PALE HORSES
This isn’t for the normies, I’ve given up trying to write for them. They don’t read me, anyway. So forget about persuasion. If you’re reading this, I’m sure you hear it too, that clatter of hooves: pale horses careering all over the place.
This one was a street mural in Brixton, South London.
This photo was taken in 2015, so pale horses have been on my mind for quite some time. I must have read William Cooper’s Behold A Pale Horse at least ten years earlier. And I’m not the only one sensitized to this kind of symbology. Earlier this year in London a number of Household Guard horses mysteriously ran loose in the streets, one of them pouring blood, and people certainly found something ominous in that early morning apparition.
Of course the ‘pale horse’ of the Book of Revelation isn’t actually white. The first horseman rides a white horse, carries a bow and is sent forth to conquer. The second horse is red, and its rider carries a sword, sent out to take peace from the earth. The third horse is black, and is usually interpreted as portending famine. The fourth is the ‘pale’ horse, and I read that the original Greek word χλωρός, chloros, has connotations of sickness — the word can convey a sense of pallor or weakness: a pale, sickly green. The rider of the pale hose is Death, and Hell follows behind.
The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse are very much part of the zeitgeist, the collective dreamscape of our times. I read the Book of Revelation (KJV of course) early in 2021, soon after finishing Hannah Arendt’s The Origins of Totalitarianism. I’m sure you can guess why — a certain detail I was looking for. The Four Horsemen appear fairly early on, with the breaking of the first four Seals, and foreshadow the rampaging horde of two hundred million horsemen to be loosed by the four angels of the Euphrates, “having breastplates of fire, and of jacinth, and brimstone: and the heads of the horses were as the heads of lions; and out of their mouths issued fire and smoke and brimstone” — the poisonous breath with which they are to kill one third of the human race.
To be honest, this kind of imagery — surreal, apocalyptic, sublime — is something of a relief from the banality of evil in our actuality, the tired ubiquity of the lie, the apathy of the masses in the face of extermination, the mundanity of the monsters we are faced with in the real world. The most depressing thing about living through these times, so far at least, is the sheer bathos of it all. This is how the world ends — not with a bang, but a whimper. The apocalyptic imagery at least registers the horror, the enormity, gives it some drama, unlike this slow iatrogenocide of the unconscious masses. What would you rather read about, the creeping holocaust of cancer, the white octopus-clots building inside the arteries to strangle their victims from inside… or a smoke of locusts rising from the pit, with lions’ teeth, women’s hair and scorpion tails, their stings so tormenting that “6 … in those days shall men seek death, and shall not find it; and shall desire to die, and death shall flee from them.” (And who can read that without muttering a quiet prayer to Santa Muerte?)
It’s escapism, then; a predilection for psychedelic imagery. But more than that, a sense that the conflict playing out in these times is so deep that it can only be expressed in archetypal terms, a symbolic lexicon, the language of end-times. It’s not the end of the world, of course. But it is the end of an epoch, a transition of empire, the fall of a civilization, and quite possibly the extinction — or forced evolution — of the species.
I was drawn to the details — those strangely modern details, to my mind, which occur around the Beast — the second Beast, that is, from the Earth, directing the people to worship the Beast from the Sea, which has been granted the power to rule for a strictly limited period and is usually associated with the figure of the Anti-Christ. He has them make an image of the Beast, which he then has the power to animate:
[He] deceiveth them that dwell on the earth by the means of those miracles which he had power to do in the sight of the beast; saying to them that dwell on the earth, that they should make an image to the beast, which had the wound by a sword, and did live.
15 And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.
This living, speaking image of the beast seems like something from our own era. While moving statues are known from the time of Solomon, a living image that speaks suggests a foreshadowing of television or even ‘deep fake’ technology, as if John is glimpsing things he cannot understand.
And then there’s the Mark.
“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:17 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.”
The ‘Mark’ is a strangely specific detail in the context, and for a long time there have been those who have understood it with a plausible futuristic twist as the microchipping of the population, long an ambition of the financial elite. The Christian commentators (‘right-wing’, ‘paranoid’, etc) who built this interpretation over the decades envisaged the use of sub-cutaneous RFID chips the size of a grain of rice, inserted in the hand or forehead. It’s only the technical details that have to be updated: the technology now is wireless, nano-scale, injectable. The Mark signifies a forced incorporation into the Beast System which arises after the fall of Babylon. I don’t think anyone who has lived through the past four years could fail to make the connection with vaccine passports and the ‘civil death’ the unvaccinated were threatened with by politicians across the developed world.
So that’s what I was looking for. The vaccine is the Mark of the Beast, and there’s enough here to suggest the outlines of the totalitarian ‘Beast System’, a geo-fenced, hyper-surveilled social credit panopticon, which we see taking shape around us. And like every totalitarian system, the coming technocracy must attempt to create a ‘new man’ designed to fit the system.
