Sirius Rising In the Days of Synchromysticism

"John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King were not assassinated; they were ritually sacrificed."

So begins the liner notes of Jim Brandon's newly released 2018 revised edition of his audio book from 1974-1975, Sirius Rising, which has a new subtitle, Mr. Downard and the Synchromystical Boson.

The time does seem correct for Sirius Rising. Specifically, the work, by "coincidence" appears now, on the anniversary of the attempted assassination of Ronald Reagan (March 30, 2018), right before Easter Sunday (April 1, 2018), and on the way to the anniversary of the killing of a King, Martin Luther King (April 4, 2018). This all is an appropriate temporal sync.

Before Brandon became well-known in Fortean circles for his classics, Weird America (1978) and The Rebirth of Pan (1983), he had created and shared with associates a now long-unavailable and difficult-to-obtain tape of his interviews with James Shelby Downard (March 13, 1913 – March 16, 1998). Yes, it was a reel-to-reel tape.

Brandon characterizes Downard as a "quasi-spiritual visionary who pioneered or advanced the mind-bending and spellbinding disciplines of 'mystical toponomy' and 'synchromysticism.'"

While some have talked only of Downard's work as that of a "conspiracy theorist" and a "mad genius," there is a core group, including Jim Brandon, Adam Parfrey, Michael Hoffman, Jim Keith, Adam Gorightly, Greg Bishop, Michael Bell, SMiles Lewis, Kenn Thomas, and me, Loren Coleman, who have framed Downward in the broader context of a Fortean examining the mysteries of the world cryptopolitically.

Jim Brandon, with all due credit to me and others, will soon expand the ranks of those discussing Downard to include a growing generation of synchromystics. I predict this CD will be played and pondered by a wide range of thoughtful researchers and followers of twilight language, cryptokubrology, sync worlds, name games, discordian works, and more.

The power of Brandon's previous audiobook, Sirius Rising (1974-1975) remains apparent in modern materials about Downard, as evidenced, for example, by a recent documentary series by Mandate33 to Adam Parfrey's published output from Feral House.

(Update: Will the shocking death of Adam Parfrey at 61 on May 10, 2018, have a quieting effect on Feral House's published works? Parfrey was the first to publish Downard's "King Kill 33" in the first 1987 edition of Apocalypse Culture, but it was not in subsequent editions.)

Adam Gorightly's recent book on Downard has much to do with Sirius Rising, as well:

Downard contended that the Illuminati arranged that the first man on the moon, Neil Armstrong, would be a 33rd degree Mason.
Downard’s King Kill 33° draws upon a larger conspiratorial canon, which surfaced in an audiocassette series produced by Downard protégé William Grimstad in the mid 1970’s entitled Sirius Rising. According to author Robert Anton Wilson, Grimstad’s Sirius Rising presented the theory that “the Illuminati were preparing Earth, in an occult manner, for extraterrestrial contact.” Part of this magickal preparation consisted of the founding of Cal Tech, the home of Parson’s JPL, on the 33rd degree latitude, near the SoCal town of La Canada. Located in the same vicinity is the fabled Devil’s Gate Dam, where Parsons conducted O.T.O. rituals. ~ Adam Golightly (James Shelby Downard's Mystical War)

It is remarkable how many of the subjects in Sirius Rising have become the background and foreground talking points for today's synchromystics and Forteans, in print, online, via social media, in podcasts, and in visual contexts.

For example, nowadays most people take it for granted that Aleister Crowley, the events at Boleskine House, and Loch Ness would appear in the same linkages. The association  appears, perhaps for the first time, in the midst of Brandon's talking book. There are several gems to be mined in Downard's words.

Sirius Rising (2018) covers many topics that serve as dots that Downard and Brandon connect in their free-ranging discussions. These include:
- the killing of John F. Kennedy, Robert F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King;
- sex magic;
- CERN;
- the killing of the king ritual;
- William Shakespeare's MacBeth/ Barbara Garson's MacBird;
- the Black Watch;
- Miss Chudleigh, the "Great Whore";
- Sir Francis Dashwood's Hellfire Club;
- Aleister Crowley;
- Loch Ness;
- "Scarlett Woman" Leila Waddell;
- Zorro;
- Ordo Templi Orientis;
- Jack Parson;
- Jet Propulsion Lab;
- Moon Child ritual;
- Lee Bouvier;
- Jacqueline Kennedy;
- Tres Hermanas / Three Sisters
- Kennedy Mountain;
- Johnson Mountain;
- Ruby Road;
- Alchemy;
- Jornada del Muerto / Journey of Death;
- 33 degree of latitude;
- Dealey Plaza;
- Dallas, Texas;
- Trinity River;
- Egyptian Masonry;
- Memphis;
- Mizraim;
- Little Egypt;
- Rite of Memphis;
- Scottish Rite of Freemasonry;
- Albert Pike;
- Coyote;
- Mt. Palomar;
- Orange Court;
- Phoenix;
- Rancho Sante Fe;
- Hotel del Carco;
- J. Edgar Hoover;
- Knights Templar;
- Ley Lines;
- Cal Tech;
- Jules Verne;
- Cape Canaveral;
- Star Cities;
- Jupiter;
- Sirius;
- Apollo 11;
- Trinity Site;
- Homunculus;
- Vacaville;
- SLA;
- Naga; and
- Patty Hearst.

