PSQ, why their obsession with polluting his accomplishments? Why did they ban Tesla in textbooks and at the Smithsonian, choke off his funding and conjure him into a bogeyman?
Standard indoctrination coddles third graders along in this video of an “Awesome! ‘Tesla Coil’” (don’t miss Alex Jones growling in the wings).
[4]Here’s an encouraging story of spunky third graders with a great teacher, and their letter-writing campaign focused on getting Tesla acknowledged in the Smithsonian.
[5]Among Tesla’s most noble contributions to humanity and the cause of freedom…his intimate disclosure of PSQ’s will to protect their power at the complete disregard of humanity. Tesla revealed what it means to be psychopathic, and elite, showing humanity what inhumanity we are up against. Destruction of competition is a martial situation where, as the PSQ likes to frame it: “No options are off the table”.
The Internet has made progress against common public sentiment regarding Tesla being derivatives of: “I heard Tesla was kind of a crackpot.” Big money manipulates this idea from off in the wings, but when it comes to truth about Tesla, austerity takes center stage.
A nurtured “…then how come?” variety of popular ignorance clings to the idea: “If Tesla was so great, then how come we’re not utilizing his so-called ultimate technology?” The PSQ religiously stamping out competition is “how come”. And once again, when it comes to protecting their monopolies, “…nothing is off the table”.
Accurate information about Tesla still haunts the Internet. People can even learn about Eric Dollard.
[6] But the PSQ’s “Internet problem” seems merely a speed bump, considering the PSQ’s record of successfully controlling whatever they want to control, if given enough time. Where would the PSQ be without it’s enablers, us?
A great quote from Eric Dollard:
“Tesla scared the central bankers senseless. They knew what his plan meant. Energy independence meant an almost complete loss of control of the people.”
Tesla fought in the trenches, pulling back curtains on the PSQ—on humanity versus tyranny, freedom versus slavery. Profit from death and destruction—perpetual war fueled by fossil energy. Private central banking’s “…continuous consolidation of wealth and power into higher, tighter and righter hands” (GHW Bush quote). Continuous consolidation of wealth in the fewest hands drives debt slavery, genocide, looting of the future, the “New World Order”.
“If we don’t exploit every resource with alacrity and no mercy, our competitors will”—that’s the apparent creed of the PSQ. Sugary platitudes regarding people yet to be born seem vulgar in light of the PSQ twisting future generations into competitors. First come, first served. A penny stolen is a penny earned.
Imagine “free” energy.
Imagine no contrived shortages and price gouging. No ”gas” tanks, power lines, meters, power bills, wars for oil and pipeline routes, Alberta tar and Keystone XL kinds of high-pressure DilBit arteries of death—imagine some of the PSQ’s worst nightmares. Toss in no climate-changing hydrocarbon pollution, no more churning out mountains of radioactive waste to attack the human genome for thousands of generations, no psychopathic domination by an invisible elite controlling what billions of people need to survive. Imagine modern warfare obsolete.
[7] Tesla offered salvation from survival of the wickedest.
The wicked panicked….
Truth is the antidote for diseased wealth and propaganda smothering and mangling the best of Tesla. A rare step in the right direction would be millions of people realizing that Tesla really did not dedicate the second half of his life to making bigger and ever-more-“Awesome!” sparks—but rather, he was absolutely dedicated to freedom of humanity. Tesla’s greatest invention being reduced to a toy for “…entertainment and educational displays”—that’s very potent PSQ mind venom. They even tagged Tesla the “God of Lightning”. Can’t beat lightning for “Awesome!” sparks. Can’t beat the PSQ for…perhaps W.C. Fields said it best: “There comes a time in the affairs of man, when we must take the bull by the tail, and face the situation.” The “bull” in this case is the PSQ; the situation is what blasts from under the bull’s tail to foul humanity, and our nest.
Do we still have, if we ever did have, the mettle to wake up and rub the PSQ’s nose in their foulness? The stakes have never been higher.
The Sin of Competition
A quote variously attributed to both J.D. Rockefeller and J.P. Morgan set the stage for maniacal fouling of Tesla: “Competition is a sin.”
[8]Chutzpah of these two “tycoons’” implies that monopoly is divine—especially monopoly on energy, money, food, fresh water, and war; a “royal flush” in this Earthly game of poker.
Consider our nightmare of perpetual war in terms of this quote from Aldous Huxley, author of the novel, Brave New World:
“The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human.”
Lies are the foundation of the PSQ’s reaction to Nikola Tesla. It’s paramount to humanity that freethinkers survive the elite and witness epiphany of this wisdom from Buddha:
“The lie tastes sweet at the beginning, but bitter at the end. The truth tastes bitter at the beginning, but sweet at the end.”
“Tesla’s Coil” Versus “The Tesla Coil”
The jungle of confusion and suppression of Tesla’s masterpiece might be easier to navigate if we distinguish between “Tesla’s Coil”, and the “Tesla Coil”. The former could be the epitome of human invention, the latter is its neutered caricature. For elaboration on this distinction, let’s check in with Zionist propaganda, the richest kind.
