Mass Occultic Deception: Is the Existing Legal System Destined to Survive?

​A return to a closer harmony between the law and morality... is a pressing need for our legal system if it is to survive and fulfill its divinely appointed function in our governmental system. ~ Raymond Bradley, The Relation Between Natural Law and Human Law in Thomas Aquinas

Part five of this Mass Occultic Deception series provides additional insights into the widely unknown existence of our Cestui Que Vie (CQV) trusts, birth certificates, contract law and legalese definitions of specific words that most of us have taken for granted since birth.

​Recap: Birth Certificate aka Unlawful Slave Contract

Everyone in possession of a birth certificate is an heir or heiress to a sovereign (sauverin) trust that has been hidden from us by incorporated governments and their Crown and Vatican ‘parent’ corporations. As Alan of Salisbury stated in his Occult Art of Law presentation, they literally cash in when we are born, cash in when we die, and have been getting away with it for hundreds of years.

The generally vilified Anna Von Reitz claims there is a 40/60 split:

​While appearing to be in quasi-competition with each other, these mammoth corporations are in business together and they collude to loot the nations and the people of this planet on a 40/60 split. The British Monarch gets 40% and the Pope gets 60% of the whole ‘take’ --- and the Pope also owns the lion's share of the whole Joint Venture --- which was set up between the British Crown under Henry the VIII and the Pope at that time acting as Roman Pontiff.

Estimates of individual monetary worth range from two million to almost a billion dollars. For example, Contract Law and Uniform Commercial Code (UCC) specialist Bibi Bacchus has publicly stated that:

A pound of gold is set aside by the Crown for every pound we weigh at birth. The median value of a 50-year-old in the USA is over a billion dollars.

Occult Art of Law presenter Alan of Salisbury’s comment about this account ‘we know nothing about’ also bears repeating:

​“We have an account that we know nothing about; a bond created at birth for the benefit of another; the complete opposite of what our divine creator God intended; to be born into this world so the meek shall inherit the earth and all the abundance on offer. In the real world, you are alive and kicking – the living flesh and blood man or woman – but this occult system doesn’t see it that way. The occultic legal system only controls the ‘persona’. They are off the dial, these guys, and when we begin to see what is really going on, honesty and open mindedness win. Do the research.

The below post about the Quantum Financial System (QFS) was sent to me in April 2024. I don’t know anything about the QFS apart from it supposedly forming the technological infrastructure for the NESARA/GESARA ‘global financial reset’ where a gold-backed electronic currency will supposedly replace fiat money. But doesn’t this tie in with the digitally controlled enslavement agenda? Some commentators describe the QFS as a ‘hopium’ psyop (psychological operation) or an ‘extreme conspiracy’, while other concerned souls wonder where all the money will come from given that the current US administration is on track to bankrupt the entire country and needs urgent intervention.

Here are some of the projected QFS figures.

QFS - Fact or fiction?

​Most governments are drowning in debt. Even little old Australia’s state and federal governments have amassed a $2 trillion debt but nobody ever talks about what the money has been spent on. With a small population of about 27 million people, one can’t help but wonder what’s going on behind the scenes with such reckless spending (laundering?). Whichever way, former Hedge Fund manager David Rogers Webb is literally right on the money with his book The Great Taking; The end game of the current globally synchronous debt accumulation super cycle:

​To be clear, it is these very few people, who are hidden from you, who are behind this scheme to confiscate all assets, who are waging a hybrid war against humanity. David Rogers Webb

​But then, with so many hoarded trillions on the planet, and a minority of influential greedy, satan worshipping elitists that can make money ‘out of nothing’ or by summoning demons to increase their stash, there shouldn’t be an issue with renumerating the ‘meek’ who have waited long enough to gratefully and graciously inherit the earth and all of its abundance.

According to Extractable, there are roughly 44,000 total financial institutions on our planet, including credit unions, savings cooperatives, and other quasi-banks.TAB Global reported that the top 1,000 largest banks collectively held $164 trillion in total assets as of the 2024 financial year, with Asia Pacific accounting for the largest share (432 banks), followed by Europe (223 banks) and North America (155 banks).

Be sure to watch or read Alan of Salisbury’s Occult Art of Law presentation because he also mentions the largely unknown role that banks play alongside the legal system.

Back to the birth certificate fraud:

Stand For Truth (UK) sums up the true purpose of a Birth Certificate perfectly. Note that mothers and fathers have seven years to declare their child is alive before the courts take over as administrator:

“Parents are not obliged to register their children, but if they do, they create a legal entity/PERSON. They literally hand ownership of that PERSON over to a foreign entity/The CROWN. The Government seizes the PERSON under Maritime Law and it becomes their chattel property. Every Birth Certificate is a financial instrument lodged in the Vatican bank.”

​A helpful document entitled Birth Certificate Odyssey, states: Your birth documentation should be straightforward and transparent, but it soon becomes the most complex and secretive paper trail imaginable. This alone suggests a long history of corruption.’

The document also succinctly defines a birth certificate in corporate ‘dead speak’ (corpse oration = dead speak):

“A negotiable instrument, a registered security, a stock certificate evidencing, or representing, the preferred stock of the corporation and against which you are the surety; a pedigree chattel document establishing the existence of our straw man, a distinct artificial person with a fictitious name; a document of title to a straw man; a warehouse receipt for your body; delivery receipt; industrial bond between you (flesh-and-blood man or woman) and the industrial society and corporate Government (artificial person). In essence, there are two of us in existence in this world. A living, breathing, flesh and blood, free spirit and a stock certificate which is unlawfully traded on the stockmarket. Call it witchery or trickery, if you will.

One of my favourite quotes is from Crow on his Crrow777 Radio show:

The whole process is so antiquated and fictitious, that those who play a role in the document creation process, do not even comprehend what they mean, and in some cases where they go. And yet the process exists and proceeds as it ever did. If it is true that comprehension is the first step to a solution, then a new era is truly dawning, but this is obvious on the face of it. ~ Crow, Crrow777 Radio

The Elements of Roman Law PDF - larryhannigan.com.au

​Rule Of Law - Appearances Can Be Deceiving

Legalese reflects, in part, how the legal system is a secular system which does not relate to the spiritual nature of man. It only concerns itself with the body of man. The Aetherical Blogspot’s Human Image - The Fundamental Legal Fiction presenter provided a definition from the Webster’s Dictionary, 1828:

“Secular pertains to the present world, or to things not spiritual or holy; relating to things not immediately or primarily respecting the soul, but the body. Secular power is therefore a political power that is exercised through the civil law or legal system. Its concern is with worldly matters and the body of man but not the soul/spirit. This is the Rule of Law. In contrast, there is a spiritual power that is exercised through the Law of God. Its concern is with spiritual matters and the spirit.”

