Author: Keith Armstrong

When we consider the history of the world we see that populations have moved across territories in all directions. But since the unconscionable claim is being made that everything from the Nile to the Euphrates belongs to the Jewish people it is necessary to consider the roots of such a claim. While the force it uses against its neighbours to enforce this mistaken though zealously held ideology is simply unjustifiable. It leans heavily on the awful treatment of the European Jewish population by Nazi Germany almost 100 years ago.

The Sumerian empire existed for two thousand years or more, that’s a lot of generations. It was a civilisation developed and introduced by the Dravidian speaking people who today are represented by the Tamils in India and Sri Lanka and other linguistic groups in and around India.

The whole science of water control is a Dravidian gift to the world, not to mention commerce and exchange. Weights and measures are theirs, as are measuring rods, and the sciences of Agriculture and Astronomy.

During these two thousand years the people who became the Hebrew speaking nation were initially herders living to the south in what is now and Western Saudi Arabia. They brought their herds to the cities in Sumeria and fed those cities while at the same time stripping the region to the south of its forests and creating the desert it is today.

Eden, the land from which the Jewish nation claims to have been driven, has been identified as Bahrain, by the eminent Archaeologist Geoffrey Bibby.

Gradually becoming city dwellers and merchants, they espoused a different ideology from that held by the Dravidian people who introduced the idea of commerce to the Jewish people. Where money had been recognised as an energy exchange by these civilisers called in the Bible Elamites, and trade as a service to the Great Mother through the individuals served, the Jewish mentality appears to be one of grab all you can for your own ends. This change in perspective represents the movement from the Fourth Root Race, (the Dravidian people among them) to the Fifth root race, (the race of the throat chakra, or Adam’s apple, including the Jewish people as well as the Aryan supremacists of the Indo-European speakers).

Seeing the wealth, and identifying this as hedonism, the Jewish people carried with them an envy and resentment of the wealth and brilliance of Babylon. This all remained as oral heritage among the people who gradually followed their path around the Fertile Crescent ending their journey as indentured servants in Egypt. This is commonly represented as a condition of slavery. On the way they had introduced the practice of circumcision among their male children.

When Moses lead the ‘children of Israel’ out of the land of Egypt this was an act of revolution, revolting against the Egyptian court, by disgruntled servants. There is no guarantee that the people who left with Moses and his brother Aaron, were a homogenous group but in all likelihood included others who were also dissatisfied with their lot in Egypt. Modern interpretations of this ‘Exodus’ conclude that the band who left, numbered around 200 souls who fled into the derelict area to the East of the Nile.

On their way as they were staggering with exhaustion and malnutrition they encountered, and were saved by, the travelling traders, the Nabateans, who knew the desert lands and trails from the gulf of Aqaba to the Euphrates in the North. This is recorded in the Bible as receiving ‘manna from heaven’, generally interpreted as some sort of bread falling from the sky.

The religion of these escapees was largely influenced by that of the Egyptian court in which Moses had been raised, itself based on the older beliefs of the Dravidian, or Hindu, leaders of Egypt from centuries before.

Meeting with their saviours, the refugees adopted elements of their religion also. The origins of Jewish religion are to be found in Manicheanism which kept a pure spiritual stream, and are called at various stages in their history the Essenes, the Gnostics, and by other terms indicating ‘self-realisation’.

Moses took to the hills and came back with tablets of stone stating the ten commandments. He claimed they were given to him by the Divine. However they represent an incomplete collection of the laws of Yoga called the Yamas and Niyamas (Do’s and Don’ts). It will be recalled that Yoga was introduced by the Lord Shiva some 7000 years before the current era.

At the same time it is reported in the Bible that the Divine claimed ‘I Am That I Am’ translated variously by those embracing Mosaic authority. However this is recognisably a distortion of the Hindu mantra ‘Aham Sah’, I Am That. The doubling of I AM changes it from an identification with the Divine and the universality of that condition, to a personal claim. We see it reflected today in the modern ’I Am’ movements found among some ‘New Age’ thinkers.

When we look at the claims by the Jewish people that Israel – an undefined region – was given to them by God, what is often forgotten is that they would share this land with various other tribes already occupying that area. This has been changed by some to ‘God gave us this land exclusively to us’. Further to this the claim has been extended today to include all the lands the tribe claims to have wandered through, from the Nile to the Euphrates as belonging to their single national group.