Wikipedia is hailed by Zionist Israel as “…the major source of information in the world.” They even advertise, with standard Zionist chutzpah, that Wikipedia is “…under constant, paid review of Zionist assets.”
[9]Below is Wikipedia’s first three paragraphs (underlining added) for their listing: “Tesla Coil” (as opposed to Tesla’s Coil”):
“A Tesla coil is an electrical resonant transformer circuit invented by Nikola Tesla around 1891. It is used to produce high-voltage, low-current, high frequency alternating-current electricity.
“Tesla coils can produce higher voltages than other artificial sources of high-voltage discharges, electrostatic machines. Tesla experimented with a number of different configurations consisting of two, or sometimes three, coupled resonant electric circuits.
“Tesla used these coils to conduct innovative experiments in electrical lighting, phosphorescence, x-ray generation, high frequency alternating current phenomena, electrotherapy, and the transmission of electrical energy without wires. Tesla coil circuits were used commercially in sparkgap radio transmitters for wireless telegraphy until the 1920s, and in pseudomedical equipment such as electrotherapy and violet ray devices. Today their main use is for entertainment and educational displays.”
Please note the use of “high-voltage, low-current, high frequency alternating-current electricity”, and, “high frequency alternating current phenomena”, topped off with, “Today their main use is for entertainment and educational displays.” In terms of what Tesla actually achieved—in terms of transcendent capabilities of “Tesla’s Coil”, Wikipedia’s “Tesla Coil” definition could not be more misleading if Wikipedia’s goal was to mislead.
Smell a rat? Tesla has offered to show us that rats don’t always win.
Regarding Wikipedia’s, “Today their main use is for entertainment and educational displays”…this is a naked example of Wikipedia’s Zionist-propaganda roots, and propagation of twisted truth.
Frank Zappa characterized America’s educational system as a mechanism designed to create “…functional ignorance.”
Disguised as an educational system, America’s youth indoctrination system also gets a nod in Wikipedia’s line about the “Tesla Coil” being for “…entertainment and educational displays”.
Entertainment, surely, but educational? Entertainment and indoctrination are more accurate here; the “Tesla Coil” is hailed while “Tesla’s Coil” is…what, “conspiracy theory”?
We suffer severe multi-generational distress when “education” is largely indoctrination aimed at inhibiting independent thinking. Students memorize dogma sanctioned by the PSQ so they can pass standardized tests sanctioned by the PSQ. Students learning to think for themselves, learning how to distinguish truth from dogma—this will not do. The PSQ wants young minds regurgitating hive thinking in preparation for becoming obedient workers in thrall of authority, wingless and weighed-down by leaden dogma planted in their minds by PSQ ovipositors.
Tesla’s “Wheelwork of Nature”
While the primary function of the contrived “Tesla Coil” is to disengage Tesla’s masterpiece from reality, the primary function of “Tesla’s Coil” is to disengage voltage from current—disengage “the true electricity” (Aether) from the flow of massive electrons. Only when zero current is achieved in “Tesla’s Coil” will Aether flow freely and the “Tesla Effect” be realized. Any flow of electrons chokes off the Aether. It’s no coincidence that the awesome-spark-toy “Tesla Coil” has popularly replaced “Tesla’s Coil” to choke off Tesla’s threat to the PSQ.
Tesla’s inspiration regarding the decoupling of voltage and current grew during his brief employment by Thomas Edison.
Edison’s DC power distribution system was so inefficient that power-line resistance would cause voltage to fade within several city blocks. Voltage was cranked up very high at the main generators, and “pumping stations” were required every half mile to boost sagging voltage and current.
When a main switch was thrown to hit transmission lines with cranked-up voltage right off the main generators, a blast of blue and purple spikes and stinging, shocking sensations radiated in all directions from the transmission lines before electrons (current) flowed in the lines. This instantaneous phenomenon actually killed some linesmen. Engineers considered these bursts of magnified electrostatic potential a nuisance to be eliminated. Tesla saw them as a powerful, mysterious form of energy to be explored.
In Part Two:
— Tesla and the Earth (his laboratory)
— “Tesla’s Coil” (the real thing)
— The “Tesla Effect”
— Aether’s “whitefire” fountains and “mass-free cold electricity”
— Wardenclyffe without propaganda
— Tesla allowed a cameo appearance in the Smithsonian
— Eric Dollard’s eight destroyed laboratories, and why a most profound and honorable way to help humanity, Earth, and generations to come is also the most dangerous
References:
[1] http://www.ponerology.com/evil_2b.html
[2] https://www.google.com/search?q=J.P.+Morgan+Rothschild+agent&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
[3] https://www.google.com/search?q=%22war+of+the+currents%22&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
[4] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6iGXBZuVPQ
[5] http://www.think-aboutit.com/Misc/nikola_tesla.htm
[6] http://www.jinnwe.com/quest.php?id=1002
[7] http://www.cheniere.org/books/part1/starting%20pages.htm
[8] https://www.google.com/search?q=quote%3A+competition+is+a+sin+JP+Morgan&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a
[9] http://www.ascertainthetruth.com/att/index.php/the-media/who-controls-the-media/429-zionist-control-of-wikipedia