This is not to say that all legal professionals are secular but they work in a secular legal system built on a fictional foundation. This everchanging world will eventually require them to retrain so they are able to operate in a lawful system aligned with natural law which aligns with divine and eternal law. Doesn’t this sound preferable to the current system which has created a generation of alcoholics and drug addicts? Australia reportedly has one of the most dysfunctional legal systems due to increasing poor health, stress, exhaustion and addictions, not to mention corruption.

Contract Law

​Why Governments that operate under Contract Law don’t have any authority

My post 2020 research travels also led me to a South Australian educator, former political candidate and Our True Australia founder, Tim Dwyer. He is well versed about many important things that I knew very little about, such as unreported prime ministerial activities from many moons ago that found me at the perilous eleventh hour. The following information helped me understand why we now have several generations of ‘clueless’ Aussies who have been ‘sold down the river’ and led to believe that the government cares about us. For example:

~ In 1966, the Holt Government took our silver from us.

~ In 1973, the Whitlam Government took the Great Seal out of our Constitution.

~ In 1976, the Fraser Government took the Letters Patent out (Latin litterae patentes meaning open letters which were public and unsealed.)

~ In 1978, the Fraser Government took the Constitution out of schools because they didn’t want us to know our rights.

Fast forward to 2026, both the federal Albanese government and state governments are taxing and fining the life out of Australians, most of whom are unaware of how Contract Law works.

‘The Australian government’s leading solicitors have said that the Commonwealth and the States are corporations. They are operating as any other corporation and they contract with you. Taxation is a contract. Once you agree, you are in contract. But the unfair conditions of the contract allow you to step out. You are not breaking any laws.’ ~ Tim Dwyer, Our True Australia

The following notes from Tim Dwyer’s video Contract Law - The Government Doesn’t Have Any Authority, briefly explains why the government cannot force people into contract or servitude. As mentioned earlier, all countries are incorporated bodies and answer to their parent corporations, being the Crown and the Vatican. And now that the satanic New World Order one world governnment corporation is attempting to force its way into our lives, this information is pure gold, in my opinon, anyway:

~ The government is a corporation that has no authority apart from that which you think it has.

~ Australian Consumer Law (ACL) is the law of the Commonwealth. In ACL, everything is contract. Under Contract Law, you cannot be forced into contract or servitude.

~ When you are dealing with the Commonwealth, every aspect of your interaction, as per any other corporation, is a contract. If you choose not to contract, you cannot be forced into contract.

~ Given that everything you do must be contracted, you get to choose if you want to contract with them. Why do you want to buy a license to drive a motor car? Why do you pay rates? Why do you want to enter into all these contracts?

~ When they send you a fine in the mail, they are offering to contract with you.

~ The government’s leading solicitors have said that the Commonwealth and the States are corporations. They are operating as any other corporation and they contract with you. You can step out. You do not have to play their game.

~ If we all stopped contracting, what would they do?

~ Taxation is a contract. Once we agree, we are in contract. But you can step out because the unfair conditions of contract allow you to step out. You are not breaking any laws.

~ What we have seen happen in Australia since 2020 has been an absolute gross breach of contract. Even though the government has stepped outside our Constitution, the Constitution still stands. The Constitution says it is a Deed of Trust between the people and those we elect. A Trustee. It’s a contract.

~ They have breached the Trust. Under Trust Law, they are in serious trouble. Under Constitutional Law, if they are found guilty, they must be hung by the neck until they are dead.

Legalese Word Definitions

Legalese sounds like English but it isn’t. It is a technical form of writing used by the legal community to discuss the business of law. While it seems like government officials, court clerks and the police are speaking English to you, they aren’t. They are speaking legalese designed to make you agree to legal and written contracts without you realizing it.

The following legalese definitions are sourced from Alan of Salisbury’s Occult Art of Law presentation, Aetherical Blogspot, Solutions Empowerment and Know Your Rights and the Justinian Deception YouTube channel (Grammatical Deceptions):

Register/Registration: When you register something, you hand over the title to whoever you register it with. So, when you register something with the government, they assume it is theirs. When you register your car, you become the registered keeper of your vehicle and the government can crush it if you don’t pay your straw man tax on it. When you register your baby, you create their straw man and it starts all over again. Your child begins to generate revenue for the government from 7 years of age, just as you have.

Application: You are a beggar and it is presumed that you know what you are giving up in order to get what you are begging for.

Submit: To bend to another’s will. Therefore, when you submit an application to register something, you voluntarily give up your rights. This aligns with the system’s laws against slavery but not voluntary slavery.

Citizen: Member of a free city or jural society, (civitas.) possessing all the rights and privileges which can be enjoyed by any person under its constitution and government, and subject to the corresponding duties. A Roman cult runs this system.

​Straw man: Legal personality or legal fiction.

Law: Grammatically defines Common Law of the land and soil jurisdiction.

LAW: Land, Air, Water.

Legal: Grammatically/verbally defines Admiralty/Maritime law of the sea jurisdiction, aka ‘Inland Piracy’ with regard to ‘Trafficking in PERSONS’.

​Legally, the NAME OF A HUMAN MUST ALWAYS BE IN CAPITALS TO IDENTIFY THAT INDIVIDUAL AS PROPERTY as distinct from a free man. Under natural law, all men and women are equal before the law, while all named PERSONS are not legally equal. A PERSON in LAW is nothing more than a ‘thing’. They are part of a hierarchical system of inequality – a subjugation.

The 1893 Dictionary of Arts and Sciences, Encyclopedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, And General Literature/The R.S Peale 9th 1893 defines the word ‘legal’ in 5 words: ‘The undoing of God’s Law’.

Legislation: Rule of a corporation. All acts, statutes, instruments and what is deemed as legal, are not law. They are only given the force of law that we consent to. To consent to the human body of law is to consent to a PERSONA and a false God.

Government: Mind control: guvernare meaning ‘to control’ and mens or mentis meaning ‘mind’; a service corporation that that does not have power and jurisdiction over the people. Instead, it covertly commits constructive fraud against the people.

Birth/Berth Certificate: Title to your soul and proof of ownership by the Holy See. The Claim of Right and the first Express Trust named Unam Sanctam; the core of the Holy See’s ownership of your soul. Essentially an unlawful slave contract with Rome which declares us dead and lost at sea. (Interesting to note the vast increase in the slave population when Rome began to extend its conquests outside Italy and engage in distant wars.)

