This extremely rare photo of the first west coast Black Mask get-together on January 11, 1936 captures possibly the only meeting of several of these authors.
Bonds With Angels
On this day, December 14m 2025, I John Presco declare it was my grandmother, Mary Magdalene Rosamond, who appeared at the foot of my sisters beds hen they were five and ten. I had come home after being sick with the whooping cough in Los Angeles. I almost died.
Patrice Hanson attempted to hijack my divine family story when she lived with me. I had rescued her two sons from the Fraud, Bogus Bobby. Because I died, and came back, this is the first time in spiritual and religious history a male superceded the role of women – whp had become Evil Entitites. I am the Life and Kight Bearer.
Drew Taylor Rosamond Benton is the Great Granddaughter of Mary Msgdalene Rosamond . Drew is the cousin of Heather Marie Presco who was raised to usurp Drew and Christine Rosamond Benton.
On this day, I take my Rose Line away from Patrice Hanson and he Dead Betty. There are Bad Witches in human history. What is in a name……HANSON?
Hanson means….SON OF JOHN and SON OF HANNAH. John and Samuel were Nazarite. I AM A NAZARITE.
Here are two posts that addressed the issue of Artificial Intelligence on February 9. 2020, and February 2, 2020 – months before Drew’s death! For thi reason I claim all books and literature that violated my Copyright when the law firm of Buck and Morris sold Mary Maldegem’s Rosamond Literary Heritage to hostile outsiders, who all but destroyed the miracle of my daughter coming into my life.
Recently I posted videos and images of my daughter, Heather Son of John, invoking the name of a Judaic Angel – the SARAPHUM. Angel do not spring from Celtic Witchery. The mothers of
JOHN AND SAMUEL WERE VISITED BY ANGELS.
When did learned Jews become aware of
WINGED GREEK MUSES?
John ‘The Nazarite’
The Artificial Intelligence Art Dynasty
To everything there is an Alpha and Omega. So it is with ‘The Artificial Intelligence Art Dynasty,’ that I born when I showed my painting of Rena Easton to my sister Christine Rosamond Benton, in 1971. She took art lessons at UCLA, and entered the Westwood Art Show. When Priscilla Presley bought her painting of Mother and Child, Ira Cohen signed her to a contract. Rosamond was now a member of a stable of artists at Ira Roberts Gallery.
Ira dictated Rosamond’s style according to what made him money. Christine offered to teach me her developed style, so I could be rich and famous, too. Artificial Intelligence Art – is born! When you count the images of Elvis Presley, and Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, then you have the largest collection of photographs – in the world. Now add all the art the Getty Family owns, and mix this art with the truth Executor Sydney Morris, blessed an outsider, a non-family member, to own the Royal Rosamond Brand, then the World of Art owns a CRETIVE AUTHENTICITY earned by the severity of the attack upon this New Art Form. The crucifixion of The Progenitor is so severe, that the Fake Family the law firm of Robert Buck, conducted – is the bloodiest in Art History, being their hired ghost writer went after my sixteen year old daughter – when she came into my life. This Fake Biographer did not know my Real Family is kin to Liz Tayor, and my grandfather was close to Black Mask authors. The Pretenders did not know, my niece, Drew Benton, is in the family tree of the Artist, Boileau, thus we are very Politically Connected. Consider the cliams by many elected Republican Lawmakers, who swear..
Joe Biden is a Fake President
What is truly astounding is, The Fake Family petitioned the probate court to get a Estate Seal to be applied the the thousand un-signed lithographs left to my nieces, who did not know they had a cousin, who was put in the arms of the San Quinton ex-con, Randy Delpiano, who n Grateful Dead lore, is known as “Bogus Bobby”. Heather Hanson cried when she learned her Fake Father was dead. But, not once did she call me to see how the radiation for prostate cancer was going. This act alone is like God’s seal applied to what is Not Real, Not Authentic, and is…..ARTIFICIAL! Thus the birth of my daughter..
Artificial Heather Hanson
Heather, and the two children she brought into the world, are now the responsibility of..
The Artifical Art World
On this day, I adopt Bogus Bobby, who Patrice Hanson put in my Rosamond Family Tree. Patrice wanted Randolph Delpiano to be the father of my daughter, not me! How artificial can you get! I hereby Copyright the title ‘Artificial Intelligence’.
So be it”
John Gregory Presco
President: Royal Rosamond Art
Copyrght 2023
The Adventures of Rosemond Wilding
Posted on March 18, 2023 by Royal Rosamond Press
My mother, Rosemary Rosamond, and my sister, Christine Rosamond Benton, died not know they were related to Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor. With the discovery of Frank Taylor’s written words to Augustus John, where he mentions the two movies that would make Elizabeth a star, fate and the muses enjoin one of the most profound literary, cinematic, and artistic legacies in the world. John is related to Ian Fleming, and Wilding was a famous British actor who had a son by Rosemond. Christopher Wilding married Aileen Getty, thus all members of the Getty family are kin to Ian Fleming, and, can relate to James Bond, who is being raised from the dead – without success! I suggest, Liz Taylor be raised from the dead in a series of books and films. The Adventures of Rosemond Wilding can be at the Bohemian Vanguard in the culture wars that threaten many creative people.
I know there are a tons of curses with these related families. I have cast them aside to get to the Beautiful Roses. I have so much to do. I am looking for a woman co-author, and a female artist to help complete these visions. I am the Creator of this Rosy Enterprise.
John Presco
President: Royal Rosamond Press
The Taylor family home in Hampstead, where Elizabeth was born in 1932, had previously been owned by Augustus John, whose paintings remained on the walls when the Taylors moved in. Elizabeth’s father Frank Taylor was an art dealer with a gallery located at 35 Old Bond Street in London. He established a close relationship with the Welsh artist. After relocating with his family to sunny California during the war, Frank opened an art gallery at the Château Elysée, but quickly relocated it to the more impressive Beverly Hills Hotel. It was at that location that such celebrities as Howard Duff, Vincent Price, James Mason, Alan Ladd, Hedda Hopper and Greta Garbo could be found selecting art for their own collections. Frank Taylor acted as John’s American agent for many years and was responsible for the artist’s popularity in the United States. The two men corresponded frequently. In a letter of 25 June 1943 Frank Taylor wrote to Augustus John: ‘We have settled down to living in California and our young daughter is by way of being a movie star, if you see a picture Lassie Come Home which will be released in September, she is in that with Roddy Macdowal, Nigel Bruce, Dame May Whitty and a lot of people, she did a bit in Jane Eyre and will be in The White Cliffs of Dover, also she may get the leading part in National Velvet, even if you are not a movie fan see the Lassie picture it is in colour and is beautiful’. Miss Taylor inherited this collection of works from her father, and they remained in her homes throughout her life. We are grateful to Rebecca John for her assistance in preparing the catalogue entries for these works.
