Solon, Plato, and the Fall of New Rome

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“Conspiracy?….what Conspiracy?….who’s a “Conspiracy Theorist?” Let’s ask JFK (Approx. 25 Minutes)

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Dr. Hermann Oberth, who pioneered rocket design for the German Reich during World War II and later advanced rocket technology for the American manned space launches, cryptically stated, “We cannot take the credit for our record advancement in certain scientific fields alone; we have been helped.” When asked by whom, he replied: “The people of other worlds.”

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Oberth’s fellow associate space pioneer, who also served the Third Reich, Werhner Von Braun, echoed similar knowledge of the extra-terrestrial reality when he stated in 1959, “We find ourselves faced by powers which are far stronger than hitherto assumed, and whose base is at present unknown to us. More I cannot say at present. We are now engaged in entering into closer contact with those powers, and within six or nine months time it may be possible to speak with more precision on the matter.” From "Above Top Secret" by Timothy Good, William Morrow and Company, Inc. 1988

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Thule member, Dr. W.O. Schumann of the Technical University in Munich, declared, “In everything we recognize two principles that determine the events; light and darkness, good and evil, creation and destruction – as in electricity we know plus and minus. It is always; either – or…Everything destructive is of Satanic origin, everything creative is divine… Every technology based on explosion or combustion has thus to be called Satanic. The coming new age will be an age of new, positive, divine technology.”

JFK Speech, 1961 : 

JFK Speech, 1961 The President and the Press: Address before the American Newspaper Publishers Association President John F. Kennedy, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City, April 27, 1961 My topic tonight is a more sober one of concern to publishers as well as editors. I want to talk about our common responsibilities in the face of a common danger. The events of recent weeks may have helped to illuminate that challenge for some; but the dimensions of its threat have loomed large on the horizon for many years. Whatever our hopes may be for the future--for reducing this threat or living with it - there is no escaping either the gravity or the totality of its challenge to our survival and to our security--a challenge that confronts us in unaccustomed ways in every sphere of human activity. This deadly challenge imposes upon our society two requirements of direct concern both to the press and to the President - two requirements that may seem almost contradictory in tone, but which must be reconciled and fulfilled if we are to meet this national peril. I refer, first, to the need for a far greater public information; and, second, to the need for far greater official secrecy… Source: http://www.jfklibrary.org/Historical+Resources/Archives/Reference+Desk/Speeches/JFK/003POF03NewspaperPublishers04271961.htm

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The very word "secrecy" is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths and to secret proceedings. We decided long ago that the dangers of excessive and unwarranted concealment of pertinent facts far outweighed the dangers which are cited to justify it. Even today, there is little value in opposing the threat of a closed society by imitating its arbitrary restrictions. Even today, there is little value in insuring the survival of our nation if our traditions do not survive with it. And there is very grave danger that an announced need for increased security will be seized upon by those anxious to expand its meaning to the very limits of official censorship and concealment. That I do not intend to permit to the extent that it is in my control. And no official of my Administration, whether his rank is high or low, civilian or military, should interpret my words here tonight as an excuse to censor the news, to stifle dissent, to cover up our mistakes or to withhold from the press and the public the facts they deserve to know. But I do ask every publisher, every editor, and every newsman in the nation to reexamine his own standards, and to recognize the nature of our country's peril. In time of war, the government and the press have customarily joined in an effort based largely on self-discipline, to prevent unauthorized disclosures to the enemy. In time of "clear and present danger," the courts have held that even the privileged rights of the First Amendment must yield to the public's need for national security. If the press is awaiting a declaration of war before it imposes the self-discipline of combat conditions, then I can only say that no war ever posed a greater threat to our security. If you are awaiting a finding of "clear and present danger," then I can only say that the danger has never been more clear and its presence has never been more imminent.

