Who will babysit the babysitters? (Jello Biafra, 'Lard') --| Mars, Michael, Lard & Meteoric Iron |----- | Celestial Fireworks on Display | Globe and Mail, November 17, 2003 | | Toronto - A celestial fireworks display is expected to keep backyard | astronomers and scientists alike awake overnight nationwide Monday for | what is thought will be the last great meteor shower for close to a | century. | | The much anticipated Leonid meteor storm is expected to produce as | many as 20 to 30 shooting stars a minute on Monday night and into the | early morning hours Tuesday as Earth passes through the debris trail | of the Tempel-Tuttle comet. | | "It will be very spectacular," said Peter Brown, an astronomy | professor at the University of Western Ontario. | | "We won't see another major Leonid show until the end of the 21st | century." --| The Power of Lard |--- The power of Lard Lard You can see it In the clouds up in the sky Lard Floats by in clusters In our water supply Lard It's all of us, man In our pores and in our hair Lard's What we conceal With these corny clothes we wear Lard is all Lard is divine Lard is control Lard whips and chains our soul Lard-We carry credit cards Lard-We live in fear of art Lard is the -OM Lard is revolution Lard is the tapeworm In the bottle of cheap tequila That comes alive at night And sneaks up And bites your nipple Lard Lard Nowadays, most of us need someone To run our personal life Someone to see that The plants are watered, Someone to make sure the place is clean, Someone to make sure dinner is waiting, Someone to call for theatre tickets, Someone to make up those cheap excuses What we need is... Lard-The answer Lard-The dancer Lard-The ointment Lard-The dream Absorb it Inflame it Respect it Molest it The country right now just wants to be Soothed, and told it doesn't have to pay or Sacrifice or learn No one is over the hill When the mountain comes to Mohammed Lard Lard Lard Lard-We love to eat Lard-We love to pray Lard-Mold over mind Lard-Hooray! Every time I take a crap It's a cosmic experience Religion and chemicals Are the key to the future Next time we have sex Just pretend I'm Ed Meese The weasels have it down, man It's a whole new age Lard Which would you prefer- A computer or a gun? The sharks out lived the dinosaurs, you know Pity the poor trainer In the stable when the race horse farts Poison oak really is The aphrodisiac of the Gods When people are asleep We must all become alarm clocks Hey, man Life is my college It's Dental Floss of the mind Who will babysit the babysitters? Ever hear about that guy in New York whose dick Fell off in the bath after he shot it full of coke? It's OK to run out of butter in Zambia Just smear squashed caterpillars on your toast Waiter, there's a terrorist in my soup Which came first- Max Headroom or Gerald Ford? Are you a man or are you a mouse? If you love your fun- Die for it! And feel The Power of Lard The Power of Lard The Power of Lard The Power of Lard Avoid everything, etc... (Jello Biafra, 'Lard') -- --| Mars, Red-Blood, and Iron |----- When we go back in time to when the earth was still united with the sun, there was as yet no solid gold. The particles of the white sun-ether became first fluid, and then solid. These are the veins of gold which are now in the earth. Gold is solidified sunlight. Silver is solidified moonlight. All mineral substances have gradually solidified. When human beings become ever more spiritualised quicksilver will also become more solid. At one time gold and silver formed drops just as water does now. The fact that mercury is still fluid is connected with the whole process of Earth evolution. It will become solid when the God Mercury has fulfilled his mission. In the middle of the Atlantean Root Race quicksilver was brought down from mercury in etheric form. Had we not had quicksilver we should not have had the Christ-principle. When the Mars Principle (Kama-Manas) was incorporated into the earth, iron was brought down to the earth from Mars. Iron originates in Mars. It was first in astral form and later densified. When we trace the earth to that period of time we find ever fewer warm-blooded animals. It was only in the middle of the Lemurian Age that warm blood made its appearance together with the Mars impulse. Iron came into the blood at that time. It is iron that in all occult writings is brought into connection with Mars, quicksilver with Buddhi-Mercury. The Earth was therefor understood as Mars and Mercury. Everything that did not originate from Mars and Mercury has come over from the Moon. (Steiner, 28 Oct. 1905) -- We in fact can divide our present terrestrial stage into two parts. During the first it came about that our blood is red. What has given us our red blood? During the separation of the earth and the sun, this globe composed of fluid substance was shot through by other fluid forces emanating from the planet Mars. Before this passage of Mars not the slightest trace of iron existed on this earth. In fact, that is the result of this passage; all substances containing iron such as our blood have been subjected to the influence of Mars. Mars has coloured the substance of the earth. And the appearance of red blood is the result of its influence. That is why the first half of earth evolution is referred to as the period of Mars. At that time, iron was a fluid substance and the metals only hardened later on. Mercury is the only metal which has not yet solidified. When this will have happened the soul of man will have become totally independent of the physical and astral imaginative vision will have become conscious. This fact is connected with the forces of Mercury which influence the second part of the Earth evolution during which they will densify and finally become solid. The Earth is both Mars and Mercury. And it is this which the Initiates have woven into our language by indicating that the days of the week belong to the planets of our evolution: Mars and Mercury are placed between the Moon and Jupiter.