What is not considered among those Zionists who claim the world is theirs uniquely is that these records of movements of the people were written down sometime in the early 600 or 700 BCE, (and claim to represent 3000 or more history of a single group), around the time that Buddha was thriving in India, Mahavira was establishing Jainism and Pythagoras set up his school in southern Italy.

The one legacy this endless trailing around the Middle East has brought is destruction to the land and a disregard for all others. There is no love for the land over which they have moved but rather the destruction and denigration of it. Rather like a swarm of locusts so familiar from Biblical records.

This belief is inherent in the notion of the Fall, ‘when man was cast out of the Garden of Eden’ the ideology goes, all of Nature became corrupted. Nature is thus viewed as something different from both God and the humans that live within it and are products of it. The greater name for Nature being Life, is a Deity in many religions, though seemingly not with these ideologues. Most traditions acknowledge that Life and the Divine permeate the entire Creation and that the Source of these expressions is real and singular and accessible to all as being the ocean in which we each and all wander.

From that nihilistic ideology comes the justification for the destruction of the economy of nations that appear to stand in its way – whether that is the Native Americans in the 19^th Century through the destruction of the migration paths of the buffalo by the railways, to the devastation of the Olive groves of the Palestinians during the 20^th Century or the Iranians in the 21^st. It really does need to take its own advice and to ‘look first unto thyself’ to understand the source of its own misery.

The major development in warfare in the 21^st century is not the drone, as might be supposed, but the manner in which weapons are used. Primarily war is now waged against populations and civilians and only secondarily against military objectives. The secondary measure is the destruction of a nation’s economy and in particular its energy sources.

We see this clearly in the eradication of Mariepol by Russia at the beginning of that illegal invasion of a peaceful neighbour, and in the repeated attacks on energy generating stations. But this is not alone. We see the same approach adopted by Israel against the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, and against the citizens of Lebanon, under the excuse of annihilating leaders of factions that Israel does not like or deems to be terrorists. (sic).

Meanwhile America has joined Israel in its illegal attacks on Iran and continues the same approach to the civilian population being a legitimate target. The first target by America was a school filled with children and their teachers.

The introduction and widespread use of drones is simply a development in the instruments of war, not a change in the approach to war.

Nor are these the only examples we can find. Sudan also shows the same approach. The idea is to cause alienation between the population and the military aspect of any particular state. It represents a cynical development in the mindset of governments and leaders of those aggressive factions.

I had two dreams about Brazil last night.

The first seemed to be about secret agents and included my friend Shams in some way. I was in a sacred prayer to Zeus, in his form as a bull of Minos, when she walked behind me and brushed my hair, breaking my connection. I was livid.

The second featured a hunt in Nature ending with a very shabby and run down Jaguar. His coat was thin, falling out, leaving bare patches all over his body. He was very shifty and ill at ease, running under cover. The general sense of this was that Nature as a whole, but perhaps particularly in Brazil, was under threat and in need of nourishment.

When we lived close to Nature we appreciated the creatures that surrounded us. We loved them even if we lived in fear of them. There is a big difference between fear and respect. We loved the forest and the meadows, the rivers, hills and mountains and even communicated with them as intelligent beings like ourselves. our brothers and sisters in this great panoply of Life that surrounds us.

Bears and wolves were observed not merely run from. For the fullest desciption of these ‘correct’ relationships to nature read the teachings of the Native Americans. They are not unique nor alone in the world. The Australian Aborigines also understand Nature and its forms in a very different way from those cultures which have been dominated for so long by a Biblical interpretation of Nature – corrupted by the Fall incurred by the transgression of a woman. How much longer do we – and she, Nature – have to suffer this grotesque and distorted relationship with God and the world?

I watched the Mark of Zorro (1940) with Tyrone Power, the other day. It was part of a series of movies I would watch on a Saturday morning in Maidstone. At least Zorro was a staple of the matinees.

After having won the heart of the niece of a corrupt Governor and defeated the man in question causing him to resign, Diego (Zorro) is standing with his soon to be wife, and the wife of the governor, who had declared he would to return to Spain. His wife is so excited at the thought of court and of seeing Spain. The closing dialogue ran along the lines of

“Spain. Oh Spain, How exciting to be going there. When can we expect to see you and our lovely niece in Madrid Diego ?”

