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Muhammad Ali on the Vietnam War Draft
The fact that this is STILL relevant should be very telling.
Immortal words…
“If I’m gonna die, I’ll die right here fighting you … You my enemy, not the Viet Cong or Chinese or Japanese … You my opposer when I want freedom, you my opposer when I want justice, you my opposer when I want equality … You want me to go somewhere and fight, but you won’t even stand up for me here at home.”
A Blog of Crossroads and Doom: Friendly Reminder
That one of the oldest churches in Paris, St. Merri, has a Baphomet on top of the front door.
It’s covered up though, more of the front door. “For protection against damage”.
And we do not know the precise reason why St. Merri has a Baphomet. It also has an inverted pentagram atop of a…
“As we have seen, Levi’s image of Baphomet is not a representation of the Christian Devil but a symbol of the astral light, the dual current of occult force behind all magical work. This force may be employed for either good or evil ends, but is neither good nor evil in itself. Perhaps if Mr. Waite had understood this important point, he wouldn’t have demonized the Baphomet image in the Rider-Waite Tarot deck.”
Heaven forbid Waite made the card as a blind or preventative measure against the stupidity of the masses.
It’s not like it’s understood by everyone with vaguely masonic traditions that the devil is the reason why we have the capacity for reason in the first place.
No, clearly Waite demonized the image intentionally.
Unknown French Master Judgment of the Dead Grandes Heures de Rohan of the Rohan Prayer-book. 1418
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