Every Day Is Daughter’s Day
Posted on June 21, 2021 by Royal Rosamond Press
Everyday Is Daughter’s Day
Idea For Sitcom
by
John Presco
Copyright 2021
The daughter I didn’t know I sired, came into my life in April of 2001. She answered a call her mother found on the Rosamond webpage, for those who knew Christine Rosamond, to contribute. Patrice Hanson never knew Christine, but, – she had her niece! When I saw Heather for the first time, she auditioned for me. Her mother left us alone in the living room as she played her guitar and sang. She was not that good – at doing either! A couple of weeks later she told me in a phone call that she had to get off in order to watch ‘American Idol’ with her utterly untalented mommy. I asked if I could be a part of that. No answer.
I believe Heather was disappeared from my life just before her graduation, so we could not make arrangements about me coming down to Santa Rosa. I believe my surviving sister, Vicki Presco, was invited, because it was deduced by the Hanson clan that Vicki had all the clout and connections – thanks to Sydney Morris and Robert Buck blessing the bio and THE MOVIE SCRIPT- THAT WERE TOTAL FAILURES! Maybe Patrice’s Daughter can get HER BIG BREAK and get in the movies – and a singing contract! Wow! No thanks to me – though! Christine gave me credit – for her success! Heather sang at her graduation, and sent me the video when she came back in my life – two years later! Do you think the audience will laugh about this?
I have been watching Tik Tok, where EVERY DAUGHTER has her chance to be – A STAR! In the the twenty years Heather knew who her REAL FATHER is, she never called to wish me a Happy Father’s Day. I cramped her – and her Stage Mother’s – style. It took me twenty years for me to understand this – with the help of my therapist.
I believe THE SUPER STAR DAUGHTER wanted a daughter late in life, in order to fulfil THEIR DREAM. I am not allowed to see my granddaughter, because it is ruled my NEGATIVE IMPUT caused Heather to be – A FAILURE! To prove this, my negativity is BANNISHED. THEY got a witch to guard my granddaughter from my NEGATIVE ENERGY.
I will talk to my therapist about me seeking to reward myself on July 6th. Tomorrow, I’m going to send this blog out of see if someone wants to make a series. Heather will be one of the stars, if not – THE STAR. Here she is interviewing THE WITCH after she discovered I was trolling her woman’s healing site, that she closed down because my male vibes CORRUPTED IT – and all members of THE COVEN – made up of father’s daughters. I am their scapegoat. They stick pins in me. The never talks about their fathers.
I just noticed that Heather’s fake father, Bogus Bobby, was arrested again for impersonating Bob Weir, four years after he held my daughter in his arms when she came from the hospital. This means he was on probation when he stood in front of my abode with a baseball bat – threatening to bash my brains out. Patrice did not tell me, lest I call the cops and her husband goes back to San Quinton where he served a couple years for telling women he bilked, he was a member of the Grateful Dead. He of course, did not have…….NEGATIVE MALE VIBES! Randall had nothing to do with my daughter being……A FAILURE!
Are you following this? Are you confused? Not if you are some man’s daughter, and, every day is your day! You see, when you are a wanna-be star, one day not competing to get all the attention, may be the day….you could have been discovered!
(2) Heather Hanson Healing Empowerment Coach | Facebook
Father John
Patrice, Randall, and Heather Delpiano
Posted on November 26, 2020 by Royal Rosamond Press
When I saw my sixteen year old daughter for the first time, I told her and her mother I wanted to get rid of the surname, Delpiano, attached to my daughter. Her fake father was a major parasite on thousands in the Bay Area. Patrice had to know about MORE crimes of theft he committed. I now suspect Randy and Patrice were conning men in bars to get sympathy and money. They were a team. I am going to get court records. Randy used the death of Brent to solicit sympathy and get entry to the lives of those who grieve. This is what the con-artist did to my later sister’s legacy.
That my neighbors depict me as a pariah and parasite, knowing the plight I am suffering to get my daughter free of these con-artists, is vile and evil. These two sucked the life and energy out of me – like vampires! To know this career criminal knew an innocent child was used in a demonic way, is the epitome of evil. In this article Randy may have conned a boy under eighteen to get in his mother’s home to rob her. Patrice told me who could not conceive, and thus he watched my child grow in his wives womb – knowing it was my child! I suspect they both looked for dark way to exploit my unborn child who was five when her fake father got arrested. Was she told? He then went on the lamb, the Oakland police hot on his trail. Did he stay with Patrice in LA?How many bad checks did Randy write that his wife knew about? I can not find a marriage certificate. Did he ever kill anyone?
I was the real and sincere artist in my family. The rest is illusion.
John Presco
Sep 1, 1990 — ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. (AP) _ Miss America 1990 Debbye Turner says … Oakland police are looking for Randall Delpiano to arrest him on a …
The State
JAN. 16, 1989 12 AM
A man who looted $4,000 from a woman’s bank account while posing as Grateful Dead guitar player Bob Weir has been sentenced to two years in prison and fined $500. The sentence was imposed by Alameda County Superior Court Judge Stanley Golde on Randall C. Delpiano, 33, described in a Probation Department report as having “achieved moderate fame by impersonating” Weir. Delpiano pleaded guilty in Oakland Municipal Court last month to one count of using a computer system to steal money. Other charges were dropped in a plea agreement. Authorities said Delpiano befriended the victim’s son and then moved into the family home. While the woman was out of town in October, they said, he took the money from her bank account using her automatic teller machine card.
When I found myself pregnant, I felt the father could have been
either John’s or my husband’s, but I had to convince the husband
that it was his baby or life would have been unbearable and the
chances of my baby’s survival would have been slim. I knew this baby
was meant to be, and be with me, and that was important. From there
moment she was born, I could see that she looked like John, but it
was the husband’s name that went on the birth certificate.”
Patrice Hanson falsified a birth certificate by putting Randall Delpiano’s name as the father, instead of me. Heather Hanson is MY daughter. Patrice admits she knew this in a letter she composed to send Oprah Winfrey. Randy is famous! He appears in two books as “Bogus Bobby”. Patrice says she was married to BB, but, I have my doubts. Patrice has never had a grasp on reality. She suffers from mental illness due to her severely mentally ill mother being violently beaten by Patrice’s father. This may have caused this poor mother of three to jump off a cliff, and kill herself. Patrice describes herself as being the surrogate mother to her siblings.
Black Mask Authors
Posted on July 28, 2013 by Royal Rosamond Press
This extremely rare photo of the first west coast Black Mask get-together on January 11, 1936 captures possibly the only meeting of several of these authors.
Pictured in the back row, from left to right, are Raymond J. Moffatt, Raymond Chandler, Herbert Stinson, Dwight Babcock, Eric Taylor and Dashiell Hammett. In the front row, again from left to right, are Arthur Barnes (?), John K. Butler, W. T. Ballard, Horace McCoy and Norbert Davis.
Rosemary told me her father, Royal Rosamond, used to sail to the Channel Islands and camp with his friend, Dashiell Hammett who is seen standing on the right in the photo above.