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Rand Clifford lives in Spokane, Washington. His novels, CASTLING, TIMING, Priest Lake Cathedral, and many earlier essays are published by StarChief Press. Contact for Rand Clifford: randoc@live.com
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The Master Plan for Planet Earth Revealed!

The Master Plan for Planet Earth Revealed!
        Mother/Father God's Astonishing Message!

Dear Ones, Life is moving at a breath-taking pace for many of you.  Even when things are positive, it can be disconcerting to be moving at lightning speed through your days.  The feeling you are having is real.  Time has truly speeded up.  It is so, because when you approach a portal, all is compacted on both the entry and exit sides of the portal.  You are approaching the portal to a Higher Dimensional Existence.  It has been constructed, and is being guarded by your extra-terrestrial Brothers and Sisters, in cooperation with your Earth Masters, in preparation for the transition you will all be making, when you accomplish the Ascension of all humankind.

Kathryn has asked us a question, about the plan for how the Ascension will be handled, and what options there will be for those who are not ready, or willing, to make the transition, when the rest of you are ready.  You, Earth Children, are in charge of the way this will be handled, not Us.  We do give our approval to your plans, when we see you have thoroughly thought them through, and have the intention to create a Light-increasing plan, which is in the Greater Good.  It has been decided recently, in your Council meetings, that the Ascension process will go forward as originally foreseen - all together.

Let us describe what this means, in practical terms.  We do not wish to prevent anyone from ascending, when they are ready, but it is a difficult and demanding course of personal development, to reach the place where you are completely in command of your thoughts, feelings, and actions, with Love and Light as the energy you breathe.  This is the High Level of Vibration, which has been reached by the Ascended Masters, before they made the transition to Higher Dimensional States in body form.  It was decided in your Planning Councils, that you would prefer to ask for help from your Star Brothers and Sisters, to allow greater numbers to ascend, without the excessively rigorous training, your predecessors have experienced.

We have agreed to this proposal.  It will allow greater numbers of you, who have lived many lives, in the very difficult atmosphere of Planet Earth, to ascend on the basis of the level of difficulty, you have experienced here, even though you may not have quite reached the level of Elevated Consciousness of your teachers.  We now have the additional technology of the very sophisticated Light Chambers, which can help you with raising your Vibrational Levels.  We believe that those who have prepared themselves, by learning to maintain a High Level of Love/Light, in your daily lives, will be able to adapt to the rising energies of the Chambers, and that you will be able to maintain that level, once you have completed the training, we have planned for you, in preparation for the Light Chamber treatments.

For those of you who are conscious and aware of your former lives as Advanced Souls, the transition will be comfortable and pleasant.  You will be “processed” through in the first wave, and will be able to return to help with the next phase of people who are ready, and they will do the same with those who come after them.  So, you see, accomplishing this process together does not mean that you will all ascend on the same day.  It does mean that it will be clear to everyone on the Planet that this is the project they are all taking part in.  There will be intensive Educational and Personal development training for everyone, as much as is needed, until every last Soul has achieved the necessary vibrational level to accomplish their goal.