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[1] Amendment I Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances [1]Source: http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.billofrights.html

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“It requires a change in outlook, a change in tactics, a change in missions - by the government, by the people, by every businessman or labor leader, and by every newspaper. For we are opposed around the world by a monolithic and ruthless conspiracy that relies primarily on covert means for expanding its sphere of influence - on infiltration instead of invasion, on subversion instead of elections, on intimidation instead of free choice, on guerrillas by night instead of armies by day. It is a system which has conscripted vast human and material resources into the building of a tightly knit, highly efficient machine that combines military, diplomatic, intelligence, economic, scientific and political operations. Its preparations are concealed, not published. Its mistakes are buried, not headlined. Its dissenters are silenced, not praised. No expenditure is questioned, no rumor is printed, no secret is revealed. It conducts the Cold War, in short, with a war-time discipline no democracy would ever hope or wish to match. Nevertheless, every democracy recognizes the necessary restraints of national security - and the question remains whether those restraints need to be more strictly observed if we are to oppose this kind of attack as well as outright invasion.” After addressing the news media journalists he continues.. “Perhaps there will be no recommendations. Perhaps there is no answer to the dilemma faced by a free and open society in a cold and secret war. In times of peace, any discussion of this subject, and any action that results, are both painful and without precedent. But this is a time of peace and peril which knows no precedent in history”.

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Without debate, without criticism, no Administration and no country can succeed - and no republic can survive. That is why the Athenian lawmaker Solon decreed it a crime for any citizen to shrink from controversy. And that is why our press was protected by the First Amendment - the only business in America specifically protected by the Constitution - not primarily to amuse and entertain, not to emphasize the trivial and the sentimental, not to simply "give the public what it wants“ - but to inform, to arouse, to reflect, to state our dangers and our opportunities, to indicate our crises and our choices, to lead, mould, educate and sometimes even anger public opinion. It was early in the Seventeenth Century that Francis Bacon remarked on three recent inventions already transforming the world: [1] the compass, [2] gunpowder and the printing press [3]. And so it is to the printing press - to the recorder of man's deeds, the keeper of his conscience, the courier of his news - that we look for strength and assistance, confident that with your help man will be what he was born to be: …free and independent.

How YOU are “moulded” : 

How YOU are “moulded” Khnum on the Potters wheel

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Solon depicted as a bust in the US House Of Representatives Moses (Centre) Confucius (left) Solon (right) Rear of Supreme Court

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Solon – Athenian Constitutional Lawmaker in Greece – died 559 BC Installed a stable democracy between rich and poor, and abolished archaic ‘dracon’ laws (codified 621 BC). One of 7 ‘Wise Men’. Francis Bacon referred to 3: Compass (Circumnavigation; naval process, admiralty, banking) Gunpowder (Plot involving Catholic assassinations - Guy Fawkes) Printing Press (Reprinting the Bible of King James, and now, Money) Connection : Olive Trees, Athens, Illumination, and Plato Who was Solon, and why reference him?

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Section 1: Solon, Plato, and the 2 Kingdoms of the “Olden Ones”

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SYNOPSIS OF HYPOTHETICAL THESIS ATLANTIS was the pre-diluvian race of Anu-naki who were the first system -founded from a pre-existing and inherently philosophical, social, philanthropical. racial, and genetic make-up, which constituted “their nature”, encompassing “their” ‘natural’ (absolute) tyrannical, ritualistic and abusive mindset of a religion-based “dominion”, merged with an inherent dominant aggression; yet an organised technologically-driven, military-structured, ranking-based structure of dictatorship – the “first” to “experience” financial collapse, (Bankruptcy), and a total “wipe-out” type of “depression” event for them, at that time. And, as we are ourselves facing now….today, it would be analogous and contemporaneous with the term “sinking” “sank”, or “sunken” interchangeably. Atlantis was financially “cut-off and ostracised” from the from the rest of the trading World of Commerce, (exchange of goods/crops) and their System ended.

