The Watchers Take Manhattan. Also, the Grammys.

My old pal Derek Gilbert had me back on The View from the Bunker to talk about the wave of Watcher worship and demonic idolatry currently sweeping across the planet. I always enjoy Derek's company and we tackle the same problems from divergent yet not-wholly-incompatible points of view.

Spare Us the Qatar: World Cup Watcher Worship

The 2022 World Cup is upon us, much to the delight of the world and the crushing indifference of uncultured Yanks like myself. And since it is indeed 2022, the goings-on are positively drenched in the high ritualism of the worldwide Watcher cult. 

All slathered with a thick and viscous glaze of Knowles' First Law, of course.

He Walks Ammon Us: Egypt's Restoration Ritual at Luxor

Well, there it is, right on schedule. The Great Restoration takes another giant leap forward and reaffirms the ancient kingdom of Egypt as its own. Fortuitous timing too, since it seems a lot of people were starting to doubt my grip on reality - yet again - when talking about the grand rituals of the Sorcerarchy. 

Always seems to work out this way, doesn't it? My cross to bear, I suppose.

SaturnDay Nyte Byte: Talking Lucifer's Tech on Aeon Byte Live

  

I'll be on Aeon Byte Live at 9 PM EST tonight talking technologies. Lucifer's Technologies, to be exact.

It's live!

Lucifer's Technologies: The Original Series Returns

By far the most popular series in the history of The Secret Sun was 2016's Lucifer's Technologies series, which looked at the explosive growth of computer technology following World War Two and argued that its birth may be a little weirder and more troubling than what you may have been told in school.

Lucifer's Technologies, Revisited: ESTimate of the Situation

I've been sifting through The Secret Sun archives, which is a lot harder than it sounds. There are thousands of posts that got scrambled by Blogger interface changeover, resulting in walls of unbroken text, multiple fonts and text sizes, misaligned images and paragraph breaks, and all other kinds of digital mischief. 

But if you go to the archive listing on the main page you'll see I'm slowly but surely getting a carefully-curated selection of posts back up.

Lucifer's Technologies, Revisited: Science is Not Enough

Ever happen to notice that for all the feted breakthroughs in technology, the fields that have gotten nearly all of the benefit are surveillance and high finance?

Ever happen to notice that all we ever seem to see are revved-up versions of old, sometimes very old technology? 

Lucifer's Technologies, Revisited: The Missing Puzzle Piece

Of all the essays I've posted in the past 15 years on The Secret Sun, the "Lucifer's Technologies" series is far and away the one I get the most requests to republish. 

The problem is that it was all written during an intense and feverish manic rush, a mad blaze of inspiration, and therefore isn't really the most coherent work I've ever done. I've started and stopped work on expanding it into a larger, more structured text a number of times, but there was always something missing, something I hadn't quite put my finger on.

Lucifer's Technologies: Our Space (Big) Brothers

As the Globalist agenda goes from a gallop to a stampede, it should be noted that the world being unrolled over our heads right now was previewed in many ways via the Contactees and abductees of previous decades.

Lucifer's Technologies: Ex Nihilo

Pazuzu installed at the ICA in 2008.

The term daimon originally referred to a spirit that was both protector and bringer of knowledge. 

The Romans called the daimones genii, the root of the term genius. You've probably heard that if someone was particularly gifted a Roman would say she had a genius, not that she was a genius

Lucifer's Technologies: The Invisible Man

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So much of the technology we take for granted today - the technology that has revolutionized every field of human endeavor - emerged from Bell Laboratories (later known as Lucent Technologies) in the quarter-century following World War II. Bell Labs was a division of AT&T, on whose Board of Directors the estimable Vannevar Bush sat, starting in 1947. 

Lucifer's Technologies: The Eyeblink of History

The Faustian Bargain
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Many have claimed that our present technology arose from contact with alien intelligences. Whether you believe that or not, one thing is certain: the rate of technological progress shot up like a rocket shortly after the end of World War II. 

And it must be said that technology seems more and more like an invasive -- or alien -- contagion, disrupting entire industries, economies, and communities. 

Lucifer's Technologies: "From the Brow of Zeus"

Google recently paid tribute to a man whose name many people do not know, but whose legacy dominates every aspect of our lives all the same.

The author of the epoch-making paper, "A Mathematical Theory of Communication," Claude Shannon is the father of Information Theory and indeed, the architect of the Digital Age itself.

Lucifer's Technologies: Horned and Hidden

Looking back on the events of 1947, you are struck not only by how many brilliant scientists there were floating in and out of the story, you're also struck by the apparent high ritualism at work. 

This might seem like a wailing contradiction to our dumbed-down, disenchanted, postmodern culture. But it makes perfect sense when you take those two bricks-- cutting-edge science and ancient ritualism-- and seal them with the mortar of the secret societies that were - and still are* - pulling the strings behind the scenes. 

Lucifer's Technologies: Ba'al Laboratories

Internet surfers in 1997 saw the rather startlingly-detailed claims of computer industry insider Jack Shulman, who seemed to confirm Lt. Col. Philip Corso's claim that Bell Laboratories (a division of American Telephone and Telegraph) was tasked with reverse-engineering certain materials allegedly found at the site of the now-legendary Roswell "flying saucer crash."

Lucifer's Technologies: The Devil's in the Details

Technology has changed our lives in ways many of us could hardly have imagined just 20 years ago, whether we like it or not.

 Shouldn't we be asking where it really came from?

Lucifer's Technologies: Land of Enchantment

The events at Roswell in July of 1947 did not happen in a vacuum. They occurred within one of the most extraordinary periods in human history, particularly from an esoteric point of view. They would spark a chain of events that would change the entire world.

Lucifer's Technologies: Fallen from the Sky

Technology rules our lives, so much so that some Futurists predict that humanity will be replaced by robots and artificial intelligences. 

How exactly did the postwar technology boom come about? Nothing like it had ever been seen in human history and we're still sorting through the breakthroughs made in that era. 

Lucifer's Technologies: Our Deal with the Devil Comes Due

Aside from Milton's Paradise Lost, Lucifer appears in another great literary work, also written in the 17th Century; Christopher Marlowe's Tragical History of Doctor Faustus. 

This treatment of the Faust myth predates Goethe's more famous version, and tells the story somewhat differently. But the basic contours of the story remain the same, that of a brilliant man who sells his immortal soul to the Devil in order to gain forbidden knowledge, a pact he believes will grant him advantage in this life.