It will be a Global effort, jointly carried out by the millions of Galactic cousins, in cooperation with your own Ascended Masters, many of whom have been working among you in the recent last push, toward the glorious goal of Ascension of Planet Earth.  It will be possible for all to concentrate on the Global effort, because you will have already experienced the Equalizing Effect, of the Economic Shift, which will eliminate all reason to cheat, steal, or use wealth as power.  Because money will no longer be important (because of the abundance), people who previously worked 50 or 60 hours a week, will be free to work on their own Learning Process, and to join in Community Projects to help their neighbors.

Good Will, and Mutual Sharing, will be the Order of the Day, when the only needs that are important, are met by simply cooperating with one another, in the Spirit of Love.  Since there will be no competition for resources, because you will have Unlimited Power, clean water and air, the only real needs will be for food, and you will receive plenty of help, creating a New Agricultural System, which will provide healthy abundance, in an Ecologically sustainable way.  The fun will include the Cultural Banquet of Arts, Theatre, Dance, Music and Literature, which will no longer struggle for funding, but will be lavished with Support and Appreciation, by the deprived population.

It is a Wonderful Plan, and a Heroic Life-affirming and Hope-filled effort, to create what We have dreamed, in our fondest dreams.  It is a Brilliant Plan too, in that it uses the Power of the Group, to build excitement, enthusiasm and shared successes.  It will create waves of excitement and celebration, as each wave of Ascending Students, makes their Glorious Transition, by renewing their Bodies, and elevating their Hearts, and then returning to the group, like Celebrity Achievers, who inspire those who follow closely on their heels.  Family members will welcome their “Graduated” Loved Ones, in awe and genuine respect, when they experience the Radiant Ones, on their Triumphant Return, who come back to help their own, in the Spirit of Unconditional Love and Light.

You are well aware of the effect your Educators call “Peer Pressure.”  This plan uses all the positive, but none of the negative influences of the group, to build Positive Participation and Joyful Cooperation.  It carries with it all the Glamour, Excitement and Crowd Appeal of the Olympics, where everyone wins a Gold Medal, in a 'Round-Robin of ongoing Training', until everyone becomes a winner.  It is as if all the World is cheering their own team, and everyone belongs to the Hometown Team.

Giving a friend a 'Leg-Up', will be as natural as breathing, when there is no attraction to Crime or Dominance over others, because there is nothing to win, by doing so, and no need for fear or suspicion of others.  Cooperation and Loving Service to others, is Celebrated and Rewarded, by advancing in your Soul Development, which will be, for the first time, a process in Full View, of those “on the ground.”  Reaping your “Heavenly Reward” will no longer be a mysterious and far-off invisible process, which takes place beyond your view or knowledge.  It will be Publicly Celebrated, as it is in the Higher Dimensions.

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Earth is now preparing, for entry into the most Watched and Admired Event in the History of the Universe.  It is an experiment in achieving the most desirable state imaginable for the largest number of people - a truly wondrous undertaking, and one which you will now see, was well worth the careful planning and timing. 

Do you understand now, why it was so important to round up, and remove the Dark Ones, who would be incapable of taking part in the coming effort, because they are unable or unwilling to contribute to any Positive, Light-filled event?  Do you see why, it has been so important for Lightworkers to clear away all the old resentments and shadows, in preparation for this coming Glorious work?  You will all want to be in the first wave of Ascension, so that you can return “with bells on”, to be the inspiration for your Fellow Humans.  Are you as excited and thrilled as We are, by the prospect of seeing your Friends and Lovers, in the visibly glowing form of Radiant Ascended Masters?

Now, before you try to imagine what might go wrong with this Plan, remember that the most brilliant Hearts and Minds in the Universe, have worked Thousands of Years, to anticipate every possible obstacle, and have found a Plan to conquer it.  They are so sure of the Success of the Program, that they are already celebrating. 

We hope that you now have a better sense of the wondrous possibilities to come, for all of you.  We cannot possibly capture in words, the exhilaration and excitement which fills the Ships and the Soaring Hearts of your Galactic friends.  You will be overwhelmed with Joy when you discover how Brilliant and Loving they are, and how much they care for you.

