Saturday, December 30, 2006

American Polytheism


Only in America could the fetish for individual choice, will that be Coke or Pepsi, change the shape of Christianity from a two thousand year old monotheistic religion into a truly American form of polytheism.

Would the real God please stand up.


We may be "one nation, under God," but Americans actually worship at least four versions of the Lord, according to the Baylor Religion Survey released Monday. "

American Piety in the 21st Century: New Insights into the Depth and Complexity of Religion in the United States," conducted by the Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion, leveled more than two dozen questions about God's character and behavior at 1,721 Americans nationwide. They perceived of God in one of four ways:

Authoritarian God: Individuals who follow this model feel God is highly involved in their personal lives and world affairs, they give the Deity credit for their decision-making, and they feel God is angry and meting out punishment to the wicked.

Benevolent God: These believers also think God is very active in their daily life, just not as wrathful. They believe Benevolent God is mostly a force for positive influence in the world, and reluctant to condemn individuals.

Critical God: The faithful of this subset believe God is not meddling in world affairs but is nonetheless looking on in disapproval. These people tend to believe that God's displeasure will be felt in another life, and that divine justice is not of this world.

Distant God: Individuals in this group think that Distant God is not active in human affairs, and is not especially angry, either. Believers consider the Deity more of a cosmic force who sets the laws of nature into motion.

Which of the God models you follow is an accurate predictor of a number of factors, including race, political stances, even where you live, said Paul Froese, a Baylor sociologist who worked on the BISR project headed by Rodney Stark and Byron Johnson.


Of course the core of Trinitarian Christianity , despite its denial, is polytheism; you have Yahewa of the Old Testament, who by the way resembles all four faces of the American God. In the New Testament God then descends to earth as a pigeon impregnating a virigin resulting in the birth of a living god who is then sacrificed. So thats three.

The Americans added one, their personal National God. Despite the best efforts of America's Founding Fathers ,who were deists,to avoid the creation of exactly this kind of National Diety.

Which is why creationism originated in the United States and is so popular there, they want to prove that God created America first.

Grand Canyon National Park is not permitted to give an official estimate of the geologic age of its principal feature, due to pressure from Bush administration appointees. Despite promising a prompt review of its approval for a book claiming the Grand Canyon was created by Noah's flood rather than by geologic forces, more than three years later no review has ever been done and the book remains on sale at the park, according to documents released today by Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER).


And it is why the Mormons, who are NOT Christians, are the largest growing religion in the United States. They are an American homegrown religion and their God is American.

Americans love America and everything American. So they have made God their own.

Which is no different than any of the Christian Gods of any of the European Nation States. For each nation was One before its God, and their God was French, English, Italian, Spanish, Russian, etc. etc. For as Bakunin said, the authority of the State originates in the Authority of God.

The New World now is just another Old World Power.

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Friday, December 29, 2006

Hope You Are Happy

Iraqi TV says Saddam Hussein executed

Pictures at 11.

Until then these will have to do for the gawkers.



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Iraqi In Justice

Saddam

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Somalia

The real reason for the current conflict in Somalia, buried in the news......

Interest in uranium fields behind events in Somalia - diplomat

And its not just uranium, oil interests also have vested interests in a American proxy state.

And the reason the Ethopians adopted the Pre-emptive Strike policy of the United States, was they are its client state in the region.

America squandered its influence in Somalia by supporting some particularly horrible warlords to challenge the Islamist radicals. But it still has considerable sway over Ethiopia.

And despite UN denunciations of the invasion, they too supported it, wink, wink, nudge, nudge, as they too had condemned the Isalmic Courts.

UN food agency resumes aid flights to Somalia

And before folks start cheering the glories of democracy defeating anarchy in Somalia, though of course it isn't anarchy it's really a developing market state, in reality the Somalia government is like Afghanistan's, it is a government of gangsters and warlords.

Somalia: Warlord back to his base in Mogadishu

Ali Mohammed Ghedi-Meles Zenawi's Stooge and Somalia's Traitor

Somalia: US Policy and Gangsterism J. Raimondo

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Back Door Abortion Ban

I found this particularly unnerving considering the impact the social conservatives have had on Tory Government policy.

