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Ammon Hillman turns the Moses story into a history of the rite. The face of Moses is covered with a veil, the prosōpon (πρόσωπον) described as glorified, and the episode reads the doxa (δόξα) not as divine light but as the drug-induced vision the channel has been tracing, with Alexander of Tralles, the Byzantine physician, as the witness for phrenitis, mania, and the antidotum. The theriac, the same compound that runs through the medical corpus, is the antidote, and the claim is that the glory is a hallucination the text has preserved in amber.
Paul is brought in as the insider. The second epistle to the Corinthians has the treasure in clay pots and the hyperbolē (ὑπερβολή), the excess of power, and Hillman reads the passages where Paul says to renounce the hidden shameful rites as a confession that the apostle himself had performed them. The episode then holds up the rite itself, the ainopoiia (αἰνοποιία), the making of the shameful seed, done by the maenads and read back through the Questions of Mary. The point is that the language of the rite is everywhere in the scripture, and the claim is that no one has looked at the Septuagint closely enough to see it.
The Cyclops is the tyrant. Euripides describes the Cyclops as anosiou (ἀνόσιος), outside the law, a man eater who despises the stranger and the immigrant, and the episode anchors the portrait in kerdos (κέρδος), the desire for gain, the mark of the tyrant. The land of the Cyclops is achoron (ἄχορον), without the chorus, without wine, without the Bacchic cry, and the hospitality of xenia (ξενία), the law protected by Zeus, is what Odysseus defends against him. The close reads the Cyclops’ defense, they just do not know I am a god, as the tyrant’s final confession, and Athena as the one who brings the tyrant down.
Full Video Transcript
Welcome back to Lady Babylon. We’re going to bring in the apocalypse with what we’ve got tonight. I just got to tell you, it’s good stuff. It’s good stuff. I love it. And thank you everybody for coming tonight. I truly do appreciate it. I take your time seriously. And we try to make things the strongest that we can make them.
Now, for us, the largest class of ancient Greek is Amun-Yu.
The largest global class of ancient Greek is Amun-Yu.
If you’re starting out now, get to those lessons there at the end.
Listen to the dude in black and start growing your brain with Mother Greek.
Mother Greek.
Oh, God, love it.
Fantastic.
those sessions. We have laboratories, people. You don’t realize we’re the largest ancient Greek
course in the history of humanity, in the history of humanity, people. Classical philology just
skyrocketed, just skyrocketed. Let me say something quickly to the people at Harvard,
to the people at Yale, to the people at Penn, to the people at Berkeley. We beat you. We beat you.
Hundreds of people. Hundreds. Class of hundreds for ancient Greek. Do you know why? Because we
are bringing the apocalypse. We are bringing it. Oh God, it’s been so beautiful the last few days.
I just want you to be able to partake, satanic congregation, in the beauty tonight. Oh God,
thank you for coming everybody there thank you for coming and visit visit the folks the language lab
so that you can have your greek strengthened oh god love it you can watch those at your pace too
it’s perfect for you and nobody pays a dime why does nobody pay a dime nobody
stop trying to don’t if it’s associated with me and you end up paying that’s not good that’s not
good. Devil doesn’t like that. You got to keep standards. You got to keep standards when you’re
judging the world. Look at yourselves, people. Look at yourselves. It’s gorgeous tonight.
We’re going to, all of us, we’re going to look in that mirror. I was with the muse.
I was with the muse. Give it to me. I said, give it to me. We’ve got the Cyclops. We’ve got the
Cyclops tonight. We’re going to look right into that Cyclops giant round vision. Circular,
circular vision. The bra with the circular vision. And tonight we’re bringing back classical mystery.
Are you ready? I’m going to stand and you’re going to stand with me, satanic congregation.
You’re going to stand with me. And why am I standing here? Because I’m standing with Athena.
I’m standing with the Virgin.
Tonight, our name is Odysseus.
We’ll call this project Odysseus.
Don’t listen.
A lot of people are out there.
Don’t listen to them.
My God.
People, keep it straight and narrow.
Reason, baby.
I always just fall back on reason.
Fall right back on her.
She loves you.
She loves you.
Oh, God.
We’re going to go with Athena because Odysseus, his travel companion, is a goddess.
Now, Athena tonight is who we’re looking at.
And we’re going to stare into that tyrant’s eyes again.
I want us to go ahead and hit it.
Chewie, light speed.
Let’s go.
Boom.
Boom.
Tonight, people, what we have right off from you, this is the chorus.
Where am I taking you?
Oh, God, did I forget?
I did.
I did.
Excuse me.
I’m sorry, people.
Just, you can leave that up if you want.
Harvard, Princeton, Yale, all you people.
That’s it.
That you had your opportunity.
You had the light and it went out.
Shame on you.
Shame on you.
This is your judgment.
Oh God, give it to, give, Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Princeton, you idiots gave up your ancient
Greek program.
Could you not attract anybody to your stupidity?