We Love you with all our hearts,
Your Mother/Father God

Via Kathryn May, June 6, 2013, 11 PM

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_________________________________________________________________ There are three guides which we can summon to our aid when we set out in quest of the cradle of the tribes, races, and nations that people the globe. The first is Philology, or language: the second is Mythology, or worship: and the third is Tradition, or folk-lore. These are three guides that will not lie, and that cannot mislead us. As regards the first, no great power of reflection is needed to convince us that in the first age men conversed with one another in a common language; in other words, that man started with one speech. May be that one speech lingers somewhere on the earth, slightly changed and modified, it may be, by time and other influences, still containing the roots and elemental characteristics of those numerous tongues, which are diffused over the earth, and of which it is the parent? This is not a supposition, but a fact. Philology holds in its hand the clue by which it can track all the tongues of the world through the perplexed labyrinth of diverse grammars, idioms, and dialects, to the one primeval tongue of the race. ================================================================= And when we permit philology to perform its office, it conducts us to the great central plain of Asia, called Iran. ================================================================= The researches of Max Muller, Sir William Jones, and others, appear to have established the fact, that we find the ancestors of all numerous tongues of the nations, NOT in the classic languages of Greece and Rome, nor in the more ancient Semitic, but In the speech of the Indo-European races or Aryans. The Sanskrit possesses the root-affinities, and stands in a common relation to all the languages of the East on the one hand, and the West on the other. It presents its proud claim to be the parent of human tongues, and it identifies Iran (Aryan) as the spot whence the human family was spread abroad. "After thousands of years," says Mr. Dasent, "the language and traditions of those who went East, and of those who went West, bear such an affinity to each other, as to have established, beyond discussion or dispute, the fact of their descent from a common stock". Let us next attend to the evidence, on the point before us, of the second witness, Mythology, or worship. The first form of worship—keeping out of view the one divinely appointed form — was Nature worship. By 'nature worship' we mean the adoration of the Deity through an earthly symbol. The first symbol of the Creator was the sun, and consequently the earliest form of nature worship was sun-worship. Where, and in what region of the earth was the first act of sun-worship performed? All are agreed that this form of worship took its rise in the same region to which philology has already conducted us and identified as the father-land of mankind. On the plains of Shinar rose the great tower or temple of Bel, or the Sun. There was the first outbreak of a worship which quickly spread over the earth, continually multiplying its rites and varying its outward forms, becoming ever the more 'gorgeous', yet ever the more 'gross', But exhibiting in every land, and among all peoples, the same seminal characteristics and root-affinities which were embodied in the first act of sun-adoration on the Chaldean plain. Thus a second time we arrive on those great plains on which 'Ararat' looks down. There is a 'third witness', and the testimony of this witness is to the same effect with that of the former two. There exists a unique body of literature which is found floating in the languages of both the East and the West. It is mainly popular, consisting of traditions, fables and tales, and is commonly styled 'folk-lore'. These Tales bear the stamp of being the creation of a young race: They are bright with the colours of romance, and they 'embody', in the guise of allegory and fable, the 'maxims of an ancient wisdom'. ================================================================= Whether it is the Celtic or the Teutonic, the classic or the vernacular tongue, in which we hear these tales and 'folk-lore' rehearsed, they are found to be the same. ================================================================= They have the same groundwork or plot - though diffused over the globe. This points to a common origin, and in tracing them up to that origin we pass the tongues of modern Europe, we pass the Latin and Greek tongues, we come to the language spoken by the Aryan (Iranian) races of Asia, and there we find the fountain-head of these unique and world-wide tales. This is another link between the East and West, between the peoples that held the "grey dawn" and those on whom the world’s "eve" is destined to descend. Such is the witness of these three — Philology, Religion, Tradition. They are the footprints which the human family have left on the road by which they have travelled; And, following these traces we are led to Iran, where lived the men who were the first to "till and ear" the soil. Thirty years ago (i.e. in the 1850s) it would have required some little courage to mention, unless to repudiate, the authority which we are about to cite. At that time it was fashionable to stand in doubt of the early traditions of all nations. The first chroniclers were believed to display a vein (characteristic) for legend acumen of the wise moderns, they were supposed to delight in garnishing their pages with prodigies and marvels, rather than storing them with ascertained facts. But this spirit of historic skepticism has since been markedly rebuked. The graven tablets dug up from the ruins of Nineveh, the treasures exhumed from the mounds of Babylon, and the secrets of a bygone time with which the