This month saw the publication of a long-term microscopy study of the mRNA vaccines: a comprehensive longitudinal study by Dr Young Mi Lee (MD) and Dr Daniel Broudy (PhD) entitled Real-Time Self-Assembly of Stereomicroscopically Visible Artificial Constructions in Incubated Specimens of mRNA Products Mainly from Pfizer and Moderna. [https://ijvtpr.com/index.php/IJVTPR/article/view/102/291].
This peer-reviewed paper has been greeted as vindication by researchers such as the medical-legal specialist Karen Kingston and the pathologist Dr Ana Mihalcea, two of the leading lights in exposing the technological nature of the injections.
Mihalcea’s darkfield microscopy of blood samples, using up to 4000x magnification, reveals fluorescent particles, microrobots emitting blue light, and nano-swarms assembling brain-chips and building polymer filaments. Kingston sees the whole pandemic as synthetic — infection by nanotechnology that mimics biology, specifically viruses foreign to the human body, consisting of genetic material encapsulated in a synthetic capsid. Its origins, Kingston tells us, lie in DARPA’s Brain Initiative, inaugurated in 2008. The nano-tech can host electro-magnetic fields, and is designed and programmed to cross the blood-brain barrier and create a neural network inside the brain, a nano-wire neural connectome which can modulate brain function.
There has been a determined effort to shut down any discussion of this avenue of research. Dr Andreas Noack in Germany was killed in a hit-and-run ‘accident’ soon after identifying the presence of graphene oxide and/or hydroxide in vaccine samples. (Apart from being extremely toxic, graphene is a superconductor used in brain-machine interface technology.) Karen Kingston herself went on the run last year, fearing for her life, and was subjected to tortuous interference by Dr Robert Malone, self-appointed gatekeeper of the health freedom movement who labels anyone who discusses the issue as crazy. Malone ally Dr Ryan Cole physically obstructed the health scientist Dr Astrid Stuckelberger from speaking on the subject at a conference in Copenhagen. Maybe it’s just me, but none of this makes me less suspicious — quite the opposite.
The publication of the paper by Lee & Broudy has been met with something of a wild backlash on social media which continues the pattern. Lee’s credentials have been questioned, and so have Broudy’s — in a rather interesting way.
With a doctorate in applied psycholinguistics and experience as an imagery analyst, Daniel Broudy lectures in areas ranging from communication theory to visual rhetoric and from composition to rhetorical grammar. His research focuses on sounds, symbols, signs, images, and colors as tools deployed by centers of power to shape knowledge and influence human perception and emotion. Selections of his scholarly work can be found at ResearchGate. Daniel is an Associate Researcher with the Working Group on Propaganda and the 9/11 Global ‘War on Terror’. https://propagandainfocus.com/author/daniel-broudy/
Broudy’s background suggests that he might know rather more about communication theory than he does about imagery analysis; so suggestions of a faint smell of psy-op in the air might have something in them. But if so, which way does the psy-op go? After all, there has been a determined attempt going back as far as 2018, with the shutting down of of Dr Antonietta Gatti’s laboratory and the confiscation of her research, to stifle discussion of the issue of nano-contamination of vaccines. If this paper is as self-evidently full of problems as some are suggesting, it could equally well be part of an operation to discredit this line of inquiry.
Of course it’s hard to believe. But so much in these years has been hard to believe, and yet turned out to be true. We may have accepted, with grim realism, that this is democide. It’s horrible, but comprehensible. But with injectable nano-tech we’re in unfamiliar territory, the realm of science fiction, and the possibilities are staggering. Given the state of the art in self-implementing, non-invasive brain/cloud-interface, I find it perfectly plausible that DARPA/OWS would incorporate human experimentation into the worldwide project. The pseudo-pandemic created an unprecedented opportunity — why wouldn’t they take it?
Klaus Schwab, wannabe super-villain and Executive Director of the World Economic Forum, enthusiastically promotes what he calls the Fourth Industrial Revolution, which he proclaims will mean the ‘fusion of our physical, digital and biological identities’. The pandemic, he argues in Covid 19: The Great Reset (2020), ‘turbocharges’ the revolution and the ‘re-imagining of what it means to be human’. That’s is one of Schwab’s favourite phrases, always in the context of any such unspecified meaning being ephemeral and subject to redesign and re-engineering. In the first two books in the trilogy, The Fourth Industrial Revolution (2016) and Shaping The Fourth Industrial Revolution (2018), Schwab celebrates the advent of injectable technologies including ‘self-assembling computer arrays’ within the human body. ‘Bio-digital convergence’ or ‘the digital transition’ is a programme explicitly adopted not only by the WEF but by national governments and federal regimes such as the EU.