Deleted passage from The Elements of Roman Law PDF - larryhannigan.com.au

​This extract about the Rights of Masters Over Slaves highlights the Law of Persons and also confirms how Roman Empire slave masters excel at creating something out of nothing, including money, both historically and to this very day.

The Elements of Roman Law PDF - larryhannigan.com.au

Personal Income Tax: The International Revenue Service (IRS) has specifically declared that paying personal tax is voluntary. In Australia, it was introduced after the engineered WWII to help pay the war debt.

Human Rights: Are not rights. Civil rights are not rights. They are benefits and privileges of the legal society. We are all born with God given inherent rights. There is no such thing as one man’s authority over another.

You Do Not Have To Consent: We are policed by consent. Police comes from policy. The policy man enforces the policies of the Crown corporation of which you are a citizen, which means worker or slave. You have handed your will and your life over to them. For example, if a police officer asks you, Do you understand?, they really mean stand under authority. By answering, you create a verbal contract with them. Know your basic laws and how to deal with a system that relies on ignorance to get away with fraud on a daily basis.

The Elements of Roman Law - larryhannigan.com.au

Our belief in these mental constructs (legal fictions) are the glue that holds the matrix together. In reality, there is no such thing as a man without a spirit (human). A natural man does exist but is spiritually discerned (different)... not spiritually void. His lack of faith/belief draws deception inward, such that he believes a lie.

The Kingdom of God is about truth, spiritual fulfilment and fulfilling your ‘purpose’ according to the law of the Creator.

The Kingdom of Man is all about appearance. He who makes the best case (appearance) wins. It is all about winning, getting (and begetting); material fulfilment.

​Human Image - The Fundamental Legal Fiction ~ Aetherical Blogspot

​UNIDROIT - A Most Pernicious Crime?

The International Institute for the Unification of Private Law (UNIDROIT) is an independent intergovernmental organisation based in Rome. Established in 1926 as an auxiliary organ of the League of Nations, it was re-established in 1940 on the basis of a multilateral agreement, the UNIDROIT Statute, and has 65 member states. Its purpose is to study needs and methods for modernising, harmonising and co-ordinating private and in particular commercial law as between States and groups of States and to formulate uniform law instruments, principles and rules to achieve those objectives. (Some circles describe this as a longform definition of modern day slavery).

Solutions Empowerment explains why it is a pernicious crime for a corporate UNIDROIT banker/quasi government to define their documented slaves/voters as illiterate PERSONS and address them in debased DOG-LATIN.

Deceitfully governing Legal PERSONS through the use of debased DOG-LATIN is a pernicious crime, legally defined as “Trafficking in PERSONS”. Three Palermo protocols that were adopted by the United Nations to supplement the 2000 Palermo Convention against Transnational Organized Crime include the Protocol to Prevent,Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children.

I’ll leave that there.

In the final part of this series, I will focus on hidden language manipulation and word mockery.

References

​ Video (9 mins): Tim’s Truth: It’s All Contract Law. The Government Doesn’t Have Any Authority

Article: Australians hit with Land Tax bills, despite being victims of Land Title theft

Justinian Deception (10 mins): Quasi Bible of the New World Order

Justinian Deception (18 mins): Illusions of Power

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The Mysterious Ash Tree - Beware or Befriend?

​In my front garden stands a typically fast-growing Ash tree, one whose roots are perilously close to destroying the garage.

Which got me thinking about the Ash tree in folklore and in the paranormal world; my cultural touchstone being M.R. James’ disturbing tale The Ash Tree (1904); links to two BBC2 versions are linked below.

The Ash (or Fraxinus) is generally regarded as a positive member of a genus of plants in the olive and lilac family, or Oleaceae. Indeed, in Norse mythology, the World Tree Yggdrasil is held to be a sacred Ash tree and was regarded across Northern Europe as a symbol of cosmic connection, healing, and strength.

The Old Ash Tree

​Symon Parsley / Old Ash Tree

In popular culture, the World Tree recently featured in season 2 of Marvel’s LOKI (2023).

For the Vikings, the first man, Askr, was formed from an Ash, whilst the first woman Embla was made from an elm. In the Norse poem Hávamál, Odin described hanging himself from a "wind-swept (Ash) tree" for nine nights, wounded by a spear, in a self-sacrifice to himself to gain wisdom and learn the secrets of the runes.

​In Celtic and British folklore, the Ash is one of the three sacred trees, along with Oak and Thorn; a healing tree, particularly used in rituals to cure poorly children.

For the ancient Greeks, the Meliae were nymphs associated with the Ash tree, born from the blood of Uranus falling onto Gaia.

​The Askafroa (wife of the Ash tree), or in Danish ‘Askefrue’ is the guardian of the Ash tree, a malicious creature. To appease her, it was necessary to make a sacrifice every Ash Wednesday by pouring water on her roots and declaring: "I am offering to you so that you do us no harm".

​Ash Wednesday, while nowadays of course, a Christian observance marking the start of Lent, has roots in pagan customs of purification, mourning, and the return of spring, including using ash for protection, fertility, and renewal. Ashes were used to mark the forehead for Odin’s protection often done on "Odin's Day" (Wednesday). In Celtic tradition, ashes were used to bless livestock and ensure fertility during the transition from winter to spring, frequently associated with Imbolc celebrations.

There are fictional takes on less than benevolent Ash trees, including in the 1990 3-part BBC television adaptation of Kingsley Amis’s novel, The Green Man (1969), where it puts in a truly terrifying appearance at the beginning of the first episode:

​Note: Green Man sculptures are often created from fallen Ash trees.

The Green Man in Lesnes Abbey Woods, London Borough of Bexley.

​Ethan Doyle White, CC BY-SA 4.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

The UK - in ‘real’ life?

1869’s Haunted Ash of Lampits (Scotland), part of The Ghosts of Carnwath series of supernatural reportage

An account in Scotland’s Hamilton Advertiser of 28th August 1869 detailed a melancholy apparition and haunted Ash tree near Lampits Farm, to the east of Carstairs Junction in South Lanarkshire:

“There long stood a solitary, melancholy-looking ash tree in a field on the Lampits Farm, in the vicinity of Cockysyetts, which was cut down to make way for the Queen’s branch of the Caledonian Railway, and which was still more melancholy, in my imagination, from its dismal associations; for here, on one of the branches of this dowie-looking tree, a poor heart-broken girl of Cockysyetts closed her earthly sorrows and her earthly pilgrimage. No mavis or blackbird was ever seen to nestle in it scanty foliage, no merry note of music was ever heard from its dull half-blasted branches; the raven might croak and the pyot chatter there by day, and the owl scream by night, but no other merriment, dear tree, was thine. Ghosts love the darkness and the shade, and the ghost of poor Jessie was often seen gliding at midnight among the shadows of the fearsome neuk.”

