John Presco in front of Department of Transportation nf Laura St.
Here is an e-mail I sent Neil Laudati, the City Manager of Springfield Oregon. I ask him if there is going to be public hearing in Springfield City Hall, regarding the land PeaceHealth – and Bushnell – purchased in my city, with plans to build a new Johnson Unit. My concern is Bushmell is espanding in order to graduate Cookie Cutter Chriustians, who will be bid, or coherced, into becoming a Re[ublican, and, voting for nother sick man, who is covering up his role in the Epstien Rape of Childten. But more than that. the Republicans have promised to come up with their own Health Plan, that will replace Medicare and Obamacare. After fifteen years of terrorizing the elderly, they have not begun. Perhaps PeaceHealth and Bushnell can gather seventy theogonies together and author a White Paper, and suggest President Trump, and his evangelical Congressmen and senators – begin work on this plan – that mat include national funding for Cahoots?
The newly elected Mayor of New York – praised Cahoots. So did I when I called the number on the card a responder for Cahoots gave me two days ago – after a worker for Pacific Source called Cahoots while we were on the phone – without telling me. When I asked her if she was going to call the men in white coats on me, she said….”No!” This is a betrayal of good faith in regards to my medical insurance. Brooke said she was making a welfare check. I had recently, made a complaint and have a co[y of it. Her supervisor, Katie is going to call me tomorrow.
Brooke asked me how I was feeling. I told her I just gave a uriine sam[le because my painful yeast infestion in my bladder has come back. I also talked about the death of Chuck Kesey, and told her I am blogging in this. Here is the unedited article I was wroking on, that I was going to finish when I walked by from the Oregon Urilogy – with my walker. Brooke asked me …
“Do you feel safe?”
I told her “No!”
Below are emails I sent the Mayor of Springfield about my ugly, vicious neighbors, and the e-mail I sent to officials in France, biding them to not allow Alley Valkyrie to become a citizen.
In my post on Berkely Bill, I bring my hero of the Gideon Computer to Springfield Oregon, and, next to the memory of Ken Kesey. Below is a video of the dedication of the Kesey mural – with Neil Laudati – who I shared my idea of Cahoots sharing the grounds of the Department of Transportation on Laura Street. Governor should fund Cahoots with the new transportation bill she just signed.
On August 26, 2020, I ask why my tormentors and stalkers didn’t call Cahoots on me. This is – another very prophetic post!
John Presco
President: Royal Rosamond Press
Pacific Source
- John Ambrose To: LAUDATI · Sun, Sep 28 at 9:11 AM
- Message BodyDear Neil; I insist you set up an appointment with me and the Mayor. Four days ago I discovered that PeaceHealth was founded by Sister Francis Clare, who belonged to the Poor Clares. My mother’s side of the family befriended the Order of Saint Francis that fled the Kulturkampf in German and was befriended by the Stark and Wieneles family in Iowa. These two families supplied this Order with living flesh and blood because, Sister’s and Fathers do not mate and have children.My blood relatives took care of the sick, and those who suffered from polio. I want to enjoin any lawsuit the City of Springfield has in regards to the approval of a land sale to Peacehealth to build Timber Springs, Was there a City Hall hearing? Can I see the minutes and other pertinent documents so that my attorney can make a case of breach of contract?But, more than that, I want to win a lawsuit that will remove the cross on the front of Sacred Heart Hospital, Riverbend. This is the cross of Sister Fancies Clare. How many times has it been used to secure contracts, that may appear to favor Jesus? This Wizard of Oz, sham, is at an end. I founded the Face to Face political party that is dedicated to making sure all who are deemed Sick and Needy – get what’s coming to them. The Tea Party, carrying crosses and guns, are two days away from shutting our Government down, because they hate the truth a Black President cared for the health of ALL AMERICANS.The FTF party will run a Christian white man for President, so there will be no more grumbling from the Christian Nationalist Racists. On my blog, Royal Rosamond Press, you will find members of the Stark family who made new bells for St.Marys that was bombed by the Royal air force on Palm Sunday. Theodor Stark owned a very successful contracting company in Iowa. Our kin founded Briar Cliff College.Bushnell Bible college bought Sacred Hearts in Eugene, and erected a bell tower. I insist the Mayor of Springfield arrange a Biblical Showdown so I can best them with my Biblical Knowledge that did not cost any institution a dime. I am a high school dropout who read the Bible for the first time at forty. I was a new member of AA, and had graduated from Serenity Lane.SincerelyJohn Prescohttps://rosamondpress.com/2025/09/26/you-need-to-be-locked-up/
Eugene’s Bushnell University grows with PeaceHealth property purchase
- News Staff
- Nov 12, 2025 Updated 16 hrs ago
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EUGENE, Ore. – Bushnell University has acquired two significant properties from PeaceHealth at the former University District location, marking a major expansion for the university.
The acquisition includes buildings at 770 and 722 E. 11th Avenue, which will support the growth of Bushnell’s College of Health Professions. According to Bushnell University officials, the property at 770 E. 11th Avenue, formerly known as the Behavioral Health Unit, includes 88,000 square feet of medical office space. Bushnell plans to expand into the third and fourth floors, while PeaceHealth will lease back the first and second floors until their new facility is completed.
The building at 722 E. 11th Avenue, previously the Center for Medical Education and Research, offers 37,000 square feet. This space will allow Bushnell to expand its nursing and lab sciences programs to meet student demand.
Dr. Reed Mueller, Vice President for Academic Affairs, emphasized the importance of this acquisition.
“This timely acquisition aligns with our vision to meet the ever-growing demand of healthcare and behavioral health educational programs in our region,” said Mueller.
Bushnell President Dr. Joseph D. Womack highlighted the historical significance of this expansion.
NYC mayor candidate shouts out CAHOOTS in Eugene as program to emulate
Eugene Register-Guard
Zohran Mamdani, New York mayoral candidate, shouted out Eugene, Oregon, for its CAHOOTS program during a debate Oct. 16. Here’s what he said.
I made the mistake of telling a Meals On Wheels person I was going to run for President because I am kin to the founders of the Republican Party. I announced I was a candidate to Sandy and Alberta who moved from here because things were too crazy. She inherited Nacho when our neighbor died. We played cards together.
John Presco
Bad Citizen
- John Ambrose
To: DELFINO · Thu, Aug 27, 2020 at 12:20 PM
Message Body
From: John Presco
President: Royal Rosamond Press
Re: Unsavory Citizen – Alley Valkyrie
Dear Deputy Consulate: Catherine Delfino
It is my duty to inform you that a very radical anarchist female by the name of Alley Valkyrie is applying to become a citizen of France. In a article in our local newspaper, a reporter who met with Alley in France, says she would still be the famous ‘Shit Disturber’ she has been here in Lane County, and Portland, for many years, if is is not for the fact she is applying to become a citizen of France. This calls for her to be on her best behavior – of that is possible!
Also…I am the Benton Family Historian. Jessie Benton Fremont had a salon in SF, and her sister had a salon in Paris. I suspect Susan ended her life due to a scandal her husband and John Fremont (first Republican Presidential candidate) were involved in. Who can I contact to get information?
Sincerely
John Presco
458 201-1472
Message from Alley Valkerie
“I’m going to make this very simple for you. I don’t know if you know who I am, but I sure as hell know who you are, and when you fuck with my friends, you fuck with me. Stop writing about Belle or I am going to make your life very difficult. I mean it. If I see one more word about her on your blog, your FB, or anywhere else, I will make sure that you experience all the fear and discomfort that she is experiencing right now. And no, this isn’t a physical threat, so don’t try to play victim. Frankly, I encourage you to contact EPD, as they already know all about you. I will not do anything illegal, but mark my word you will regret it if you write one more word about her. I will make sure that the entire community knows exactly how much of a sick fuck you are. Your picture, your name, and “samples” of your writing will be posted on every bulletin board in town. There will not be a single person in the Eugene/Springfield area who won’t know that you’re a sick stalker who won’t leave a stalker who won’t leave a young girl alone. Cut it out. Now. This is your first, last, and only warning.”
Don Kahle: Catching up with Alley Valkyrie
| Don Kahle: Catching up with Alley Valkyrie Don Kahle Alley Valkyrie left Eugene five years ago this week, shortly after the homeless camp Whoville was shuttered and … |
She believes the French government may prove to be more supple than America’s. France has had five constitutions and three revolutions over the past two centuries, while America is still working with its original model. She sees a future for herself in France, but there’s just one little problem.
She can’t make any trouble that might hurt her chances of gaining citizenship in a few years, but she won’t stop supporting the causes that animate her.
Franklin St. Fraud
- John Ambrose
To: jzdeb@totaldesign.com · Sun, Feb 3, 2019 at 4:27 PM
Message Body
Hello Jessica!
We met on Jan.28. I told you about the Miller Brothers and Tolkien. I look like Santa Claus.
I just sent an e-mail to Peter DeFazio about possible fraud. Did Phil Knight inform the people – who owned the businesses he purchased – about his masterplan? If just one owner got wind of the plan, he could hold out for a large sum.
Are you, or any City Planner, in cahoots with DBOX? I took note of that name and it keeps popping up in our news. I would like to interview you, or anyone at DBOX.
John Presco
President: Royal Rosamond Press
| I Am A Futurian I am a Futurian. The Gideon Computer is now current. It is up an running in the here and now. This Futurian is t… |
John Ambrose
To: LAUDATI · Mon, Oct 20 at 3:01 PM
Message Body
We got a big ten here in River City, Get up and clap your hands!
Seer Jon
Hippie House
- John Ambrose
To: cmomail@springfield-or.gov · Fri, Sep 12 at 11:49 AM
Message Body
Dear Mr. Laudati
Subject: Hippie House
My name is John Presco. We have met. I have an idea for a television show about an old male hippie, and a young female hippie who are ordered to live together for two years to prove they can do so in peace.
Synopsis: The old hippie brought a lawsuit against the City of Eugene for not protecting his Constitutional Rights that were assailed in Ken Kesey Square, by a consortium of new radicals, anarchists, food goblins, wiccans. devils, and sleep warriors, and wiccans – after he befriends Belle Burch – who fails to tell Mr. Presco who her friends are, fearing he would end their friendship if he did. I find out. I get death threats. A message is posted in Mayor Kitti Pierces Facebook – and is taken down! Alley Valkyrie reposts it on a fake Eugene Abuser side. Just Google my name, and there we be. Belle and….The Beast!
What inspired this tale, is the house I found for sale in Springfield. It should be a hippie museum and monument. Perhaps Home and Garden TV would do broadcast? Too bad we didn’t save Herbert Armstrong’s radio station. There is an interest in offbeat Christian messages. The silencing od Kirk’s voice, should tell us all, we are struggling to be heard. How many billions have been sent to oppress the Hippie-left. This money can go to help the homeless. Our show will promote – visible peace! We will have guests.
John Ambrose
To: MOSLEY · Fri, Oct 9, 2020 at 10:36 AM
Message Body
Here is the email exchange I had with the mayor two years ago. For two years I have been subjected to the abuse of a psychopath who believes she should the THE HEAD NURSE MANAGER and, THE MAYOR! This demon has employed challenged people to hurt a 75 year old senior who suffers from mental illness. Not once have THE GANG thought about calling Cahoots and getting me some emergency treatment – because they are hoping I will ATTACK one of them, and be taken out of here in handcuffs. These are DANGEROUS LUNATICS.
Springfield Mayor <mayor@springfield-or.gov>
To:John Ambrose
Cc:LAUDATI Niel
Sat, Sep 29, 2018 at 7:38 PM
Mr. Ambrose,
I’m. Sorry you don’t feel safe. I will see if the police can stop by and check on you.
Christine
Hide original message
On Sep 29, 2018, at 8:14 AM, John Ambrose <braskewitz@yahoo.com<mailto:braskewitz@yahoo.com>> wrote:
Dear Mayor;
I am a senior who does not feel safe. My life was threatened, and my cat-friend, kicked, by my neighbors.
John Presco
717 Oakdale #206
Springfield, Or.
541 653-8923
Cahoots and the Pacific Christian Hospital
On this day, September 22, 2025 at 8:10 AM, I john
Three hours after my last post, I called up Pacific Source and talked to a woman about the horrible news a hundred thousand Oregonian sare about to lose their Medicaid. We talked for almost an hour. I asked about the history of Pacific Source and was told it has its roots in the
PACIFIC CHURCH HOSPITAL
I took a nap then got on Google and found Margaret Anna Cusack. She is responsible for the life-size cross on Riverbend Hospital. Consider the life-size statue of Jesus on the Stuttmeister crypt. Consider Mother Dominica Wienke, the Franciscan founder of Briarcliff College. It has all come together. My posts for the las two weeks have led to these revelations. Consider the Face to Face logo an the Tau Cross. Turn the F on the right to face the F on the left. There are Franciscan orders that are not religious. In this symbol is a new political party made up of members who know they have to act in order to help God, and Man, keep helping Humankind. This is face to face help.
I went in search of a house and found land for sale across from where Herbert had his radio station. Low-cost housing can be built for student nurses and orderlies. The building that house the Department of Transportation would make a great college for nurses, and the new home for Cahoots. What is there can find a new home.
I need people to form a committee and make a presentation to the Mayor and City Cancel. We will politely ask Governor Kotek to keep all the people of Oregon informed about their Medicaid. We will write the new Pope.
There is so much here. So much has been – ordained! An invisible Kingdom of God has swelt in Lane County, and only a handful knew.
Let there be light!
John Presco
Founder of The Face To Face Party
Posted 11:45 AM 9/24/25
in 1858 she converted to Catholicism and joined the Poor Clares in Newry, County Down, a community of Franciscan nuns that taught poor girls. She took the name of Sister Francis Clare.
Margaret Anna Cusack was born into a wealthy protestant family in 1829. She became known as the “Nun of Kenmare” during her years as a Poor Clare sister in the enclosed convent at Kenmare. She founded Kenmare Publications and used the money from her publications in the running of the convent, charitable works and other church related projects.
Berkeley Bill Claims Oregon’s Psychedelic Art
The PeaceSign Museum-Hospital For Gifted Schizophrenics opened its doors on April 7, 2027
The Gideon Computer
“If tariffs are a TAX, and our government is now a Church, then, the Republican Church of Later Day Conservatives is taxing the American People – without Representation – unless the Democrats have a recognized theologian, or Holy Man! This is why Church of Holy Tariffs was in a rush to anoint Kirk – their first Saint!
Thus spoke Berkley Bill Bolagard to reporter Frank Frodomond of the Springfield Acid Sunshine, a newspaper for the arts.
Saving Merlin and Ken Kesey
Todat is November 11, 2025. I awoke early and lay in bed recalling me hanging my cartton book ‘My Christ Complex’. I hung it on the was at Serventy Kane when I graduated from the New Hope Program. Nancy Hamren nee’ Van BTASCH was there, and was Gary Johnson, the minister of the McKensie Bridge Christian Church. I told Nabcy that the councilor of my program – flipped pot when I talked about my Acid Trips in my First Step. He sto[[ed me from reading it, saying;
“I need to get cpontrol of this group! It is out of contro;!”
I cpmplaoned to Hilleray Larson, the head of Srenity Lane and the Vuckley House, and she had the councilor appolige to me. Then I stood before my peers and finished my First Step. She started seeing me one on one, Did she know Bill W. experimented with LSD? I told her Nancy got ,me on Further, and, she introduced me to Ken outside Autzen Stadium where he handed out backstage passes. We made eye contact. He looked….afraid! As well he should.
Yesterday, I did some research for this post, and read had an operation at PeaceHealth, and lost almos6 half his lover. A brother in AA got close with Kesey, and said he was an alcholic, who was told to quit, or else. Dud Keny get sober? Later, I fguted out Nancy was using me to get Ken sober – and save his life! I considered it, but did not have enough sobrity to undertake….
THE GREATEST INTERVENTION IN THE KNOW UNIVERSE
Ken lost his son. Ken was not writing novels. Ken was killing himself with alcohol. Kem…..could not sto[ drinking – after he got out of surgery?
On April 7, 2026 I will be 39 years clean and sober. I am 79. I would not be alive if it were not for Serenity Lane, AA and the Twelve Steps! I had a falling out with Nancy when I sent her a three page letter about Ken’s need to find Merlin. I understood he was lookng for a way to have his last drink, which meant….
NO MORE DRUGS
Nancy never came out and asked me to do an intervebtion, which would unclude Chuch and Sue Kesey. I understood Ken would have an alomost impossible time in recovery, and, at a AA meeting due to his celebrith stauts. If there olny a Magical Way I dould give Ken what I got. How about give him my UNFINISHED novel….
THE GIDEON COMPUTER!
SO BE IT….
Be careful of what you ask for!
In 1999 I read that Ken Kesey was going to England in search of Merlin. I called my friend, Nancy Hamren, and asked her to talk her friend out of this debacle. I had met Ken on several occasions, and had been on ‘The Bus’ in the Eugene Celebration Parade. At the time I was studying King Arthur and the Holy Grail and chatting on yahoogroups that Dan Brown lurked in.
“There are a lot of people who take this serious, and will not be happy with Ken’s hit or miss tactics. If he wants to find Merlin, look no further, here I am, in his own backyard!”
EXTRA! I wrote the above earlier today, and went to a doctor appointment. I took a nap, and was awoken by a woman in Montana who works for Pacfic Source. Ten minutes into the call, she asks me
“Do you feel safe!”
No! I told her why for another fifteen minutes, and asked her..
“Are you going to send men in while coats over – to lock me up?”
I told her about the Kmiites. Ten minutes later there is a knock on my door. It is……….CAHOOTS!
I began this post last night. I got back to my book The Gideon Computer’ because what was coming true – has arrived!
Novelist and counterculture icon Ken Kesey died on November 10th in Eugene, Oregon; he was sixty-six. Kesey’s death came just two weeks after he underwent surgery to remove nearly half of his cancerous liver. The procedure followed several years of ill health for Kesey, who was diagnosed as diabetic nearly a decade ago, and suffered a stroke in 1997.
Kesey continued to write through the Seventies and Eighties, but Sometimes a Great Notion marked the beginning of a twenty-eight year hiatus from writing novels, which ended in 1992 with the publication of Sailor Song.
“A great good friend and great husband and father and grand dad, he will be sorely missed but if there is one thing he would want us to do it would be to carry on his life’s work,” Kesey’s friend and fellow Prankster, Ken Babbs wrote. “Namely to treat others with kindness and if anyone does you dirt forgive that person right away. This goes beyond the art, the writing, the performances, even the bus. Right down to the bone.”
http://www.shewan.co.uk/wheres-merlin-ken-kesey-august-1999/
WHAT IS SCHIZOPHRENIA?
Schizophrenia is a mental health condition that impacts the way people think. Classifies as a psychotic disorder, people often experience symptoms of psychosis and an abnormal state of consciousness. These symptoms often come and go and appear to be disconnected from reality.
How Alcohol Affects People With Type 2 Diabetes
Alcohol is absorbed directly into the bloodstream from the stomach or the small intestine, carried through the body, and delivered to the liver.2
At this point, alcohol can affect blood sugar in ways that are especially important for people with type 2 diabetes. This is because the liver is where excess glucose is stored in a form called glycogen.
When blood sugar levels dip too low, the liver converts glycogen into glucose. This glucose is released into the bloodstream to bring levels up to normal.
However, the liver can’t do this and metabolize alcohol at the same time. So it will focus on dealing with alcohol first rather than converting glycogen to glucose. As a result, blood glucose levels remain low.
Bill W., the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (AA), experimented with LSD (lysergic acid diethylamide) in the late 1950s. He believed that the psychedelic experience could help him gain a deeper understanding of his alcoholism and his spiritual journey.
W.’s experience with LSD was positive, and he reported that it helped him to:
- Gain a sense of peace and acceptance
- See his alcoholism in a new light
- Connect with a higher power
- Appreciate the interconnectedness of all things
However, W. did not advocate for the use of LSD as a treatment for alcoholism. He cautioned that it should only be used under the guidance of a qualified medical professional.
It’s important to note that LSD is a Schedule I drug in the United States, meaning that it has a high potential for abuse and no currently accepted medical use. Its use is illegal in most countries.
Where’s Merlin? Ken Kesey August 1999
What a long strange trip it still is!
