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NON FICTION

Bertrand Russell's A History of Western Philosophy [W] was written during Lord Russell's self-imposed exile in the U.S. during WWII. While covering all major philosophers from Ancient Greece to modern times, it reflects his bias toward "logical" philosophy (Russell was primarily known as a mathematician) as opposed to metaphysics. If one bears this bias in mind, it is an invaluable reference work.

Friedrich Nietzsche [W/N/F] currently enjoys such vogue among intellectuals, that one wonders why Walt Disney has not done a film on Also Sprach Zarathustra. Charlton Heston began "The Giants of Philosophy" series on cassette with Nietzsche. (The series now stands at Thirteen, beginning with Plato and Aristotle, running through Kant, Hume, Hegel, and Nietzsche.) There are more than a dozen websites devoted to Nietzsche. The best are http://www.pitt.edu/~wbcurry/nietzsche.html (compilations and cross-references from all Nietzsche's works on particular subjects: e.g. Christianity, morality, etc.) and the Nietzsche page at the University of Southern California: http://www.usc.edu/~douglast/nietzsche.html Here one can download any and all of Nietzsche works in German or English FOR FREE! (The English versions are the 1905 Complete Works, underwritten by the Jewish physician Dr. Oscar Levy. They suffer from the use of "Biblical English" - "He spaketh unto them as follows:" - which remains in German. The Walter Kaufmann translations are much better, but still in copyright.)

Richard E. Friedman's Who Wrote the Bible? [W] is a delineation of the discovery made in the 19th century by Julius Wellhausen that the Pentatuch [The Torah, or first five books of the Jewish Bible (Xian "Old Testament")] are not the oldest scriptures and were not written down until after the Babylonian Captivity! (Because of Wellhausen and later research, the renowned rabbi Mordecai Kaplan stunned the Jewish world in 1945 by stating that The Torah was myth, that the Jews were a "Chosen" anything, and that The Great Realtor in the Sky didn't promise anything to anybody! Kaplan maintained that Judaism must be considered a "distinct Culture.") Friedman, by use of alternating fonts, shows how two very different legends were woven together to form The Torah. A MUST READ!

James Bacque's Other Losses and Crimes and Mercies [N] expose the ghastly record of Western Allied atrocities during and after WWII. If one goes through the government school system, he's never going to hear about those, but that doesn't mean they didn't happen. Take a look at the photo. It's an official U.S. government photo showing the massacre of the German POWs at Dachau, after surrendering to the Americans, without firing a shot. Of the 560 who surrendered, 520 immediately stood against the wall and machine-gunned, while the U.S. took movies! (Why were 20 spared? Maybe they weren't over 15.) The bitter irony is that those massacred weren't the former guards at Dachau. They were the tattered remnants of the "Wikinger Division," the Nordic volunteer division of the Waffen-SS, which had nothing to do with the concentration camps. The SS-command had pulled out the "Alte Kaempfer" 24-hours before the Americans got there, replacing them with the volunteer Swedes, Norwegians, and Danes who made up the "Wikinger Division." A massace, pure and simple! "The U.S. didn't do things like that!" Wrong, friend, and there's a U.S. government photo to show that it did - and worse ... A LOT WORSE! Bacque is a Canadian journalist, who has fearlessly exposed the atrocities of "the Good Guys" in "the Good War"! But all you'll ever hear is "Holocaust! Holocaust! Ho-ho-holocaust!" That's the reason Bacque's books are so necessary!

TWO NATIONS Black and White, Separate, Hostile, Unequal by Andrew Hacker [W]: a Negro professor looks at the chimera of integration and welfare, how it has proved disasterous to both ethnic groups. (e.g. in 1950, the percent of Negro births out of wedlock was 16.8; by 1990, it was 68.3: 2 out of 3 Negro births were illegitimate.)

DECLINE OF THE WEST [Untergang des Abendlandes] by Oswald Spengler [W]: the definitive statement by the last great German thinker. (Germany was murdered in 1945. The social and political environment that produced Goethe, Mozart, Beethoven, Nietzsche, through Carl Orff and Richard Strauss was murdered by the Champions of Vulgarity. Nietzsche had warned that such was in store for Europe, unless nationalism was curtailed. The same suicidal dementia that destroyed Greece destroyed Europe: fratricidal war.) Spengler showed how all High Cultures are isomorphic: they pass through stages analogous to seasons. When a High Culture stops developing, it begins expanding, passing from a Culture into a Civilization. In the Ancient World, Greece was the Culture and Rome the Civilization. In the Faustian [modern Western] World, Europe was the Culture and America has become the Civilization. The Pax Americana now stands unchallenged, but the forces at work to destroy even the Civilization are having a field day. To be ignorant of Spengler is to remain ignorant.

