Monday, 3 August 2026

Mass Occultic Deception: Legalese & the God of Money

‘Not one in a million people will work this out.’ ~ ​(Honorary) Colonel Edward House (1858-1958)

Would you agree that the the odds of winning a court case these days are on par with a casino? And what’s all this talk about a death cult that believes it owns your soul, mind and body, ‘legalese’ being a whole different language, courts being places of ‘dark ritual’ that presume us to be dead, Cestui Que Vie Trusts that we know nothing about, and the 1893 Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, Encyclopedia Brittanica definition of ‘legal’ being the ‘undoing of God’s Law’?

Part Two of this Mass Occultic Deception series has been largely inspired by UK psychiatrist Alan of Salisbury’s impromptu Birkbeck, University of London lecture, ‘Art of Occult Law’. It essentially explores why ‘we the meek’ have not yet inherited the earth and all of its abundance and artfully exposes the world’s most immaculate deception.

Alan of Salisbury’s presentation also elaborates on what Contract Law and Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) specialist and educator Bibi Bachus once stated during a compelling interview:

​ “When a prime minister says they are going to the common market, where do you think they are getting the money? Not from your wages that you pay taxes on. That’s a different set of money. They get it from your trust fund; from your birth certificate. That’s where they get the money to build the roads and do everything you could think of.”

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Alan of Salisbury: I kind of set upon this subject called law. I found it very interesting. One of the first guys I met was John Harris; some of you may know him. He passed away last year and we became friends. It was only through knowing him and doing a lot of research that I realized just how much hold law has over us and our lives and the way we think, and the assumptions we make. There's a whole different language. It's known as legalese. This sounds like English but it isn't. It's got very specific well-defined meanings which is why it takes so long to get a legal qualification.

I guess I better start at the beginning. On one side, you've got law and on the other side, you've got legal, and they're two entirely different things. Never the twain shall meet, really. To make it quite simple, all acts, statutes, instruments and what is legal is not law. It's only given the force of law if you consent.

Legislation are the rules of a corporation whereas law is kind of natural, it's something you're born with. It's like, as a child, most of us know the difference between right and wrong. It's one of those reasons why I guess they don't want to teach law in school because children already know the difference between right and wrong. I mean, if you were going to be taught what law was then you'd know the difference between right and wrong and you'd be able to see through the kind of society we're living in now, so there are good reasons why they don't want to teach you law from a very young age.

Believe it or not, we used to have a culture that did teach law at a very young age but that was quite a few thousand years ago now and you've got to do quite a serious bit of digging to find that. So what we have are the last vestiges of what's known as Common Law and if you ask a lawyer what law is, he'll probably say well law’s law. But law is basically maxims, bars, that have remained uncontested over time. That's the important bit - they've been uncontested over time.
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Legalese Word Translations

Let’s look through some some of these words. I'll translate them into English and then you can see how profound their meaning really is.

Registration:

~ We're told to register so many times. We buy a piece of software it's not going to work until we register it. Our cars are registered, our children are registered… We're letting somebody know that we exist. We register to vote.

~ What does it mean? In legal terms, it's a very specific meaning. When you register something, you are giving away whatever you are registering, to whoever you are registering it with. Let that sink in because it's really profound. Register means you are giving away whatever you are registering, to whoever you're registering it with.

~ So you buy a piece of software. It doesn't work until you register it, so you register it which means you're giving it away, and they're saying, okay, well you can have it back with a magic secret code but only under our terms and conditions of use. What we'll do is, we'll grant you a license and if you're in breach of that license, then there's consequences for that. Sounds bizarre… You buy something, you think, well that's mine...but no, in order to read it you've got to give it back… so you can see it's a way of tying you up.

Application

It's one of those things we do a lot, like a job application. 17th century translation of application means you are a beggar and it's presumed you know what you're giving up in order to get what you're begging for.

Submit

It's not like, I submit this to you. Submit means you bend to another's will. So if you submit an application to register, what you've done in terms of legal, is you've given up all your rights voluntarily; because remember, there's laws against slavery but there isn't any law against voluntary slavery. We've been deceived and it is a deception - it's an immaculate deception, really, when you start getting to the bottom of it.

Birth Certificate & Bondage

What else do you register? You register your birth, don't you? And you get a certificate... It's an incredible document really, when you start reading it with legal eyes. You just think, it's got the mother's name and it hasn't got the mother's name. It says informant. And on the back of it, it's got the Crown corporation logo on it… it's not the queen. It says this is not proof of identity. Think how many documents are derived from that birth certificate - your driving license, your passport, your NHS, all of it comes from it. So if it's not proof of identification, what does it mean legally?

So you're kind of left with this conundrum: I've registered my birth, I've got this bond back. Bond is an abbreviated word. What do you think the word bond comes from? It's really obvious. It comes from bondage. You've been registered. When you register something, you give something away; you've been given into bondage to the Crown Corporation. This is legally what it means if you're given into bondage to the Crown Corporation and we can prove it because there's a certificate that says that's the case. What does that mean? What's the bottom line here?

I'll go back to a little bit of history now… Those of you who used to play Monopoly probably can remember that a pound sign… had two lines through it... and the dollar sign had two lines. The pound used to be called Sterling because it's based on silver, and of course in America, the dollar had the same two lines through it and it was the silver dollar. But in 1929, the banks owned absolutely everything because of a thing called the Wall Street Crash which they brought about into existence. Then they also changed things. They changed the pound sign so it had one line through it and the dollar sign so it had one line…

Colonel Edward House: ‘Not one in a million people will work this out’

Well, if the banks owned everything, the money in circulation then has a different value. There's something else backing it if silver isn't backing it anymore. What is backing it? And around about the same time in 1933, a guy called Colonel House who worked for the Rothschild’s banking cartel among other people, came up with this idea of registration. And he's quoted as saying, not one in a million people will work this out. If the banks own everything, then the country's bankrupt. They have to find a way of carrying on business and commerce, don't they, so they need something else that's backing that currency.

The way that it works, and I'll give you a process because I'm a shrink as well: we deal with things in terms of process because you can get lost in content, which is the detail of things. So if I was to say for example, I'm a Dairy Farmer and the bank says, sorry Alan, we've made all the money we can. We're going to foreclose on you. You're bankrupt. But good news is, we'll keep you on as a manager seeing as you know a bit about what you're doing. So we now own your farm and you now work for us but what we'll do is, for every calf that's born, we'll extend you credit based on the milk and cheese and meat that it's going to produce in its lifetime. You register that calf with us and we'll extend you credit based on the milk and cheese and meat it's going to produce in its lifetime. Well, you are the cattle, you are those calves. Because when your births were registered.