In 1964 Ken Kesey and a bunch of friends, who later became known as the Merry Pranksters, set off in an old school bus, painted in psychedelic colours, to cross America. The bus trips spawned the Acid tests, the Acid tests spawned the Grateful Dead and so the Sixties as we know them were shaped.
Thirty five years later as the 20th Century draws to a close Kesey once again took the bus furthur (although this was a replacement – the original would be 60 years old and is sitting rotting on Kesey’s farm) on the road. This time the Pranksters set sail for England to view the total eclipse and to search for Merlin who Kesey believed would return before the Millennium.
You’re either on the bus or you’re off the bus
Our first sighting of Kesey and the Pranksters was at the Minack Theatre in Porthcurno, Cornwall the day before the eclipse. We drove for nearly 2 hours from our campsite near Helston to cover the 20 miles or so to Porthcurno. As we got closer the lane narrowed and narrowed and it was hard to see how they could have got Furthur up the hill to the theatre. Once we got past the traffic queue waiting for the beach carpark we climbed the hill and just as we got to the summit we spotted the bus.
The bus was a riot of colour set against the traditional green of the English countryside. It was surrounded by a makeshift village of tents and caravans including the very impressive Channel 4 formation camping club! We parked our car in the Theatre carpark and climbed over the fence to go and see the bus. I started to take some photos of the bus and I could see Kesey and Babbs through the windows of the bus. The bus itself was behind a cordon so that we couldn’t get near to it.
“We were definitely off the bus!”
We hung around for a bit and then wandered off to look at the views from the cliff top. Leaving the camp we went down to spend the afternoon on the beach below. Occasionally we would spot one of the Pranksters on the beach but finally we headed back to our campsite pleased to have seen the bus but disappointed not to have been able to interact with it’s occupants.
Something is happening here but you don’t know what it is…do you Mr. Jones?
The search for Merlin
The Where’s Merlin website said “Bring hooters” so me and the kids sorted through the music box and found a whistle and a small harmonica I could put in my pocket for the show.
The venue, which is normally a standing venue had been laid out with seats tonight. The audience was an assortment of heads both older Deadheads and next generation hippies.I stood in the queue to get a ticket only to find they didn’t accept credit cards or cheques – only cash!! Luckily I had enough but had to go and find an ATM before I could go inside.
The show started with Kesey coming out onto the stage with his top hat and boom mic and standing in front of a white curtain and telling a story about a squirrel kicking a bears butt, with audience participation, before he announced it was time to see the bus. The curtain went up and revealed the rest of the stage. In the centre was a throne, on the left of the stage was Furthur and on the right the “Thunder Machine” and the band. He then introduced the next section which was a performance of Where’s Merlin?
The play started with Mordred’s head being placed on the throne before Kesey introduced the characters from the Arthurian legends such as Arthur, Lancelot etc who were played by the Pranksters including Babbs, Mountain Girl and Anonymous. The play rambled on through technical difficulties until Mordred’s head came to life. It’s re-incarnation being proceeded by the question “Who would want an Ugly Dead head?”
The play ended with the spirit of Merlin coming to life inside the “Thunder Machine”. This was a psychedelic machine with a hole in the centre in which there was a Grateful Dead like skeleton for which Kesey provided the voice.
The whole cast then broke into song with “Love Potion No.9” which then descended into a huge jam. I was getting really frustrated at the audience at this point because I felt we should be up and dancing but I also needed to piss! A chance came as Kesey struggled to get his theremin to work so I ran to the toilet.
When I came back I dashed to the front, if people weren’t going to dance then I was going to make sure the Pranksters could see I was enjoying it! No sooner had I got there than Kesey told us to get up onto the stage and I was the first one up there.
“We’re working as hard as we can to bring the only message there is and it’s the same message it’s always been…..it’s love.”
Soon the whole stage was full of people grooving with the jam, I wandered around blowing my whistle and harmonica (which made Anonymous laugh but pissed off the fool with the guitar!) and having a great time. Kesey wearing a hat with a weather vane on it started a speech the gist of which was “All you need is love” although I couldn’t hear very well as the on stage monitors didn’t carry his voice. Luckily I found this film of it on youtube
We soon had to leave the stage (for insurance purposes apparently) which we did as the bouncers looked as though they’d have given the Angels at Altamont a run for their money! Ken continued with a story about his son who died and then went on to trumpet the value of poetry before the finale (“The sixties aren’t over until the fat lady gets high” he said quoting Garcia)
The finale included Magic Bus and Gloria although Kesey did quote from Trucking changing the last line to something like “What a glorious trip it still is”. The Pranksters grandchildren were on hand to kick balloons into the audience and the band jammed the show to a close. We shouted for more but it was not to be, much to the disgust of the guitarist (who bore a striking resemblance to Trey from Phish!)
Outside we waited for Kesey who had said he would meet us and sign autographs. The stage door opened and out he came wearing a pixie hat made from the stars and stripes. Babbs asked the venue if he could sign autographs in the foyer but this request was refused so Kesey lay down on the pavement and signed copies of “One flew over the Cuckoos nest”, tickets and posters (a bargain at between £10 and £20 – $15-30).
The Channel 4 camera crew who were following the Pranksters on the tour came and video’d the signing, if they had used the footage they shot I would have been on TV as I was sat right behind Kesey and even dared to ask him a question!
The previous week during the eclipse in Cornwall a party of travellers were attacked by police in riot gear for holding a rave on a piece of land. I asked Kesey what he thought of this happening to people who were basically doing the same thing as he had done in the 60’s.
He confessed that he hadn’t heard about it but said something like “There are times when you have to give in and let authority thinks it’s won because there are so few of us we can’t afford to lose any”.
With that he signed my ticket and I stepped aside to let someone else in. As I walked from the venue I noticed the Police searching 2 people for drugs – Plus ca change…
“We’re the psychedelic warriors of today”
(Image credit: Getty / MASTER)
In the heart of Silicon Valley, two freshly built data centers designed for the world’s most power-hungry computing workloads are standing empty. Digital Realty’s four-story SJC37 facility and Stack Infrastructure’s SVY02A campus in Santa Clara, California, were both constructed to host tens of megawatts of high-density IT hardware. Instead, they’re waiting for electricity.
According to a Bloomberg report, both projects are complete but idle, with no firm timeline for full energization. Digital Realty’s 430,000-square-foot site was built for 48 megawatts of critical load. Stack’s nearby SVY02A campus — also designed for 48 megawatts — includes its own substation and eight data halls. Together, they represent nearly 100 megawatts of capacity ready for servers, accelerators, and networking gear that cannot be switched on until the local grid catches up. According to the report, both “may sit empty for years.”
Family Name
BASCH Origin of surname
BASCH, BASH, BRASCH, BASCHKO Surnames derive from one of many different origins. Sometimes there may be more than one explanation for the same name. This family name is a Hebrew acronym (a name created from the initial letters of a Hebrew phrase, and which refers to a relative, lineage or occupation). For example, between 1787 and the 1830s, authorities in central and Eastern Europe began to force Jewish families to adopt fixed hereditary family names. Many Jews then formed European-sounding family names that were in fact Hebrew acronyms. The use of acronymics is an old Jewish custom. Famous rabbis and sages such as Rashi (Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki) and Rambam (Rabbi Moshe Ben Maimon, known as Maimonides) were generally referred to by acronyms based on their Hebrew titles and names. The names in this group are associated with the acronym (a name created from the initial letters of a Hebrew phrase, and which refers to a relative, lineage or occupation), of ‘Ben Rav Simeon’ (“son of Rabbi Simon”) or of ‘Ben Rav Simshon’ (“son of Rabbi Samson”).
This family name is also a toponymic (derived from a geographic name of a town, city, region or country). Surnames that are based on place names do not always testify to direct origin from that place, but may indicate an indirect relation between the name-bearer or his ancestors and the place, such as birth place, temporary residence, trade, or family-relatives.
These names may be shortened forms of the place names Bochstein or Borgenstadt in Germany.
Distinguished bearers of the Jewish family name Baschko include the Polish-born German Rabbi and author Zebi Hirsch Ben Benjamin Baschko (1740-1807). Basch is recorded as a Jewish surname with the Bohemian-born Austrian physician and educator Siegfried (Samuel) Carl Basch (1837-1916) and the 19th/20th century Hungarian-born French professor of aesthe tics and social-democratic politician Victor Guillaume Basch.
Distinguished bearers of the Jewish family name Brasch include the German philosopher, critic and educator Moritz Brasch (1843-1895).ID Number:209991Written by researchers of ANU Museum of the Jewish People
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If the US Has to Build Data Centers, Here’s Where They Should Go
A new analysis tries to calculate the coming environmental footprint of AI in the US and finds that the ideal sites for data centers aren’t where they’re being built.
A data center for cryptocurrency mining, cloud services, and AI computing in Stutsman County, North Dakota.Video: halbergman/Getty Images
Tech companies have invested so much money in building data centers in recent months, it’s actively driving the US economy—and the AI race is showing no signs of slowing down. Meta chief Mark Zuckerberg told President Donald Trump last week that the company would spend $600 billion on US infrastructure—including data centers—by 2028, while OpenAI has committed already to spending $1.4 trillion.
𝐀𝐧𝐠𝐞𝐥 — 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐋𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐌𝐚𝐜𝐃𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐚𝐥 𝐒𝐭𝐫𝐞𝐞𝐭, 𝟏𝟗𝟓𝟗 
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In July 1959, a 17-year-old Brooklyn native known only as “Angel” was crowned Miss Beatnik and declared the First Lady of MacDougal Street at the Gaslight Coffee House in Greenwich Village.
The Village Voice staged the contest to reclaim the word “beatnik,” which had recently been tarnished by negative press. Angel became a symbol of the real Village spirit—artistic, bold, and unapologetically free.
White House says naming new Washington Commanders stadium after Trump would be ‘beautiful’
By MICHELLE L. PRICEUpdated 11:13 AM PST, November 8, 2025
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The White House said Saturday it would be “beautiful” to name the new stadium for Washington’s NFL team after President Donald Trump following an ESPN report that an intermediary has told the Commanders’ ownership group that he wants it to bear his name.
Trump could deliver the message in person on Sunday when he is expected to watch the Commanders play the Detroit Lions at Northwest Stadium in Landover, Maryland. American veterans are scheduled to be honored at halftime.
“That would surely be a beautiful name, as it was President Trump who made the rebuilding of the new stadium possible,” said Karoline Leavitt, press secretary for the Republican president.
A spokesperson for the Washington Commanders told The Associated Press in a text message that the team had no comment on the report. The office of the city’s mayor, Democrat Muriel Bowser, declined comment.
Under a deal announced in April between the team and the District of Columbia, the team will return to the nation’s capital in a new stadium expected to cost nearly $4 billion. It will be built on the site of the RFK Stadium, where the team played for more than three decades when it won three Super Bowls in the 1980s and 1990s.
Curious Northwest
How Oregon’s GOP governor teamed up with hippies to throw a festival and prevent clashes in the streets
By Bryan M. Vance (OPB) and Tiffany Camhi (OPB)
Milo McIver State Park, Ore. Aug. 29, 2020 7:30 a.m.
In August of 1970, at the height of the Vietnam War, President Richard Nixon was slated to come to Portland, and so were thousands of antiwar protesters. Oregon was preparing for violent protests in the streets of Portland. That’s when the idea of Vortex 1 was born.
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Drugs, sex, rock ‘n’ roll and Republican politics converged in an Oregon forest in the summer of 1970 to pull off an unlikely scheme. It was a tense time in America. Protests across the nation were ending in bloodshed, including in downtown Portland.
In an unlikely partnership, Oregon’s Republican governor teamed up with a group of self-described hippies to throw a drug-fueled rock festival in the woods. Oregon Vortex 1: A Biodegradable Festival of Life served as a distraction from a potentially volatile situation in Portland. Fifty years later, another group attempted to honor the spirit of Vortex before it was cut short by a pandemic nobody saw coming. Now, in a climate with uncanny similarities to the one in 1970, the story of Vortex 1 lives on as an example of community in a time of division.
Tensions heating up in Portland
America was on edge. On May 4, 1970, Ohio National Guard troops opened fire on a group of students on the campus of Kent State University who were protesting the escalation of the Vietnam War. The troops killed four unarmed protesters and wounded nine others, sparking outrage across the nation.
At Portland State University, students initiated a series of peaceful sit-ins across the downtown campus. After a car barreled into a protester on May 6, breaking his leg, the demonstrators began erecting barricades around the South Park Blocks.
Inundated by complaints about the blocked off streets and the actions of some student demonstrators, Portland Mayor Terry Schrunk ordered the Portland Police Bureau on May 11 to move in and break up the barricades. That afternoon, a group of PPB officers decked out in white helmets, leather jackets and brandishing long clubs lined up outside the park blocks. They descended on the protesters, marching in formation.
The officers used brutal force to disperse the students, sending 31 to local hospitals for treatment in what was later known as the “battle for the South Park Blocks.” Outraged over the show of force, more than 4,000 people marched on City Hall the next day.
As Portland continued to heal from the actions of May 11, news broke that the American Legion, a group of veterans largely supportive of the U.S. role in Vietnam, was coming to town at the end of August for their annual convention. Republican President Richard Nixon, who was the subject of many anti-war protesters’ hatred, was slated as the guest of honor.
The FBI called then-Gov. Tom McCall with a warning. According to the bureau, as many as 50,000 anti-war protesters were planning to come to the city to push back on the American Legion’s message. The law enforcement agency warned of potentially violent clashes on a scale Portland hadn’t seen.
“The FBI advised us this was going to be the most volatile confrontation in the country,” Ed Westerdahl, McCall’s executive assistant at the time, told OPB of the call. “We took that serious.”
In this chaos, an unlikely idea was hatched.
The birth of Vortex 1
A few weeks after the announcement that Nixon and the American Legion were coming to town, a coalition of Portland-based anti-war groups known as the Peoples’ Army Jamboree held a meeting to help organize their response.
“It was very chaotic,” Lee Meier, an activist and local social worker at the time, remembered of the meeting of nearly 300 people. Some people in the crowd were advocating for violent reactions, Meier said. He sensed trouble brewing as the plans for how to respond started to take shape. “It looked like it was heading towards a disaster, a big confrontation.”
It was at that meeting that Meier and a local minister friend started thinking of a different form of opposition — something that promoted a positive statement rather than a negative reaction.
“We figured if we were able to put together a festival or fair that stressed the counter-cultural lifestyle changes that we envisioned — peace, empathy, brotherhood, camaraderie, etc. — that that would be a good draw that would take people out of town,” he said. As far as Meier was concerned, there was only one person who could help them pull this off: the governor.
When they reached out to McCall’s office, they were shocked by the response. They went in thinking it was a Hail Mary to ask for help, but within a few weeks of that meeting, the governor’s office called Meier up with an offer: the use of Milo McIver State Park, 25 miles from Portland, for a weekend-long music festival.
“Containment. That’s why we picked Milo McIver park. Our intention was to draw people out of the city, put them in a location where they could be contained,” Westerdahl said.
Over the course of a few weeks, an unlikely crew made up of members of McCall’s Republican administration and a loosely-affiliated group of liberal Vietnam War objectors and ecological activists — some of whom later formed The Rainbow Family movement — united to plan and pull off the festival.
Elected officials announced Vortex 1 on Portland-area TV, generating buzz for it. Volunteers worked with state-provided resources to construct a stage at the park. Local businesses donated food and supplies to feed and care for the crowd. Doctors and medical professionals came to the park on the banks of the Clackamas River to volunteer their expertise and set up a medical tent. There were even reports of Oregon State Police escorting people arriving in the area to the festival grounds.
‘A hippie zoo’
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On a recent cool August morning, Meier stood at a spot in Milo McIver State Park where, nearly 50 years earlier to the day, as many as 100,000 people had partied during the Vortex 1 festival.
“This thing turned into a hippie zoo,” he remembered. “This whole area was turned into spontaneous campgrounds. Little fire pits here and there everywhere. And we had a sauna, we had a mud sauna, we had a regular sauna. So there was the requisite nudity.”
Cannabis smoke filled the air. Festivalgoers ran around the park naked. Meier remembered the wine being spiked with LSD. The laissez-faire attitude of law enforcement was intentional, according to Westerdahl. “I can be held responsible for the that because I felt it was the lesser of two evils,” he told OPB in 2010.
And though Vortex was also branded as a music festival, not many people who attended remember the music, Meier said. There were rumors that acts like Jefferson Airplane and the Grateful Dead would appear, but they never actually showed up.
”It never happened. And most of us here in the park that weren’t up at the music, you know, 100%, we had no clue. I mean, we thought Jefferson Airplane was here.” It was mostly local bands who took the stage at Vortex 1. But still, for one hot August weekend, an Oregon park in the woods transformed into the center of 1970s counter culture.
A political success story
About 25 miles away, the American Legion convention went off with little incident. President Nixon canceled his visit at the last minute, with Vice President Spiro Agnew taking his place. Counterprotests were far smaller than anticipated.
“As it turned out, the predictions from the FBI were way off,” Doris Penwell, McCall’s press secretary at the time, told OPB in 2010.
“Federal intelligence indicated early this summer that upwards of 50,000 young people would be coming [to Portland],” McCall later said. “Vortex was a conscious and direct response to the problem of suddenly trying to absorb those thousands of young people into the city of Portland, young people without a place to stay.”
When all the festivalgoers were gone and the American Legion left Portland, it was clear that Vortex was a success, according to Meier. Few protesters showed up to Portland in the end. The large crowds instead appeared at Vortex, a peaceful festival that spread a message of unity in a divisive time in American history. McCall deserves a lot of the credit for that, according to Meier.
“Without Tom McCall it would not have happened,” Meier said.
Voters seemed to agree. McCall rode the success of Vortex to a landslide victory in November of 1970. He enacted many of his landmark policies — from the Oregon Bottle Bill to the state’s land-use planning laws — over his next four years in office.
Though it only lasted a few short days, the impact of Vortex on Oregon is felt to this day.
The spirit of Vortex lives on
“I think the primary thing that I remember is the unifying effect, the unity of us,” Meier said. “We were all coming together to solve a problem and we didn’t have an authoritarian top-down structure. It was pretty much a community communal response.”
That spirit of community is what inspired a group of Oregonians to honor the 50th anniversary of Vortex 1.
“What we wanted to do from the very beginning was really channel the spirit of the original Vortex,” said Robyn Tanenbaum, one of the organizers behind the Vortex 2020 effort. “[Vortex 1] was planned in three or four months and people just got together, dug in and got it done.”
For the better part of a year, a group of people from across Oregon worked on a plan to honor the original festival with a new type of event.
“Vortex 2020 was to be a celebration,” Tanenbaum said, meant to honor the past event, not recreate it. Like the original, Vortex 2020 was to be a free music festival at Milo McIver State Park, featuring musical acts with local ties. Admission to the festival was tied to completing a service act through volunteering with a partner nonprofit. The goal was to inspire a new generation to volunteer in their communities. “We wanted a culture shift,” Tanenbaum said.
“Things were moving along great,” said Tammy Baumann, the Valleys Region program coordinator with Oregon State Parks. “There were artists lined up. There was money being raised.”
Then the coronavirus pandemic reached Oregon. Like many things in our modern world, the plans for Vortex 2020 were upended. The music festival was planned for Aug. 22-23, 2020. Instead, it’s unclear what the future holds for the effort.
“We just needed to stay in a humble space because the world needed to care about a lot of things and a festival that celebrated a historic time was not something the world needed to focus on,” Baumann said. Tanenbaum agreed with that sentiment but noted this isn’t the end of the road for the Vortex spirit.
“Perhaps there’s something we can glean from this and see in a post-COVID world if there’s something Vortex can do as an idea and as an organization,” Tanenbaum said.
“As far as what’s to become of Vortex: It’s a little too soon to know.”
Editor’s note: Former OPB producer Eric Cain contributed reporting to this story.
Click play on the audio player above to hear a conversation with Vortex 1 organizer Lee Meier.
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Why Didn’t They Call Cahoots?
Kim Hafner and Alley Valkyrie have worked with people with mental problems. Why didn’t any of the people who invoked Alley’s name in their harassment of me – call Cahoots and get me some mental help? Haffner used to deliver gleaned food to Whoville – who invaded the City Manager’s office office and got arrested for trespass – two days before I ran into them at Ken Kesey Square during our Art Walk. These people are – in the news – and thus I get to write about them in my newspaper-blog.
