Friday
The Scribe of Dream Weaver Diaries
With all of our pictures together, I was only able to post this one of him sitting on the stairs. He didn't want his picture posted in fear of what people would think and because of what the writings did to him physically. I confirmed all the names, places and events in his writings were real. I asked him, why me? Did he know that I would just happen to stumble upon his materials, take such a deep interest and eventually meet him? He said, yes, that he had been waiting for me, that Nethaleo told him that we would meet and that all of this would happen.
I figured with the original author in my friendship, the rest of the journal would blossom like a fresh flower on a sunny day. Wishful thinking. It only became more complex. We worked as a team and spent long hours talking about his life and his visions. He explained that Nethaleo is De'Maitre's guardian angel. But over time, De'Maitre believed he was the guardian angel; that he had powers and special abilities. This was a delusion. And when there were times when he could channel his guardian angel to help him with a great crisis in his life, he didn't follow the instructions, so things did not turn out the way he expected.
Now, psychologically speaking, any one who has long term exposure to cults, paranormal activities or perverted religion and mysticism, can become extremely vulnerable to their influences.
The effects include paranoia, illusions, nightmares, excessive use of fowl language, violent tendencies and withdrawal family and friends. It is a form of addiction.
The writer explained that while scribing the journals, he experienced random, angry outbursts. He said he was at work one day when he got into an argument with his manager over a shipment order. He said he jumped out of his truck, said he would turn them to dust and his wings were stronger than any man-made object and then he jumped up on the top of the trailer, yelling and flapping his arms, ran and tried to jump off of it and fly. He landed face first onto the pavement and loading rail, resulting in his disfigured face.
In 2005, he was moved to the Lane County Psychiatric Hospital in Eugene, Oregon. His treatment went well, he was released and moved into his own apartment. That's where I met him in 2007. I remember he said regardless of what modern psychiatry and religion said, he believed that the "powers" being told to him for Nethaleo, were his. He believed he was Nethaleo. He believed he was a human-angel. As a friend and a Christian, I do not argue or judge him. I did as he asked me to do. I put up this site. Your story will be told my friend and the knowledge will be passed on.-DeMaster Thomas
Thursday
2012 update! Are you ready? Get ready!
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| Posted: 17 Aug 2011 03:31 AM PDT The clock actually runs out 25th September 2011… By Alexandar Retrov and Krystal Alexander-Hille I stayed up the whole night, typing out this First Part of the lecture, because it resonated so true to me…My wish is that it does not scare you, but rather prepares you for what may be coming & is (happening) now ~ A.AllegrucciTo summarise the lecture…Basically we know that there is a Brown Dwarf Star on its way towards us. At the moment we are not seeing any major changes as the Earth and the Brown Dwarf star are travelling at the same pace. http://ssd.jpl.nasa.gov/sbdb.cgi?sstr=elenin&orb=1 It’s still about a distance of 1.5 AU from us. For example: When the Japan earthquake happened in March 11th, it was 2 AU away and we had a magnitude 9.0 earthquake. The NEXT alignment happens on September 26th, 2011. It will be between us and the Sun. At that point it is 0.38 away from us. When this object goes across the sky between us and the Sun, it’s going to cause and eclipse that will last for 3 days. Gravitational fields and Infrared work on an inverse square relationship. So every measure of distance, the force magnifies by the square of it. When it was 2 away, we had a magnitude 9.0 earthquake. On September 26th, the gravitational forces and the infrared forces will be 25 x greater on that day. What has been predicted is that on September 26th 2011, the WHOLE Pacific Rim will go with magnitude 12.0 to 15.0 earthquakes. This is totally consistent with the mathematics. It is predicted that:
The Moon has a fairly spherical orbit at the moment around the Earth. But as the Brown Dwarf gets closer, it’s going to pull the Moon closer to it and the Moon is going to have a more Elliptical Orbit. What affect will that have on our planet? When the gravitational pull is greater, we will experience what is called “King Tides”. It’s expected that ALL the major coastal cities of the world will be flooded at some point, through August and the beginning of September. Not tidal waves, but massive tides…cities like London, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Melbourne, Sydney, Venice…any coastal city! Incidently…(Nasa employees have already relocated their families from the coastal area’s About a week before September 26th, this object is going to be very obvious in our sky (from around 20th). (March 15th it was spotted on SOHO and then quickly removed by NASA a day later. This object is going to cover 1/5 of the sky. By then anarchy will be ruling, because they would have collapsed the financial markets and put most people into the FemaCamps (please ask for additional info on these, if you do not already know about them). There are approx. 800 of them currently around the US and house up 50 000 people upwards. Which adds up to a total of 40 million people. The Eclipse will last for up to 3 days, but when it lines up with the Sun and our Planet, there is going to be a “COSMIC SONIC SHOCKWAVE” that will totally blow out our magnetic fields, which will leave the Planet completely open to Gamma Radiation. It’s what they call in the Bible “Gabriel’s Trumpet”. It’s a sonic blast to do with the lining up. The magnetic fields will be destroyed (they are already being weakened). If you are out in the open, you will literally be friend alive! So you need to be able to get out of DIRECT LIGHT, for the whole duration that our Magnetic Field is down. This could take up to 2 – 3 weeks. So this is the summary for 26th September 2011:
This note explains the physical events, then the next will explain why you have chosen to be here at this particular time and give a more spiritual understanding… Lastly for this note…What does 2012 mean?
There are NO RULES. SOURCE…DOES NOT have GOOD & EVIL. There is NO RIGHT or WRONG. It’s JUST an EXPERIENCE!!! If SOURCE doesn’t have these RULES and say’s, EVERYTHING you do ENRICHES my BEING. Then why do we have to suddenly listen to someone who says we can ONLY access that spiritualKnowledge through them? And we have to do what they say, or else we are heretics and get burnt at the stake. Or Excommunicated… Karma is non-existent UNLESS you CHOOSE to believe it…there is ONLY CAUSE & EFFECT! If you believe in Karma, that IS what you will manifest, because you have complete control FREE WILL to create whatever you want. SO what is 2012? Our solar system is part of the Milky Way Galaxy. A spiral. And in the middle of our galaxy, is a massive Black Hole. They give out energy in 2 directions, in pulses that radiate outwards, like when a pebble hits a pond of water. We spiral around, going in waves, up & down. Soon, we will enter the middle of the Photon band. A place of no TIME and all SPACE. There is no great Ascension to come, because we are already there. We chose to be here at this time in the Universe to experience what we are going through right now. We have CHOSEN to manifest, although we may have forgotten, because we got caught up in the illusion and lies that have been fed to us and the 3D stuff. We cannot ascend to something we already are. You just become AWARE of where you are perceiving it from. Are you so caught up in the “play” that you believe you are the ‘Character’ or are you sitting in the audience admiring your work? So what is this so called “Ascension” about? We are made of atoms, which are made up of Carbon / Helium & Oxygen. So we have a Proton, with Electrons and layers of shells between. As we enter the Photon Band, which is a huge pulse of energy. Every single atom in your body, gets hit by this energy, and the electrons jump to the next level. And as every atom becomes energised, you become less dense with a higher vibration. P.S. Why are we not being warned? The US Government don’t want you to know this, because they have written off 60 million of its people that live in the top North West. “Agenda 21” and if they told you about it, they would have to start to relocate people.   |
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Tuesday
News from the Prophets
- A Hopi Elder Speaks ~ “We are the ones we’ve been waiting for”
- Mayan Elder Speaks of Prophecy
- The Ninth and Last Sign About to Come True? ~ White Feather, Bear Clan, Hopi Tribe
- Comet Elenin to eclipse the Sun
Posted: 08 Aug 2011 12:50 PM PDT “You have been telling the people that this is the Eleventh Hour, now you must go back and tell the people that this is the Hour. And there are things to be considered . . .