Money, it's called a fiat currency, is put into circulation and it's based on the wealth that you can create in your lifetime, your labor. That's basically what it is. But I tend to look at that term as your sweat equity. So that's what backs currency. It's a promissory note. A promissory note is a negotiable instrument. Banks deal in negotiable instruments.

It gets worse believe me, and I'm probably going a little bit too far but I guess the point of this talk is to hopefully stimulate you guys to do your own research. So if I can throw enough stuff, you can go, what that guy said can't be true, it can't possibly be true. I'd say, I'll welcome you do your own research and find this out for yourself because the more people that know this, how we're caught in this situation, the more people that have the knowledge about it, the easier it will be for us to get out of this trap.

Why the law is an occult art

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There's a thing that goes along with the birth certificate. A bond is created and a there's a contract and that's worth money. The original title of this talk was going to be the Occult Significance of Law because most people don't think there is anything occult about law at all and those that would do any research would go, Oh that's absolutely rubbish Alan, I can't possibly... I'll totally reject that, and by rejecting it, lose the opportunity to begin to comprehend what's really going on. Because there is a very strong occult aspect to law and the reason they dress the way they do and the terminology and the language that they use... it's very much an occult art. It is in fact the occult art of law to be a member of the Bar Association which goes back to Venice, the Venetians, which isn't a million miles away phonetically from the Phoenicians who were kind of a race of pirates around the Mediterranean.

Our laws are broken down into different forms of laws and one of them is called the law of the sea and one of them in the British Empire was known as Admiralty Law as well, so it's very much the law of the sea, law of business, the law of commerce, the law of money, the law of trading, trading in slaves, trading in bales and bonds and surety. In fact, the word courtio (sp?) which is where we derived the word court from in Roman times, means to deal in bonds and surety. If you wanted justice, you go to the Basilica. That's where you would get justice, not a court. Court just deals in bails and bonds.

If I'm a king and I own a marketplace, I've got my guys who are on my firm there; they've got a bench and they settle the disputes in the marketplace, in the bonds and the sureties. What goes on there, if someone sold something that’s been underway, then my guys come in and they decide what to do, and if you want to trade in that marketplace, you sign a contract. You have to be allowed. You get a license to trade, remember? You register - something's given to you it's taken back to you. There are now terms and conditions. If you want to trade, you have to register your business; you have to give it all away and it all comes under one heading, one big pyramid over the top of it - the Crown Corporation - they own it all, the businesses, the whole thing is registered to them, they decide what goes on. They own the money that you have. You think this is my money, in my pocket. It isn't, it's a promissory note and some of the tax you pay is the rent for using that. It's theirs. They own it all. It makes sense when it's explained like this.

You are part of a death cult that believes it owns your soul

People say, I'm going to pay a tax, I'm going to keep this...well, it's rent for their money. They own you. And the occult aspect of it is, that they own your mind, your body and believe it or not, they believe - these guys are completely off their dials - your soul. This is why they have all the gold because gold is an immortal metal… that's why they hold it all and that's why they circulate money. They now own everything. They have even bondage; it's a slave based society and it's a voluntary slave-based society. You've volunteered - you've entered into a contract - for example, it even gets worse, you're part of a - believe it or not - a death cult.

The three forms of law: The first is the Uniform Commercial Code, the second is Canon Law, the Holy See. The highest form of law. believe it or not, in this country (UK), is Talmudic's Law - Babylonian Talmudic Law.

So the first form of law deals in bonds and surety and you as a slave, and as you are owned, they can do exactly what they like to and that's exactly what they do. They extend the credit based on the milk and cheese all right… I'm just outlining stuff here to hopefully stimulate your own research.

You register to vote, which means you're giving away whatever you're registering to whoever you're registering it with. So what's the process here?… What happens when you vote? You go in there and they give you a bunch of guys you can vote for and they say, you've got to put an X on the box, and you follow that and you put an X on the box. Only incompetents or illiterate people sign with an X and what you do when you register the vote, you're saying, I'm giving up my responsibility; I'm illiterate and I agree that I'm a mental health outpatient, and I'll prove this by marking an X on this and when I do, I will give whoever I put my X against, power of attorney. You're giving them power of attorney over your life.

In other words, if you were some old guy in a mental hospital who's lost his marbles and the lawyer says he can't manage his affairs anymore, we've got to give someone power of attorney to manage all his finances, to do everything for him, and they get him to sign and now you're given power of attorney. That person manages your life.

So not only do they own you mind, body and soul, you've now voluntarily registered and given them power of attorney over your life so you basically say to them, I'm a mental health outpatient which is why you vote in a ward... the giant mental asylum. You're in a ward, you proved to them that you're illiterate. You put the X on there and you registered to vote. You've given away your rights and now you've given them power of attorney. In other words, you say to them, I have let you decide what you think is best for me.

The Magna Carta only deals with baron – the free man

...What they would do is like... the deranged young son who's got power of attorney over his great-grandmother, who's spending all the money on drugs and resources. He'll tell her what she wants to hear. And what are these politicians do? They'll tell you what you want to hear. That's the way they're playing the game above a mental health outpatient which you've proved yourself to be. In their game, is the House of Commons. They're commoners. So you're less than a commoner.

People come to me and they say, oh, the Magna Carta gave us all the rights and all the other stuff. The Magna Carta deals with baron. Baron is French for free man. You're not free; you're a bonded slave. Magna Carta is only pertinent, only has any meaning to somebody who's not a bonded slave, so you'd have to be in the House of Lords today to be able to have any power or sway with the Magna Carta, as a baron is a free man and the House of Commons people, they're less than that, and you're right down there, you've got no rights at all. You voluntarily gave them up.

Person means legal fiction

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You're a mental health outpatient that's given away power of attorney on a regular basis to a different bunch of guys who tell you what you want to hear and they lie to you over and over again. How much more proof can you give them that you've lost the plot? This is the way they look at it. This is the way they trick you. This is the way they deceive you. Because the way the universe works is, they don't want the blame of it. It's not us, look, I'll prove it to you. Look, they signed here - this is your signature - that's another one.

Signature means sign of nature. You proved yourself to be a living being and you've made a mark on a piece of paper called a signature that proves you've got a sign of nature because they've created a thing called a person. Person means legal fiction. Legal fiction means you become liable. All your bills are written to you in CAPITAL LETTERS. Everything to do with money – bank, rent, commerce, everything, is addressed to you in CAPITAL LETTERS. This is where you get the term capitalism from because your life has been monetized and capitalized as a bonded slave. You are what backs that currency and you've given them power of attorney. You've given them power.