I will go downtown and investigate this arrest. I have called the FBI and police three times – each! I kept management informed of every abusive incident. I am seventy-three years of age! This is abuse of a Senior, and the animals I have bonded with! Here is Haffner telling me I deserve to be ABUSED because I posted stuff she and her friends did not like on her facebook. Going AWOL is a term she used when she worked at the Johnson Unit for many years.
Peter Defazio just helped pass a Cahoots Bill. I will send him a full report to be submitted as a great example of how NOT to treat people with mental problems. I am disabled due to the extreme abuse in my family. My famous sister was seeing three psychiatrist when she drowned on her first sober birthday. I have thirty-three years of sobriety. To watch that ugly monster attack such a beautiful animal, and claim it is all my fault this is happening, is Gaslighting – and a threat to my sobriety. What these monsters are saying, is, there is no recourse, no salvation, no justice for me, because I am utterly friendless. Haffner has some kind of nursing license.
“You sent all this information to me, John. You done it to yourself. You caused all this. You went AWOL. You need to be in a mental institution.”
My upstairs neighbor started throwing stuff on the floor. I had Kim give Cheryl Walton a call to see if she was alright. I heard the phone ring and no answer. I got a knock on my door and Cheryl collapse inside my door screaming;
“Call 911!”
I did, and they took Cheryl off to the Johnson unit kicking at the rescue people. Kim told me her caregiver just took a ten minute break to have a cigarette. This is a false 911 call, and Haffer knew it. She and her allies tried to get me hauled off to the Johnson Unit for what I did to Cheryl. These are – THE SANE ONES! I wonder if they killed our cat friends.
John Presco
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Dave McArthur 5 feet of stout hemp rope and a 12 foot drop
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Glenn Combs: I’m thinkin’ concrete shoes. We got a river with deep spots… Hypothetically speaking, of course.
When Kim Haffner attacked Clark, a cat one appartment maintenance worker titled ‘Our Mascot’ she was letting me know this beautiful animal is being abused in front of me – because I attacked Christians and Jesus on Facebook. If I had not done what a billion members of facebook do every day, express their opinions, then this beautiful animal wouldn’t be kicked, swatted, or , her dog sicked on her. Haffner told me;
“WE…. are going to get rid of that cat!”
For over a month now, the children keep asking me if I have seen Clark the cat they love and who loved everyone but a 500 pound monster who pretends she is a Jesus freak. She had it out for me because I caught dogearing the book I leant her. She was losing face with her Christian mother who is very fanatical about Jesus. I know she wanted to read my famous sisters biography because she and her husband went to the same High School that Christine’s husband went to. We showed Sue Haffner the idea for a Columbo revival I wrote called ‘Kimbo and Wade’. She was not happy with a cuss word.
Haffner and several of our neighbors were trying to drive me out of here. I deserve to be rendered homeless because they claim I called all Christians “Nazis”. I was referring to the Nazi that showed up in Charlottesville waving the Nazi flag. I believe I suggested that if Christian leaders do not condemn this Hatefest, then they are condoning the rise of Neo-Nazis. There were some Christian ministers there. But, where is the condemnation of Franklyn Graham? When we were friends I told Haffner I was a Nazarite and had tried to convert to Judaism because it is a Orthodox title applied to John the Baptist and other prophets – even Jesus – who as a theologian have proven Jesus was teaching the Jewish Orthodoxy.
John Monroe This man is dangerous. Regardless of whether he intends or would use physical violence, he is being emotional abusive and manipulative. He is clearly mentally ill, but he is also highly intelligent. Based on my research he comes from a family with incredible abuse but also high capacity. (http://rosamond.com/about and https://rosamondpress.wordpress.com/…/christine-rosamond/)
This guy isn’t making simple errors. He is a very ill person. But he is also highly abusive, and we should be protecting those who are being targeted. On top of that, I don’t see how this isn’t also a case of male domination. Regardless of his mental space, that is patriarchical BS. Our community should be made aware that he is a threat to young women.
“Facebook message from Alley Valkerie
“I’m going to make this very simple for you. I don’t know if you know who I am, but I sure as hell know who you are, and when you fuck with my friends, you fuck with me. Stop writing about Belle or I am going to make your life very difficult. I mean it. If I see one more word about her on your blog, your FB, or anywhere else, I will make sure that you experience all the fear and discomfort that she is experiencing right now. And no, this isn’t a physical threat, so don’t try to play victim. Frankly, I encourage you to contact EPD, as they already know all about you. I will not do anything illegal, but mark my word you will regret it if you write one more word about her. I will make sure that the entire community knows exactly how much of a sick fuck you are. Your picture, your name, and “samples” of your writing will be posted on every bulletin board in town. There will not be a single person in the Eugene/Springfield area who won’t know that you’re a sick stalker who won’t leave a stalker who won’t leave a young girl alone. Cut it out. Now. This is your first, last, and only warning.”
King Kesey Lost Merlin
In 1999 I read that Ken Kesey was going to England in search of Merlin. I called my friend, Nancy Hamren, and asked her to talk her friend out of this debacle. I had met Ken on several occasions, and had been on ‘The Bus’ in the Eugene Celebration Parade. At the time I was studying King Arthur and the Holy Grail and chatting on yahoogroups that Dan Brown lurked in.
“There are a lot of people who take this serious, and will not be happy with Ken’s hit or miss tactics. If he wants to find Merlin, look no further, here I am, in his own backyard!”
That was the last time I spoke to Nancy, the first girl I ever kiss, because she was tops in King Kesey’s Court, and everything was set in stone, and, only Ken can withdraw Excalibur. Real hippies did not want leaders, or to collect our magical energy in a big beautiful pile, put it in a bag and hand it over to some clown.
The Cornish folks hated Ken’s act. The Hambley family is from Cornwall and are still mining tin. Above is the Hambley mansion in North Carolina where Viriginia’s great grandfather lived. Melqart is a candidate for Merlin in my book.
In 1966, Nancy and I lived in a SF commune called ‘The Idle Hands’ with the Zorthian sisters. Their father ‘The Last of the Bohemians’ was an artist that was influenced by Thomas Hart Benton. I have been to ‘The Ranch’.
Jon Presco
http://www.shewan.co.uk/furthur/kesey.html
In 1964 Ken Kesey and a bunch of friends, who later became known as the Merry Pranksters, set off in an old school bus, painted in psychedelic colours, to cross America. The bus trips spawned the Acid tests, the Acid tests spawned the Grateful Dead and so the Sixties as we know them were shaped.
Thirty five years later as the 20th Century draws to a close Kesey once again took the bus furthur (although this was a replcement – the original would be 60 years old and is sitting rotting on Keseys farm) on the road. This time the Pranksters set sail for England to view the total eclipse and to search for Merlin who Kesey believed would return before the Millennium.
You’re either on the bus or you’re off the bus
Our first sighting of Kesey and the Pranksters was at the Minack Theatre in Porthcurno, Cornwall the day before the eclipse. We drove for nearly 2 hours from our campsite near Helston to cover the 20 miles or so to Porthcurno. As we got closer the lane narrowed and narrowed and it was hard to see how they could have got Furthur up the hill to the theatre. Once we got past the traffic queue waiting for the beach carpark we climbed the hill and just as we got to the summit we spotted the bus.
http://bluefredpress.blogspot.com/2013/07/merlins-return-ken-kesey-and-merry.html
A day or two days before they reached the Minack site, the Pranksters visited Stonehenge. Merlin would, wouldn’t he? Kesey, according to some stories, was disappointed by the ancient druid site. Perhaps he could still feel the vibes from the Battle of Beanfield twelve years before when, on Margaret Thatcher’s orders, hundreds of cops had brutally attacked the rainbow travellers assembling there for the summer solstice. Maybe the kingdom had picked up its bags and gone somewhere else after that. Things had changed for Kesey too. The last time he was here, his companions included Jerry Garcia and the Hell’s Angels. Things happened after dark, he intimated, that wouldn’t be going on in broad daylight with cameras and spectators surrounding them.
“Merlin isn’t here,” said Prankster John Swan (not buying into my thesis), “but I know we’ll see him before the eclipse.”
The top of the show saw Kesey read his account of coming to London and hanging out at the Apple Building with the Beatles. He was wearing a fisherman’s smock and held the stage in his hand. A deliberate reader with perfect cadence; an ancient American bard. Then there was their play: Where’s Merlin – a great ramshackling Arthurian affair with Pranksters n japes n mistakes n fun and which culminated in a jalopy jam of Dead tunes.
We hung out outside after the show. Kesey and Babbs came and sat on the back of the bus and shook everyone’s hands and exchanged smiles. No doubt I had my legend filters in but Kesey had a golden hue, something other, and serene, about him. At one point a girl, maybe sixteen and beautiful, made her way through the crowd and beheld Ken, and Ken beheld the girl and they hugged like you’ve never seen. Everyone watched, quiet. Bong!
Keseys eclipse show was universally panned by the critics…but then who cares what “The Cornishman” thinks.
The play started with Mordreds head being placed on the throne before Kesey introduced the characters from the Aurthurian legends such as Authur, Lancealot etc who were played by the Pranksters including Babbs, Mountain Girl and Anonymous. The play rambled on through technical difficulties until Mordreds head came to life. It’s re-incarnation being proceeded by the question “Who would want an Ugly Dead head?”
The play ended with the spirit of Merlin coming to life inside the “Thunder Machine”. This was a psychedelic machine with a hole in the centre in which there was a Grateful Dead like skeleton for which Kesey provided the voice.
The whole cast then broke into song with “Love Potion No.9” which then decended into a huge jam. I was getting really fustrated at the audience at this point because I felt we should be up and dancing but I also needed to piss! A chance came as Kesey struggled to get his theramin to work so I ran to the toilet.
http://www.oregonlive.com/O/index.ssf/2010/03/sometimes_a_great_yogurt_nancy.html
http://www.zorthianranch.com/history.html
The Hamblys of Cornwall
William Hambly lived in Cornwall, England, in the eighteenth century. Very little is known of him as an individual, but we know about many of his descendants. Most of the descendants still live in Cornwall, but some have moved to other parts of England or to North America. This site is dedicated to recording what is known of these descendants.
John Hambley married Mary Ann Rowe (christened 25 DEC 1836 in St Blazey) in the SEP quarter 1854 (St Austell 5c 200)
(In 1861 John is a Tin Miner aged 28. Mary is aged 24. The family are living in St Blazey Highway)
(In 1871 John was a Tin Miner and the family were living in St Blazey (District 16, Schedule 113)
(In 1881 John is aged 49 and a General Labourer. Mary is 46. The family are living in Biscovey, St Blazey)
(In 1891 John is 59 and a Tin Miner. Mary is 55. The family are living in Biscovey, St Blazey)
(In 1901 John is aged 70 and a Miner living with his son Joseph and family)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mining_in_Cornwall_and_Devon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melqart
Hannibal was a faithful worshiper of Melqart: the Roman historian Livy records the legend[8] that just before setting off on his march to Italy he made a pilgrimage to Gades, the most ancient seat of Phoenician worship in the west. Hannibal strengthened himself spiritually by prayer and sacrifice at the Altar of Melqart. He returned to New Carthage with his mind focused on the god and on the eve of departure to Italy he saw a strange vision which he believed was sent by Melqart.[citation needed]
A youth of divine beauty appeared to Hannibal in the night. The youth told Hannibal he had been sent by supreme deity, Melqart, to guide the son of Hamilcar to Italy. “Follow me,” said the ghostly visitor, “and see that that thou look not behind thee.” Hannibal followed the instructions of the visitor. His curiosity, however, overcame him, and as he turned his head, Hannibal saw a serpent crashing through forest and thicket causing destruction everywhere. It moved as a black tempest with claps of thunder and flashes of lightning gathered behind the serpent. When Hannibal asked the meaning of the vision Melqart replied, “What thou beholdest is the desolation of Italy. Follow thy star and inquire no farther into the dark counsels of heaven.”[
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melqart
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Royal Rosamond PressJune 26, 2015 at 7:16 pmEditReblogged this on rosamondpress and commented:After reading my first e-mail, Belle asked me why I use the name AmbROSE I told her it was my pen name. She told me her boyfriend was named AmbROSE. When I googled AmbROSE and Belle Burch, I beheld the truth they had been arrested together. Three roses. I lost my famous friend Nancy when I sent her an e-mail informing her her friend Ken Kesey is washed-up……FINIS……and I was the heir to the Bohemian cause. “I am Merlin!” Merlin was beguilded by the beautiful young Vivian who begged this old Wizard to teach him all the magic he knew. After doing that, she turned on him, and froze him in Amber. Belle is my Vivian who I met in Ken Kesey Square.Reply
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The Poor Clares, officially the Order of Saint Clare (Latin: Ordo Sanctae Clarae), originally referred to as the Order of Poor Ladies, and also known as the Clarisses or Clarissines, the Minoresses, the Franciscan Clarist Order, and the Second Order of Saint Francis, are members of an enclosed order of nuns in the Roman Catholic Church. The Poor Clares were the second Franciscan branch of the order to be established. The first order of the Franciscans, which was known as the Order of Friars Minor, was founded by Saint Francis of Assisi in 1209. Three years after founding the Order of Friars Minor, Francis of Assisi and Clare of Assisi founded the Order of Saint Clare, or Order of Poor Ladies, on Palm Sunday in the year 1212.[1] They were organized after the manner of the Order of Friars Minor and before the Third Order of Saint Francis was founded. As of 2011, there were over 20,000 Poor Clare nuns in over 75 countries throughout the world. They follow several different observances and are organized into federations.
Is there still a Secular Franciscan Order? Are they the same group that used to be called the Third Order of St. Francis? My husband and I are interested in this type of order, would like more information and may join it.
In 1884, during an audience with Pope Leo XIII to seek his support, Cusack obtained permission for a dispensation to leave the order of the Poor Clares and found a new congregation, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace, intended for the establishment and care of homes for friendless girls, where domestic service would be taught and moral habits inculcated.[13]
She opened the first house of the new order in Nottingham, England and in 1885, a similar house in Jersey City, New Jersey, the first foundation of the Sisters of St Joseph of Peace in the United States. She opened a hostel for Irish immigrant girls in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.[13] The earnings of her most notable writings – Lives of Irish Saints and Illustrated History of Ireland supported her convent. As of 2014 the congregation she founded had communities in Great Britain, Canada, Haiti, Ireland and the USA.
Pacific Christian Hospital was a hospital in Eugene, Oregon, United States. It was opened by Eugene Bible University (EBU) and International Bible Mission (IBM) at East 12th and Hilyard streets on March 17, 1924. The person behind this enterprise was Eugene Claremont Sanderson, who founded Eugene Divinity School (EDS) in 1895 across Alder Street from the hospital.[1]
EDS and EBU are now known as Bushnell University. The original hospital building was later remodeled and subsequently demolished. The facility is now known as PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center University District and is in the same location.
Need and construction
There was a dire need for a good medical facility in Eugene in the early 1920s. Local citizens, because of Sanderson’s reputation, looked to him to develop such a facility. In 1922, the EBU Board of Trustees authorized him to erect the hospital and conduct a fundraising campaign. Construction of the six-story building began in February 1923 and it was dedicated on March 16, 1924. The facility cost about $225,000 to build.[2]
Organization
In March 1928, Pacific Christian Hospital was incorporated as a separate entity, but it was still financially tied to EBU and IBM. It was composed of three institutions: the hospital itself; the former Catholic-run Mercy Christian Hospital on College Hill in Eugene, which was purchased in 1927 and rededicated to sanitarium work; and a hospital in Dodge City, Kansas which had exhausted its funds and was turned over to IBM in 1928. The other two facilities are long since closed.
Nursing program
A nursing school at EBU was an integral part of the operation of the facility. A three-year program resulted in a degree as a registered nurse from EBU. The first class was admitted in 1925 and graduated in 1927. The last class graduated in 1929 with the remaining students transferring to hospitals in Portland, Oregon. The average class size was about 10.[3]
Creditors and sale
During the Great Depression, EBU and IBM found themselves overextended and needed to scale back operations to just the Eugene campus. Creditors had foreclosed on the hospital and a group of local doctors agreed to temporarily manage it until a buyer could be found. Thus, the hospital was sold to the Catholic order of the Sisters of St. Joseph of Newark for $50,000. It reopened on July 1, 1936 as Sacred Heart General Hospital with 75 beds and a staff of 35.[4] The expanded and remodeled facility was the main hospital in Eugene until Sacred Heart Medical Center at Riverbend was opened in neighboring Springfield in 2008.
Eugene C. Sanderson (March 24, 1859 – February 16, 1940) was an American Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) minister and educator who founded Eugene Divinity School (EDS) in Eugene, Oregon in 1895. Today this school is known as Bushnell University.[1] He served as its first president from 1895 to 1930. He also founded four other Christian colleges and one hospital.
Early life
Sanderson was born on March 24, 1859, in Fayette County, Ohio.[2] Sanderson moved to Washington state in 1886 and pastored Christian Churches in Palouse, Colfax, Ellensburg, Sumner, Vancouver, and Olympia. In 1894 he was pastor at First Christian Church in Portland, Oregon.[3]
Eugene Divinity School
Dr. Sanderson saw a need to train ministers for the Christian Church in the Pacific Northwest. To do so, he returned to Chicago and completed his doctorate. In early 1895, he took part in a meeting in Eugene, Oregon to discuss establishing a school to train ministers. He strongly believed that locating ministerial schools near state institutions of higher education provided the best of both worlds. Thus, he deliberately located EDS next to the University of Oregon (UO) near East 11th Avenue and Alder Street to take advantage of the UO liberal arts program while EDS focused primarily on the ministerial courses including Bible, theology, music, and oratory.[4] Eugene Divinity School became Eugene Bible University (EBU) in 1908.[5] In 1908 the Administration Building was constructed. It is three stories tall and was constructed of volcanic stone from southern Oregon. Other buildings were constructed during his tenure, including the Music Building.
Other institutions
During the 1920s Eugene Bible University, under Sanderson’s leadership, expanded to include a number of other enterprises by incorporating the International Bible Mission (IBM). These two institutions were closely linked, especially financially. During the Great Depression, both EBU and IBM found themselves overextended and financially in default. Operations were scaled back to just the Eugene campus of EBU.
He founded Pacific Christian Hospital, which is now PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center University District, across Alder Street from EBU. There was a need for a good medical facility in Eugene at this time. Local citizens looked to Sanderson, because of his reputation, to develop such a facility. Construction began in February 1923. It opened on March 17, 1924. The six-story building cost about $225,000. It included a School for Nurses where a three-year program led to a degree as a Registered Nurse. In 1936 it was sold to the Sisters of St. Joseph of Newark for $50,000 and renamed Sacred Heart General Hospital.
He served as the second president of Minneapolis Bible College (now Crossroads College) in Rochester, Minnesota from 1924 to 1932. It had been founded by David E. Olsen, a 1908 graduate of EDS, in 1913.
He founded several schools across the United States that still exist including Christian Workers University (now Manhattan Christian College) in 1927 in Manhattan, Kansas; and Evangel Bible University (now William Jessup University in Rocklin, California) in 1934 in San Jose, California. This latter institution did not do well and his health was failing, so Sanderson asked one of his former students, William Jessup, a 1930 graduate of EBU, to take over. It was renamed San Jose Bible College in 1939.
He founded several schools that no longer exist. The first was Seattle Bible College in 1919, later renamed Eugene Bible University Extension Hall. The next was Colorado Bible College in 1927 in Fort Collins, Colorado. And finally Missouri Christian College in 1928 in Camden Point, Missouri.
He started a Home and School for Boys in Eugene in 1926 and another in 1927 in El Monte, California. In addition, he also started a Girl’s Junior College which operated from 1911 to 1929 in Eugene. Finally, he started a Home for the Aged in Eugene in 1927. All of these are no longer in existence.
A number of his former students, many graduates of EDS and EBU, were involved with him in establishing these enterprises. In addition, many faculty from EBU helped with these various institutions.
Academic background
Sanderson earned Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts degrees from Oskaloosa College in 1883. He then spent a year at Yale Divinity School. Later he earned Bachelor of Divinity and Doctorate of Laws degrees from Drake University in 1893, followed by a Bachelor of Sacred Theology degree from the University of Chicago in 1894.
Publications
In 1912 Sanderson published a book titled Our English Bible. In order to publicize the evangelical and educational work of EBU and IBM he published the Church and School paper, starting in 1909. It became the Christian Journal in 1915 and the World Evangel in 1925. It ceased publication in 1934.