The ability of REAL Women to whisper in the Ministers ear and watch the Status of Women, their favorite bug a boo, be eliminated.

Now this....


Tories use Grits' silent-night tactics

The Edmonton Journal

Published: Friday, December 29, 2006

Canadians' fond hopes that Stephen Harper's government would be cleaner and more transparent than its Liberal predecessor may be dissipating in the wake of two announcements the prime minister tried to slip under the radar during the holiday season.

On the eve of the Christmas weekend, Harper unveiled a 10-member panel to oversee and make policy recommendations on reproductive technologies and stem-cell research.

The panel, led by Nova Scotia's former Conservative premier John Hamm, does not include any scientists specializing in the subject. It does, however, include a number of medical doctors (including Hamm) and conservative bioethicists who have been outspoken critics of abortion, research in stem cells and reproductive technologies.

The role of the board is to monitor the medical activities at Canada's in-vitro-fertilization clinics and the publicly funded research being undertaken in Canada's universities, and to make policy recommendations to the government.

The long-overdue creation of the panel, which was called for in the 1993 Royal commission on reproductive technologies, is welcomed by many in the field. What is controversial is who the Harper cabinet has chosen to put on the board, and how they were selected -- a fact the prime minister obviously understood, putting the decision out in an unheralded press release on the Friday afternoon before the Christmas holiday.

When it became clear the move had not gone unnoticed, a spokesman for Health Minister Tony Clement said Wednesday Canadians have nothing to fear from the fact that religious conservatives are well represented on the panel, while scientists and patients' rights groups are not. But neither Harper nor Clement himself have come forward to answer questions about the panel.

In other words by having a panel of social conservatives who oppose abortion what position do you think they will have on embryonic stem cell research? In fact what might their recommendations be about the source of those embryos, which includes aborted as well as surplus frozen embryos.

Woman Will Take Fight for Frozen Embryos to Ireland's Supreme Court

Think not. Then why the 4pm press release on the Friday of Christmas weekend. Christmas, christ child, birth in a manger. Signaling to the Anti-Abortion lobby that all was right with the world.

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Polar Bears Threaten Tories Arctic Sovereignty


Is this a fiendish plot by the Americans to declare the Arctic theirs by dint of protecting an endangered species that Canada refuses to protect?

Bush administration to propose listing polar bears as threatened species

A Canadian committee examining whether the country's polar bears need more protection is expected to complete its work next year.

Despite Stephen Harpers announcement that his Government will defend Canadas right to the Arctic he seems to have forgotten that responsiblity includes defending the rights of all inhabitants in the region, which of course includes the Polar Bear.
Cold comfort for polar bears

The Edmonton Journal

Published: Friday, December 29, 2006
And in the second place, the Kyoto-skeptical U.S. may now be moving out in front of the Canadian government on the issue -- and on that most Canadian of subjects, the high Arctic. So far, the polar bear is deemed by Ottawa to have only "special concern" status under the Endangered Species Act.



Meanwhile in Calgary this announcement about the Polar Bears is being used as an excuse to imprison one or two for breeding purposes in the Calgary Animal Penal Colony, aka the Calgary Zoo.


Officials at the Calgary Zoo say a U.S. government recommendation on polar bears proves the need for an Arctic exhibit at the facility. The zoo’s “Arctic Shores”—an exhibit currently under development and expected to open in 2009—has been criticized for a plan to house polar bears and beluga whales. Earlier this year, the animal-rights organization Zoocheck Canada protested the $120-million plan, saying it is cruel, misguided, outdated, and unnecessary.


And while some folks will talk about Indigenous Peoples rights and cultural need to hunt Polar Bears, well the reality is that in all actuality the hunting is sport hunting, the most detesible forms of hunting, done by American hunters with Inuit acting as guides.

Polar bear guiding benefits community: hunter

Nunavut fears fallout from polar bear proposal

Meanwhile the news gets worse for the Hot Air Tories, whose only concern is toxic chemicals and air pollution. Despite a year of denying they can do anything about Global Warming and Climate Change, the ultimate failure of their Made In Canada Climate Change Policy is the continuing melting of the Arctic. The same arctic that Stephen Harper has declared is the Soverign Territory of Canada.