Is that what it was?
oh shame on you shame on you for calling yourself guardians of classical philology
servants of mother greek shame on you tonight we bring lots of shame shame it’s not ours it’s
yours we’re just highlighting it okay what’s the passage we’ve got oh god people wanted me to read
little bit. People, look at that third word on the first line. Eve is there. Eve is there. Do
you see her? And let me hear that diagram of the invisible six, six, six. Let me hear it.
Fortunate is the person who can enter into the Bacchic revel with those flowing streams of
wine, making that religious celebration great. And what does he do? He has his beloved,
his beloved what? Man, man, person, male, his beloved buddy, who’s got that flower of
gorgiosity and it’s all over him. It’s dripping from him. That’s the dude that’s happy. He’s got
golden locks in his hair. He’s, you know, nice. He’s going, what’s he putting there? He Christ
himself. He Christ himself, people. Seriously? They’re talking about Christing themselves?
He Christ himself. Oh, you have got it. You have got it. It’s all right. That’s a good one.
You have got it. Where did I take us tonight? Where was our first anchor point? It’s right here,
performing the Bacchic Rite. And I’m going to take you a place, to a place.
everybody. I’m going to transport you tonight. Yeah, it’s a field trip night. I’m going to
transport you tonight to a place that you were afraid could possibly exist. This is a place
where we do not celebrate Bacchus. Are you ready? We’re going there. Okay, get ready. Give me the
next one. Next to our system. Nope, we’re done. Give me the next one. Boom. And wait, who is this?
I’m bringing up Paul. I just had a chorus of Greeks. I just had a chorus of Greeks and now
I’m bringing up Paul. Yes, this is in the second epistle of Corinthians. Yeah. He says we have a
treasure encased in these clay pots. What’s that treasure, Paul? It’s the hyperbole. It’s the
hyperbole. Yeah. It’s the excess of the power that belongs to God, not to us. Okay. Okay. I hear it.
I hear it coming. Are we going to summon that Cyclops? We’re going to get there. Thank you,
Paul. Paul, can you tell me? I have a question for Paul the Apostle. Paul, have you ever been
involved in drug rights? Drug rights, Paul. Drug rights that involve sexual relations.
have you ever paul the apostle been involved in secret rights that in that are well let’s say
self-stimulatory plus the eating of the of the seed that is produced from such fruitful acts
are you involved paul tell me here’s the answer bring it up chewy show me that’s what paul says
This is from Paul, people.
Say, show it to me.
Let’s read it to him.
Allah, what did he say?
What did he say?
He said, look, we have to turn away from and renounce those hidden rights that were so shameful.
Take it down.
You didn’t know when you came tonight that Paul the Apostle had already confessed to being involved in these rites.
You didn’t know it.
You just read the stuff.
We’ve got to take the Bible back.
We’ve got to take it back, people.
We’ve got to go into those schools and we’ve got to teach the Bible to people.
Wouldn’t that be lovely?
The devil would love that.
The devil would love that.
He’s like, you know what?
You know what the fall of humanity is?
it’s smoking their own crap. Yeah. Yeah. That’s what we got to make them do. Make them sit in
their own feces. Isn’t that smart? I was like, that’s nice. Give me the next one. Hit it,
watch this people. What, what are these shameful things that they’re talking about people doing?
Remember last week we saw Jesus Christ with Mary Magdalene and he was like, come on, let’s go up
into them you know let’s go somewhere where we can’t be seen basically and he took her out up
into his hills and next thing you know he’s he’s self-pleasuring in front of her and then telling
her quick we got to eat this both or we’re not going to live those are the acts of the right
and look what we’ve got here my nod on ice what is the ice my great students now
it is self-pleasuring and who’s doing this the mean ads you mean those crazy women those slaves
that just drop their they drop their junk and walk off into the mountains next next thing you
know you’re hearing drums and stuff a lot of shouting you mean they’re doing this of course
they are it’s the bucket right i’m going to show you a world where that is not accepted give me the
next one. Paul says we got to stem it. Paul was deep, man. He was deep because he knew
what the group did. Yeah, lots of people did. There’s lots of these. Next week, we’re going
to talk about Apollonius of Tyana. And I know a lot of people have been throwing Apollonius at me.
Oh, don’t worry. Philosophists awaits us. Wonderful Greek sources. Have you ever heard of these
with respect to the mystery? No, because you people let the theologians come to the fore.
You let them take over. What happened? Not satanic congregation. Come here, Paul. Tell me
something else. What is Paul? You want to hear the grossest thing I’ve ever heard? This is truly the
grossest Greek out there. What does Paul say that we got to do? We got to take Jesus’s necrosis
into our body. It’s in his body. The life, the life is in the body. We got to take it. Do you
understand the rights now? If Jesus Christ were standing in front of you children, you would have
to consider eating his body. That is the necrosis that is in us. That’s what Paul says. Are you
Jesus Christ, Jesus Christ.
What?
Can you taste that communion from last week?