Death
Sanderson died on February 16, 1940, in Los Angeles, California. Both he and his wife Prudence are buried in Eugene Masonic Cemetery.
PeaceHealth Sacred Heart Medical Center University District is a former hospital in Eugene, Oregon, United States. Originally called Sacred Heart Medical Center, the newer name reflected its location near the University of Oregon and Northwest Christian University. It was one of two Sacred Heart facilities in the Eugene-Springfield area owned by PeaceHealth. The other facility, Sacred Heart Medical Center at RiverBend, is in Springfield and is still open.
Sacred Heart in Eugene was once the largest hospital in the area until a newer facility at RiverBend opened in August 2008. Most general services moved to this larger hospital. The University District facility became a specialty services hospital with an emergency department. Said emergency department and general patient rooms closed in 2023, with remaining services concluded as of February 2024.
History
Sacred Heart Medical Center in Eugene began as Pacific Christian Hospital, which was founded by Eugene Bible University, now Bushnell University and dedicated on March 16, 1924. The building was six stories tall and cost about $225,000. A School for Nurses was a part of the University and associated with the hospital.[1] By the 1930s, it was in bad shape structurally and financially. At the same time, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Newark, which later became Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace, had a good reputation in the Pacific Northwest in hospital administration. Due to this reputation, local physicians went to them for help in saving the hospital. In 1936, the Sisters of St. Joseph bought it for $50,000 and changed its name to Sacred Heart General Hospital.[2]
Expansions
The original building was expanded in 1941 with the addition of 100 beds. Another 100 bed expansion took place in 1951 bringing capacity to 262 beds. In 1965, the facility was expanded again to 366 beds total. This last expansion included a new emergency room, a new maternity department, and a new intensive care department. The old Pacific Christian Hospital building was now gone.[3] A 30-bed psychiatric unit was completed in 1969. In 1972, further additions were completed including a new ancillary building with new surgical units. In 1982, the hospital was again expanded along with adjacent physicians buildings.[citation needed]
In the early 2000s, the hospital needed to expand again but could not because of the surrounding buildings. Thus, PeaceHealth decided to build a new facility. After much searching and discussions around the community, the new hospital was located in neighboring Springfield, Oregon in what is now known as the Riverbend area. In 2014, PeaceHealth completed a renovation of the University District facility and greatly expanded the Johnson Behavioral Health inpatient unit.[citation needed]
School of Nursing
The only nursing school outside of Portland, Oregon was started in 1942 by the hospital to meet wartime needs. In 1965, the three-year diploma program had 150 students. It was phased out in 1970 and transferred to the Lane Community College.
Margaret Anna Cusack (in religion Mary Francis Clare Cusack; 6 May 1829 – 5 June 1899), also known as Mother Margaret and the Nun of Kenmare, was a former Irish Catholic nun who founded the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace before returning to Anglicanism (the faith of her youth). She lived in Ireland, England, and the United States.
| Margaret Anna Cusack | |
|---|---|
| Memorial to Margret Anna Cusack in Dublin | |
| Born | 6 May 1829 Mercer Street/York Street, Dublin, Ireland |
| Died | 5 June 1899 (aged 70) Leamington Spa, England, UK |
| Other names | Sister Mary Francis Cusack Mother Margaret |
| Occupation | Foundress of Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace religious congregation |
By 1870 more than 200,000 copies of her works which ranged from biographies of saints to pamphlets on social issues had circulated throughout the world, the proceeds from which went towards victims of the Famine of 1879 and helping to feed the poor. An independent and controversial figure, Cusack was a passionate Irish nationalist, often at odds with the ecclesiastical hierarchy.
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Margaret Anna Cusack was born in Coolock, County Dublin into a family of Church of Ireland gentry.[2] Her parents were Samuel and Sara Stoney Cusack. Her father was a physician. When she was a teenager, her parents separated, and she, her mother, and brother Samuel went to live with her grand-aunt in Exeter, Devon, where Margaret attended boarding school.
“Nun of Kenmare”
Influenced by the Oxford Movement, and motivated by the sudden death of her fiancé, Charles Holmes, in 1852 she joined a convent of Puseyite Anglican nuns. However, disappointed at not being sent to the Crimean War, in 1858 she converted to Catholicism and joined the Poor Clares in Newry, County Down, a community of Franciscan nuns that taught poor girls. She took the name of Sister Francis Clare. In 1861 she was sent with a small group of nuns, led by Mary O’Hagan to Kenmare, County Kerry, then one of the most destitute parts of Ireland, to establish a convent of Poor Clares.[3]
She wrote 35 books, including many popular pious and sentimental texts on private devotions (A Nun’s Advice to her Girls), poems, Irish history and biography, founding Kenmare Publications,[4] through which 200,000 volumes of her works were issued in less than ten years. She kept two full-time secretaries for correspondence and wrote letters on Irish causes in the Irish, United States, and Canadian press.
In the famine year of 1871, she raised and distributed £15,000 in a famine relief fund. She publicly railed against landlords of the region, particularly Lord Lansdowne, who owned the lands around Kenmare, and his local agent. She was an outspoken Irish nationalist, publishing The Patriot’s History of Ireland, in 1869, though she later denied being associated with the Ladies’ Land League. In 1872 she issued an account of the life of Daniel O’Connell, The Liberator: His Life and Times, Political, Social, and Religious. After receiving death threats upon publication of her book on the abuse of tenants on the Landsdowne and Kenmare estates in Kerry,[5] she “effectively absconded from her [Kenmare] convent on a supposed visit to Knock on 16 Nov. 1881.”[6]
Knock
Her transfer orders were for her to return to Newry, but she moved to Mayo where she was determined to erect a convent at Knock. Cusack has been described as “a temperamental extremist”, “eccentric and rebellious”, “passionate and difficult, constantly at odds with her ecclesiastical superiors”, who was “an early and fervent believer in the apparition of the Virgin Mary at Knock”.[7] Younger contemporaries of hers in the convent remembered her as “furious when disturbed and capable of making physical attacks”, such as tugging off their veils.[8]
In 1880 she published the pamphlet The Apparition at Knock; with the depositions of the witness[es] examined by the Ecclesiastical Commission appointed by His Grace the Archbishop of Tuam and the conversion of a young Protestant lady by a vision of the Blessed Virgin.
In 1936 Archbishop Thomas Gilmartin of Tuam established a second Commission of Enquiry. As most of the documents from the early years at Knock were assumed to have been lost, the commission was forced to rely upon press reports and devotional works printed in the 1880s, which portrayed the developing cult in a positive light, and interviews with Patrick Byrne and Mary Byrne O’Connell, the last surviving witnesses. A special tribunal was set by the Cardinal Hayes, Archbishop of New York, to examine John Curry who was residing there.[9]
In 1995, while doing research in Washington, among the papers of Cusack, John J. White, came upon a large box marked ‘pre-foundation papers’. “The box contained the original, unedited depositions of several of the 21 August 1879 witnesses, the original manuscript of the parish priest’s account of cures, depositions and statements taken from witnesses in 1880, and hundreds of other documents and letters from people seeking or claiming cures through the intercession of Our Lady of Knock.”.[5]
While there are many local shrines throughout Ireland, Cusack joined Canon Ulick Bourke and Timothy Daniel Sullivan in promoting Knock as a national Marian pilgrimage site. According to John J. White, professor of history at Dayton University, the Knock pilgrimages and the Land League developed simultaneously along parallel lines. Both involved many of the same individuals and used similar methods of popularization and promotion. “The Cusack papers show how many figures from moderate nationalists to Land Leaguers and Fenians were actively involved with Knock.”[5] Although Cusack was widely seen as associated with the Land League, she herself claimed that she was not, and did not entirely approve of the movement.[6]
Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace
After she claimed the Virgin had spoken to her, and she seemed to become difficult to deal with, problems arose with the local priest and archbishop.[4] Cusack planned to establish a training school for young women intending to emigrate so that they would have some job skills when they reached America. The Archbishop of Tuam’s feelings on the matter were somewhat ambiguous. While he supported a training school for young women, he did not wish to encourage emigration, “There is plenty of room to spare for all our people at home, if things were well managed…”[10] Nonetheless, as she pointed out that people would emigrate anyway, he agreed to support the plan.
Archbishop McEvilly granted permission for her to establish a convent at Knock. However, the archbishop wanted her to establish a community of Poor Clares whilst she intended to found an entirely new community called the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace. Cusack believed that the Poor Clare’s had been brought to Kenmare instead of the Presentation Sisters for political reasons,[11] a claim biographer Philomena McCarthy disproved and attributed to a disturbed mind.[12] Cusack grew impatient with the Archbishop’s failure to heed her advice and considered him an obstructionist. She left Knock in 1883 taking most of the records regarding the apparitions, as well as the funds pledged for the building of a new convent, the latter causing something of an international scandal.[5] She left the Kenmare Poor Clares and went to England.
In 1884, during an audience with Pope Leo XIII to seek his support, Cusack obtained permission for a dispensation to leave the order of the Poor Clares and found a new congregation, the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace, intended for the establishment and care of homes for friendless girls, where domestic service would be taught and moral habits inculcated.[13]
She opened the first house of the new order in Nottingham, England and in 1885, a similar house in Jersey City, New Jersey, the first foundation of the Sisters of St Joseph of Peace in the United States. She opened a hostel for Irish immigrant girls in Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey.[13] The earnings of her most notable writings – Lives of Irish Saints and Illustrated History of Ireland supported her convent. As of 2014 the congregation she founded had communities in Great Britain, Canada, Haiti, Ireland and the USA.
Departure from the Catholic Church
In Newark, she once again came into controversy with the local Catholic hierarchy, this time regarding among other things, funding, and her public support of a suspended priest.[4] She wrote a 176-page pamphlet entitled, The Question of Today: Anti-Poverty and Progress, Labor and Capital. In it, she defended Fr Edward McGlynn, a vocal supporter of the political and economic views of Henry George, which some considered to border on socialism.
Archbishop Michael Corrigan of New York viewed Cusack’s pamphlet as an attack on the authority of the Church and demanded an apology. She attempted to halt its publication, but was unsuccessful.[14] Her involvement in a New York City political campaign also generated a good deal of controversy.[15] Cusack resigned as head of her order in 1888 and placed a loyal friend Honoria Gaffney as the new leader, confirmed by a later election.[16]
Cusack returned to the Anglican Communion and issued The Nun of Kenmare: An Autobiography, also in 1888.[17] Afterwards she lectured and wrote a number of anti-Catholic books: The Black Pope: History of the Jesuits,[18] What Rome Teaches (1892) and Revolution and War, the secret conspiracy of the Jesuits in Great Britain (published posthumously, 1910).
Death and legacy
Cusack died on 5 June 1899, aged 70, and was buried in a Church of England-reserved burial site at Leamington Spa, Warwickshire, England.
Cusack passed into obscurity for a long time, until as a result of Vatican II, religious orders were encouraged to review their roots and the intent of their founders. Since then there have been a number of studies on Cusack, such as Sister Philomena McCarthy’s The Nun of Kenmare: The True Facts.[6] With the rediscovery of the life and times of Cusack, she has been hailed as a feminist or not,[4][19] and a social reformer ahead of her times.
Writings
In 1868, Cusack’s An Illustrated History of Ireland was published with illustrations by Henry Doyle, where, in a lengthy preface, she writes:
I believe there are honest and honorable men in England, who would stand aghast with horror if they thoroughly understood the injustices to which Ireland has been and still is subject. …I believe the majority of Englishmen have not the faintest idea of the way in which the Irish tenant is oppressed, not by individuals, for there are many landlords in Ireland devoted to their tenantry, but by a system.[20]
Her novels include Ned Rusheen, or, Who Fired the First Shot? (1871); and Tim O’Halloran’s Choice (1877). In 1872 she wrote Honehurst Rectory, ridiculing Dr. Pusey and the other founders of the Puseyite order. That year the entire edition of her Life of St. Patrick burned in a fire at her publishing office.
She issued Advice to Irish Girls in America (1872), which deals mainly with tips and suggestions relating to the profession of domestic service. Cusack shared the prevailing views at that time regarding women’s capabilities both physically and intellectually.[4] In 1874 she wrote Women’s Work in Modern Society,[14] in which she exhorted women that their main influence was exercised as good Christian mothers. She both recognized and supported the class distinctions of her day.[21]
Norman Vance sees Cusack as bridging the gap “…between eighteenth-century Catholic antiquarianism and the cultural nationalism of the Literary Revival.” He describes her 1877 A History of the Irish Nation as “…strange but impressively learned and detailed”.[7] In 1878 The Trias Thaumaturga; or, Three Wonder-Working Saints of Ireland appeared, telling the lives of saints Patrick, Columba and Brigit.
She issued Cloister Songs and Hymns for Children in 1881, and wrote verse. She published more than fifty works, chief among which are A Student’s History of Ireland; Lives of Daniel O’Connell, St. Patrick, St. Columba, and St. Bridget; The Pilgrim’s Way to Heaven; Jesus and Jerusalem; and The Book of the Blessed Ones. Her two autobiographies are The Nun of Kenmare (1888)[17] and The Story of My Life (1893).
Face To Face Party
On this day, September 22, 2025 at 8:10 AM, I john Presco found the
FACE TO FACE PARTY
Moses had face to face conversations with God. I call upon God to continue these conversations with humanity – face to face!
John The Nazarite
Question: Did Moses speak to God
Answer: Yes, according to the Torah and biblical accounts, Moses spoke directly with God, who revealed himself in a burning bush and later in person, speaking to Moses “face to face” as a friend does with another. This direct, personal communication set Moses apart from other prophets and served as the basis for the relationship between God and the Israelites.
The Radio Church of God and Radio London – Remembered
I talked to the people inside the building that replaced KORE about doing a mural on this wall. I collected some earth in remembrance of Ben Toney. I have to put the video on youtube. I put five scoops of dirt in bag that had these words printed on it:
“The perfect blend”
With each scoop I said;
On the land
On the sea
In the air
On the air
Ben Toney
John
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Genesis of the New Radio Church
Posted on June 16, 2015 by Royal Rosamond Press
When Herbert Armstrong founded ‘The Radio Church of God’ in 1933, there was no television. The first televised event on Laura Street in Springfield may have been when Tom Adams of KVAL came to cover the memorial we had planned for Hollis Williams in a vacant building on Laura that was slated to be torn down. However, when the landlord got wind of it, he evicted us, and the first altar I made. When I told him Hollis was a homeless Veteran well-loved by all the folks at Safeway, which was just around the corner, he said;
“Then take your memorial over there!”
Calling All Nazarite Angels
Posted on October 8, 2019 by Royal Rosamond Press
Five days ago, I sent my daughter and her unborn child a photograph of what I believe is an angel hovering over the head of Mary Dominica who is Mary Magdalene Rosamond’ cousin. None of the women on Heather’s empowerment group, responded, this is because they are witch-base. I am fighting off witches that hover over my unborn grandchild. Kim Haffner is one of them. I suspect she has been sending pregnant Heather – poison!
I was born this day to Rosemary Rita Rosamond. None of the witches honor my mother and Heather’s grandmother. They are frauds. Many women’s empowerment groups honor the grandmother.
John
Stuttmeister Married at Famous Lutheran Church
Posted on July 10, 2021 by Royal Rosamond Press
Mary Magdalene of Briar Cliff
Posted on September 24, 2015 by Royal Rosamond Press
The hungry consume his harvest,
taking it even from among thorns,
Job 5
Blue Angel
Posted on April 25, 2019 by Royal Rosamond Press
Before I died, I told my friend Keith; “There an angel hovering over us!” I was lying in the sand, writing in pain. All of a sudden, the pain was gone.
I awoke from my nap a 3:00 P.M. Turned over, and beheld the Beautiful Shekinah I captured in my painting I did in 1976.
The name of my movie is ‘Blue Angel’. Sometimes events are so catastrophic, that our human ability to grasp the terror, is overwhelming, We own empathy for the victims of the Paradise fire. We seek solutions for how it could have been prevented. I go to other end of the spectrum, and find a cool blue light going from place to place in the inferno offering sanctuary, and a way out.
Two dear friends lived in Paradise. The mother died ten years ago, and her daughter moved away. I own visions of a divine fire, and angel who gave me new life.
To all those seniors who looked forward to a better end….come into the light.
John Presco
Bonds With The Blue Angel
Posted on April 25, 2019 by Royal Rosamond Press
In 1988 I had a Rose Reading. The woman reader saw me sitting on a hill looking down on these children on a playground.
“You were trying to heal them all.”
When I met my neighbor, Sandra, and when she told me she lived in the orphanage I would go by when I took a walk in the Oakland Hills, I saw what the Seer saw. I used to take a rest at the orphanage, and meditate on their, and my fate. There was always talk about the four Presco children being put in a orphanage.
I almost died of Whooping cough when I was eleven. I was sent to LA to visit my relative and came down with this rare illness. My aunt Lillian told me about the time I came outside looking for her and Uncle Dick. I was blue, and my finger contorted. Dick put me upside down on his knee and pounded on my back to get the flem out. This is when I began to see white auras around my kindred.
Above I am placing an angel coin in the tomb of my ancestor. It was given to me by a sister in recovery to honor my sister Christine. I wanted her sobriety to be out of reach of the parasites who were sold our Family Recovery.
John ‘The Seer’
Bonding With A Blue Angel
Posted on May 9, 2016by Royal Rosamond Press
Bonding With A Blue Angel
by
Jon Gregory Presco
Copyright 1993
I and my three siblings have been cursed, and blessed. Within a hundred yards of our front door on San Sebastian Avenue, lived three Hags, old Crones of renown – and ill repute! Up the street, on Hollywood, lived Ms. Smith and Kay Coakley. To get to Mrs. Smith’s front door, one traversed a veritable Fairyland. Her yard was over-grown. At one time it was a showcase. But now the rose bushes meandered into the fruit trees. Everywhere was a bouquet of runaway flowers, that were once maintained and well-behaved. Now, they go and grow wherever they want to, they seemingly suspended in midair, clinging to vines to get the best sunlight. In the center of this maze was a bronze sundial on a marble pillar. We stopped here before we knocked on the big oaken door.
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The Franciscan Family of Mary Magdalene Rosamond
My grandmother’s cousin was the founder of Briarcliff College and Mother Superior of the Order of Saint Francis that was forced to leave Germany. My friend, Joy, showed me family photographs of her grandfathers with the Black Robes. John Grass and Gall, were chiefs of the Hunkpapa Sioux, who are standing in the way of the Keystone Pipeline owned by a Canadian company, and thus, they are not “people too” like Hobby Lobby. The Ghost Dance incorporated the Franciscan religion. Mary Magdalene’s was part Native American.
On September 26-27, 1877 Chief Sinte Gleska (Spotted Tail), leader of the Sicangu Lakota and Chief Red Cloud, leader of the Ogalala, met with President Rutherford B. Hayes and formally requested that the Black Robes come to their lands to educate their people. Sinte Gleska told the President, “I would like to say something about a teacher. My children, all of them, would like to learn how to talk English. They would like to learn how to read and write. We have teachers there, but all they teach us is to talk Sioux, and to write Sioux, and that is not necessary. I would like to get Catholic priests. Those who wear black dresses. These men will teach us how to read and write English.”
The Franciscans are still amongst the Sioux, and I believe they are protected by the agreements made with President Hayes. I need an attorney to help me bring a lawsuit against the Trumpite Ideologues, and TransCanada for violation of my family religions that came together by the Providence of God. The Wieneke and Rosamond immigrant family make a case, that no religious sect, or order, should be oppressed, or banned, for only God-Allah knows what is in store, when alas…..His will, be done!
Jon Presco
“The History of Mount St. Francis The Sisters of St. Francis of the
Holy Family were founded in Herford, Germany in 1864. Forced to
emigrate by the Kulturkampf, the small community arrived in Iowa
City on Sept. 8, 1875. Here they established the first orphanage
under Catholic auspices in the state of Iowa. In 1878, Bishop
Hennessy invited them to move to Dubuque to establish a diocesan
orphanage. Today, 125 years later, Mount St. Francis Center in
Dubuque is the home for approximately 375 sisters. It is also home
for those who are retired and those who need full-time nursing care.
It houses the central administrative offices of the congregation as
well as the novitiate community, where young women live and study as
they prepare to become members.”
