Future Perfect
by Not Sure
4 June 2023
Yesterday,
a friend of mine went to see a production of Mozart’s opera, The Magic Flute. He had seen this many times but was still
excited about this production and wanted to discuss it. We talked about the Masonic themes which
feature prominently in this work. Both
Mozart and librettist Emanuel Schikaneder were Freemasons. Though Mozart was born and raised Catholic
and was devout for his entire short life of thirty-five years, the religion he
was most devoted to was Freemasonry.
The
plot is hard to follow, but the opera was a wild success when it premiered in
September of 1791, just two months before Mozart’s death. The success of its premier in Germany is
partly attributed to the crudeness of its sexual innuendo. It opened at a German opera house just a few
years after the French Revolution and it seemed to have been created for more
“common” people. Revolutionary ideas of
liberty were in the air.
The
opera’s characters include a handsome prince pursued by a serpent, the Queen of
the Night, a Grove in front of a temple whose priests worship Isis and Osiris. The themes are influenced by the ideas of the
Enlightenment, and some thought the Queen of the Night represented the
anti-Masonic, anti-intellectual Roman Catholic Empress of the Hapsburg
monarchy, Maria Theresa, who banned Freemasonry in Austria, and died in 1780.
The
opera heralds a new enlightened age, the end of the old religion (Roman
Catholicism) and the beginning of the new Masonic age. In the final scene, a priest declares that
the sun has triumphed over the night, and he hails the dawn of a new era of
wisdom and brotherhood.
I
was reminded of the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan, and in particular The
Mikado, and its beautiful song entitled “The sun whose rays are all
ablaze.” On one level, the song is
simply about a narcissistic, drug-addicted star of the theatre who is in love
with her own image, but to the careful listener, it’s another Masonic ode to
the glory of the sun and the sun’s triumph.
The sun,
whose rays
Are all
ablaze
With ever-living glory,
Does not
deny
His
majesty--
He scorns to tell a story!
He won't
exclaim,
"I blush for shame,
So kindly be indulgent."
But, fierce
and bold, [like a knight]
In fiery gold,
He glories all effulgent!
I mean to
rule the earth,
As he the sky--
We really
know our worth,
The sun and I!
Observe his
flame,
That placid
dame,
The moon's Celestial Highness;
There's not
a trace
Upon her
face
Of diffidence or shyness:
She borrows
light
[the
Freemasonic idea that the woman can only reflect the light of the man]
That,
through the night,
Mankind may all acclaim her!
And, truth
to tell,
She lights
up well,
So I, for one,
don't blame her!
Ah, pray
make no mistake,
We are not shy;
We're very
wide awake,
The moon and I!
All of the works of Gilbert and
Sullivan are filled with Freemasonic ideas.
The H.M.S. Pinafore (a pinafore is an apron after all…) and The
Pirates of Penzance are excellent ones to start
with for an exercise in spotting those Masonic references.
I also thought about a scene near
the end of The Matrix, where Trinity is killed, literally impaled, and
Neo is blinded, and then blindfolded like a Masonic candidate ready for
initiation. An illuminated being appears
in front of Neo. Similar ideas are conveyed
here that were presented some two hundred years earlier in The Magic Flute. Trinity (the old religion) is dead. Neo (New) is blinded or blindfolded and must
ask to see the light like a good Mason.
***
The year is
2024 and travelers to San Francisco see that the city is filled with homeless
encampments called Sanctuary Districts which are orderly, perhaps because they
are well patrolled by a heavy police presence.
As the visitors walk past tents and burn barrels, they discuss what they
see. “By the early 2020s there was a
place like this in every major city.”
The
travelers are the characters Doctor Bashir and Captain Sisko. The show is Star Trek: Deep Space 9. The episode was “Past Tense” which was written
in 1994 and aired in early 1995. The
producers said that they weren’t guessing the future, simply looking out their
windows in Los Angeles and seeing how conditions were at that time. Maybe…
Early members of the World Future
Society, which was created in 1966, included the science fiction writers Ray
Bradbury, Isaac Asimov, Robert Heinlein, Arthur C. Clarke, Stanley Kubrick and
Gene Rodenberry, the creator of the original Star Trek series. Writers and producers don’t need to guess the
future or even look out their window, when they belong to organizations that
are busy planning the future and making the predictive programming that
familiarizes that future for us now, in the present.