Today, few trees grow on the flat windswept carseland around Lampits. There remains, however, a solitary ancient ash tree that commands a view across the flat fields towards the Caledonian Railway. Many of its upper branches have been lost to past storms, and disease ravages others, however new growth continues to sprout from a gnarled and weathered old trunk.

With scanty foliage and half-blasted branches it has an uncanny resemblance to the melancholy old ash tree described in the newspaper article over 150 years ago. Ash trees can live for up to three hundred years, therefore it’s possible that the surviving tree could have witnessed Jessie’s melancholy end, early in the 19th century. It might even have sprung from a seed of the haunted ash.

The Hardy Tree (St Pancras Old Church, London)

​David Edgar, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

The Hardy tree was an Ash tree located in the very ancient, possibly Roman St Pancras Old Church's churchyard in London. Notable for the stacked gravestones embedded at its base in around 1860, when graves were moved by writer-then-architect Thomas Hardy to make way for the Midland Railway to run through the churchyard.

In 2014, the tree was infected with fungus, and with storms further weakening it, the tree fell in December 2022.

The Hell Tree

From: The Mysterious Hardy Tree | Graves that Circle a Tree….(2021)

It’s thought that during his time here, Hardy actually uncovered the body of a two-headed man during the excavations. Thomas never documented anything regarding and this and more recent photographs of the tree has encouraged speculation if he ever had anything to do creating the design at all. He did write a poem named Levell’d Churchyard. Thomas’s poem suggests that he didn’t have fond memories of the work he did here but its hardly surprising given the job he was expected to do.

In letters that were written by the St Pancras Old Church vicar John Tweed in 1859 to his wife Charlotte, he appeared to have witnessed a supernatural manifestation. The vicar detailed how his churchyard was home to a mass gathering of apparitions and how tombstones seem to appear at the Ash tree and that he had even seen them moving towards this tree by a unseen force.

In December 1859 he wrote to Charlotte: ”More missing headstones. Increasingly certain of connection with my guests. Today I traced strange lines of disturbed earth across the graveyard. Each lead to the Ash Tree. Are they being dragged there? And then where? The ash tree itself is looking increasingly unhealthy, possibly diseased. I don’t like to get too close to it.”

And then: “If I hadn’t seen such as I have seen these past months I may not have trusted my eyes, but trust them I must. I shall record it in as plain a manner as I know how: By the light of the moon last night I saw a gravestone, moving with some speed, and quite of its own accord, across the graveyard. It hurtled towards the ash tree, at the base of which it disappeared, as if plunging in to the very bowels of the tree.” Finally: “Good God. Hundreds of them, of all shapes, just pouring into the tree.” He later refers to the tree being a gateway and it’s believed by some that he felt it could have possibly been a hell gate.

​“Dearest Charlotte, I do so love hearing your news from the vale, it pains me to have to recount the horrors of my life here… At night I am plagued by nightmares so vivid and dreadful that I am afraid to sleep at all. I have been nailed to the cursed iron frontage of a flame-licked and hell-bound locomotive. I have walked through the dark miasma and fetid slime of a London choked by death. I have seen the flagstones of the church floor thrust violently upwards by a sudden eruption of uncertain origin. And these are only the visions I have the constitution to retell… I begin to suspect that it is not just the lost ones that are being dragged down to that place. For how to account for the sheer number I watch descend every night? Where will it end? Must every dead soul in the parish, every dead soul in London be reclaimed for damnation?! No Charlotte, I shall not see it happen.”

​Allegedly John Tweed closed the hell gate in 1860 by burying a Bible under the tree, and scans of the Ash tree show a large book buried within the roots… but nobody has ever been allowed to dig the area. No reports were made from Tweed after 1860, when he lost the ability to record his findings; his writing hand apparently useless.

​And...this from Exit Strategy for the Restless Dead: The Hell Tree of St Pancras (2017)

He wrote to Charlotte: “Every thief, vagabond and ne’er-do-well in London seems to have wound up buried at St P. Which would be all well and good, except that the digging up of late seems to have unearthed more than just bones. Judging by the number of lost souls drifting about the place in one spirit form or another, I would offer that many of my guests are far from welcome in Heaven. I can only assume that having been buried in consecrated ground further precludes them from the other place, which leaves them, it is my horror to say, stuck in the churchyard with me”.

Tweed was not entirely without sympathy for his ghostly companions, going on to tell his wife that they were: “Sad seeming things. I feel quite sorry for them. I don’t suppose I should mind at all if only they kept their mournful meanderings to the night-time hours. Last Sunday I was midway through service when a wraith came down the aisle – an infernal thing, it stalked among the shadows between the shafts of morning light, wailing and moaning like a baleful cat. There were already murmurings amongst the parishioners about the foul stench from the digging up. Dearest Charlotte, I am not sure how much longer I can pacify them.”

The Beatles at Old St Pancras (1968)

Although St Pancras Old Church is in central London, minutes away from the great Victorian Gothic pile of a station, the area can be quite a haunting, lonely place, perched on a hill overlooking the railway junctions of St Pancras and King’s Cross. I remember visiting in the snows and blizzards of Winter 2015, when the church grounds felt like something from one of Grimm’s tales.

The Lively Arts: Thomas Hardy - A Haunted Man (1978)

The Ash Tree - Vampire/Zombie Killer

​In folklore, an ash stake is traditionally used to kill vampires, especially in Slavic, Russian, and Baltic traditions. Ash wood represents protective, "life" energy in Norse mythology, where it can help destroy the Draugr (Undead), or at least weaken their supernatural powers. The Viking version of vampires/zombies are described as bloated “death-blue/black” revenants who ferociously protect their treasure, with the ability to grow to giant sizes and shapeshift.

Note: other words for the Undead or Vampires in Norse legend include:

Aptrgangr (Again-walker): One who walks again.

Haugbúi (Barrow-dweller): One that dwells within its burial mound (howe).

Gjenganger: A ghost or revenant.

​In Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1897), Abraham Van Helsing utilizes wooden stakes associated with specific woods like ash or white oak to impale vampires by piercing their Undead hearts.

Three BBC adaptations of The Ash Tree by M.R James

The Ash-Tree (1986)

And a later telling from 2000; my idea but ripped off by a then senior BBC colleague:

​A Ghost Story for Christmas: The Ash Tree (1975) - The big reveal...

