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The Code of the Bones
by Tom White
http://www.lewrockwell.com/white/white50.html
With one or the other of two Skull and Bones men nearly certain to be
our next president, it behooves us to ask, What does a Bonesman
believe? I am going to suggest an answer to that question based on
what prominent Bonesmen have so far revealed to the world through
their actions. None of them appears to have spoken of the principles
or ethic of their club and, in fact, when asked, they say it is all a
dread secret so they can say nothing.
It has been remarked that this is an extraordinary thing for a
high-level politician to say. It seems even more extraordinary that
neither of the two men in question has been called upon by the demos
and its megamouth media to resign from said club, as they surely would
have been had they belonged to a country club that barred blacks or
Jews.
But into this gap in our knowledge, I rush with my speculations,
which, in the absence of any statement from the candidates or any
other Bonesman, I think I am sovereignly entitled to do.
Incidentally, I note that this same organization has, so far as I have
ever heard, no women members and no black members, which seems oddly
unmulticultural and even misogynist in this age of Minorities and
Women Triumphant. But then not all animals are equal as we learned
long ago from Orwell.
Anyway, on with the show. I call this code I am going to set out:
The Code of the Bones: The Ethos of the Hasnamuss
Here it is in several nutshells.
Personal ambition is ever the lodestar, giving direction and
inspiration.
Money is everything (in ex-Christendom) because money is power to
realize ambition (in ex-Christendom).
Words mean nothing except what you want them to mean.
Consistency and integrity in morality and concern for justice are for
the boobs.
Crying religion is useful for bamboozling same.
War is glorious, especially if someone else does the dying.
I suppose there are many more elements in the Bones Code, but they
would, I think, all follow from the six I have isolated.
At this point I need to reach out a little and drag in some perhaps
unfamiliar names and terms. I beg your indulgence.
A nation can afford to have a mad Ludwig (King of Bavaria) in charge
only in relatively calm times, when the most that can go wrong is that
a lot of energy gets used up building fanciful castles that later,
when the madness passes, turn into tourist attractions.
But when you get what G.I. Gurdjieff1 called a "Hasnamuss" sitting on
the top of the heap, and the times are of themselves dreadful, then
it's head for the hills, the dam is busted. A Hasnamuss, in
Gurdjieff's teaching, is the fourth of four categories of man he
discerned, and the most disreputable. The four are: good-householder,
tramp, lunatic, and Hasnamuss (made up of two words of Turkish). These
are technical terms in the Gurdjieffian canon that take a little
explaining, but except for Hasnamuss they are not terribly far off the
ordinary meanings we all know. (One may think, however, of a tramp or
lunatic as someone who might very well have a stout bank account and
sharp clothes -- it's more a matter of mind, morals, and behavior.)
A Hasnamuss, as Gurdjieff's disciple Ouspensky explained, is someone
who was formerly both "a tramp and a lunatic at the same time." He
arrives finally at a condition where ". . . he never hesitates to
sacrifice people or to create an enormous amount of suffering, just
for his own personal ambitions."2
I am of course making the point that our two Bonesmen are Hasnamuss
men. You may well say that it takes more than a colon to make the one
condition the equivalent of the other as I did when I wrote "The Code
of the Bones: The Ethos of the Hasnamuss." Let me argue this a little
further. My "Code of the Bones," on examination, is little different
than the de facto stance of a run-of-the mill egotist, a stance that
can in some minority of cases evolve into what people nowadays called
psychopathology or sociopathology. That condition has been superbly
defined in Cleckly's The Mask of Sanity.
But a Hasnamuss is evidently something beyond even that. Ouspensky
also said, ". . . you have nothing to do with such people; but you
meet with the results of their existence." What did he mean? I have my
own answer. The Hasnamuss has been thrown by fate or by accident,
which is a species of fate, to the top of the heap, where the
ordinarily limited ability of an egotist to do much harm is greatly
enhanced. Think of an officious minor military or police person. Then
think of Napoleon (a Hasnamuss if there ever was one). Bush -- the
most ordinary of save-your-own-skin fellows -- is suddenly catapulted
by family connections and by the sort of Nominating Committee I will
discuss shortly into Ruler of the Free World, Supreme Commander of the
Forces of Freedom, President of the United States, etc. Petty officer
changed into Napoleon, and doing a pretty good job in the role at
that. Lots of mayhem.