The whole system is based on curses

You can moan, you can whinge all your life but they'll they'll just say no... in their magical system - sorry, but it's not on us. You signed. You gave us your signature... you voted to that... you registered. It's on you - you're responsible… you made that decision, not on us, we don't inherit the karma, because the whole system works in an occult way, on curses. It's an old curse system that goes back 5 000 years - dark magic is based on curses; it's based on sacrificing; it's based on blood sacrifice and all that stuff; cursing - that's what it is.

What do you think that money is? It's a curse based on your life that's been taken from you. You've been hoodwinked out of it. I mean hoodwinked...a 33 and a third degree Mason maybe will tell you, but you've been hoodwinked and they're lifting the veil and they said what I'm telling you is part of that process. How do you think these guys get away with stuff? If I say to you, what's your name and you give me your name, you've basically said in legalese, oh I'll contract with you and I'm a bondage slave I don't have any rights; I gave them up.

If you are asking, you are ‘as a king’ with implied right of consent

But if you want to think on your feet and I'm a police officer, and I say, what's your name and you say, what makes you think I have such a thing? Ask the question because if you're asking, you're as king, you've got some status then... it's called implied right of consent. They are going to behave in a manner that suggests to them that you've all consented and unless you rebut that consent, unless you stop that, unless you say, hold on a minute I'm not consenting. I do not consent to this. I am not a name. I'm standing on a common law. If you want to contract, I'll be happy to contract with you. My fee is 900 pounds an hour. Do we have a contract, yes or no? What's he gonna do?

I know a guy - you can find it on YouTube... he's driving his car drunk. The police pull him over and say, what's your name? He says, I'll be happy to accept your offer of service. My fee is 900 pounds an hour. Right, we'll arrest you then because that's what they normally do. They'll kidnap you until you give them your name. If you get caught on a train and you haven't got a ticket they'll kidnap you until you give them the name because they want a thing called joinder which is your name and address and your birth date because they want your bond. They want the details of your bond. They want that for a very good reason, and I'll get back to that in a minute.

So he gets arrested, he goes in there and eventually the sergeant’s there. We've got this guy who won't give us our name. I’ll put him in the cell then, he's drunk. They let him go the next day. The point is that they let him go. The reason - here's another one - it’s really mind-blowing the way the whole stitch up goes – the bond that was created at your birth, there's a fancy French word - it says Cestui Que Vie which means for the benefit of another. It was something that was created after the Great Fire of London when they were trying to find out all the dead people, all those people that were missing and all the other stuff. But on the other side, they were trying to raise a new form of currency of credit because remember, these guys, these templars have done it before. How do you think they finance those big nice gothic cathedrals and all the rest of that with their money lending international banking scams? But that's another history.

But in 1666, after the Fire of London they created a Cestui Que Vie Trust. The way they work it in terms of the occult side, they say, okay you're born, you're created by the Divine and therefore you inherit the earth and you inherit in abundance... If seven billion people lived in the same population density as Paris, we take up less than half the size of Texas… If you want to work it out, I took the time and trouble to do it actually… work out all the nice arable usable land, not the desert this guy was trying to claim… if it was divided by seven billion people, each individual gets four areas the size of Twickenham Rugby field. That’s your birthright. There's four Twickenham sized bits of dirt, that's your birthright but of course, your mother registered you, so they take that asset, don't they? That's your Birthright, it's taken from you straight away.

But what they do is they monetize it because they monetize you and that asset is supposedly from - I can't confirm it but I know one there's one lady that actually managed to find it - around about two million pounds. So you've got an account that you don't know anything about that's worth about two million pounds in today's money.

Companies get their bills paid for twice

And what happens is this: when your electricity bill comes through… it’s like this little check thing at the bottom, isn't there? It looks like an old-fashioned check and it's got like three banks on it… and it says take it to a post office, fill it out and stamp it and all the other stuff. Ok, here's a little secret for those who aren't hoodwinked, every debt that you incur with a corporation is zeroed or settled, because remember, it's not real money it's credit, in 90 days, so any registered company that has got you under your name and address and your birthday, can apply to the Crown and settle that debt. And what they do, and this is what's financing the corporate takeover of the planet, is they get their bills paid for twice. They get it paid by the corporation because corporations can print their own promissory notes or bills of exchange and negotiable instruments but what they do, is they get it from the second way of funding, which is the money they put into circulation, which is your sweat equity.

Play them at their own game

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So they get paid from your bond account which you don't know anything about and they get paid by the money that you've had to go and work for and you pay that bill off. So they get paid twice… The guys that are high up in the financial aspects of those corporations know this stuff. I've dealt with them, and you can play this stuff. You can say to the council, tax or whatever it is, that's already been paid. It's 90 days. It's outstanding. It's been done. Prove to me that it hasn't been paid for and they can't because what they're doing is, they're technically committing a fraud... it's fraudulent, isn't it? If I say it costs that much and you've already paid for it and I try to get you to pay for it twice, it's fraud, isn't it, for the normal people; it's called double dipping okay, but this is all part of the system that we're living in.

You've got all this stuff, all those rights, all that economic power. The corporations are playing in a game. When I was a kid it used to be called piggy in the middle: corporations one side and they've got this account and they throw it over you because we're down here. And the other one catches it, thanks for the money, I've got that and you don't even know you've got that account.

The occult aspect of court

The occult aspect of it again, is like when you have to go to court, you're actually being invited to a dark ritual which is why you're summoned. Your summons to appear, like just some sort of ghost or a spirit because that's what they think you are because that trust, that's worth money. They don't tell you about it, but you could have reclaimed that within seven years (of your birth), but after seven years, the law of salvage comes along and the government says, okay, well, that's a wreck... So they salvaged that and they use that so you can't get it anymore, even though they know in the real world you're alive and flesh and blood because you've got your National Insurance... You go to the NHS, they know you're physical… they take blood from you and all the other stuff.

They’re off their dial, these guys

This occult system doesn't see it. They're off their dial these guys. Unless we begin to see that this is what's really going on, instead of just going, oh no, this is just preposterous, absolutely preposterous, how can this possibly be the case? Unless we open up our horizons a little bit, honesty, open mindedness or willingness and go, okay, well I'll entertain this for a while, I'll do a bit of research and see if there's anything this crazy guy was talking about, do it yourself. Check it all out, you’re summoned to appear in a court. Why are you summoned? Because as far as they're concerned, you didn't collect that account within seven years so you're presumed dead. So if there's any liability, then they have to summon you because that's what you are, you're a spirit.

