Alchemy

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Alchemy

A CIA agent visited me at my house. He had heard me on the radio and called telling me that he would just like to meet me and visit with me for a few minutes. He was totally astonished at my book collection...because he loved books. He was more emphatic with his appreciation because of my total blindness. I told him then, as I tell you now, I like to be surrounded with books. I like the feel of them because any person who knows how to read, and who can use a dictionary, has all the knowledge of the world at his fingertips. It is simply a matter of using your time wisely to read and study. I have little patience with individuals, adult or otherwise, who spend their life in front of an idiot box called a television set. Don't you realize that these programs are not real...they are manufactured to captivate you...to extort from you all reality of imagination, decency, motivation? You think that visually you are getting a cheap high...letting alchemists of degeneracy infect and warp your mind leaving you none the better for your experience. It is molestation of the worst sort, a rape of the intellect to watch the stench or triviality portrayed so convincingly...often silly maturated, literary hi jinx that in the long run leave you less than what you were before you saw the activity.

In reading good books there is a methodological stability of learning first from the eyes which receive the impulses from the page then through the optic nerves to the cochrane cortex of the brain...knowledge forever stored, brought back in recollection. Of all the historic sciences, alchemy is the oldest probably, 3000 years before the birth of Christ, first in Mesopotamia then in about every civilization...Persian, Egyptian, Chinese etc. There were those who practiced and studied as alchemists...seeking for their own knowledge and imparting their knowledge to others, knowledge they had redeemed from life and everything affecting life. The Greek and Roman civilizations were punctuated by brilliant minds who wanted more than just the ordinary. Within their reasoning abilities they sought for answers to the questions of earth and human existence.

The alchemist's wisdom was manifest not just in their knowledge of life's objectives but in conjuring up elixirs and other minerals and metals of interest both from a healing and helping parameter. It is from the helping aspects of this pseudo-science that many systems were developed and it is from the healing aspects that the materia medica which we now call pharmaceuticals, have developed.

Gold and silver were already known to be precious metals and a feeble attempt was made to create such. This was the beginning of organic and inorganic chemistry. Using weird combinations of herbs, plants, fire and water...probably the birth of medicine. Standing at Oxford University is a statue of Roger Bacon, one of the first alchemists who was born, probably around 1214. Bacon introduced the scientific method or empirical knowledge to the academic curriculum. Until this very day, the scientific method projects that any theory must be subjected to scrutiny and that others must, with the same experiment, get the same results. It was Bacon who introduced “peer review” and, with the honesty of the Catholic Church, the fact that he was a Friar of the church, he so introduced spirituality into the human concept of learning.

The inner life of a man is much greater than the outer life of a man. The vertical aspects of life are just as great as the horizontal aspects of human living. Though a member of the genus homo-sapiens, man is the only animal who knows he is going to die. Man is blessed by his creator, made by the sovereignty of God (Psalm 139). An individual, unlike any other, who has ever lived, your own distinct facial and body characteristics, your own distinct voice, your own distinct iris flex in your eye, fingerprints and soul. Like the masterful handy work of every snowflake that has ever fallen, designed by God, you are your own person and your inner life is greater than your outer life. Your DNA, your personality, your physiology, determines your life. Within yourself, you are your own alchemist, certainly with divine perceptions, prepared to run the race set before you.

Within your mind, you have a relationship with your creator that pagan man cannot understand. One book, and one book only, when you open it, the Bible, it is like opening the mind of God...the creator of the universe...the one who threw the very stars into space, who has them individually named...the one who holds the oceans of the world within his hands...the one who measures the height of the Himalayas with his fingers...the one who gave the exact measurements of the gold “Ark of the Covenant” to his “chosen” people...and who had previously given the measurements of another ark of deliverance, the ark which Noah built using the measurements given him by god, measurements which are still used in ship building until this very day.

How men cheat themselves by not having a personal relationship with heir creator. Religionists cannot understand this relationship...they can understand keeping a few laws, rules or regulations. They cannot understand the freedom of inner thought any more than they can understand how and why religious people stoned Stephen, but just before Stephen died, the sky opened up and he saw the one who had created him.

In all my world travels, there is no city in the world as interesting as the city of Rome. I thought of what it must have been like when the apostle Paul finally reached it. Paul, an old man, imprisoned in a cistern, but from that prison came some of the most remarkable information the world has ever known...divinely inspired. His hand held onto parchment by the very one who had knocked him off his horse on the road to Damascus and then, instead of killing Christians, became the expositor of the church, writing 14 books of the New Testament. Such is the saint's delight in knowing personally the creator of the universe (John 1).

