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KING  SOLOMON  AND  THE  STAR  OF  DAVID  III

It  is  well  to  remember  that  Crowley  was  expelled  from  the  freemasonic  order  of  The  Golden  Dawn  because  of  his  excesses,  not  because  he  dabbled  in  magic.  The  poet  W.B. Yeats was  also  a  member.  We might  consider  that  the  morning star,  the  dawn's  seemingly  consort,  wife  or  daughter of  the  sun-god  perhaps,  has  also  been  attributed  to  both Christ  and Lucifer  in The  Bible.  Many  Masons  don't  go  beyond  the  first  3  degrees  in  Masonry  and so  can only  speculate.  I'm only  putting  forward  my  researches  from the  90s  with an  insight  I  was  highly  praised  for  at  University.  The  Masons  pride  themselves  on  second  sight!!  MB

SONG  LYRICS:

SOBRIETY

Be  sober  in  all  things

were  wise  words  said  to  me

and  even  when  I  drink

I  remember  them,  vaguely

I  don't  drink  that  often

and  I  don't  drink  that  much

Moderation said  the  Buddha

a  man  who  was  in  touch

I  used  to  drink  a  lot

when  I  was  younger  and  such

Be  sober  etc

"Where  do  you  put  it

pint-glass  after  pint-glass?

The  sheer volume  alone

would  find  me  on  my  ass"

once  said  to  me  a  guy

making  his  single  whisky  last

Be  sober  etc

I  don't  etc

Be  sober  etc

FOLLOW  ME

From  high  in  heaven

on  you  he   calls

He  likes  your  Church

with  its  hallowed  halls

but  what  about  the  poor

outside  the  walls?

Give  up  your  possessions

and  follow  me

said  he

Give  up  your  possessions

and  follow  me

said  he

Your  house  on  earth

it  is  not  mine

My  house  is  beyond

your  worldly  time

and  needs  no  gold

or  silver  to  shine

Give  up  etc

From  high  etc

Give  up  etc

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KING  SOLOMON  AND  THE  STAR  OF  DAVID  II

Is  there  gnostic  value  in sun-god  imagery?  Yes.  Sol  Victus  is  the  invisible  god  behind  the  sun.  The  sun represents  the  triumph  of  Light  over  Darkness.  The  Star  of  David  is  not  far  removed  from the sign  of  Sophia  (Wisdom)  or  key  of  God's  daughter  or  wife.  The  Song of  Solomon  is  about  a wedding  to  which  the  alchemical  wedding, and  transmutation of  base  metal  to  gold  (spritually)  may have  much in common.  Also  the  'sacred  prostitutes'  or  'priestesses'  of  the  temples.  Don't  confuse  the  Knights Templar  cross  with  that  of  the  Crusaders.

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It's hard to believe that it's been a decade since Y2K.

In 1999, the doomsayers predicted the end of the world as we know it - in the form of computers all over the world crashing because of the so-called millennium bug. It never made sense to me, I mean if it were a problem, couldn't you just change the date ?

I spent the New Year's eve in Vietnam, away from civilization. The next day, nothing changed. Not even an incident. All that scare were for thing. But it wasn't all for nothing, the Y2K bug inspired quite a few things - among them, music, televisions, and books.

WHO'S AFRAID OF Y2K?
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There was a period when I tracked down all the projects that were related to Belle & Sebastian, including The Gentle Waves/Isobel Campbell and Looper. Looper was was basically B&S's Stuart David and his wife, Karn, who actually met via penpalism (as told by their song, Impossible Things).

They did garner a bit of fame through "Mondo '77", a really great catchy "binary"-video gamey song (it's been featured in Vanilla Sky, video games, and anti-drugs commercials). But unfortunately, their third (and final?) album, The Snare did not have any really catchy songs. The ruder and darker themed album was due to David's book The Peacock Manifesto (whos character also appears on the cover and songs of The Snare).

Anyway, in 1999, Looper released a double A-Side called Who's Afraid of Y2K? and Up A Tree Again, which I picked up, among other singles, at a Flaming Lips show (Looper was opening up for the band).

Both are excellent songs, although there were two remixes of "Up A Tree Again". I normally don't like remixes, but these were pretty different from the original album (which actually sounds pretty stale compared to these upbeat mixes). The "singles mix" of "Up a Tree Again" was interesting to say the least, focusing mostly on the "la-na-na-na" section and DJ-scratches, while the Chocolate Layers remix was pretty much only the "la-na-na-na" section.

Looking back, I suppose "Who's Afraid of Y2K?" song was a bit of novelty. Ironically enough, the song was awashed in electronic quirks and beats - all the things that Y2K would've destroyed supposedly.

Currently, Looper's on hiatus. I haven't heard much in terms of a new David novel or Looper release. Most of the recent releases were made free on their website, geometrid.co.uk.

BRAVE OLD WORLD
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I thought the concept behind this William Messner-Loebs-written Vertigo mini-series was interesting enough: a group of computer hackers working on a solution to the Y2K bug at the end of 1999 - only to find themselves in 1900.

The series explored some interesting concept, like what would you do, if you had all this computer/understanding of technology, only to be trapped in a world that still operated via candlelight? The women in the comics had it worst, let's face it, women didn't exactly have freedom back then. And if you were doing something strange, you're a witch and killed, etc.