It’s got…
When you look at your actual past, it becomes a lot more human
when you take the theologians out of the history.
Yeah.
Yeah.
By the way, we’re going to abolish the education department.
Nice job.
That’s what future scientists told me.
They were like, how come you did that?
I was like, I don’t know.
They’re idiots.
okay right abolish education that’s a great idea let’s get rid of it all burn all those books
let’s go back to square one boom uncivilized people these are the people who got you
uncivilized yes the unclassical sources here second corinthians 4 18 oh god okay now listen
and he’s going to go on now.
Paul, tell us.
Tell us, since we know you’re involved in these sick rites.
Right?
I mean, come on, dude.
I am not going to do that.
I don’t care if Jesus Christ himself appears to me and says,
you want some communion?
And then he starts the show.
I don’t care what he’s got in his hand.
Would you?
Would you?
Let me just ask you.
You Christians who have been going to the communion for so long,
aren’t you gonna feel silly when you get there for the big communion and he pulls it out
aren’t you gonna feel silly i tell you i’m gonna be that one guy that stands up and is like all
right you know okay i get it i get it i’ll just uh be going yes yes the joke it ends up is
apocalyptically on the monists. The monists bring the fire of destruction to themselves.
This is the Bacchic initiation. This is why they don’t want it. They don’t want to see who they
are. So they run around and they consider that everybody else around them has a delusional
syndrome in their brain. And that’s why their craziness is actually normalcy. That’s what you
get. People just like that. Those are monists. They are in a state of frenzy. Isn’t that gorgeous?
Isn’t that gorgeous? They’re in a state of frenzy. Do you know what that is? It is the opposite of
liberty. It is the opposite of Bacchus. Are you seeing it now? Let’s all go to Aphrodite. Everybody
back on the ship. We’re going to Aphrodite. Paul, tell us then, Paul, you visionary freak.
Tell us. What do you see in your rights when the hoo-ha comes? We see the things that aren’t seen.
yeah yeah the things that are seen are just chance incident the things that aren’t seen
those are ionic okay so you’re seeing ionic things you guys eat the magic seed right everybody’s
living ionic everybody has ionic life you want ionic life not if i have to eat that i don’t want
ionic life. Oh, God. Let’s go to the next one. Boom. Where are we now? Now we’re going back to
Moses. Same rite, same vocabulary, because nobody looks at the Septuagint, because people have been
doing a song and dance for 2,000 years. Don’t look over there. We have this for you, because
they’re doing that we don’t look at the greek it’s a shame it’s a shame it is terribly terribly
disingenuous yes love it shame it’s another thing she doesn’t like another thing she doesn’t like
lying my god man you think the devil has to lie in his kingdom no that’s what it’s marked by it’s
marked by that hard cold reality yeah face your reality ladies and gentlemen i love it i love it
okay we’re getting in give me that quick we got to get him with this last one with moses look at
this people we’re with moses and what does moses do he keeps putting a hood he keeps putting a
hood on you can’t see his face right they don’t want to see what are they what is moses no you
didn’t know that, did you? You didn’t know Moses walked around with a frigging veil, a man veil on
his head, so you couldn’t see his face. And you want to know why? Well, what’s wrong? Is he shy?
Has he got something? What’s he got? He’s got the glory all over it. Oh, what? He’s got the glory on
it. Remember, this is the time that when you and I, when you and I would want to be lovers, right?
We pray. We men pray to the God, Yaho, Jehovah, Sabaoth. And why do we do that? So that we can
find our beloveds. This is our right. And you are eating the body. You’re eating the body.
You’re servants of the body. Give me the next one. No, this is it. Keep it here. What’s for
the sake so what is he hiding his face for people right look at the last four words
right he’s hiding it for the sake and people will see the telos and you’ll know oh um this is what
we call initiates and initiation into the sacred riots right right the initiation of that abolition
the initiation of the abolition this is the death within you that takes place when you take of his
body and moses is covering his face so you won’t see it he is using what’s he got on his face
everybody knows now in satanic congregation you mean moses had that base paint and on top of that
he was putting the purple in his eyes. Yep. Yep. Do you know what that does? Hallucination and
delirium. Those are the places you go. Moses is doing it just in great third century fashion.
Very Hellenistic of him. Very Hellenistic. Good job. Give me the next one. Give me the next one.
You mean, is this a, can, you know, can everybody get involved in this, right? What’s going on,
man. I want to see more of it. Okay, tell us, Paul. Death works in us to bring us alive,
to raise us up. Do you hear? It’s my offer to you. Now, if I had this for you, would you do it?
Well, part of my reasoning is death works in us, those of us who will be giving you the body.
Yeah, those of us who will be masturbare. Yes, those of us who will be self-pleasuring
for the body that you will eat, we’re going to do it so that that will bring you life.