What is man, that thou art mindful of him? and the son of man, that thou visitest him? (Psalm 8:4)

No Pain, No Gain

Much younger, much more energetic, much more ambitious, working out in the gym, one had to experience the strain and pain of opposing forces to build up body musculature. Only through discipline of exercise and limiting what goes in the mouth will you or anyone else ever get your weight, your general health, your appearance under control. It is as simple as that. These diets, regardless of their advertisements only help one person, the person who promotes them.

Dr. Atkins at the height of his diet in 1998 had 87 employees, treated over 50,000 patients and made $100 million dollars in one year. Dr. Atkins died of a head injury following a fall, but previously he had suffered a heart attack. THE MORTALITY RATE IS STILL 100%. Many of these diet promoters (South Beach, Jenny Craig, etc.) who have gotten wealthy by seeing people take off weight and then put it right back on, losing it and then finding it, will face the judgment of God for their deception. It may surprise both believers and non-believers that all will be judged (John 5:28) even those who have been dead for thousands of years. I ride by one church, mid-city, where, in it's early days on dirt streets, a cemetery was in the rear. I think of how long these people have been dead but, they too will be judged.

It was just announced that China had an increase of over 10% in their national economy last year...at a time when most of the world was in recession. Also, just announced, the only country in the European Union to have an increase in national economy last year was Poland. Poland's economy grew 1.7%. Why does Poland grow and the other European countries do not grow? Because Poland has known the totalitarian control and authoritarianism of Communism. The Pols are just happy for government to get out of the way, to let them have responsibility for their own lives.

Why does Communist China have a 10% increase? The first thing a company in the United States cuts is employees and employee benefits. I have been to China three times, I know, I have seen slave labor. You cannot beat slave labor production and sales by a slave-labor company cutting prices on all competition. Try getting into a Wal-Mart parking lot; Wal-Mart has put more small businesses out of business than famine or disease...all to the benefit of Communist China.

Last week, in a speech given in West Palm Beach, Attorney General Holder announced 5,000 pending indictments by the Department of Justice of individuals linked to financial institution fraud as part of an overall targeting of market manipulators and cheaters across the board. He said that he had devoted many years of his life investigating the sedition of brokers and other financial people in the cheating of the American public. It is about time. I have written SCC, North Carolina's Secretary of State, FTC, and everyone else who can read, about the cheating of the investing public. Many of these brokerage houses, much like a salesman in a shoe store, will just employ anyone who can breathe, the salesman in a shoe store-a shoe horn, the investment broker-a computer, and the public is at their mercy. My last broker, representing a large trust company had only two items in his resume which he always announced. He had been in the securities business for 28 years and his father was a Baptist preacher. On this, I trusted his integrity...much to my sorrow. If I had the money lost by investment brokers, taking advantage of a blind man, I would be a wealthy man. The Mayor of New York City is worth $17 billion, he paid $108 million to purchase his last term in office but, he can see.

I wonder how many times I have written Mr. Holder's Department Of Justice and his Department of Americans With Disabilities only to get the usual government generic reply, when it is obvious they did not even read your information or study the proof sent, “get yourself a lawyer”. Mr. Holder wants to pass out indictments to 5,000 thieves like Jesus passed out a small boy's lunch to 5,000 hungry men plus women and children. Christ was successful, all were filled, 12 baskets of leftovers collected. Mr. Holder, like the rest of the Obama Nation talk of “hope” and “change” but their words are empty. Like the woman running for US Senate in Massachusetts, they may be able to “ride out” their ambition, but the American people are getting less stupid. We know that the thieves who created the problems are the same thieves being asked to solve them.

Every other advertisement on television or radio entices one to buy gold. Not since F.D.R. dried up the gold market in 1933 or Nixon latched the gold door in 1971, has gold been so promising ($1,200 an ounce). You can be sure that the criminals are always a few steps ahead of you. God alone knows how much of the largess given by concerned citizens in the Haiti earthquake will wind up in the pockets of the greedy, not the needy. Tungsten has the same weight as gold...already, counterfeit gold bars are in play both here and abroad. Russia, China and India are the big buyers of Gold. China and India just bought 108 billion in gold bars from the International Monetary Fund.