“Oh, not for some time yet. We thought we would stay here and follow the customs of Los Angeles and the Californians.”

Unprovoked thought arose in my mind “Surfing, and lots of drugs.”

There is so much dialogue in old movies you just couldn’t get away with today. Words have changed their meaning and values themselves have moved so far in the last 80 or so years. Gay no longer means what it used to.

There are 8 ways to look at anything. From Above, from Below; from Left or from Right; from Before, from Behind; from Within and from Without.

This is in contrast to a popular view which is being promoted currently through some mis-aligned teachings – misaligned that is to truth or accuracy – that there are only two positions I and Us or It/Them. This is such an aberration I don’t know how it can be offered to mature people as a real position. The promoters of this philosophy even use language as support for the argument despite language having three positions in both singular and plural, I/Us; Thou/You and He,She, It/ Them – at least in English. But we are used to misinformation being promulgated by some American sources.

It should be noted also that other languages have different rules, while maintaining at least the singular and plural and three ‘persons’ some also include a dual form, a special form for two occurrances of a specific thing. Sanskrit is an example, but is by no means unique. We have that in English in the terms ‘both’ – which can only refer to two things or positions – a pair, and double, or dual and so on, but this is rather different.

Is conformity, the first semblance of order in the universe and in our lives. This represents harmony for us and with it our sense of Justice. Without Symmetry there can be no Justice. Nothing runs so deeply in us than a sense of injustice.

The first principal is reflection. Not necessarily stereometry, for there is depth and height as well as breadth. 

When an insects body is divided into 3 parts, each fulfilling a unique function, this is then reflected in the limbs, and it is here we find stereometry.

With the human the principal reflected is another prime number. Here though it is not three but five.

5 fingers, 5 toes, 5 sensory organs, 5 control organs, 5 internal breaths and 5 external breaths.

Then comes the stereometry, 2 hands, 2 eyes, 2 nostrils, 2 ears, 2 feet, 2 arms, 2 legs.

There is a tragic lack of aural awareness that has grown since literacy became widespread.

When you have no letters you are reliant on sounds and speaking. This ability to listen has long since been lost among many English, a literate language for many centuries. This is not the case with Welsh, which has been a literate language less long. In Welsh the linguistic changes are recorded. I believe this is the case with the other Celtic languages, where mutations are listed according to position in a sentence and elision. When sounds run together it is called collision. Examples of this may be found in English in the word ‘Potatoes’, for example, where the ‘P’ frequently becomes replaced by ‘b’, as in the phrase ‘a plate full of botatoes’. The English are very lazy in their pronunciation.

As soon as phonetic letters, rather than pictograms, are introduced conventions become rules for the pronunciation of combinations. 

‘Sh’ makes a hissing sound ; ‘ch’ becomes a biting or chopping sound. 

But these are English conventions only. Other languages have different rules.

So it comes as no surprise but a disappointment, following the rather sorry effort by one of the winter olympic announcers. Watching the nations enter the parade he spoke repeatedly about ‘Chetchia’ despite the sign reading ‘Cechia’. One wonders what he would have made of ‘Czechia’.

He spoke of ‘checks’ (czechs) but of ‘chetchia’, as if he was speaking of Chechnya. .

I thought it was sad he was unable to develop his primitive understanding of language, and that no editor or producer, or other colleague, thought to correct him.

Even in Scotland ‘-ch’ is pronounced as ‘-ckh’ loch, for example. Not to mention the Germanic languages.

What is saddest of all is that the BBC no longer seems to be interested in the quality of instruction given to their announcers. This was a single example but there are many others that could be cited. I sympathise with those struggling with foreign names of competitors but surely Nation names should be rehearsed. Particularly if they appear in a foreign language form, in this case Italian.

With the population of China being more than 4 times that of the USA, is there any credibility to the claim, so loudly made, that the US is the largest economy in the world? I hardly think so.

In 2024 the relative sizes of population were as follows (in Billions)

China 1.405

India 1.45

USA 0.34

European Union 0.449

United Kingdom 0.069

It stands to reason that a nation with a population of 1.4 billion – whether China or India – will have a larger turnover than the nation that has only a fraction of that, even when the majority of the larger population may be on tiny incomes.

If that is not the case at present it will certainly be so in the near future.

Or am I mistaken?