Now look at this election scene. It would almost seem that Kerry was
fingered (as was Bush before him) by some invisible World Rule
Nominating Committee, which has a list of politically prominent people
"who might do." It would surely have been against Kerry that he, too,
was a Bonesman (Hey, let's not be too obvious!), but that objection
had to be overruled finally as things shaped up in the Democratic
primary campaign. One sometimes has to make do with less than the
ideal, and Kerry was obviously sufficiently brainwashed, compromised,
and manageable (as Dean was not) to be otherwise in all ways
acceptable to my (admittedly somewhat occult) Nominating Committee
members, whoever they are.
The trouble with Kerry is that he smells like a loser. At least that
is my impression, although I am surely not willing to place any money
on the contest at this point. Bush is clearly the more upstanding
Hasnamuss of the two, but Kerry would probably grow in office, as the
saying is.
Bush seems at present to be positively thriving on his situation. He
is the better looking of the two, the more confidently assured, the
more physically vigorous. He out and away wins on natty shirts and
ties, and as Norman Mailer noted, he is almost absurdly photogenic.
Pictures of him striding across the WH lawn to his helicopter or doing
the furrowed-brow thing in the Oval office, routinely wow the camp
followers. Long-faced and bushy-haired Kerry is a distant second in
all this. But you never know.
It is a measure of the frivolity inherent in our selection process
that the Wall Street Journal Online suggested the other day that
Kerry's VP search committee needs to find someone with less hair.
Maybe it will come down to religion in the end. Of course I don't mean
real religion, rather, the curious alignment of so-called religious
voting blocks. Maybe Bush's fundy-Zionist Christians (latest label
heard on a C-Span panel discussion: "Christian fascists"), and his
assorted knee-jerk Republicans can overpower Kerry's yellow-dog
Democrats and Catholics. As to Catholics, Kerry seems to be doing his
best to convince them that no Catholic is he. But creedal orthodoxy
seems to matter less and less to anyone.
The Democrat party is where, since FDR's time, an awful lot of
Catholics have shoaled up for want of a home elsewhere (unless, like
me, they have given up on the whole lot of pols, all so greedy for the
spoils of office). But Catholics are no longer, en masse, a sure thing
for anyone; they have been splintered by abortion, the sex revolution,
the "modernization" of the Church, and by the failure and
disappearance of the tremendously influential religious orders that
used to staff Catholic schools and hospitals. As one Catholic writer
has said, imagine Cardinal Spellman, back in the 40s, calling FDR. He
was put through right away. Imagine (if you can) New York's late
Cardinal O'Connor calling Clinton some years ago. Not likely to be
available in any big hurry. The whole story of the decline of Catholic
political clout is in the difference.
But leave aside this dreary talk of "religious voting blocks." The
thing is more or less contemptible. Rather let us ask what is the real
religion of a Bonesman and by extension of a Hasnamuss, if I am right
that the code of both is essentially the same.
I long ago adopted the scheme of the Russian writer Dmitri Merejkowski
(1865--1941) dividing all religions into two basic ones. I may have
mentioned it on LRC before and well may again. M. (Merejkowski)
extracts from the apparently irreconcilable diversity of ancient
religions a central theme, a single tendency. In all the "shadows"
that ultimately turn real in the primary figure of Western religion
and history, the Lord Jesus Christ, carpenter of Galilee, he discerns
the original "Atlantean" and now "Western" religion, the religion of
the suffering God, God self-sacrificed for man.
There is, in the eleven or twelve thousand years of history of what he
calls the "second (post-Atlantean) humanity," widespread evidence of
another religion, the obverse or diabolical double of the true
universal religion. As to that true and universal religion, M. cites
approvingly Augustine's well-known mention of "Christianity before
Christ."
The religion in opposition to it, the "second religion" (recall that
the devil's number in the Pythagorean system is two), is the religion
of man sacrificed to the "gods." And we know from the Bible that the
gods men make for themselves are evil, of the devil. The one religion
is addressed to God (Tolkien's term for God in the Trilogy was "The
One.") The second religion addresses Lucifer or one of his stand-ins;
and the requirement laid on the worshippers is human sacrifice. Think
of the Moloch of Carthage and the immolation of infants the god
required, so vividly presented by Flaubert in his Salammbo. Our
Molochian thing is abortion. As well as war. A Luciferian beatitude:
"Blessed are the warmakers for they shall inherit the earth." (Can it
possibly be that another one is: "Blessed are the warmakers for they
shall be raptured"?)
Atlantis went down, M. indicates, because it abandoned its true
religion ("Christianity before Christ") and adopted the murderous
"second religion." Noah's ark was the bridge from the first to the
second humanity. That is, the Bible story is the condensed record of
the salvation of a remnant of first humanity. You may consider this,
as to history, truth or fiction; M. is by no means furnishing a
detailed factual account of anything; but in my view it is precise
psychological and spiritual truth. And we are still dealing with the
same two fundamental religions.