“There is a river flowing now very fast. It is so great and swift that there are those who will be afraid. They will try to hold on to the shore. They will feel they are torn apart and will suffer greatly. “Know the river has its destination. The elders say we must let go of the shore, push off into the middle of the river, keep our eyes open, and our heads above water. “And I say, see who is in there with you and celebrate. At this time in history, we are to take nothing personally, Least of all ourselves. For the moment that we do, our spiritual growth and journey comes to a halt. “The time for the lone wolf (world) is over. Gather yourselves! Banish the word struggle from you attitude and your vocabulary. All that we do now must be done in a sacred manner and in celebration. “We are the ones we’ve been waiting for.”   |
Posted: 08 Aug 2011 10:37 AM PDT We are all here because it is our destiny, our mission. Spirit has called each of you here. You are special. I am no more special than you are. You are [no] more than me. I am a poor Mayan. We do not have schools and universities like you do. We live in the poor countryside. What I have is given to me by my father. The Cosmos is the source of our knowledge. We study the Cosmos. Our books are the Mayan Codices. For us, this is our writing. The hand is a book. We have 5000 codices. We study these. We communicate with the invisible ones, the star people, who gave me my name, ”Wandering Wolf.” I come in fulfillment of the prophesies of the Mayan and Hopi, which says: “Those of the center will unite the eagle of the north and the condor of the south, because we are one, like the fingers of the hand.” This means that the elders of Central America will unite with those of North and South America. This is a fulfillment of our prophesies, that is why I am here. Our elder astronomers are watching over time and when it will be fulfilled. It shall be fulfilled in Twelve Baktun and it began on August 17, 1987, the Harmonic Convergence. It was then that I began my walk all over the world. The Harmonic Convergence began the Twelve Baktun, Thirteen Bahaou and will end in 2012 or 2013 by your calendar. This will end the fourth period of the sun by our calendar. There will be huge problems. Catastrophes and cataclysms will befall us. So I have been asked to speak to you and all over the world, of these prophesies and other elders, too. We speak in defense of the natural world. No more pollution of the planet. It cannot survive it, and then we will not be able to survive without our mother earth. There is no more distinction between races and colors and creeds. Your sadness and loneliness is the same as mine. We have the same feelings of love. Why? We have the same sun, one breath, all the earth is fed by the one sun, air, water-mother earth, and we return here. We are the flower of the earth of different colors, sizes, scents. You and your music - we all go in the same direction: toward the Creator. The Mayans with their hands tied, hearts torn out, are in the codices and were fulfilled five hundred years ago and to the present day. These prophesies are being fulfilled. In Guatemala, we cannot ask for food or land, or they will shoot us. They come at night and take our leaders and shoot them and torture them, rape them, and take their hearts out. Pregnant women have their babies torn from their stomachs. These injustices began five hundred years ago and continue to this very day in all the Americas. They want to destroy each other and turn mother earth into money. Soon the illness, heat, suicide and drought arrives. LETS SEE IF WE CAN FIX IT with money when there is no water, polluted land, air, seas…we cannot. We must do it now, before it is too late, we must stop cutting down the trees. We seek the unity of all people to seek no more pollution. Lets think about the future for our children. What will we leave them? A tank? A gun? We must leave them love, equality, freedom. Earth belongs to the Creator. It is for humans, for man. Man divided and put boundaries around it and owned the land. No one can claim the sun or air – it is for all of us. doomsday sayers. On August 11, 1987, the positions of planets in alignment brought more energy on the earth. There will be more earthquakes, volcanoes, floods, hurricanes, tornadoes, etc. During 2012-2013 there will be a great comet and a red comet. We are all creatures of the earth, but in space there are others. Comets might fall elsewhere. These are not predictions of death. But a great illness will come from pollution. That is why we are gathering, to stop the pollution that will cause this great illness. It is the fulfillment of a prophesy. During 1994, in Guatemala at a meeting of the elders, we lit a sacred fire day and night, and for seventy two hours there were more than three hundred elders participating. Not just to talk about the prophesies, but to awaken the power centers of the earth. That is why we are here now in North America, in Santa Fe. Each elder did their ceremonies for ten days. This was called the Continental Gathering Reunion. In 1997 we met again in Bogota, Colombia and ended in the Amazon. Over four