Vast ice shelf collapses in the Arctic

Published: 30 December 2006

A vast ice shelf in the Canadian Arctic has broken up, a further sign of the astonishing rate at which polar ice is now melting because of global warming.

The Ayles ice shelf, more than 40 square miles in extent - over five times the size of central London - has broken clear from the coast of Ellesmere Island, about 500 miles south of the North Pole in the Canadian Arctic, it emerged yesterday.

The broken shelf has formed an ice island, in what a leading scientist described as a "dramatic and disturbing event", citing climate change as the cause.

Giant Ice Shelf Breaks Off in Canadian Arctic National Geographic
Huge Arctic ice break discovered BBC News
Ice island on loose The Australian


Given the rapid rate of ice melting in the Arctic the last thing we need is more Harper Ice Breakers. What we need for the arctic is a Green House Gas reduction plan.

Perhaps it is time to recognize the Polar Bears as soverign members of a nation.

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Petrocan's Arctic Sovereignty

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The Yezedi


Then said the Mighty Lord, "O Angels, I will create Adam and Eve, and will make them human beings, and from them two shall arise, out of the loins of Adam, Shehr ibn Jebr; and from him shall arise a single people on the earth, the people of 'Azazel, to wit of Ta'us Melek, which is the Yezidi people. Then I shall send Sheikh 'Adi b. Musafir from the land of Syria, and he shall come and dwell in Lalesh".Meshaf Resh: The Black Book


Lucifer as the rebel angel is the historical underpining meme of heresy in all the Abrahamic based religions. Today we will look at the Yezedi, who it is claimed are most ancient of the pre-Judeaic, pre-Christian, cults dedicated to the worship of Lucifer. Originally they were an Aryan fire religion, not unlike Zororastrianism with which they share a common belief in duality. In order to survive the advent of the Abrahamic religions domination of the region they became a syncretic religion when their religious tenants were revised under the influence of Sheik Adi.

The Yezidi worship Malak Tawus, or "Peacock Angel," aka Lucifer. However, Lucifer is viewed differently from the Christian Lucifer, or devil. Yezidis see him as the chief archangel and creator of the material world. The Yezidi religion is centered in the village of Lalish in northern Iraq's Ninawah Province.

Towers of Lalish

Towers of Lalish


Lalish: the Kurds´ hidden treasure in northern Iraq

Yezidi couple
Safe in the Kurdish haven of northern Iraq, but still only 50 km north of war-torn Mosul, lies Lalish, the Yezidi Kurds´ holiest shrine. Visiting this particular site, tantamount to the Catholics´ Vatican or Muslims’ Mecca, had become an obsession since I first came across Yezidi Kurds back in the summer of 2004. I met them in their Yailas (summer encampments) on the slopes of Mt. Aragats, Armenia’s highest peak, which consisted of a handful of green Soviet Army tents, one for each family, where they spend the summer with their cattle. Despite the temperature climbing above 40 celsius down in Yerevan, the animals were grazing Armenia's freshest pastures between snow patches; a remarkable example of the so called "Vertical Nomadism". Like most Armenian Kurds, these shepherds were Yezidi too, descendants of those who had left the hilly north of Iraq several centuries ago escaping from the Arabs’ oppression. They shared their cheese and their knowledge about their religion with me, and it was they who first pointed me in the direction of Lalish.

Summer of 2005 in Northern Iraq wasn't as cool nor as peaceful as on Mount Aragats. Crossing the border from Turkey at Silopi had taken me a whole day filling out various documents, queuing under the sun and answering lots of questions on the Kurdish side. Anyhow, the city of Dohuk was the perfect place to stay for a few days to get familiarized with the local customs, and moreover, to arrange a visit to the shrine at the Lalish Centre, the meeting point of yezidies in Dohuk.



The Yezedi whose name is spelled variously; Yazedi, Isadi, Yezidi, Yazidi (by Wikipedia) represent a link to ancient Aryan cults from Persia, Assyria and also a link to the pre Abrahamic religions in the region; both Mandeanism and Manichaeism.

