My Thoughts on Tribalism and the Rejection of the Concept of the Nation State

For a number of years now I have come to gradually reject the concept of the 'nation' as a desirable organisational working model, in favour of tribalism, a far more ancient and authentic way for man to organise himself collectively. My antipathy towards the concept of the 'nation' is based upon the historical fact that pre-Christian Germanic man lived in clans and tribes, not within nation states. This held true also for the Celtic peoples. That does not deny the reality of das Volk (Old English folc, Old Norse folk) in terms of a wider human identity but in reality our pre-Christian ancestors did not think in 'national' or nationalistic terms. Indeed often a given Germanic tribe would enter into a temporary alliance with a Celtic tribe in order to fight or resist an opposing Germanic tribe. They felt no contradiction in doing so. Their loyalties first and foremost were to the clan, then to the tribe.

The Term 'nation' is to be found in the German language; die Nation, as an alternative to das Volk but it is of alien, Latin derivation (natio-'I am born') and one which was not used by 19th and 20th century folkish thinkers and ideologists. 'Volk' has a more organic and German feel than 'Nation'. Indeed I would encourage my English readers to use the term folc in preference to the alien 'nation'. Folc and Volk are related but not absolutely identical terms. A folc can of course exist without a nation state as is the case today with England.

Both Germanic and Celtic tribes consisted of smaller units called clans that had some kind of common identity, a common origin myth. The clans in turn consisted of units of interrelated families. Our ancestors for reasons of biological health married outside of their clans but only with other clans that were part of the same tribe. This helped to create and maintain a consistent biological unity, identity and avoid inbreeding.

Whilst my knowledge of German, Germanic and Celtic history made me aware that tribalism was more ancient and authentic than nationalism it did not explain my general reluctance to consider myself as a 'nationalist' and indeed I have never claimed to be one, contrary to the claims made by certain websites. It is only with my recent reading of Edred Thorsson's Re-tribalise Now! A Step-by-Step Guide to Cultural Renewal (2020, Arcana Europa Media) that I fully understood the deeper reasons for my antipathy towards nationalism and the 'nation state' concept. Why I did not understand this before I do not know but thanks to Edred's book I can now more fully articulate my feelings for the very first time.

It is no coincidence that the creation of the nation state of England coincides with the spread of Christianity. The dream of a united England was that of King Alfred of Wessex (847/849-899), commonly called by the misnomer Alfred the 'Great'. He is not as many wrongly assume, the first king of England but he did call himself the King of the Anglo-Saxons which of course in reality he wasn't. He had grandiose ideas about forming a single kingdom out of the Anglo-Saxon heptarchy under him and his descendants. The first king of all England was in fact Aethelstan (c. 899-939) from 927-939, a grandson of Alfred.

The centralisation of political power goes hand in glove with the centralisation of religion. The Church pushed for the centralisation of political power in order to extend their control and primacy over the religious life of the Anglo-Saxons. Tribes were a threat to political and religious centralisation. Edred makes clear in his book that the "traditional tribal structures of ancient Europe were targeted for destruction, first by the Roman Empire and then by its successor, the Roman Catholic Church." He points out that tribal loyalties were more important to people than their loyalty to the Church.

The move from tribes to tribal confederations (Saxons and Franks) to 'nations' (and sometimes to empires) coincided with the introduction of Christianity. The christianisation of Norway and the emergence of a king of ALL Norway is one such example in addition to the English one. The temporal power of the king was used to suppress heathenism and to force the outward conversion of the king's subjects to the alien religion of Christianity. The king thus betrayed his gods, ancestors and fellow countrymen. This is why I contend that just as we reject the alien religion of Christianity we must reject the alien and Christian concept of the 'nation state'. It is not only too closely tied to Christianity but it was a willing tool in the eradication of heathen religions and a means of spreading that pernicious religion around the world. It is also responsible for two unnecessary world wars and many European ones.

In a future article I will give some suggestions as to how we may move away from the concept of 'nation' to that of tribe and clan. For the benefit of my foreign readers England has not been a 'nation state' since the Acts of Union with Scotland in 1707.

Bifrost; a Rainbow Bridge?