Quite a list, and the connections to items of interest that continue to be discussed today are significant.

Highly recommended.

Sirius Rising: Mr. Downard and the Synchromystical Boson (© 2018) by Jim Brandon.

A new CD, with a new introduction and new eight-page booklet by Jim Brandon. Contains the original 1974-1975 recordings obtain by Brandon of several interviews with James Shelby Downard.

The titles of the 8 tracks are:
1. Mr. Downard speaks - Jim Brandon updates.
2. The matrix of symbols.
3. 'Voici le temps des assassins' (A. Rimbaud)
4. 23 Skidoo...plus 10.
5. Little Egypt is bigger than ever.
6. Memphis belle to Scarlett Woman of Revelation.
7. Amerika Alkhemika?
8. A spyshop Phoenix.
You will want to secure your copy today, from Jim Brandon personally, before this CD becomes as rare as the previous offering was soon after it appeared 42 years ago.

There are a few different ways you can obtain this CD:

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April 4: His Name is 44

Today's date, April 4, can be written 4/4, and the number 44 and date 4/4 have significance in terms of twilight language and the name game.

The interchange between 44, the number, and 44, the name, is found historically.

The name of a mysterious savior of Poland prophesied by the Polish national poet Adam Mickiewicz in his masterpiece dramatic poem (first published in 1822) Dziady (Forefathers): In scene 5 of act 3, the priest Piotr announces a "reviver of the nation" who is to bring back the lost freedom of Poland, and describes him with these words:

Born from a foreign mother, his blood of ancient heroes, And his name will be forty and four.

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), a/k/a Mark Twain's The Mysterious Stranger features Satan's supposed nephew or Satan whose name is "44".

See "Mark Twain & The Significance of the Number 44: A Review of the Scholars' Theories."

In 1958,...Henry Nash Smith published one of the first theories of the origin of the name No. 44 as it was found in Twain's existing manuscripts. In his study "Mark Twain's Images of Hannibal: From St. Petersburg to Eseldorf" published in the journal TEXAS STUDIES IN ENGLISH, (Vol. XXXVII, 1958, University of Texas Press, Austin, Texas) Smith presented a theory based on a passage found in MARK TWAIN'S AUTOBIOGRAPHY (Harper and Bros, 1924, Vol. 2, p. 218). Speaking of his old school in Hannibal, Missouri, Twain recalled:

In that school were the first Jews I had ever seen. It took me a good while to get over the awe of it. To my fancy they were clothed invisibly in the damp and cobwebby mold of antiquity. They carried me back to Egypt, and in imagination I moved among the Pharoahs and all the shadowy celebrities of that remote age. The name of the boys was Levin. We had a collective name for them which was the only really large and handsome witticism that was ever born on those premises. We called them Twenty-two -- and even when the joke was old and had been worn threadbare we always followed it with the explanation, to make sure that it would be understood, "Twice Leven -- twenty-two" (Smith, p. 20).

Smith theorized that it was "remotely possible" Twain arrived at his early name for Satan -- No. 44 in this same manner. Source.

Considering that St. Petersburg, Russia was attacked yesterday, it is interesting that Twain, in No. 44, Mysterious Stranger, used St. Petersburg as the name for his hometown of Hannibal, Missouri.

Twain's essay, "Concerning the Jews," in Harper's Magazine, March 1898, is seen today as reflecting more anti-semitic vs pro-semitic views. But the picture is confusing.

Twain "mentions Jews infinitely more frequently than Negroes, the race that dominated attention in his time," writes Dan Vogel in Mark Twain's Jews (2006). And more often than not, it appears to be Twain's historical memories of Hannibal's Jews, the "Levin," which he associates with "Satan" in 44.

Staying with the Levin name game for a moment, the powerful Satanic 1967 novel and the 1968 movie it inspired, Rosemary's Baby, was authored by Ira Levin (August 27, 1929 – November 12, 2007). Levin also wrote the diabolical The Stepford Wives (1972) and The Boys from Brazil (1976).

In the movie, written and directed by Roman Polanski, a young wife comes to believe that her offspring is not of this world. Waifish Rosemary Woodhouse (Mia Farrow) and her struggling actor husband Guy (John Cassavetes) move to a New York City apartment building with an ominous reputation and odd neighbors Roman and Minnie Castavet (Sidney Blackmer, Ruth Gordon). When Rosemary becomes pregnant she becomes increasingly isolated, and the diabolical truth - Satan is the father - is revealed only after Rosemary gives birth.