How YOU are “perceived” : 

How YOU are “perceived” An Ear of Corn

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Solon – Died 559 BC Plato 428 – 347 BC

Solon : 

Solon [1] Atlantis was first brought to the attention of the West by Plato. Madame Helena Blavatsky says Plato was an initiate and obtained his information on Atlantis as part of his initiation. Plato described Atlantis in two of his dialogues, the Timaeus and Critias, placing it "west of the straits which you call the pillars of Heracles", i.e. in the Atlantic Ocean. Solon consulted the ancient records kept by the Egyptians and made a start on the story of Atlantis. [2] Plato (427-347 B.C.), who was a relative of Solon, inherited the task, and his dialogue the Timaeus and a fragment entitled Critias tell part of this story. 9,000 years (according to Plato) before Solon's visit to Egypt, a great civilization on an island in the Atlantic Ocean disappeared on a day of great rain and earthquakes. Plato did not finish the story, and what Solon wrote has disappeared. [1] Source: http://www.blavatsky.net/confirm/ev/atlantis/background.htm [2] Source: http://www.e-classics.com/solon.htm

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1“But besides the gods and goddesses whom you have mentioned, I would specially invoke Mnemosyne; for all the important part of my disclosure is dependent on her favour, and if I can recollect and recite enough of what was said by the priests and brought hither by Solon, I doubt not that I shall satisfy the requirements of this theatre. Let me begin by observing first of all, that 9,000 years was the sum of the years which had elapsed since the war which was said to have taken place between those that dealt outside the Pillars of Heracles and all who dwelt within them; this war I am going to describe. Of the combatants on one side, the city of Athens was reported to be have been the leader and to have fought out the war; the combatants on the other side were commanded by the Kings of Atlantis, which, as was saying, was an Island greater in extent than Libya and Asia, and when afterwards sunk by an Earthquake, became an impassable barrier of mud to voyagers sailing from hence to any part of the Ocean” 1Plato, “Critias”, Page 2 “In the days of old the gods had the whole earth distributed among them by allotment……They all of them by just appointment obtained what they wanted, and peopled their own districts; and when they had peopled them they tended us, their nurselings and possessions, as shepherds tend their flocks, excepting only that they did not use blows or bodily force, as shepherds do, but governed us like pilots from the stern of the vessel, which is an easy way of guiding animals, holding our souls by the rudder of persuasion according to their own pleasure; - …thus did they guide all mortal creatures.”

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“The Vessel”

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1“Each of the 10 kings in his own division, and in his own city, had the absolute control of the citizens, and in most cases, of the laws, punishing and slaying whomsoever he would. Now the order of precedence among them and their mutual relations were regulated by the commands of Poseidon which the law had handed down. These were inscribed by the first kings on a pillar of orichalcum, …at the temple of Poseidon, whither the kings were gathered together every 5th and 6th year alternately, thus giving equal honour to the odd and the even number” “There were bulls who had the range of the temple of Poseidon; and the 10 kings, being left alone in the temple, after they had offered prayers to the god that they may capture the victim which was acceptable to him, hunted the bulls…..and the bull which they caught they led up to the pillar and cut its throat over the top of it (the pillar) so the blood fell upon the sacred inscription. Now on the pillar, besides the laws, there was inscribed an oath invoking mighty curses on the disobedient” 1Plato, “Critias”, Page 9

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1Critias: Then listen, Socrates, to a tale which, though strange, is certainly true, having been attested by Solon, who was the wisest of the seven sages. He was a relative of a dear friend of my great-grandfather , Dropides, as he himself says in many passages of his poems; and he told the story to Critias, my grandfather, who remembered it and repeated it to us. There were of old, he said, great and marvellous actions of the Athenian city, which have passed into oblivion through lapses of time and the destruction of mankind, and one in particular, greater than all the rest” 1Plato, “Timaeus”, Page 3 (written circa 360 BC – Translated by Benjamin Jowett) Socrates: Very good. And what is this ancient famous action of the Athenians, which Critias declared, on the authority of Solon, to be not a mere legend, but an actual fact?