Karl Georg Zschaetzsch makes the interesting observation in his Atlantis. Die Urheimat der Arier (Atlantis. The Original Home of the Aryans), that the bridge linking Midgarth with Asgarth is not a rainbow bridge but consists of only three colours, red, white and black (the colours of the Prussian and old German flag):

"Nach Plato war die Bruecke hundert Fuss breit und aus weissen, schwarzen und roten Steinen erbaut. Diese Bruecke wird auch in der nordischen Ueberlieferung unter dem Namen Bifrost erwaehnt, es heisst darueber: 'Sie hat drei Farben und ist sehr stark und mit mehr Kunst und Verstand gemacht als andere Werke.' In der Erinnerung der nach dem Norden ausgewanderten Arier war die Bruecke Bifrost so schoen und farbenpraechtig wie der Regenbogen. Im Laufe der Zeit, als der richtige Sinn der Ueberlieferungen mehr und mehr in Vergessenheit geriet, wurde dann die Bruecke, die 'schoen wie der Regenbogen' war, fuer den Regenbogen selbst gehalten. In der nordischen Ueberlieferung heisst es ferner: 'Dass die Goetter eine Bruecke machten vom Himmel zur Erde, die Bifrost heisst.'" (page 24) 

My translation:

"According to Plato the bridge was a hundred feet wide and built out of white, black and red stones. This bridge is also referred to in the Nordic tradition under the name Bifrost. It is said about it: 'it has three colours and is very strong and made with more artistry and understanding than other works.' In the memory of the Aryans who emigrated to the north the bridge Bifrost was so beautiful and and gloriously colourful as the rainbow. In the course of time, when the correct meaning of the traditions were more and more forgotten, then the bridge, which was 'as beautiful as the rainbow', was mistaken for the rainbow itself. In the Nordic tradition it is further said: 'That the gods made a bridge from heaven to earth, which is called Bifrost.' "

My readers will no doubt note that the reference to Plato concerns his works on Atlantis; Timaeus and Critias. Plato does indeed tell us that the walls of Atlantis were constructed of red, white and black stones, covered with brass, tin and orichalcum. People have speculated what kind of metal orichalcum was. It may have been platinum or some other type of alloy. We are not told what kind of stone the bridges in Atlantis were constructed of so Zschaetzsch is clearly presuming that they were made of the same kind of stone as the walls. It is a reasonable hypothesis.

Re-reading the passage in Zschaetzsch's book caused me to read again the passages relating to Bifrost in both of the Eddas. In the Poetic (Elder) Edda it is referred to as Bilrost and no description is given concerning it. More detailed information is to be found in the Prose (Younger) Edda where it is called Bifrost. In Gylfaginning High says to Gangleri: "You must have seen it, maybe it is what you call the rainbow. It has three colours and great strength and is built with art and skill to a greater extent than other constructions."
(Translated by Anthony Faulkes, published by Everyman, 1987)

In modern artwork Bifrost is usually depicted as a rainbow bridge and this is no doubt due to that single reference in Gylfaginning to its appearance. Indeed the passage itself is contradictory; having only three colours and yet compared to the rainbow. The etymology of Bifrost-'swaying road to heaven' (see Dictionary of Northern Mythology, Rudolf Simek) is not particularly helpful but Simek suggests that its earlier name, Bilrost means either 'the fleetingly glimpsed rainbow' or 'the multi-coloured way' but favours the former. An alternative name in Gylfaginning 4 is Asbru; 'bridge of the Aesir'.We have to conclude that there is no clear answer to this puzzle but the reference to three colours in Gylfaginning cannot be ignored and on that basis I feel that there is merit in Zschaetzsch's argument.

Most students of Norse mythology will notice the prevalence of the number 3 in the Eddas. This was noted especially by Lionel Fanthorpe in his Mysteries and Secrets of Numerology, 2013. There are of course 3 primary colours in light: red, green and blue but this does not explain the Atlantis-Bifrost connection. White, red and black are the representative colours of the Germanic caste system (see page 40, The Indo-Europeans by Professor Jean Haudry). As I have previously noted, these 3 colours are present in the old Prussian and German flag as well as the flags of other Indo-European founded countries. Thus finding these colours in the construction of the walls of Atlantis helps to reinforce the Atlantis-Aryan connection which is the basic premise of Zschaetzsch's book.