Almost immediately after Rosemary's Baby in 1969, Polanski's pregnant wife, Sharon Tate, along with four friends, were brutally murdered by members of the Manson Family.

In another chilling post-Rosemary Baby's scenario, on March 11, 1977, three years after making Chinatown, Polanski was arrested at Jack Nicholson's home for the sexual assault of 13-year-old Samantha Gailey, who was modeling for Polanski during a Vogue magazine photo shoot around the pool.

Rosemary’s Baby was one of Stanley Kubrick's favorite films, according to his wife's brother, frequent executive producer and assistant Jan Harlan.

The external filming location of Rosemary's Baby was also star-crossed, as the Dakota was the site of John Lennon's assassination on December 8, 1980. 

One scene from Rosemary's Baby that was shot but later deleted involved Farrow's character attending an Off-Broadway production of The Fantasticks and encountering Joan Crawford and Van Johnson, who were playing themselves. The Fantasticks involves a family feud and a Devil-like character named the "mysterious El Gallo," and Joan Crawford was involved with a longterm bedeviling feud with Bette Davis.

4/4

Coming back to April 4, the date is one in 1866, when Alexander II of Russia narrowly escaped an assassination attempt by Dmitry Karakozov in the city of Saint Petersburg. (There's St. Petersburg, again.)  The date is assassination anniversary in 1978 of the killing of Martin Luther King. On April 4, 1991, Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania and six others are killed when a helicopter collides with their airplane over an elementary school in Merion, Pennsylvania. 

April 4, 1973 is the dedication date for the World Trade Center.

On April 4, 2008, Beyoncé married Jay Z.

44

Barack Obama was the 44th President.

The plot of the 2015 film, Child 44, is set in 1950s Soviet Russia, secret police agent Leo Demidov (Tom Hardy) loses everything when he refuses to denounce his wife, Raisa (Noomi Rapace) as a traitor. Finding themselves exiled to a grim provincial outpost, Leo and Raisa join forces with General Mikhail Nesterov (Gary Oldman) to capture a serial (cereal) killer. Child 44, both the novel and the film are very loosely based on the case of Soviet serial killer Andrei Chikatilo, who had been portrayed in the earlier film Citizen X.

What happened on 4/4/1944 = 4/4/44?

Allied Bucharest bombings targeting railroads kills 5,000

Craig T. Nelson, actor (Poltergeist), was born in Spokane, Washington.

How about other 4/4 births?

Robert John Downey, Jr. was born on April 4, 1965, in Manhattan, New York City. His father, Robert Downey Sr., is an actor and filmmaker, while his mother, Elsie Ann (née Ford), was an actress, who appeared in Downey Sr.'s films. Downey's father is of half Lithuanian Jewish, one quarter Hungarian Jewish, and one quarter Irish descent, while Downey's mother had Scottish, German, and Swiss ancestry. Downey and his older sister Allyson grew up in Greenwich Village. His movies, from Zodiac (2007) to a series of leading roles as Iron Man, The Avengers, Avengers: Age of Ultron, and Captain America: Civil War and two Sherlock Holmes films, have been very successful. 

Some conspiracy theorists have associated the 4/4-born Downey, through his Marvel movie roles, to "Satan." In writings about Iron Man Tony Stark The Smith is Satan the Illuminati King. Illuminati Freemason Symbolism, h/t Steve Lindsay.

Hugo Wallace Weaving was born on April 4, 1960, in Ibadan, Oyo State, in the Colony and Protectorate of Nigeria, to English parents Anne (née Lennard), a tour guide and former teacher, and Wallace Weaving, a seismologist. He is well-known for his acting roles in Lord of the Rings, V For Vendetta, Captain America, and Matrix.

Writers have likewise associated his Matrix character, Agent Smith with "Satan". See here, h/t Steve Lindsay.


And finally, Heath Ledger was also born on April 4, 1979. Heathcliff Andrew "Heath" Ledger, who 22 January 22, 2008, was an Australian actor and director. After performing roles in several Australian television and film productions during the 1990s, Ledger left for the United States in 1998 to develop his film career. His work comprised nineteen films, including 10 Things I Hate About You (1999), The Patriot (2000), A Knight's Tale (2001), Monster's Ball (2001), Lords of Dogtown (2005), Brokeback Mountain (2005), The Dark Knight (2008) and The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus (2009), the latter two being posthumous releases.

Heath Ledger's most famous for his iconic portrayal of the Joker. He is seen as one of "Satan's Sacrificial Hollywood Lambs."

One thing we know may occur today, 4/4/17 (please note 1+7 = 8, which is 4 + 4), is the "Tunnel machine Bertha expected to break into daylight on Tuesday." 

Michael Schacht mentions that Bertha is like giving birth from the underworld (hell), which "always syncs with Rosemary's Baby."



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