hundred elders came. From there the indigenous people of North America were selected next in Santa Fe. Hopefully, you will help us. It is a prayer for Creating Peace. At each gathering there are certain papers presented and ceremonies done. Each tribe will share their knowledge and their prophesies, their ceremonies at the ceremonial sites. We struggle to defend our Mother Earth. All the goals discussed at the gathering must be written in a book. We are writing a history and publishing it. So the authorities can read it. There will be a thirty six hour prayer for peace. Everyone prayed and made offerings and created a memorial. The crystal skulls that are from the Mayan pyramids have been given to a woman to hold and protect. Later they will be returned to the pyramids. Anna Mitchell Hodges is holding them. These crystal skulls were brought from the Pleiades, they speak of reincarnation. The elders know the science of the lives in this. The Mother of Mayan science is Pleiadian. These skulls must go home where they belong. This is the science of the future after 2000. You were called to be here and carry this message. SPREAD THE WORD!! The Wingmakers are actually the star people. Mayan actually means “my people.” They first came to Atlantis. Our first pyramids are there, underwater. In the Bermuda area. Tulan was the name of the city of Atlantis. Their great prophets, (star people), came and gave an oral transmission. It has been passed down for thousands of years. In the beginning there were four of them. The first teachers from the Pleiades taught the astronomy and the beginning of creation, the Great Mysteries. They have the power of the sixth and seventh senses and the third eye. They came to teach us these things. The way of working together, etc. There have been many visitations from the Pleiades, then they return there, then they come back here again and come down to Asia, Tibet, Kaimaya, and in India also. “Nagamaya” they were called. There are glyphs that speak of these visitations, like the Wingmakers. More will be discovered when it is time. In 2012, these wise ones will return again. There are some now incarnated in bodies, we do not know who they are and it is a secret until the time comes. This is the return of the ancestors spoken about in the prophesies. They will all arise, not just Mayan, all of us. The prophesy says: To guide you with these messages, it is the message of the dawn…the bringers of the dawn. You will see then where we have come from. The Psychic says we, together will see our mountains, our children, our waters…”Now that I return I see my children confused in different religions and cities destroyed and my mountains and deserts and rivers polluted.” When they return in 2012, what will we show them? What will they see? Take this message and share it. This is why we are gathering, to tell people the importance of saving the mother earth, of stopping the pollution.” Thank you.  |
Posted: 08 Aug 2011 10:18 AM PDT “The Fourth World shall end soon, and the Fifth World will begin. This the elders everywhere know. The Signs over many years have been fulfilled, and so few are left.
The white man will battle people in other lands — those who possessed the first light of wisdom. There will be many columns of smoke and fire such as the white man has made in the deserts not far from here. Those who stay and live in the places of the Hopi shall be safe. Then there will be much to rebuild. And soon, very soon afterward, Pahana will return. He shall bring with him the dawn of the Fifth World. He shall plant the seeds of his wisdom in our hearts. Even now the seeds are being planted. These shall smooth the way to the Emergence into the Fifth World.”   |
Posted: 08 Aug 2011 05:43 AM PDT Psychic 9Nania has relocated to the mountains because of the coming Comet Elenin. She claims that because of the Comet’s impending proximity to Earth there will be many coming disasters.Recently, Leonoid Elenin, the man who discovered Comet Elenin in 2010 has come under scrutiny. Some conspiracy theorists have claimed he never existed and his name is simply the initials of a very ominous phrase, “extinction level event (ELE).” If Elenin is in fact a Comet and not a red dwarf then the only real danger will be when the Earth crosses the path of the debris that follows it.  http://disasterpredictions.com/comet-eclipse-sun-sept-262011/ |
Friday
DIVION IOI in Egypt
This is a photo of Nefertiti the Goddess who lived in Ancient Egypt, notice this Goddess's head. Her skull is extremely elongated, this would mean her brain would be much larger than a normal human's. Therefore making her extremely intelligent. This is actually a statue of her, it is in a museum in Egypt currently. Several pictures in Ancient Egypt portray some of the Gods or Goddesses with extremely large elongated heads. Is this some coincidence, why would the Ancient Egyptians make such large heads in their photos, carvings, and statues, there had to be a motivation of some kind apart from an artistic one, and in my opinion there is nothing artistically appealing about a large elongated head, so why did they do it? Read on to find out why!