The Coming Coronavirus Second Wave and My Premonition

After reading about reports of covidiots holding VE day street parties across the United Kingdom I decided to air my views further on the pandemic on my blog. Let me remind my readers that I was given a premonition in late 2019 in the form of a very strange dream. You can read about this on A Dream From Late 2019 Concerning Mass Death

Let me recap the essential elements of my dream! I saw piles of corpses filling the streets and police helicopters in the skies above. I knew instinctively that these people did not die of misadventure of any kind but from natural causes of some description. At the time of the dream there was no mention of Coronavirus or any epidemic in China in the news. A month or two later the whole thing kicked off in Wuhan, China. Even then I did not suspect that the virus would spread around the world and cause a global pandemic. It was only in mid March 2020 that I realised that my strange dream (which meant nothing at the time) was a premonition. Indeed there are many countries such as Ecuador and Iran where corpses are literally piling up. This has not happened yet in the United Kingdom, although the death toll is the highest in Europe. It could be argued that in the terms of more than 30,000 deaths that they are indeed 'piling up', but I believe that by the end of 2020 they will literally be piling up when the apparently inevitable second wave will have hit the United Kingdom.

The Prime Minister announced some easing of the lockdown yesterday evening, causing great confusion in the minds of everyone, not least his own Cabinet! His replacement of the 'stay at home, save lives' message with 'stay alert', a vague and ineffectual slogan, was effectively a green light for less disciplined members of our society to go ahead and do their own thing. Commuters were seen cramming together like sardines in underground trains in London. Irresponsible fools held street parties which police officers, risking their own lives had to interrupt, resulting in the arrests of many drunken fools, with many of these scum spitting and coughing in the faces of officers. NHS consultants, having witnessed death on a daily basis and the horrors of this ravaging disease first hand, took to Twitter to voice their alarm, anger and frustration. Likewise a police Chief Superintendent voiced his concern after recovering from a coma caused by the virus. This man was under 50 and in good health, thus demonstrating that anyone can be a victim.

Coronavirus is not only affecting people over the age of 50 and those with health problems but the young and healthy as well. There are plenty of examples of such cases for people to research on the internet should you question my word. Despite the fact that this is a latter day plague, the members of the David Icke fan base are out in force on social media platforms, particularly Youtube, the haven of many fools who trot out their unscientific conspiracy theories like confetti, and the largely half educated masses soak up their propaganda like a sponge. This is particularly the case with the so-called 'right'. One tends to find that such people will favour more than one conspiracy theory and often they tend to follow a similar pattern. It does not surprise me that many who contend that Coronavirus is either a 'hoax' or 'man-made' also tend to deny the reality of climate change (whether man-made or not) or believe that the likes of 'Tommy Robinson' or Melanie Shaw are being 'persecuted' by the establishment. Usually these people favour the same theories and form a veritable cohort of sorts. They are predictable, easily read psychologically and fodder for manipulation.

I will say this one more time: I agree that governments may very well attempt to use the pandemic as an opportunity to unleash yet more electronic surveillance on their populations and are complicit in the introduction of the cashless society. However, that in itself cannot be used as an argument to deny the reality of the Coronavirus or its deadly nature. In the United Kingdom about 15% of people infected with the virus have died and it is an horrific way to die. Some conspiracy theorists talk of losing their 'liberties' due to the measures imposed by the government. I see no such loss of liberties. People are not under house arrest; they have been free to go to work if necessary, go shopping for essentials, obtain medicine and medical treatment, enjoy outdoor exercise and provide care to others. Many of these people in normal circumstances would have welcomed several months at home, resting. These very same people who lecture the rest of us about the value of 'family' find that they cannot after all bear being in the presence of their 'loved ones' for any extended period of time! One sees the same thing at Yule and at funerals! Hypocrisy at its very best!

Whilst I firmly believe that my dream was a premonition I hope that I am proven wrong over the course of time. The issue of free will and fate and their interaction, as with the nornir of Norse mythology, are complicated issues. All one can do is to be faithful to the message that the gods give us as individuals. I believe that this premonition emanates from the gods. If I fail to deliver its message then I will have demonstrated disobedience to the gods. My priority is and always has been the gods. The feelings of others about the message is irrelevant. All I can do is speak the message. I am not responsible for the feelings, actions or inaction of others: they will answer for that themselves before the judgement seat of the gods. The nornir and the gods knew that I would be receptive to, and not dismiss their message. They also knew that I would speak the message without fear or favour.

