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The last one standing A woman buys herself a dress she’s never wanted She’s lived her life mundane, but her dreams were always haunted So she steps out unabashed, with worries she never counted Thunder raging around the path she has appointed. And with every word and deed, she courts blame, shame and scandal IfContinue reading “Two poems of fate”

The ineluctable truth about all material existence is that life is an endless wheel of birth, death and regeneration. Everything on this planet, is a reminder of this cycle. The passage of day, the seasons, and epochs, in itself, is a symbolic representation of coming to life, dying and reincarnating. Life always renews, and deathContinue reading “Free will and the six `I’s of the mind”

The Chinese spy ship sitting in international waters off the coast of Queensland to monitor the biennial Talisman Sabre war games, involving Australia and the United States, is yet another example of China wishing to exert its global presence, and its intolerance towards any military cooperation that it sees as threatening its endeavour at globalContinue reading “China’s endgame: Global dominance”

There are many earth-shaking secrets hidden in the vaults of the Roman Catholic Church. Some of them can turn the Catholic Church on its head. Among them, is the pre-eminence of Jesus’ younger sibling, James, as the indomitable force behind the early Jewish Christian Church, and his stake on the messianic legacy. In fact, JosephContinue reading “Jesus, James and John”

The granting of protection visas to allied translators in Afghanistan is probably an indication that the US and its allies, although may have come to an accord with the Taliban, do not trust the Taliban to act with impunity with the various accomplices of the allies in Afghanistan. But the act of granting protection visasContinue reading “Afghanistan: Back to the Taliban”

For a country that was touted as the land of milk and honey…for a country that was the cynosure of all eyes throughout history, for its wealth and humaneness, it is deeply distressing that India is the subject of the most shockingly despicable acts of depravity since the Covid-19 outbreak. In April 2020, when masksContinue reading “Covid-19: Fraudsters loom large in India”

At the recently held G7 summit, a resolution was taken by the concerned nations that China posed a serious security risk to the world. China’s increasing eagerness to take on the mantle of being the predominant global power has seen it threaten weaker neighbours with territorial belligerence, as also, take punitive action against detractors. ForContinue reading “Self-assertion and the will to dominate”

Mythology has it that Lamech (the Lamech that was the descendant of Cain, not the Lamech who was descended from Seth)’s four children Tubal-Cain, Jabal, Jubal and Naamah, having a precognition that the apocalyptic floods would occur, engraved three stella with the secret sciences of the antediluvian world, so that they could be passed onContinue reading “The magical numbers zero to nine – the way of the initiate”

In the 13th century, the concept arose that the universe is a complex machinery of harmony, proportion and symmetry created by the master mathematician, architect and craftsman – the supreme being – built on universal laws and principles. In Freemasonry, the square and the compass are depicted with the letter `G’ in the centre symbolisingContinue reading “The magical numbers zero to nine – the walk of God”

Proselytism is not a second millenium phenomena. It began early in the first millenium, when St Paul of Tarsus attempted to spread Jewish Christianity to the Gentiles, much to the rancour of the insular Jewish Christian Church. It took on a global turn, when in 1505, Pope Julius I ratified the treaty of Tordellisas, dividingContinue reading “Proselytism, and the faith or the sword”