Wednesday, May 27, 2020

The Rona and Global Surveillance (Part 4): More on Event 201, Charles Lieber and Nanosys' Unit 8200 links, Israeli-Chinese espionage at American laboratories, and Rockefeller Foundation's predictive programming

by Sean Jobst
27 May 2020

"'Let's call it pure luck,' he [Dr. Chen Katz, biotechnology group leader of MIGAL, The Galilee Research Institute] said. 'We decided to choose coronavirus as a model for our system just as a proof of concept for our technology.'" (Maayan Jaffe Hoffman, "Israeli scientists: 'In a few weeks, we will have coronavirus vaccine," The Jerusalem Post, 15 March 2020)

Not the virus itself but the agenda is about increasing surveillance and micromanaging of people and resources, deliberately crashing the world's economies to create a new face to the same interlinking Globalist system, and increase technology transfers to certain groups. "Social Distancing" and "Social Isolation" are codewords for Social Engineering. Anointed technocratic "experts" have manufactured the fears and anxieties of a compliant public, upon whom lockdowns have been justified no matter the very real economic and psychological effects that will be worse and more lasting than the Problem which prompted the lockdowns. These include the suicides, despair, falling back into substance abuses, and other problems stemming from the sudden "quarantines". They also include armies of unemployed now denied their very livelihoods, and the businesses that will never come back.

Even within the "alternative" movement that has questioned official narratives, are many groups and individuals promoting their own false narratives. Chief among these are those who hate their own Western countries so much they faithfully serve as mouthpieces of the Kremlin and Chinese Communist regime, pontificating for example on the Israeli influence within their own countries but ignoring Israel's extensive links with their beloved "multipolar" saviors. Among them are those promoting a "Fort Detrick" origin narrative for the Coronavirus in the same vein as the KGB's Operation Infektion psyop. They naively assume that the governments of Russia, China and other selected countries of their orbit are "innocent" of the same type of sordid track record as Western governments.

They include those who have ripped off the pioneering work of a few individuals (whom I am also heavily indebted to, especially Brendon O'Connell and Jon Swinn) about Unit 8200 and Talpiot, but injecting into it their own disinfo which hides all the links of Russia and China, further accusing it of only being a Western corporate and Big Pharma agenda which ignores the other poles of Globalism. Such as those who pin it onto a bioweapon "trade war" narrative which absolves the Chinese regime of any blame. I don't want to give such voices much publicity, but just one group pushing this narrative is the Canada-based Centre for Research on Globalization, whose founder is the son of a career UN diplomat, often appears on Kremlin-state media, and his rhetoric promoted by Chinese diplomats and state media. There are many more examples.




The Event 201 Network

In Part 3, I referenced a vaccine by the Big Pharma firm Emergent Biosolutions, with associations with 9/11 figures Jerome Hauer and Michael Chertoff and the Israeli Unit 8200-ridden Carbyne, funded by a Bill Gates-founded group called the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI). It was founded in 2016 at the World Economic Forum as a joint project of four governments (Norway, Germany, Japan, and India), two private foundations (Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Wellcome Trust), and six of the largest Big Pharma firms: GSK GlaxoSmithKline, Merck, J&J, Sanofi, Takeda, and Pfizer. This joining of governments, "philanthropic" foundations, and for-profit companies is a perfect illustration of Communitarianism, the Globalist "Smart Cities" dialectical ideology. 

These various foundations are linked, disguising their activities as "humanitarian" while their ill-gotten money has strings attached and are linked to profit-making trusts, as with Gates' various operations. One of his partners in CEPI is The Wellcome Trust's Jeremy Farrar, since 2018 a board member of the Global Preparedness Management Board (GPMB), one of the players behind Event 201 along with a collection of Big Banks, Big Pharma, and government-linked medical groups to further "private-public cooperation" (as per Agenda 2030?). Indeed the GPMB is associated with both the World Bank and the Wuhan ("World") Health Organization. It was on their behalf that the GPMB issued its 2019 annual report, "A World At Risk: Annual report on global preparedness for health emergencies", curiously highlighting "Progress indicator(s) by September 2020" seeming to plan for a pandemic: "The United Nations (including WHO) conducts at least two systemwide training and simulation exercises, including one covering the deliberate release of a lethal respiratory pathogen"(page 4). 

The GPMB touted the phrase "new normal" in 2019, before it became a Covidian buzzword to mentally prepare the masses to accept whatever changes will come in its wake. Other GPMB board members include high-ranking government health officials in Russia, China, the EU, and elsewhere; Dr. Chris Elias, president of the Global Development Program for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation; and two familiar names in the American Coronavirus discourse: Drs. Anthony Fauci and Victor Dzau. Between 2003 and 2010, Fauci was on the Scientific Board of Global Grand Challenges, funded by and associated with the Gates Foundation. Aside from serving as one of the World Economic Forum's Health Governors, Dzau is a Board Member of Research! America, a non-profit which issued a propaganda fluff piece praising CEPI. Dzau is one of the benefactors on the "Honor Roll" of the Jewish Federation of Durham Chapel Hill, which has awarded and associated with Chabad, the supremacist movement backed by deep oligarchic networks whose activities I documented in several articles.

An indirect Unit 8200-link to Event 201 comes through the French multinational pharma firm Sanofi, whose former CEO Christopher Vierbacher visited Israel in 2009, meeting with Shimon Peres and involving the firm in a joint project with the Unit 8200-ridden Technion. "Sanofi's interest in Israel as a source of innovation has grown in recent years," according to Sanofi-Aventis Israel general manager Ronnie Birnboim. One of the recipients of Sanofi's award is Israeli bacteria researcher Roy Kishony, "a graduate of the Talpiot program", a more exclusive offshoot of Unit 8200. "Biology is becoming a quantitative science - a discipline that makes use of advanced calculation methods and Big Data," Kishony has said, which should add some significance to Netanyahu's own boasts about using Big Data as one of the three planks of Israel's hi-tech superpower, alongside AI and connectivity. Sanofi has some association with BiomX, an Israeli microbiome firm whose CEO and Board Member Jonathan Solomon "was selected to participate in the elite Israeli Defense Forces 'Talpiot' program, graduated as class valedictorian, and served for 10 years in a classified military unit," as touted on the firm's website.


Harvard neuroscientist Charles Lieber,
awarded Israel's Wolf Prize in 2012


Israeli/Chinese agent Charles Lieber and Nanosys' Unit 8200 links

On 28 January 2020, news broke that Charles Lieber, a renowned neuroscientist and chair of Harvard's Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, was arrested and charged with lying about his ties to China's Thousand Talents Plan, "a program designed to lure people with knowledge of foreign technology and intellectual property to China," according to an Associated Press article. "Under Lieber's Thousand Talents program contract, prosecutors say, he was paid $50,000 a month by the Wuhan University of Technology in China and living expenses up to $158,000. He was also awarded more than $1.5 million to establish a research lab at the Chinese university, prosecutors said. In exchange, prosecutors say, Lieber agreed to publish articles, organize international conferences and apply for patents on behalf of the Chinese university, among other things." 

Although not directly related to Coronavirus, his arrest indicates suspicious connections to Chinese espionage and "soft propaganda" efforts. But lost in the debate is Lieber's links with Israel, giving us a fuller picture in light of that country's role in China's Belt and Road Initiative. As founder of the nanotechnology startup Nanosys, Lieber participated in the "NanoIsrael: Showcasing Israeli Nanotechnology" conference in Jerusalem on 30-31 March 2009. That conference was initiated by Professor Nava Swersky Sofer, who works closely with Unit 8200 and was president and CEO of Yissum, the Hebrew University's technology transfer company, until December 2008. On 13 May 2012, Lieber was awarded the Wolf Prize for his work on nanowires, in a Knesset ceremony presided over by Shimon Peres. This is a $100,000 international award given to scientists and artists, in what I suspect involves some technology transfer to Israel.