China has learned that a well-financed criminal operation has put in its store house 60 metric tonnes of fake gold bars. We have heard of fake gold coins. Many of us in the antique markets have been fooled by fools gold. Like carefully-copied artwork, which often fools the art appraiser, fortunes and even hard-earned savings will be lost not just in fiat paper, but fake gold bars. Please tell Mr. Holder to double the guards at Fort Knox. More importantly, lock up Henry Paulson of Goldman Sachs, profiting $12.9 billion from the bailout of AIG...and even representative Charles Rangel, US House Ways and Means Committee Chairman, who did not know he is supposed to pay tax on his $75,000 in rental income...next to the prison cell of Bernard Madoff, who stole $85 billion from his investors and which is now in a Tel Aviv Israel bank...Tim Geithner, Treasury Secretary, who did not pay $34,000 in self-employment taxes, but is after you for your taxes, having just employed additional IRS collectors...making Arkansas congressman (Wilbur Mills) in a Potomac Basin with Fannie Flagg seem almost innocent though at the time this wet congressman and wet stripper eclipsed all news.

Don't mix reality with politics. Morality has ceased to have a part in Washington life. I knew the family of Lexington, NC native Judge Hubert Olive, judge at the Nuremberg trials. The Nazi criminals said they had not broken German laws...it was simply a matter of morality. Like abortion, prayer in schools, Nixon selling American real gold for $42 an ounce, it is not a matter of law, but a matter of morality.

When will Americans demand morals from their leaders? Under the Geneva convention, a warrior is held to a very high standard. Those who survive come home to a very low standard, a low standard of care in a VA hospital, a low standard of burial at death ($300 if not service-connected), a low standard of conduct from elected politicians. Those who have suffered the most pain, for little gain (IOUs at the Social Security Office) are the fathers and mothers who have reared the children who now work and pay the taxes for the bailouts, the sell outs, and the warriors who are willing to protect this less than honorable country.

Fools Gold

With the collapse of paper money, with the recession in the housing, securities, banking, insurance and other markets, with the 'Obama Bailout' of HIS friends and supporters, here and abroad, we find almost every radio and television program advertising the importance of buying gold as a protection for future security. If the crust of the earth were covered with gold, men would lie, cheat and steal for a handful of dirt. It is all a matter of scarcity and envy and corruption.

The greatest security in the world is of little interest to most men.
He owns the cattle on a thousand hills,
The wealth in every mine;
He owns the rivers and the rocks and rills,
The sun and stars that shine.
Wonderful riches, more than tongue can tell -
He is my Father so they're mine as well;
He owns the cattle on a thousand hills -
I know that He will care for me. (Psalm 50:10)

In my long life, I have often asked young people about their ambitions, what they want to accomplish in life and 99 times out of 100, I always get the same answer, MONEY. God only had to say it one time, but it would be good for every young person to learn early in life, the dangers involved...”For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows.” (1 Timothy 6:10) Money will buy many things, but I have never known money to buy happiness. Money certainly makes life easier, it can buy expensive treatment but not health, it can buy a good time but not a good reputation. Italian president, Silvio Berlusconi is making the headlines now because of his 'vice' in being able to pay for the company of naked young girls. Like some famous American politicians, who could also pay for such female 'arousal', he has lost his wife and children. Mr. Bernie Madoff, who possesses an unhealthy desire for money, ($65 billion scammed) MAY go to prison. Mr. Allen Stanford, who liked to ride in his helicopter that was gold plated in the interior, MAY go to prison for scamming $15 billion. All these men, like Judas, were con men and, I have never met a con man yet, I did not like.

The 'Whores' on the Potomac, like those at the 'cathouse' on Jones Street in Raleigh, are all very likable. They much have been, they were elected to rule over the rest of us! Mr. Terminator, the Governor of California, is now sucking up to Mr. Obama for $5.5 billion to help bail out the state of California's $24 billion shortfall. As always, like those who go to war, it is the poor who will be most affected. When the small towns and counties in California start trying to get some help from the state, like Schwarzenegger is trying to get help from the federal government, ALL of which are bankrupt, we will see a rapid decline in municipal bonds. Paper money is now virtually worthless. This 'hot money' is no longer desired by foreign governments.

In 1933, FDR confiscated all the gold in America and in an even greater disaster, President Nixon closed the gold window in 1973 (the same year beginning the abortion holocaust); gold was selling for $35 an ounce and foreign governments, such as Saudi Arabia, were glad to exchange their paper currency (payment for oil) for gold. So, as in England, most of the gold of the world is now in vaults east of the English Channel. (Particularly in Russia)

Foreign debt, such as our tremendous indebtedness to China, will never be paid because there is nothing to back it up. Yet, China can not afford to see the world's largest economy fail. It is no secret that China prefers to buy the debt of Germany, but, like the United States, China has many problems. First of which, large unemployment; second, a large male population due to the 'one child rule' and the abortions of girl babies and the resulting homosexuality; thirdly, the decline in exports which accounted for 60% of the Chinese GNP; and finally, health problems since 65% of the Chinese population smokes cigarettes. It is unfortunate that political leaders in Washington have not visited China, as I have 3 times, and seen the horrendous nature of government health care there. (Patients lying on floors along hallways, operating rooms in which prisoners taped eyes, mouths, etc having vital organs transplanted to others)

