Moloch and the Bible

Moloch (or Molech) is an evil concept that’s plagued Judeo-Christian continuities for quite a long time. Usually depicted as an idol that looks like a minotaur, with a bovine head, there are accounts of people doing atrocities in the name of Moloch. These are grievous to recount, including attacks on very young children.

The word Moloch appears to be related to the word “melech” (Hebrew for king), making it somewhat euphemistic, similar to the name “Baal” being an honorific like “lord” or “master”.

One curious aspect of the tragic history involving Moloch is that in the Bible, the God of Israel repeatedly says “I did not tell you to do this”, “these were not my commands to you”, etc. when commenting on the atrocities associated with Moloch. God expresses hatred for everything to do with what is done in Moloch’s name, and quite rightly calls these abominations, but there’s something very haunting about the insistence that they were not mandated by Him, almost as if there was a misunderstanding on that point somehow.

The semiotics of the bull head may give one clue as to why that might be, considering that a sect of Israelites escaping slavery in ancient Egypt identified with a bovine deity, which they rendered as a golden calf upon their exodus from Egypt.

Something the Israelites would have associated with their main deity at that time was the series of miraculous attacks known as the plagues of Egypt. In one of these plagues, many families were said to have lost their first-born children. This story may have experienced some kind of distortion over time, and become connected with the atrocities of the bovine idol Moloch.

A seemingly more recent association of the name or honorific Moloch with the symbol of an owl may be, among other things, an esoteric hint to exercise wisdom in unpacking any Moloch lore, the owl being a symbol of wisdom.

──── by Lync Dalton ────

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Summer Solstice ’23

The major solar holidays are four, and mark the official beginnings of the four seasons in the Gregorian calendar, which is standard in most of the West and indeed much of the world. The solstices are in winter and summer, predictably marking the day with the earliest sunset (and therefore the shortest day and longest night) and the latest sunset (and therefore the longest day and shortest night), respectively. The spring and fall equinoxes are notable for being midpoints between these. The solstices are even more dramatic when observed from far above the Tropic of Cancer or far below the Tropic of Capricorn (note: which may have to be adjusted on maps at some point due to the current pole shift potentially redefining both poles, possibly hundreds of kilometers from their current positions), and incredibly exaggerated very near or at the north and south poles.

Today is the summer solstice, which means it’ll be summer from now on until the equinox ushers in the fall in September.

Seasons in most climates have the esoteric quality of having very discernible tones, perhaps even moreso than years or months. They are that cyclical, and return to us like something we know, year after year. This is perhaps one of the nice luxuries of time.

My new Spotify concept playlist is called That Summer (part of a seasonal set; note that you may have to refresh the page once before the list actually comes up to play on the web interface; you can search for this list as “That Summer (mix)” on the app). It’s a fairly short listen, compiled with summer’s signature tone in mind, as well as my personal ideas of summer as exciting, warm and rhythmic, sweet at dusk, and full of moments that are hard to encapsulate by description. Check it out. Happy Summer.

──── by Lync Dalton ────

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The Bermuda Triangle

The mystery of the Bermuda Triangle is that it is one of the least navigable and accessible places on Earth, and the reason for the difficulty has been somewhat unclear. The Bermuda Triangle is a large geographical area in the Atlantic Ocean, near the Tropic of Cancer, North America, and the Bahamas, triangular in shape with points usually defined roughly by Bermuda, Puerto Rico, and South Florida. There’s a long history of ships and planes going missing while trying to explore it or even pass through.

Nowadays, people sometimes dispute that it is a particularly dangerous place at all, or point out that its location makes it extremely likely that Atlantic hurricanes and tropical storms will pass through that area, which might explain enough. But maybe it doesn’t, because if you ask the dinosaurs there, they might have additional insight.

The various leviathans and pteranodon-type species are apparently very territorial, and seem to have a record of aggressively taking down both seafaring and airfaring vessels respectively, which may be part of the reason that so few people have ever set foot on the dinosaur-inhabited islands of the Bermuda Triangle, but there is no reason to believe it would ever be safe to do so. The climate there is right for these animals.

The dinosaurs and dinosaur-like species of the Bermuda Triangle urge people not to test this theory by visiting the Bermuda Triangle. This is not a joke. I present it with the common sense assumption that the population of people who would be more motivated to enter the Bermuda Triangle as a result of hearing this theory is smaller than the population of clever people who would naturally be less motivated to enter it by hearing it. I would like to emphasize that whether you believe this theory or not, there is a reason the Bermuda Triangle has a deadly reputation, and that there is no reason to take this lightly out of an interest in dinosaurs, a delight in novelty, nor anything else.

──── by Lync Dalton ────

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Extinction (as a general concept)

Extinction is a little different than we’ve been taught to conceptualize it. The term “extinction” is used to describe a species or subspecies that human beings know existed at one point, either from observation or the fossil record, but do not observe anymore. It essentially describes a type of living thing that we cannot find anymore anywhere we’re currently looking, but of course this doesn’t mean we’re able to look everywhere at all times. A species receiving the designation of “extinct” does not, as is claimed, necessarily mean that there are no members of that species left on Earth. Many of the species and subspecies we consider extinct seem to be observed again in nature (or possibly captivity) by someone sooner or later. The coelacanth is a classic example of this. Other animals are probably observing these species already, but they are usually very sparse, very remote, or otherwise hard to find, so we must resign ourselves to see them when we see them, if we ever get to see them again.