We have to wonder what kind of operation Lieber was part of at Harvard, which is positioned in a region with many hi-tech and biotech laboratories and firms. As with California's Silicon Valley, many Israeli cybersecurity firms have moved to Boston as part of Unit 8200's technology transfers from the United States back to Israel. The one man who has most facilitated this (as well as Israel's close ties with Putin and Xi Jinping) is Netanyahu, who studied at M.I.T. after serving with "an elite commando unit", Sayeret Matkal, which falls under the control of Israeli Military Intelligence according to the IDF's own website. Sayeret Matkal also has a direct link to Unit 8200: "Although 8200 is more known for its glasses wearing computer geniuses, this section of the unit helps to gather field intelligence for the most elite combat units in the IDF – including Sayeret Matkal and the Israeli Navy's Shayetet 13." Not surprisingly, Chinese institutions such as the Wuhan Institute of Virology have been active in smuggling biological agents out of the Boston area:

"Scientists have downloaded sensitive research files before returning to China, filed patents based on U.S. research, lied on grant applications and failed to disclose money they had received from Chinese institutions, according to a congressional report issued last fall....Federal prosecutors in Boston also announced charges this week against a researcher at Boston University, who is accused of concealing her ties to the Chinese military. Yanqing Ye, who prosecutors say is a lieutenant in the People's Liberation Army, lied about her military service to get into the U.S. and researched U.S. military projects and gathered information on two U.S. scientists for the Chinese military....Federal authorities suspect that both Harvard and Winnipeg were complicit in the smuggling of dangerous biological agents to the Wuhan Institute of Virology."




A Long Record of Israeli/Chinese Espionage at North American Laboratories

The Wuhan Institute of Virology houses China's only Pathogen 4-Level Biosafety Laboratory, studying such P4 microbes as the Coronavirus. In recent years, at least two Chinese virologists, Xiangguo Qui and Keding Cheng, have been caught stealing and smuggling sensitive virus research and samples from the National Microbiology Lab in Winnipeg, Canada's only P4-Level virology laboratory, to Wuhan. For the suspicious origins of Coronavirus in Wuhan, I highly recommend YouTuber laowhy86's video entitled "I Found The Source of the Coronavirus". Also adding to a fuller picture is the book, Seeds of Fire: China and the Story Behind the Attack on America (Tempe, AZ: Dandelion Books, 2001), by the late Welsh author and investigative journalist Gordon Thomas, who was a specialist on Mossad. As the following excerpts document, Israeli and Chinese intelligence collaborated in espionage at Los Alamos laboratory (so its not a stretch to suggest a similar role in the Winnipeg and Boston cases):

"Over the ensuing years, that cooperation had developed on all levels. China had provided Israel with experts on water desalination and agricultural techniques. Israel had provided the Chinese with the details of various weapon systems provided by the United States but it was in the secret world of intelligence, the one inhabited by Mossad and CSIS, that the closest ties had been developed. These had culminated in 1999 when Ephraim Halevy, then director general of Mossad, had made a secret visit to CSIS headquarters in Beijing. Shortly afterwards, senior members of CSIS had visited Mossad in Tel Aviv. This relationship between the two services would prove to be crucial in what was to follow. The entire break-in to Los Alamos was coordinated by  Hu Jintao whose official title was a director of ILD, China's internal liason department." (page 473)

"George Tenet also knew that though [Wen Ho] Lee had not been a CSIS [Chinese Secret Intelligence Service] spy [in Los Alamos Laboratory in the 1990s], had carried out its penetration of Los Alamos almost certainly with the help of another foreign intelligence service. On paper that service was deemed to be the closest of all friendly intelligence agencies to the American intelligence community. The service was Mossad, the external intelligence agency of Israel. When Tenet had come into office, he had read two documents written by his predecessors. The first was penned by William Casey on March 21, 1984: 'A nation creates the intelligence community it needs. America relies on technical expertise because we are concerned to discover rather than secretly rule. The Israelis operate differently. Mossad in particular equates its actions with its nation's survival.' The second document was written by Robert Michael Gates a mere week after he became director of the CIA on December 15, 1986: 'Mossad's most celebrated director Meir Amit has said that the Mossad should live by the credo 'Israel first, last and always. Always we must never be caught going through the pockets of our friends.' The key word is 'caught'.' Commenting on that adage, Gates had detailed Mossad's increased penetration of the United States through economic, scientific and technological espionage. A special Israeli unit code-named AL, Hebrew for 'above', had been set up to prowl through California's Silicon Valley and Boston's Route 128 for hi-tech secrets. 

"In his report to the Senate Intelligence Committee, another of Tenet's predecessors, Bobby Ray Inman, had identified Israel as one of six foreign nations with a 'government-directed, orchestrated and clandestine effort to steal US military in economic secrets'. Tenet had not forgotten that another on the list was China, now though he still could not prove it in a way that a court of law would demand proof he was very certain that the Los Alamos operation had been a joint venture between Mossad and CSIS. For China the accruing benefits had been easy to understand: access the secrets that no other country be possessed. For Israel those secrets were also beyond price, but to share them with China, Israel had demanded an extra price: access to other technology that China was developing which would give Israel a lead over its Arab neighbors in such vital areas as agriculture, water desalination, and the other requirements that would assure the country would continue to prosper and blossom in the arid landscape as their forefathers. Israel would also receive China's latest weapons technology as advanced as that of the United States. George Tenet, so his friends later said, had thought long and hard about how much of all of this he should reveal to the Bush transition team. Those same friends had no doubt that as his limousine eased its way through the traffic on its nine-mile journey into Washington the question would still be uppermost in his mind." (page 23)

"Now, nine years later, driving into Washington, Tenet knew those FBI documents about Robert Maxwell could go some way to providing the Bush transition team with highly persuasive evidence that it was not the hapless Dr. Lee who had been the Chinese Secret Service spy inside Los Alamos-but the Israeli version of the Enhanced Promis software that Robert Maxwell, with the full approval of Rafi Eitan and undoubtedly Israel's political masters, had sold to China." (page 25)

"Eighteen heavily redacted FBI documents in the possession of the author and obtained under the Freedom of Information Act, provide sufficient clues to piece together a startling new slant to the botched investigation by the FBI into the later thefts from Los Alamos of its most sensitive nuclear secrets in a joint operation by Mossad and CSIS - using Israel's doctored Enhanced Promis software Robert Maxwell had sold Beijing." (page 59)




Predictive Programming in The Rockefeller Foundation's 2010 Report?

One of the major funders of Lieber's Nanosys firm is Venrock, a venture capital fund linked to the Rockefeller Foundation, including a $15 million donation in 2012. A Nanosys board member, Steve Goldby, is also a partner at Venrock. Among the Israeli cybersecurity firms Venrock has invested is Check Point Software Technologies, providing crucial funding in its early years. Check Point was conceived by founder and CEO Gil Shwed during his service in Unit 8200. Interestingly, an October 2002 magazine associates Shwed with "The 20/20 Vision Awards" (2020?). Venrock's parent firm, The Rockefeller Foundation, in collaboration with the Global Business Network of futurologist Peter Schwartz published a May 2010 report, "Scenarios for the Future of Technology and International Development". The "godfather of scenario planning", Schwartz famously authored an apocalyptic 2004 report predicting that by 2020, rising sea levels stemming from "climate change" would sink Britain and many European cities underwater and turn Siberia into a "wasteland". 

The 2010 Report planned ways that a pandemic could be used as an excuse to establish authoritarian controls on a worldwide level. In its Orwellian phrasing, the Report names "scenario planning" as an "important component of our strategy toolkit" by providing "a process of creating narratives about the future based on factors likely to affect a particular set of challenges and opportunities." Under the heading "LOCK STEP: Scenario Narratives. A world of tighter top-down government control and more authoritarian leadership, with limited innovation and growing citizen pushback," the Report makes forecasts eerily similar to what has occurred with governments' reactions to the Coronavirus:

"In 2012, the pandemic that the world had been anticipating for years finally hit. Unlike 2009’s H1N1, this new influenza strain—originating from wild geese—was extremely virulent and deadly. Even the most pandemic-prepared nations were quickly overwhelmed when the virus streaked around the world, infecting nearly 20 percent of the global population and killing 8 million in just seven months, the majority of them healthy young adults. The pandemic also had a deadly effect on economies: international mobility of both people and goods screeched to a halt, debilitating industries like tourism and breaking global supply chains. Even locally, normally bustling shops and office buildings sat empty for months, devoid of both employees and customers.