Another characteristic that the naysayers on this issue generally share in common is their lack of a scientific education. I am not a scientist. It is thus reasonable for me to take note of and rely upon the best judgement of scientists and physicians. It is the height of sheer hubris for someone lacking a scientific education to venture to debate with scientists as if they were their equals. I have also observed that the vast majority of the deniers tend to be below the age of 50 and generally in good health. These are the very same people that are at the least risk (apart from children) from the virus but are quite prepared to challenge the government's measures, which are designed to keep those of us who are at greater risk, safe! They fail to see the questionable moral stance that they are taking.

There are some who believe that by flouting the government's guidelines they are showing themselves worthy of Valhalla, failing to see that their only reward will be a painful, suffocating straw death. Bravery must not be confused with foolishness and being reckless with one's life. Julius Evola took this attitude when 'braving' an air raid in Vienna in 1945, resulting in the paralysis of his lower body for the rest of his life. He literally tempted fate. This is what happens when you deliberately tempt the nornir. Our ancestors survived long enough to breed by not recklessly risking their lives to prove a foolish point. This is the behaviour expected of children and young fools.We need to be guided less by our testosterone and more by the intelligence that All-Father has given us. Unfortunately this is a lesson that the young usually must learn for themselves; the hard way. Some never learn this lesson!

Germany, South Korea and China, who all recently eased their lockdown measures are now experiencing what appears to be a second wave. The same thing can and I feel will happen in this country within the next one to two months. If this happens then the final death toll will not be in the tens of thousands but the hundreds of thousands: all because of the stupidity and the arrogance of the masses.

The Practice of Senicide, Valhalla Cliffs, Odin Ponds and the Hyperboreans

A few years ago whilst reading Origins of English History (1882) by Charles Isaac Elton I came across a curious passage relating to the practice of senicide (killing of the elderly). Senicide appears to have been carried out not only in pre-Christian times but:

"Even in comparatively modern times the Swedes and Pomeranians killed their old people in the way which was indicated in the passages quoted above". (page 91)

Pomerania is an historical religion which is situated on the southern shore of the Baltic sea in modern day Poland and Germany. The name is preserved in the modern German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. A recent update of my autosomal DNA on LivingDNA has finally found * most but not all of my maternal ancestral DNA which originates from 3 main areas of German settlement in Europe; southern, northwestern and northeastern Germanic DNA. The latter pertains to the geographical area of Pomerania; so who knows, maybe my ancestors practised this custom!


There appears to have been two main forms of killing the elderly, via use of the 'family club' and jumping off the 'Valhalla cliffs' down to the 'Odin pond' below. Senicide appears to have been more common in times of famine which caused family units to make hard choices in terms of who should be allowed to survive. Mr Elton tells us that:

"One of the family clubs is said to be still preserved at a farm in East Gothland." (page 91)

Being beaten to death is obviously a far harsher form of senicide than jumping off a cliff and it appears that in the latter case this was usually a voluntary practice. An alternate and Swedish name for the Valhalla cliffs is attestupa (kin/clan precipice). Apparently ritual forms of senicide are said to have taken place during prehistoric times when the elderly were no longer able to either support themselves or assist their families. The use of the term attestupa dates back to the 17th century in Sweden and is based upon the 13th century Gautreks Saga about the legendary king Gautrek. In one part of the saga members of a particular family kill themselves by jumping off their family cliff. Whilst many modern scholars doubt the existence of these Valhalla cliffs they nevertheless persist in folklore. We should take what modern scholars have to say about the past with a pinch of salt when their research conflicts with ancient writings, folkore and oral traditions which are usually found to be quite reliable. Many modern academics are far from neutral with their research and are often guided by political instincts, often rooted in cultural Marxism.