Ian Fleming – Talitha Getty – Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor
Posted on May 26, 2018 by Royal Rosamond Press
Lillian of the National Velvet
Posted on August 19, 2017 by Royal Rosamond Press
Elizabeth Taylor and Mickey Rooney starred in “National Velvet” in 1944.
An 18-year-old Gene Tierney, who was then appearing on Broadway, was offered the role of Velvet Brown in 1939. Production was delayed, however, so Tierney returned to Broadway.[5] Much of the film was shot in Pebble Beach, California, with the most-scenic views on the Pebble Beach Golf Links[6] (with golf holes visible in the background).
Philip Boileau & Magazine Beauties
Posted on August 20, 2013 by Royal Rosamond Press
“Christine worked almost exclusively from photographs and
figures she cut from magazines like Vanity Fair and Vogue and
Glamour,” Garth recalls. “That’s why the women in her middle period
were so exquisite – the inspiration for them came from elegant
magazines that set the standard.”
Rena Easton looked for her sister to be on the cover of a famous magazine in July of 1970. Rena has a lot to do with the marriage of my late sister into the Benton family. American magazines held beauty contests for seventy years. Jessie Benton came close to being the Queen of America.
Rena and I were meant to get married. I should have put Robert and James in the back seat, like tramps, and kept them there. I should have taught Rena how to drive, and if James gave me any lip, I would kick him out of the car like his buddy Brian did to me when he kidnapped Rena.
Rena would have been kin to real artists and writers. She should have been the Muse of Muses, painted by many famous artists. Fate had much in store for this beautiful woman.
The artist, Philip Boileau, was the son Susan Taylor Virginia McDowell Benton, the sister of Jessie Benton, the daughter of Thomas Hart Benton, whose grandson was the famous artist of the same name, who was the cousin of Garth Benton, who married Christine Rosamond Presco, who is kin to Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, according to Jimmy Rosamond, the Rosamond Family genealogists.
Elizabeth Taylor appeared on the cover of LIFE magazine, and was on the cover of numerous magazines, as were the beautiful women painted by Boileau, that resemble Rosamond Women. No one, but I, knew of these relations after the death of the world famous artist ‘Rosamond’.
Recently two paintings by Andy Warhol of Liz Taylor sold for a hundred million dollars. ‘The Men In Her Life’ sold for $60,000,000 million dollars. Eddie Fisher is in this Warhol work, he the father of the actress , Carrie Fischer, who wrote a screenplay about my later sister, who is the mother of the artists, Drew Benton.
Christine and Drew are kin to John Fremont who was a co-founder of Republican Party, and its firs Presidential Candidate. Three years ago I registered as a Republican in order to stand in the way of the take over my kindred’s party by the Evangelical Cult.
Jon Presco
The artist, Philip Boileau, was the son Susan Taylor Virginia McDowell Benton, the sister of Jessie Benton, the daughter of Thomas Hart Benton, whose grandson was the famous artist of the same name, who was the cousin of Garth Benton, who married Christine Rosamond Presco, who is kin to Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, according to Jimmy Rosamond, the Rosamond Family genealogists.
Baron Charles Henri Philip Gauldree De Boilleau was born 1823 in Toulouse, France. He married Susan Taylor Virginia McDowell Benton June 04, 1855 in Washington D.C.. He died in February, 1894. Susan Taylor Virginia McDowell Benton, daughter of Senator Thomas Hart Benton and Elizabeth McDowell , was born 1833 in Cherry Grove, Rockbridge Co., VA. She died March 08, 1874 in Paris, France.
Children of Baron Charles Henri Philip Gauldree De Boilleau and Susan Taylor Virginia McDowell Benton are:
15. SUSAN TAYLOR VIRGINIA MCDOWELL4 BENTON (THOMAS HART3, ANN “NANCY”2 GOOCH, WILLIAM1) was born 1833 in Cherry Grove, Rockbridge Co., VA, and died 08 March 1874 in Paris, France. She married BARON CHARLES HENRI PHILIP GAULDRÉE DE BOILLEAU 04 June 1855 in Washington, DC. He was born 1823 in Toulouse, France, and died February 1894.
Children of SUSAN BENTON and CHARLES DE BOILLEAU are:
i. PENSÉE5 DE BOILLEAU, b. Abt. 1856; d. Unknown.
ii. BENTON GAULDRÉE DE BOILLEAU, b. February 1858, Calcutta, India (British); d. Unknown; m. MARIE BEDIENT DE GUION, 14 June 1898, St. Patrick’s Cathedral, New York City, NY; b. 14 May 1861, New York City, New York Co., NY; d. Unknown.
iii. CHARLES GAULDRÉE BOILLEAU, b. Abt. 1862; d. 29 December 1901, Loughborough Junction, England.
iv. ARTIST – PEGGY GIRL PHILIP GAULDRÉE BOILLEAU/BOILEAU, b. 17 July 1863, Quebec, Canada; d. 18 January 1917, New York City, New York Co., NY; m. EMILY GILBERT, 09 October 1907, The Church of the Transfiguration, Manhattan, New York City, New York Co., NY; b. 02 August 1886, Quakertown, Bucks Co., PA; d. 13 May 1951.
v. DESIRÉE DE BOILLEAU, b. Abt. 1866; d. Unknown.
vi. HUBERT LÉON MACDOWELL DE BOILLEAU, b. 19 September 1868, Versailles, France; d. Unknown.
vii. MARY DE BOILLEAU, b. Bet. 1870 – 1872, France; d. Unknown.
viii. PAULINE DE BOILLEAU, b. Bet. 1870 – 1872, France; d. Unknown.
16. THOMAS HART4 BENTON (NATHANIEL3, ANN “NANCY”2 GOOCH, WILLIAM1) died Unknown. He married MARY ELLEN EASON. She died Unknown.
Children of THOMAS BENTON and MARY EASON are:
27. i. COLONEL MAECENAS EASON5 BENTON, b. 29 January 1848, Dyer Co., TN; d. 27 April 1924, Springfield, Greene Co., MO.
ii. JESSIE BENTON, b. 1857; d. Unknown.
iii. THOMAS BENTON, b. 1859; d. Unknown.
iv. DOLLY E. BENTON, b. 1861; d. Unknown.
v. SAMUEL A. BENTON, b. 1863; d. Unknown.
vi. FANNY M. BENTON, b. September 1869; d. Unknown.
Generation No. 5Descendants of William GOOCH, Sr.
Generation No. 1
1. WILLIAM1 GOOCH, SR. was born Bet. 1714 – 1722 in Virginia, and died 22 December 1802 in Caswell Co., NC. He married (1) KEZIAH ANN HART Abt. 1744, daughter of THOMAS HART and SUSANNAH RICE. She was born Abt. 1725 in Virginia, and died Abt. 1760 in Virginia. He married (2) FRANCES RICE Abt. 1762, daughter of JOHN RICE. She died Unknown.