IMPERIUM by Francis Parker Yockey (Ulick Varange) [N]. Yockey (1917-1960) was Spengler's martyred American disciple. An assistant district attorney, he was sent to Europe after WWII to assist in the "kangaroo trials" the U.S. was conducting. (The Chief Justice of the United States, Harlan Fisk Stone, referred to Nuremberg as, "a high-grade lynching party for the Germans"!) Yockey fled to Ireland (which had been neutral during WWII), where he wrote Imperium in the white-heat of inspiration. (The turgid anti-Semitic introduction by Willis Carto should not deter the reader from pursuing what Yockey had to say.)

THE ENEMY OF EUROPE by Francis Parker Yockey [OP] was written a couple years before he was found dead in a jail cell in San Francisco (whether murdered or hounded into suicide by the Culture-Destroyers remains a mystery). His second and final book is an amendment and extension of Imperium. It has been out of print for some time. I plan to post it in HTML along with the impossible to find The New Deal and Old Rome: a classic comparison of Divus Roosevelt II and the undermining of the Roman Republic by pan et circenses (bread and circuses ... make that Food Stamps and Super Bowls).


SPECULATIVE NON FICTION

("Speculative non fiction" means describing events that may have taken place, where there is strong evidence they did take place but no conclusive proof.)

THE PASSOVER PLOT by Hugh Shoenfield, M.D. [W] Was Christ crucified, or was it a mock execution arranged by Potius Pilate (an ethical Roman, eventually forced to commit suicide by the depraved Tiberius), Joseph of Arimathea, a wealthy Jew and Christ's only supporter on the Sanhedrin, and Judas Iscariot? Dr. Schonfield looks at this question, from the perspective of a physician. (For further Discussion:)

Holy Blood, Holy Grail and The Messianic Legacy take up where Schoenfield leaves off: the "Holy Grail" being the descendents of the union of Jesus and Mary Magdalene, who settled in Marsailles.


FICTION

CAMP OF THE SAINTS by Jean Raspail [W/N]: a chilling apocolyptic novel of the Third World overrunning the developed nations. Raspail pens a doomsday scenario of a West, so rotted-out from within by the "Multi-Cultural" mongers, it can't defend itself from the "peaceful" invasion by hordes of humanoid vermin from the sewers of Calcutta. A few dedicated Frenchmen prepare for a "Thermopylae" on the Riviera, only to be attacked by their own country!

THE PORTAGE TO SAN CRISTOBAL OF A.H. by George Steiner. [OP] This 1979 novel by the preeminent Jewish man of letters deals with Israeli fanatics finding the 90-year-old Hitler alive in the jungles of Paraguay and their determination to bring him out to stand trial. The jungle, however, proves more than they can cope with. As their chances of getting out seem increasingly unlikely, they elect to hold the trial there, with the Indian guide as judge. Hitler conducts his own defense ... and is "acquitted"! (I plan to post Chapter 17, the Defense, in HTML ... but neither website nor Rome were built in a day.)


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These twelve Jesus sent forth, and commanded them, saying, "Go not unto the way of the Gentiles [= pagans, i.e. Greeks & Romans]...but go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel." [Matt. X:5-6]

The Passover Plot was written in the 1970s by a Jewish M.D. named Hugh Shoenfield. Working entirely from Xian sources, Schoenfield purports that the "crucifixion" was an staged by Jesus, Judas, Joseph of Arimathaea, and Pilate. As evidence, Schoenfield cites the following:

1. Jesus was a strictly Jewish personality - this shown from the example of Matthew cited.
2. The pacifistic preaching meshed with Roman interests - It had been necessary to depose the prior tetrarch. Herod Agrippa was being educated in Rome to rule in accord with Roman policy. Pilate was an inter rex.
3. The elements Jesus scorned were the ones troubling Rome - the scribes and Pharisees were the source of the Zealots, etc.
4. Judea was rife with talk about "The Messiah." - a pacifistic, "not of this world" Messiah is the type Rome wanted; not a "liberator," as the Jews envisioned (and still do).
5. The effect of the leader of this pacifisic sect seen crucified, then "returning," would greatly enhance its standing among Jews - as Matt. X:5-6 shows, they were supposed to be the only recipients of the "good news"- which would also be in the best interest of Rome.

NOW, ABOUT PERSONALITIES:

In the first place, "Jesus of Nazareth," implying a boyhood home is totally in error, as there was no town by that name in Galilee at that time. The confusion stems from two Greek words Nazarenos and Nazoraios. The first would mean "someone from Nazareth," the second seems to be a Greek corruption of Nazirite. Nazoraios is used in Matt., Luke, John & Acts. What's a "Nazirite"? Among the ancient Hebrews, a "Nazarite" was an especially holy person, with paranormal abilities, credited to possessing "the Spirit of the Lord." Sampson is a prime example of a Nazirite. Then there were the Essenes, about whom a great deal more has been learned since the finding of the Dead Sea Scrolls. A great deal of Essene doctrine found its way into the "good news," indicating that if Jesus was not an actual member of this "drop-out" sect, he was quite familiar with it. Furthermore, one sees a panoply of actions done by Jesus solely with the intent of satisfying some utterance, principally from Isaiah. Next, let us consider this Joseph of Arimathaea. Supposedly, he was a very rich Jew and a member of the Sanhedrin. (Said Joseph is also a "saint" in the Eastern church, but not in the West.) This Joseph goes to Pilate and asks for "the body" of Jesus, that it might be buried in his tomb. Nothing strange there; however, one is reading an English translation from the Greek. In the original Greek, the word used is soma. In Greek, soma does indeed mean "body"; however it refers to a living body (psycho-somatic, etc.). The word for a dead body is nekros (necr-opolis, etc.) We're told this tomb is built into the side of a hill. These were exceedingly disorderly times in the Levant. Rome's land-bridge between Syria and Egypt was of critical import. It was commonplace for those high-up on the social ladder to build tombs with escape hatches, that if the need arose they could "die," be entombed - then safely re-emerge, dig up a cash hoard, and go off somewhere to live under an assumed name. Pilate was no fool! Certainly he would have suspected that Joseph's tomb had a "back door"; however, he orders a great stone placed across the opening, and posts a guard - to mollify the Sanhedrin, which he loathed - outside! Knowing that a "back door" was a virtual certainty, why didn't Pilate make provision for it. One plausible answer is that he was in on The Passover Plot
Let's now look at Pontius Pilatus. It's generally agreed the Pilate came from a high Equestrian family and was appointed Procurator of Judea by Tiberius's subaltern, Sejanus. Judea was was being administered as a Roman province, pending the coming of age of Herod Agrippa, who was being educated at Roman expense to administer the tetrarchy in accord with Rome's wishes. Sejanus didn't like the Jews, but Tiberius disliked wars. They were expensive. Tiberius didn't like spending money. Period! In 31 c.e., the machinations of Sejanus were discovered and the old Goat on Capri embarked on a major purge. Pilate managed to escape the decimation nearly everyone advanced by Sejanus. Perhaps because Sejanus was reportedly displeased with his administration (too accommodating to the Jews), or perhaps because he had warded off uprisings. In any event, at the time of the Fateful Passover, one can see that Pilate would have welcomed pacifism and stoic acceptance of Roman rule becoming pandemic in Judea. He had everything to gain and nothing to lose by active participation in The Passover Plot.
This brings us to the final character, Judas Iscariot. According to Xian lore, Judas had been witness to all the miraculous doings of Jesus. At the Last Supper, Jesus tells him that he knows Judas will betray him. Wouldn't that type of prescience strike awe into anybody? Judas knows that Jesus has a myriad of paranormal powers, far outdoing Sampson possessed, has been told that Jesus knows he will betray him - and does so! It makes no sense at all ... unless Judas was privy to The Passover Plot. If, indeed, it existed, the actions of everyone become readily understandable.


Schoenfield draws the reader's attention to some very salient facts. The time Jesus spent on the cross - and remember all of this is taken from othodox Xian sources - was three hours! The Romans used crucifixion as an exemplary form of execution: the victim was on the cross for days and suffered ex-CRUC-iatingly. Dr. Schoenfield shows how the typically depicted Crucifixion would have been anatomically impossible: body weight would have drug the hands right through the nails. (The normal method was to tie the victim's arms to the crossbeam; also a small perch was provided. (The Romans wanted it to last! Death was due to asphyxiation, when the chest muscles gave out.)

Decriers of Schoenfeld's thesis point out that Jesus was exhausted after his Great Fast. (Of course he'd had ample to eat and drink afterwards. Xian sources indicate a facile intellect at the interrogation; he also had ample strength to send the money-changers's tables flying.) Then they call attention to the scouraging; however, if it was a plot, no scouraging would have taken place; and the Crown of Thorns, while colorful, would not have debillitating.)
Schoenfeld also examined the two types of spears used by the Romans: the pilum and the hasta. Both had "fish-hook" points, which made them very hard to remove. He concludes that if the soldier administered a wound with his spear, if must have been a glancing-type and not an impalement, which would have required surgery to get his spear out. The location is also important, as a wound even a few inches deep on the side would not encounter any major arteries or organs. It would be totally superficial.
The "vinegar" proffered to alleviate thirst is very important, as the ancients possessed numerous drugs that would induce necrosis, giving every indication the person was dead, when he was merely drugged. (One should recall such a drug is used in Romeo and Juliet.)
Finally, we come to breaking of the bones. The bones of the other two victim were broken, so that shock would expedite the execution. (It had to be over and done with by the advent of Passover.) Jesus's bones were not broken: Why Not? How could anyone be so sure that he would die, without breaking any bones, when it normally took days for one to die from crucifixion?

"God's hand was determining everything!" the True Believers will rejoin ... but then how did Pontius Pilate know that? What The Passover Plot does is to provide totally logical and rational answers for a seemingly irrational and unlogical sequence of events. For that reason alone, it warrants one's serious consideration.


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