I know, it sounds absolutely barking, raving mad doesn't it? But this is the way they do it because the way these guys work is, and they've had many, many years to do this, they know if they can control your mind, then your body will follow and they will use all manner of things. Just around the corner here, there’s a thing called the Tavistock Institute. Those of you that do a bit of research or do a bit of shrinky stuff like me, will know it really does some good work but it's got some extremely dark aspects to it and it's whole founding is extremely dark. It's about mind manipulation.

When you start realizing how you're controlled in this system, they don't mind what religion you believe in, there is only one religion and that's a religion of money and they want you to believe in that more than anything else. What they're selling you is that religion. You can go one day a week if you like to your church or whatever it is you go to and feel good about yourself. That's great because as long as you go back, the extra five days, and you work... that's your offering. You are handing over your will and your life to the god of money.

Bankers are high priests of Ba’al

Audience member: For those people who don't know it yet, the word mortgage comes from lamos (sp?), that's great death grip... by the time you pay the last instalment, your life is finished.

So you decide you're going to buy a house in London. You need a million quid at least... you go to the bank and the bankers are the high Priests of Ba’al... and they sit you down and go, you want to borrow some money. Well the first thing they want to know is - they're putting a scam on you - what's your sweat equity worth? What do you earn as a slave; how much are you worth as a slave? So the first thing they do is they'll say, okay we'll get you to sign this. What they do is, they get you to sign - remember a sign of nature - a promissory note and they've got your name and they've got your address. So they take that promissory note and they put it in an account and they, out of thin air, create a million pounds.

Yeah... always double dealing, double bookkeeping. They've got your bond that you don't know you have and they've got all your details, so if if you die, that's okay. That exists, it's got currency and then they'll talk you into an insurance policy. It's called a life insurance policy. That's the one they'll like as well. So you go into the bank and your signature has created a million pounds. In effect, you've actually already bought the house but then what they do is they talk you into paying another million pounds which they called the principal. They deceive you by saying that we're lending you this million pounds.

So you've gone into the bank, as a sovereign, creative, living being soul flesh blood inheritance and everything, the signature has created one million pounds. They've got an undertaking from you now to work for the rest of your life to create another million pounds and they're going to charge you interest on that as well; so you've created two million pounds plus whatever interest they want to put on the top of that. What have the bank risked? A big fat zero but then, that's a religion isn't it? Because they get you to go out there, you're handing over something of value on a daily basis. When you clock in or you go to work, you're giving the most valuable thing that you've got - your time, your life. That's you paying homage to their God. You can go one day a week somewhere else and believe that you're doing so something else but physically in your reality, you've got no choice. You're in bondage.

Money, freedom and addiction

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You want to talk about freedom? Tell me how long you're going to last without money in your pocket and then you see how much freedom you’ve got. That's the reality. That belief is so powerful. If you were to get a hundred thousand pounds in new notes and just throw it on any street, Trafalgar Square or somewhere like that, you'd see complete insanity. You'd see total violence breaking out.

I've worked in rehabs, I've specialized in the treatment of addictive clients - drug addicts, alcoholics, and their parents would come in and they would say to me, well, he's done detox, he's done his cold turkey, surely those cravings are gone… he's not physically addicted to it anymore. I said, oh no, no, no… it's a psychological addiction that’s the most important thing.

I said they're addicted to a mood and mind-altering substance and they said, well, we don't understand… as long as he doesn't drink anymore, as long as he doesn't do any more heroin he'll be fine; that's what changes his mood and his mind and I say, okay here's a table. I'll put a wee bag of smack, some brown on the corner there, a bit of coke, a bit of marijuana, a bit of nice grass, nice sticky bud… some bottles of Moe Chandon hey?… A couple of tins of Tennents or Special Brew, what would you like?

Oh no, we're not really interested in anything else.

I'll tell you what. I'll put five grand in used 20s.

Oh, that would be nice, how would that make you feel?

Yeah, that would make me feel great.

Okay, all these other substances, if you imbibe them, there's a chemical reason that's going to change your mood and your mind but you're telling me this printed paper is going to make you happy, is going to change your mood and your mind?

Watch them on the game shows when they win something. Watch them with the gambling. That's a mood and mind-altering substance that's more powerful than all the other ones on the table because all the other ones on the table, you can get rid of that addiction, you don't have to be addicted to that, there's ways around that addiction. For that other addiction, that psychological addiction, it's probably the hardest addiction that there is. So that's what you're dealing with in terms of the mind programming and the addiction.

The solution has always been there

Now it sounds really dark and gloomy but there is a solution and really, the solution has always been there… The solution is a thing called a spiritual program to reclaim your soul, your sense of value, your sense of worth. There are plenty of spiritual programs out there that don't demand you give them shed loads of money. In fact, if you want to find the genuine ones, they'll be the ones that won't be wanting the money from you because they'll be on that spiritual program themselves and there will be one out there if you really want it, that will suit you. But what you have to do, and this was the one that got me when I worked in rehabs, the reluctance that people would have to pray. There's a meaning in this word pray; it's because part of our social program is… we have what's called a reflective action of Consciousness. That's us thinking. We're reflecting, we're not in the moment, it's a reflective action of Consciousness... and it's pre-programmed to a certain extent; it's hardwired in.

There's a thing called an ego... my old adversary, self-importance, which of course is what the whole money thing gets you in. It's got statutes. Statutes are about status that's where you get the term statutes from. Act - it's an act, it's not true. It's a fiction you've believed in; you believe you're something that you're not. It's a deception. So you're trying to get back to who you really are and what you were really created here to do. And when it gets to the making money thing, it's all about competition isn't it, dog eat dog, all that stuff. And you can sell anything. You sell arms, prostitution, drugs, the whole thing, the more money you have...

The way out

This has been around ever since human beings have been around, so there is a way out. I'm not going to tell you what mine is but I found that way out and I'm sure if you really want to, you can find your way but you have to do it because at the end, as I found, you won't find any kind of real value in that money, material thing. You have to be true to yourself and that's the important thing. A human being could mend a bird's broken wing and make the desert green again. We have that ability, it's been given to us. There's a difference between given and granted. There's an aspect of you which has been given to you. In other words, do what you like with it. That aspect of you that has been granted is finite and that's your life in this particular realm in this dimension. You don't know how long you got and you willingly sacrifice it to get money and stuff like that - to be part of this system.