Children of WILLIAM GOOCH and KEZIAH HART are:
i. MARY2 GOOCH, b. 30 May 1745, Hanover Co., VA; d. 14 December 1842, Pike Co., MS; m. JOHN SNEAD, 25 March 1765; b. 27 June 1739, Hanover Co., VA; d. 06 September 1793, Wilkes Co., GA.
2. ii. WILLIAM GOOCH, JR., b. Abt. 1750, Hanover Co., VA; d. 09 January 1832, Caswell Co., NC.
iii. ELIZABETH GOOCH, b. Abt. 1754, Hanover Co., VA; d. 1826, Rutherford Co., TN; m. WILLIAM KIMBROUGH, Abt. 1770; b. Abt. 1750, Virginia; d. 1816.
Elizabeth, Rosamond, and Taylor Camp
Posted on June 21, 2016 by Royal Rosamond Press
“Though Howard may have chosen a life out of the spotlight, he still had his sister’s flair for the dramatic. When he heard that police had rounded up 13 vagrants who recently moved to the island from Berkeley, California, he decided to bail out the lot and allow them to live on his land rent free.
‘It’s your land and they’re now your hippies,’ Taylor reportedly told officials, when they complained about the new inhabitants on Ke’e Beach.”
James Bond of Carmel California 2
Posted on April 20, 2022 by Royal Rosamond Press
A Series by
John Presco
After the Bond movie ‘To Die And Live Again’ was a huge box office hit, a prominent member of the Royal Family made a very snide remark. Clint hired an attorney at the suggestion of his real-estate broker, Chaz Chazen, to seek an attorney. He recommended Ace Buckster, who owned a small airport in Carmel. This lawsuit got in the news and the attention of, Ian Saint James, a local mystic who did a genealogy of the Eastwood family.
“Wow! Clint is bullet proof. He’s American – and Hollywood Royalty! The Windsors have bitten off more than they can chew. They put a harpoon in – Moby Dick!”
Eastwood “American Royalty”
Posted on June 5, 2012 by Royal Rosamond Press
When I read that Clint Eastwood’s ancestors served on my great grandfather’s ship, the USS Constitution, I had forgiveness for my daughter who thinks life is a big popularity contest. She is not alone, so do the Royal Windsors who no longer have any real power. It’s all -show!
“To add to that, he also has maternal ancestors (James Morgan and Margery Hill) with a likely royal descent, linked to the late Princess of Wales, and Prince William and Prince Harry, the probable next King of England.”
Some sites on the web say the Eastwoods served on the sister ship, the USS Constellation. McGilligan says it was the USS Constitution. Both ships went to Tripoli to protect American shipping from a Islamic leader and fanatic who was holding Americans for ransom.
The USS Constitution is the oldest commisioned Navy vesel. Our President could have sent Old Irondsides to get Bin Laden, given him a broadside – just for show, like that actor and Texas braggart, George Bush, who dressed in costume and stood on the deck of a Navy vessel with a banner over his head that read;
“Mission Accomplished”
“Cut! that’s a wrap! You can go back to your ranch, ‘Smoke-em Out’ George, and play cowboy!”
President Obama sent the Navy Seals to an Islamic nation to dispatch the world’s No.1 terrorist! I, and Eastwood’s ancestors – are as proud as can be of this American Citizen. Right – Clint? Perhaps our President was born in Oakland, too, and is ashamed to admit it?
Clint’s billionaire golf buddies are trying to buy our democratic process, hide behind their money and mommy, verses fighting out in the open. Greedy Cowards – and Cheats! Clint is a fake blue collar kind of guy.
Clint’s cousin claims the Eastwoods are “America Royalty” after he proudly declares his kindred served in Tripoli where my kindred, Captain Issac Hull, commanded the USS Enterprise. Did the Eastwood’s hear my great grandfather’s voice, giving them orders as We the United and Free went after our real enemies?
It’s time for my family to be united – and all American families!
Are Amerians jealous of all that pomp and ceremony they beheld on the Queen’s Daimond Jubilee? My bad-ass kindred kicked Limy butt – and whooped the Islamic pirates, just like our President did. Behold – Americans at sea!
Jon Presco
Hollywood Royalty
Posted on June 6, 2012 by Royal Rosamond Press
Clint Eastwood, and Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, are Hollywood Royalty. One could say they are the Emperor and Empress, and should be paired for life in the land of make believe. What is real, Clint and I share the same Oakland roots, and, Liz is in the Rosamond family tree.
Lindsay Lohan is going to play LIz in a movie. It will be a comeback for a woman who struggles with alcoholism, a theme promoted in the biography of Christine Rosamond Benton, who Liz and Christine’s kindred, Carrie Fisher, wrote a screenplay about. Richard Burton was a alcoholic, a bad boy in real life. Could Hollywood have created a Dirty Harry character for Richard? How about ‘Dirty Burty’ a bad-ass Brit with a big mouth and a blunderbuss.
“With any luck, she’ll also stay sober throughout!”
Who’s afraid of Lindsay Wolfe? How about a detective movie based upon Liz and Burt’s roles in ‘Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? A married detective team wreck havoc in the underworld as they barhop across America and Europe taking on one tough guy after another – and destroying him! This good cop, bad cop couple, fight fire with fire – on the enemies turf, and on their terms! All the guest stars on the show will be escapees from rehab, or, on their way to rehab. We already got the show’s theme song!
Mr. and Mrs. Wolf. When this couple walks in a bar, the tough guys creep out the back, they on their way to rehab. They’ve had enough. Case closed.
Jon Presco
xploiting Liz’s Abode
Posted on August 19, 2015 by Royal Rosamond Press
A bungalow belonging to my kindred, Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, is being rented out.
A portrait by Warhol – Liz’s dead friend – adds to the bragging rights the guests may enjoy without being called “insane”. Money talks – even after death! Can you talk to her ghost?
Christine Rosamond’s beautiful women were hung by a Realtor as staging when her home in Pebble Beach was put on the market – after she was dead! Here is High Class Fashion Moda. If the Warhol is real, then it was auctioned off with Liz’s fashionable dresses. To hang the original artwork of the diseased artist, is to create a museum, that is not open to the public, and is there for the sole reason of making money. To decorate a room around the painting of a famous movie star – painted by an artist who made movies – is to create a Vain Stage where narcissists may roam in their need to be the center of attention.
Christine posed for her image ‘Cleo’. Here is the Phantom of the Opera creating a new stage for his star. I wonder if I can cash in? Perhaps I can conduct a tour? I could be on call to come give an art lesson to the guests. I could wear a tux and drink non-alcoholic wine. Would they save the glass I drank from?
Jon Presco
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g him how to FIGHT the Fake Small Government Governor of Florida. Desantos is merging as the leader of – OTHER GOVERNMENT – that has a manufactured culture bent on overthrowing our traditional culture.