I take religion to mean the understanding of man and the cosmos and
the purpose of life one holds at the root of one's being, no kidding.
It is not a matter of labels and shouting, of loud claims of having
been born again. It is not merely crying Christ ("Lord, Lord!") and
then ignoring his mandates. It is very much connected with what one
wants out of life and what one thinks it is appropriate to do to get
it.
For my part I am unable to view the people prosecuting our present war
and the terrible foreign policy our government has espoused as
anything but the most able Luciferians on the block, although I
recognize that is not a trendy handle for the thing. And my Hasnamuss,
what of him? A Luciferian from the ground up. And anyone bidding to
replace the current occupant of the high throne, that "bad eminence,"
is one in the making. All the little Bonesmen everywhere are
apprentices, candidates, trainee-Hasnamuss, an unending supply ever
welling up because raw ego and raw ambition spring eternal.
Notes
Gurdjieff (1866?--1949), as far as American tastes in intellectuals
go, was an exotic, but he has had a considerable influence on the
intellectual classes in Europe and America. It is a subterranean
influence; not very often acknowledged even where present. (I googled
for G. I. Gurdjieff just now and got 118,000 hits.) A great deal of
his influence came over from his No. 1 disciple, the less exotic P.D.
Ouspensky (25,000 hits), who worked in England in the 1920s and 1930s
and in America in the 1940s. The best single book on the whole
Gurdjieff phenomenon is Ouspensky's In Search of the Miraculous:
Fragments of an Unknown Teaching (New York: Harcourt, Brace & World,
Inc., 1949).
P.D. Ouspensky, The Fourth Way. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, Inc.,
1957) page 300.
April 28, 2004
Tom White writes from Odessa, Texas. He is the author of Bill W., A
Different Kind of Hero: The Story of Alcoholics Anonymous (2003).
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30 Apr 2004 08:49:54 AM |
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"Ali Gator" <aligator_6@lycos.com> wrote in message
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The Code of the Bones
by Tom White
http://www.lewrockwell.com/white/white50.html
But when you get what G.I. Gurdjieff1 called a "Hasnamuss" sitting on
the top of the heap, and the times are of themselves dreadful, then
it's head for the hills, the dam is busted.
Ah !! Gurdjieff !!
Have a read of his 'Beelzebub's tales to his grandson.'
Well worth the effort...!
--
Jez
"The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious,
of being out of one's mind, is the condition of the normal man. Society
highly values its normal man.It educates children to lose themselves
and to become absurd,and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed
perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years."
R.D. Laing
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30 Apr 2004 06:22:42 PM |
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A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, "Jez"
<iced_spear@AwaySPAMdsl.pipex.com> wrote:
But when you get what G.I. Gurdjieff1 called a "Hasnamuss" sitting on
the top of the heap, and the times are of themselves dreadful, then
it's head for the hills, the dam is busted.
Ah !! Gurdjieff !!
Have a read of his 'Beelzebub's tales to his grandson.'
Well worth the effort...!
Fairytales.
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A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, "Jez"
<iced_spear@AwaySPAMdsl.pipex.com> wrote:
But when you get what G.I. Gurdjieff1 called a "Hasnamuss" sitting on
the top of the heap, and the times are of themselves dreadful, then
it's head for the hills, the dam is busted.
Ah !! Gurdjieff !!
Have a read of his 'Beelzebub's tales to his grandson.'
Well worth the effort...!
Fairytales.
Indeed ! But it's a damned funny read !
--
Jez
"The condition of alienation, of being asleep, of being unconscious,
of being out of one's mind, is the condition of the normal man. Society
highly values its normal man.It educates children to lose themselves
and to become absurd,and thus to be normal. Normal men have killed
perhaps 100,000,000 of their fellow normal men in the last fifty years."
R.D. Laing
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28 Apr 2004 11:41:57 PM |
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On 28 Apr 2004 18:39:58 -0700, (Ali Gator) wrote:
The Code of the Bones
by Tom White
http://www.lewrockwell.com/white/white50.html
Eh?
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29 Apr 2004 04:55:48 AM |
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Mark Richardson <mark.richardson@die.spammers.die> wrote in message news:<2s1190lsj5svqa4s9ae47kp20d0tia67ii@4ax.com>...
On 28 Apr 2004 18:39:58 -0700, (Ali Gator) wrote:
The Code of the Bones
by Tom White
http://www.lewrockwell.com/white/white50.html
Eh?