​Ash Wednesday (1973) full movie

LINKS

​The Haunted Ash of Lampits: https://clydesdalesheritage.org.uk/article/the-haunted-ash-of-lampits/

​Askafroa: https://www.stronghold-nation.com/history/myth/askafroa

​Ash Wednesday and its pagan origins: https://susannesanlier.wordpress.com/2015/02/18/ash-wednesday-and-its-pagan-origins/

​What is Imbolc? The Celtic fire festival that welcomes spring—in February: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/culture/article/imbolc-celtic-celebration-brigid

​Draugr, Haugbui And Aptrgangr – The Undead of Norse Myths: https://vikingr.org/other-beings/undead-viking-age?srsltid=AfmBOooD9FPhdZ_fGZNJpou74mRFiwpS_qX8UmyR39HCDmJHrj0w4hDj

​Thomas Hardy: Gravestone-encircled tree falls in Camden: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-64110086

​The Mysterious Hardy Tree | Graves that Circle a Tree….:https://paranormalhauntings.blog/2021/12/26/the-mysterious-hardy-tree-graves-that-circle-a-tree/

​Exit strategy for a restless dead: The Hell Tree of St Pancras: https://portalsoflondon.com/2017/01/20/the-hell-tree-of-st-pancras/

STEPHEN ARNELL’S HISTORICAL NOVEL THE GREAT ONE IS AVAILABLE ON AMAZON KINDLE:https://www.amazon.co.uk/Great-One-Secret-Memoirs-Pompey-ebook/dp/B0BNLTB2G7

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Mass Occultic Deception Exposed: Why Secret Knowledge Isn’t Secret Anymore

​After five years of fascinating dark occult research, I now regard the corporate world heirarchy as a giant Phonyland amusement park run by extremely arrogant people whose secret knowledge isn’t so secret anymore; perpetrators of an illusory, fraudulent, mass occultic deception. Fortunately, their arrogance is driven by fear, so fear not! We have everything to gain by becoming aware of how dysfunctional and broken the outgoing dark occult heirarchy really is. Let’s seize the opportunity to embrace our powerful divinity and focus on co-creating a flourishing, healthy and prosperous world for our children, families and future generations.

On a personal note, if it wasn’t for the 2020 Corona-turned-COVID (Certification of Vaccine Identification) virus (Virtual Integrated Repeated Unifying System) gatecrash and World Economic Forum Chairman Klaus Schwab’s beloved ‘great reset’, and crude invasion into my peaceful, healthy, private world, I may never have delved into the possibility of adverse, dark occult influences upon the top tiers of society - the media shy ‘unelected ruling club’. Thank you Klaus and Corona (1650s Latin meaning: crown; garland).

Special thanks also goes to genuine, recovering cult survivors, many from prominent generational cult bloodlines for speaking out publicly to warn the world that the shocking ritualistic mind control abuses inflicted upon them as children, are planned for all of humanity. Not on our watch, of course.

The long planned 2020 ‘reset’

​With mind manipulation technologies, propaganda and the WEF’s synthetic, transhumanistic agenda being forced upon us like never before, in my opinion, we homo sapiens have the upper hand and always will. This is because Divine Law and Spiritual Intelligence are on our side. The AI technocracy and transhumanism fanatics do not enjoy this privelege. They are relying on some kind of AI God that needs data centres to survive. This was revealed by US military cult program survivor Arkheim Ra, who has been warning about the dystopian satanic/luciferian agenda for many years in between healing from the extreme childhood damages he somehow survived.

​Most people would also be unaware that the long planned 2020 ‘reset’ was exposed in detail in 2000 by prominent cult survivor and prolific author Svali. Conceived in a Swiss genetics lab in the 1950s by an occultic group, Svali’s 'father' was Nazi SS doctor Joseph Mengele, dubbed the Angel of Death. In between being trafficked and ritually abused in many different countries by disturbed elitist perpetrators, and forced to traffick orphaned babies and young children to wealthy predatory families throughout Europe, Svali became one of the world's top mind control programmers/trainers and an Illuminati infiltrator. She also took the life-threatening risk of escaping from the cult and later sharing her harrowing story which I regard as an gift to all of humanity.

This is an excerpt from her 2023 50 Voices of Ritual Abuse testimony:

'In 2000 in my blog, I said that basically, the occultic societies had taken over the areas of government, finance, our banking system, education, media and were even infiltrating churches and religious organisations and that they were actually running them at that point but they just hadn't come forward. I said that 2020 would be pivotal, when they would start coming forward. And they have. They have become much more open since the pandemic...

A world government leader will be announced by 2030. I've met him... He is not Klaus Schwab or the person that a lot of people are mentioning but the person, I believe, is in preparation right now. If you read the Bible, God wins in the end, Satan loses. So even if this world leader comes on the stage, he will not win. He will be deposed.'

​Secret Knowledge Oddities

My dark occult research travels revealed many curious things from a range of online chatterboxes who discussed topics like satanism, luciferianism, mind control, mockery, sorcery, slavery, black magick, masonic hoodwinking and child rape/murder, staged ‘loosh’ events, transhumanism, grotesque synthetic food, and a luciferian one world government that wants to enslave all of humanity. Strange but true. Some of the seemingly intelligent chatterboxes have turned out to be hoodwinkers but the knowledge they imparted was mostly true. Or was it? Please comment if you can prove any of the following revelations to be false.

Here are just a few of the occult oddities that I discovered:

~ Behind-the-scenes battles between various top tier occultic groups for world control includes a ridiculous expectation that all earthlings will submit to the luciferian ‘one world religion.’

~ Until 2018, I thought lucifer was a myth. Not so. Short definition of the luciferian belief system: On the altar of the devil, up is down, pleasure is pain, darkness is light, slavery is freedom, and madness is sanity. (Author unknown)

~ Freemasons purport to worship God. Their god is lucifer. All freemason oaths are intertwined with black magick, they rape and murder children and summon demons through rituals and mantras.

​​​~ The Vatican folk believe that they ‘own your soul’ because your mother and father ‘registered’ you at birth in order to receive a birth certificate.

~ Australian wine producers who are practising dark occultists, chant black magic spells over the wine at midnight and summon low frequency spirits which energetically attach to the wine. Some of them also add blood to wine because they are blood drinkers and think it’s funny that nobody knows what they are doing to the community. These dark energies adversely affect all who drink the wine. Qantas Airlines allegedly serves demonic wines.

~ The music industry is also known to chant over music which infects millions of home environments with demonic energies - particularly families with young children who idolize the ‘stars’.

~ Cannibalistic, satanic mass produced food corporations use human remains in their ‘food’ and drinks. (Time to introduce luciferian/satanic food, alcohol and product labelling.)

