A tower that's held together with Band-Aids and glue and splints

Not Sure for Redux 259 "Sorcery's Circle and the End of an Age"

by Not Sure, 19 Apr. 2026

“May inspiration cube to you as you go through the day” was the message from my friend Faith. In this day of instant messages and texting, I supply the auto-correct as I read; I knew she meant ‘May inspiration come to you’ but I sent back a text with the image of a black cube, banded with gold, looking more like a treasure chest waiting to be opened than a geometric shape, or Platonic solid.

The inspiration did not come, but I climbed aboard the giant, gold-banded cube and floated about in space for a while, which is another way of saying, I took a nap. On waking, I thought about the instruction to leave off with the worship of Saturn found in the Septuagint, the Greek Old Testament, where in Amos 5:26 it is written, in the King James Bible (KJV), “But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.”

The first Christian martyr was Stephen who wrote at the time of his martyrdom, “Yea, ye took up the tabernacle of Moloch, and the star of your god Remphan, figures which ye made to worship them: and I will carry you away beyond Babylon.”

Some Bible scholars state that Remphan is Kiyyun or Chiun, and that these are names for the planet Saturn. The Star of Remphan is not described in the Bible. Here is a depiction from Athanasius Kircher’s Oedipus Aegyptiacus (1652).

Math is not my thing, which as I write this frustrates me because I suspect that if I understood more, I’d be able to consider the significance of cubes in fractals and Zero Volume, whereby at each iteration in the fractal, a portion of the volume is removed and this approaches zero as these iterations go to infinity. The Jerusalem Cube was first described by Eric Baird in 2011 when he drilled Greek cross-shaped holes into a cube.

A cube is a polyhedron, which can be attached to its faces with a copy. Fill a space without leaving a gap. A honeycomb. “Our ideal state is like a beehive.” The Republic, Plato.

In Cutting Through volume 1, Alan Watt wrote, “Yellow and black is a symbol of the bee. These are good for buziness. We send our children off to school in yellow and black school-buzzies. Drones are males with no sting. They are the Priests who inseminate the Queen. When her egg-laying is impaired, they secretly raise another by the feeding of specially prepared “Royal Jelly.” Like monks, bees live in cells.”

I often quote from page 5 of the first volume about the “final phase of humanity as we know it.” Here is that statement in context. “This is not a rehearsal. This is the final phase of humanity as we know it. Sound shocking? _____ Then go back to your TE-LEVI-SION and continue your programming. Your faith in the system creates your fate. Those who have no aversion to thinking, persevere and you will be rewarded. ‘By symbols,’ said Thomas Carlyle in Sartor Resartus, ‘is man guided and commanded, made happy, made wretched. He everywhere finds himself surrounded with symbols, recognized as such or not recognized.’”

Alan Watt writing about the floor of Freemasonic lodges: “This checker-board floor of the lodge represents various laws. On one level this represents the laws of nature and equilibrium. Masons call this floor a tesserated design from the Greek and Latin description of a “pattern of cubes.” The root word is Tessera, for a mason “perfected” or “squared on six sides.” After all, they are the “Stones the Builder Rejected.” The Tessera, later called Tessela by the Romans, was a cube with messages and passwords subscribed and used by the military.”

Alan again: “The Cabala is widely used in hidden ciphers. Although we are given various phony meanings of Cabala, the true one is never mentioned. The Indo-Persian word for a perfect cube (like Tessela) is Kaab. Such is the one consisting of the black stone shrine at Mecca, where Islamists give praise to Allah---KaabAllah. Talmudists concealed meanings within meanings of words.”

The stone shrine at Mecca. Funny! Just like the fuzzy emoji and my afternoon dream, except in the dream, I was floating in space upon it, and there were no worshippers:

The New Jerusalem is referred to as a cube because its length, breadth, and height are equal. This mirrors the Holy of Holies in the Old Testament tabernacle and temple; the cubical shape symbolizes that the city is the perfect dwelling place of God, representing holiness, perfection, and the absence of sin or bias. Alan Watt on Revelations: “Prophecy or business plan?”