"The pandemic blanketed the planet—though disproportionate numbers died in Africa, Southeast Asia, and Central America, where the virus spread like wildfire in the absence of official containment protocols. But even in developed countries, containment was a challenge. The United States’s initial policy of 'strongly discouraging' citizens from flying proved deadly in its leniency, accelerating the spread of the virus not just within the U.S. but across borders. However, a few countries did fare better—China in particular. The Chinese government’s quick imposition and enforcement of mandatory quarantine for all citizens, as well as its instant and near-hermetic sealing off of all borders, saved millions of lives, stopping the spread of the virus far earlier than in other countries and enabling a swifter postpandemic recovery." (page 18)




"China’s government was not the only one that took extreme measures to protect its citizens from risk and exposure. During the pandemic, national leaders around the world flexed their authority and imposed airtight rules and restrictions, from the mandatory wearing of face masks to body-temperature checks at the entries to communal spaces like train stations and supermarkets. Even after the pandemic faded, this more authoritarian control and oversight of citizens and their activities stuck and even intensified. In order to protect themselves from the spread of increasingly global problems—from pandemics and transnational terrorism to environmental crises and rising poverty—leaders around the world took a firmer grip on power.

"At first, the notion of a more controlled world gained wide acceptance and approval. Citizens willingly gave up some of their sovereignty—and their privacy—to more paternalistic states in exchange for greater safety and stability. Citizens were more tolerant, and even eager, for top-down direction and oversight, and national leaders had more latitude to impose order in the ways they saw fit. In developed countries, this heightened oversight took many forms: biometric IDs for all citizens, for example, and tighter regulation of key industries whose stability was deemed vital to national interests. In many developed countries, enforced cooperation with a suite of new regulations and agreements slowly but steadily restored both order and, importantly, economic growth." (page 19)

The Rockefeller Foundation followed this up with its 2010 Annual Report that promoted various "sustainable development" proposals centered around "climate change" although including transportation and communication infrastructure which likely partnered it with companies involved on the Belt and Road Initiative. In true dialectic fashion, we see such foundations as front for social engineering and funnelling untold amounts of money across its various networks as cover. If what the Report suggests about its intimate involvement in these healthcare activities is to be believed, what have they been doing with all the money and their efforts vis-a-vis the entire decade leading up to the Coronavirus? It also refers to a "new disease" that "becomes an unchecked pandemic":

"With no network to transfer critical infectious disease information, without open lines of communication, thousands more fall sick. The 'new' disease becomes an unchecked pandemic. By the time the right expertise is brought to bear on the problem, it's too late - the disease has spread around the globe....The potential pandemics of the past few decades have severely tested the world's ability to work across human borders. Detection remains weak in many parts of the world. The public health response has frequently been slow and fragmented. The looming threat of infectious disease presents humanity with a new challenge: to communicate and collaborate swifter and with greater efficiency than ever before." (page 21)

"The Rockefeller Foundation has invested $22 million in its Disease Surveillance Networks Initiative to help contain the spread of infectious diseases and pandemics by strengthening national, regional and global disease surveillance and response systems....As illustrated by the emerging pandemics of this new century - SARS, avian flu, and swine flu - if we don't move quickly, viruses will. By continuing our drive to invest in systems that coordinate efforts and share information, the Rockefeller Foundation is working to ensure that we have the ability to meet the health challenges of an interconnected world." (pages 22-23)

Wednesday, May 13, 2020

The Rona and Global Surveillance (Part 3): Nature of Technocrats and Unit 8200 links, Globalist pandemic simulations, and Carbyne's insidious apps

by Sean Jobst
13 May 2020

We have been given the lesson of a lifetime, for this process has given us the chance to know ourselves and reality, condensed into a few months. That "Do As I Say Not As I Do" is the actual credo of the most vociferous architects of The Rona lockdowns and quarantines, is made clear by the hypocrisy of one who has so often cried "pandemic" while flouting his own dictates, just as apocalyptic climate cultists shame the working and middle classes for their "carbon footprint" while themselves being the biggest environmental abusers. Among the staunchest advocates of strict lockdowns, smugly lecturing to the millions of workers, small business owners, and farmers most being affected by economic shutdowns (as well as the untold psychological effects we will see within the upcoming years), are certain people from the civil service, medical and mainstream media fields whose own jobs are safe and secure. These are the lower level priests and priestesses of this latest Covidian sect of the religion of Statism, faithfully carrying out the dictates of certain technocrats now elevated as untouchable deities.

Technocrats want to literally control all aspects of our lives, but rather than embolden them what this process most reveals are the inadequacies of these robotic control freaks. Every attempt they make to dictate to and control humanity, provides untold opportunities for growth and creativity, for their soulless monotone murmurs can never extinguish the melodious songs of our hearts. What is the purpose of their miserable lives beyond the fool's errand of an illusory control stemming from a hatred of their own individuation? So too are the insecure messianic simpletons who have wagered appreciation for the moment, in favor of a linear supremacist delusion which would give them neither peace nor fulfillment even if it did come to fruition. Behind both is the foolish and futile desire to "transcend" the very things making us conscious beings living a beautiful existence.


Behind the dorky face is neither soul nor consciousness


Microsoft's extensive Unit 8200 links

One of these technocrats is Microsoft's uninspiring bespectacled android, who funds countless projects through ill-gotten "philanthropy" in an abject pursuit of absolute control over the seven billion humans he considers lesser beings. Many of these projects connect various Globalist Technocratic NGOs and "charitable" foundations, with the take-over of American cyber-security and hi-tech firms by members of Israeli military intelligence's Unit 8200. These links abound throughout The Rona, as I previously documented in relation to the NSO Group and various firms' connections to the "Smart Cities"  project. And the android has personally enabled and worked with many of these front companies. "Israel is a center of great technological company," Netanyahu told Microsoft Israel's R&D (Research & Development) Center's annual Think Next showcase in Tel Aviv in February 2016. "Microsoft is a great technological company. It's a marriage made in heaven, but recognized here on earth."

Gates and Netanyahu met each other several times, including at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on 23 January 2014. The 2016 showcase was commemorating the center's 25th anniversary, on which occasion Gates appeared on video call, saying how he was "very impressed" with how the Israeli developments in technology (largely from stolen American technology) were "improving the world": "We decided to open the center - it was out first one outside the US." He invested in a $65 million project and other ventures within Israel, many involving companies founded or staffed by Unit 8200 alumni. "It's not surprising to see Microsoft make these acquisitions in Israel," according to Zack Miller, a partner at OurCrowd, an online funding platform that encourages investors in Israeli start-ups. "Bill Gates famously said that the innovation going on in Israel is critical to the future of tech. Microsoft is using Israel as a lab of innovation, just like Apple and Google are doing."

From January 2018 until he stepped down in December 2019 to lead a start-up that was also invested in by Microsoft, the R&D Center was headed by Assaf Rappaport, a Unit 8200 and Talpiot program alumni who founded the cloud security company Adallom in 2012 with two other Unit 8200 members, Ami Luttwak and Roy Reznik. In 2015, Microsoft acquired Adallom for $320 million and rebranded it Microsoft Cloud App Security. These links should especially cause alarm after Microsoft won the $10 billion contract for the Pentagon's JEDI cloud security in October 2019, although a Federal judge halted the decision after a February 2020 injunction by its rival Amazon (which has its own Unit 8200 links through its cloud technology developed by Dome9). With the connivance of its military-industrial-complex subversives in November 2018, the Pentagon awarded Microsoft a $480 million contract to provide the U.S. military with its HoloLens technology, which had partly been developed in Microsoft Israel's R&D Center. Given Israeli intelligence's "backdoor" technologies inserted into other countries' security systems, what Microsoft has been enabling through its Unit 8200 links is nothing short of treasonous.
 
According to The Times of Israel, "Microsoft showed off 40 of its new technologies at its annual innovation show - and made it clear that Israel is extremely important to the future fortunes of the company." One of these "fortunes" is through its investment in Team8, whose chief executive Nadav Zafrir was former commander of Unit 8200. Microsoft also invested in two offshoots of Team 8, the cyber-security firm Illusive Networks and Claroty, "which secures critical infrastructure sites such as oil and gas fields." The latter fits with the pattern we saw in Part 1 and Part 2 about how involved these myriad of companies are with the front of "securing" infrastructure. More directly related to the current event, predictive analyst Kira Radinsky worked at a Microsoft Research medical data-mining operation before taking up her position as Chairwoman and Chief Technology Officer at Diagnostic Robotics, which develops A.I. in the context of medical data and has partnered with the transhumanist Singularity Education Group. After her own stint in Unit 8200, Radinsky was selected for its even-more classified offshoot, Unit 81. In an obvious publicity stunt, Unit 81 recently broken cover to highlight its role in "fighting Coronavirus".