Zoe, isn’t it nice? EWADZO, EWADZO, right? Where’s Eve? They say that they… You know what Jesus
said, or you know what the text says about Jesus, I should say? The text says about Jesus
that when he was getting ready to pleasure himself, he took her out of his side. He took
her out of his side. Do you know that’s an expression? That’s an expression for the
performance of the right. You want your Ewa. Didn’t you know this is a sexual, natural,
drug-filled, frenzied rite. Didn’t you know that? Watch out, you may end up dead. Yeah, fantastic.
You know, the people of antiquity who were pushing the drugs, all those late Bronze Age
witches, right? Right up to the queen herself, right? Because we don’t have a king. We don’t
need a king. This is Lady Babylon, right? Paul understands the rites and is involved,
And at one point in his life, has to renounce them.
When Jesus Christ was arrested with a naked boy in a public park,
screaming, I’m not a trafficker.
It’s not because he was denying that he was the only trafficker.
Watch the chemicals.
Do we have a doctor in this place?
Give me the next one.
Give me the next one.
You know what I’m going to do?
I’m going to bring up a doctor here just because you guys said that.
This is actually from Exodus.
And what did the sons of Israel see?
Well, they didn’t see the prosopon of God,
but they did see the prosopon of Moses.
Wait, who?
Moses.
That sounds like Musaeus.
It does, and it is.
From Musaeus, or Moses, right?
They did see his face, and he was glorified.
Show it to me.
Give me the next one. He was glorified. What are you telling me? Did I take it out? Oh, I did. I
took it out. Damn it. Sorry. Go to the last one. He was glorified. No, this one. One more. Zoink.
Yep. There we go. No problem. What happens? What happens? The sons of Israel saw the face of Moses
that he was glorified, baby. He had that whim on his face. And what happened? He put a veil on.
he put a covering on some kind of hood something you couldn’t see his face to cover his face right
until he came into that dude who was in the tent that dude who was up on the mountain
that dude who was around that bush that burned that voice until he was around him and why did
do that? Because they were having a syllogy. Now again, this is the mastery of ancient Greek. He
was having a syllogy. What’s a syllogy? You know what that means? When you and your beloved
exchange those words. When you exchange those words. Give me the next one. Give me the next
one. We’ll get back to that one. And what happens? What happens? This dude who ends up with Moses in
these various circumstances, is called the kurios, and he’s the one who talks to people, and he’s
like, we really screwed it up, now it’s, we got to throw them out of the garden, right, because
they’re like us, they’re like us, yes, okay, this is him, kurios, this is the Lord, and how does he
come to Moses, he comes to him in the clouds, he comes to him in the clouds, do you understand,
he comes to them in the clouds and he says what does he say he calls upon his name that’s what
you can hear coming out of the smoke he goes the dude covers his face goes into the goes into the
enclosure goes up on the mountain to his private spot you see the smoke and the next thing you know
he’s screaming he’s screaming he’s talking to him that’s what he’s doing he’s talking to him do you
here. That boy had to be with Jesus in that park, right? Had to. These are the rites that they’re
performing. All of the fairy tale history that you thought was history, all of the theological
hoo-ha, it just took you completely off track, right? They don’t even know that Hebrew has
vowels. Serious, who are these people? Oh my God, sloppy and unprofessional. Give me the next
one um let’s call in a here’s a oh here’s a good one okay people listen what’s gonna happen between
moses and god right eventually so here we are in their little time moses has his veil off do you
see the smoke all around us right and what happens moses says hey god show me yourself baby yeah and
he says uh well god says well you know i can uh come around here i can come around you right i’m
superior right to you but what i’m gonna do is i’m gonna take that superior position and i’m gonna
show you my doxa you’re gonna show me your doxa yeah yeah give me i think i have the next two i
think it did maybe there it is give that to me you’re gonna show me your duck so what is that
it’s a fancy it’s a vision you have vision on your face bro you got vision on your face and you’re
having hallucinations look at this did you think listen everybody out there leave that up there
everybody out there who’s talking about oh it’s the glory of oh hashim oh here he comes hashim
him. There he is. No, no, no. No, no, no. This is not what the text says. You have obscured
the reality of your own history. Look into your own history. What is this hallucination produced
by? Look at that last source there, Alexander Trales. Alexander Trales, Byzantine, the most
famous Byzantine physician, right? And what does Alexander Trales say? Give me, bring him right up.
Come on, Alex. Come on. Yeah, that’s it. Come on. Alex, tell me about something fun. People,
look at this. Nobody looks at this stuff. Nobody. Notice it’s in Greek. This thing’s
translated. At least I’ve never seen one, right? And here it is. What’s that title? Perifrenitidos.
Perifrenitidos. Concerning problems with your brain. You’re going to cause euphronitis, baby.
Next thing you know, you’re going to have all these kinds of problems running around. He says,
I’m going to tell you what are the mechanical problems with phrenitis, how to restore the
balances. I’m going to show you all of this. And then he goes on to talk about some different
forms of mania, mania. And he goes on to talk about melancholia, depression. How do you get
this depression treated? What do you do? That’s what the Byzantine physicians are doing. And give
me the next one. What are they doing it with? Guess what? They’re doing it with drugs. Look,
here he’s using Conan. He’s using the one that killed, oh, which was the one that killed
Socrates? Oh, Hemlock. Here’s the Hemlock and here’s the Hyoscyamus. So we’ve got the detour
there. We’re inducing that mania, right? And we’ve got a little bit of anesthesia going.