Of course, some species surely do go away, never to return unless their genes atavistically assert themselves to surge into a novel yet familiar niche, recalling the past, usually looking a little different. Failing that, over time those species usually became something much different and more suited to the present. Not even dog breeds stay the same over time.

But did any of those truly lost species live in the ocean? This is eminently doubtable.

There are entire ecosystems we’ve never seen out there. It is common today to discover new species, but it is also extremely common to rediscover known ones we thought were lost. Science describes things, but cannot actually define them within reality.

──── by Lync Dalton ────

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Pole shift corner theory

a composite image of the Eastern hemisphere of Earth by satellite
Photo of Earth by NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center

“Understand I’ve been in that water like I’m a dolphin.” – Lil Wayne

I like to think of us hurdling through space. As a planet, I mean. We know that we are not stationary. The moon loops around us, barely spinning enough to even claim it has a rotation. We spin, as we circle our sun. I like to imagine that some of the planets may seem to the sun like parts of itself, like appendages, and the rest maybe like something it exhaled once, and that’s how much a solar system is all one thing. To a person perhaps it’s a lot like a clock with gears, which anyway does revolve around something else itself: the binary star Sirius.

And yes, we’re all moving in a direction together. It is shockingly fast. We can estimate that the sun is booking it through space at about 14,820 kilometers per hour, and Earth is keeping pace with it as it moves. It is very hard for us to know whether that’s a stable estimate or whether it sometimes speeds up or slows down on its path, but our solar system never stands still. It is always going somewhere, and fast.

When people say that time is moving extra quickly, maybe they mean that our sun and its solar system are moving that way. Maybe days and nights can come on comparatively slowly at other times. These things are sometimes a little hard to wrap one’s brain around.

And all this has probably had something to do with what’s been going on with Earth’s poles. Over the last several years, reports have come in that NASA says the poles are in the process of flipping totally north to south, that the magnetic north pole is moving hundreds of kilometers, and even that the poles flip all the time, as frequently as every eleven years (which I suppose isn’t too surprising even if the reports do give an impression of contradicting each other somewhat, if for no other reason than that many different people do work for NASA). It’s hard to tell what’s really going on, but total pole shift has certainly been a big theme on the internet in the last five years. Many people seem to think that whatever is going on now, there is a major magnetic event occurring on Earth in the last decade or so, involving the poles, that the Earth’s magnetics have been considerably chaotic lately, and that the degree to which this is true now is on the rare side. And things have seemed particularly strange overall here on Earth over the last five years. According to Earth Logos, we are actually rounding some kind of corner in the galaxy. Thinking about physics, this could disrupt the balance of our poles and it could also cause an acceleration as we navigate the physics of a corner as a sphere.

Theoretically we’re coming up on a comparative straightaway soon, and that could be a gracious thing to experience indeed, speaking in terms of magnetics and their affects on organisms. What isn’t quite clear is whether the pole adjustment will prove to be permanent, long-term, or temporary once we finish rounding the corner, but a long-term or permanent pole adjustment would inevitably cause natural long-term or permanent climate shifts in all or most areas, as the equator and tropics and all relative positions to them and to the poles will also shift position.

──── by Lync Dalton ────

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The Riddle of the Emerald Tablet

The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus is a mysterious text renowned in the Middle Ages and beyond as part of the Hermetica, a mostly-lost alchemical literary tradition. The Emerald Tablet itself is an ancient mystical riddle. Below is the solved version, reconstructed from many centuries ago and published for the first time (you can easily find the traditional unsolved version of the Emerald Tablet in many translations by searching online).

The Solution to the Riddle of the Emerald Tablet:

This is assuredly true:
Humans above the ground can learn from the rocks and stones below the ground,
Just as rocks and stones below the ground have been listening to the humans above the ground.
And herein we will tell you of a miracle that they are all a part of.
Here is what the emeralds have learned, and what the emeralds say:
The world is one thing altogether. It is true!
Thus all that happens in the world is happening to the world, and the world itself is conscious of it.
The Sun is the father of this world.
The Moon is known as its mother.
The wind is more responsible for the world and its consciousness than you may know.
It is the planet Earth that sustains it, this one thing that is the world altogether.
God/the good thing did bid this world exist, and if God/the good thing is fully manifest in the world, the one thing will be perfected at last.
Understand spirit and nurture it with goodness, rejecting vulgar and materialist viewpoints.
Become wise and careful.
Integrate your flights of spirit well; do not forget this lesson.
It is important and brings glory to your intellect to see the world this way.
This lesson will be repeated a thousand years from now if you share it well.
The force of this world’s unity is the strongest force known within it. This unity snakes through all things subtle and all things solid on Earth, and cannot be subdued.
By this unified world your human world was created.
This unified world gives birth to many adaptations.
This was written by Hermes Trismegistus, who studies God, humans, and Earth: all three.
This Earth and its grand elaborations reveal themselves to be the great work of the Sun, a work that is both complete and incomplete, for it is fully formed and ever changing.


In understanding the profundity of this mystical riddle, it may be helpful to keep in mind that humans could not have technically confirmed that Earth is in fact a planet until we were able to photograph it from space or orbit. I specify the reference to planet Earth in the solution, but the wording in English translations of the riddle is more vague, and in fact there’s reason to believe that most if not all people for most of history had vague and varying ideas about what Earth is. Perhaps less so emeralds.

The title of the Emerald Tablet is in fact a clue to its riddle’s provenance and solution: the message originally comes from mineral intelligence channeled through a person who gave himself the pen name Hermes Trismegistus, and refers to a mystical unified theory about our green planet, Earth.

──── by Lync Dalton ────

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