QualComm, Carbyne, Coronavirus Tracking Apps, and the Epstein Network

I affirm that Coronavirus is an actual virus, although not nearly as deadly as the governments, technocrats, and media of the world are asserting for their own control purposes. I also affirm that it started in a Wuhan laboratory, from whence it spread by an experiment gone wrong, and then by the Chinese Communist regime's failure to stop its spread outside China. Under the credo of "Never let a crisis go to waste," these various "elites" are using "temporary" measures to "fight" the virus as the excuse to entrench more permanent digital mass-surveillance policies. They are conditioning the people to embrace what's being touted as a "new normal". There is not a forced agenda to fear, because they only have the control over us that we give to them. We need only truly know ourselves while also shining some light on these agendas.

One of these agendas are tracking apps, being rolled out allegedly to "track" the spread of the virus and prevent "contact", but such firms as NSO Group are using them as an excuse for surveillance and control. The governments of Poland, Germany, and Singapore are just some that have used the virus for tracking apps in varying degrees of legislation. In most countries at least, it is entirely voluntary whether one chooses to download them or not, but clearly the "smart phone" trend has opened up a host of possibilities for these firms. The Technocrats obsess about monitoring and controlling all human activities and even thought, while these Unit 8200 firms are part of Israeli aspirations to become a "technological superpower" as Netanyahu has frequently stated, through the take-over of cyber-security, big data mining, and other hi-tech firms.

As we saw earlier, aside from Microsoft the intellectual property and semiconductors firm QualComm also invested in the Unit 8200-linked Team8. QualComm's co-founder and chairman emeritus, Irwin M. Jacobs, is a Zionist who developed many early connections to Israel's "defense" industry and tech start-ups, which he built upon when he recruited workers from the Unit 8200-ridden Technion when he founded QualComm. One of his main objectives through its R&D center in Haifa is "to create an 'Internet of Everything,' where objects are intelligently connected through a combination of advanced wireless networks, modules, sensors and software to enable the real-time exchange of information," according to the Times of Israel. Praising Israel's "ability to design better ways of controlling things," Jacobs alluded to the same type of technology behind the "pandemic" tracking apps: "In addition, Israelis are developing some wonderful apps.”



Carbyne's connections reads like a who's who of Israeli 
Unit 8200, Jeffrey Epstein's Mega Group, and
Viktor Vekselberg, one of Putin's oligarchs


Many such apps were developed by Carbyne, "a public safety emergency communication platform, running the most advanced technology for emergency infrastructure", whose various Globalist and Unit 8200 links I documented in Part 1. Carbyne's co-founder and shareholder Lital Leshem, was an Israeli military intelligence captain also associated with the private intelligence firm Black Cube and the Frontier Resource Group, a joint operation by the Chinese government and Erik Prince of Blackwater/Xe infamy. The IoT and tracking apps envisions China's "Integrated Joint Operations Platform" as the model, a technology founded through this medium and which "monitors every aspect of a user’s life, including personal conversations, power usage, activating the camera and microphone, and even tracking a user’s movement," according to TRT World. One of Carbyne's investors is the Globalist billionaire and technocrat Peter Thiel, whose Founder's Fund has funded and backed a Carbyne-developed app currently used by New Orleans among others to "fight coronavirus." Carbyne's long record in mass surveillance technologies speaks for itself.

Carbyne was founded with initial funding by former Israeli prime minister Ehud Barak and the billionaire financier and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, whose Mega Group connected such big names in Zionist activism as Les Wexner and Charles Bronfman. Another Carbyne investor is Nicole Junkermann, founder of NJF Capital, a London-based investment firm involved in health care and Artificial Intelligence. On 19 November 2018, she joined twelve other Big Pharma technocrats and financiers in the Healthtech Advisory Board of the UK's National Health Service (NHS), giving her access to that country's medical records and data of millions, as noted by the Welsh activist and investigative journalist Johnny Vedmore: "Every single piece of data about you, your health issues, your blood type, the model of the wireless pacemaker keeping you alive, every detail of every embarrassing medical problem in the hands of the Israeli state apparatus and potentially sold off to the highest bidder." 

Aside from his extensive Zionist connections, Epstein also had many associates among the same type of technocrats and financiers held up now as hallowed voices of Covidianism. One of his inner circles was the "father of artificial intellgence", Marvin Minsky, who died at Epstein's mansion in the Virgin Islands in 2016. Minsky was co-founder of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Media Lab, through which Epstein funneled millions. Investigative journalist Ronan Farrow revealed in The New Yorker how the Media Lab's directors, Joi Ito and Peter Cohen, went to great lengths to hide any mention of the source for these millions: "Epstein appeared to serve as an intermediary between the lab and other wealthy donors, soliciting millions of dollars in donations from individuals and organizations, including the technologist and philanthropist Bill Gates and the investor Leon Black." This included a $2 million gift from Gates through Epstein as the intermediary. The two met at Epstein's New York mansion in 2013, and Gates flew on one of Epstein's planes to Palm Beach as attested by flight records. They spoke more than once "to discuss ways to increase philanthropic spending, according to people with direct knowledge of the matter." Gates had first met with Epstein in 2011, in a gathering at Epstein's Manhattan mansion that also included Gates' science advisor Boris Nikolic, a senior JPMorgan executive, and former Treasure Secretary Lawrence Summers. A member of the World Economic Forum, Nikolic was named a fallback executor in Epstein's will. As a biotech venture capitalist, Nikolic is among the many technocrats poised to profit from the Coronavirus. 



What are we to make that the same person who handled
the WTC's "security" in the lead-up to 9/11, is now
associated with an alleged "vaccine" funded by Gates?


The wet dream forecasts of the psychopath technocrats, in
last year's simulation by the Gates Foundation and others now
held up as "saviors" in the Coronavirus. Hegelian Dialectic 
masked as a "humanitarian" concern for the masses they hate



Profiting from the Rona, 9/11 links of biotech "saviors", WHO China links, and simulated pandemics

There is now a rush by competing corporations and governments to produce a Covid-19 "vaccine". I do not envision any "forced" vaccination while still questioning many medical industry orthodoxies, but what most concerns me are the specific groups exploiting it for their own purposes. On 10 March 2020, big pharma firms Emergent Biosolutions and Novavax announced a joint effort to produce a Covid-19 vaccine with funding from the Gates-backed Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations (CEPI). Emergent Biosolutions is the rebranded BioPort that profited from "anthrax vaccines" following 9/11, enabled by Jerome Hauer, a Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) national security advisor who is now an Emergent investor and board member and associated with the Chertoff Group of former Homeland Security director and current Carbyne investor and board member, Michael Chertoff. On 9/11, Hauer was a managing director with Kroll Associates, the "risk consulting" firm that handled security at the World Trade Center and whose current manifestation K2 Intelligence, openly touts its Unit 8200 and Shin Bet connections. CEPI donated over $60 million to Emergent in 2018.

Managing the global responses to the coronavirus is the World Health Organization (WHO), whose largest nonstate sponsor is the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, the "philanthropic" wing of Gates' operations: "The result has been a new model of charity in which the most direct beneficiaries are sometimes not the world's poor but the world's wealthiest, in which the goal is not to help the needy but to help the rich help the needy." The WHO is the epitome of such a model, filled with corrupt bureaucrats and led by director-general Tedros Adhanom, an Ethiopian Marxist who has praised China as the "new standard for outbreak control". His predecessor, Margaret Chan, gave a speech praising China as "a model for development at many levels," led by a regime that "has made health the centre of all government policies." Such a glowing naivete towards Communist China meant the WHO ignored Taiwan's warnings about the Covid-19 as early as December 2019, sidelining Taiwan from its organization, and gave in to Beijing's pressures to delay any warning about the Coronavirus till after China had already allowed the virus to spread outside its borders - all the while Adhanom and other WHO officials criticized other countries for restricting their borders.