Revelation 21:6, “It is done. I am Alpha and Omega... I will give unto him that is athirst... freely.” “It is done” comes from the Greek word “γέγονεν” (gegonen), which is in the perfect tense. God’s redemptive work is fully accomplished, and its effects are now in a permanent state of completion. God’s new creation stands as an eternal reality. But we’re still waiting for our Magic Cube ride, sucking our thumbs with pornography, holiday-dreams, and political theatre while our Orange Jesus bombs a clean patch of land for the Third Temple.

My friend Graeme lives in Germany, which is home to 55 UNESCO Heritage Sites. Graeme has said, “The system is all around us, we see it in the symbols and the architecture.” The Cathedral of Aachen was Emperor Charlemagne’s own Palatine Chapel, and he was buried there in 814. The octagonal core was enlarged in the Middle Ages.

Graeme and Gabriel live near Lorsche Abbey, another UNESCO Heritage Site, the gatehouse of the Abbey is one of the very rare buildings of the Carolingian era whose appearance is intact. See the polyhedron honeycomb. Alan Watt: “Like monks, bees live in cells.”

But, I sat down to write about circles. Today’s Redux is Alan Watt from July 12, 2007, “Sorcery’s Circle and the End of an Age.” The snake encircling the head of the ancient pharaohs, the uraeus, which signified the wearer as “wise as a serpent,” one who knew what was really going on. Alan said, “[the wearer] who also guarded his mind from extraneous nonsense. The extraneous nonsense was only for the public because they would be given a different reality from those “in the know.”

The circle is also the ouroborus, the snake or dragon eating its tail, symbolizing the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth.

Alan continued, “Everything does travel in a complete circle. Circles are important to do with time.”

Getting back to Babylon being a system: They say that everything starts with a point, to start a circle, straight line, whatever, a journey, they’ll have completed a circle.”

In our CTTM book club, we’re covering Carl Jung’s The Undiscovered Self, and for all the criticisms of him and his affiliations, Jung’s work contains profound truths which Alan saw and pointed to, including this, “…it should not be forgotten, that unlike other religions, Christianity holds at its core a symbol which has for its content the individual way of life of a man, the Son of Man, and that it even regards this individuation process as the incarnation and revelation of God himself.”

In this talk, Alan said of the Bible, that it is full of exoteric stories written in such a way they captivate the mind. “It’s not meant to give you a truth unless you have the ability to see deeper.” He tells us how short our lives are. We are programmed like a computer to see things in the way our programmers have decided they need to be seen in this iteration of the circle, or the cube into infinity. We spend our lives looking at shadow-pictures on the cave wall, and painting with Crayons that were given to us. The original box of Crayons contained 8 colors, but now we’re allowed up to 120. Why would we do this, when our own minds contain everything; all the colors, all the shapes, and the ability to see into infinity, to the Eternal?

Alan is talking about an artificial system. Cities, beehives, cells. Ancient and corrupt from its inception. Why do we want to hold on to this system? He said, “How could you cope forever holding up a tower that's held together with Band-Aids and glue and splints? You can’t.”

We can regain our minds, we can (as sheep amongst wolves) be ‘wise as serpents’ (prudent, self-preserving, and like the snake, protecting our head, the source of life), and ‘harmless as doves’ (free from malice, guileless in intent, and peace-loving in action), because as Alan closes with, “There is so much to do and so little time. We better start all making ripples fast—every single one of us while we can.”

© Not Sure

“By The Rivers Dark” by Leonard Cohen

By the rivers dark
I wandered on.
I lived my life
in Babylon.

And I did forget
My holy song:
And I had no strength
In Babylon.

By the rivers dark
Where I could not see
Who was waiting there
Who was hunting me.

And he cut my lip
And he cut my heart.
So I could not drink
From the rivers dark.

And he covered me,
And I saw within,
My lawless heart
And my wedding ring,

I did not know
And I could not see
Who was waiting there,
Who was hunting me.

By the rivers dark
I panicked on.
I belonged at last
to Babylon.

Then he struck my heart
With a deadly force,
And he said, ‘This heart:
It is not yours.’

And he gave the wind
My wedding ring;
And he circled us
With everything.

By the rivers dark
In a wounded dawn,
I live my life
In Babylon.

Though I take my song
From a withered limb,
Both song and tree,
They sing for him.

Be the truth unsaid
And the blessing gone,
If I forget
My Babylon.

I did not know
And I could not see
Who was waiting there,
Who was hunting me.

By the rivers dark,
Where it all goes on;
By the rivers dark
In Babylon.