In 1825, in the village of Fenagh in county Leitrim in Ireland, a gang of Catholic youths attacked the Rosamond home. The Rosamonds were staunch Protestants. James, aged 20 (born 1805) and his brother Edward, aged 15, attempted to protect their mother. A shot was fired by Edward and a youth was dead. The boys fled to Canada. James went to Merrickville where he worked for James Merrick as a weaver. Edward, still fearing arrest, worked his way eventually to Memphis, Tennessee.
From 1871 to 1876, the Prussian state parliament and the federal legislature (Reichstag), both with liberal majorities, enacted 22 laws in the context of the Kulturkampf. They were mainly directed against clerics: bishops, priests and religious orders (anti-clerical) and enforced the supremacy of the state over the church.[62][63] While several laws were specific to the Catholic Church (Jesuits, congregations etc.) the general laws affected both Catholic and Protestant churches. In an attempt to overcome increasing resistance by the Catholic Church and its defiance of the laws, new regulations increasingly went beyond state matters referring to purely internal affairs of the church. Even many liberals saw them as encroachment on civil liberties, compromising their own credo.[64]
Here is a video that contains a photo of Mother Mary Dominica Wieneke, Major Superior of the Sisters of Saint Francis of Dubuque. Her cousin, Mary Magdalene Wieneke-Rosamond, was my grandmother, the mother of Rosemary Rosamond.
Above is an amazing photo of the groundbreaking ceremony for Briar Cliff College that is located on the Missouri River overlooking the states of South Dakota and Nebraska. I might do a painting of this scene because more than likely there are more than twenty of my kindred in it. My grandmother Mary is above in white.
Look at those beautiful children who want their shot at life even though they know they are crippled. They are filled with hope. How can anyone who claims they are a Christian, talk about taking away hope from any child who suffers?
Jon Presco
In March 1929, Mother Mary Dominica Wieneke, Major Superior of the Sisters of Saint Francis of Dubuque, along with the Most Rev. Edmond Heelan, Bishop of the Sioux City Diocese, co-founded Briar Cliff College after meeting with members of the Sioux City community, who committed to raising $25,000 to support the establishment of a Catholic women’s college in Sioux City. The twelve foundresses of the College were carefully chosen by Mother Dominica. They were led by Sister Mary Servatius Greenen, who was named the first president.[2]
http://www.osfdbq.org/history.php
http://triumphofhope.org/lakota-culture-language-history/
On August 24, 2011, I posted the idea that my mother’s parents came together to repair a split in the church. Royal’s kindred were Orangemen, and Mary’s kindred were Catholics, priests and nuns of the Order of Saint Francis that had to flee Germany. I have long wondered if this caused their split. To discover that Jeannette and Ann Hart, our ancestors, were ex-communicated by their family of Patriots because they converted to Catholicism, is profound.
I went back to the Catholic church to complete my first communion two years ago after looking at these matters with the sight an angel gave unto me, and after I realized I was a candidate for the Roza Mira.
The Wieneke cote of arms contains a bunch of grapes. The Wieneke family were Catholic Germans who were forced to flee Germany due to the Kulturkumpf (cultural warfare) waged by Bismark against the Catholic Church. Bismark’s ancestors had come to favor the religions of the Stuttmeisters, and the Rosamond family who were Protestants. Mary Magdalene Rosamond’s cousin, Mother Dominica Wieneke, was the founder of Briar Cliff college in Iowa. She was a Sister of Saint Francis.
Bill Cornwell is a subscriber of Culture Warfare that he and millions of his ilk have been waging against the Liberal Hip Left employing any weird thing they can get their hands on – but they are not insane – because their enemy is extremely nuts! Of course they are, all opening slavos in Kultruekumpf title the opposition ‘Mad Deluded Dogs’. A cartoon of the newly founded Republican party depicts its members as a collection of Weirdos! You can say – nothing has changed!
The Republican party founded by my kindred, John Fremont and Jessie Benton, has gone insane going after me – the Hip King of the Bohemian Anti-Christ! Why isn’t Bill going after Drew Benton, she kin to Jessie Benton the daughter of the famous artist, Thomas Hart Benton, who married Mel Lyman who claimed he was God, and had hundreds of followers. I have no followers. They say Charlie Manson and Mel admired each other. Ooh! I bet that makes Bill’s father in Texas salvitate, his life alas having purpous.
Above is a photo of Jessie Benton Lyman before a painting her father did, and a photo of her daughter, sculpting. Consider the creative Zorthian family. Surely after I have been identified as an enemy of the Tea Paulty Culture Fighters, I am allowed to employ any and all weird stuff I want in order to win – without being titled “nuts”
After all;
“All’s fair in love and war!”
Jon Presco
The Big Winner of Amerikan Kulturekumpf
n 1929, only briar patches covered a 175-foot hill on the western outskirts of Sioux City, Iowa. But two people — Mother Mary Dominica Wieneke, Major Superior of the Sisters of Saint Francis, and the Most Rev. Edmond Heelan, Bishop of the Sioux City Diocese — had a vision. They saw that hill crowned with a Catholic college for women.
Mother Dominica and Bishop Heelan met on March 9, 1929 with members of the Sioux City community. Businessmen attending that meeting committed themselves to raising $25,000 to support the establishment of the college in Sioux City.
After this showing of community support, significant events followed in rapid succession. On Sept. 18, 1930, the college, named Briar Cliff after the hill on which it is located, was dedicated. Four days later, 25 women started classes in Heelan Hall, the only building on campus.
In 1937, the University’s two-year program was extended to four years. Fifty-five men were admitted to Briar Cliff in 1965 and co-education was formalized in 1966 with the admission of 150 full-time male students. The innovative Weekend College program started in the fall of 1979. The spring of 1980 saw the addition of a Bachelor of Science in Nursing. A Master of Arts in Education was implemented in the summer of 2001. The college officially became a University on June 1, 2001.
“The History of Mount St. Francis The Sisters of St. Francis of the
Holy Family were founded in Herford, Germany in 1864. Forced to
emigrate by the Kulturkampf, the small community arrived in Iowa
City on Sept. 8, 1875. Here they established the first orphanage
under Catholic auspices in the state of Iowa. In 1878, Bishop
Hennessy invited them to move to Dubuque to establish a diocesan
orphanage. Today, 125 years later, Mount St. Francis Center in
Dubuque is the home for approximately 375 sisters. It is also home
for those who are retired and those who need full-time nursing care.
It houses the central administrative offices of the congregation as
well as the novitiate community, where young women live and study as
they prepare to become members.”
International Headquarters
On July 2, 1844, a Franciscan priest, Father Christopher Bernsmeyer, witnessed the religious commitment of five women in the pilgrim shrine of the Sorrowful Mother at Telgte, Germany, a village outside the city of Muenster, Westphalia. This marked the foundation of the Hospital Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis as a religious community of Catholic women dedicated to the service of the sick and those in need. Bismarek’s Kulturkampf threatened the survival of the newly formed religious community.
What is in a name? I believe Royal and Mary Magdalene Rosamond came together to repair a great split in the Christian Church, awaken a Sleeping Kingdom. Grimms named Sleeping Beauty, Rosamond. The artistic legacy left by Christine Rosamond, is no longer in the hands of Stacey Pierrot. My two nieces, Shannon and Drew, need to come together and refresh this Family Legacy. I will gift them my publishing company, Royal Rosamond Press, to this end. I suggest they hire an agent and manager to put together a company that will serve members of our family for generations to come.
Jon Presco
Copyright 2011
Mission History
In the 1840′s Father Pierre-Jean DeSmet, SJ, at the invitation of the Flathead Indians in Idaho, traveled extensively in the northern plains. On his journeys he brought the Gospel to Lakota people but he did not settle among them. He had a reputation among plains Indians as a holy man and a man who could be trusted.
During President Grant’s administration the government decided to assign different religions to specific reservations in an effort to civilize the native people. Since many of the individuals in Grant’s administration were Masons, Catholics were generally excluded from participating in reservation life. Several of the Lakota chiefs who had had contact with Fr. DeSmet – or at least knew of his and the Jesuit’s reputation for running schools – went to Washington to see if the Jesuits (known by the Lakota as “Black Robes”) could be allowed to enter the reservation to teach their children.
On September 26-27, 1877 Chief Sinte Gleska (Spotted Tail), leader of the Sicangu Lakota and Chief Red Cloud, leader of the Ogalala, met with President Rutherford B. Hayes and formally requested that the Black Robes come to their lands to educate their people. Sinte Gleska told the President, “I would like to say something about a teacher. My children, all of them, would like to learn how to talk English. They would like to learn how to read and write. We have teachers there, but all they teach us is to talk Sioux, and to write Sioux, and that is not necessary. I would like to get Catholic priests. Those who wear black dresses. These men will teach us how to read and write English.”
With the death of Sinte Gleska in 1881, Chief Two Strike invited the Jesuits to enter the Rosebud Reservation and begin a school. The site was located near camps of Two Strike’s band called Hinhansunwapa (Owl Feather Bonnet). Father Jutz and Brother Nunlist finished a large frame building financed by American born St. Katharine Drexel (whose feast day is March 3rd) and dedicated it in 1886. Father Florentine Digmann arrived in 1888 bringing with him Franciscan Sisters Kostka, Rosalia, and Alcantara. Together they established the Mission School that was named after St. Francis Assisi, who founded the Franciscan order, but was commonly referred to as Sapa Un Ti (“where the Black Robes live”) by the Sicangu. Father Digmann also established 37 Mission stations throughout the Rosebud Reservation and is considered the founder of St. Francis Mission.
The Sapa Un school offered the people in the area a place where they felt safe. The school taught them the Catholic faith and how to function in white society. The Mission School was turned over to the tribe in 1974 and is now independent of the Mission.
St. Francis Mission continues its educational mission by offering release time religious education programs and an after school program that offers religious education, Lakota language enhancement, and recreation. Moreover, the Mission offers adult education programs, a GED program, and educational programs on its Radio Station KINI.
Gradually people moved from the country to town clusters. Many of the original chapels were closed and the Mission now serves the Catholic community with six parishes.
Virgin Mary of Rosebud
Posted on February 5, 2014 by Royal Rosamond Press
I am going to do three things today…
1. Stretch and gesso a large canvas in order to do a portrait of my late sister
2. Contact my friend Joy about scanning the photos of the Jesuits she owns who befriended her people, the Hunkpapa Sioux.
3. Begin another Ghost Dance
Before Christine Rosamond Benton became a famous artist, she wanted to be my Muse. She saw me render beautiful images of my girlfriends. That no artist painted a portrait of Rosamond, is an astounding oversight that will end.
Joy was my last attempt to have a girlfriend. She is kin to Chief Gall and John Grass, two Sioux Chiefs that were at the center of the Ghost Dance, and fought Custer at Wounded Knee Montana. Joy and her sister own the ritual wear of their tribe. I have dined with these outstanding people. I have beheld the treasure trove of photos and documents Joy owns, many of the them of the Jesuits. I have seen an ancient treaty that needs to be in a museum.
I am going to begin a new Ghost Dance that will bring the spirit of Pope Francis to the Native Peoples of the upper plains and the North West. From Missouri to Oregon there will be a revamping, if not dismal, of Senator Thomas Hart Benton’s
‘Manifest Destiny’. In one year I will ceremoniously tear up and burn a copy of this document so it can not be used by the white supremacists of the NPI, a group of racist red-neck propagandist disguised at historians.
May the new Ghost Dance drive these devils back to Georgia where they came from. A new proclamation will be written that will establish who is the rightful owners of America, and who will carry forth a Spiritual Message that will unite a vast majority of peoples so that we may live in Peace and Harmony.
My autobiography ‘Bond’s With Angels’ has carried me to a place where the Great Spirit dwell with the Mother of the true Messiah, that came to America, and took root as a million blades of grass. The Blue Angel my sister’s saw as children, was that of the Virgin Mary who came in spirit to the Sioux People. With the history of my kindred with the Nez Perce who fled into Montana with Chief Joseph, arrives an entitlement and responsibility few human beings have ever owned. Mya the Spirit of the Blue Angel be my inner voice and guide. May Jesus keep granting me the Spiritual Courage he promised so the dream of Universal Peace will be the map we all find in our heart.
The new Ghost Dance will confront the epidemic of the drug meth in Montana. I see parades twice a year down the main street of Bozeman. Drug manufacturers, dealers, and users will lose their coat of inviviblity. The Ghost Dancers will give sanctuary to, and found treatment centers, for, those who are addicted.
I am going send an invitation to Pope Francis to come to America, and walk the trail of Jesuit Father Pierre-Jean De Smet. This Papal visit will end at Briar Cliff college co-founded by my kindred, Mother Mary Dominique Wieneke of the Order of Saint Francis. The Father in Rome took the name of this Saint, who went amongst the least of us, who brought mercy to the disenfranchised who were promised to be the first to enter the Kingdom of God. Let us establish a Kingdom of True Humility in America that serves the people from the ground we walk on to the Heaven where our Unified Dream – soar! Let this humility be a shining example to all the people’s of the world.
So be it!
Jon Gregory Presco
The Father Comes Singing
There is the father coming,
There is the father coming.
The father says this as he comes,
The father says this as he comes,
“You shall live,” he says as he comes,
“You shall live,” ‘he says as he comes.
Among the Potawatomi, de Smet founded (1838) his first mission, near present-day Council Bluffs, Iowa. In 1839 he journeyed along the Missouri River to pacify the Yankton Sioux and the Potawatomi, his first recorded negotiation in what was to become a celebrated career as peacemaker. Learning of the friendly Flathead Indians and their desire for a priest, he left in 1840 on the first of his numerous trips to their homeland in the Bitterroot mountain area in Montana Territory. For them he founded St. Mary’s Mission, near present Missoula, Montana, in 1841. Between 1842 and 1844 he toured several European countries to solicit funds. In 1844 he helped establish St. Ignatius’s Mission, about 30 miles (48 km) north of Missoula.
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THE INDIAN CRAZE.
Dramatic Scene Before Agent
McLaughlin.
AN INDIAN VIRGIN MARY.
She Claims to Be Mother of the Red
Messiah — Chief Gall, Though Skeptical,
Is Not Prepared to Say the Thing
is Impossible.
Standing Rock Agency, N. D.,
Nov. 15. — “Bring in the Virgin Mary” was the order of the Indian who officiated as bailiff of the Indian court, of which Chief John Grass and two other Sioux are members. Out from the murmuring crowd in the large room came Waltitawin (scarlet woman), the wife of Iikpoga and a member of the Walokpis band of Sioux Fearlessness was the leading element of her attitude as she stood gracefully before the railing, behind which sat the agent and his interpreter, and looked indifferently at John Grass and the two other Indians who composed the court.
“Who are you, and what is your name?” were the first questions asked her. Drawing herself to her full stature of nearly six feet she told her name, then, bending slightly forward with her hand pointed upward, she said in a low tone, with intense earnestness: “I am the mother of Christ who is now upon this earth, making preparation for rebuilding it. The earth is to belong solely to his chosen people, and this continent is to be extended much further west, taking in a part of the great sunset water. The eastern part of the continent will be abandoned, all but in the western part where great herds of buffalo will wander as in days long ago, and with the disappearance of the whites from the earth will come the resurrection of all the Indians who now sleep, and forevermore they will wander over the earth with no one to question their rights to kill the buffalo, none to say: ‘Do this or I will put you in the guard house.’ ”
With a gesture to attract the particular attention of Major McLaughlin, she drew an imaginary line upon the floor and stepped over it, saying: “In those days there will be no reservation, no messenger from the Great Father to say to the Indians: ‘Come back here; stay on your reservation.’ ” She continued to expatiate upon the rosy-tinted dawning of the Indians millenium morning until stopped by the court.
She refused to tell any thing about the orgie of the Ghost Dance beyond the fact that she had been proclaimed by the members of the order to be the Virgin Mary.
Pending an interview with the woman’s husband, and consideration by the court as to the disposal of her case, she was sent to the guard house, to which she walked with the air of a theatrical martyr. The last case tried by the court for the day was that of an Indian who blonged on the Rosebud reservation, and was wandering around among the Indians of Standing Rock without a pass from the Rosebud agent or commission from the agent at Standing Rock. He was supposed to be the bearer of messages from the Indians of the Rosebud Agency relative to the coming of the Messiah, and when arraigned before the court and questioned as to his mission he explained that his wife belonged to the Standing Rock Agency, and that he went to the Rosebud agent and requested a pass to go visiting his wife’s relatives, but that the agent refused to give him permission. Then he concluded he would come to Standing Rock to live, and he wished to be taken upon Major McLaughlin’s list. He was questioned as to his belief in the coming of the Messiah, and it was found that he not only believed that the Messiah was coming and that he would bring with him the buffalo, but he would also have the power to furnish each Indian with a spring wagon by the mostion of his hand. This man was sent to the guard house to be confined until morning, when he was to be taken to the line between the two agencies, and, after being warned not to return, was to be turned loose upon his own reservation.
Chief Gall treated the matter very seriously and said to a reporter: “I listen. Since this excitement has come upon my people I sit and listen and wonder if these things can be possible. When they tell me that the buffalo are coming back and that there is to be a resurrection of our fathers I shake my head. They tell me that the Messiah can make spring wagons with a motion of his hand. I think this can not be. But sometimes I think of the wonderful things which white men believe in their religion, and I am not so sure that these Indians are wrong. I went to the office of a St. Paul paper and talked through a machine to some one a long way off, and since then I can not say that any thing is impossible. Your people believe that in the beginning of the world wonderful things were done by men; the Indians believe that in the future wonderful things may be done by men. It seems to me tha the Indians are not justly accused of being crazy, for believing that what has happened once may not happen again, I listen. But I take no part in the dance, and I do not lend my sanction to it. The Indians want the good old times, to most of them known only by tradition, without stopping to think how much better they are situated now than if the Government were to withdraw its support. Yesterday 140 cattle were killed here and distributed among the people. This shows to me that the Government does not want the Indians to starve.”
Jack Wilson, the prophet formerly known as Wovoka, was believed to have had a vision during a solar eclipse on January 1, 1889. It was reportedly not his first time experiencing a vision directly from God; but as a young adult, he claimed that he was then better equipped, spiritually, to handle this message. Jack had received training from an experienced holy man under his parents’ guidance after they realized that he was having difficulty interpreting his previous visions. Jack was also training to be a “weather doctor”, following in his father’s footsteps. He was known throughout Mason Valley as a gifted and blessed young leader. Preaching a message of universal love, he often presided over circle dances, which symbolized the sun’s heavenly path across the sky.
Anthropologist James Mooney conducted an interview with Wilson prior to 1892. Mooney confirmed that his message matched that given to his fellow aboriginal Americans. This study compared letters between tribes. Wilson said he stood before God in heaven and had seen many of his ancestors engaged in their favorite pastimes. God showed Wilson a beautiful land filled with wild game and instructed him to return home to tell his people that they must love each other, not fight, and live in peace with the whites. God also stated that the people must work, not steal or lie, and that they must not engage in the old practices of war or the traditional self-mutilation practices connected with mourning the dead. God said that if his people abided by these rules, they would be united with their friends and family in the other world.
In God’s presence, there would be no sickness, disease, or old age. Wilson was given the Ghost Dance and commanded to take it back to his people. He preached that if the five-day dance was performed in the proper intervals, the performers would secure their happiness and hasten the reunion of the living and deceased. Wilson said that God gave him powers over the weather and that he would be the deputy in charge of affairs in the western United States, leaving current President Harrison as God’s deputy in the East. Jack claims that he was then told to return home and preach God’s message.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosebud_Indian_Reservation
The Rosebud Indian Reservation (RIR) is an Indian reservation in South Dakota, United States. It is the home of the federally recognized Sicangu Oyate (the Upper Brulé Sioux Nation) – also known as Sicangu Lakota, and the Rosebud Sioux Tribe (RST), a branch of the Lakota people. The Lakota name Sicangu Oyate translates into English as “Burnt Thigh Nation”; the French term “Brulé Sioux” is also used.
The Rosebud Indian Reservation was established in 1889 by the United States’ partition of the Great Sioux Reservation. Created in 1868 by the Treaty of Fort Laramie, the Great Sioux Reservation originally covered all of West River, South Dakota (the area west of the Missouri River), as well as part of northern Nebraska and eastern Montana. The reservation includes all of Todd County, South Dakota and communities and lands in the four adjacent counties, which had at one time been entirely part of the reservation.