So what's the group to do to try and back to 2000? They had to build a computer, by "inventing" their own technology.

Like I said, a very interesting concept. It sort of got a bit boring towards the end (by the last issue, I didn't really care for the characters so much).

Vertigo comics has yet to collect this in a trade, I suppose after the Y2K fiasco, it probably wouldn't be worth reading. I mean, we all know as fantastic as going back in 1900 would be, it didn't happen - just like the Y2K didn't happen. Still, if you want to re-live what it was like, or what Messner-Loebs was thinking back in 1999.

PREPARE YOURSELF FOR Y10K

Chances are, I'll be dead, so I wouldn't care so much what would happen. Wikipedia thinks it's a problem, but I suspect by the year 10,000, that our computing technology would be so advance, it wouldn't amount to anything.

Until then, have a great New Year. Take care of each other. I'll see you in 2010.

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There  are  literally  thousands  of  song  lyrics  and  poems  on  this  blog  written by  yours  truly.  Brief  items  such as  the  following  are  peppered  throughout  too.  Cheers  mateys,  Captain  Mark,  The  Good  Ship  Albion.

KING  SOLOMON  AND  THE  STAR OF  DAVID

The  Star  of  David,  like  all  stars, is  really a  sun.  Constantine  deliberately  confused  sun-god  imagery  with  Christianity.  A  cross  symbolises  the  sun.  The  sun-god  dies  in the  evening  and  is  resurrected in the  morning.  In  freemasonry  "on the  square"  means  "on the  cross".  The  cross  forms  a  square.  Though  "fair  and  square"  could  be  derived  from this  sun-cross,  it  is  not  what is  implied in  freemasonry.  Jews  are  accepted  into  Masonry  because  of  this  Star  or  Sun  connection.  Solomon's  Temple  has  long  been  a  fascination  to  Masons.  Though  Masonic  symbolism  reflects  the  symbolism of the  Nazis,  who  were into  magic and  the  black  arts,  one  must  remember  that  the  same  symbolism  has  different  group  agendas.  The  self-proclaimed  Beast  and  black  magician  Crowley,  for  instance,  disliked  the Nazis. 

SONG  LYRICS:

I  NO  LONGER  HEAR  THE  MUSIC

I  no  longer  hear  the  music

Turn up  the  radio

and  then  turn  off  your  talk

Just  let  the  matter  go

I  no  longer  hear  the  music

No  no  no

I  no  longer hear  the  music

Let  the  magic  flow

One  minute  were  in  harmony

the  next were  outta  sinc

I  no  longer  hear  the  music

Give  me  time  to  think

I  no  etc  (twice)

Repeat  1st  verse

I  no  etc  (twice)

SHAPESHIFTER

I'm  a  shapeshifter

I'm  the  spirit  who

takes  on  new  forms

as  I  pass  on  through

The  hawk  caught  the  fish

The  fish  had  caught  the  fly

If  you're  what  you  eat

then  the  hawk went  swimming  by

Meat  from  the  mountains

Fruit  from  the  trees

If  I'm  what  I  eat

I've  been  all  of  these

The  hawk  etc

I'm  a  etc

The  hawk  etc

SONG  LYRIC:

EARL

There  was  sunshine  and  peace

till  a  cloud  like  a  dove-grey  pearl

broke  up  and  then  darkened

and  spelled  out  the  name  of  EARL

It  rained  down  on  Rochester

and  the  whole  of  Rochester's  world

I  am  letchery

and  the  worst of  liberty

from  my cloud-like  prison

I  am  set  free

There'd  been  idleness  and  boredom

Folk  were  now  wanting  release

from  the  warm  and  sticky  weather

and  the  long  and  silent  peace

There's  just  no  pleasing  people

No  it's  not  easy  to  please

I  am  etc  (twice)

There  was  etc

I  am  etc  (twice)

SONG  LYRIC:

HORNY  DEVIL

Was  there pornography

 a  long  time ago?

The  Rape of  the  Sabine  Women

seems  to  make  this  so

They've  got it  in  the  Gallery

a  work  of  art on  show

You're  my devil

and you're my angel

without  horns  or wings

Such  thoughts  are  beneath us

We  soar  above  these  things

What then is erotica

and yes  what  is porn?

To some it  is explicit sex

To  some  it  is  the  naked  form

To many  it  is most  anything

that  gives  the demon  his horns

You're  etc

Was  there  etc?

You're  etc  (twice)

SONG LYRICS:

SUBMARINER

They  call  him  the submariner

Wings on  his feet  has  he

They  fly  him  through  the  air

They  propel  him  beneath  the  sea

Beware  of  his  vengeance

you  captains of  industry

Pollute  no  more  his oceans

Poison no  more  his  seas

Titanic  waves  are  his soldiers

Titanic  waves  are  his armies

They call  him  the  submariner

He  has  wings on his feet

He  can attack  you  from  the  air

should  you send out a  fleet

He  can  attack  you from  under

Your  ships he  will  defeat

Pollute  etc

From a  city below  the  sea  is this

fish-man of  Atlantis

Repeat  1st  verse

Pollute  etc  (twice)