This is a photo of a skull found in Peru, notice the elongated back of the skull. This is one of the many Deformed skulls photographed in the Museo Regional de Ica.
This is clearly not a human skull, we have been fed a variety of unlogical explanations as to why this skull has this formation. Several like it were found in Peru with small variations. Many artifacts that were clearly of Egyptian origin were also found in Peru dating back to the time of the Ancient Egyptians. However these two cultures and countries were not supposed to have had contact back then being so far from each other. Many odd things are found in Peru, the Nazca lines, a set of animal and geometrical lines engraved onto the ground which extend for miles. Engraving these lines would require a view from above to do them correctly, yet they were not supposed to have aircraft back then. So how did they do it?? This skull gives us a good idea. If they had brains big enough to fit into these skulls they could obviously find ways to fly in aircraft or spacecraft no doubt. A photo of other skulls found in Peru are below.
The next picture is an engraving in Ancient Egypt, notice the hats worn by the two adults, could they be covering their large heads and skulls? Notice the 2 babies, one on the left has an elongated skull, so do the 2 on the right. Could all these facts be just coincidences? Of course not? We are not all that gullible to keep accepting all these foolish arguments for all these obvious alien things we see around the world. Egypt, Peru, Mexico, Easter Island, we have been fed a bunch of baloney about the origins of all these incredible works and their builders. We are told in schools that the great pyramid of Egypt took 40 years to build and it's purpose was to bury a pharoah. Come on now, are we that gullible and were the Egyptians that gullible? Of course not, who would spend 40 years of hard labor building a pyramid just to stuff a dead body in it after 40 years of hard work. That hardly sounds logical for such an obviously advanced culture as the Ancient Egyptians. They invented their own language for god sakes, are we to think they were dumb enough to spend 40 years sweating their guts out for only burying 1 body. That is the stupidest thing we have been fed by Egyptologists to date. In Mexico the group of pyramids including the pyramid of the sun are known by people in Mexico by legend as "Place where the gods touch the earth." In all evidence this probably means where the aliens landed. Where they touched the Earth... Think about it, the pyramids are large stone monuments in Mexico with steps going down the sides. What better purpose for the steps than to allow the aliens to climb down the pyramids to the ground. That is the most logical reason for their construction. And to think that primitive people could build something so incredible is well not likely in all logic.
This picture contains 1 Egyptian with some strange device on his or her head, while his friend has an elongated head and slanted eyes. This photo is not artistic in nature as you can see. Their is nothing very artistic about it, so why give the guy such a large head. Because he had one is the most logical answer. Look at the complex code on the tablet, some primitive people didn't do all that, aliens did.
Here are all the skulls found that are elongated at the back. All these skulls are cataloged and genuine. They are all together in a museum. 
This object was found at Saqqara, in Egypt. This is one of the flying machines that we see portrayed in Ancient Egyptian paintings on walls and hieroglyphics. Notice the spirals on each side of the object, this is a universal shape, in fact it is the most common geometrical shape in the universe. To represent it in such a way depicts their understanding of the universe, to put it on this plane could signify that they explore the universe. The side view of this object resembles the following hieroglyph below which is found several times throughout Egypt. It looks like a plane of some sort, as does the object above. However I am more inclined to think this was an airship used once in the atmosphere of a planet. Ufo's of the disc type were probably used to enter space, however this plane type could also possibly enter space, however the aerodynamics might be more suitable to an atmospheric environment, such as us using planes to fly in the sky as opposed to the space shuttle.
One of the Deformed skulls photographed in the Museo Regional de Ica.
Reptilian looking entities found in Iraq - 5,000-4,500 BC.
Sumerian Gods
Alien Gray Entity Art Exhibit British Museum #52
Strange suited figure found in Kiev. It dates to ca. 4,000 BC.
7000 year old petroglyph discovered in the province of Querato, Mexico in 1966.