I read it with my mind wide open and here's how I interpret it:
The author thinks that there are four types of people who range from
the humanitarian to this Hasnamuss, or sociopath. He is saying that
both Bush and Kerry are Hasnamuss in nature, in that they care more
for money, power, status than they do for the welfare of their fellow
Man. Thus, they are both willing to sacrifice any number of people for
their cause and have a tendancy towards war, hence Bonesmen.
That, assuming I have interpreted it correctly, is basically it. It
was a lot of work for very little, wasn't it?
Regards,
(-: Ian :-)
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01 May 2004 03:44:05 PM |
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(Ian Braidwood) wrote in message news:<53ad390d.0404290155.20a0486f@posting.google.com>...
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On 28 Apr 2004 18:39:58 -0700, (Ali Gator) wrote:
The Code of the Bones
by Tom White
http://www.lewrockwell.com/white/white50.html
Eh?
I read it with my mind wide open and here's how I interpret it:
The author thinks that there are four types of people who range from
the humanitarian to this Hasnamuss, or sociopath. He is saying that
both Bush and Kerry are Hasnamuss in nature, in that they care more
for money, power, status than they do for the welfare of their fellow
Man. Thus, they are both willing to sacrifice any number of people for
their cause and have a tendancy towards war, hence Bonesmen.
That, assuming I have interpreted it correctly, is basically it. It
was a lot of work for very little, wasn't it?
....
Does it help to know that there's a secret, very prestigious club at
Yale called "Skull and Bones"? Whether either G. W. Bush or John
Kerry was a member I have no idea.
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Jerry Friedman
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01 May 2004 10:30:55 PM |
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On 28 Apr 2004 18:39:58 -0700, (Ali Gator) wrote:
The Code of the Bones
by Tom White
http://www.lewrockwell.com/white/white50.html
Eh?
I read it with my mind wide open and here's how I interpret it:
The author thinks that there are four types of people who range from
the humanitarian to this Hasnamuss, or sociopath. He is saying that
both Bush and Kerry are Hasnamuss in nature, in that they care more
for money, power, status than they do for the welfare of their fellow
Man. Thus, they are both willing to sacrifice any number of people for
their cause and have a tendancy towards war, hence Bonesmen.
That, assuming I have interpreted it correctly, is basically it. It
was a lot of work for very little, wasn't it?
...
Does it help to know that there's a secret, very prestigious club at
Yale called "Skull and Bones"? Whether either G. W. Bush or John
Kerry was a member I have no idea.
Well, yes. That's exactly what this article is saying. This is how it
begins: "With one or the other of two Skull and Bones men nearly
certain to be our next president..." I already knew that Bush was a
member of the group, and according to this article, Kerry is too.
Once in a while I get bored enough, or eager enough to procrastinate,
that I read one of these articles crossposted to 20 newsgroups at once
all the way through. So I think I can conclusively review not just it,
but also the author: the article is stupid, and so is its writer.
Well, I hope it is a brilliant parody that falls flat because the joke
is too subtle, but I'm pretty sure it is just stupid. Reading this
makes me feel like how the Log Cabin Republicans probably feel about
Jerry Falwell: very embarrassed to agree with him even a little bit.
I agree with this Tom White that the two serious Presidential
candidates shouldn't be so similar. I too would have preferred Dean to
either candidate. But this article is stupid! There is no real
argument or facts in the entire article. "The Code of the Bones" which
makes up such an important part of the article is completely made up
by White. His third paragraph tells you something even more useful.
Here it is: "But into this gap in our knowledge, I rush with my
speculations, which, in the absence of any statement from the
candidates or any other Bonesman, I think I am sovereignly entitled to
do." A three year old should be able to see a problem with logic that
boils down to, "I don't know the truth, so I can assume anything I
want." His argument (as far as I can tell, it's not clear at all) is
that both Bush and Kerry are sociopaths. To prove this, he resorts to
an imaginary "World Rule Nominating Committee", completely unsupported
talk about religious "voting blocks", two Eastern European
intellectuals who fall into that "visionary or madman depending on who
you ask" category, and the Pythagorean number of the devil. As I said
- stupid!
</end rant> wow, that was fun.
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30 Apr 2004 05:57:34 AM |
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A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, (Ian
Braidwood) wrote:
I read it with my mind wide open and here's how I interpret it:
The author thinks that there are four types of people who range from
the humanitarian to this Hasnamuss, or sociopath. He is saying that
both Bush and Kerry are Hasnamuss in nature, in that they care more
for money, power, status than they do for the welfare of their fellow
Man. Thus, they are both willing to sacrifice any number of people for
their cause and have a tendancy towards war, hence Bonesmen.
AKA The Sith.
Perhaps you fools have finally caught on. Only took you 2000 years to figure
it out! Idiots.
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http://www.mncollegedems.org/DarthBush.jpg
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