explorations on the plain of Troy, Have made us acquainted, have signally attested the veracity of the 'early writers', and shown us, that instead of indulging a love of fable, they exercised a scrupulous regard to fact, and an 'abstention from poetic adornment' for which the world, in these latter days (end of 19th Century), had not given them credit. The consequence is that the early historians now speak with a justly enhanced authority. This remark is specially true of the sacred writers, and also, to a large extent, of the secular historians. We in Great Britain likewise possess the records of an ancient time. These writings have been preserved, not in the dust of the earth, like the written cylinders and graven slabs of the Tigris and the Euphrates valley, but in the sacred repositories of the aboriginal race whose origin they profess to record. We refer to the "Welsh Triads." These documents are the traditions received from the first settlers, handed down from father to son, and at last committed to writing by the Druids, the priests of the aborigines. They are arranged in groups, and each group consists of three analogous events; the design of this arrangement obviously being to simplify the narrative and aid the memory. We do not claim for them the authority of history; we use them solely as throwing a side light on the darkness of that remote age, and as confirmatory, or at illustrative, As far as it is not possible to understand them, of the sketch we have ventured to trace of the peopling of Europe, and the first settling of Britain, from the etymological (language origins) and historic proofs that remain to us. The fourth Triad says: "There are three pillars of the nation of Britain. The first was 'Hu' the Mighty (HU-man?), who brought the nation of Kymry** first to the isle of Britain; **[Cymry or Kymry = Refers to the Brythonic Celts - Celtic Briton of Wales, Cornwall, and Brittany (NW France). 'Brythonic' = Celtic language of Indo-European roots]. And they came from the 'summer' country, which is on the shores of the Bosphorus (a narrow strait separating European and Asian Turkey), and they came over the Hazy Sea to The Isle of Britain, and to 'Armorica' (Armorica = Gaul - i.e. NW France - esp. Brittany - the latter not to be confused with Britain) where they settled). The other two pillars of the nation of the Kymri were Prydain (Prydain is the medieval Welsh term for the island of Britain) and Moelmud (?), who gave them laws, and established sovereignty among them." The fifth Traid says: "There were three social tribes of the Isle of Britain. The First was the tribe of the 'Kymry' who came to the Isle of Britain with 'Hu' the Mighty, because he would not possess a country and land by 'fighting and pursuit', but By 'justice and tranquillity'. The Second was the tribe of 'Lloegrians' (from the 'Loire' - longest river of France) who came from Gascony (SW France); and they were descended from the primitive tribe of the Kymry. The Third were the 'Brython', who came from Armorica (NW France), and who were descended from the primitive tribe of the Kymry, and they had all three the same language and speech." This Triad offers a rough sketch of two migrations which are seen moving towards our island, each by a different route. The one comes over the Hazy sea (most probably the German Ocean, and the other from Gaul across the channel. But both are sprung of the same stock, the Kymri, the descendants of 'Gomer' (Gomer was the eldest son of Japheth, son of Noah) that first peopled Europe. The Triads go on to speak of two subsequent arrivals of settlers by whom the first great immigration into Britain was followed and supplemented. The two later immigrations were doubtless passed on to the remoter, and perhaps as yet, uninhabited districts of our country. The first arrivals, it is natural to suppose, would plant themselves in the fertile and grassy plains of England, and would refuse, not without reason, to surrender to new-comers lands in which they had already established, by cultivation, the right of ownership. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- These last explorers would have to move onward and seek a settlement in the less hospitable and more mountainous regions of Scotland. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Those whom we now see arriving in our island, and retiring to the straths and slopes of the Grampians (in Scotland), are probably the ancestors of the men who came afterwards, to bear the name of 'Caledonians'. At what period the sons of Gomer — for their migration only does it concern us to trace — took their departure from their original seats in the East, no history informs us. It is natural to suppose that before his death Noah gave to his sons no uncertain intimation of how he meant the earth to be parted amongst them, and the quarter of the globe in which they were to seek their several dwellings. As the great Patriarch of mankind he possessed the princedom of the world. This vast sovereignty he could not transmit entire. Like some great monarchs who have lived since this day, he must have needed to distribute his power among his successors; And in this he acted, we cannot doubt, in conformity with the intimations which had been made to him of the will of a yet greater monarch than himself. For we are told that "the Most High divided to the nations their inheritance." But rivalships and conflicts would likely, spring up in connection with the distribution of so splendid a possession. Some might be unwilling to go forth into the unknown regions allotted to them, and instead of a long and doubtful journey, would prefer remaining near their original seat. The fruitful hills and well-watered vales of Armenia, and the broad plains of the Tigris and Euphrates, would not be easily forsaken for a climate less hospitable and an earth less bounteous. Noah would