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1“In the first place, you remember a single deluge only, but there many previous ones….For there was a time, Solon, before the great deluge of all, when the city which is now Athens was first in war and in every way,...performed the noblest deeds and to have had the fairest constitution of any of which tradition tells, under the face of heaven” 1,2Ibid, Page 3 & 5 2”Neith, ..goddess who is the common patron and parent and educator of both our cities. She founded your city a thousand years before ours, receiving from the Earth and Hephastus the seed of your race, and afterwards she founded ours, of which the constitution is recorded in the sacred registers to be eight thousand years old”. The Sais (Heliopolitan/On) Priest speaks to Solon

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Confirmed accounts Solon was in Heliopolis in the Nile Delta with High Seb Priests Both Athens and Lower Egypt are interwoven with Neith, Athene, Aphrodite, or perhaps the “older” Isis-Sekhmet-Hathor of Khem (Pre-Egypt) & Ninharsag-Inanna-Ishtar of earliest Sumeria? Egypt’s constitution was primarily founded on Military Pursuits She, the goddess, was a lover of both war and wisdom 1“Wherefore the goddess, who was a lover of both war and wisdom, selected and first of all settled that spot which was the most likely to produce men likest herself. And there you dwelt, having such laws as these and still better ones, and excelled all mankind in all virtue, as became the children and disciples of the gods. 1Plato, “Timaeus”, Page 5

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“Golden Age” “Dark Age” “Golden Age”

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Sekhmet

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Heinrick von Balen (Note the Owl of Athena)

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1”Many great and wonderful deeds are recorded of your state in our histories. But one of them exceeds all the rest in greatness and valour. For these histories tell of a mighty power which unprovoked made an expedition against the whole of Europe and Asia, and to which your city put an end. This power came forth out of the Atlantic Ocean, for in those days the Atlantic was navigable..” Chinese Map dated before Columbus 1418 source: Gunnar Thompson 1Plato, “Timaeus”, Page 5

Solon according to Helena Blavatsky : 

Solon according to Helena Blavatsky The serious study of Atlantis - Atlantology as it is called by some - is said to have started with the book Atlantis: the Antediluvian World by Ignatius Donnelly published in 1882. Donnelly does indeed deserve much credit for his seminal book which did elicit much interest. Probably his book still has much value today. Interestingly, though, there has been a Theosophical hand behind the dissemination of the Atlantis story and that is traced here. Blavatsky mentioned Atlantis numerous times in Isis Unveiled, written in 1877. There she gave out hints, and details of Atlantis and commented favorably on its existence. (See Isis Unveiled i413, i529, i545, i557-8, and i590-5.) IU i557 says, “The perfect identity of the rites, ceremonies, traditions, and even the names of the deities, among the Mexicans and ancient Babylonians and Egyptians, are a sufficient proof of South America being peopled by a colony which mysteriously found its way across the Atlantic. When? at what period? History is silent on that point; but those who consider that there is no tradition, sanctified by ages, without a certain sediment of truth at the bottom of it, believe in the Atlantis-legend. ... There are, scattered throughout the world, a handful of thoughtful and solitary students, who pass their lives in obscurity, ... These men believe the story of the Atlantis to be no fable, but maintain that at different epochs of the past huge islands, and even continents, existed where now there is but a wild waste of waters”. Source: http://www.blavatsky.net/confirm/ev/atlantis/background.htm

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Blavatsky's writings were achieving considerable notice and anyone interested in Atlantis would likely have encountered her work. Interestingly, Isis Unveiled on i591 quotes page 179 of Baldwin's "Prehistoric Nations" on the origin of the name Atlantis. Baldwin traces the name not to the Greek Atlas, but to the Central American word atl, meaning water and war. Blavatsky is there bringing forward further interesting evidence to link the old and new world, and to suggest the reality of Atlantis. Five years later Donnelly agrees and references the exact same quote from Baldwin in his chapter "Corroborating Circumstances". Six years after Donnelly's book, Blavatsky published the Secret Doctrine in 1888, praising Donnelly's book and directing still more attention to it. Source: http://www.blavatsky.net/confirm/ev/atlantis/background.htm

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Does the United States have the vision to build upon the achievement of past decades? Does the United States have the resolve to shape a new century favorable to American principles and interests? “[What we require is] a military that is strong and ready to meet both present and future challenges; a foreign policy that boldly and purposefully promotes American principles abroad; and national leadership that accepts the United States’ global responsibilities. “Of course, the United States must be prudent in how it exercises its Power”.