Powerful illustration by the Hong Kong illustrator Eric Chow,
accurately showing head of the Wuhan Health Organization


A recent powerful painting by the Berlin-based artist,
Jason Mann, entitled "Portrait of Xi Jinping." A work of
genius showing 習近平 with his hands around the necks
of the Hong Kong executive and WHO director-general 


As I have expressed in this series, the globalist Technocrats extol Communist China as a model due to its communitarian-style synthesis of Communism and Capitalism, ruled over by a bureaucratic elite with very tight technological monitoring of all citizens. This is a mirror looking back into the technocrats' faces, revealing for example their hypocrisy about latching upon "climate change" to shame the West's working and middle classes for their "carbon emissions", while excusing China's environmental abuses such as when the billionaire and former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg deflected attention against India at the Democratic Presidential debate in Las Vegas on 19 February 2020: "In all fairness, the Chinese have slowed down. It is India that is an even bigger problem." Much like the WHO, audio recordings from 2014 revealed that Bloomberg's media outlet killed an investigation into the wealth of Chinese Communist Party elites so as to not offend their cozy relations with the regime.

This was the same Bloomberg who was involved in the building of a joint Israeli Technion-Cornell campus on Roosevelt Island, along with the Unit 8200-linked Irwin Jacobs. These various threads are all linked through the Israeli-Chinese alliance and the Belt-and-Road Initiative. In October 2019, the World Economic Forum, Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, and John Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health jointly held "Event 201", a simulation of "a pandemic with potentially catastrophic consequences." It simulated an apocalyptic series of viruses, including one that originated within bats, and gauged the responses in a way that such groups could then step in with the "solutions". Something to ponder as we continue in Part 4 about Charles Leiber and Nanosys' Unit 8200 links, Chinese espionage at North American laboratories, and the Rockefeller Foundation's own "simulation" of a pandemic in 2010....




Tuesday, April 28, 2020

Walpurgisnacht - A Journey Across Time, Space, and Darkness

by Sean Jobst
27 April 2020

It is a misty night whose magical qualities inspired many a poet and writer who dared allow themselves to step outside time and space. This night is when a disguised Mephistopheles sought to distract a Faust who had already bargained away his soul, from knowing the fate of his beloved Gretchen. The great poet who transmitted this story, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, on one winter's night in 1777 ascended the snowy heights of the Brocken to both recover from the sorrow of his sister's death and to step outside the mundane constraints of his Weimar society - but descended down newly inspired to create one of the best poetic masterpieces in the German language. This legendary night was immortalized by the great Irish novelist Bram Stoker as one "When the graves were opened and the dead came forth and walked. When all evil things of earth and air and water held revel." American science-fiction writer H.P. Lovecraft described this night's infernal qualities in "The Dreams in the Witch House", while its esoteric imagery has been meditated upon by occultists.

Walpurgisnacht is the name for this incredible night around which mysteries and legends are constructed. The night of 30th April, leading into the 1st of May celebrated in Spring festivals across Europe. It should be no accident that a night associated with death and the undead comes on the twilight of a great celebration of new life and fertility, for the two are complementary parts of the same cycle. Regions of southern and central Germany have woven unique traditions around the mystical strands of this night. As we have seen with Ostara earlier this month, distinctions between what was imposed by Church authorities and what was carried over from die alten Volkstraditionen of Heathen times are not always apparent but make for an illuminating journey across worlds as we unravel deeper aspects of ourselves.

Also known as Hexennacht, Walpurgisnacht according to folklore is the dark night before May Day when witches from across Germany took flight to see the witch-king in the Harz mountains, from whom they received their orders for the next year and held a large celebration on the Brocken, the highest peak of northern and central Germany. Legends lend credence to the Brocken's peculiar natural features. For around 300 days a year, the mountain is shrouded in fog, which "creates an optical illusion of magnifying the observers' shadow" called the Brocken specter that "provides a natural stage for the supernatural and fantasies about evil"(Hudson). This isolated area for so long formed a "terra incognita" which happened to be one of the last regions of Germany to be converted to the cross. Yet underneath the outer imagery and investments of "evil communions with the devil" are deeper remnants of indigenous Heathen lore transposed upon a Christian holiday.




Who was Walburga? This night was named after the Christian abbess Walburga (710-779CE), a Benedictine nun who proselytized in Franconia. It was no accident she made her center in the Bavarian town of Heidenheim ("heathen home"), for despite oft-repeated claims of Christian apologists, South German regions still held on to our ancestral folk faith well into the 7th and 8th centuries before they were converted to the new religion - and even then only after a long process of syncretism and absorption by the church. Desiring to break the indigenous cohesion of an area, the church tended to send foreign priests, monks and nuns to convert the local tribes to Christianity. Such it was that the church sent proselytizers from newly-converted parts of the British Isles to convert our regions of southern Germania, bending them to the political power of the Merovingians and Carolingians and the spiritual power of Rome.

Thus was Walburga born into an allegedly aristocratic Anglo-Saxon family of saints in Devonshire - her parents were the saints Richard the Pilgrim and Wuna of Wessex. Her uncle was Boniface, who chopped down Donar's Oak of the Chatti in Hessen. Boniface sent for his nephews, the saints Wunnibald and Wilibald, and his niece Walburga to join him in efforts to convert Bayern, Schwaben, Franken, and Hessen. All of this "saintly" family actively burnt down sacred groves and carried out the instructions of Rome to build new Christian sites over the previous sacred sites in order to harness the energy and facilitate conversion. Whether any of these saints were historical figures is debatable, their first mention being long after their lives - but what most concerns us is the idea of their existence being constructed later to support the narrative while revealing pre-Christian patterns.

Walburga's original festival date was that of her death, 25 February (Thomas, 2423). Her relics were kept in her abbey at Heidenheim, including her bones later alleged to exude a "miraculous" therapeutic oil. This could relate to Heidenheim being the site of a sacred healing spring from Heathen times, whose mystique was taken over by her abbey. As with other hagiographies, Walburga's "miracles" were later inventions to solidify the church's power and stamp out lingering Pagan traditions - hers were first mentioned by Wolfhard von Herrieden's Miracula S. Walburgae Manheimensis (895/896). She was canonized by order of Pope Adrian II on 1st May 870 and her bones transferred to Eichstätt. In the 11th century, Anno II, the Archbishop of Köln, declared that "Walpurgisnacht" would be celebrated from sundown on 30th April. The dating is no accident, clearly designed to co-opt indigenous May Day festivals. Since Germanic and Celtic days began with the moon, its likely that significance would be placed on the night before May Day as well.


Illustration of the seeress Veleda from the book
Germania. Zwei Jahrtausende deutschen Lebens
by the Swabian-German historian and literary
critic Johannes Scherr (1817-1886)


Etymology holds the secrets. Whether Walburga was an actual historical saint or had a different name, the etymology bearing such a close relation to the "witches" and magical qualities of Walpurgisnacht cannot be a coincidence. "Clairvoyant, wise women played such an important role among the forest peoples that it astonished the Romans. In the Germanic-Celtic settlement area, they were known under the names Wala and Voelva and in southern and central Germany as Walburg and Walburga, which means 'staff bearer' (Germanic waluz = stave, staff; from Indo-European *uel = turn). They carried wands with which they were able to steer things magically"(Storl, 267). Wal- also had the meanings of "chosen" and "corpse", as seen with the Walküren, the Germanic messengers of death who "chose" selected dead warriors off the battlefield to take with them into the otherworld. Death bore a close relation with fertility within our ancient cyclical understanding, so its little wonder the Seeresses who bridged the different "worlds" would unite the elements within their names.

In the 2nd century CE, a Greek inscription on a pottery piece on Elephantine island mentioned a Germanic seeress in service to the Roman governor of Egypt, named Waluburg "Se[m]noni Sibylla" - "Sibyl from the Semnones", a seeress from a Germanic tribe that lived between the rivers Elbe and Oder (Spickermann). The -purgis and -burga elements could relate to burg "homestead" or berg "mountain", both terms conveying images of the hearth and the motherly womb (the mountain and "breast" imagery previously discussed in relation to Zisa). The Rune Berkanan  also conveys dual meanings of "birch" and "rebirth", so that Walpurgisnacht occurring after Ostara and on the eve of May Day could possibly convey new life springing forth from the darkness that precedes light. The "p" and "b" being interchangeable between Walpurgis and Walburga will further correlate to the goddess Berchta or Perchta as the various folklore surrounding this night parallels those of various Germanic goddesses as we shall see throughout.