judge it expedient, doubtless, that while he was yet alive, the three Septs (divisions of a clan) into which his descendants were parted, should begin their journey each in the direction of its allotted possession. Ham must direct his steps toward his sandy continent on the West. Japheth must cross the mountains on the North, and seek a home for his posterity under skies less genial than those of Assyria. Shem must turn his face towards the burning plains of India. To leave their sheltered and now well-cultivated valley for unknown lands whose rugged soils they must begin by subduing, was a prospect far from inviting. The command to 'go forth' seemed a hard one. They would lose the strength which union gives, and be 'scattered' defenseless over the face of the earth. And if we read aright the brief record of Genesis, the mandate of Heaven, delivered to mankind through their common Father, that they should 'disperse and settle the world', met with an open and organised resistance. They broke out into revolt, and in token thereof built their tower on the plain of Shinar. There is one name that stands out, bold and distinct, in the darkness, that hides all his contemporaries; that even of the leader in this rebellion. 'Nimrod' saw in this, strong aversion, of the human kind to 'break up into tribes', and 'disperse abroad', a sentiment on which he might rest his project of a 'universal monarch'. His plan was to keep the human family in 'one place', and accordingly he encouraged the rearing of this 'enormous structure', and he consecrated it to the worship of the Sun, or Bel (Baal, in the city of Babel, later named Babylon). This 'tower' on the plain of Shinar was meant to be the great temple of the world, the shrine at which the unbroken family of man should meet and perform their worship, and so realise their unity. ================================================================= The tower was the symbol of a double tyranny, that of political despotism and that of religious superstition. ================================================================= The policy of Nimrod was the same with that of many an autocrat since who has found 'priestcraft the best ally of ambition', and concluded that the surest way to keep a people under his own yoke was first to bend their necks to that of a 'false god'. It was the policy adopted by Jeroboam in an age long posterior, when he set up his golden calves at Dan and Bethel, that the 'ten tribes' might have no occasion to resort to Jerusalem to worship, and so be seduced back into their allegiance to the 'House of David' (Druid). This bold and impious attempt met with speedy and awful discomfiture. "The Lord came down," says the inspired historian, using a form of speech which is commonly employed to indicate, not indeed a bodily or personal appearance on the scene, but an occurrence so altogether out of the ordinary course; A 'catastrophe' so unlooked for, and so tremendous, that it is 'felt to be' the work of Deity. We can imagine the 'lightnings and mighty tempests' which accompanied the overthrow of this earliest of idolatrous temples, and centre of what was meant to be a 'world-wide despotism'. There was after this no need to repeat the patriarchal command to go forth. Pursued by strange terrors, men were in haste to flee from a region where the Almighty’s authority had been signally defied, and was now as signally vindicated. If Noah outlived this 'catastrophe', as he had survived an earlier and more awful one, he now beheld the insurrection against his patriarchal government quelled, and His posterity forced to go forth in 'three great bodies' or colonies to seek in the primeval forests and wildernesses of the world, each its allotted home. We cannot be very wide of the mark if we fix the epoch of this great exodus at about the three hundredth year after the Flood. The length of time occupies by the bands of Gomer in their journey from their starting-point to the shores of Britain would depend not so much on the space to be traversed, as on the incidents which might arise to facilitate or retard their journey. They had no pioneers to smooth their way, and they could have no chart to guide them over regions which they themselves were the first to explore. The speed of the single traveller, and even the caravan, is swift and uninterrupted; the movements of a million or two of emigrants were unwieldly and laborous. Their flocks and herds accompany them on their march. They had to cross innumerable rivers, passable only by extemporised bridges, or in canoes scooped hastily out of great oaks felled in the neighbouring forest. They had to traverse swampy plains, hew their was through tangled woods, and struggle through narrow mountain defiles. A march of this sort must necessarily be slow. They made long halts, doubtless, in the more fertile regions that lay on their route. In these spots they would practice a little husbandry, and exchange their nomadic habits for the pursuits of a more settled mode of life; And only, when the place became too narrow for their increasing numbers, would they send forth a new swarm, to spy out the wilderness beyond, and find new habitations which would become in turn, radiating points whence fresh streams might go forth to people the lands and mountains lying around their track. Their progress would exhibit the reverse picture of that presented by the army whose terrible march an inspired writer had so graphically described. The locust host of the prophet pursued its way, with the invading, but peaceful, millions, whose march we are contemplating. Wherever their footsteps passed the barren earth was turned into a garden. It was beauty, not blackness and burning, which lay behind them, They advanced to make war upon the desert only. The swampy pool and the black wood disappeared as they went on, and behind them on their track lay smiling