What else are they drinking? Oh, Piu. Oh, look, people. He just used the three main drugs that
we’ve been talking about them using for the sake of altering their minds i got news for you world
they just weren’t they weren’t just using drugs in antiquity they were using them like pros making
us look like total morons total all of this stuff natural right right oh god give me that snake
I want to milk that snake. Give me some more. What are they doing? I’ve been telling everybody
to look at the Theriac. Here it is again. Byzantine physician is talking about him using it.
It’s an antidoton. Let me say it so people in the Greek, ten, theriacane, antidoton.
And what you do is you just run that together, right? You try to run that together. Ten,
Oh, isn’t that gorgeous?
It’s the theriac.
It’s an antidote.
It’s an antidote.
What kind of antidotes are they using?
Would you be surprised?
You know what I’m going to bring you?
Get it?
What kind are they bringing?
This one’s for headache.
This one’s for pains in your head.
And what do you do when you got pains in your head?
Look at the first line.
Five words in.
You have a Christ.
You have a chrism.
Yes, you do.
Yes, you do.
what do you do it you what you epi create it you epichrist it you you epichrist it remember
in the book of revelation it says you know what’s hilarious i have to take some pleasure in this
i have to take this some pleasure in this you remember the scholar who sat there and said this
This version of Christing is preposterous, preposterous, oh, of course it’s wrong, in
his own holy writings, it’s used, you Christ the eyes so that you can treat whatever it
is you’re trying to treat, or induce whatever state that you’re trying to induce, and Jesus
Christ says, you got no place with me unless you’ve been Epichristed, in your eyes, he
heads in your eyes in your eyes you do not see christianity or judaism for what they are they
are preserved in the texts yeah it’s like amber love it caught their dna give me a little more
doctor a little more doctor what else what is oh this is just things that look there’s a category
of things that are applied to the body right and i just wanted you to see chrismata right chrismata
yeah yeah Christ thing yeah yeah and what am I gonna produce with these
Christ things fantasy I I’m gonna see things yes you’re darn straight you’re
gonna see things and how am I gonna do that with your Christ things bonehead
marvelous last one last one from the good doc doctor tell me something fun a
doctor says look I’m gonna tell you about narcotics and giving narcotics and
the power, the epangelia, the gospel of their power. Ah, they bring sleep. Are you ready?
They bring ostiné. Do you know that death that Paul is talking about? That is a drug-induced
death. Okay. Now, I promised you the clown tonight. I promised you. I promised you the
the Cyclops and I’m going to pull the Cyclops out. The Cyclops is going to make America giant
again. He’s going to do it. He’s going to do it for our sakes. He’s doing everything for our
sakes, right? In antiquity, there was a dude named Euripides and he wrote a play about a Cyclops,
about a dude with circular vision. Sad story for the Cyclops. The guy who is in the story
is a guy named Odysseus. He is the son of Bootyman, and he has been held captive now,
you know, high-ranking pirate, held captive by some ladies, oh, by holy Calypso, and he swears
by Calypso, baby, right? So you know she’s big. And by Circe, he’s always followed around by what?
What follows those who honor freedom and liberty? What follows them? The virgin follows them,
right? The one who shakes the spear follows them. Where do they always end up going? They always end
up going places to destroy tyrants. She, that virgin that gave us democracy, she is the power
of freedom. She is the one to bring down the cyclops, right? To bring down the cyclops.
How’s she going to do it? With her gorgeous, gorgeous brain. Oh, God. Oh, God. She leads him
the whole time, everywhere he goes, everywhere he goes. He’s such a fortunate dude in the middle of
all of these disasters. She’s with him. She who brought democracy. It’s fantastic. It’s fantastic.
Give me the, let’s start to look at the Cyclops. So Euripides writes a play, Euripides writes a
play about a Cyclops and he’s a Cyclops. He’s a Gooklopos. Anosiu, Anosiu, Anosiu. That’s an
alpha privative, right? Oh, it’s something that is not lawful, not lawful. The Cyclops is outside
of the law. When you give the Cyclops, the circle visioned man, when you give him immunity to
justice, you end up with a tyrant. Yeah, the Cyclops, that’s how he’s described. He is outside
of the reaches of justice. Have you noticed how the stride of the Cyclops picks up and is happy?