Walpurgis may also derive from Gothic walus "staff, wand" and Lombardic Gand-bera "wand-bearer"(Simek, 135, 333). Both these could also relate to the god Wodan, who as the wanderer traversed across the worlds carrying the staff of a traveler or pilgrim as both conveyed esoteric ideas. The lore of the Longobards ascribed their name to the seeress Gambara, who sought the assistance of the goddess Frija (whom the Longobards knew as Frea), the wife and consort of Wodan. Here we see the interchange of "w" or "g", with Frija's qualities often attributed to the goddess of the Wild Hunt, Frau Holle, who was often known as "Gode" the wife of Wodan in some German regions. The distinction not always being clear between the Germanic and Celtic tribes, according to Cassius Dio the seeress Veleda was succeeded by one named Ganna, whose name could possibly relate to Proto-Celtic *geneta "girl"(Matasović, 157). "The Veleda or Weleda goes back to the original Celtic velet or fili, which means 'visionary' or 'poet'"(Storl, 267).


The most well-known image
of Walburga was made by the
Master of Meßkirch around 1535
nearly 800 years after her death

"Hel" (1889) by the German illustrator
Johannes Gehrts (1855-1921). Hel is
just one of many Germanic goddesses
Walburga is likely modeled upon.


Representations of Walburga. Just as her "miracles" were later constructions, so too the evolving images of her reveal deep-seated Germanic symbols having nothing to do with her own qualities in life. Her earliest representation was the Hilda Codex published in Köln in the early 11th century, which depicted her holding stylized stalks of grain. This could be the Christianization of an older Pagan concept of the Grain Mother, with peasants fashioning her image into a corn dolly at harvest time and seeing her presence in the grain sheaf (Berger, 61-64). Other images portray Walburga with a three-cornered mirror and a spindle, which correlate to the three Germanic goddesses of Fate, the Norns. Folklore holds that spells sent using the spindle originated with Walburga herself, and lazy farmers would be presented with a straw doll called "Walburga" to shame them into ploughing their land (Rochholz, 40). In the late 19th century, the Bavarian-Swiss folklorist Ernst Ludwig Rochholz gave a lengthy description of her traits which will serve as our reference throughout:

"Nine nights before the first of May is Walburga in flight, unceasingly chased by wild ghosts and seeking a hiding place from village to village. People leave their windows open so she can be safe behind the cross-shaped windowpane struts from her roaring enemies. For this, she lays a little gold piece on the windowsill, and flees further. A farmer who saw her on her flight through the woods described her as a white lady with long flowing hair, a crown upon her head; her shoes were fiery gold, and in her hands she carried a three-cornered mirror that showed all the future, and a spindle, as does Berchta. A troop of white riders exerted themselves to capture her. So also another farmer saw her, whom she begged to hide her in a shock of grain. No sooner was she hidden than the riders rushed by overhead. The next morning the farmer found grains of gold instead of rye in his grain stook. Therefore, the saint is portrayed with a bundle of grain"(Rochholz, 26-27).

The protection of crops was ascribed to her and she was often portrayed with three ears of corn, relating her to a fertility or agricultural goddess. In this way she can correspond to the grain goddess Sibba, the wife of Donar, the Thunderer. Known to the Norse as Sif, her name bears a close relation to Sippe "clan, kindred, extended family" - an allegory for the importance of crops and harvest to the survival of family, clan and tribe. Her relation to Donar, who represents the power of rains and thunder that "fertilizes" the soil and crops, conjure up images of the "Dark Night of the Soul" that must occur before any new growth can arise. This is an inherently Pagan concept even though couched in the terms of Catholic mystics, representing a confrontation of the deepest aspects of the psyche to "cleanse" those parts called The Shadow, and integrate them into a newly-balanced self. Such imagery occurs throughout Walpurgisnacht, whose folklore suggested that after the "evil" of that night would then come the good symbolized by May Day, such as renewed rains and bountiful harvests. This included the bauernregeln (rural sayings) of Walpurgisnacht: "Ist die Hexennacht voller Regen, wird's ein Jahr wohl voller Segen" (If it rains during the witches' night, it will be a year full of blessing). In Tyrol, houses would be fumigated with resinous twigs shaped on the last Thursday of April "at midnight into bundles" to be "kept and burned on May Day"(Frazer, 560) - Thursday corresponding to Donarstag.

With the notable exception of a nun's headscarf as we can expect with a religion derived from the Middle East, Walburga's representations were indigenous down to the most minute details. One of these is the solar disc behind her head, such as she was portrayed by the anonymous artist dubbed the "Master of Meßkirch" around 1535 and 1540. This common motif most often appeared with solar gods in the Greco-Roman world and with Jesus in Christian imagery, but Walburga's portrayal as such might carry over the Germanic and Celtic personification of the sun as a goddess (while the specific power of the sun rays and light was often considered masculine, such as with Balder or Belenus). Walburga's healing oil and her solar disc could both relate to Sirona, a Celtic goddess whose reverence was centered in southern Germany, whose name relates to "stellar, astral" and qualities included healing, cleanliness and fertility.

Other representations showed Walburga with dogs, which can be understood as an allegory for fertility since the ancient "corn-spirit" was "conceived as a wolf or a dog" in many regions of Gaul and Germania (Frazer, 448). She was never associated with dogs within her lifetime, but is in keeping with the animal companions often described alongside Germanic goddesses and as the "witches' familiar", associated with Frau Holle in all her regional variations. "Grey hounds accompany the three Norns. The fertility goddesses Frau Harke, Frau Gode, and Frau Frick (Frigga) have always a house beside them, and Frau Berchte in Steiermark is called the 'poodle-mother' because of her dog"(Rochholz, 20). Fertility comes in with the folklore about feeding a "Windhound" left behind after the Wild Hunt to ensure good weather for the crops (Hodge). This Windhound was connected to fertility, the accumulated "luck" of an individual's life and their ancestors, and with abundance in both the home and fields, such that it was known as Nahrungshund "nourishment-hound" in many regions (Rochholz, 22). On Walpurgisnacht in Thüringen, Frau Holda rides with the Wild Hunt accompanied by dogs (Pearson, 28). Holda was portrayed riding on distaffs with her Hulden, the nocturnal spirits of the women who became her "witches", just as Walburga is often portrayed with a distaff (Hodge).


Irish images of Brigid preserve ancient Gaelic solar symbols
Bealtaine fires containing the Triskele, the most widespread
ancient symbol across the Celtic world, a triple-spiral solar
symbol also found on the pre-Celtic megaliths like Newgrange.


Brigid and Bealtaine parallels. Given that Walpurgisnacht comes right on the cusp of the Celtic festival Bealtaine, one has to wonder about parallels between Walburga and Brigid, the Irish goddess who was also turned into a "saint". She too had various fertility and solar symbols, and was honored with "corn crosses" laden with solar symbolism. Just as the Germanic Norns and Irish Morrígna were three-fold, so too were Brigid's "crosses" threefold. German folklore stipulated that woodcutters mark three crosses in the form of a triangle on stumps of felled trees, inside which it was believed the Moosleute "moss folk" or wilde Leute "wild folk" would be safe from the Wild Hunt (Grimm, 929). Brigid was regarded as daughter of the Morrigan and The Dagda, joining in her person allegories of the underworld and sky such as we have seen with the Germanic goddesses behind Walburga, like Frau Holle the matron of the Wild Hunt, and Hel the underworld goddess. The healing and solar connotations of Sirona exist with the protectoress Brigid, whose name derived from a cognate meaning "fiery arrow".  Her shamanic connotations can be seen in her "saintly" abilities to find lost people and being associated with sages and poets who have been "inspired". The solar, underworld, and shamanic elements are similarly joined in the South German goddess Berchta, whose name derived from Old High German beraht "the bright one" -> Proto-Germanic *brehtaz, and also related to the Old High German verb Pergan "hidden, covered".