It’s long past time to put the question: this fusion of our biological and digital identity — what exactly does that mean? What does that ‘look like’, to use the current cliché?
Does it look like this?
The rather obvious answer seems to be unfolding right before our eyes: this is what it looks like, and this what it means — the mass infiltration of human physiology —genome, biome, connectome — with synthetic biology / nanotechnology. It means what Kurzweil was talking about ten whole years ago, when he told a TED audience that “We will have nanobots that connect our neocortex to a synthetic neocortex in the cloud… Our thinking will be a biological and non-biological hybrid.” It means “the prospect of connecting our brains to virtual reality through cortical modems, implants or nanobots” is real (Klaus Schwab, Shaping the Future of the Fourth Industrial Revolution, 2018). It means, crucially for the question at hand, that self-implementing, non-invasive neuralnanorobotics can be “massively distributed” (for example through mass-vaccination campaigns), rather than surgically implanted.
And it means that both Kingston and Mihalcea, with their different areas of expertise, are the ones with their fingers on the pulse of this crazy science-fiction world, and that what they are talking about is valid and real. It’s weird, yes, it’s disturbing, it’s creepy as hell… Satanic, even… Self-assembling, programmable, EMF-activated technology using the electrical energy of the blood, building biosensors, antennae and transmitters, and streaming biometric data to the cloud; to feed our “digital twins in the metaverse” as Mihalcea says, and she’s not dreaming — she’s talking about the Sentient World Simulation, USJFCOM’s dynamic, constantly updated, real-time psychological map of the human world, populated by the digital twins of living people; once these simulacra are enriched with individual DNA and memories, the map (in their theory) will be capable of predicting what each individual will do, perhaps before they even know themselves. The technology is bidirectional and can be used to project augmented and virtual reality into the brain.
None of this can be simply dismissed by self-elected gatekeepers or disingenuously slandered as “crazy talk”. The foundation of the new “data-ism” pronounced by Yuval Harari as the coming system is ‘absolute surveillance’; if you’re one of the new “useless class”, kept happy with “drugs and video games”, the provision of biometric data will be the sum of your economic value.
Elon Musk told us that humanity’s best hope of surviving AI lies in merging with it, becoming symbiotes of the machine. But to live as an automaton in an automated society is mutation, directed evolution, and you don’t get a choice in the matter — not if you’ve taken the Mark. And not if, as Mihalcea is increasingly finding, the technology is infectious and passed on through close contact.
The times we’re living through feel increasingly like a crossover genre of visionary apocalyptica and science-fiction-horror. The Book of Revelation, it turns out, is in these respects a work of quiet understatement. As Mihalcea has memorably said, “The battlefield is the human brain — and the bomb has already dropped.” It’s beyond horrific, almost beyond words to describe the diabolism of a literal war on the human mind and soul, on free will itself, on the freedom even of thought. And yet, I do not find myself surprised. Horrified, of course, but not incredulous. Many seem to find the idea of nano-infiltration inherently impossible, but I find it perfectly plausible that DARPA/Operation Warp Speed would incorporate human experimentation with self-implementing brain/cloud-interface technology. Arendt quotes a line from concentration camp survivor David Rousset’s The Other Kingdom (1947):
“Normal men don’t know that everything is possible.”
I don’t know about you, but any normalcy-bias I once carried evaporated long ago, and I’m sure that’s true for all of us. The gate-keepers’ concern is that the normies won’t believe the nano-tech stuff, and that it’ll be use to discredit all talk of vaccine-harms. I really don’t care any more. Let the normies worry about themselves. That’s what they want. They’ll find out in time, or they won’t. What difference does it make?
We know what Rousset knew, that the world can turn upside down and inside out very fast. That we can very quickly find ourselves in what seems like a completely different reality. That a day may come when we think that those dying suddenly were the lucky ones. It’s happened to so many before, so why not us?
What we are witnessing has been anticipated for a long time, and not just by ancient prophets, with the growing certainty of a ‘Technological Singularity’ — the point at which machines surpass everything which human beings can do; which must inevitably entail a political, social and economic singularity — to which we can now add, with a deep shudder, a biological singularity as well.
The aim is not only depopulation but transhumanism; a totalitarianism of unprecedented depth: a radical denaturing of human consciousness, the automation of society and the end of freedom of thought; the Hive Mind of dark futuristic fiction; Huxley’s “ultimate revolution“. At the same time this is the culmination of a process taking hundreds of years: the perfection of the disciplinary society Foucault was analysing back in the seventies, and the literal realisation of his unconsciously prescient phrase, “the capillary functioning of power.” And for me, as for you, dear reader, there is no question; this is not just a society in which someone like me, or you, would not be tolerated; it’s a society in which someone like me, or you, could never happen in the first place.