In the case of Mandeanism they have been mistakenly associated with the Sabean-Mandean cult which also exists in Iraq today.

Yazidi

Middle Eastern religion, a syncretic combination of Zoroastrian, Manichaean, Jewish, Nestorian Christian, and Islamic elements. Its adherents, numbering fewer than 100,000, are found in Iraq, Turkey, Syria, Armenia, the Caucasus, and Iran. Most speak Kurdish. They believe that they were created separately from the rest of humankind and segregate themselves from the rest of society. In Yazidi belief, seven angels, subordinate to a supreme but uninvolved God, rule the universe. The belief that God restored the Devil to his position as chief of the angels upon the Devil's repentance has earned the Yazidi an undeserved reputation as Devil worshipers. Their chief saint is Sheikh 'Adi, a 12th-century Muslim mystic. Their name derives from Yazid I (c. 645–683), from whose supporters they may be descended.

Yezidis are a largely Kurdish sect, named after their supposed founder Yezid, the second Umayyad Caliph. The Yezidi revere the Prophet Mohammed and the Sufi mystic Adi Musafir, a descendent of the Umayyad Caliphs. Adi is credited with writing many of the Yezidi Holy texts and is most likely to be the originator of the faith. Islamic writings mention the Yezidis as early as the fourteenth century, but some scholars link them to Mithraism, Zoroastrianism, and even ancient Iraqi Buzzard worshipping sects. Yesidis, who refer to themselves as Dasin, believe they originated with Adam, the first man.

YEZIDIS

The Yezidi never wear the colour blue. They are not allowed to eat lettuce. They do not believe in heaven or hell -- instead they believe in reincarnation, which they call the soul "changing its clothes".


Claims that they originated in Zororastrianism are contested, and in fact it does appear historically that they are a religion that existed far earlier than the fire worshippers of Persia with whom they are often confused with.

The earliest references to the Yezedi were published in the 18oo's. Several by Christian missionaries;

In 1846, a British explorer named Austen Layard braved the unknown to see these vanishing people, the Yezidi, and to learn about their love of the Peacock Angel, Malek Taus. He was greeted by the Yezidi leader and a host of priests and villagers adorned in their beautiful native dress... and so his quest to learn about their mystical, angelican ways took on some fruit...

Discoveries At Nineveh by Austen Henry Layard, Esq., D.C.L.
A Popular Account of Discoveries at Nineveh. Austen Henry Layard. J. C. Derby.
New York. 1854.

An Inquiry into the Religious Tenets of the Yezeedees
by George Percy Badger [1852]

The Assyrian Origin of Devil Worshippers
W. Francis Ainsworth, 1861

The Assyrian Origin of the Izedis or Yezidis-the So-Called "Devil Worshippers"
W. Francis Ainsworth
Transactions of the Ethnological Society of London, Vol. 1, 1861 (1861), pp. 11-44



And some things never change. The Yezedi continue to defy being labeled Devil Worshipers.

Gertrude Bell letters
Friday May 7. [7 May 1909] I am this evening the guest of the High Priest of the Devil Worshippers, Ali Beg. (They aren't really Devil Worshippers, you know, though unfriendly people have so named them.)

Friday May 7. [7 May 1909] Off at 6. 1850. At 7.5 we reached Avriva, at 7.30 Musaka, 8.50 Ishkaftad (all these lying along the foot of the hills). We passed a small Yezidi Mazar where the path goes up to Sheikh Adi just after Ishkaftad. The latter is a Kurdish Kochar village - they live here however in underground houses not in tents and there is a square masonry mosque.

Ancient Faith Is a Reminder of Iraq’s Diversity

Los Angeles Times, USA
Mar. 10, 2004
John Daniszewski, Times Staff Writer

A look of pain crosses the face of Sheik Ali Qawal Cholo, leader of the Yazidis in this village, when he is reminded of it all. No, he says wearily, the Yazidis don’t worship the devil. In fact, they do not even believe that there is a devil, as perceived by Christians and Muslims. And those other things, they are folk customs, not tenets of the religion, he adds


The most comprehensive study of the Yezedi from this era was done in 1919, and it is this text that influenced Anton Lavey the founder of the American Church of Satan in 1966.