~ Adelaide, South Australia is the globalist child predator cult headquarters of the world.

~ Many politicians are entangled in cult groups and compromised by a drug called Devil’s Breath or Scopolamine.

​ ~ The cults want to make it hell on earth for all people except them - the ones with the most knowledge. They believe they can do this and get away with it

​ ~ Cult perpertrators laugh at the police because they know that they have locked up so many innocent people that they have placed as patsies. They collect blood from people under Scopolamine who don’t realise that blood has been collected. The blood is used in murders where an innocent person’s blood is sprayed at the crime scene.

​​​~ The word ‘legal’ is defined as the ‘undoing of God’s law.’

~ The Rockefeller funded Tavistock Institute’s long planned global government or one world collectivist state will allegedly have one little guy at the top, 13 seats at the table, and, I’m assuming, cascading levels of lower authority. Sounds uncannily similar to the current heirarchy with the Vatican top dogs and lucifer installed at the top.

This image provides an overview of the cult heirarchy. If this is inaccurate, please let me know.

Image creator unknown

​Benefits of secret knowledge awareness

One of my earliest and most insightful ‘walk your talk’ dark occult educators was former satanic priest turned podcaster Mark Passio. He succinctly sums up my feelings about the benefits of understanding the fundamentals of the widely feared and misunderstood occultic realms.

“A small minority is discovering the real dynamics of control and power. It’s all connected to occult hierarchies that do not have the interests of the people at heart. We need occulted and esoteric knowledge to understand how natural law works and how our free will behaviours work with natural law and manifest what we want in our lives.

If humanity collectively does not align to our inherent natural law rights, and goes along with the enslavement system, then we will see more shut downs of human rights – from covert to overt slavery.”

Unaware that I was perceived as a slave by the cult heirarchy, further research led me to the website of Larry Hannigan who enlightened me about the original Australian Law publication of Elements of Roman Law, where Roman slaves were defined as a thing or a person. This particular entry has been removed from PDF copies that are currently in circulation.

Source: larryharrigan.com.au

This revelation tied in with claims about the Vatican’s fraudulent conversion of new born ‘free’ babies into incorporated ‘Vatican property’ through non-consensual, publicly registered Birth Certificates that are traded on the stock market. How does it feel to be viewed as mere ‘chattel’ by a constipated, tax guzzling, Vatican-serving corporation called government? Where masonic ‘men on high’ worship lucifer and behave like masters who grant unwitting tax paying slaves freedoms and privileges that were never theirs to begin with.

​The ‘free-world’ is not free at all, it seems. But we are getting there.

Exiting the dreary matrix

Humanity has everything to gain, or as the Bible states, Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth (Matthew 5:5). After centuries of pillaging, programming, illusions, trickery, tyranny, rape, genocide and too many other horrors, the tide is now turning. Once you become aware of the various ‘control elements’ that have kept us unconsciously trapped in this man-made matrix, and build your secret knowledge library, it’s all systems go!

In more recent decades, the increasingly weaponized and corporatized mass media and entertainment ‘complex’ has played a detrimental role in shaping the world’s seemingly dystopian ‘narrative’. This insidious takeover has been perpetrated by cult driven billionaires, mega-corporations, blackmail rackets, technocrats and oligarchs who lack imagination, morals and heart. It has saddened me to see the industry I once worked in fall into line with absurd globalist agendas. It also shows how weak and subservient the current batch of order taking corporate mass media owners and their complicit board room executives are. Particularly post 2020.

As mentioned earlier, cult whistleblower Svali published her expose about the 2020 ‘overt cult takeover’ in the year 2000. This would never have happened without willing perpetrators in positions of high authority across thee globe together with a fully controlled mass media and internet censorship. And were you aware that key aspects of this nefarious plan was published in a 1989 book entitled The New World Order by A. Ralph Epperson? Beyond a Pale Horse by the late radio broadcaster, author and US Naval Intelligence Briefing Team member Milton William ‘Bill’ Cooper, also comes to mind.

The New World Order - Epperson

Widespread Covert Use of Mind Control Technologies

Whoever controls the media, controls the mind. - Jim Morrison

​Mass media and entertainment (entrainment) control naturally gives hellbound globalists an unfair advantage in their desperate quest to digitally enslave and control everyone on earth except themselves. They clearly had messed up childhoods to grow into such hateful infantile adults. Fortunately, there are billions of us and only thousands of them.

Hand in hand with mass media programming is the long-term use of mass mind control programs such as MK-Ultra and Monarch, particularly in Australia, United States of America and United Kingdom. Sadly, many cult survivors describe Australia as a mass population mind control testing ground for the world and most governments seem to love this idea, especially when it comes to attempting to control annoying critical thinkers. Until I began to listen to cult survivor testimonials, and learned that their perpetrators all used the same insidious ritual abuse and mind control playbook, I had heard of mind control but didn’t take much notice.

​We are seeing is MK Ultra rolled out through the media and education system worldwide which was part and parcel of the goals of the new world order that Cathy O’Brien recounts openly in her book ‘Trance Formation of America’. Jason Christoff, Specialist Programming and De-Programming Educator

Tavistock Institute aka Military Industrial Complex

It is well documented that the CIA’s MK Ultra mind control experiments started in the 50s and ended in the 70s. But if you listen to recovering cult survivors or read their books, mind control is still alive and unwell. A recent US congressional hearing was largely criticised by prominent survivors turned therapists, podcasters and authors as a mere appeasement process that is on a road to nowhere.

Another long term mind control player is the Rockefeller funded Tavistock Institute. Established in 1921 by the Royal Institute for International Affairs (RIIA) modern-day Tavistock has grown into one of the world's largest, most influential, occultic think tanks on earth. Some researchers and authors claim that Tavistock’s ultimate goal is to manipulate or force the world’s population into accepting a one world collectivist state or global government - hardline communist style. No thank you.

Tavistock is also accused specializing in (negative) social engineering, brainwashing and mind control by means of inducing trauma-induced fear to artificially create split states of mind, which can then be programmed to do whatever the programmers are instructed to do. Sadly, most of the people in high positions of authority and influence these days, all suffered from mind control torture and abuse in their childhood. Part and parcel of being groomed for future positions to play their insidious part in carrying out the anti humanity globalist agenda. Most of these people have freemasonry or other dark occult affiliations in the family bloodline. Yet another standalone article.

There are some excellent books about Tavistock should you wish to educate yourself further. My pick is Tavistock Institute: Social Engineering the Masses by Daniel Estulin.