Who can blame you? We're all born into this, we don't know any better. Most of us have taken years… I was about 40 years of age when I managed to sort of really get over the shock of being born… We need to get it all together, in perspective, what the hell's going on? What's all this about? All that stuff that wasn't mine that had been dumped on me and it's going, well no, that's not mine... I don't want that… This is mine, that's mine, that's who I am. Right, I'm gonna do that because if you're true to yourself then a pathway will open up to you, it will find its way if you connect to the universe in that way because remember, these guys that have created this spell, they know how the universe works. They've got a way of doing this dark magic and keeping you in the dark.

The first solution you need is to learn; is to get some knowledge, the stuff that I've told you. Learn that... do your own research because then when you see what I've told you is true, you need that because once you've got that, then you go on and you find a way out of it. You need to realize what your prison's like, how you got in there, in order to find a way out. How the door works and stuff like that and you've always got two options. You can tell manager, hey, I know this stuff… I'll screw the system now. I'll get as much money as I can out of it. I know guys that do that. They learn all this legal, all this law stuff and everything and they pass promissory notes and negotiable instruments. They run frauds. What do you think these guys that are running things do in the City of London? What that place is all about is horrendous.

Yeah, you can do that if you know what's going on or you can be true to yourself. You can say, no this isn't what I want. I want to get back to this, what I'm supposed to be here, whatever that is but I'm going to try and find out what that is which means I've got to let go of this. So whatever that standard of living I had before, whatever it was based on, I might have to take a different set of life choices and find out what that is. And at the same time, you need to start following your heart and not the head because this is what fools you, is up here. You have to follow your heart (and gut). I'll say the ‘G’ word and you think I know what I mean there. There are other people who will say the great spirit, other people would say love, other people would say love is what animates the fabric of the universe and what animates you if you allow it to do so, and you truly want it to do so.

If you really want it to do so and you see what's going on here, you say, look I don't want any part of that. I want to change that. I want to start taking responsibility. I don't want to be somebody that's given their life away, that's a mental health outpatient. I'm letting the system make up their mind for me in an asylum. I just continually learn because I haven't made it my business to find out what's really going on even though in my heart I felt something's wrong.

I mean, all of you are here because you're looking for something different. You've come here because what's out there - all that stuff on the telly and all the other stuff - isn't giving you nourishment anymore. You're looking for something else, so that's why you're here. The history that you've got now is false. It's been rewritten mostly over and over again. You're just going to have to accept that it's lots of rewrites, just like Hollywood. But there was a time when there was true law - true law of love - and there were teachers that came and taught that and they said very clearly what was going to happen and what was likely to happen if Humanity didn't change. If you kept following the money lenders, the slave traders with the false religions and all that kind of stuff, where was it going to go?

What you have is basically this and this goes back to a very old, old story. Some of you might find this uncomfortable, some of you may not, or some of you may agree but as far as my research can work out, we have these genetically created vehicles and they were created by beings that shall we say were fallen, i.e. they didn't have souls and we were meant to be their slaves. But there was a trick that was played on them that they hate us for because it turns out after they had us being their slaves, being really willing and loving and all the rest of it, they suddenly realized, hold on, these guys have got an aspect of the Divine with them; these guys have got a soul. We haven't and that's why they hate us.

And these people, if you want to put it in a psychological term or these beings... because I'm not interested. I don't even care if you're a reptilian, alien. I'm only interested in one thing. I don't care if you're black, white, yellow, wherever you come from. I'm only interested in one thing and that's the quality of your consciousness. What is it that's inhabiting the vehicle you're you're inhabiting? Where does that want to be? Where does that wanna go? That's what really matters. When you get through all that divisive stuff, that's what's really important. We really need to just focus simply on that.

I met this lovely girl today, young, beautiful, chatty girl. She was Greenpeace. I said to her, you're selling, yeah? She said no, I'm not. I'm working for Greenpeace. I'm doing something good. The pollution, all the other stuff that the government aren't doing anything about and so we at Greenpiece are doing it. I said, I bet you feel good about that she said, yeah. I said, but somewhere along the line you're going to ask me for a bank account aren't you and she went, yeah. I said, you're selling. The guys that create this world, the way it is with all its pollution, are the banksters and the money lenders. You're working for them, you're selling for them, you're getting work for them and you're feeling good about it, aren't you? Look how clever they are.

Police, constable and consent

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Occult Art of Law

There's two authorities to get law from. One is from the Divine and the others from the consent of the people. God made us the trustee and we've got the consent of the people because nobody's arguing with us, therefore what we say goes and if you don't, we can use force to stop you. You don't have to consent. Even Theresa May says we have a police force in this country, we are policed by consent. Let me just go through this very quickly. There's two things to a police constable.

1. The term police comes from policy. The police man is enforcing the policies of the Crown Corporation of which you are a citizen, which means worker, which means slave, and you've handed your will and your life over to that.

2. Constable is something completely different. To a constable that has sworn an oath which means he's in his honor to prevent a breach of the peace, that's all he's there for. So he's got two roles now.

If you said him, I don't recognize you as a policy enforcement officer, but I do recognize you as a constable, and you will honor your oath. If you refuse to honor your oath, then under common law, you've committed perjury. That's a common law offense. If you swear an oath and you go back on that oath, that's a common law offense. If he insists after you've rebutted that, and said you don't want to do it and you haven't given a name and address or anything like that, or contracted, and he still insists to fine you because you can't fine even under English law, you have to have a court, a jury as well, he's then committed fraud which is another common law offense. The maximum penalty for perjury, I believe, is 25 years and fraud is 25 years as well.

Those are common law offenses and he's sworn an oath to uphold those. So if you go along to the police station, say to the sergeant, I have not contracted with this guy. The proof that I haven't contracted is, he hasn't got my name and address. Alright, do you want to add kidnap to that? because he's committed perjury, he's attempted to commit fraud. Are you going to kidnap me until I give you something that isn't my property because that name isn't my property/

In other words, you're asking me to give you something that isn't my property as a police officer. Do you think that's a good thing to do? I'll wind out. My intention was to stimulate you guys to do some research.

Audience member: Thank you. I have been waiting for this for all my life.

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Friday, 31 July 2026

200 Years Before Christianity: Rome’s Persecution of the Cult of Bacchus

​2,211 years ago. Rome, 186 BC. 7,000 men and women of all classes (including slaves) faced the death penalty for their participation in the secret nocturnal cult festival known as the Bacchanalia, where drunken orgies, sexual perversions, poisoning, forgery, human sacrifice and political conspiracies were all alleged to take place.