Gavin Newsom For The Arts
Posted on May 12, 2021 by Royal Rosamond Press
On cue, Governor Gavin Newsom held a press conference and announced massive aide for the Homeless and The Arts. I had just sent my business proposal to the City Government of Belmont, who have no Arts Program that I am aware of. I had talked with a friend about getting Grace Slick to do paintings in Charlatan Square as part of my Cultural Package for the Belmont that needs to get the Governor’s attention, being, I am kin to Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, as is Belmont Pioneer, Carl Janke. Michael Wilding married Aileen Getty, and thus Carl Janke is in the Getty Family Tree. This Getty Tree For The Arts adopted Gavin when he was a teenager. The J. Paul Getty father and son moved to England. Junior was Knighted by the Queen and was titled “Sir” after he became a British subject. Liz Taylor was Knighted by the Queen for her contribution to the Film Industry that made California great.
John Presco
President: Belmont Soda Works
I have taken steps to be awarded several grants. A year from now, I hope to have my own room at the Getty Villa where I am allowed to roam freely admiring the art of my ex-brother-in-law, Garth Benton, and working on my paper and historic masterpiece………..
‘The Doomsday Prophecies of Wealthy Men’
I will be wearing the best headset money can buy with a endless soundtrack from the DaVinci Code, the Phantom of the Opera, and the best of Leonard Cohen. Young scholars will turn their heads as I pass them in halls.
“May the force be with you Professor Obi-Wan Kenobi!”
“Have you saved our planet yet, Obi-Wan?”
“He can’t hear you. He lives in his own world.”
I have also taken steps to receive a grant from the Paul Mellon foundation. Paul is in my rosy family tree via Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, and Warner. I introduced the Pre-Raphaelites to Christine Rosamond Benton. We are ‘The Last Pre-Raphaelites’.
I just made an offer to be Drew Benton’s Mentor. I can show her how to be a scholar in a year. Above is her mother at the Getty Mansion in New York.
Jon Presco
Copyright 2017
Benton, Wright, Zorthian, Miller, Eishagaka, and Stackpole
Posted on August 30, 2018 by Royal Rosamond Press
Rose City Planners
On this day, August 30, 2018, I found, Rose City Planners, a International Company that will pull together the best team of City Planners – possible! During the Great Depression many artists were funded by the WPA to produce civic works of art. Today, our cities have been forever enriched by the work of these magnificent artists who were not out to become famous. They gave way more that they received. Their historic contributions can be added on to, if their common philosophy is understood – and harnessed! These men considered themselves Bohemians.
Many city planners and city governments understand that We The People want our downtowns to have a Bohemian flavor and look. This is the recipe that attracts people. Unfortunately, many city governments are hiring outsiders, Bohemian pretenders, who put the Capitalist Quick Buck Masters at the top, and the artist down at the bottom next to Vegetable Stands. These frauds keep saying they are protecting our city history and founding fathers, but – they lie! When my company gets off the ground we will do a through research to see how much history, and Bohemian Culture was bulldozed into the ground. Much can still be saved – if you know how!
Rose City Planners will reach out to foreign cities, and establish a Cultural Exchange. I am looking for Japanese Investors, and backers for ‘The Royal Janitor’. I founded ‘The Wandering Star Studios. I am poised to take over the work of J.R. Tolkien, also. I will relocate my company to Portland Oregon.
John Presco 007
Copyright 2018
Building The City Beautiful
Posted on June 30, 2013by Royal Rosamond Press
On the my last day in Vancouver I heard there is a plan to tear down the last freeway in that city. Here is a video of the Hippie Museum that shows some Hippie fashions:
http://www.boreme.com/posting.php?id=17961
Here is another blog of mine where I honor Boho fashion.
https://bohemianworlddesign.wordpress.com/
Here is the statue Pacifica being blown-up by the Navy:
Ina Coolbrith gave Joaquin Miller his look that he took to England where he read his poems to the Queen. The Pre-Raphaelite Artists took him in. Miller was a friend of my grandmother. The original hippies of the Bay Area were influence by Miller, Ina, London, and Sterling. Miller made a life-size statue of my kin, John Fremont, who looks west from the heights of Oakland. El Capitan looks like Gandalf.
Stackpole’s Bohemian Circle
Posted on December 29, 2015by Royal Rosamond Press
Peter photographed my kindred, Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor for LIFE magazine, and Errol Flynn. who my mother and aunt dated. Ralph was good friends Diego Rivera and his artistic wife. These creative Bohemian souls were the compatriots of David Weston and his Muses. Ralph did a painting of Tina Modotti wearing pearls. David is the model for Frank Rosefish. Errol Flynn is a model for Don Roscoe.
The Roaring Tigers of Art and Literature
Posted on December 13, 2015by Royal Rosamond Press
Los Angeles Modern Auctions (LAMA) auction on October12, 2014 of 20th Century Modern Design and Fine Art
Thomas Hart Benton did lithographs and a painting for John Steinbeck’s ‘Grapes of Wrath’. This is huge! This puts a Literary Giant in the Benton Family Creative Tree. How could the three Rosamond biographers have missed this? Here’s a huge clue?
I am overwhelmed by the History I appear to be the Caretaker of. For this reason I am founding Royal Rosamond College, and am seeking funding.
There are two world famous artists with the last name BENTON. Thomas Hart Benton, and Christine Rosamond Benton. Not one of the three authors that were blessed by attorney Sydney Morris to publish Rosamond’s biography, put these two artists together in their lying biographies that humiliated Christine, her mothers, and her teacher.
Above is a photograph of a man humiliating one of Thomas’ works of art. People all over the world express their outrage. Wait till they read about Faulkner’s ‘Dunkin The Frog’ that was going to put into the public domain as a Rosamond. Not only is this Art Forgery, it is a direct attack on the Creative Language that Artists speak to each other with – for free!
In two of the three works of art above, we see artists who were members of the Synchromism movement. Stanton Macdonald-Wright did ‘Yin Synchrom’ in 1925, and Thomas Hart Benton did ‘The Rape of Persephone’ in 1939. Is Benton sending a message to Stanton, saying he is beholding to his influence, or, did it just turn out this way in what Carl Jung titled synchronicity? Stanton included Gloria Stuart in one of his murals. Is Stuart’s painting of a nude – with tiger – part of this messaging? Is she saying;
“Don’t leave me out, don’t forget about me – you Bohemian good ol boys!”
The Getty Bond-John Line
Posted on November 12, 2021 by Royal Rosamond Press
Michael Wilding wanted to be an artist when he was a teenager – and became one! Did his wife, Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor, see her husband’s artwork – and watch him paint? Was Liz reminded of the artist Augustus John, whose house she grew up in? Did she consider promoting her husband’s art like her father and uncle promoted John? Did she see the Getty family promoting the artistic legacy of Christopher Wilding when he became engaged to Aileen Getty? Was Liz and Aileen aware they were kin to Ian Fleming via Talitha Pol who married the Anglophile, John Paul Getty 11, the father-in-law of Christopher? Liz married the son of Conrad Hilton who was married to Zsa Zsa Gabor – who dated J. Paul Getty. Did they talk about being married? Gabor married a prince who ran against Meg Whitman for Governor of California. Did Christopher Wilding meet Gavin Newsom, who is the partner of the Pelosi family in Plumpjack? His mother married Jack Werner.