Born in present-day South Dakota around 1840, Gall was said to receive his nickname after eating the gall of an animal killed by a neighbor.[3] He grew to be a giant of a man weighing close to 300 pounds.
He was recognized as an accomplished warrior during his late teens and became a war chief in his twenties.[4] Leading the Lakota in their long war against the United States, he served with Sitting Bull during several battles, including the famous Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chief_Gall
Grass led his warriors at the 1873 battle of Massacre Canyon in Nebraska, in which a Lakota war party attacked a group of Pawnee on a buffalo hunt. A monument commemorating the event, one of the last large battles between Native American tribes in the United States, was placed near the site of the canyon. Carved upon the 35-foot granite obelisk is the face of John Grass, slightly higher and opposite the carving of Ruling His Son’s face, a Pawnee chief also at the battle that day.[4]
During the time of the Ghost Dance movement and the Wounded Knee Massacre, Grass advocated peace with the United States, which did not earn him the respect of many Hunkpapa leaders. Chief White Bull described Grass as: “A good talker… not a thinker or a smart man… could always say yes but never no.”[1]
John Grass, Mato Watakpe or Charging Bear (1836–May 10, 1918) was a chief of the Sihasapa (Blackfeet) band of Lakota people during the 1870s through 1890s.[1] He fought at the Battle of the Little Bighorn in Montana.
Rose of the World Abbey
Posted on January 25, 2017 by Royal Rosamond Press
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The Annals of the Four Masters states that Fenagh was, “celebrated for its divinity school, which was resorted to by students from every part of Europe”.
Much legend is attached to the area, a number of standing stones in the surrounding countryside were said to represent the petrified bodies of druids who tried to expel St Caillín. Nineteen Gaelic kings are also said to be buried in the graveyard.
On this day, January 25, 2o17, I declare all ecological organizations around the world to be members of the Rose of the World Abbey which will be registered as a World Religion, and thus know the protection all religions enjoy in the United States. I invite all world religions to contribute evidence, nature, and the planet itself, along with the stars in heaven, are The Base of most religions.
http://missourifolkloresociety2.truman.edu/home/missouri-folklore-studies/bismarks-loss/
July 2009: FOUNDATION DAY AND PILGRIMAGE
Annually since July 2, 1654, thousands of people have journeyed to Telgte, Germany, in a pilgrimage in honor of the Blessed Virgin Mary. The object of reflection is the pieta (a subject in Christian art depicting the Virgin Mary cradling the crucified body of Jesus, most often found in sculpture) in Our Lady of Grace Chapel, Telgte. Bishop Christoph Bernard von Galen gave approval for the Franciscan Friars to lead pilgrims from Muenster and Warendorf to Telgte, Germany, in 1654 and selected July 2 because of its liturgical significance of the Feast of the Visitation – when Mary visited her cousin, Elizabeth.
Pieta of Telgte history
A legend asserts that a boy saw a vision of Mary in the linden tree at the entrance to Telgte and heard her say “Bring my image to the people”. He carved the statue of poplar wood around 1370, and it was paid for by a man from Luebeck, Ludeke Dynninck. Before Our Lady of Grace Chapel was built by Bishop Bernhard von Galen in the 1650s, the pieta was displayed in St. Clement’s church cemetery. (In 1991, when the pieta was scheduled to be refurbished, it was examined by a CT scan and it was discovered that relics from Jerusalem had been placed, date unknown, in the heads of Mary and Jesus.)
Pilgrimage
Telgte is famous for this annual Pilgrimage, the second largest pilgrimage in Germany, and the village welcomes thousands of pilgrims throughout the summer. Records indicate that approximately 40,000 pilgrims visit Telgte annually, and more than 8,000 people participate in the Telgte pilgrimage.
Foundation Day – Hospital Sisters of St. Francis
Many pilgrims to Our Lady of Grace Chapel may not realize that it was in this Chapel on July 2, 1844, that Father Christopher Bernsmeyer, pastor of nearby St. Clement Church, officially welcomed young women as Sisters to the Third Order, which constituted the founding of the Community of the Hospital Sisters of St. Francis….165 years ago. What a beautiful testatment that on July 2, 1844, while thousands of pilgrims were in Telgte, this solemn moment of the founding of the Hospital Sisters of St. Francis occurred before the Pieta of Telgte.
Significance
The Hospital Sisters of St. Francis have a strong devotion to Our Sorrowful Mother that originates from the foundation on July 2, 1844. For example, 100 years later, a shrine to Our Sorrowful Mother was designed in our St. Francis of Assisi Church, Springfield, and on July 2, 1994, a replica of the Pieta of Telgte was displayed on the Motherhouse grounds here in Springfield. The pieta is a gift from the Generalate on the 150th anniversary of the founding of the International Congregation.
Your invitation to become a pilgrim
We invite you to be united with us during July in some form of pilgrimage. Together, may our prayers to Our Sorrowful Mother be united as a Franciscan family.
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Bonds With Angels – The Arrest of Jesus
Posted on June 14, 2019 by Royal Rosamond Press
Bond’s With Angels
by
John Presco
Copyright 2019
Chapter One The Arrest of Jesus
Why was Jesus arrested? Why was John the Baptist arrested? Above is a painting of their parents, Elizabeth and Mary. Do they own a clue their sons are about to be arrested for crimes, and be judged – like criminals?
This book has no intention of giving my reader – more religious bliss! This book is not a drug. Alas, I own powerful evidence of what Jesus did – that he knew was breaking the law. Yes, he knew there was a good chance he would be arrested. Therefor, he bid people who witnessed these criminal offences – not to tell anyone! Jesus was guilty of a cover-up.
Motive! Is there a motive for this lawlessness? Yes! And because their exist motive, for the first time in Christian History, I have proof there was a Historic Jesus! Many Biblical Scholars have published much doubt Jesus – was real!
The Resurrection of the Two Witnesses
In the previous article we saw God’s two anointed witnesses: the Word of God and the Spirit of God, be totally disrespected by the spirit of hypocrisy. This type of total disrespect will kill the ability of any true conviction upon sinners. Consequently sinners will have no fear to become religious hypocrites who call themselves “Christian”.
But now we see that God ended this day of hypocritical darkness. Spiritually this period of time of disrespect towards the Word and the Spirit lasted three and a half days. But now the day of God’s wrath and judgement upon hypocrisy had come!
“And after three days and an half the spirit of life from God entered into them, and they stood upon their feet; and great fear fell upon them which saw them.” ~ Revelation 11:11
This event parallels the opening of the sixth seal, shown earlier in Revelation 6:12-17 where the final part reads:
“For the great day of his wrath is come; and who shall be able to stand?” ~ Revelation 6:17
So how did it happen that the two witnesses were brought to life in the hearts of people?
First a true ministry stood up and began to declare the full truth of the gospel: including the message that there is still only one church! Their message declared an end to hypocrisy and an end to man rule in the church. The spiritual New Jerusalem was preached with walls of salvation. And the gates of righteous judgement were established to keep hypocrisy out. Within this city is only sin-free holiness because of the very presence of Almighty God in their midst.
People began to repent of their separate Protestant and Catholic identities at the call:
“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. For all nations have drunk of the wine of the wrath of her fornication, and the kings of the earth have committed fornication with her, and the merchants of the earth are waxed rich through the abundance of her delicacies. And I heard another voice from heaven, saying, Come out of her, my people, that ye be not partakers of her sins, and that ye receive not of her plagues.” Revelation 18:2-4
As people came out, a spiritual cloud of witnesses was formed (see Hebrews 12:1) and the two anointed witnesses began to be highly honored and to rise above the confusion of spiritual Sodom and Egypt (see Revelation 11:8) where they had been left dead.
“And they heard a great voice from heaven saying unto them, Come up hither. And they ascended up to heaven in a cloud; and their enemies beheld them.” ~ Revelation 11:12
This is exactly what Jesus told the hypocritical Chief Priest (one of his enemies) before his crucifixion.
“…Hereafter shall ye see the Son of man sitting on the right hand of power, and coming in the clouds of heaven.” ~ Matthew 26:64
The cloud of witnesses is referred to in a number of places in scripture. Also in many places in scripture the witness of God’s mighty power is often shown within the context of powerful storm clouds.
It is all showing the difference it makes when God’s Word is fully respected and obeyed, and his Holy Spirit is powerfully working true righteousness among his people.
Margaret Anna Cusack was born into a wealthy protestant family in 1829. She became known as the “Nun of Kenmare” during her years as a Poor Clare sister in the enclosed convent at Kenmare. She founded Kenmare Publications and used the money from her publications in the running of the convent, charitable works and other church related projects.
The cross on Sacred Heart Hospital in Springfield, Oregon, is a symbol of its Catholic affiliation and the values it represents, such as compassion, service, and healing. The hospital is part of the PeaceHealth system, which was founded by the Sisters of St. Joseph of Peace and continues its religious mission to provide care in its communities.
The Oak of Meher Mont
Posted on December 10, 2017 by Royal Rosamond Press
I posted this in 2009.
“When I awoke yesterday morning, my Angel bid me restore the Shekinah. The day before I had read a theory put forth by Fridrich von Suhtscheck that the story of Parzival is based upon the Song of the Pearl, or, the Hymn of the Pearl, or, the Hymn of Judas Thomas who was born of royal Parthian parents. For the reason Meher Baba was born of a Parthian father, I looked at Sulphur Mountain above Ventura as the new home of the Shekinah, or, the Rosa Mystica.
There is a rose garden atop Sulpher Mountain. Those who wish to connect with the Shekinah on Santa Rosa can see the Channel Islands from Meher (Mithra) Baba’s retreat. Anyone who seeks the light of God and the Rosa Mystica are forbidden to set foot on Santa Rosa Island until the end of the world.”
Jon
Jai Baba!
Update #7 from Sam Ervin
Yesterday, Dec. 8, Buzz and Ginger, Manager/Caretakers, were again at Meher Mount. They learned a lot more about the aftermath of the fire, and the news is troubling and leaves us with considerable uncertainty. I’ll combine the latest news with much of the report from update #6 to give a more complete picture of what we have learned. The “Thomas Fire”, named after St. Thomas Aquinas College because it started near there, has been raging across Ventura County since Monday, Dec. 4, and is still not nearly contained, having burned more than 100,000 acres. It has been driven by winds up to 80 MPH and extremely low humidity. In its first few days it burned the entire area, rural and wilderness, between the towns of Ojai, Santa Paula and Ventura, including all of Sulphur Mountain, where Meher Mount is located. Fire fighters played a role in saving some structures, as did effective weed and fire hazard abatement, as Buzz and Ginger did at Meher Mount.
Latest Summary:
We won’t know how damaged the water system is until we get power back, which Edison estimates could take 1-3 months. Water from the well will not be available until power is back on. Therefore we may not be able to open Meher Mount for an extended period. The electrical control box at the well is damaged and likely will need to be replaced, the pipe coming from the well is burned and broken, we have quite a bit of melted PVC pipe which needs to be assessed and replaced as needed, both at the well and at the water treatment site. Power lines are down, the poles burned, and fallen trees lie across some of the lines. There may be other damage we have not yet seen. Meanwhile, federal officials are taking over tomorrow from locals to manage access to the entire burned area, so we don’t know if even residents will be able to get to their homesites. I was hoping to go up on Sunday, but they may not allow it. Of course they are concerned about looters.
Baba’s Tree:
The part of Baba’s Tree that fell and burned was still smoldering on Dec. 8. B&G believe the largest and tallest part of the tree was knocked over by the 80 MPH winds, fell to the ground and then burned in the fire that came up the slope from the South. Buzz thinks the remainder of the tree may survive, though it will be considerably shorter and smaller. He said the part that fell was hollow inside for something like fifteen feet above the hollow at the base, and that it may have been a blessing it happened when no one was under the tree, as it clearly was quite weakened. This tree survived the New Life Fire in 1985, 32 years ago, so it is a survivor. It is Baba’s Tree, so we will see what He has in mind.
Buildings:
Fire came right to the two main buildings, the Visitor Center and the Workshop/patio. A small part of the wooden verandah trellis at the Visitor Center was burned and fell off. The rest of the building was not burned, but hot ash had been blown under the doors, and Buzz considered it a minor miracle the curtains did not catch fire and the part of the trellis that burned fell to the ground so the fire did not spread further into the trellis and house. The two main buildings are basically intact, as are their contents, the tractor, etc. They were very smoky inside.
Other:
• They had to walk down the canyon to the wellhead because of many fallen and burned trees blocking the road. The electrical panel at the well, which was new in 2016, and the wires and PVC pipes will need to be repaired or replaced once power is restored to the mountain and down to the well.
• The wooden fence at the entry gate was burned, so the place is less secure than before the fire.
• The water treatment system by the pool appeared relatively intact, though some PVC pipes had melted holes and the ozonator was burned.
• The large outdoor propane tank was charred underneath but intact and still 75% full.
• The Fire fighters had clearly been there, as there was a ladder against the house and the entry gate had been removed from its hinges.
• It’s clear the fire visited nearly every part of the upper section of the property they saw, and they were amazed at how the fireline seemed to stop at critical points. The huge eucalyptus burned, as did other trees. There remain some hot spots on the property, but Buzz feels they are far enough away not to threaten the structures.
• Though the damage appears less than it might have been, a lot of cleanup and repair will be needed, and volunteers will be appreciated, recognizing it may be some time before we get access to the property. Thank you to those who have already offered to help when the time is right.
• Buzz noted that while the whole place is covered with gray ash, there is a beauty to the wooded areas of oak forest where all the underbrush has been burned away.
Buzz and Ginger drove back to Santa Barbara, though they say the smoke is so bad there they are thinking of moving even farther away. They had to show a drivers license with an Upper Ojai address to get access. They were told the federal agents will take over management of access today.
I will plan to drive up to view the property when access is allowed for non-residents and we’ll begin to develop an action plan.
Meher Mount came through this crisis much better than it might have, and this is due in no small part to Buzz and Ginger’s outstanding fire hazard and weed abatement, which was also praised by the Fire Dept. Also, until all hot spots have been eliminated, there will continue to be risk of further damage.
Thank you all for your concern and support through this sudden and for many, devastating, firestorm. We will continue to let you know about what we learn over the next couple of weeks and how you might be able to help.
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photos by Buzz and Ginger Glasky
The Shekinah of Rose and Cross
Posted on November 18, 2015by Royal Rosamond Press
I posted this 2009. I had a real vision of things to come. This vision lost me my family and friends. The news tonight showed the peril of the Syrian refugees fleeing to the island of Lesbos while Red State leaders of the Selfish Jesus, tear down the Statue of Liberty, after snuffing out her light. They do not care if the world saw them do this, because they believe their Savior just came for them. But, I send to all, the Compassionate Shekinah!
Jon ‘The Nazarite’
http://www.crystalinks.com/shekinah.html
“who, at the beginning of the Israelites’ settlement in the land of Canaan, was often referred to as Yahweh’s Consort.
The literature also calls her the “Holy Spirit” which, in Hebrew, is also a feminine form. The feminine nature of the Shekhina is so easy to establish in Hebrew, because the gender of the subject plays an important role in the sentence structure.
In English, you can say “The Glorious Shekhina returned to bless us” without mentioning gender.
In Hebrew, both verbs and adjectives have a male or female forms, and many names suggest gender to anyone who understands the language. The simple sentence above indicates three times that the Shekhina is female, and the fact sinks easily into the consciousness of the reader.
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The Royal Plantagenets
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Ben Toney
Much has been said by various historians about the connection of Ralph de Toney III and the royal family of William the Conqueror and the royal family of Jerusalem. Ralph’s daughter Godehildis had married as her second husband Baldwin the Crusader. Baldwin, Godehildis, and their two young children were members of the First Crusade. They were accompanied by Baldwin’s brothers, Godfrey de Bouillon and Eustace of Boulogne and other notables. When the entourage arrived at Antioch in Asia Minor, Baldwin made a warring expedition against the Saracens, and upon his return to Antioch he found that Godehildis and his two children had died of heat prostration in the scorching summer of 1097. Baldwin continued on to Jerusalem with his brothers where Godfrey for a short time ruled as Protector of the Holy Sepulcher. He would not accept the title of king in a place where his Lord had died wearing a crown of thorns. After Godfrey’s death, Baldwin was crowned King of Jerusalem in the year 1100. In the year 1104, two years after Ralph de Toney III’s death, his son Ralph IV married Alice de Huntingdon, daughter of the late Earl Waltheof and his wife Countess Judith. Alice had rather important connections. Her father, Waltheof, was the son of Siward, Earl of Huntingdon and Northumberland who was immortalized in the Shakespearean drama Macbeth. Siward’s father was Earl Beorn of Denmark, brother of King Sweyn Ethrithson 1047-1076. Alice’s mother, Countess Judith was the daughter of Lambert de Boulogne, Count of Lens. Count Lambert was the uncle of Godfrey and his brother Baldwin who were both rulers of Jerusalem. Not to mention the fact that Countess Judith’s mother, Countess Adelaide was the sister of William the Conqueror. Furthermore, Alice’s sister, Maud, married David of Scotland who became Earl of Huntingdon and Northumberland and in 1124 became king of Scotland. And to add fuel to this royal fire, David’s sister, Matilda, married Henry I, King of England. The common ancestors of the Royal Plantagenets and the Toneys came from two lines. The first line came down from Godehildis, wife of Roger de Toney I, the mother of Ralph de Toney III and his Toney siblings. After the death of Roger de Toney I in May 1040, Godehildis married Richard, Count of Evreux ca. 1041. Not long after this union, their daughter Agnes was born. It was through her that the line to the Plantagenets would continue. The second line emanates from a powerful Frenchman, Simon de Montfort l’Amaury. This line can only be claimed by descendants of Ralph de Toney III and his wife Isabel (de Montfort) de Toney.
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Between 1058 and 1063 Ralph de Toney III was banished from Normandy. No one seems to know the reason for this banishment, but it could have been that Ralph followed in the footsteps of his father Roger and raided the territory of his neighbors. Nonetheless, it was probably during this time that Ralph ventured to the Ile de France and became acquainted with Simon de Montford l’Amaury and his daughter Isabel. Isabel and her sister Eve, wife of William I, Count of the Vexin, were issues from Simon’s first marriage to Isabel de Bardoul, daughter of Hugh, Seigneur of Broyes. Simon had been married one other time after Isabel’s demise, but she too had passed on leaving Simon unmarried. Simon de Montfort has been reported as the son of Almeric de Montfort, a natural son of King Robert the Pious. Others have said that Almeric de Montfort was the son of William of Hainault. Nonetheless, Simon was a very powerful magnate who held the manor of Montfort l’Amaury which lies just west of Versailles. Regardless of his ancestry, Simon apparently had some influence with William, Duke of Normandy, and in 1063 Ralph de Toney was reinstated to his possessions in Normandy. It must have been only a short time after Ralph III’s return to Normandy in 1063 that he ventured to Evreux and kidnapped his half sister Agnes and took her to Montfort l’Amaury to be the third wife of Simon de Montfort. Agnes was the daughter of Count Richard and his wife Countess Godehildis. In return, Ralph III received in marriage Lady Isabel, Simon’s daughter by Isabel de Bardoul. As a part of Isabel’s dowery, Ralph III received Nougent le Roi, SW of Montfort l’Amaury.
Bertrade de Montfort l’Amaury Queen of France, Niece of Ralph de Toney III, and Sister of Ralph’s Wife Isabel Bertrade (sometimes called Bertrada) was the daughter of Ralph de Toney III’s half sister Agnes, and a half sister of Ralph’s wife Isabel. She had the distinction of being double half kin to the descendants of Ralph and Isabel. When Bertrade’s father, Simon de Montfort, died in 1087, she fell under the influence of her uncle, William Count of Evreux. William at one time had gained some land at Gace when his cousin, Robert de Gace, died without issue. For some reason William the Conqueror had deprived Count William of these lands, and upon the death of the king in 1087, the count devised a plan to get his lands returned. Using Bertrade as a pawn, Count William arranged a marriage between her and the aging Fulk IV le Rechin (the Surly), Count of Anjou. Fulk was born in 1043 and Bertrade was born ca. 1067, an age difference of about 24 years. Apparently Fulk IV had some influence with the Duke of Normandy and Count William had his lands returned. However, Bertrade found herself married to a man that she had no attraction to or love for.