​“At night both men and woman, their minds having been set aflame with wine, of greater tender youths, had destroyed all distinction of shame, all kinds of corruption began to happen, since at the time they were prone to obtaining their natural pleasure. There was not only one kind of crime; but here was a great deal of arbitrary rape of females, also false witnesses, forged signing of wills and evidence, all were issued from the same place: from the same place also came poisoning and internal assassinations, so that not even bodies existed for burial…The violence was covered because of the howling and crash of drums and cymbals so no citizens cries were to be heard during their violent rape and slaughter.” - Livy

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Sacrifice to Bacchus (1634) by Massimo Stanzione
​Massimo Stanzione, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The cult sprang from increased Greek cultural influence (especially Dionysus, their version of the wine god Bacchus, or vice versa) with the Roman conquest of the Hellenic cities of southern Italy (’Magna Graecia’), the appointment of Greek slaves as educators to the children of elites, and the huge of influx of wealth after the defeat of Carthage in 201 BC. The rigid Senatorial class was disturbed by the dangerously egalitarian aspects of the Bacchic cult, seeing the phenomenon as something that could break their grip on the Republic.

​To crack down on this potentially society-upending movement, the Roman Senate issued the legal decree the Senatus consultum de Bacchanalibus:

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​Amazingly, a brass rubbing of the decree still exists; translated to English it says:

​"The Consuls Quintus Marcius, the son of Lucius, and Spurius Postumius, the son of Lucius, consulted the senate on the Nones of October (7th), at the temple of the Bellona. Marcus Claudius, son of Marcus, Lucius Valerius, son of Publius, and Quintus Minucius, son of Gaius, were the committee for drawing up the report. Regarding the Bacchanalia, it was resolved to give the following directions to those who are in alliance with us: No one of them is to possess a place where the festivals of Bacchus are celebrated; if there are any who claim that it is necessary for them to have such a place, they are to come to Rome to the praetor urbanus, and the senate is to decide on those matters, when their claims have been heard, provided that not less than 100 senators are present when the affair is discussed.

No man is to be a Bacchantian, neither a Roman citizen, nor one of the Latin name, nor any of our allies unless they come to the praetor urbanus, and he in accordance with the opinion of the senate expressed when not less than 100 senators are present at the discussion, shall have given leave. Carried.

No man is to be a priest; no one, either man or woman, is to be an officer (to manage the temporal affairs of the organization); nor is anyone of them to have charge of a common treasury; no one shall appoint either man or woman to be master or to act as master; henceforth they shall not form conspiracies among themselves, stir up any disorder, make mutual promises or agreements, or interchange pledges; no one shall observe the sacred rites either in public or private or outside the city, unless he comes to the praetor urbanus, and he, in accordance with the opinion of the senate, expressed when no less than 100 senators are present at the discussion, shall have given leave. Carried.

No one in a company of more than five persons altogether, men and women, shall observe the sacred rites, nor in that company shall there be present more than two men or three women, unless in accordance with the opinion of the praetor urbanus and the senate as written above. See that you declare it in the assembly (contio) for not less than three market days; that you may know the opinion of the senate this was their judgment: if there are any who have acted contrary to what was written above, they have decided that a proceeding for a capital offense should be instituted against them; the senate has justly decreed that you should inscribe this on a brazen tablet, and that you should order it to be placed where it can be easiest read; see to it that the revelries of Bacchus, if there be any, except in case there be concerned in the matter something sacred, as was written above, be disbanded within ten days after this letter shall be delivered to you. In the Teuranian field."

​When members of the elite began to participate in the Mysteries, information was presented to the Senate by the impoverished noble Publius Aebutius and his lover, the courtesan Hispala Faecenia,

The author Livy, writing over 150 years later, claims that Hispala said the following words in her testimony:

​”Paculla Minia, a Campanian, when priestess, made an alteration in every particular, as if by the direction of the Gods. For she first introduced men; changed the time of celebration, from day to night; and, instead of three days in a year, appointed 5 days of initiation in each month. From the time that the rites thus made common, and men were intermixed with women, and the licentious freedom of the night was added, there was nothing wicked, nothing flagitious, that had not been practiced among them. There was more frequent pollution of men with each other than with women. If any were less patient in submitting to this dishonour, or more averse to the commission of vice, they were sacrificed as victims. To think nothing unlawful was the grand maxim of their religion. The men, as if bereft of reason, uttered predictions, with frantic contortions of their bodies; The women, in the habit of Bacchantes, with their hair dishevelled, and carrying blazing torches, ran down to the Tiber, where, dipping their torches in the water, they drew them up again with the flame unextinguished, being composed of native sulphur and charcoal. Their number was exceedingly great now, almost a second state in themselves, and among them were many men and women of noble families.”

​The Bacchanalia cult in Rome was based in the grove of Stimula on the western slope of the Aventine Hill, close to The Tiber. The Aventine was ethnically mixed and particularly identified with Rome's lower plebeian class, together with strange new foreign cults. Livy claimed the faction held particular appeal to those of uneducated and fickle mind (levitas animi) - the young, plebeians, women and homosexuals but also some belonging to Rome's highest class.

The sect was held to be a threat to the security of the state, so investigators were appointed, rewards offered to snitches and the official suppression of the cult swept throughout Italy. According to Livy, many committed suicide to avoid punishment; the penalty for those who led the cult was death. He also stated that there were far more executions than imprisonments.

Methods of Execution

Public execution for men: Convicted male ringleaders found guilty of capital crimes (such as forced initiation, violence, or conspiracy) were put to death in public spaces in Rome and across Italy. Probably by beheading.

Private domestic punishment for women: Rather than public execution, convicted female cult members were handed over to their male household heads (patria potestas) or close relatives to receive private punishment behind closed doors.

Forced suicide: Anticipating arrest, trial, and formal sentencing under the Senatus consultum de Bacchanalibus, many chose to take their own lives rather than face the ordeal of formal state prosecution.

Despite this, the Bacchanalia lingered in the still Greek-influenced south of Italy and was revived in a less threatening form in the later years.

Mark Antony famously identified with the wine god, and was known as the "New Dionysus" to legitimise his rule and charm the Greek and Eastern provinces he controlled. He went as far as to dress in Dionysian garb, complete with ivy crowns and thyrsus staffs. When he toured Greece and Asia Minor, cities ecastically welcomed him with processions of ‘satyrs’ and bacchantes, hailing him as "Dionysus the Benefactor" and "Bringer of Joy".

The wily Octavian harked back to 186 BC in framing Antony's adoption of divine kingship as a total betrayal of Roman values, setting the stage for the final civil war and Antony's defeat at Actium (30 BC).