My late sister, the world famous artist Christine Rosamond Benton, was introduced to Garth Benton, by his friend, Lawrence Chazen, who was our father’s private lender. Vic Presco told Larry his daughter was famous, and he talked about the Benton murals. My sister’s and out father formed a family partnership with the legacy of Vic’s mother who wanted to leave to all six members of my natal family. Vic was surprised when I told him Chazen had formed a partnership in the first Rosamond gallery. Why didn’t Chazen tell Vic? Vic was not happy to learn Larry was the number one creditor in the Probate. Vic dies not knowing Liz was our kin – and Ian Fleming!
With the discovery there is the Welch name John in the genealogy of Samantha Bond, who played Moneypenny, and Rosamund on Downton Abby, and learning Wilding starred in a movie about the Women’s Royal Naval Service, then it appears the limited horizon of these BONDED families has been greatly expanded – by me! I can see – for miles! Time to entrust these collected visions under the banner of Royal Rosamond Press, that has been publishing installment of my Bond book ‘The Royal Janitor’.
Above is the mural Garth Benton rendered for Anne and Gordon Getty. Will an agent come forth and represent my Mystery Muse, who wearing a Cameo, will make a unforgettable extra in a period production, such as Downton Abby. She is British. I can see her in a Naval uniform.
John Presco
President: Royal Rosamond Press
The Taylor, Getty, and Rosamond Children | Rosamond Press
After his wife’s death in 1907, Augustus John’s mistress Dorothy “Dorelia” McNeill, a Bohemian style icon, became his partner; they lived together most of the time from 1904 until his death and had two children, but never married.
- Poppet John (1912–1997), John’s daughter by Dorothy, married the Dutch painter Willem Jilts Pol (1905–1988).
- Vivien John (1915–1994) was a notable painter.
Willem Pol’s daughter was
- Talitha Pol (1940–1971) by an earlier marriage to Arnoldine Adriana “Adine” Mees (1908–1948). (Thus, Talitha was step-granddaughter of both Augustus and Dorothy). Talitha was a fashion icon of 1960s London, who married billionaire oil heir, John Paul Getty Jr.
Here’s a fuller look at the Getty family tree as it is known to the public today:
JEAN PAUL GETTY had five children
- George Getty II had one child
- Anne Catherine Getty Earhart had one child
- Sara Earhart
- Anne Catherine Getty Earhart had one child
- Jean Ronald Getty had four children
- Christopher Ronald Getty had three children
- Isabel Getty
- Robert Maximilian Getty
- Conrad Getty
- Stephanie Marie Getty-Waibel had three children
- Marietherese Waibel
- Robert Maximilian Getty
- Sigourney Waibel
- Vanesa Waibel
- Cecile Karin Margarita Getty
- Christina Therese Getty
- Christopher Ronald Getty had three children
- John Paul Getty II had five children
- John Paul Getty III had two children
- Anna Getty
- Balthazar Getty had four children
- Cassius Paul Getty
- Grace Getty
- Violet Getty
- June Catherine Getty
- Aileen Getty had two children
- Caleb Wilding
- Andrew Wilding
- Mark Getty had three children
- Alexander Getty
- Joseph Getty
- Julius Getty
- Adriadne Getty had two children
- Natalia Williams
- August Williams
- Adriadne Getty had two children
- John Paul Getty III had two children
- Gordon Getty had seven children
- Gordon Peter Getty
- Andrew Rork Getty
- John Gilbert Getty had one child
- Ivy Getty
- William Paul Getty
- Nicolette Getty
- Kendalle Getty
- Alexandra Getty
- Timothy Ware Getty
It was a match made in Hollywood: Elizabeth Taylor’s son and oil tycoon J. Paul Getty’s granddaughter. But the script had a peculiar twist—Christopher Wilding, 25, Liz’s offspring by her late second husband, Michael Wilding, could only plight his troth to Aileen Getty, 20, under a full moon and over salami and crackers at a cocktail party. There won’t be a wedding for three years because her grandfather’s will stipulates that Aileen will be disinherited (and lose $100,000 annually) if she marries before she is 23.
No matter, Elizabeth clearly dotes on the couple. Leaving her husband, Sen. John Warner, in Washington, she sallied West and rallied old friends. Martin Mull, Sissy Spacek, Roddy McDowell, Carol Burnett and Dudley Moore were among the 150 guests at a formal engagement party held at the Brentwood home of Aileen’s divorced mother, Gail Harris Getty. Timothy Leary showed up, as did Taylor’s mother, Sara, 89, and Aileen’s two brothers—J. Paul III, who lost an ear to Italian kidnappers in 1973, and Mark, in from his British prep school, Harrow.
Adopting The Lost Nazarite Mothers
This morning I watched the news on Abortion Rights, and understood this is a Religious Duality the Conservative Christian-right INVENTED to create a Religious Political Division in our Democracy, that is dependent on the Two Party System. The intent still is, to make the Democrats the party of the godless, and the Republicans the party of God, Jesus, and…..THE VIRGIN MARY?
On this day, December 15, 2024, I John The Nazarite, declare there is no Virgin Mary, and this is a false teaching created to hide the truth early members of the church were declaring themselves – NAZARITES! A million Jews were pricticing goddess worship in Rome, and all through the Greek States. This was a great threat to the strict Yahweists – from the moment they stepped foot in Canaanland. The worship of Asherah was never eradicated – until the rise of Peculiarity.
With the ruling of the Supreme Court in giving Hobby Lobby a special religious sanctuary, is the door I now enter, and declare a new religion. If any woman wants an abortion all she need do to get religious and Constitutional permission, is, to write this on a piece of paper….
I AM A NAZARITE
What a woman is accepting, is, there is a divine and spiritual AWARENESS that exists before conception, that does involve angelic beings and a Holy Spirit. No woman need study about this Spirit, or, seek an explanation in any place of worship. I believe this Spirit has a pre-existence, and, an after-life. The name of this religion is….
WOMEN OF THE WAY
I am asking the best attorneys in the world, to step forth and PROTECT THE RELIGIOUS RIGHTS OF WOMAN OF THE WAY!
John ‘The Nazarite’
Rejecting Mary’s Nazarite Mother
Posted on December 7, 2020 by Royal Rosamond Press
I sent my daughter an e-mail calling for peace and mutual empowerment. No response as yet. Like her mother, Heather denies me the right all grandfathers-fathers enjoy. THIS IS AN ELECTION VIA A REJECTION! I was a Nazarite – old in years – when I heard I AM A FATHER! If being REJECTED is proof of a historical existence, then being UNBORN by the child you gave life – is an election. Why would evidence Jesus was a Nazarite – be concealed? I considered myself to be a Johannite Knights Templar – before I knew I had a daughter. I get to believe – what I choose to believe! Mormons believe in things all evangelicals do not believe in.