Bealtaine (Scottish Bealltainn, Welsh Calanmai, Manx Boaltinn) was a purification festival that involved two burning columns of fire, between which cattle followed by people would pass as a symbolic "cleansing" from the Winter. Cattle were often sacrificed to Brigid and she was associated with Boann "white cow", just as her name came from the same Indo-European cognate as Sanskrit bhrati "exalted one", an epithet for the Vedic dawn goddess Ushas, who was portrayed riding on a chariot drawn by seven cows. Bealtaine heralded the end of the "cold" season (Gaullish Giamon, Irish gemred, Welsh gaiaf) and beginning of the "hot" season (Gaullish Samon, Irish samrad, Welsh haf) (Sjoestedt, 52-53), so that the night before this seasonal transition was also an auspicious time. Such it was for the Welsh, who called the night (nos) preceding Calanmai as  Ysbrydnos "spirit night", when spirits roamed and divination was most effective. There was a mock battle where a men representing Winter and Summer would throw branches and flowers at each other, and after "Summer" inevitably won the May King and Queen would be crowned. This symbolism occurs also with the "darkness" of Walpurgisnacht preceding the "light" of 1st May within Germanic, Norse, and Finnish lore.

This symbolic "new beginning" also appears with the Irish tradition of washing one's face with the morning dew of Bealtaine, for Brigid preserves "beauty" within her path just as Holle does so within the German Walpurgisnacht traditions: "In Hesse, Frau Holle yearly passes over the land, and gives it fruitfulness"(Pearson, 28). At both Ysbrydnos and Walpurgisnacht, the "veil" between the worlds of the living and the dead are at their thinnest - mirroring in the material world what was occurring within the spiritual world, so that the "cleansing" fire was also used to appease or ward off these spirits, as occurred in Germany: "Still today there are places where bonfires are kept burning all night to repel the evil spirits"(Stark, 100). Bealtaine derived from the Common Celtic *Belo-te(p)nia "bright fire", the element *belo- holding some relation to the English bale "white, shining" - fitting the general solar and fire "cleansing" connotations of this time. There was the tradition of balefires as a funerary or ritualistic fire, and it shares the same cognate as Balder, the Germanic "shining" god also associated with "cleansing" sun rays. As Goethe reflects in Die erste Walpurgisnacht: "As the flame is purified by smoke, so purify our faith / And even if they rob us of our ancient ritual / who can take your light from us?"


"Wodans wilde Jagd" (1882) by German-American
painter Friedrich Wilhelm Heine (1845-1921)

Illustration of Frau Holda from "Elfenreigen" (1882) by
the German folklorist Marie Jeserich Timme (1830-1895)


The Wild Hunt and Frau Holda. Just as with Walpurgisnacht on the transition point leading into May, one of many ways to understand the Wild Hunt (wilde Jagd) is as the lingering power of Winter trying to prevent Spring from remaining after Ostara. A strange contrast between the joyous, fertility rites of 1st May and the dark, stormy, witchcraft imagery of Walpurgisnacht. "What kind of a pairing is this, of the witches of the Brockenmount with a saint of the church, under one and the same name!", which can only be understood as the "worthy wholeness of a Germanic goddess"(Rochholz, 1). Aware of this but unable to stamp out the lingering Heathen traditions, the church tried to strike fear into any who engaged in the May Day dancing and processions lest they be entrapped in an "everlasting hunter's chase", which is actually a lingering ancestral memory of "Wuotan's march"(Grimm, 1057). The church had special ire against the "Tanz in den Mai" around the Maypole - an obviously phallic symbol - just as it tried to suppress the folklore relating to the mother goddesses, such as the dual role of Wodan and Holle with the Wild Hunt. Coming from the same Germanic root as "to hide, to conceal" (like we saw earlier with Perchta and relates to the "veil" imagery of Walpurgisnacht), the Hulden were those women whose knowledge of folk healing outside the church and feudal authorities was demonized as "devilish". According to the 10th-century Canon Episcopi, the Hulden went "out through closed doors in the silence of the night, leaving their sleeping husbands behind" to attend feasts and "battles in the sky", stipulating that any accused woman be required to do a year's penance (Hodge).

Grimm mentioned many "witch mountains" throughout Germany aside from the Brocken, and identified most if not all as "places where formerly justice was administered [the Things?], or sacrifices were offered. Almost all the witch-mountains were once hills of sacrifice, boundary-hills, or salt-hills"(Grimm, 1051). Many chapels and other sites associated with Walburga in Bayern stand on hills surrounded by linden trees. Linden has beneficial qualities for the heart and thus was associated with Germanic mother goddesses, such that Christians regarded them as "witch's trees" they often cut down and built chapels dedicated to Mary (Storl, 166-167, 183). Keeping in mind that "elves" were allegories for Ancestors within Germanic lore and not the grotesque small creatures they were turned into by the Christians (like the "demonic" imagery of Walpurgisnacht), and that dancing for spiritual purposes was a common shamanic ritual, we read the following from Grimm:

"Down into the tenth and into the 14th centuries, night-women in the service of Dame Holda rove through the air on appointed nights, mounted on beasts; her they obey, to her they sacrifice, and all the while not a word about any league with the Devil. Nay, these night-women, shining mothers, dominae nocturnae, bonnes dames....were originally daemonic elvish beings, who appeared in woman's shape and did men kindnesses; Holda, Abundia, to whom still a third part of the whole world is subject, leads the ring of dancers....It is to such dancing at heathen worship, to the airy elf-dance and the hopping of will-o'-the-wisps, that trace primarily the idea of witches' dances; festive dances at heathen May-meetings can be reckoned in with the rest. To christian zealots all dancing appeared sinful and heathenish, and sure enough it often was derived from pagan rites, like other harmless pleasures and customs of the common people, who would not easily part with their diversion at the great festivals"(Grimm, 1056)


Two paintings of village Maypole celebrations by the Flemish
artist Pieter Brueghel the Younger (1564-1636), such as my
maternal ancestors in Vlaanderen would have practiced as well.


Folk traditions. Like May Day and Bealtaine, bonfires were also associated with Walpurgisnacht. "The kindling of the fires on Walpurgis Night is called 'driving away the witches.' The custom of kindling fires on the eve of May Day (Walpurgis Night) for the purpose of burning the witches is, or used to be, widespread in the Tyrol, Moravia, Saxony and Silesia", while in Voigtland people would leap over bonfires while tossing burning brooms into the air: "So far as the light of the bonfire reaches, so far will a blessing rest on the fields"(Frazer, 622). The "burning out the witches" tradition in Tyrol included processions of noise-making (much like the Perchtenlauf of Alpine regions), and burning incense and bundles of twigs fastened on poles, much like similar Bealtaine traditions of warding off "evil spirits" - and the ritualistic noise can also be seen in light of the "cleansing" properties of certain sound vibrations: "The custom of expelling the witches on Walpurgis Night is still, or was down to recent years, observed in many parts of Bavaria and among the Germans of Bohemia. Thus in the Böhmerwald Mountains all the young fellows of the village assemble after sunset on some height, especially at a crossroad, and crack whips for a while in unison with all their strength. This drives away the witches; for so far as the sound of the whips is heard, these maleficient beings can do no harm. In some places, while the young men are cracking their whips, the herdsmen wind their horns, and the long-drawn notes, heard far off in the silence of night, are very effectual for banning the witches"(Frazer, 561).

As with the distaff associated with Frau Holle, so too was the broom often taken as symbolic of psychic and mental "cleansing" from negative effects of witchcraft (which is inherently neutral, subject to the specific charge placed into its working). "The symbol of the witch was originally the sign of the worshipper, the protection against the anger of the goddess, or of the priestess, her servant"(Pearson, 29). In the Obererzgebirge, crossed brooms were placed over doorways on Walpurgisnacht; in Mecklenburg, cows and stalls were protected by an inverted broom; brooms were burned in Thüringen to frighten witches; and at Saulgaul near Sigmaringen in Bayern, processions to a sacred well were "headed by a man bearing a broom, followed by one with a fork, and between them a third clothed in a sheepskin, and carrying a tree with apples and other eatables (termed the Adam's tree)"(Pearson, 29-30). The English biostatistician Karl Pearson linked these same symbols with Twelfth Night, temporal beginning of the Swabian-Alemannic Fastnacht during the Lenten season:

"A scarcely less noteworthy figure is that of Berchta with her plough. She waters the meadows, and on Twelfth Night she goes her round to punish idle spinsters, often in the most brutal manner. In Swabia, on Twelfth Night, a broom is carried in her procession, or she is represented with a broom in one hand and fruit in the other. This list of goddesses might be largely extended did our time permit; but it may serve, as it is, to show that the devil's mother is only a degraded form of a goddess of fertility and domestic activity. She is but one of those goddesses whose symbols are those of agriculture, the pitchfork and the plough, or of domestic usefulness, the broom and the spindle. She is associated with symbols of fertility, the ears of corn, fruit, the swine, and the dog. Her well brings with its water fertility to the land and fruitfulness to women"(Pearson, 28).