Memories of the cult’s supposed excesses were reflected in criticism of the new Christian faith. Minuncius Felix Octavius, writing in 197 AD, claimed they were falsely accused of recognising:

“One another by secret signs and marks; they fall in love almost before they are acquainted; everywhere they introduce a kind of religion of lust, a promiscuous ‘brotherhood’ and ‘sisterhood’ by which ordinary fornication, under cover of a hallowed name, is converted to incest. An infant, cased in dough to deceive the unsuspecting, is placed beside the person to be initiated. The novice is thereupon induced to inflict what seem to be harmless blows upon the dough, and unintentionally the infant is killed by his unsuspecting blows; the blood – oh, horrible – they lap up greedily; the limbs they tear to pieces eagerly.”

The Bacchantes (1961)

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The opening ritual from The Bacchae, directed by Brad Mays, 2000
​Bradmays, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

​"All the World's a Stage" - Enter Dionysus (1984): Terence Stamp stars as Dionysus in a recorded extract of Euripides' ancient Greek tragedy The Bacchae

Note: the Romans also persecuted the Celtic Druids for a variety of reasons, some political, some ethical, although the condemnation of ritual human sacrifice is a tad hypocritical coming from those who lapped up Gladiatorial combat.

SOURCES INCLUDE

​The Cult of Bacchus and Pliny’s Christian Conundrum: https://anerdyethos.wordpress.com/2013/04/01/the-cult-of-bacchus-and-the-christian-conundrum/

​Bacchanalia – the first persecutions?: https://imperiumromanum.pl/en/curiosities/bacchanalia-the-first-persecutions/

​The Cult of Bacchus: http://avirtualmuseum.org/exhibits/roman_wineii/bacchic/bacchus_intro.html

​The thrill and the ecstasy: the mysteries of the Dionysian cult in ancient Rome:https://www.planetpompeii.com/en/blog/the-thrill-and-the-ecstasy-the-mysteries-of-the-dionysian-cult-in-ancient-rome.html

​How the Cult of God Bacchus was Banned in Ancient Rome:https://greekreporter.com/2023/08/18/god-bacchus-ancient-rome/

​THE BACCHANALIAN AFFAIR: https://lawexplores.com/the-bacchanalian-affair/

​The Suppression of the Bacchanalia: https://necropolisnow.blogspot.com/2016/10/the-suppression-of-bacchanalia.html

​The Bacchanalia: A Greek Dionysian Mystery Cult in Ancient Rome: https://brewminate.com/the-bacchanalia-a-greek-dionysian-mystery-cult-in-ancient-rome/

​The Octavius of Minucius Felix: https://www.tertullian.org/fathers2/ANF-04/anf04-34.htm#P5579_831897

​Under the Spell of the Druids: https://www.historytoday.com/miscellanies/under-spell-druids

​Why Did the Romans Destroy the Druids?: https://medium.com/@ancient.rome/why-did-the-romans-destroy-the-druids-1861c20e3942

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Thursday, 30 July 2026

The Forsaken Necropolis of Halifax

Halifax is no stranger to tragedy, a tragedy steeped in blood and suffering. In 1758 a bill was passed to create an asylum strictly for the poor, a convention that had origins in Victorian England. The first poor house, also known as the Poor Asylum, was built on Spring Garden Road across from the courthouse and completed near Christmas in 1759. The property is now known as Grafton Park. There were several smallpox outbreaks in the poor houses, the worst of them occuring in 1827 due to immigration and overpopulation in Halifax.

A new poor house was constructed on the corner of Robie and South streets in 1867, where IWK Health now sits. Builder Henry Peters hired an architect David Sterling whose building plans were in the form of a “Latin cross, with four wings descending from a central building, which measured 180 feet long, 50 feet wide, and four stories high.” The completed main brick building stood five stories high, with a French style roof and soon housed the elderly, orphans, mental patients, sailors, medical patients and inebriates.

The Old Burying Ground was adjacent to the poor house on Spring Garden Road. It was believed to house the remains of 800 people. People who lived in the poor house were not allowed at St. Paul’s Cemetery. Today, Grafton Street Park and the Halifax Memorial Library have erased the history and sight of the poor house and burying grounds.

Halifax poor house corruption, bleak conditions & fire tragedy

​The poor house was very underfunded and led by corrupt managers. The conditions in the poor house were terrible and patients suffered whipping and stocks. One patient was found chained and wearing a dog collar that pierced his throat and neck if he moved. The people who lived in the poor house were expected to work hard and contribute. They helped to stoke the furnace, and worked in the kitchen, the hospital, the garden or cared for the livestock.

The building was destroyed by a fire on November 6, 1882 in the wee hours of the night. The fire was believed to have begun in the laundry room in the northeast section. Some claim it started in the kitchen. It claimed the lives of the most defenseless people - the elderly, the infirm and mentally ill who were asleep in their beds when the fire began. They were so unwell they may not have been able to comprehend what was happening. The patients had nowhere else to go.

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Ruins of poorh ouse, Halifax, Nova Scotia
​See page for author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The Halifax Fire Department arrived quickly, but the fire raged out of control. The building’s layout confused the firemen and panic spread amongst the patients. 31 people died in the fire. Most of them were residents of the poor house that were not able to be rescued in time. The tragedy gained significant public attention about the inhumane conditions of the asylum.

The firemen helped many inmates escape the fire. They rushed up to the upper sections of the building and carried the inmates who were sleeping or were unaware of the fire at the time. Two clergymen were rescued. One man was exhausted from smoke inhalation and the other had almost suffocated. A woman stood at the window on the fifth floor, her arms resting on the ledge with her hands clasped. Sadly, she fell backwards into the devouring flames. Her screams rang out mingled with the screams of the other patients who were not able to be rescued. Nothing could be done for them.

Prior to the tragic fire, a total of three hundred twenty inmates lived in the poor house. 42 of those patients were in the hospital. The inmates that were fortunate enough to have escaped sought shelter in outhouses and stables. The main building was engulfed in flames. Most of the building could not be saved. The hoses used to extinguish the fires were destroyed. During that time, a man was spotted on the uppermost story of the western wing. Smoke billowed out the window the man was looking through. Behind him, the flames raged. The brave firemen were determined to rescue him. The firemen raised ladders. The man eagerly climbed down the ladders and reached the ground. He was Mister James White, of the number one division, (Salamander) U.E.C. The rescue was just in the nick of time. After his escape, the window was in flames. The adjoining buildings were saved.

​Another building was constructed in the same place by 1886. The asylum was renamed City Home in 1907 and remained as a hospital for mentally unwell patients until its eventual closure. In 1972, City Home was torn down and Abbey Lane was built.