Devil Worship: The Sacred Books and Traditions of the Yezidiz
by Isya Joseph [1919]


It is from this text that we get the propagandistic image of the Yezedi as Satanists, dualist worshipers of Lucifer.

Melek Taus "The Peacock Angel" is the Yazidis' name for the central figure of their faith.



As a branch of the Cult of Angels, Yezidism places a special emphasis on the angels. The name Yezidi is derived from the Old and Middle Iranic term yazata or yezad, for, “angel" rendering it to mean "angelicans." Among these angels, the Yezidis include also Lucifer, who is referred to as Malak Tawus ("Peacock Angel"). Far from being the prince of darkness and evil, Lucifer is of the same nature as other archangels, albeit with far more authority and power over worldly affairs. In fact, it is Malak Tawus who creates the material world using the dismembered pieces of the original cosmic egg, or pearl, in which the Spirit once resided.


In reality the Yezidi are a dualist gnostic sect, which became syncretic under the leadership of Sheik Adi. In fact several author's contend that they evolved into a Sufi sect under the influence of My Favorite Muslim; Al Hallaj.

DAVID ZEIDAN'S HOME PAGE

PEOPLE GROUPS IN THE MIDDLE EAST

The Yazidis are linked to the extreme Shi'a (Ghulat) sects and number worldwide some 300,000 people. The main group of 150,000 Yazidis live in the Jebel Sinjar mountain and the Shaikhan district of northwest Iraq. At least 50,000 Yazidis live in the former Soviet Union (Armenia and other Caucasus states). They were also to be found in South-East Turkey around Diyarbakir and Mardin (10,000) but most emigrated from there to Germany in the 80s. They also live in Syria in and around Aleppo (5,000), and in parts of Iran. An estimated 50,000 have emigrated to Western Europe, mainly to Germany, in search of asylum and employment.

The Yazidis call themselves Dawasi. They are called "Devil worshippers" by their Sunni neighbours, who considered them heretics and have cruelly persecuted them over the centuries. They are closely related to similar sects such as the Ahl-i-Haqq.


Who are the Yezidis ?

Yezidis called themselves “Êzdî/Êzîdî”, in Kurdish. Most Western scholars think that this name comes from the Ummayyad sovereign Yazîd b. Mu’âwiya (particularly hated by Shiits for he killed Husayn at Kerbelah !). But it could be come from the ancient Iranian world : “Yazata/Yazad” or divine being. Yezidis in general rather the last etymology. Some popular explanations says it is a contraction of “Ez da” that would mean “God created”. Some other terms are related to an islamic vocabulary. In certain hymns (kawls) the comlmunauty is called “Sinnat” (Sunna), Suhbatiyya (Friends). Other are related to old Kurdish tribes as Dasinî, Dâsin. The most important religious figure is the Angel Peacock, in arab “Tâ’ûs-e Malak” or “Malak Tâ’us”.


Shaikh Adi, Sufism and the Kurds

Yezidism is one of the denominations to be found in Kurdistan and amongst the Kurdish communities outside their homeland. To the best of my judgement, the figure of the Yezidi Kurds varies between 500,000 and 600,000. Their backbone lives in Iraqi Kurdistan (300,000), Armenia (60,000), Republic of Georgia (40,000), the Russian Federation (up to 30,000) and Syrian and Turkish parts of Kurdistan (15,000-20,000). The Yezidi population in Europe, chiefly in Germany, is around 50,000.

In the former Soviet Union, the major waves of Yezidi Kurds appeared in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. They had left the Ottoman Empire and settled in Transcaucasia and, after the break-up of the USSR, in the Russian Federation and Ukraine, too. It should be noted that since the earliest contacts of the Yezidis with the Russian reality, there has always been a great interest towards the community by Russian intellectuals [10:515; 5:I,5-49; 56].

The majority of the Yezidi Kurds try to preserve their identity without over-politicising their demands. At present, various political and cultural circles proudly refer to Kurdish roots of Yezidism. Thus, from an underprivileged community the Yezidis have gradually acquired the prestigious role of 'genuine' representatives of Kurdishness.