Ó (53, pp. 107-108) (Steiner, June, 1906) -- But another event took place, concurrently with the separation of the sun and moon from the earth - as you have heard on various occasions. I refer to the passage of Mars through the earth. The substance of the two cosmic bodies Mars and Earth was at that time so thin that the substance of Mars could pass through the earth, and there was left behind in the earth a substance which it did not have before, iron. If you go through all the various conditions of the ancient Sun and Moon, you will find no trace of iron; iron first came about through the transit of Mars through the earth. And it was that event too which enabled red blood to be formed. What was the consequence of the permeation of the earth with iron? The earth became fiery, became permeated with an atmosphere of warmth. And now we come to a thought which I beg you to take hold of with precision. Imagine that all the warmth which is present in the bodies of men and animals inhabiting the earth today were living as an atmosphere of warmth around the earth. Then you have approximately the state of the earth immediately after the separation of the moon. The earth-beings did not yet possess warmth, but warmth surrounded the whole globe, it was still outside. Thus we can think of the earth at this time as a body still fluid, a body in which the other metals were present in solution in a variety of ways, and which was surrounded by a sea of fire, or warmth. Into this sea of warmth the sun sent its rays of light from without. For the occultist light is by no means merely physical, but it is the bodily expression of the spirit. It is because these sun-Spirits in the sun-rays are taken into the earth-warmth that there is first formed the common soul, the common astral body of all mankind and the higher animals.Ó (124, pp. 8-9) (Steiner, 28 Oct. 1907) -- --| Michael and Meteoric Iron |----- And when in high summer, from a particular constellation, meteors fall in great shows of cosmic iron, then this cosmic iron, which the Gods bring to bear against Ahriman, as he seeks Dragonlike to coil round the shining human forms. The force which falls on the earth in the meteoric iron is truly a cosmic force whereby the higher autumn approaches. And this majestic display in cosmic space, when the August meteor showers stream down into the human being shining in the astral light, has its counterpart--so gentle and apparently so small--in a change that occurs in the human blood. This human blood, which is in truth not such a material thing as contemporary science immagines, but is permeated throughout by impulses from soul and spirit, is rayed through by the force which is carried as iron into the blood and wages war there on anxiety, fear, and hate. The processesses which are set going in every blood corpuscle when the force of iron shoots into it are the same, on a minute human scale, as through the air. This permeation of human blood by the anxiety- displelling force of iron is a meteoric activity. The effect of the raying in of the iron is to drive fear and anxiety out of the blood. And so, when the Gods with their meteors wage war on the spirit who would like to radiate fear over all the earth by his coiling serpentine form, and while they cause iron to stream radiantly into this fear-tainted atmosphere, which reaches its peak when autumn approaches or when summer wanes--so the same process occurs inwardly in humans, when their blood is permeated with iron. We can understand these things only if, on the one hand, we understand their inner spiritual signifacance and, on the other, if we recognize how the sulphur-process and the iron-process in human beings are connected with corresponding events in the cosmos. Those who look out into space and see a shooting star should say to themselves with reverence for the Gods: 'That occurance in the great expanse of space has its minute counterpart continuously in myself. There are the shooting stars, while in every one of my blood corpuscles iron is taking form. My life is full of shooting stars, miniature shooting stars.' And this inner fall of shooting stars, pointing to the life of the blood, is especially important when autumn approaches, when the sulpher-process is at its peak. For when people are shining like glow-worms in the way I have described, then the counter-force is present also, for millions of tiny meteors are scintillating inwardly in their blood... ~ During this Autumn Festival of Michael, there should grow in you all that goes against LOVE OF EASE, against anxiety, and makes for the unfolding of INNER INITIATIVE and FREE, STRONG, COURAGEOUS WILL. The FESTIVAL OF STRONG WILL: that is how we should concieve of the Michael Festival. ~ The Dragon paints itself out of the cosmos. The Dragon paints itself for us, forming its body out of bluish-yellow sulpher streams. We see the dragon shaping itself in shimmering clouds of radiance out of the sulpher vapours; and over the Dragon rises the figure of Michael: Michael with his sword. We shall picture this rightly only if wte see the space where Michael displays his power and his lordship over the Dragon as filled not with indifferent clouds but with showers of Meteoric Iron. These showers take form from the power that streams out from Michael's heart; they are welded together into the sword of Michael, who overcomes the Dragon with his sword of Meteoric Iron. (Rudolf Steiner, The Michael Imagination, Dornach, October 5, 1923) ¤ -- SUBMIT AN ARTICLE posted: February 1, 2004