There are 4 figures with outstretched arms below a large oval object radiating what appear to be beams of light.
Petroglyphs dating back thousands of years ago by ancient Indians in the American Southwest. According to Indian folklore, two objects collided high in the sky and one crash-landed in the region of Death Valley. Some men arrived (presumably in another ship) and spent some time repairing the damaged craft and were observed by the local Indians. The two images below may possibly depict the ship (left) used by the men who came to repair the damaged craft. In comparing the two images, the one on the right seems to depict structural damage around the edges and the bottom. Could it be the one that allegedly crashed? The images are stills taken from an old TV series entitled "In search of..." hosted by Leonard Nimoy.
6000 BC from Tassili, Sahara Desert, North Africa. 
Cave painting from Tanzania. Estimated to be up to 29,000 years old. This picture is located in Itolo and depicts several disc shaped objects.
Wandjina petroglyphs from Kimberley, Australia.
About 5,000 years old and may represent alien beings.
Illustration depicting a sighting of a burning wheel in the year 900 over Japan.
This is a tapestry called Summer's Triumph It was created in Bruges in 1538 and presently resides at the Bayerisches National Museum. You can clearly see several disc shaped objects in the top of the tapestry.
15th Century
Rome
This picture shows a UFO sighting over Hamburg, Germany
The objects were described as 'two glowing wheels' -
November 4, 1697 - Wheels - Spoked Wheels.
The objects were described as 'two glowing wheels' -
November 4, 1697 - Wheels - Spoked Wheels.
A disk shaped object is shining beams of light down on John the Baptist and Jesus - Fitzwilliam Musuem, Cambridge, England - Painted in 1710 by Flemish artist Aert De Gelder. It depicts a classic, hovering, silvery, saucer shaped UFO shining beams of light down on John the Baptist and Jesus. What could have inspired the artist to combine these two subjects?
The painting above was done by Carlo Crivelli (1430-1495) and is called "The Annunciation with Saint Emidius" (1486) and hangs in the National Gallery, London. A disk shaped object is shining a pencil beam of light down into Mary's crown chakra. A blow up of the object is next to the painting.
Sunday
The Clock that told the Future
You have to love a clock that doesn't bother counting insignificant minutes and seconds. Built in 1410, Prague's Astronomical Clock tells time on a much grander scale. On the outer rings, you can see the hours tick by on a 24-hour scheme, but also "Bohemian Time"—a system that counted the hours since sunset. The inner mechanical components colorfully mark the sunrise, sunset, phases of the moon, position of the sun, and the zodiac, essentially painting a picture of the position of the earth within the universe as it was understood in medieval times. On the hour, the four animated figures around the dial—later additions—come to life: Death with his hourglass and bell, Vanity with his mirror, Greed waving a bag of gold, and a Turk. The last two (inadvertently) depict the 17th-century ethnic stereotypes and tensions that would haunt Central Europe in the future.
Writer: Megan Cytron Photo: Frank Yang
THE TURKS OF PRAGUE: THE MUNDANE AND THE SUBLIMEThe Prague Orloj
This is a draft chapter, copyright I. Kalmar 2008. Do not quote in print or on the internet without the author’s permission. Asterisks (*) indicate places to be filled in or revised.
One of the major tourist attractions of Prague is the famous Orloj, a large astronomical clock whose origins are shrouded in mystery. The Orloj takes up two or three stories on the outside wall of the city’s old city hall. It has two clock faces, the one on top showing time (as well as astronomical models of the universe) and the one at the bottom the calendar. The upper clock face includes the figures of Vanity holding a mirror and of *, both of which wear a hat that has some elements recalling an Ottoman turban. There is also Avarice, represented before the post-World-War II renovation by the hooked-nosed figure of a Jew. Finally, there is a skeleton representing Death. Since an ingenious nineteenth century remodeling, every hour on the hour when the clock tolls, Death pulls on a string setting in motion a procession of Jesus’ disciples. He also makes Vanity, Avarice, and * shake their heads, deliberately rejecting the message about the limits of Time.