fields and the habitations of men. Forty years sufficed to carry the Goths from the banks of the Danube to the shores of the Atlantic. But their steps were quickened by their love of war and their thirst for plunder. No such incentives animated the emigrant horde whose march we are tracing, or urged on their advance. Their movement would bear a resemblance to what we see in America and Australia at this day, where there is a gradual by continuous outflow from the centres of population into the wilderness beyond, and the zone of the desolation and silence is constantly receding before the face of man. Hundreds of years — we know not how many — would these early intruders into the silent wastes of the northern hemisphere occupy, as they journeyed slowly onward and gave the first touch of cultivation to what is now, and has long been, the scene of fair kingdoms and flourishing cities. The men whom we now see stepping upon our shores are shepherds and hunters. They had learned something in their long journey, but they had 'forgotten more'. That journey had not been conducive to their advance in knowledge, nor to their refinement in manners. The epithet "barbarian" was doubtless more applicable to them on their arrival at their new homes than when they took their departure from their original abodes. Whatever skill in husbandry and the arts they possessed in their native seats, would be diminished, if not well nigh lost in its transmission through successive generations in the course of their wandering and unsettled life. Their daily combats with the ruggedness of the earth, with the storms of the sky, or with the beast of prey, would brace their bodies and discipline their courage, but It would at the same time tend to roughen their manners, and impart a tinge of ferocity to their tempers and dispositions. Counteractive influences, such as the modern emigrant from the old centres of civilization carries with him into the wilds of the southern or western world, they had none. We are accustomed to invest the shepherd’s life with the hues of poetry, and we people Arcadia, with the virtues of simplicity and innocence, but when from this imaginary world we turn to the contemplation of real life we are rudely awakened from our dream. We are shocked to find brutality and cruelty where we had pictured to ourselves 'gentleness and love'. It is the pasture grounds of Europe that have sent forth its 'fiercest warriors'. Its nomadic tribes have been its most ruthless desolators. In proof of our assertion we might appeal to the portrait which Herodotus draws of the Scythians of his day; or to the ravaging hordes which issued from the banks of the Borysthenes, Or of the 'Volga'; or to the sanguinary halberdiers (Swiss guards), [a 'halberd', or halbert or Swiss 'voulge', is a two-handed pole weapon that came to prominence during the 14th and 15th centuries], Which in later times so often descended from the mountains of the Swiss to spread battle and carnage over the Austrian and Italian plains. The influences which moulded these dwellers amid sheep-cots into warriors and plunderers would operate, though with greatly modified force, On the army of nomads which we see pursuing their way, century after century, down the great slope which conducts from the highlands of Armenia, and the ranges of the Caucasus, to the shores of the North Sea. They could hardly avoid catching the colour of the savage scenes amid which their track lay. There are souls to which the gloom of the far-extending forest, the grandeur of the soaring peak, and the darkness of the tempest Impart a sentiment of elevation and refinement; but as regards the generality of mankind, they are but little moved by the grandest of nature’s scenes, and are apt to become stern and hard as the rocks amid which they dwell. The tendency of these injurious influences on the host whose movement we are tracing would be aggravated by other circumstances inseparable from their condition. They could carry with them no magazine of corn. Their daily food would be the flesh of their slaughtered herds, or of the animals caught in the chase. This is a species of diet, as physicians (in the late 1890s) tell us, which is by no means fitted to 'cool the blood' or 'allay the passions', but rather - 'to inflame' the 'irritability of both'. Besides, this host was subjected to a natural process of weeding, in virtue of which only the hardiest and the most daring were sent onward. The less adventurous would remain behind at each halt to be transformed into tillers of the soil, or dressers of the vineyard, and this process of selection, repeated time after time, would result at last in The creation of a race singularly robust in body and equally indomitable in spirit. And such, doubtless, were the physical and mental characteristics of that band of immigrants that ultimately stepped upon our shore. They were not like the Scythians of Herodotus, or the Goths of the Roman invasion, or the treacherous and cruel Arab of our own day. They were men occupied in the 'first great humanizing mission' of subduing and cultivating the earth. Battle they had not seen all the way, if we except the contests they had to wage with the forces of nature. Blood they had not shed, save that of bullock or of beast of prey. But if their long journey had schooled them in the peaceable virtues of patience and endurance, it had engendered not less a keen relish for their wild freedom, And stalwart in frame and strong of heart, they were able and ready to defend the independence which had been theirs ever since the day that they rallied beneath the standard of their great progenitor, And contemning (despising) the double yoke of despotism and sun-worship, which Nimrod had attempted to impose upon them, turned their faces toward the free lands of the North (Scotland). . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Bob