"'Here by our home', says the hero, 'is Gillings-rock: we call it the family-cliff, because there we lessen the number of family when evil fortune comes. There all our fathers went to Odin without any stroke of disease. The old folk have free access to that happy spot, and we ought to be put to no further trouble or expense about them. The children push the father and mother from the rock, and send them with joy and gladness on their journey to Odin." (page 91) 

The existence of these Valhalla cliffs is confirmed by Pliny the Elder in his The Natural History:

"Three such cliffs in West-Gothland and Bleking still bear the latter name, and to another the remarkable statement attaches, that the people, after dances and sports, threw themselves headlong from its top into the lake, as the ancients relate of the Hyperboreans and Scythians. (iv.12) 

Sir Laurence Gomme in his Folklore as an Historical Science, 66-78 refers to some houses in Silesia and Saxony where a mallet hangs in front of the houses. In one example at Osnabrueck there is also the following inscription:

"Wer den Kindern gibt das Brodt

            And selber dabei leidet Noth,

           Den schlagt mit dieser Kettle todt."


My translation:

 "Who gives bread to the children,

            And thereby suffers need himself

           With this mallet strike him dead."

Procopius relates in his The Wars that the Heruli burned their elderly and sick after fastening them to a stack of wood and stabbing them to death. Senicide is historically confined not just to the northern Germanic world but to other parts of Europe, India and also Japan. In ancient Rome people reaching 60 were said to be thrown from a bridge or used as human sacrifices to the gods. (Old Age in the Roman World, Tim G Parkin, 2003)  Mr Parkin also tells us that in ancient Greece when the Athenians besieged the island of Keos in the Aegian Sea the inhabitants voted that all the elderly over the age of 60 should commit suicide by drinking hemlock. Another case was on the island of Sardinia where 70 year old fathers were sacrificed by their sons to the God of the Harvest, Cronus, the leader of the Titans.


The practice of senicide may be traced further back to the Hyperboreans who practised 'happy suicides:

"Their habitations be in woods and groves, where they worship the gods both by themselves and in companies and congregations. No discord know they. No sickness are they acquainted with. They die only when they have lived long enough: for when the aged have made good cheere, and anoynted their bodies with sweet ointments, they leape off a certain rocke into the sea. This kind of sepulture is of all others the most happie." (The Hyperboreans, Hecataeus, quoted by Elton, page 90)

It is clear that in the case of the Hyperboreans senicide was voluntary and entered into as a means of avoiding age-related sickness or when the elderly had finally tired of life. The practice was also clearly ritualistic and the method a forerunner of the so-called Valhalla cliffs and Odin ponds. Who were these 'Hyperboreans'? The ancients believed that they were a race of 'giants' who lived 'beyond the north wind.'

"Behind the Rhipoean hills and beyond the North Pole there is a blessed and happie people, if we may believe it, whom they call Hyperboreans, who live exceeding long, and many fables and strange wonders are reported of them. In this tract are supposed to be two points or poles about which the world turneth about, and the verie ends of the heaven's revolution. For six months together they have one entire day, and night as longe, when the sun is cleane turned from them. Once in the year, namely, at our midsummer, when the Sun entereth Cancer, the Sun riseth with them, and once likewise it setteth, even in mid-winter with us, when the Sun entereth Capricorn. The countrie is open upon the Sun, of a blissful and pleasant temperature, void of all noisome wind and hurtful aire." (The Hyperboreans, Hecateus, quoted by Elton, page 90)  

It is clear that these Hyperboreans resided in the area of the Arctic at a time when the climate was temperate and the area covered by forests and rich in wildlife. This was the original home of the Proto-Indo-Europeans (the Aryans) before their dispersal. (See The Arctic Home in the Vedas, 1903 by B.G. Tilak) Echoes of this original Hyperborean arctic home are to be found in the recorded mythologies of many of the Indo-European peoples, including the Vedas and the Avesta. The whole subject of Hyperborea and its place in prehistory and geography will be dealt with in far more detail in a future essay (the gods willing!).