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Fulk IV had previously been married to Hildegarde de Beaugency, but this union did not produce a male heir. Fulk IV and Bertrade were married in 1090-91 and by 1092, their son Fulk V was born. The medieval kings of France made their residence at Melun, a city on the Seine River just south of Paris. It was shortly after the birth of her son that the beautiful and vivacious Bertrade found herself at the court of King Philip I at Melun. She was well received by the court and especially by the king who immediately fell in love with her, and she with him. One account of their involvement is outlined in the following text: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Vol. VII, Ready Reference Vol. VII, page 940 Because of his firm determination to retain control over all ecclesiastical appointments, Philip was eventually drawn into conflict with the papacy. The conflict was exacerbated when in 1092 Philip abducted Fulk IV of (s/b “the”) Rechin’s wife Bertrada of Montfort. He next demanded the annulment of the marriage of his wife Bertha (of Holland), and of Fulk’s with Bertrada; before long he had found a complaisant bishop, and the king and Bertrada went through a marriage ceremony of dubious legality. Pope Urban II and later his successor Pascual II repeatedly excommunicated Philip, and not until 1104, after Philip and the papacy had settled some of their political differences, did Pascual II turn a blind eye to his relations with Bertrada. By this time Louis VI, Philip’s son by Bertha, had taken over the administration of the kingdom, Philip having been rendered inactive by his extreme obesity. Another account of this dramatic story tells us that after 12 years of marriage to Bertrada, Philip felt the need to have his excommunication rescinded. It was said that Philip made a deal with Pope Pascal II which amounted to Philip remaining apart from Bertrade for the rest of his days if the Pope would reinstate him in the church. This account may well have been true, and his sadness at the loss of Bertrade could have resulted in Philip’s turn to gluttony in his final years. Philip was born in 1052 and died July 29/30 1108 at Melun, France. One other reason for the Pope’s opposition to the marriage of Philip and Bertrade could have been their closeness of kinship. Philip’s father, Henry I, and Bertrade’s grandfather, Almeric de Montfort, could have been half brothers.
Fulk V Count of Anjou and Maine and King of Jerusalem; Grand nephew of Ralph de Toney III and nephew of Ralph’s wife Isabel. Fulk V was born in 1092 and died on 10 November 1143. Upon the death of his father in 1109, he became heir to Anjou at 17 years of age. In the following year, 1110, with the permission of his stepfather King Philip, Fulk married Erembourg, heiress of Maine who died in 1126.
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In 1120 Fulk made an expedition to Jerusalem where he met King Baldwin II and his daughter Melisend du Bourg. Baldwin II had become King of Jerusalem in 1118 upon the death of his cousin King Baldwin I. And of course, Baldwin I was the son-in-law of Ralph de Toney III. In 1129, after the death of his wife Erembourg, Fulk returned to Jerusalem and married Melisend du Bourg. Upon this marriage, Fulk and Melisend became heirs to the throne of Jerusalem, and only two years later in 1131, King Baldwin died and Fulk was crowned King of Jerusalem. At the time Fulk became king, his 18 year old son by Erembourg, Geoffrey, became Count of Anjou and Maine. Fulk’s reign as King of Jerusalem can best be described in the following text: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Vol. VII, Ready Reference Vol. IV, p. 352 Fulk…spent the first year of his reign settling a dispute in Antioch (Turkey) and putting down a revolt led by his wife’s lover, Hugh de Puiset. In 1137 he allied himself with the Bysantines against a Turkish leader ‘Imad ad-Din Zangi of Mosel (Iraq), and in 1140 helped the Muslims of Damascus ward off Zangi’s armies. He protected Jerusalem in the south by constructing a series of fortresses, including Krak of Moab.
Several of Fulk’s descendants were also kings of Jerusalem: Baldwin III, b. 1131 – d. February 10, 1162; King of Jerusalem (1143-62). Baldwin III was the son of Fulk and Melisend. Amalric (Amaury) I, died July 11, 1174; King of Jerusalem (1163-74). Amalric was the brother of Baldwin III and was named for his father’s uncle Amalric or Amaury de Montfort, Count of Evreux who was the nephew of Ralph de Toney III. Amalric was the son of Fulk and Melisend. Baldwin IV, b. 1161 – d. March 1185, son of Amalric I and Agnes Courtenay. Baldwin IV was only 13 years of age at the time of his father’s death. His kinsman, Raymond III, Count of Tripoli, acted as his regent until 1177. Baldwin died at the age of 24 of leprosy. Baldwin V, b. 1177 in Jerusalem, died August 1186. He was the nominal King of Jerusalem who reigned from March 1185 until his death a year and a half later. Baldwin V was the son of William de Monferrat and Sybille, the sister of Baldwin IV. He was succeeded by Guy de Lusignan, Sybille’s second husband. It is thought that Guy may have poisoned Baldwin V in order to gain the throne; however, Guy’s reign was short lived because on October 2, 1187 Saladin, Sultan of Egypt, conquered Jerusalem, ending the kingdom founded by Godfrey de Bouillon during the First Crusade (1096-99).
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Geoffrey Plantagenet Count of Anjou and Maine and later Duke of Normandy; Grandson of Bertrade de Montfort, Queen of France. Geoffrey Plantagenet was born in 1151, the son of Fulk V and Erembourg, Countess of Maine. In 1128, the year before Fulk V made his last sojourn to Jerusalem, he arranged a marriage between his son Geoffrey and the Empress Matilda, daughter of Henry I of England. At the time Geoffrey was 15 years of age while Matilda was 26 years, eleven years his senior. At eight years of age, Matilda had been sent to Germany in betrothal to Henry V, King of Germany and Emperor of the Holy Roman Empire. They were married when she was only twelve years old. In all, Matilda lived in Germany for 15 years. As a result, she spoke German better than French. It was said that she spoke French with a German accent. In 1125 Henry V died and Matilda returned to England. Upon her return, she brought with her a young girl, Gertrude, daughter of Baldwin III Count of Hainault. At the time Hainault was a part of Germany, so Gertrude spoke German. Matilda and her young friend Gertrude very often carried on conversations in German rather than French, which was the language of the nobility in England at the time. Nine years after Gertrude’s arrival in England in 1125, she met and married Roger de Toney II in 1134. Roger was the son of Ralph IV and the grandson of Ralph III, and the not too distant cousin of Geoffrey Plantagenet. Upon the marriage of Roger and Gertrude, King Henry I gave them a present of the royal lands at E. Bergholt in Suffolk. Geoffrey gained his sobriquet “plantagenet” because he wore a sprig of broom plant in his helmet. In French, the phrase would be plante de genet, but shortened to “plantagenet” in English. All the kings of England from Geoffrey’s son Henry II to Richard II (d. 1399) bore their ancestor’s nickname “plantagenet”. These kings were also called Angevin kings because they were not only kings of England, but also counts of Anjou in France. The marriage of Geoffrey and Matilda was likely very tranquil during the first few years. However, in 1135 Matilda’s father Henry I died, and although she was the legitimate heiress to the throne and to the Duchy of Normandy, her cousin Stephen of Blois challenged her right. Geoffrey immediately began fighting for his wife’s right to Normandy, and after nine years in 1144, he took the title of Duke of Normandy. He passed this title on to his son Henry in 1150, the year before his own death. Matilda’s fight for her right to the English throne was even more prolonged than her husband’s fight for Normandy. At the time of Henry’s death, the English lords resented Matilda’s ascension to the throne on the basis that she was a woman, and also that she had married an Angevin. Angevin’s had had a long history of fighting the Normans and they were not very popular in the NormanEnglish court.
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Within the Angevin family, there was a tradition that the Counts of Anjou were descended from the Devil’s daughter. When referring to the “Devil”, they were likely pointing to their ancestor Fulk III Nerra (or the Black) who went about the countryside destroying various abbeys and other church property. As Fulk became older, he became very repentant of his evil deeds and made three pilgrimages to the Holy Land in search for forgiveness. On his return from his last journey, he died in the year 1040. Upon his death, his son Geoffrey Martel became Count of Anjou for a time. When Geoffrey died, he left no heir, so the county fell to the son of his sister Ermengard (the daughter of the Devil). Her son Fulk IV le Rechin (the Surly or the Arrogant) assumed the title Count of Anjou. He of course was the grandfather of Geoffrey Plantagenet. Upon Stephen’s usurpation of the crown, Matilda positioned herself at Rouen and waited for an opportunity to make a strike at England and seize the crown that was legitimately hers. Her opportunity arrived when Stephen became embroiled with the church following his arrest of Bishop Roger of Salisbury. So, in September of 1139 Matilda crossed the English Channel and met Stephen who made a display of chivalry and escorted her to Bristol where she won over most of western England. Early in 1141 the Angevins captured Stephen in a battle at Lincoln. At this point things were going well for Matilda. It was her trip to London for her coronation that became her downfall. She arrived in the capital city with a very arrogant attitude (probably something she picked up from her Angevin in-laws) and the Londoners rebelled against her. In November of 1141 Stephen was exchanged for Matilda’s half brother Robert, Earl of Gloucester who had taken his sister’s side and who had been captured by the opposing side. From the time of Stephen’s release from captivity, he gained the upper hand and as a result, Matilda returned to Rouen in 1148 where she remained until her son Henry took the throne as Henry II in 1154. Stephen had envisioned his son Eustace becoming his successor; however, in January 1153, Henry invaded England to claim his inheritance as king. When Eustace died in August of that year, Stephen designated Henry as his successor. Upon Stephen’s death in 1154, Henry took the throne.
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Henry II Count of Anjou, Duke of Normandy and First Plantagenet King of England Henry II was born in 1133 at Le Mans, France and died July 6, 1189 near Tours, France. When he was only 20 years of age, he married the divorced former queen of France, Eleanor of Aquitane. Louis III of France repudiated Eleanor for misconduct and through a papal decree divorced her March 21, 1152. Of course the divorce was probably enacted because Eleanor had not borne an heir for Louis. Nonetheless, on 18 May 1153 Henry II married Eleanor who was 11 years his senior. However, Eleanor was not a disappointment to Henry for between 1153 and 1167 she bore him eight children, among them were four sons, Henry, Geoffrey, Richard, and John who lived to adulthood. As was often the case with political marriages, there was not a great fulfillment between the parties involved. So, it was not surprising that Henry went searching for love in the arms of other women. In his search he found many willing young maidens who shared his love and his bed. Some years before he became king, Henry was a friend of his distant cousin Ralph de Toney V. It was likely through Ralph that he was introduced to Ralph’s first cousin the enchanting and lovely damsel……… Fair
Rosamond de Clifford, daughter of Walter and Margaret (de Toney) Clifford. Henry II, Ralph, and Rosamond were all descendants of Godehildis de Toney d’Evreux. They were also descended from Simon de Montford l’Amaury (thought by some to have been the grandson of Robert the Pious, King of France). It was Rosamond who became the love of Henry’s life. He placed her in a beautiful castle at Woodstock, which is about 9 miles NW of the city of Oxford. (Woodstock is where Blenheim Palace was later built, the birthplace of Sir Winston Churchill). Unfortunately, this historic love affair ended in 1176 when Rosamond fell ill and died with a lung ailment at the age of 36 years. It seems that Henry was well taken with the Toney women. One of his other mistresses was one Ida de Toney. Gertrude de Toney was sometimes confused with this Ida because she was on occasion known as Ida herself. Gertrude’s daughter-in-law was Ida de Chaumont who was married to her son Roger de Toney the younger, her husband being Roger de Toney II. Some writers have been tempted to assert that Gertrude was one of Henry II’s mistresses. This, however, is unlikely because Gertrude was 16 or 17 years older than Henry, and a woman of that age would not have appealed to Henry’s taste. He preferred the younger damsels. It was probably a misinterpretation of the following text that led to the notion that Gertrude had an amorous connection with Henry II: The Victoria History of the County of Oxford p. 137 (Garsington Manor)
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…In 1255, the jurors said that the avus (grandfather) of King Henry III gave his land to Ida de Tony pro servio suo (for her service). Ida presumably one of Henry II’s mistresses, was the daughter of Robert de Chaumont, and wife of Roger de Tony, a tenant-in-chief and member of a junior branch of the Tony family, the caput of whose barony was at Flamstead (Herts.). It is possible that she was given Garsington by Henry II as a maritagium (wedding gift ?). She was in possession in 1201, when Adam Buciute a London merchant quitclaimed his right to the property during her life. Ida was alive in 1203-4, but apparently dead by 1206 when her son Baldwin de Tony was trying to prove in the king’s court his father’s right to property in Garsington. It should be obvious to the casual observer that the preceding text refers to Ida the daughter-in-law of Gertrude rather than Gertrude herself. Gertrude was the daughter of the Count of Hainault, not Robert de Chaumont. Her husband Roger de Toney II was the tenant-in-chief of the main line of Toneys, not a junior line. Some have tried to tie in the death of Ida de Chaumont, shown in this text, with that of Gertrude. There is no evidence here of Gertrude’s time of death. One would conclude that this was the finish of Henry II’s affairs with the Toney women. There is more to be told. In the year 1162 Ralph de Toney V died leaving four year old Ida and her two year old brother Roger who would later become Roger III. These two children were made wards of Henry II. As time went on, Ida became Henry’s mistress, and in the year 1176, when she was eighteen years old she bore him a son who was later called William Longsword. For many years William was thought to have been the son of Rosamond Clifford; however, a London cartilary of the abbey at Bradenststoke (Wiltshire) found in 1979 in William’s own words said “Comitissa Ida mater mea” (Countess Ida my mother). Around Christmas of 1181 Ida de Toney was given in marriage by Henry II to Roger de Bigod, 2nd Earl of Norfolk. This made Ida the Countess of Norfolk. She had several children from this marriage including Hugh, Ralph and Roger. One of these sons was cited in a later document by William Longsword as his brother. There is little doubt that Ida de Toney was the mother of William Longsword, Earl of Salisbury.
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As time went on, the Toneys began to become more attached to their English possessions as opposed to their lands in Normandy. This had more to do with economics than anything else. Nonetheless, they had become well attached to their Plantagenet cousins and were often seen in their presence. As an example, when King Richard I joined the French King Philip August on the second crusade of 1192-93, Roger de Toney III became a member of Richard’s party rather than the party of Philip. Then when John became king in 1199, Roger III sided with John against Philip August. As a reward John gave Roger a manor in Norfolk called Saham which Roger attached his name to, and even today this manor bears the name Saham-Toney. Of course, Roger’s allegiance to John was not well placed because five years later in 1204, he lost all his Norman estates. Roger III died in 1209, leaving his estate to his 19 year old son Ralph de Toney VI. It is not likely that Ralph de Toney VI had the same warm feeling toward the Plantagenets as had his ancestors. When Ralph was only four years old, he was offered as one of the hostages for the release of King Richard I. Had it not been for the intervention of his kinsman Count Baldwin of Hainault (his grandfather’s first cousin), he would have been held for ransom. Baldwin detained the boy and his escorts at Maubeuge, France, near Belgium in February of 1194 and rescued the boy. As King John’s control tightened on the English barons, Ralph VI joined many of the other barons at Runnymede where they signed the Magna Charta. His later career included becoming General of the Poitevin Mercinaries in the Welsh Marches in the war against Llewellyn the Great and Richard le Marshall, Earl of Pembroke. Then later, signed with the cross, he went on a crusade to the Holy Land led by Theobald II, King of Navarre and Count of Champagne. Ralph VI died at sea on this crusade in 1239. The three final barons Toney were killed in wars while defending the rights of their king. Roger IV was engaged in the Baron’s War which started in 1263. He sided with the king over his distant cousin Simon de Montfort who for the lack of good luck almost became king of England. Roger IV was captured at Lewes in Sussex and is presumed to have died as a prisoner. Ralph VII participated in the Welsh Wars and was later in an expedition to Gascony where he died in 1295.
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The final Baron Toney, Robert “Knight of the Swan”, fought at Caerlaverock in Scotland, and in 1309 went to Spain to fight the Saracens. In November of 1309 it was reported that Robert had died in battle. The same Saracens that Robert’s ancestor Roger I had fought almost 300 years before had claimed the life of the last Toney baron. After the fall of the House of Toney, the Plantagenets continued ruling England for another 90 years. During this period, many of the junior branches of the Toneys were involved with the Plantagenets at the time of the Hundred Years War, which lasted on past the Plantagenet’s reign. Many years have passed since the Toneys and Plantagenets shared the rich, royal blue blood that surged through their veins. Nowadays, the Toneys have been left with a not so royal, pale, sky blue blood that testifies to a more common stature in life. However, in the end, one must ask these important questions. Who and what am I and where do we go from here?
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On this day, September 22, 2025 at 8:10 AM, I john
The Jubilee Jesus
Posted on September 21, 2011 by Royal Rosamond Press
Jesus means “savior”. In October of 2005 I founded a yahoogroup ‘Joyous Jubilee’. One hundred years before John the Baptist and Jesus were born, the chief priests, Sahadin, did away with the Jubilee that was the backbone of Social Justice for the Jews and foreigner alike. I have come to retore the Jubilee, and sound the horn of Liberty and Truth.
Why and how was I chosen is quite amazing. However, there is no more time for your – and my doubt! We all have run out of time! A Republican Congressman just quit due to the fake impeachments of our President. A woman official for Ukraine, declared the politics of America – are dead – and are killing thousands of Ukrainians. The President of France is trying to convince Germany to put NATO troops in Ukraine, When I died, I was in heaven and watching the atonement of the German people.
We have to go! We have to move! The Holy War Games are over. I am asking all those who see themselves as Knight Templars, and want to be KT, to join me in spirit as I cross….
PAUSE
After aa half hour of research, just now, I FOUND THE ANSWER to what puzzled me. I noticed the map of Jerusalem was depicting this city just before the War of Liberation From Rome. Why doesn’t Joseph Flvius mention it? I believe the building of the Golgotha Bridge was to celebration the Reestablishing of the Jubilee Law, that Jesus saud he would restore. This is a complete overhaul of the Jewish Religion. All THE LOST TRIBES HAVE BEEN FOIUND in the Diasproa, and, the Levite Priesthood has ruled the tribes do not have to RETURN to live in Israel, because, Israel will come to them! John the Levite Baptist was about te world – before Jesus and Paul! This is HIS BRIDGE that led THE WAY HOME for the Pilgims, for the Children of God, who hated Herod’s temple. It had been corrupted! Israel has been corrupted. I bid all this who hate Ntanyahu, and his false preisthood, put the deed to their home and land. Put these Deeds in clay vessels, got to the temple mount, today, and hand them over to the poorest Palastinian family you can find! Do this, unto the meekist, and the most disenfrnachise, and you shall…..INHERIT THE EARTH!
I just found out that his is written on Our Liberty Bell
And you shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land to all its inhabitants; it shall be a jubilee for you.” This verse is also inscribed on the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia.
The bell is inscribed with Leviticus 25:10, “Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof.
Amen
John the Nazarite
Perhaps the least known part of its history, and the most intriguing, is that it was the abolitionists who gave the Liberty Bell its famous name. The bell is inscribed with Leviticus 25:10, “Proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof.” The verse refers to the Year of Jubilee when slaves were to be set free in accordance with Hebrew tradition. William Lloyd Garrison, abolitionist and publisher of The Liberator, seizing upon the verse’s true context, re-printed a poem, “The Liberty Bell,” in 1844. The poem’s potent line “Ring it, til the slave be free” was a rebuke; that despite its inscription, the bell did not proclaim liberty to all the inhabitants of the land so long as slavery was allowed to persist.
According to Maimonides, there is a commandment to consecrate the jubilee year and to sound the shofar on the tenth day of the month of Tishrei. These are both specified in Leviticus 25:9-10, which states: “Then shall you cause the shofar to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month, on Yom Kippur shall you sound the shofar throughout all your land. And you shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land to all its inhabitants; it shall be a jubilee for you.” This verse is also inscribed on the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia.
Additionally, the Torah mandates that all slaves were set free and that all land should return to its original owners. The Talmud in Rosh Hashanah explains that slaves technically were free from the first of the jubilee year, but did not return to their homes until ten days later when the shofar was sounded (Rosh Hashanah 8a or b, right?). The requirement of returning land to its original owners meant that, in effect, land could not be sold or leased in perpetuity. This had the practical effect of ensuring that land did not concentrate in a small number of hands, and spiritually served as a reminder that nothing on earth truly belongs to human beings. This is made explicit several verses later in Leviticus, when God states “the land is Mine; you are but strangers resident with Me. It is all on loan from God.”