John ‘The Nazarite’
Johannine literature – Wikipedia
Secrets of the Knights Templar: The Knights of John the Baptist
Soon after the Knights Templar founded their order in the Holy Land in 1118 AD they assimilated into a very ancient gnostic tradition and lineage known as the Johannite Church, which had been founded by St. John the Baptist more than a thousand years previously. The ruling patriarch of this ancient tradition when the Templar Order first formed was Theoclete.
The Johannites and St. John the Baptist
Theoclete met the first Templar grandmaster, Hughes de Payens and then passed the mantle of his Johannite authority to him. Hughes de Payens thus became John #70 in a long line of gnostic Johannites (the “Johns”) that had begun with John the Baptist and included: Jesus, John the Apostle, and Mary Magdalene. John was not just a name, but also an honorific title meaning “He of Gnostic Power and Wisdom.” It is related to the Sanskrit Jnana (pronounced Yana), meaning “Gnosis.”
In Christian tradition
The story of Joachim, his wife Anne (or Anna), and the miraculous birth of their child Mary, the mother of Jesus, is told for the first time in the 2nd century apocryphal infancy-gospel the Gospel of James (also called Protoevangelium of James). Joachim is a rich and pious man, who regularly gave to the poor. However, at the temple, Joachim’s sacrifice was rejected, as the couple’s childlessness was interpreted as a sign of divine displeasure. Joachim consequently withdrew to the desert, where he fasted and did penance for 40 days. Angels then appeared to both Joachim and Anne to promise them a child.[2]
Joachim later returned to Jerusalem and embraced Anne at the city gate, located in the Walls of Jerusalem. An ancient belief held that a child born of an elderly mother who had given up hope of having offspring was destined for great things. Parallels occur in the Old Testament in the case of Hannah, mother of Samuel,[3] and in the New Testament in the case of the parents of St John the Baptist.
Chapter Four–The History of Anna, The Mother of the Blessed Virgin Mary (ocoy.org)
I Am Joaquim – Risen From The Dead
Posted on March 27, 2016by Royal Rosamond Press
But they vowed, if God should favour them with any issue, they would devote it to the service of the Lord; on which account they went at every feast in the year to the temple of the Lord 1
When I began to study the Torah in 1988, I would close my eyes and find myself walking on McClure’s Beach. I would come to the cave my friends and I had stood in back in 1965. The sun is setting. At the back of the cave is the Tree of Life – filled with the cosmos! I would sit before it in the sand that sparkled like the Milky Way. Then, they came, the Monsters After The Light. I and God put up a barrier at both ends of the beach. In horror I watched them pile up against this Glass of God, their faces twisted, and full of grotesque lust for want of The Light of God. I identified these creatures as evangelical leaders who were entering politics, they coming in the back door to feed on the Tree of Life and grow powerful. As a Nazarite after Samson and John the Baptist, I have kept them at bay.
Above are the images of Joaquim and Anna holding the infant Mary, mother of Jesus. They have taken the Oath of the Nazarite because Anna was barren and could not conceive. Her womb had been shut, and is opened by God. This is the definition of ‘Virgin Birth’. This has nothing to do with the breaking of hymen. Joseph will have intercourse with Joaquim’s daughter, but, her womb has been shut – as was her cousin’s – Elizabeth, the mother of John the Baptist. What we have here is a lineage of Nazarites! I am a Nazarite.
Today is Easter Sunday. I will not hear from any member of my family. Yesterday I found a family art show I was not invited to. It was held by Stacey Simons-Pierrot who titles herself “custodian”. She reads from her ghost writers book ‘The Book of Drunks’ by Julie Lynch ‘The Parasite’. My niece, Drew Benton was there. She did not attend her mother’s funeral. Vicki Presco told me she has no fond feelings for Christine Rosamond, whose name is misspelled. To her credit, Drew shows her art for the first stunt. But, in my opinion, she should be hooked up to a Lie Detector and quizzed about her mother’s death. Why haven’t we heard her account? Is she protecting her late father, Garth Benton – who may have dropped Drew off at Rocky Point?
Was my daughter, Heater Hanson, there? She is her mother’s Immaculate Conception born to meet Rosamund one day, and inherit the gauntlet of Fame. Heather un-born me when she disappeared from my life when she was seventeen so she could be with my family. She told my aunt that her unborn child was going o be name after her Lily-Rose. All this is not supposed to hurt me, because I am not fully human. They believe I lost my humanity when I got caught up in a sibling rivalry with a word famous – female artist. Yesterday I wrote an open letter to Michael Dundon, where I set the record straight. These Liars break the Oath of the Nazarite by getting near a dead body, and by having the fake custodian read drunken stories to Christine’s and my daughter.
I have been elected by their exclusion!
She shall, according to your vow, be devoted to the Lord from her infancy, and be filled with the Holy Ghost from her mother’s womb; 3
11 She shall neither eat nor drink anything which is unclean, nor shall her conversation be without among the common people, but in the temple of the Lord; that so she may not fall under any slander or suspicion of what is bad.
Several days ago I told Marilyn about seeing a flying saucer on the horizon of the sea – after I saw God. He was sitting on a rock with one foot in the water, and the other on the sand. This ship is His Ark. He is coming to take His Children home. The first to board will be my Foundling-Child, Amy Sargent, who called me “Daddy” and wished I was in her home for Easter Sunday Dinner. I was not going to reveal anything this day, until she called me a father. I am no longer an orphan!
The Fatherhood of Joaquin, his been rubbed out, disappeared, all but forgotten. This morning, The Father of Mary Rose of the Word’…….came out if his cave! The countdown has begun! My Zulu Nazarites gather on the Mount to behold Elijah and his Chariot of Fire. Until the Ninth Judge is chosen, God Himself fills the vacancy! Repent!
Jon
‘The Nazarite
He also established a yearly pilgrimage to the Holy Mountain of Nhlangakazi, an event that was central to the Nazarites.
Song of Nazarite Women
Posted on December 7, 2020 by Royal Rosamond Press
In 1988 I set out to prove there was a historical Jesus. I believe I have – almost succeeded! If all there is – is literary proof – then the literature I have looked at and compiled have produced….JESUS THE REAL CONTENDER!
The big proof that Jesus was the Messiah of the Jews, is….THEY REJECTED HIM! Huh? In searching for the Historical Jesus, one is forced to look for his ACCEPTANCE amongst the Jews, because so many of Jesus riddles have answers in The Torah – that Jews could read and understand – verses the Picts in Britain. When I first read the Bible at forty I was very confused. Why was Jesus being rejected by the Jews – A GOOD THING!
The Lost Nazarite Teaching of Jesus | Rosamond Press
John ‘The Nazarite’
Songs of the Nazarite Women
Posted on October 20, 2019by Royal Rosamond Press
This is where the Evangelical End Time Heresy come to a end! This is a message from my New Radio Church.
