BEHIND THE VEIL IN WASHINGTON DC
PART 4

 

 

 

By Thomas R. Horn

January 30, 2007
NewsWithViews.com

Something Whirlwind This Way Comes

“So when an angel by divine command, With rising tempests shakes a guilty land, Such as of late o’er pale Britannia past, Calm and serene he drives the furious blast; And, pleas’d th’ Almighty’s orders to perform, Rides in the whirlwind, and directs the storm.” --(Joseph Addison, 1705, The Campaign).

“Winds are nothing but spirits, either good or evil. The devil sits there and snorts, and so do the angels when the winds are salubrious.” --Martin Luther.

“The devil begins with froth on the lips of an angel entering into battle for a holy and just cause.” --(Grigory Pomerants, dissident Russian philosopher).

Despite a series of ever-changing explanations by the Bush administration as to why the U.S. rushed into war in the Middle East—even though there was no connection between Saddam Hussein and the events of September 11, 2001—years after the Iraq invasion, if you asked a room of 20 analysts to define what was the true nature behind America going into that war, you probably would receive 20 different answers.

Some say it was strategic placement of U.S. military resources against what the administration saw as a growing threat from Islamic radicals. Some say it was an effort to seize and maintain control of Iraqi oil reserves. Others contend that 9/11 was itself either a convenient or orchestrated event allowing the Bush administration to extend a global domination project. Still others believe something unusual connected to biblical sites in Babylon had been uncovered during Saddam Hussein’s reconstruction of the ancient city, and that the administration went there to capture it. Regardless of the answer, today it is widely recognized that the president was convinced that God had chosen him for a task, and that the Iraq invasion was part of a mission written in the clouds.

There is evidence that Bush’s true faith in his calling as the “chosen one” was an idea that grew on him over time. In the beginning, much of his ties to evangelical Christianity was squarely designed to produce political advantages. While still in his second term as governor, George W. actually hired influence peddler Karl Rove to help strategize how he might endear himself to the fundamentalist base in anticipation of a presidential run. Not long after, the highest-ranking members of the nation’s politically enthused church leaders were summoned to the governor’s mansion. There, the handpicked movers and shakers, most of them dominionists, all of them selected for their power to sway religious voters, were encouraged to conduct a “laying on of hands” to anoint the future president. As the executive mantle was vicariously conferred on George W., he evoked the prophetic commissions of the Hebrew prophets, telling the attendees that he had been "called" (by God) to become the presidential candidate.

Following that day and for a brief period afterward, the religious rhetoric surrounding Bush was no more unusual than the historiography of other American presidents.

Then something happened.

Following 9/11, the “calling” Bush believed he had received started defining itself in unsettling ways.

Author Bob Woodward noted in his book Bush at War that just three days after 9/11, the president during the National Day of Prayer and Remembrance at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. seemed to assume a glorious role, as if suddenly he had found himself within a fantastic cosmic scheme, declaring that the nation’s responsibility to history was already clear: “to answer these attacks and rid the world of evil.”[1] By taking up the language of “good vs. evil,” Woodward viewed the president “casting his vision and that of the country in the grand vision of God’s master plan.”[2]

Almost immediately the dialect of Armageddon theology began surfacing in presidential briefings. Even religious publications were startled by it. Some reacted right away, calling on the president to plainly set out his views. Kevin Phillips in American Dynasty records how, “In March 2003, the editors of Christian Century insisted that ‘the American people have a right to know how the president’s faith is informing his public policies, not least his design on Iraq.’”[3] Phillips further stated, “More than Bush’s earlier religious phraseology, his Scripture-flavored preparation for war against Iraq—the latter-day Babylon of biblical notoriety—stirred scrutiny. Those who followed Bush’s religiosity had seen a change, in one pundit’s words, ‘from talking about a Wesleyan theology of ‘personal transformation’ to describing a Calvinist ‘divine plan’ laid out by a sovereign God for the country and himself.’”[4] So alarming was the president’s change in demeanor that even leaders of his own Methodist denomination registered dissent. Robin Lovin, Southern Methodist University professor of religion and political thought cautioned that “all sorts of warning signals ought to go off when a sense of personal chosen-ness and calling gets transplanted into a sense of calling and mission for a nation.”[5]

Ultimately the prophetic context for war in the very land associated with future Armageddon (and against Saddam Hussein, no less, the man who claimed to be the reincarnated Nebuchadnezzar) held for Bush the Manichaean language necessary to play out a “divine mission” while earning him admiration from Bonesmen, Dominionists and Neocons.

Perhaps more than to anyone else, it was precisely for these priestly members of “the family” (whom we shall study later) that the most startling coded language was drafted at regular cycle. The phrase “fire in the minds of men” from the second inaugural was both a call for societal upheaval to usher in a New World Order and, as recognized by Phillip Collins, the brilliant co-author of The Ascendancy of the Scientific Dictatorship, a reference to the Promethean faith. “It [associated] the text of neoconservatism with the text of Promethean radicalism of earlier sociopolitical Utopian movements.”[6]

The clever observation by Collins that neoconservativism and Prometheanism can be married is keen, as both doctrines are occult visions of a kingdom of God (or gods) on earth established through human endeavor and enlightenment. Prometheus was the Greek Titan that stole fire from the gods and gave it to man. When Prometheus is incarnated in the human mind as the mystical longing for illumination, the latter produces what James H. Billington in his masterpiece, Fire In The Minds Of Men called the revolutionary faith, or “Promethean faith,” a Gnostic doctrine whose origin was solidified in occult Freemasonry and “scientific” Marxism.

Yet for our purposes, it was the first inaugural that held the Holy Grail of Bush’s belief system when twice he referred to the “angel in the whirlwind.” Referencing the Angel in the Whirlwind two times was important due to biblical and occult numerology. In this setting, the number “2” signified confirmation from God. “For God speaks once, yea twice” (Job 22:13); “In the mouth of two… witnesses” (2 Cor. 13:1), etc. In occult theology “2” is also the Zoroastrian math for dualism, and extended the Manichaean prose necessary for Bush to cast himself as the Son of Light at war with Sons of Darkness. For the Illuminatist, this light is derived from Lucifer, the light-bearer, and, as we shall discover, the Angel in the Whirlwind is central to such occult society.

Thus in our next article a closer look at the Angel in the Whirlwind will of itself be enlightening, and was, in view of recent history, a perfect choice for George W’s first inaugural. It unveiled for those who understood it at the time, the core of what researcher and academic Peter Dale Scott describes as "deep politics"—those below-surface realities that may for political reasons be hidden from the radar of civilians while at the same time signal brokers of power concerning the real or "deep" political and/or spiritual agenda. It may also explain why in spite of congressional resistance and public disapproval we are surging deeper into the Iraq quagmire and rattling our saber against Iran.

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