We eagerly await the day when G d will bring our entire nation back to our homeland—including the ten “lost” tribes—and we will again resume observing the Jubilee year, as well as so many other mitzvot which we are incapable of performing until that awaited day.4
Liberate Our Nation’s Post Offices
Posted on December 24, 2017 by Royal Rosamond Press
Take back our Post Offices! Evict Von Trump from the Washington Post Office! Our Founding Fathers created a National Post Office so Revolutionaries could continue to send, and receive, sacred literature and newspapers so that they can continue to proclaim Liberty! Here is our Jerusalem where our words of Liberty and Freedom can be cherished – FOREVER and FOREVER!
On this day, I declare a National Jubilee that will give every American Voter a Thousand Dollar Voting Bonus!
Down with the Corporate Boss City-States! Donate the Bonus’s the Fraudsters gave you, and purchase this Beautiful Tower of the Bells – FOR WE THE PEOPLE!
The Constitution’s Postal Clause grants Congress power to “establish Post Offices and Post Roads.” There is a fascinating history behind that provision, which I explore in a new article linked here.
I Claim The BYU Jerusalem University
Posted on November 5, 2023 by Royal Rosamond Press
At sunrise, I begin my virtual walk across the bridge that used to span from the Mount of Olives to The Temple Mount. At 3:30 A.M. November 5,2023, I read that the BYU Jerusalem Center was evacuated due to the invasion of Hamas . At sunrise I will begin my King’s Walk across the Golgotha Bridge that was built to Count The Jews as part of a ritual that resulted in King David counting the Jews – and incurring God’s Wrath. God gave David – a choice. He chose to allow the Angel of Death to kill thousands of citizens in Jerusalem. David was ritually scourged – punished by the people for HIS SIN! This ritual was stolen by the founders of Christianity, who also stole the teaching of John the Baptist. This is – MY DISCOVERY! I am the foremost Biblical Scholar in the World. For the reason the Mormon Biblical scholars FAILED to know what I know, I claim the BYU Jerusalem Center. Because I am the greatest Biblical Prophet and Biblical King in the World – I claim all that is the LDS Church!
Jesus did not DIE FOR OUR SINS! Jesus RITUALLY DIED FOR DAVID’S SINS! Jesus wanted all the Jews to be without sin on regards to the census – so they would not die! On this day claim all the churches associated with Saint Francis – everywhere! Consider the battle in our Congress on emergency monies to be – given to the Jews – via our Census Taxation and Election System.
This morning is the first time I saw the architecture of the BYU University. I am – amazed! Here is The Bridge associated with the Order of the Cross and Red Star in the Czech Republic. I claim that order! The Tau Cross – is my cross. It now represents Golgotha – and the Great Crossing! The Truth – can now be restored! Here is the true root of the story of a ancestor of King David, returning to the town he was born in, Bethlehem (there was no Nazareth) to take part in The Golgotha Census. Jesus has dinner on the Mount of Olives – with his relatives – and reads from the Book of Ruth. There was no call by Herod to murder the first born. His son was going to count the first born in a complex manner involving the Laws of Moses – that Saul-Paul did away with – in order to divert money to his church – that was never the church of John and Jesus.
I am – The Truth!
John ‘The Nazarite’
13 October 2023 – SALT LAKE CITY
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BYU Jerusalem Center to Relocate Students and Faculty to Greece
Evacuation of 93 students, faculty and staff comes one week after the conflict in southern Israel began on October 7
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The BYU Jerusalem Center announced Friday that it will relocate all students and faculty to Greece where studies will continue.
“The Jerusalem Center Fall 2023 Program is currently relocating to Greece,” center officials said in a security update on October 13. “In addition to the 93 students and faculty, faculty families and service couples will also relocate to Greece.”
The announcement comes in response to ongoing military conflict in the region. Since the attack in southern Israel on Saturday, October 7, the center has issued daily reports about the status of Jerusalem and the safety of students on the center’s campus.
The news of the relocation came one day after the First Presidency of The Church of Jesus Christ issued a statement October 12 about the violence in the Middle East .
“We are devastated by the recent eruption of violence and loss of life in the Middle East,” the First Presidency stated. “Violence of this nature is abhorrent to us and is not in harmony with the gospel of Jesus Christ, which is a gospel of peace. At such times, our hearts ache for all victims of this atrocity.
“As servants of God, we affirm that He calls upon all of us to love our neighbors as ourselves, and we pray for a peaceful resolution of all conflicts.”
The Jerusalem Center, operated by Church-sponsored Brigham Young University, opened in 1989.
Golgotha
Posted on April 10, 2023 by Royal Rosamond Press
I began The Lion of God in 1990 when I was filled with visions of a past life, and the Holy Spirit. I lived in a estate on the Mount of Olives and looked down on the temple. I saw people coming and going. I smelled the smoke of the scarifies.
Two hour ago (on Easter) I found this article about Golgatha known as Miphkad. I already own a theory that Jesus replicated a walk from the Mount of Olives to the temple, across the Kedron Valley. He was scourged along the way, he doing penitence for the sin of his kin counting the Jews. This sin was passed down to all David’s offspring. I sketched paintings for this ritual on large canvas. I did not know there was a bridge! I am the embodiment of King David, or, am of his linage. I wanted to be in Jerusalem today. I am there in spirit! I am….coming over! My sacrifice – is complete! I have been – redeemed!
I want – bagpipes!
John ‘The Nazarite’
Psalm 311Psalm 31 For the director of music. A psalm of David.1In you, O LORD, I have taken refuge; let me never be put to shame; deliver me in your righteousness.2Turn your ear to me, come quickly to my rescue; be my rock of refuge, a strong fortress to save me.3Since you are my rock and my fortress, for the sake of your name lead and guide me.4Free me from the trap that is set for me, for you are my refuge.5Into your hands I commit my spirit; redeem me, O LORD,
16 David looked up and saw the angel of the Lord in the sky, holding his sword drawn and pointed at Jerusalem. Then David and the elders bowed facedown on the ground. They were wearing rough cloth to show their grief. 17 David said to God, “I am the one who sinned and did wrong. I gave the order for the people to be counted. These people only followed me like sheep. They did nothing wrong. Lord my God, please punish me and my family, but stop the terrible disease that is killing your people.”
What the Bible says about Miphkad
(From Forerunner Commentary)
| Hebrews 13:11-12Where did Jesus Christ’s suffering take place? Not at the Praetorium, for they led him from there (Matthew 27:31). Nor did it occur at the Temple. While scholars debate over the location and even the translation of “Golgotha” (Matthew 27:33; Mark 15:22; John 19:17), the writer of Hebrews provides a solid clue as to where Jesus died:For the bodies of those animals, whose blood is brought into the sanctuary by the high priest for sin, are burned outside the camp. Therefore Jesus also, that He might sanctify the people with His own blood, suffered outside the gate. (Hebrews 13:11-12; emphasis ours.)God instructed the priests to kill the sin offerings at the Tabernacle, but He required them to burn the remains at a place “outside the camp” (Leviticus 4:12, 21), away from God’s presence. This distant altar became known as the miphkad (“the appointed place”) altar. At the time of the crucifixion, this altar stood on a slope of the Mount of Olives, east of the Temple Mount, separated from the Temple by the Brook Kidron. The name of the Temple’s eastern gate was, appropriately, the miphkad gate. When the priest performed a sin offering, he took the body of the sacrificed animal through the miphkad gate, over the bridge that spanned the Kidron Valley, and to the appointed place for burning and disposal.Hebrews 13:11-12 ties this “outside the camp” location with Christ’s crucifixion, being “outside the gate.” Additionally, Jesus was crucified where the centurion with Him could see the veil of the Temple torn in two (Luke 23:45-47), which, because of the Temple walls, was possible from only a few angles and elevations—such as the area near the miphkad altar on the Mount of Olives, outside the “camp” of Jerusalem.The miphkad gate and Kidron bridge had another significant purpose. History records that the gate and bridge were also used on the Day of Atonement (see Alfred Edersheim’s The Temple: Its Ministry and Service). By this eastern route, the “suitable man” led the azazel goat out of the Temple and into the wilderness after the priest had laid on its head all the iniquities, transgressions, and sins of the nation (see Leviticus 16:20-22).The centerpiece of the Day of Atonement ritual involved two goats as a sin offering (Leviticus 16:5). Consider how perfectly Jesus fulfilled the roles of both goats in this ceremony, as only He could. The Levitical high priest used the blood of the first goat to cleanse the sanctuary. The priest laid no sins on this goat; instead, he used its undefiled blood to cleanse and cover the incense altar and the Mercy Seat, which allowed rare access into the Holy of Holies (Leviticus 16:15-16, 18-19). As the fulfillment, Jesus courageously and single-mindedly gave His sinless blood as a cleansing and a covering, providing us access into the heavenly Holy of Holies (Hebrews 9:7, 12-14, 23-25).The azazel goat, the one used for “complete removal,” received the iniquities, transgressions, and sins of the nation on its head, and it bore them, being sent by the high priest and led outside the camp, out of God’s presence, as a representative of all the sins. In awe-inspiring fulfillment, the Father laid the iniquities of us all on Christ’s dignified and undeserving head (Isaiah 53:6). Jesus permitted Himself to be sent by the leaders and led by their agents in true meekness, subsuming His well-being to what the Father desired for all mankind, even cleansing with His words those who led Him, just as the “ready man” was cleansed (Leviticus 16:21, ESV).Jesus became a substitutionary sacrifice, for God “made Him who knew no sin to be sin for us” (II Corinthians 5:21). He became a curse on our behalf (Galatians 3:13) when they nailed Him to the tree. He, and He alone, bore our sins, iniquities, and transgressions (Isaiah 53:11-12; Hebrews 9:28; I Peter 2:24). He remained alive for torturous hours, bearing what belonged to us but permitted to be put on Himself, having been led outside the gate in perfect, divine meekness. |
I Was Born to Render Revelations
Posted on July 31, 2021 by Royal Rosamond Press
Candidate For King David
Posted on December 26, 2021 by Royal Rosamond Press
Because Pope Francis asked for peace thru more dialogue, I John Presco am announcing I am a candidate for the Embodiment of King David. I have said I was a Republican Presidential Candidate, before, but, this time I am going to complete the requirements.
I will be providing much evidence that I am the most likely embodiment of King David. Not like citizen Trump, I know much about the Bible, and, have solved Biblical riddles.
I awoke to snow – and a message from God and the Pope….
“Forgive the Rougemont Knights Templars, and gather them around you!”
In ordinary usage, the Miphkad (Numbering) Altar on the Mount of Olives became known in New Testament times as “Golgotha” and it denoted a place where heads were counted in any numbering or census of Israel. All numberings involving the totality of the Israelite people would have required the place of the counting to be “without the camp” because certain individuals who were permanently or temporarily designated as ritualistically defiled could not come inside the Camp of Israel (Numbers 5: 1-4). This is why it was always necessary to have the official censuses outside the camp area. That way all individuals could be counted whether they were ritualistically defiled or not.
What the Bible says about Miphkad
(From Forerunner Commentary)
The Doomsday Clock Is Ticking
Posted on April 7, 2021 by Royal Rosamond Press
We are minutes away from WAR, that might be prevented. Around noon today I solved the riddle of King David and the ritual of Jesus in the Kedron Valley. To utter it, may light the fuse a catastrophic war with China. My Guardian Angel found the Doomsday Clock.
John ‘The Nazarite Judge After Absalom’
The Taiwan Strait is a “powder keg” that has the potential to trigger a world war, a military analyst said on Tuesday as a panel of experts gathered to discuss U.S. foreign policy from a Taiwanese perspective.
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Taiwan Strait a ‘Powder Keg’ That Could Set Off World War, Military Expert Warns (msn.com)
“Starish was zeroing in on a perceived VOID, when the grandfather clock that Prince Albert order to be made, and shipped from Germany, sounded MIDNIGHT. She was about to pass this carved masterpiece, when from her perficial vision she caught the minute hand moving backwards. It stopped at 7:45, then headed back to stop at 3:00. Then it went backwards, twice, to stop at 5:15. Immediately Miriam conjured up the word COMBINATION, then……LOCK! She deduced she had missed the first number. Opening the glass case, she beheld a coo-coo bird surrounded by alternating moons and suns. There was a small brass key inserted into the body of the bird that allowed her to turn it and point the tail at corresponding ticks on the clock. Starfish ears strained to get a clue from the ratchet sound as she turned the bird in a simple combination lock manner.
“Drats!” Mirriam said, knowing she had twelve hours to kill before 12:00 Noon struck. Then, a large urn caught her eye. It was given to Victoria by the Tzar of Russia. It depicted Catherine the Great opening up Russia to foreigners, and the resettling of the Volga Germans who are said to be in her German Family Tree. This was a part of Catherine’s coup against the Romanovs. Her grand design was to make Russia a part of Germany.
The House of Saxe-Coburg played a huge role. This is why Queen Victoria married Albert after being courted by Romanov Princes. She was afraid of a vast German Empire that would swallow England like a small fish. Albert’s family feared his family would be consumed. Victoria and Albert played a incredible game of intrigue that gave birth to the British and German Empires that established colonies to pay for this Cold War. Miriam and Victoria had a theory that this Cold War was turned into Russian Fairytales so the players moves behind the scenes would remain invisible. There was a new formula.
Starfish was assigning numbers to the people on the vase. She did not own Victoria’s great talent with genealogies, thus, names and dates. She went searching for a pattern, when the clock struck HIGH NOON. Looking up she saw the minute hand go 9:45.
Rising gently, Miriam crept to the clock, opened the glass, and turned the bird’s tail. When it landed on 9:45 there was a click, and a wood panel opened up next to the clock. The first thing Starfish saw was a small stainedglass window with a Tudor Rose. Under it was Victoria’s great desk. Taking three giant steps, Miriam, stopped in her tracks. On the desk was a small portrait of Munshi, Victoria’s personal secretary.
“Oh my God! Miriam whispered as she opened the ledger next to the portrait. Munshi was a disciple of a sect of Indian Mathematicians that some say created a new math. But, Miriams parents believed they descended from Jewish Kabalists and Scribes that counted the numerology of The Creation.
Miram felt faint when she read the name of Ramchundra who was a “naked eye” astronomer.
“Baba! Rabbi!” Starfish said, and bowed her head. Starfish was trying to master this form of astronomy because she and her parents associated it with the Ephod warn by the High Priests. It was sat on a table in the Holy of Holies, with a light inside. The jewels cast colored lights on the wall, that are the “starry objects” that were done away with by a wicked usurper king in his false reformation. The candidate King of the Jews was brought before these stars and put to a test that he had to pass before he was crowned King. But, he was more than a King. He was a Co-Creator…….The King of Heaven!
Setting The Clock of God
Posted on April 4, 2021 by Royal Rosamond Press
Was the Secret Name vital in setting the Clock of God? Spooky Noodles and I did a eighty minute show on this. We pulled the White Rabbit our of the hat. Jesus did not ESTABLISH “the year of our Lord” as he said he would – as far as WE know today. Why? We have Revelations which is all about TIMIMG. Christian teachers say no one can predict when the END TIME is going to occur. What if someone figures it out – and thus gets the final ticks moving? Mr. Noodles sent me this in a e-mail. Very profound. I wish the world heard our conversation. We talked about branding and Coke. The Trump Card is calling for evangelicals to boycott Coke and other companies that are protesting how the Christniks want to COUNT VOTES.
We talked about the Gregorian Calendar and how I was named after this Pope. My brother was named after Marcus Aurelius’, who WORE THE PURPLE. Rosemary scored the second highest I.Q. when she joined the WAVES. She spied on Russian broadcasts. She has given me riddles to solve since I was a boy. I believe she was a spook. Someone has put her photos on the Rosamond genealogy. I believe he was CIA. When I was sixteen I asked Rosemary what she was doing while sunbathing on Glendon.
“I’m teaching myself French so I can convert French electrical terms into English. I can’t believe no one has done this!”
She had gotten a job with a space firm. She was very cryptic with me. I always blew he her mind when I figured stuff out. Passover ends this evening. I was born On October 8, 1946 during a star-shower three days after the Day of Atonement. We are 180 degrees away from that date. I was born to die as God’s Scapegoat. That my mother who born me is demonized, and not given any bragging rights in regards to her famous daughter, is something I can not rectify, unless a attorney takes my case and sue Robert Brevoort Buck for Forty Million Dollars. But, that is a drop in the bucket in regards to the Great Cosmic Event I Am In Charge Of. This is to say no one will give me ANYTHING! My astrologer had to move up the time I was born fifteen minutes – or in theory I was not born! This is theory is being made manifest by my daughter – born on Rosemary’s birthday! I would settle for a LESSER position, but, YOU won’t let me!
I ALONE have figured out why Jesus turned over the money tables. He mixed the coins together on the ground because the Tryian shekel was a way of counting the Jews – the wrong way! There is no – right way! If he ordered all Jews NOT to pay the temple tax, then they would come for him – and kill him.
John
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Tyrian shekels, tetradrachms, or tetradrachmas were coins of Tyre, which in the Roman Empire took on an unusual role as the medium of payment for the Temple tax in Jerusalem, and subsequently gained notoriety as a likely mode of payment for Judas Iscariot.
As stated in the Torah,“there will be no plague among them when they are counted!” The half shekel donation is a guard against pestilence and pandemic!
In the latest standard, which was also the one used for the temple tax, the coins bore the likeness of the Phoenician god Melqart or Baal, accepted as the Olympian Herakles by the Greeks and derided as Beelzebub by Jews in the time of the Seleucids, wearing the laurel reflecting his role in the Tyrian games and the ancient Olympic Games.
“Jewish Passover coincides with Roman Easter this year(?) something which was supposed to be calendrically impossible with the Western calendric formulation as arranged by the church fathers, in order to distance one cult from another. Don’t know if the Muslims also have two divergent calendars to date their prominent religious holidays- and/or also a special algorithm to likewise distance their high holy day(s) from either the Jews or Christians. However- Chinese New Year in the USA… their year( ‘our’ year in San Francisco) differs in some tradition by 60-‘something’ years from China. Which is more correct? We we told the Chinatown Chinese kept the tradition uninterrupted from Antiquity. While the custom itself was illegal in China under the turmoil of revolution until just recently.
WHEN IS PASSOVER?
The dates are based on the Hebrew calendar, from the 15th day of the Hebrew month of Nissan (or Nisan) through the 22nd day.
Note: What is often called Passover today has its origins in two ancient observances. Nissan 14 was the Passover as mentioned in the Torah; at this time, an offering to the Lord, the sacrifice of a lamb, was slaughtered during the afternoon and prepared. Nissan 15 (the new day starting at sundown) was the beginning of the seven-day Festival of Unleavened Bread. On this start of Nissan 15, the Passover lamb that had been sacrificed and prepared on Nissan 14 (that same afternoon) was eaten that night (now Nissan 15), along with unleavened bread. Over time, the Festival of Unleavened Bread commonly became known as “Passover” and is usually considered as starting at sundown between Nissan 14 and Nissan 15.
Passover 2021 will be celebrated from March 27 to April 4. The first Seder will be on March 27 after nightfall, and the second Seder will be on March 28 after nightfall.
Born Under a Shower of Stars
Posted on August 11, 2013by Royal Rosamond Press
I was born October 8, 1946 two minutes after the sun set. An amazing star-shower was suddenly visible. The nurses in the maternity ward bid my mother to come to the window and look, but, was too spent having just delivered me.
Rosemary said she had a vision while she was giving birth to me, she telling herself she must not forget it. She forgot.
Rosemary named me after John the Baptist because she believed I was born on the Day of Atonement, Yom Kippur. I was born three days after Yom Kippur.
When my Astrologer began her five hour (recorded) reading of my chart, she began
with these words;
“Jon, I have never seen a chart like yours, never knew it was possible. It
begins where all charts in theory begin, on the exact cusp of Pisces and Aries..
For this reason I had to move up the time of your birth ten minutes, or in
theory, you were not born. As it is now, you barely escaped becoming a veritable
prisoner in this lifetime, that is, all the information you came here to share.”
I believe I was born to die, and when I did, my clock was readjusted so my information could be set free. My astrologer said I am of the great Scorpion Scholars of the Biblical Wilderness who sting themselves in order to induce a near-death experience and behold the Creator, if only for a little while.
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