Tavistock Social Engineering

Some researchers and authors have suggested that Tavistock even invented the ‘conspiracy theory’ label as a cover to hide behind while they perpetrated crimes against humanity, together with the added convenience of zero media scrutiny. Others claim it was invented by the CIA. Maybe the CIA collaborated with Tavistock on that one. Whichever way, these are the kinds of people and institutes that would prefer to keep secret knowledge all to themselves. Sorry guys. The secret knowledge cats are out of the trickery back and ain’t coming back.

Tavistock Institute Survivor Testimony Notes

I shall end this article with some notes from an interview with prominent UK-born Australian Tavistock Institute cult survivor Aishe Spark. She was born into a Druidic occult family, same as Churchill, Hitler and Mengele, and her grandmother was a grande dame with connections in high places. Aishe survived horrific experiments, mind control torture, was trafficked underground with many other children from Buckingham Palace to Westminster and trained as a mind control programmer.

Her life long mind control programming started to break down age 66 and she described it as feeling as though she was ‘coming back to life’. Over time, she has learned to live with a fragmented mind, body and soul and is a wonderful, courageous, compassionate woman who also supports other survivors on their respective healing journeys. Many critics accuse survivors of suffering from the ‘false memory syndrome’. That contentious topic will be addressed in a future article about mind control.

Here are some of Aishe Sparke’s concerning, often disturbing allegations:

~ Australia is the headquarters of all Rockefeller funded Tavistock institutes which currently control everything.

~ The occultic Illuminati’s New World Order headquarters is located in Australia’s capital city of Canberra. Their plan includes the complete takeover of Australia and its lucrative natural resources, plus full control of this great southern land’s energetic ley lines, grids and sacred sites where they have built Freemason buildings, obelisks and carried out massacres.

~ The whole of Australia is a big cult, a big experiment, with millions of Australians being covertly programmed. This includes mind controlled politicians and many other prominent authority figures who are told what to say but the hidden cult manipulators.

~ Australia’s police have a new communication system and are all ‘super controlled’ to a new frequency

~ Australia has about seven laboratories doing horrific things, including DNA experiments. Everything is masterminded by Tavistock – almost like the brain machine. (This is partly why this odd but beautiful little land down under feels like a subservient, inverted straitjacket.)

Aishe also had good news to share:

The answers to everything will come from Australia. They have kept it so secret for so long but now the truth is coming out.

Indeed it is. Please do your own research to make up your own mind about secret knowledge and what this world may or may not be. I am just sharing what I have learned because it has ultimately served to make me laugh out loud at not-so-secret cult shenanigans and form a mighty optimistic world view. Insiders like Max Lowen and Laura Worley are now claiming the the elitist cults are now running around like scattered, chaotic, headless chickens.

News interview with Australian cult whistleblower Jo Gillies

At the time of writing, Nugget’s News host Alex Saunders interviewed Australian cult survivor and whistleblower Jo Gillies who expanded on several of the topics raised by Aishe. Recommended viewing, especially for Australian media and political public figures. There is no need to believe everything she says. Just listen and be aware that the parallel cult world is real and needs to be fully exposed and extinguished.

Interview Link: https://youtu.be/ctoNfDQMjcU?si=R8sPGY1OgX5rAjNQ

End of part 1

Cleopatra’s Needles: Cursed Obelisks in London & New York

​A pair of obelisks, together named Cleopatra's Needles, were taken in the 19th century from the ruins of the Caesareum of Alexandria in Egypt; one to the London Embankment and the other to New York’s Central Park.

Inscribed by Thutmose III and later Ramesses II of the Egyptian New Kingdom, the obelisks were first moved in 12 BC to Alexandria, remaining there for over 1,800 years.

Cleopatra's needles and the Tower of the Romans, drawn c.1798,

Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Cleopatra’s Needle - London

Cleopatra’s Needle

​Cleopatra's Needle and the Victoria Embankment by Oliver Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

​The obelisk that was eventually re-erected in London was presented to the Prince Regent in 1819 by Egyptian ruler Muhammad Ali, a gift to mark British beating the French at the Battle of the Nile in 1798 and in 1801’s Battle of Alexandria.

​The obelisk remained in Alexandria until 1877 when anatomist and dermatologist Sir William James Erasmus Wilson sponsored its transportation to London at the cost of £10,000, around £1,553,000 in today’s money.

​The 224 ton artifact was encased in a iron cylinder, 92 feet long and 16 feet wide, dubbed Cleopatra, commanded by one Captain Carter, towed to London by the ship Olga, under Captain Booth. On October 14th 1877, a violent storm in the Bay of Biscay caused the Cleopatra to list uncontrollably, forcing the tow ropes to be cut. The Olga launched a rescue boat with six volunteers but the boat capsized, and all crew members died. Captain Carter his five shipmates aboard Cleopatra were eventually rescued though.

​The paddle tug Anglia was then commissioned to tow the Cleopatra to London where it arrived in January 1878 and set up with some pomp at the Embankment on September 12th 1878.

​Cleopatra's Needle is flanked by George John Vulliamy’s two faux-Egyptian bronze sphinxes, made at the Eccleston Iron Works in Pimlico in 1881. The sphinxes bear hieroglyphic inscriptions that say “netjer nefer men-kheper-re di ankh”, meaning "the good god, Thuthmosis III given life". Oddly, they are looking at the Needle rather than guarding it - or are they?

Possibly their role was NOT to stop harm from coming to the obelisk but rather to prevent anything supernatural from escaping, a task in which they appear to have singularly failed.The Embankment boasts other Egyptian touches, such as the well-endowed winged female sphinxes gracing the armrests of nearby benches.

​A time capsule was concealed in the front part of the pedestal, containing twelve candid photographs of the most attractive English women of the day, hairpins, cigars, tobacco pipes, a set of imperial weights, a baby's bottle, children's toys, a razor, a hydraulic jack and some samples of the cable used in the erection, a 3-foot (90-centimetre) bronze model of the monument, and a complete set of contemporary British coins.

A rupee, a portrait of Queen Victoria, a history of the transport of the monument plans, a translation of the inscriptions, the Bible in several languages, a copy of John 3:16 in 215 languages, Whitaker's Almanack, a Bradshaw Railway Guide, a map of London, daily newspapers and finally, a twenty-four inch metal ruler, were also squirrelled away in the capsule.

It has been posited that the pictures of women and a razor amongst the items deposited beneath the monolith emitted waves of evil occult energy that eventually resulted in the crimes of Jack the Ripper decades later.

As The Ripper puts it in Alan Moore’s From Hell (1999): “They call it Cleopatra’s Needle. He who’d wield it would the BEST of tailors be, to do its work, increase the Sun God’s sovereignty … encoded in this city’s stones are symbols thunderous enough to rouse the sleeping Gods submerged beneath the sea-bed of our dreams.”