Democrats, with their great union support, were happy to see industry move out of the country, particularly to Mexico. (NAFTA) Little did the Mexicans, happy for their new industry, expect to see it move again to China where labor is even cheaper. When I returned from China, just after it reopened in 1973, I said to a reporter, “You think Japan is a danger to American industry, just wait until we are swamped with goods from China.” I saw the 'slave labor', the industry, everything being 'geared up' to build every product mankind would need anywhere in the world. With the help of Wal-Mart, the deification of Chinese goods has been completed and China has become the world's “corner store”, “Mom and Pop” operation.

Most shoppers do not have the patriotism within the very cells of their body to care where anything is manufactured, how many of their fellow citizens the buying of foreign made products have put out of work. Even the fact that these products are supporting a Godless ideology (communism), and that the children who work in the factories (and I have seen these children) are just slaves of the state, with no comprehension of any goodness of life on this earth and uninformed about the joys that could await in life to come. Most have forgotten Tienanmen Square, most fellow Americans care nothing about human rights unless under their own roof and their pet's welfare means more to most than God's chief creation surviving or being aborted.

Few remember last week, some may remember that during the Great Depression the stock market went down 89% and that it is the government workers and the poor people of the country who suffer first.

As Mr. Obama's administration continues to inflict a 'bail out' addictive indebtedness on the nation, we can expect rioting, having taken lessons from the people of Iran, who too, are suffering from a paragon of dictatorial rhetoric.

The main problem as been that of borders; the 2000 mile border between Mexico and the United States, wherein there are a few jobs open to “white trash”, blacks and Mexicans, the 2000 mile border between Afghanistan and Pakistan wherein Islamic terrorism will not diminish, and the 900 mile border between Afghanistan and Iran wherein the western involvement in the religious Muslim hatreds becomes more prolific. Does one with any brain cells left think that your hard earned investments will be safe in gold as it is confiscated to pay for continued conflicts, domestic and foreign. Why were the trustees of our large corporations, the union bosses, the puppet politicians so drowsy or drunk that they could not see this economic chaos when assembly lines were set up in foreign countries and even Microsoft technicians were trying to read manuals in English, coming from foreign countries such as Indore, India.

In my lifetime, government largess, welfare, social security, programs of every alphabet in true socialistic 'take-over mode' has crippled individual initiative that the rioting of the social security recipients, welfare 'hangers-on' who have gotten so comfortable 'at the trough', will startle the lethargic and apathetic elected officials who thought their legacy for the life of the rich and famous was ever secure.

Most decent men want to work, desire a job; few know anything about money. They have heard that a dollar is worth 100 pennies, so many grains of gold or silver, pay little attention to paper currency except for a number in the corner. For 20 years, I employed a very 'mean woman', as bookkeeper, to assist with my businesses. We had learned how to 'check' those who handled money. (Has it ever occurred to you the reason, the owner of a business always works at the cash register?) One of my friends, good at a copy machine, put a picture of Bill Clinton on a $100 bill and made several copies of the bill. He presented this bill to one of my cashiers, whose only problem was there was not a place in the plastic drawer for $100 bills so, of course, he lifted up the tray and put the bill underneath and gave my friend his change for the $100. He went to my bookkeeper and said, “You'd better get rid of that cashier, here is your money, almost $95.” Now, if the cash register had not been able to make change, he probably would have had trouble making change, as well as not being able to recognize a fake bill. This man would work out well with Mr. Geithner and the other 'wizards' of money and economics in Washington, particularly since, to date, they have been unable to find who loaned the $500k bond which they copied to make $164 billion.

I challenge you to find a high school graduate who can tell you the difference between inflation and deflation. I challenge you to find a high school graduate who knows how much Social Security a blind, handicapped woman (now dead) drew as she worked her entire life for the only job she could find, which was almost minimum wage. I challenge you to find, how many elderly people, now living on Social Security and a reverse mortgage on their house, for which they worked hard, self-denial, reared American citizen children, and will be unable to have a respectable burial. During the recent presidential election, we heard the Democrat's chant, “WE WANT CHANGE”. You will be lucky to have some worthless change your pockets.

"While the storm clouds gather far across the sea,
Let us swear allegiance to a land that's free,
Let us all be grateful for a land so fair,
As we raise our voices in a solemn prayer. "
God Bless America