His gait is better as soon as you take away justice. Yeah, as soon as you take away justice,
okay? That is the Cyclops. People, we are here to be purified. You are here to be cleansed
as the people of athens who followed the virgin as they were cleansed in the rights of bacchus
okay we’re gonna go somewhere where they didn’t have the rights of bacchus where the cyclops
wouldn’t permit that fantastic fantastic let’s go to next one oh god here we go
Nope. Yeah, thank you. That’s in the wrong. That’s in the wrong. Yep. Okay. I forgot to
throw in the mirror Christ. This is a new Christ that we haven’t seen. This is a new Christ that
we haven’t seen, but I want you guys to see it now. And you know what Muran is, right? You know
it’s a compound and you know it’s used in sexual practices, right? So the mirror Christ thing is
nothing unusual in antiquity everybody knows that is the fact that we don’t is an is our fault okay
now give me the next one all of this remember is to express the hyperbolic nature of the power
of the cyclops that excessive power you and i are sitting in an environment where we are beginning
to feel the static of excessive power. Give me the next one. Come on out, Cyclops. Tell us a
little bit something about yourself. Yeah, go ahead. Boom. Look, people, listen to the chorus
for a minute. In this place, there is no Bromius. There is no Bacchus. There is no chorus. There are
not people who walk around with a theorcist beating the drum saying hallelujah. They’re
saying hallelujah? Yeah. The bucket’s invented hallelujah, bonehead. What do you think that’s
for? The bucket cry is that ecstatic shout, right? Love it. Love it. It goes way back.
There isn’t any wine, right? Gushing out. We’re not in Nyssa, right? With the nymphs crying out,
yuckus, yuckus, right? So I can’t sing, right? We’re not all going to Aphrodite. I’m not dancing.
with those white-footed bakken maidens oh beloved lord bakkas where are you bro where are you bro
i’m the one who worships with you and um you know what i got no more i got none of your filia
i got none of your love baby i got only the dry static air of tyrannical power let’s watch what
Odysseus does the chorus sings everybody knows the chorus and that tragedy is the is the bridge
between the performers and the audience right they pick up the voice they resonate with the
voice of the audience you can feel the chorus as if you were one of them that’s why they’re
always like citizens so you know some city you know it’s always like the women who have been
through blah blah blah right of the old men right it’s always a a link to you and i sitting in the
audience right maybe they got a next week they got a bald chorus bunch of tattooed head freaks right
love it love it give me give me the next one i need to fly in um go okay uh here we go people
are you ready watch this oh god oh yeah okay um you poor people right now what happens odysseus
and his some dudes that he’s with in a ship get stranded on this island like they do there’s a
storm you know this is not a good place right and they’re they’re here and they’re looking for food
they’ve run into polyphemus but he’s not there the cyclops is not there there’s a dude there
and the dude is Silenus. The dude is assisting the Cyclops. Who is the person who assists
the Cyclops? Ultimately, the one who’s looking to be eaten last. The one who’s looking to be
eaten last. But don’t be fooled. You will be. Do you serve? Do you serve the servant of greed?
you’ll be eaten last yeah what’s let’s go let’s go back to that quote there’s a couple of things
i gotta pick up there boom yeah oh god what kind of dude is polyphemus the name polyphemus by the
way the name of cyclops the name of the tyrant is the name of much fame the name of much fame
and what does the name of much fame do look at that last line he’s an andro brota he is a person
eater a people eater he’s got a jaw that opens up in his gullet swallows people he of much fame
he of much fame it’s what you wanted isn’t it it’s what you want in that tyrant you resonate
with that strength. You feel it. And the cruelty is just the edge. It’s just the spice. It’s just
the spice. Let’s go. Let’s go. Oh my God. Give me the next one. What is the, what is the, now just
so you, you know, check this to make sure it’s correct. This tyrant, what is the tyrant who sees
in that kouklos. What is that tyrant? They are inhospitable to people who are unfortunate.
They are inhospitable to those who come to their land, to those who have been shipwrecked in life,
to the immigrant. That’s literally what this says. Aksinos. Aksinos is that immigrant, right?
it now. Odysseus with his Athena, he’s going to tell you there’s laws that we follow. Give me the
next one. Give me the next one. Anti-immigrant guy, right? So Odysseus and Silenus start having
a discussion, right? And Odysseus says, hey, do you have the drink of Bromius around here? You
know, the flowing of the vine, wine. And Silenus says, no way. No way are we going to have wine
around the Cyclops, right? Why? Because this place, this land that we have made great,
says Silenus, this land is Ahoron. This Maga land is Ahoron? Yes, it is without song. It is without
the chorus. Do you understand? Why do we have need of the ecstatic formula? We’re not going to start
a chorus. This is the place of the one power who will devour everyone. Give me the next one.
Give me the next one. Oh, God, I love this. Look at how the muse does this. Hey, are these people,
Odysseus then says, well, are your people lovers of immigrants, strangers, right? Are they the
ones who are going to be supporting them, right? And Silenus says, not really. He says, you know
what they say here? They say the flesh of those immigrants is the sweetest thing. It’s so sweet
to consume the flesh of those people who come to you for sanctuary. We have a statue here of a
woman, a statue of a woman. They call her Lady Liberty. And it says on that statue, we welcome
the downtrodden. We welcome them. Do you know why we do that? Because of this classical tradition.