In 1977, my school Nower Hill High secreted a time capsule, which was (typically) forgotten about until accidentally rediscovered in 2013.

Cleopatra’s Needle: Shades of Ancient Egypt Gather

Soon, eerie unexplained events began to unfold around London’s Cleopatra monument, including the following;

​The Spectral Seaman

The ghost of a naked man has been seen on a number of occasions, leaping from out behind the obelisk and throwing himself into the River without making a splash. The first sighting of this apparition occurred only a few weeks after the installation of the obelisk, leading many to conjecture it was the shade of one of the sailors who drowned in the Bay of Biscay. Or it was simply a ‘flasher’ with a taste for the theatrical?

​Aleister Crowley Was ‘Ere

It is said that the notorious occultist Aleister Crowley performed dark rituals late one evening at the base of the obelisk in order to release the trapped spirit of the Pharoah Rameses. The ceremony supposedly involved animal blood and a human skeleton. Crowley failed in his endeavour, which was accompanied by the sound of Rameses mocking guffaws. File under: unlikely.

Suicide Isn’t Painless

Cleopatra’s Needle soon became a site associated with suicide. A policeman claimed a hysterical woman approached the officer, urging him to come to the banks of the Thames by the obelisk to prevent someone from hurling themselves into the water. As he left her and reached the area, he saw the same woman leap into the river, cackling as she did so.

​The Laughing Man-Fish

In Elliott O’Donnell’s Haunted Waters (1957) he recounts, “the spot where Cleopatra’s Needle stands was well-know to be haunted. None of the outcasts would venture near it. Two of them told me that one night they saw a tall, nude, shadowy figure, with a pear-shaped head and a body covered with what looked like scales, suddenly appear by the needle, wave a long arm at them and leap over the wall into the river. They said that they sometimes heard unearthly groans and hellish, mocking laughter in the river.”

​The Ancient World in London - Egyptomania in London

Near where I used to live in Islington:

Cleopatra’s Needle - New York

Greywacke Knoll, Central Park, New York

​Ingfbruno, CC BY-SA 3.0 , via Wikimedia Commons

​New York’s Needle was gifted in May 1877 to United States Consul General by Cairo Judge Elbert E. Farman, as thanks from the Khedive for the US remaining a friendly neutral as France and Britain vied for control of Egypt and the Suez Canal. Transportation costs were largely paid by the railroad magnate William Henry Vanderbilt, eldest son of Cornelius Vanderbilt.

The obelisk was transported seven miles to Alexandria and then put into the modified hold of the steamship SS Dessoug, which set sail June 12th, 1880. The Needle and its accompanying 50-ton pedestal arrived at the Quarantine Station in New York a month later. The ground was flattened so the obelisk could be rolled out of the ship and transported to an interim location off Fifth Avenue. Finally a steam engine pushed the object across a specially built trestle bridge from Fifth Avenue to Greywacke Knoll, just across from the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

It took a mammoth 112 days to move the obelisk from Quarantine Station to its current location.

Jesse B. Anthony, Grand Master of Masons in the State of New York, presided as the cornerstone for the obelisk was laid in place with full Masonic ceremony on October 2nd, 1880. Over 9,000 Masons paraded up Fifth Avenue from 14th Street to 82nd Street. The official ceremony for erecting the obelisk was held January 22, 1881. A time capsule buried beneath the obelisk contains an 1870 U.S. census, a Bible, a Webster's Dictionary, the complete works of William Shakespeare, a guide to Egypt, and a copy of the United States Declaration of Independence.

A small chest was also placed in the capsule, but its contents remain unknown to this very day.

The wonderfully named Henry Honeychurch Gorringe, who supervised the movement of the obelisk, claimed the prime advantage of the Knoll was its "isolation", and it was elevated, with the foundation firmly anchored in local bedrock, supposedly preventing collapse if Manhattan suffered "some violent convulsion of nature."

The League of Shadows

​In 1885 Gorringe died at the age of 43 as a result of injuries when he fell (or was he pushed?) from a moving train. 1885 was the year in which Gorringe published his book Egyptian Obelisks, which mainly explored his acquisition of Cleopatra’s Needle for Central Park. Gorringe was buried in Rockland Cemetery, Sparkhill, New York State. His memorial stone declares: “His crowning work was the removal of Cleopatra’s Needle from Egypt to the United States, a feat of engineering without parallel.” In 1886, his friends erected a replica of Cleopatra’s Needle over his grave, the unveiling drawing 500 people. Like the original obelisk in Central Park – it stands on its own knoll, overlooking the Hudson River.

There are far less stories of ghosts and curses linked to the New York obelisk than its London sibling, attributed by some to the elaborate Masonic ceremonies that prepared the plinth for the monument’s arrival, which may have pacified any unquiet ancient spirits.

​In 2011, the pollution-blighted Needle was inspected by Zahi Hawass (Minister of Egypt’s Supreme Council of Antiquities) who declared: “If the Central Park Conservancy and the City of New York cannot properly care for the obelisk, I will take the necessary steps to bring this precious artefact home and save it from ruin.” The London obelisk is in a better condition, but in 2018 Hawass also weighed in, “I went to see it yesterday and I was ashamed … If they don’t care, they should return it.”

Note: The 50-foot granite walls of Manhattan’s now demolished Croton Reservoir (completed in 1842) were constructed in the Egyptian style popular at the time.

New York

​unidentified illustrator of an article by T. Addison Richards, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Cleopatra (1999)

​Kenneth Anger’s Lucifer Rising (1972); film director Donald Cammell was the god Osiris; Marianne Faithfull plays primordial she-demon Lilith:

LINKS

​Cleopatra’s Needle – London & New York’s Cursed & Haunted Egyptian Obelisks: https://www.davidcastleton.net/cleopatras-needle-london-new-york-city-central-park-obelisk-cursed-haunted-ancient-egypt/

​Hidden Alignments Documentary – NYC Masonic Obelisks: http://glasscapsule.com/2015/12/hidden-alignments-documentary-nyc-masonic-obelisks/

​The Mystery of the Central Park Obelisk: https://www.boweryboyshistory.com/2020/10/cleopatras-needle-and-secret-of-new.html

​NYC – Cleopatra’s Needle: https://imagerysmith.wordpress.com/

​How Cleopatra’s Needle came to London: https://www.londonmuseum.org.uk/collections/london-stories/how-cleopatras-needle-came-london/

​The Curse of Cleopatra’s Needle: https://hauntedpalaceblog.com/2022/06/07/the-curse-of-cleopatras-needle/

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