Speaking
of Deep Space, in 2019 the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO)
launched its Center for Strategic Foresight.
“The inaugural conference brought together experts to explore two topics
with a direct bearing on the future security and well-being of the United
States: the management of space policy by government and the private sector, as
well as the growing use worldwide of “deep fake” synthetic media to manipulate
online and real-world interactions.”
I
found out about the Center for Strategic Foresight because someone sent me an
article entitled “The Next Digital Economy” published by Policy Horizons Canada,
a branch of the Canadian government I realized immediately I had investigated in
the last couple of years. The Director
General of Policy Horizons Canada is Kristel Van der Elst. While looking into the World Economic Forum, I
ran across the bio of Ms. Van der Elst. Please see her WEF bio. This is one busy little lady.
“Kristel Van der Elst is CEO of The Global Foresight Group, Special Advisor
to European Commission Vice-President Maroš Šefčovič, and a fellow at
the Center for Strategic Foresight of the U.S. Government Accountability
Office. She is a visiting professor at the College of Europe, and the former
Head of Strategic Foresight at the World Economic Forum. Kristel has about 20
years of experience in forward-looking strategy and policy advisory roles. She
works with senior executives and policy makers, providing the insights, resources
and processes to help them turn long-term strategic thinking into actions and
impacts. Kristel holds an MBA from the Yale School of Management, a Masters in Development Cooperation from the University of
Ghent, and a Masters in Commercial Engineering from the Free University of
Brussels. She is a Fulbright Scholar and a Rotary Foundation Ambassadorial
Scholar.”
What
is thought provoking is that the Center for Strategic Foresight (CSF) is discussing
the management of space policy by government and private sector and the use of
“deep fake” synthetic media. Think for a
bit about the recent spate of articles about government “disclosure” on UFOs or
UAP. All of the sudden everyone from
Tucker Carlson to NASA has plenty to say about space. I suspect the deep fakes aren’t far behind, if they aren’t already being employed by agencies
such as CSF. We’re repeatedly given the
story that only rogue actors and “terrorists” employ new technologies and
weapons, and most people believe that.
As Alan Watt said in today’s featured talk, “They'd never do that,”
people think, and that's why they get away with it over and over and over
again. They'd never do that to their own people.”
***
Redux
112 is Alan’s inaugural broadcast for We the People Radio Network and the show
was entitled “He Who Controls the Past Controls the
Future - Intergenerational Global Agenda.” It aired November 1, 2007 and it’s a sweeping
over-view of this ancient system: secret societies, the purpose of free trade,
the genesis of global governance, futurist societies, predictive programming
and the use of fiction to normalize the scenarios we will encounter in the
future.
There is a conspiracy theory that
Gene Rodenberry was a 33rd degree Freemason of the Scottish Rite,
but this seems to be a combination of speculation and looking at the names and
symbolism found within the different Star Trek series. He was a confirmed member of the World Future
Society, a modern-day knight who wanted his characters “to boldly go where no
man has gone before!”
Mozart and Gilbert & Sullivan
were futurists, because all Masons are busy building a better world. Right?
“Who
controls the past controls the future. Who controls the present controls the
past.”
―
George Orwell, 1984
From
the novelist to the internationalist woman whose employers include the government
of Canada and the government of the United States and the World Economic Forum,
we are surrounded by people who believe they have the right to shape the future
and they go to great lengths to program our minds to accept their vision as
inevitable.
© Not Sure
Center for Strategic Foresight
https://www.gao.gov/press-release/deep-space-deep-fakes-new-center-strategic-foresight-launched
The Next Digital Economy
https://horizons.gc.ca/en/2019/06/20/the-next-digital-economy/
The Global Foresight Group
http://theglobalforesightgroup.com/about
Star Trek Deep Space 9 - 2024
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOjG8Ditub8
NASA UFO panel in first public meeting says better data needed
The sun whose rays are all ablaze
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP2qJXT3olM