Even though many Sufis influenced Adi b. Musafir and consequently the world outlook of the Yezidi Kurds, al-Hallaj has been assigned to one of the most expressive positions in their folklore and religious beliefs: he is represented in the capacity of one of those seven angels responsible for world matters.

I suggest two hypotheses: of al-Hallaj's impact on the life and conduct of Adi b. Musafir, and of links between the Kurdish-speaking community called the Khallajs and the descendants of al-Hallaj's followers. I also present my comments on Yezidi poetical stories about him, which have not been subjects of studies.


Yezidi Prophet, Trimorphic Christ or Hellenic Aion.
Traditional Motifs in the Yezidi

Mishabet of Ibrahim


Ms. Eszter Spät,

Ph.D. student at Central European University in Budapest

and author of the book The Yezedis.

Ever since the attention of European scholars and travelers was drawn to the mysterious Kurdish group of the Yezidis, the question of their origins, or rather the origin of their teachings and myths has exercised a great fascination. Some claimed to see in them the heirs of the Assyrians, other spoke of the Sabaeans or the cult of Semiramis, others again were convinced that they were simply a heretical Islamic sect.

The list of possible origins offered to the Yezidis would be too long to enumerate here. It is only recently that they have started to consider Yezidism as a religion of its own, an independent entity per se. Simultaneously with this shift in the perception of Yezidism, and the discovery that the core of their beliefs was based on a pre-Zoroastrian Western-Iranian mythology, Yezidis came to be seen as the “original Kurds” by the Kurdish national movement. While researchers laid less and less stress on the actual origin of the Yezidis, an interesting phenomenon has developed among Yezidis, that is the “original Kurds” themselves. In the name of this Kurdishness and originality, some younger, educated Yezidis, interested in their culture and religion, became ready to reject any element that may be assumed to have been adopted from another religion, as “non-Yezidi,” alien, spurious adaptation to placate the enemy, or even a forgery.

The origin and history of this motif helps us place the Yezidis within the cultural map that has its roots in the Hellenistic world of Late Antiquity. Hellenism, a blend of Greek and Oriental elements, was the cultural milieu in which the great Late Antique religions, Christianity, first Hellenic, then Rabbinic Judaism and Islam were born. This ancient cultural globalism is attracting the attention of researchers, who want to understand the common base of our seemingly divided contemporary cultures, more and more. As the recently established, international Center for Hellenic Traditions states in its founding letter: The Hellenic tradition is in the focus of interest not as merely a Greek-speaking culture nor as the “cradle of Western civilization” but as an integrative cultural factor... securing unity across various intellectual enterprises on the expanses of the vast oikumene throughout many centuries, cutting through religions and civilizations.”

The fact that Yezidis are among the inheritors of a common language spoken by the culture of Late Antiquity, and can even teach us about how Hellenistic ideas were transmitted and readapted in popular and oral milieu on the periphery, will hopefully raise more interest for the study of Yezidi religion, and perhaps even for Kurdology in general, in the future.


The Yezidi are still refered to as examples of Satanism today, when in fact they are of course Gnostic Dualists, when used as metaphors in controversial debates.


Intelligent Design Theory Supported by Satanism -

Satan worshippers like the intelligent design theory more than Christians

Do the supporters of the Intelligent Design theory realize that not only are they promoting the possibility of their Religious Superpower, but also promoting the possibility of an Arch Enemy- Satan and his Demons - and their anti-Jehovah theology being widely introduced as an Intelligent Design centered religion?

Satanism, as laid out by a prophet Sheik Adi in the 12th century, and Satanism, as laid out by Anton Lavey in 1966, is like comparing apples to oranges. Where as the Church of Satan is anti- Jehovah values and Satan is an icon not a being, the prophet Sheik Adi professed that Satan was a real being; and he is the rightful God.


The Austrian Cardinal Christoph Schoenborn has recently spoken to the world-wide news agency Reuters about the Intelligent Design Theory. He was quoted as saying, "The next step is to ask - which intelligence? As a believer, of course I think it is the intelligence of the Creator."