Returning to the subjects of the Valhalla cliffs and the Odin ponds:

"The situation of several of these 'Valhalla Cliffs' is still well known in Sweden. The lakes, which stretch below, were called 'Valhalla-meres' or 'Odin-ponds'. 'The old people, after dances and sports, threw themselves into the lake, as the ancients related of the Hyperboreans': but if an old Norseman became too frail to travel to the cliff, his kinsmen would save him the disgrace of 'dying like a cow in the straw', and would beat him to death with 'the family-club'. Similar stories are told of the Heruli in the dark forests of Poland'; and among the Prussians 'all the daughters except one were destroyed in infancy or sold, and the aged and infirm, the sick and the deformed, were unhesitatingly put to death': practices as remote from the poetry of the Greek description as from the reverence for the parents' authority which might have perhaps been expected from descendants of 'the Aryan household.'" (page 92)

Mr Elton quotes an example of the brutal practice of clubbing from  Conversion of the Slavs, Maclear where:

"A Count Schulenberg rescued an old man who was being beaten to death by his sons at a place called Jammerholz, or 'woeful wood'; and the intended victim lived as a the Count's hall-porter for twenty years after his rescue. A Countess of Mansfeld, in the 14th century, is said to have saved the life of an old man on the Lueneberg Heath under similar circumstances." (p.92) 

Here in England it was a common practice that when the old were lying on their death beds, in order to save them from any unnecessary suffering the family physician would be called for and the patient would be administered a 'little something' to 'help them on their way'. Occasionally a pillow would be laid gently over their head as an alternative.





* This is due to their recent 'German Project' which involved collecting and expanding their continental Germanic DNA database. I will expect my German DNA to increase in percentages as their database expands.

Further Thoughts on Coronavirus and the Lockdown

The Prime Minister is due to chair a meeting with his cabinet this afternoon regarding a potential easing of certain aspects of the lockdown. Some commentators anticipate that some lifting of restrictions will occur as early as next week. If this were to happen then this would in my opinion be a grave mistake, grave being the operative word. The government has been criticised internationally for introducing the lockdown too late. It will compound this error further if it decides to end or ease the lockdown too early.

The number of new cases being reported in the United Kingdom is still in the thousands and the death toll has started to increase again. Indeed there were 6111 new cases and 649 more deaths reported yesterday. These should be taken as warning signals by the government but it is clear that they have other priorities as they face pressure from big business-their paymasters to lift the lockdown. Added to this is the pressure that they are facing from their electorate who hypocritically criticised the government in February and March for their inaction and are now complaining about being under 'house arrest'! In situations like this I can almost pity the Prime Minister as whatever decision he takes will be unpopular in some quarters.

For the benefit of my many international readers no one is under 'house arrest' in the United Kingdom. People are free to travel to work, to go shopping, to exercise or attend medical appointments. What is forbidden is taking unnecessary journeys outside of these guidelines and gathering in groups of more than two people who do not share the same household. Social distancing of being at least 6ft apart is encouraged both outside and in shops. Whenever I have needed to walk to the shops or to town I have encountered no problems with the police.

Prior to the lockdown being implemented I started to decrease my use of public transport as buses are a hotbed of contamination, not just from Coronavirus but from colds, flu and other viruses with people coughing and spluttering and not placing their hand in front of their mouth. I started to walk to my part time job there and back twice a day, taking me over 2 hours a day, despite suffering from arthritis in my knees. I built up a certain amount of fitness in preparation for not using the buses at all. I also started to wear a face mask and practiced social distancing before the public were told to do this. Thus far this has kept me contamination free.

I have noticed that on social media platforms such as Youtube there are posters advocating the breaking of the lockdown rules which in itself is an incitement to break the law with some idiots boasting that they are coming and going as they please, visiting people that they do not live with. Such people genuinely deserve to be infected with this virus but sadly they will infect other innocent people in the process.

I am one of the few commentators in the folkish movement who still believes that the Coronavirus pandemic is genuine. Many others are attempting to deny the reality of the virus, claiming that it is either a 'hoax' or greatly exaggerated. Some attempt to interpret the statistics (albeit with a biased intention) or will just simply venture forth their worthless and unsubstantiated opinions without even bothering to refer to statistical evidence. Take this from someone who has had inside knowledge over the decades: government statistics are never interpreted in a vacuum. They are always interpreted with a biased intention. It is the old concept of is the 'glass half full' or 'half empty', to put the matter in simplistic terms. To genuinely interpret statistics we must do so as far as we can without a biased intention. Instead the majority of people will approach the interpretation of statistics with an intention of 'proving' their pet theory. This is subjective and in many ways natural and common place but it is not objective or scientific.