Halifax Poor House fire inquiry

There has not been such a fire in Halifax since that tragic time. The amount of casualties is the highest ever recorded in Halifax’s history. After the tragic fire, an inquiry was held to investigate the conditions of the poor house. The conditions revealed overcrowding, insufficient fire safety, and outdated wood construction. The conditions for the patients were indeed inhumane. A hundred people died annually at the poor house.

Fire breeds change. Changes were in store for the patients who endured harsh conditions in poor houses in Halifax. The fire marked a turning point in the conditions the patients suffered. Reforms were set in how the province cared for the mentally unwell. New institutions were built that were meant to improve safety and guarantee more humane living conditions. The fire is remembered not just for the tragic loss of life, but also that broad social changes were made for public health, welfare and reform in Nova Scotia.

In 1913 construction workers unearthed human remains and bones. There was very little speculation about how that happened. 20,000 bodies are buried in what is now a parking lot for St. Mary’s Basilica and the surrounding areas. One of those areas was the corner of Grafton Street and Spring Garden Road, near the courthouse. The Old Burying Ground was connected to St. Peter’s, the first Roman Catholic Church in Halifax. It no longer stands and has since been replaced by St. Mary’s Basilica.

Halifax Poor House gives the old court house a grim reputation

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Old Halifax Courthouse
​SimonP at the English-language Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

The old Halifax Courthouse is a prominent Classical Revival building constructed between 1859-1863, designed by William Thomas and Sons. The building features a classical stone facade made with durable sandstone from Wallace, Cumberland County. Its style features an imposing facade, classical pediment and Tuscan columns.

​Set back far from the sidewalk and grass, the building was expanded on over time. Between the years 1881-1882, a rear addition was built for county courts. In 1908 a west wing was added and in 1930 an east wing was added. In 1969 it was designated as a national historic site and served until 1971 as a provincial courthouse until a new waterfront law courthouse was opened downtown. From then on, it briefly served as a provincial law courthouse, and was restored in 1985.

The dark history of the poor house gives the old Halifax courthouse a grim, unsettling reputation. A grassy park now disguises the poor house that interred those who were mentally unwell and impoverished.

A long forgotten necropolis

The Old Burying Ground, the church, the church parking lot and the other nearby buildings are a long forgotten necropolis. The parking lot of St. Mary’s Basilica contains 3,000 bodies. The Old Burying Ground (also known as St. Paul's Church Cemetery) was established in 1749 opposite the courthouse and closed in 1844. The remains of 12,000 people were buried there. The Old Burying Ground contained the most preserved mortuary art, an odd fact considering there were very few headstones for the many graves. It was designated a national historic site in 1991.

In 1958 a petition was made to pave over the cemetery to make it a park for local businesses. The public outcry defeated the petition. The other cemeteries in Halifax were not so fortunate. A cemetery existed near the Old Burying Ground for the Jewish community since the 1750s, but no longer exists.

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Old Burying Ground
​Paulo O from Halifax, Canada, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Across the street from the Old Burying Ground, the church and the courthouse, stands the old Halifax Memorial Library. A committee met in 1945 to decide on building a war memorial in Halifax. It was agreed that the war memorial would be in the form of a library. Over the years, the library amassed a number of items such as flags, memorials, plaques, a Silver Cross replica, a Book of Remembrance, and murals. There are two Books of Remembrance: the first one contains the names of people who died in WWI, and the second contains the names of people who died in WWII and the Korean War, donated in 1955 from Silver Cross Canada.

A cornerstone stands near the library and bears the inscription, “This building was erected in memory of those who gave their lives in defence of their country 1914-1918 1939-1945. For their faith – for their courage – for their sacrifice, we will remember them.” Grafton Street park rests in front of the main entrance of the library and features a statue of Winston Churchill which was unveiled in 1980. Where today people enjoy tea or a snack on colorful benches and savor the fresh air, was once a burial ground for the inmates of the poor house. Park visitors heading either uptown or downtown, may be unaware they are walking over unmarked graves. This small cemetery was in operation for a hundred years from 1761. 4,500 people were interred there. When the Halifax Memorial library was being built, countless human remains were discovered. The inmates were as unfortunate in death as they were in life.

The Presbyterian Church of St. David stands near the library and overlooks Pizza Corner. Between the years of 1793 and 1844, the church was the burying place for Halifax’s Methodists. The interred bodies were forced to make way for more construction. A wooden church was erected where the bodies were buried. The church burned down and was replaced with a brick and stone building that still stands today.

In 2016 and 2017 more construction forced the 244 dead who were buried there to be buried again in a new spot. The Old Burying Ground is the only cemetery that has national historic site status. The other nearby cemeteries have been destroyed and paved over.

Halifax Memorial Library Hauntings

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Halifax Memorial Library
​Nova Scotia Information Service, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

The Halifax Memorial library closed in 2014 and was recently designated a historic site. That is good news for the ghosts who reside in the library, and the bodies buried underneath and near the library in the park. One afternoon, I was using a computer in the library and felt a hand on my shoulder. When I turned to see who it was, no one was there. I hurried to another section of the library.

Today, Halifax Central library stands on another chapter of Halifax’s history, the Bellevue House, built in 1801 for the Duke of Kent when he was the Commander of the Army in Nova Scotia. It was a popular spot for the military and was the social hub for 100 years. Parties were a weekly occurrence with hundreds of guests attending, up to as much as 600 people. One of those socialites was Adele Hugo, daughter of Victor Hugo. Another was Charles Austen, the brother of Jane Austen. Bellevue House was torn down and became a parking lot. That changed again in 2011 when an archaelogical excavation began in preparation for the construction of Halifax Central Library. The excavation unearthed dozens of artifacts from 1800 to 1850.

1850 was a booming time for Halifax. Some of the objects that were found included wine glasses, a pearlware platter, children’s mugs, even cobble remains of the horse stables along Spring Garden Road, a large water cistern and a rock drain system. A privy was also found which contained other objects dating back to 1850 such as a pearlware chamber pot. Those items lay buried until the excavation occured.

The Halifax necropolis of the poor house dead are long forgotten, their unmarked graves paved over for a park or condominium. It is a sad reality in the modern world, but not as sad as the fates of those who suffered and perished.

REFERENCES:

Nova Scotia Archives: https://archives.novascotia.ca/halifax/archives/?ID=45

Neglect, corruption, and the history behind Halifax’s deadliest fire: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/deadly-halifax-fire-poor-house-30-killed-1.3918547

Thousands of people are buried under downtown Halifax: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/jonathan-fowler-halifax-burial-ground-cemetery-archeology-1.5471209

1882 The Poor Asylum Fire: https://www.hfxfirehistory.ca/fires/the-poor-asylum-fire