Clocks were a common “vanitas device.” Ordinary upright clocks used in private homes often featured a skull and the inscription, tempus fugit or “time is running (out).” The message was to oppose the eternity of Heaven to the fleeting character of earthly existence. The theme became extremely popular in the Renaissance. In the famous Ambassadors of Hans Holbein the Younger (1533, fig. *),1 the two men’s wealth may be considered an allegory of Avarice, the mirror of Vanity,* and the considerable girth of the men perhaps as Gluttony. But the focus here is not on these medieval categories of sin as much as on worldly pleasures and knowledge do not represent sin as much as the folly of relying on this world rather than the divine sphere beyond. Worldly pleasure is symbolized, as it would be frequently also in the next century, by music: here, a lute and pipes. Music, apart from being widely considered a particularly fleeting pleasure, helped to represent sensuality by invoking the sense of hearing. The carpets, like the rich garments, of the men stand for wealth and prestige, and they also bring in the sense of touch. The most important signs of worldliness, however, are those of scientific knowledge. One of the men holds a telescope; there are globes, scientific instruments and an open book. But although the two men are obviously competent in science, they are completely unaware of the foreshortened skull that flies by, as if in a different dimension, at the bottom of the scene. It reminds us but not them that neither worldly knowledge nor pleasure will save us at the Day of Judgment approaches, and are not worth much compared to Faith. That was and remains the standard interpretation of the opening verse of the biblical book of Ecclesiastes, which warns about all human endeavor being in vain: “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity,” vanitas vanitorum omnia vanita,2- hence “vanity painting,” “vanity device,” the name given to works with this message, including Prague’s astronomical clock.
Although the hourly parade of the figures on the Orloj’s upper clock face dates in its present form only to a nineteenth century renovation, it captures this spirit of stressing the limits of the world, which the much older clock has no doubt long represented. Clocks themselves were a worldly achievement of what we now call technology and science, and one of the greatest inventions of the secular scientific spirit. Here a magnificent clock is forced here to pay obeisance to religion and so proclaims its own limitations.
What concerns us here is not so much the more spectacular upper clock face, but the more modestly decorated bottom of the Orloj composition. Under the calendar face there are two statues of “Turks,” part of a set of figurines that was placed on it in the seventeenth century, most likely in 1659.3 Like one of Holbein’s Ambassadors, one of the Turks holds a telescope and is popularly known as The Astronomer. The other Turkholding a book, an item also found in the Holbein picture, and is popularly known as The Philosopher (fig. *).
4 Next to the Philosopher stands the imposing, over sized figure of an angel. The angel holds a drawn sword in one hand and in the other (hidden behind a shield decorated with a cross) a pointer aimed at the calendar. No doubt it is the Archangel Michael, the heavenly warrior whom Christian tradition expects to appear on Judgment Day to lead our souls to judgment. He points to the calendar to remind us that tempus fugit
Wisely, the nineteenth century designers of the upper face’s mechanical show did not make the Turks’ heads shake in denial along with those of Avarice, Vanity, and *. For the Turks’ failing is not that they willingly contradict the supremacy of God over human science and pleasure, but that they are ignorant of it. What the Orloj is saying to us is that worldly knowledge is really disguised ignorance if it is not coupled with religion. If you have worldly wisdom but not the Holy Faith then you might as well be a Turk.
A Turk? Classic Church doctrine has it that the gates of heaven remain closed to those who have not been baptized. Those who died before Christ cannot get in; even Abraham and Plato must languish in Purgatory. Muslim philosophers (philosophy then included science and medicine, as well as alchemy and astrology) were often classed with these righteous non-Christians, especially the Greeks whose knowledge they inherited and transmitted to the Christian world. In Rafael’s School of Athens the Arab savant Avicenna (****-****) is anachronously included with Plato and the rest; in Dante’s Purgatory, too, he lingers with Hebrews and Greeks. The Muslim scholars’ wisdom like the Greeks’ was pre-Christian, not in chronological terms but in terms of the logic of Christianity: it figured at the limits of worldly knowledge where Christians could enter with a higher Truth.
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