The tyrant is the enemy of everything that is our tradition. Do you feel Odysseus? Do you
understand his perspective now? Do you feel that you’re in the cave with the Cyclops?
the only way to end it is to put out his eye it’s the only way freedom is what odysseus bought
all the while his little brain following his muse yeah fantastic hit me with the next one
hit me with the next one this is good the material is fucking gorgeous oh i’m sorry
did i say that oh i’m sorry satanic congregation shame on me that requires a spanking come here
almond come here almond put your no pull those down there you go you know just relax relax
potty mouth children my children don’t don’t be have such dirty speech elevate your speech
silenus then says hey um now listen this is what the follower of the tyrant says and does are you
ready this is silence he says hey um do you want to buy some merchandise how much gold do you want
want to buy it for? Because he’s got food, right? He’s like, hey, I could sell you something.
I could sell you something. Do you know who follows around the tyrant? A circus of sellers,
a circus of merchandisers from the topmost investors to the bottom most t-shirt hawking
merchandisers. That’s who follows tyranny. Isn’t that easy? Didn’t you wonder? Didn’t you wonder
what that was a sign of? Have you noticed that there is no politics at all in searching out
greed? There’s no politics in that. That’s justice. That’s justice. Somebody proffered
some kind of impeachment on the grounds. Did you see it this week? Impeachment on the grounds
of greed. That is pure, pure, ethereal, classical civilization. Somebody give that woman some kind
of peplos and some kind of laurel wreath. Yeah. Somebody give it to her. I love it. I love it.
That is gorgeous. Oh God. I said it. I said it. Somebody give me the next one. Give me the next
So what is this? I saw this crowd, right? Look, what’s this crowd of people, says the Cyclops
when he finally catches up, because Silenus tries to sell him out, right? And Odysseus says no,
right? He’s not here for that. He’s got wine, and he’s thinking, I’m going to poison. I’m going to
poison these people, right? Because remember all the stuff he learned with Circe, right? That’s
the environment he’s living in. And what does he say here? What does Polyphemus, this Polyphemus,
he comes out. Mr. Fame comes out. He says, what are these pirates doing here? What are these
pirates? And he contrasts and he says, are they pirates or are they some kind of thieves?
Because they’re different. So when you say Jesus was hung between thieves on the cross,
you are incorrect. He was hung between traffickers. That’s why they came out with the big
weapons, and that’s why we have this verse, right? It’s history, people. It’s not magic. Go, go. Are
you ready? Jesus, right? At that time, Jesus said to the people, right? Why have you come out against
me like a lace stays with your big weapons, your big clubs, big swords? How come you’ve come out
against me like I’m a lace daze, right? You don’t do that to a thief. So the lie that has been
perpetuated to you, the narrative about Jesus, he was crucified between two traffickers of humans.
And in the middle, sitting right there in the middle, he was saying, I’m not one of these
traffickers. And it’s only because of that naked kid. It makes you wonder if that naked kid hadn’t
been there with Jesus in the garden of Gethsemane, if the naked kid wasn’t there with him, would he
have had to have died? Would that crowd have been so angry? Wouldn’t it, isn’t it going to be
surprising when you find out Jesus Christ was crucified because he was a pervert who was selling
children? Yeah, that’s going to surprise people. Here it comes. Didn’t you thank the whole
taking her out of his side, and then, oh, we got to eat this and live. Didn’t you think he was a
pervert? That’s Paul’s thorn. Paul’s thorn. Don’t knock it, says Paul. Give me the next one. Give
me the next one. Boom. And finally, the chorus here, right? Yeah, look, the chorus, or who are
the chorus in this play? The Cyclops. The chorus are the people who are standing back. They’re the
satyrs. And they’re standing back watching this happen. They watch Silenus try to sell.
And the satyrs have just a little bit of Bacchic morality. And what do they say? Look,
we saw you sell. We saw you take advantage. You know what? We’re not lying, right? We’re not
lying. Let daddy die if we’re lying. You have done those strangers wrong by trying to sell them
something. Do you hear it? Okay. Okay. Give me the next one. Here we go. Here we go. Look, look.
Yeah. Yeah. I know you’re not going to be able to digest this, right? But we have laws. We have
laws. This is Odysseus trying to explain to the tyrant how life is supposed to work. We have laws.
He doesn’t understand that. He doesn’t care about laws. Do you think your tyrant cares about your
laws and your statutes and the things that we all have to abide by? Tyrant doesn’t care, right? The
followers of the tyrant, they don’t care. They’re getting eaten last. Yeah, but there are some
satyrs out there, and some of those satyrs, right, some of those people who have the influence of
athena right the immortal virgin who brings us democracy some of those people say look man we’ve
got laws and you’ve got to abide by those laws and one of them is when somebody washes ashore
when somebody comes to your border you got to give them zinnia protected by zeus baby
you gotta what you gotta even clothe them you gotta give them gifts and clothe them
right? This is the just thing. This is how you’re supposed to live. You’re not supposed to,
Odysseus tells him, you’re not supposed to put people on spits and consume them with your
ravenous, greedy jaws. Do you know who you are, Silenus? Do you know who you are out there?