But I’ll be what I am until I am nothing.
Meanwhile we’re living in strange and epic times.
Biblical, some say.
John’s vision underlines, over and over again, the dire spiritual consequences of taking the Mark. If what is at stake is free will itself, then any connection with the divine must be lost.
Catherine Austin Fitts put it well in an interview back in 2020. “If you’re going to maintain control of people on a machine model, you need to stop them resonating with divine intelligence and resonating with living things and resonating with each other, and get everybody hooked into the machine. And that’s what this is really about. Are we going to be governed by God, or are we going to be governed by central powers who are controlling us through the machine?”
Thus the profound consequences of taking the Mark, in Revelation 14.
8 And there followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication. 9 And the third angel followed them, saying with a loud voice, If any man worship the beast and his image, and receive his mark in his forehead, or in his hand,10 The same shall drink of the wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation; and he shall be tormented with fire and brimstone in the presence of the holy angels, and in the presence of the Lamb:11 And the smoke of their torment ascendeth up for ever and ever: and they have no rest day nor night, who worship the beast and his image, and whosoever receiveth the mark of his name.
Nor do the followers of the Beast prosper in this world — rather they are pummelled and decimated by seven great plagues, as they double down in blasphemy and refuse to repent. It is impossible, knowing the vicious corruptions Western society has descended into, not to identify Babylon with the Western world’s vampiric empire of lies.
18 And after these things I saw another angel come down from heaven, having great power; and the earth was lightened with his glory.2 And he cried mightily with a strong voice, saying, Babylon the Great is fallen, is fallen, and is become the habitation of devils, and the hold of every foul spirit, and a cage of every unclean and hateful bird.
The verdict resonates prophetically, especially when one realises that the it is the Greek word pharmakeia that is translated here as ‘sorceries’.
18 23 And the light of a candle shall shine no more at all in thee; and the voice of the bridegroom and of the bride shall be heard no more at all in thee: for thy merchants were the great men of the earth; for by thy sorceries were all nations deceived.
You don’t have to believe in the truth of St John’s revelation to feel the power of this language; you don’t have to believe in spiritual warfare to understand that only a spiritual lexicon can truly evoke the gravity of what has been done and what we are bringing upon ourselves. The rider of the pale horse brings Hell in its wake, and I don’t know about you, but I’m getting a clearer idea of what this Hell on Earth looks like.
For me, the transhumanist path is the darkest of all possible paths; a steep tragic arc. Why? Because it represents the denaturing of the human phenomenon and the reduction, finally, of the human being to the condition of a machine; the final divorce from reality. It is also the ultimate elitism, of course — transhumanism for the elite will mean subhumanism for the mass of humanity, or what is left of it. Something essential is at stake, the essence of the human being, the human noumenon itself. What we are. What we really are.
8 And I looked, and behold a pale horse: and his name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him. And power was given unto them over the fourth part of the earth, to kill with sword, and with hunger, and with death, and with the beasts of the earth.
And that has always puzzled me. To be killed in war, or by famine or pestilence makes sense, but to be killed “with death”? What is the meaning of this tautology? To die without physical cause? To just die, suddenly and inexplicably? The silver thread severed while the body still lives? A spiritual death-in-life? To go, in this life, straight to the second death?
I don’t know, but it’s ominous. Those who’ve given themselves body and soul to the Beast will never understand what’s happening. Their fate is not even tragic, then, since there can be no anagnorisis. They have become part of the blasphemy. Because that’s the point we’ve reached, with the advent of synthetic biology and Artificial Intelligence: our science and technology have become blasphemous. The bio-digital convergence is not just about the human brain; it’s about everything, the infiltration of all living things, the digitalisation of Nature itself. This is the spirit Baudrillard tried to define even as he submitted to it; the doppelgänger-mindset which cannot create, only recreate: which can map, simulate, infiltrate, subvert, and displace, but cannot truly make. It can engage in all of Baudrillard’s phases of the image except the first, the order of sacraments.
13 And I stood upon the sand of the sea, and saw a beast rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.
And I don’t think you have a religious faith to understand that synthetic biology is a blasphemy against Nature, against life itself. The etymology is blasphēmein — to speak evil of, though the blax root means stupid. So, “stupid utterance”. A good definition, to my mind. A travesty of the logos.
I don’t know how humanity resolves this, whether it can ever go back — I suppose I take it as set in stone that the species must at the very least go through some kind of deep purge at this point. It might have to wander in the Desert of the Real for many generations, if the transhumanists succeed, before it can find its way back to reality and thus to God. In Revelation the Beast is given just forty-two months to rule — three and a half years. I think it might take a while longer than that.
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