Here is the song the father of John the Baptist allegedly sang. It is similar to Hannah’s song who took the vow of the Nazarite, as did her son, Samuel the Nazarite. John was a Nazarite for life. Even while in his mother’s womb, he was filled with the Holy Spirit. John did not prepare the WAY for Jesus, but the “WAYS” of the Lord.
“And thou, child, shalt be called the prophet of the Highest: for thou shalt go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways:”
Mary’s song is titled a reversal. The Catholic church has juggled with these children and the truth – even while these babes were in their mother’s wombs! I have found a lineage of Nazarite women that includes Mary’s mother, Anna, that is the same as Hannah! Both women were Nazarites.
The Great Reversal of the Nazarites has arrived! Drink no wine as blood. Do not get near a dead body, or eat of dead flesh in a symbolic way. Repent!
John the Nazarite
nuke 1:46-55
New International Version (NIV)
Mary’s Song
46 And Mary said:
“My soul glorifies the Lord
47 and my spirit rejoices in God my Savior,
48 for he has been mindful
of the humble state of his servant.
From now on all generations will call me blessed,
49 for the Mighty One has done great things for me—
holy is his name.
50 His mercy extends to those who fear him,
from generation to generation.
51 He has performed mighty deeds with his arm;
he has scattered those who are proud in their inmost thoughts.
52 He has brought down rulers from their thrones
but has lifted up the humble.
53 He has filled the hungry with good things
but has sent the rich away empty.
54 He has helped his servant Israel,
remembering to be merciful
55 to Abraham and his descendants forever,
just as he promised our ancestors.”
Hannah praises Yahweh, reflects on the reversals he accomplishes, and looks forward to his king.
Verses 4-5 contains three reversals. Stanley D. Walters notes that one is a “reversal of macho male prowess”, one a “reversal of female longing” and one is “gender-neutral and universal”.[1]
There is a movement in this song from the particular to the general. It opens with Hannah’s own gratitude for a local reversal, and closes with God’s defeat of his enemies – a cosmic reversal.[2]
Through the theme of reversal, the Song of Hannah functions as an introduction to the whole book. Keil and Delitzsch argue that Hannah’s experience of reversal was a pledge of how God “would also lift up and glorify his whole nation, which was at that time so deeply bowed down and oppressed by its foes.”[3]
The reference to a king in verse 10 has provoked considerable discussion. A. F. Kirkpatrick argues that this does not imply a late date for the song, since “the idea of a king was not altogether novel to the Israelite mind” and “amid the prevalent anarchy and growing disintegration of the nation, amid internal corruption and external attack, the desire for a king was probably taking definite shape in the popular mind.”[4]
Walter Brueggemann suggests that the Song of Hannah paves the way for a major theme of the Book of Samuel, the “power and willingness of Yahweh to intrude, intervene and invert.”[5]
Hannah’s Song – 1 Samuel 2
And Hannah prayed, saying…
Triumphant my heart in Yahweh!
A high place my horn in Yahweh!
Wide is my mouth over my enemies,
for I delight in your deliverance.
None holy beside Yahweh!
For there is none except you,
and no Rock like our God!
Stop making much of your speech of pride, pride
goes out loose from your mouth,
for El of knowledge is Yahweh
and it is he who reckons every deed.
The bow of the valiant is shattered,
but the feeble are prepared to be strong.
Those who have feasted, in bread will be paid,
while those who have hungered – no longer!
She who was barren has now borne seven,
while the mother of many dwindles.
Yahweh brings about death and life,
casts to She’ol and lifts up.
Yahweh brings about poverty and wealth,
makes low and lifts high.
He raises from the dust the weak,
from the ash-heap lifts the poor
to seat them with nobles
and a throne of glory grant.
For Yahweh’s are the foundations of the earth,
and he orders upon them the world of men.
The footsteps of his devoted he watches,
but the wicked in darkness are silenced –
for not by power grows mighty a man.
Yahweh shatters his contenders –
against them from the heavens he thunders!
Yahweh will judge the ends of the earth
giving might to his king,
lifting high the horn of his anointed.
The Benedictus (also Song of Zechariah or Canticle of Zachary), given in Gospel of Luke 1:68-79, is one of the three canticles[1] in the opening chapters of this Gospel. The Benedictus was the song of thanksgiving uttered by Zechariah on the occasion of the birth of his son, John the Baptist.
The whole canticle naturally falls into two parts. The first (verses 68-75) is a song of thanksgiving for the realization of the Messianic hopes of the Jewish nation; but to such realization is given a characteristically Christian tone. As of old, in the family of David, there was power to defend the nation against their enemies, now again that of which they had been so long deprived, and for which they had been yearning, was to be restored to them, but in a higher and spiritual sense. The horn is a sign of power, and the “horn of salvation” signified the power of delivering or “a mighty deliverance”. While the Jews had impatiently borne the yoke of the Romans, they had continually sighed for the time when the House of David was to be their deliverer. The deliverance was now at hand, and was pointed to by Zechariah as the fulfilment of God’s oath to Abraham; but the fulfilment is described as a deliverance not for the sake of worldly power, but that “we may serve him without fear, in holiness and justice all our days”.
The second part of the canticle is an address by Zechariah to his own son, who was to take so important a part in the scheme of the Redemption; for he was to be a prophet, and to preach the remission of sins before the coming or the Dawn from on high. The prophecy that he was to “go before the face of the Lord to prepare his ways” (v. 76) was of course an allusion to the well-known words of Isaiah 40:3 which John himself afterwards applied to his own mission (John 1:23), and which all three Synoptic Gospels adopt (Matt 3:3; Mark 1:2; Luke 3:4).
he said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?”
So they said to him, c“We have not so much as heard whether there is a Holy Spirit.”
3 And he said to them, “Into what then were you baptized?”
So they said, d“Into John’s baptism.”
And it happened, while aApollos was at Corinth, that Paul, having passed through bthe upper regions, came to Ephesus. And finding some disciples 2 he said to them, “Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you believed?”
So they said to him, c“We have not so much as heard whether there is a Holy Spirit.”
3 And he said to them, “Into what then were you baptized?”
So they said, d“Into John’s baptism.”
4 Then Paul said, e“John indeed baptized with a baptism of repentance, saying to the people that they should believe on Him who would come after him, that is, on Christ Jesus.”
5 When they heard this, they were baptized fin the name of the Lord Jesus. 6 And when Paul had glaid hands on them, the Holy Spirit came upon them, and hthey spoke with tongues and prophesied. 7 Now the men were about twelve in all.
8 iAnd he went into the synagogue and spoke boldly for three months, reasoning and persuading jconcerning the things of the kingdom of God. 9 But kwhen some were hardened and did not believe, but spoke evil lof the Way before the multitude, he departed from them and withdrew the disciples, reasoning daily in the school of Tyrannus. 10 And mthis continued for two years, so that all who dwelt in Asia heard the word of the Lord Jesus, both Jews and Greeks.
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