You who are making America giant again? Do you know who you are? You’re working for the Cyclops
and the Cyclops is going to kill and eat the men of Odysseus. And he does. He kills them and eats
them. Consumes them. Why? Because that’s the price of being in the cave with the man of great fame.
Yeah. Yeah. That’s the price. Are we going to put the covers on? Are we going to put the veils on?
are we going to show exactly what’s happening? We’re going to show exactly what’s happening.
We’re just going to pull out, open the doors of the museum, baby, right? These are the people
who sat around and created democracy. Perhaps we should listen to them. Perhaps we should listen
to them. Give me the next one quick. Boing. We lose it. We lost the tracking device. Here we go.
Now, listen to me, says Odysseus. Pay attention, Cyclops. Listen to me. You got to put away your
margon of your nathan your jaws what your jars your jaws margon go down show me what that is
it’s the next one boom what is that oh it’s something that is mad mad what kind of mad
what your jaw is mad well how is it mad it’s gluttonous it’s greedy it’s lewd it’s lustful
Do you hear how the Cyclops talks? Do you hear how the tyrant talks? You’ll always know the tyrant
by their speech. They give themselves away. It’s full of obfuscation, lies, and corruption. Greed
stains your soul with the stench of ruin. Do we have that tattooed? Do we have that tattooed guy
somewhere with the black tattoos? Does he have? We don’t? We’re somewhat chewy. See if you can
resurrect that image. People tell me what you think. It’s chewy. Well, yeah. Okay. Here,
look. Oh, look at him. Look at him. Shameful tyrant with the writing all over himself. You
know what those writings are? Those are writings from the blood of the slain, the spits of flesh
that we consume under the power of the Cyclops, those names are written all over the Tyrant.
They’re written all over. The Cyclops is alive. The Cyclops is alive. Do you know the biggest
enemy of the Tyrant? Yeah, go to the next one. You can leave that. Actually, leave that. You can
leave one of them up. The biggest enemy of the Tyrant is the Virgin. Do you want to know why
we walk with the Virgin? Why, when we look upon that hill in Athens, that great Acropolis,
do you know why it is that we see the temple of the Virgin? Because she, above all else,
hates tyrants. Sic semper tyrannis. Yeah, this is what every tyrant deserves, says the great
Minerva. This is what every tyrant deserves. You know what every tyrant deserves that she’s
talking about? The tip of her spear. Do you see why in democratic Athens, why it is those of us
who created democracy worship the way that we do? Fantastic. Give me a couple more and we’re done.
We’re done. Whatever’s next, just go ahead and hit it. Oh, yeah, here we go. Here we go. Do you
want to see the mark of the Cyclops? Kerdos. They had a word for it in antiquity. Kerdos.
Look at number two, the desire of gain. Anytime that you’re looking, anytime that you’re looking
for advantage, you’re following the spirit of the Cyclops. Now, do you understand why the Cyclops
become so popular? The Cyclops attracts those who desire gain. I have your ultimate gain, people.
I’ve got ionic life. I’ve got eternal life. I’ve got land. I’ve got real estate and I’ve got power.
I’ve got the ultimate gifts for you. And do you know where they go? They go to the tyrant
because the tyrant is their pathway there. Yeah. Give me the next one. Give me the next one.
Look, I want to end with this. The Cyclops says, Odysseus, what did you do? Who are you?
And Odysseus in the play says, one of those people that’s coming back from the war.
And what is the Cyclops?
How does the Cyclops respond?
The Cyclops responds the exact same way.
The exact same way as your tyrant.
What a stupid waste.
What a stupid waste.
Americans who died in war are losers and suckers.
Now, I know of one American who didn’t die in a war.
I know of one American who didn’t die in a war.
Oh, sorry, that one.
And what did he do?
He sat in a prison camp for years while he was tortured,
even though he could leave because he was the son of an admiral.
He stayed there.
I met this man.
I shook his hand.
I talked to him.
We gabbed.
A tyrant has no respect for anything but acquisition.
They have no respect for you who have shed your blood.
My ancestors shed their blood for this liberty that you and I enjoy.
Give me the next one, that one that we skipped.
There we go.
The Cyclops wants to gain.
They want to gain something, but they don’t want to sacrifice.
They want to gain without sacrifice.
Finally, let’s end on the words of the Cyclops, right?
What does the Cyclops say in his defense? They just don’t know how great I am. They just don’t
know I am a God. They just don’t know. For those of you who are sitting in your modest trumpery,
for those of you who have been sucked in and who are sitting there looking at everybody on the
outside thinking they are the deranged ones. Look into the mirror. You’re about to eat flesh
and drink blood. Thank you for coming tonight. Please consider, consider the Cyclops. Hail Satan.
Source: Lady Babylon