Mr. Bullock is straight forward in admitting his faith and the boundaries of science. "This is, I think, the essence of Cardinal Schoenborn's statement. That is, science can go so far as to say there is a designer. Indeed, Romans 1:18-20 makes this clear as well - nature alone shows the existence of God. But science cannot (at least at this time) go so far as to identify the actual designer. At that point one needs to look to other sources of knowledge. To the extent other forms of knowledge are reliable, they can be used as credible informers of reality. In my opinion, the Bible has proven reliable for this source of information, but others may disagree."

It has been said that this sect of Satanism should be asking, "Who created their assumed creator?" This question is of course, not scientific. But it is one that logically follows Cardinal Schoenborn's question of which creator. Thankfully, it is a question that science is not prepared or willing to answer.


The modern occultist most influenced by the Yezedi was not Anton Lavey, who only used their historical existence to justify his commercialization of Satanism.Rather the impact of the Yezidi and heretical Sufism like that of Al Hallaj had the greatest influence on Beelzebubs Grandson; G.I. Gurdjieff.

There have been attempts by Gurdjieff's followers to get in contact with the sources of his teaching and none more energetic than those of J.G. Bennett. Bennett writes about this in his book 'Gurdjieff Making a New World'. Of the places already mentioned Bennett visited Lalish (he calls it Sheik Adi, whose monument has a central place in Lalish). He also recalls that Gurdjieff had studied specially the Liturgy of St. Basil.

Paul Beidler - Remarkable Man

At the age of 17, Paul had gone with his archaeology class from the University of Pennsylvania into the mountains of Iraq and Turkey to study the Kurds. He was accepted as a serious student by the Yezidis, and was initiated into the mysteries of Sheik Adi, the ancestral spiritual head of the Yezedi order. He stayed for two years with the Yezedis to study them - from the inside out - and when he met Gurdjieff later in Paris, Gurdjieff was extremely interested in what the young Paul Beidler had learned about the Yezidis and their ideas.



Gurdjieffs mind games and his trickster character is not unlike that of the other practical joker of the 20th Century Occult revival; Aleister Crowley. Gurdjieff's Gnosticism also played with the dualistic paradox of the Devil, both Gudjief and Crowley shared a common spiritual disposition that challenged the standard understanding of black and white, good and evil, etc. making them both Devils Advocates. Not unlike the Yezedi, who also challenge the standard dualist religions of the Semitic and Arabic peoples.

The Yezedi are an Aryan religion, and as such are the true religion of the Kurds who are also Aryans, not Semitic or Arabic peoples. Thus their conflict in the region where they once dominated but are now a diaspora of the oppressed.

In a sense one could say that the Yezidi prophecy has been fulfilled, that the people of Lucifer are now bound to the material world they have helped create, bound hand and foot as a people because they abandoned their faith.

When the Kurds abandoned their Yezidi religion, they abandoned not only their Aryan faith but also their Aryan political and cultural domination of the region. The ideology of uniqueness, of Aryanism is one of the tenants of the Yezidi faith, thus they do not convert, they conquer. They are the chosen people.

The real fear of the Yezidi has nothing to do with devil worship but with the fact that theirs is a religion of Aryanism, of conquering and establishing their domination over the nomadic peoples of the region. Those peoples are now the People of the Book, the Bible, be they Jews, Muslims or Christians. They have defeated their Aryan conquerers, the Kurds, and have determined that they will never again rule in the region.

Thus the united front they share in opposing any form of Kurdistan nation, it would be a historic reminder that the region had once been dominated by the Kurds.

And interestingly it may be a reason why some right wingers from the far right and not so far right support the Kurds and have been interested in the Yezidi. They are after all white folks just like them.

A Yezidi Girl from Georgia

A final bit of speculation. Could the Knights Templars have come in contact with both the Yezidi and the Mandeans when they conquered the holy lands and lived there for over two hundred years. Could this have been the source of their supposed secret knowledge, contact with the last of the Gnostic heresies and could Baphomet have been a variation on Malak Tawus. Both share an androgynous dualist character being female and male.


See:

Heresy

Gnosis

Gnostic

Crowley

Lucifer


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