Frau Holle and her devotees were turned into "hags" by a church unable to understand that the past, present and future were on the same continuum in our indigenous cyclical worldview, yet even while the authorities portrayed them as dark and deathly, they continued to be associated with life and fertility by the common folk: "in Westphalia, the young men go round with music and song to honour their brides and sweethearts; elsewhere they plant May-trees before their sweethearts' doors; witches and wilde Frauen - that is, the hags or women of the woods - come in Swabia to weddings and to births. What is this but a relic of the day when the priestess of the goddess of fertility came to marriages and births as of right?...In Swabia, and in the Pfalz also, the midwife, according to the legends, is often a witch who baptizes the children in the devil's name, or again she lends women the Drutenstein or trud's stone to protect their babes against witches; it is the hag or woman of the woods who knows and collects the herbs which relieve the labours of birth. Here we have the priestess of the old civilisation as medicine woman and midwife relieving human suffering"(Pearson, 32).





Goethe and Walpurgisnacht. The best word to describe Goethe's religion was pantheistic, but he looked upon the ancient German Heathen past with admiration, especially vis-a-vis their Christian persecutors. Concerning his poem "Die erste Walpurgisnacht" (1799), he wrote a letter to his composer friend, Carl Friedrich Zelter: "A historian would have tried tracing back the origins of the ancient German belief in the devil's or witches' sabbath on the mountain Brocken, Harz. He found that the old pagan priests, after being driven out of their sacred groves, and after Christianity was made mandatory for the people, gathered with their true remaining followers in the hard accessible Harz mountains to celebrate the arrival of spring the old way. In order to protect themselves from armed, but superstitious Christian prosecutors they would have covered up their faces with devil's masks, to safely and unrecognized finished their 'pure' worship."

He portrayed "Druids and local Heathens" continuing to celebrate Walpurgisnacht as an act of defiance, reverse-inverting the Christian inversion of the old ways as "demonic", by playing upon the latter's fear and donning "devil" masks to both ward them off and mock their ignorance. To people accustomed to thinking of the Druids as Celtic, it is certain that the continental Germans had similar priestly, divination classes although their name is not as well known. Such scholars as the Irish antiquarian and historian Edward Ledwich and the Flemish-French folklorist Louis de Baecker even proposed that many Germanic tribes did have Druids - some credence is lent by the fact that in many regions the distinctions between Germanic and Celtic was not always clear (note the parallels between Bealtaine and Walpurigsnacht). In any case, Goethe conjured up supernatural images of "bewitched bodies (that) glow with flames through and through", while his poem tapped into actual Germanic lore even if unaware.

Under the banner of "Es Lacht der Mai" (May is in full bloom), the Druid welcomes the spring with what appears to be a libation: "Erschallen Lustgesänge / Ein reiner Schnee / Liegt auf der Höh" (Across the verdant mead, upon the height, the snow lies light). Later, under the phrase "Wer opfer heut zu bringen scheut" (Whoever fears to sacrifice), I interpret Goethe as referring to those who "feared" sacrifice both because they consider it "demonic", and also because of their own ignorance about what sacrifice actually meant to the ancients. His Druid utters these powerful words: "Wer opfer heut / zu bringen scheut / Verdient erst seine Bande" (Who fears today / His rites to pay / Deserves his chains to wear). Overall Goethe excellently encapsulates the ancient faith surviving through the folk traditions of the common people who stubbornly held on to them, despite the obstinate efforts of church and political authorities to eradicate them.


Illustrations from "Lenore" (1773), a poem by the
German-Prussian poet Gottfried August Bürger. Takes
place on Walpurgisnacht and most known for the saying:
"Die Todten Reiten Schnell" (The Dead Travel Fast).


Esoteric connotations. As we discussed throughout, myths and folklore are laden with many layers of meanings beneath just the surface levels. The ancients spoke through the language of allegories, so special attention should be given to the esoteric connotations of Walpurgisnacht. One contemporary thinker who has spoken on this subject is the Irish writer and artist Thomas Sheridan, who relates Walpurgisnacht to a lesson from the Vedic tradition - stemming from the same distant Indo-European roots as Germanic mythology. In the Bhagavad-Gita, the god Krishna appears on his chariot to the despondent Arjuna following the battle of Kurukshetra. Within the dialogue Krishna assures him that what was happening that day on the battlefield, was a product of what was simultaneously occurring in the spirit world. The underlying lesson here is that all realms are reflections of each other, governed by the same cosmic or natural laws, and that events within one realm mirror those in another.

Infernal and mysterious aspects are most associated with Walpurgisnacht because it occurs at a liminal time, when the "veils" or barriers between different worlds are at their "thinnest", opening a "portal" through which more overlap occurs between the material and spiritual realms. Significance is especially given to the hours after midnight, corresponding to the so-called "Witching Hour" when one is at the farthest from the sun and thus no longer affected by the earth's decreased magnetic field. This creates a "gap" in reality, allowing for innumerable opportunities for growth. One can experience what occurs on the spiritual world through more synchronicities, mirroring within the inner self what occurs outside - a psychological level we mentioned with the "Dark Night of the Soul". We see this currently with the cosmic alignments of Saturn, Jupiter and Mars with Capricorn - with all the psychological qualities those symbolize.

Even the Christians recognized the unique qualities of such liminal times, such as Walpurgisnacht or the "12 Days of Christmas". Since Walpurgisnacht occurs between the Gregorian Catholic (23rd April) and Julian Orthodox (6th May) days of St. George, the lore between all these days are similar. The myth of St. George is based on European myths about gods or heroes slaying dragons or wyrms, which also convey allegories about going deep within the "labyrinth" of one's psyche to "slay the dragon" that resides within and so facilitate growth. Applying Correspondence and the Four Elements, we recognize that "dragons" as winged serpents mean simultaneously bound to the underworld but also broken the rules of gravity - symbolic of the lower and higher selves. Unable to appreciate allegories, the literalist church turned the folklore about Walpurgisnacht into "demonic" and "superstitious", just as other reductionist, materialistic offshoots of Abrahamism also deny a more magical realm. Such it is that the church worked to suppress Germanic folklore, while the East German Communist regime also "frowned on Walpurgisnacht's pagan associations and tried to focus on workers and trade unions on international Labor Day"(Hudson).

Perhaps on no other night are the natural and cosmic laws so present as Walpurgisnacht, such as the Polarity - opposites that are identical in nature but different in degree. Hence the various spectrum of the "darkness" of the Walpurgisnacht and the "light" of 1st May. The three Norns or Fates, where past, present and future fit such a polarity; the dual young maiden and old "hag" imagery of Hel or Perchta, reflecting back to you what is within yourself, also represents this Law of Polarity. The Law of Correspondence occurs because on Walpurgisnacht there is a greater awareness that the material and spiritual realms mirror each other. There are the nine worlds that are linked to each other, and the Wilde Jagd of Holle and Wodan extend across both the physical world of the living and the spiritual realm of the dead. Going beyond "demons" of Abrahamism, we can see the "witches" and their magical qualities (essentially the ability to "create" through one's will) as similar to the nine Muses of Greek mythology, who inspire people to create the arts much like the daimonae.  The numbers three and nine are particularly sacred and occur throughout Nature. And such it is that on Walpurgisnacht we may undertake a metaphysical journey unlike no other.


"Walpurgisnacht" (1866) by the painter August Albert
Zimmermann (1808-1888), showing Goethe's Faust


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