Whilst I believe that this virus is real and dangerous I DO believe that the government of both this country and those of other countries will use the present crisis to extend further the surveillance state and hasten the introduction of the cashless society. These two things do not and should not infer that the pandemic is a hoax but governments, global capitalists and banks have their own agenda on the back of this. Shops are encouraging people to pay without using cash and governments encouraging their populations to 'download the app' are examples of this. Thankfully I do not and never have owned a 'smart' phone and I have no intention of ever having one. Apart from the obvious concerns about privacy and state surveillance I would not have the capability of using one. I am a technophobe, brought into the world in the era of black and white television, 2 channels and cars with starting handles. I suffer from essential tremors in my hands for which I take medication and it now takes me about 10 minutes to type and send a text message. The other day it took me about 2 hours to work out how to switch my mobile phone with big buttons on, despite having it for several years!

For years now I have argued that the introduction of the 'smart' phone is an aspect of the 'mark of the beast' referred to in Revelation 13:16-17:

"And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads:

"And that no man might buy or sell, save he that had the mark, or the name of the beast, or the number of his name."  (Authorised King James Version)

I reiterate that the 'smart phone' is an aspect of the mark of the beast but it is not the final version as the real mark will be contained within the body of a person. This is the first stage. There have been suggestions by some that unless one has a  'smart' phone and downloads the 'app' one may not be able to continue with going about one's usual everyday life. I do not believe this. Apart from the fact that not everybody has a  'smart' phone it is too early at this stage for any western government to attempt to introduce any such draconian measures as people will simply not co-operate. However this is a useful opportunity for governments to measure the compliance of a population in preparation for further conditioning (I use the term in the sense of mass suggestion, a form of hypnosis).

Whilst I am fully aware of the agenda of governments, global capitalists and banks I must remind my readers of my position on the virus, that I believe that it is real and deadly, especially for those with certain health problems (e.g. asthma) and those over the age of 50. Let me quote some statistics for you at this juncture! The potential for death from Coronavirus at the age of 50 is 20 times that of a 20 year old, 8 times that of a 30 year old and 3 times that of a 40 year old. At age 60 the death rate is 2.5 times that of  50 year old, 8 times that of a 40 year old, over 20 times that of a  30 year old and over 72 times that of a 20 year old! See: https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/businessreview/2020/04/09/adjusting- covid-19-expectations-to-the-age-profile-of-deaths/ I must point out that these are global statistics and of course will vary from one country to another.

My readers may recall that the World Health Organisation encouraged several months ago that anyone over the age of 60 should shield themselves and avoid public places. However the government of the United Kingdom ignored this advice and focused purely on people over 70. They did so not for any scientific or medical reasons but because many people in their 50s and to a lesser degree in their 60s, still work and their objective was safeguarding the economy first, not people. In the light of this any easing of the lockdown that may take place next week will not be for the benefit of the public but for the safeguarding of the wealth of the 1%. However the 99% have since 2008 been conditioned by the government into believing that it is THEY who are responsible for reimbursing any lost wealth of the 1%. That strategy will continue because the majority of the people are extremely easy to manipulate, both individually and collectively. This is achieved through the indirect use of hypnosis and suggestion via television, the internet and newspapers.

As my readers may recall I recently reported on a dream that I had in late 2019 prior to the onset of the Coronavisus epidemic in China. A Dream from Late 2019 Concerning Mass Deaths I sincerely believe that this was a premonition given to me by the gods concerning the impending pandemic. I saw masses of bodies piled up in the street, people dead not from misadventure but due to 'natural causes' and helicopters in the sky above. This dream meant absolutely nothing at the time but from its content and timing this was clearly a premonition. The worst my dear readers is yet to come!

If the lockdown is lifted or even eased too soon then we will inevitably experience a second and more deadly 'wave' in September, the beginning of the new school year and the winter half of the year when the NHS is at its busiest. It is estimated that there are over 12 different strains of Coronavirus with one unique to this country. See https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8288189/At-12-different-strains-coronavirus-circulating-UK-March.html As mentioned months ago by scientists, this virus is mutating and there is thus no guarantee that a person cannot be infected more than once. There is therefore no guaranteed immunity.

Whilst it is only a film I would encourage my readers to obtain a copy of the 1964 film, The Masque of the Red Death, starring Vincent Price, based on the 1842 short story by Edgar Allan Poe. So dear readers if you feel so inclined, then 'party on': the Grim Reaper awaits!