SYRIA: A WITCH’S BREW – ON THE ROAD TO TEHRAN


A dangerous and volatile Witch’s brew is shaping up in Syria as many competing world powers rush in to affect the outcome not necessarily in Syria’s National interest, but with an agenda in the National interests of those foreign meddling powers. The US/CIA, MI5, Saudi Arabia, Israel, France, Turkey, Russia, Iran, and others all have a hand in stirring the pot bringing it to a boil.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE wrote about the Witch’s brew in MACBETH

For those taking the time to read this article, you might want to listen to the music video below as you do.

A dark Cave. In the middle (East), a Caldron boiling. Thunder.

Enter the three Witches.

       1 WITCH.  Thrice the brinded cat hath mew’d.
2 WITCH.  Thrice and once, the hedge-pig whin’d.
3 WITCH.  Harpier cries:—’tis time! ’tis time!

1 WITCH.  Round about the caldron go;
In the poison’d entrails throw.—
Toad, that under cold stone,
Days and nights has thirty-one;
Swelter’d venom sleeping got,
Boil thou first i’ the charmed pot!
ALL.  Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and caldron bubble.

2 WITCH.  Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the caldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
Adder’s fork, and blind-worm’s sting,
Lizard’s leg, and owlet’s wing,—
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
ALL.  Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and caldron bubble.

3 WITCH.  Scale of dragon; tooth of wolf;
Witches’ mummy; maw and gulf
Of the ravin’d salt-sea shark;
Root of hemlock digg’d i the dark;
Liver of blaspheming Jew;
Gall of goat, and slips of yew
Sliver’d in the moon’s eclipse;
Nose of Turk, and Tartar’s lips;
Finger of birth-strangled babe
Ditch-deliver’d by a drab,—
Make the gruel thick and slab:
Add thereto a tiger’s chaudron,
For the ingrediants of our caldron.
ALL.  Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and caldron bubble.

2 WITCH.  Cool it with a baboon’s blood,
Then the charm is firm and good.

What is happening in Syria Today is all of the above and more. A baboon’s blood seems to be running in the veins of those running the whole show, both inside and outside Syria.

As much as Western news media constantly repeat what is happening in Syria is a civil war, it is far from that. With the CIA, Saudi Arabia, MI6, Mossad, Iran, Russia, Jordan and other outside powers and their mercenaries all stirring the pot, it is World War III/Armageddon in the making.

Considering Shakespeare died in 1616, these lines are an interesting co-incidence or prophecy besides baboon’s blood.

Liver of blaspheming Jew;
Nose of Turk, and Tartar’s lips;

The Russians were called Tartars, and all these centuries later the Turks have their nose in it and the Russians have their say, all happening right next door to Israel.

Syria is mentioned in the Bible 147 times, the 1st time in Genesis 25 about 3860 years ago. Damascus is the world’s oldest, continuously lived in city, older than Jerusalem.

Before his sudden, unexpected conversion 2000 years ago, Saul was on his way to Damascus on a targeted assassination mission sent by the Jewish leadership in Jerusalem to capture or kill members of the new Jewish Sect calling themselves Christians.

And Saul, yet breathing out threatenings and slaughter against the disciples of the Lord, went to the high priest,
And desired of him letters to Damascus to the synagogues, that if he found any of this way, whether they were men or women, he might bring them bound unto Jerusalem.

Acts 9

On the Road to Damascus he encountered the Spirit of Christ and saw the Light. He abandoned his mission, changed his name to Paul, and became the most influential preacher-teacher in the Jewish Faith to the newest Jewish Sect calling themselves Christians, to the Gentiles, and to those who have not seen Jesus,  yet believe in the Spirit of Christ.

I can only imagine his conversion from the extreme of wanting to wipe out the declared enemy of the Jewish leadership to being a Faithful advocate of Christ is as extreme as imagining the Supreme Ayatollah of Iran greeting the Chief Rabbi of Israel with a Kiss of Peace in Jerusalem which is supposed to be God’s City of Peace. All three man made traditional, ritual religions to the God of Abraham, Judaism, Christianity and Islam meet there where Christ was crucified. The promise of the Peace of God is not realized yet. God will not impose it. It is up to the People to make it so.

The Arab Spring of 2011 was as much as surprise to the powers that be as was the Global Financial Meltdown-Economic Pearl Harbour-Tsunami-Writing On The Wall of September 2008. No one saw this shaking of the status quo in this world coming.

As the spontaneous, non violent peoples protests in the model of Gandhi and the 1979 Iranian Revolution spread from Tunisia to Egypt, Yemen and Bahrain, the highest levels of power in Washington and the West must have been in a state of shock. All the Dictatorships the Western Democratic powers discretely supported and armed in the Middle East were being challenged and the carefully constructed faux Pax Americana was in danger of collapse.

I can imagine the consternation and frustration in Washington as they witnessed their Dictators in the Middle East being challenged, and the only other Dictators in the area not in the American orbit and sphere of influence, Libya, Syria and Iran were not witnessing masses of people protesting in the streets demanding their Dictators step down. Something had to be done about that.

The powers of this world count on the majority of the people not paying attention and keeping watch. The main stream media are always supplanting the old news with a new Revelation day by day, and the people lose any sense of the continuity of history.

Prior to the Arab Spring, most ordinary Citizens in the Western Democratic countries were not aware their governments armed and supported Dictatorships over there so we can enjoy all the material things and benefits in our Democracies in relative peace over here

The Dictatorship in Bahrain is a particular embarrassment to the US since the people’s revolution started there. Bahrain is home to the US 5th Fleet and to this day the Western news media do not report how that Dictatorship suppresses their own people on a smaller scale, but much in the same way as Assad is accused of doing in Syria. Syria is a much bigger county and world power.

Most people forget Saudi Arabia sent troops in to quell that uprising. Saudi Arabia is far from being a Democracy by any stretch of the imagination, but the Democratic West works and talks with it for our material benefits over here.

I for one, have to question this hypocrisy, duplicity and double standard for tolerance of Dictators.

Let not the reader think I am writing this to defend Dictators. On the contrary, while the world powers were taken by surprise by the Arab Spring, it was a long time coming as marked in Time by The Kansas City Times in 1976 as Americans were celebrating their Revolution.

““and explained his own mission as  “waging war against the beast” – the  beast defined as government of man and tyrants.” The new Presidential limousine called  “the beast” is an aptly named confirming “Spiritual symbol.”

Being a non violent man of Peace, obviously I was not talking about any personal actions, but as a messenger of the Spirit of God in the right place at the right time.

The Kansas City Times, September 13, 1976

IMAGE OF THE BEAST

Those individuals who seek Union with Almighty God and each other must raise their perspectives and Judgments to be above all the power struggles of the Nations of this world as God IS, and judge with Justice and Equity in the Spirit of Truth.

And Judgment is turned away backward, and Justice stands afar off: for Truth is fallen in the street, and Equity cannot enter.
Yea, Truth fails; and he that departs from evil makes himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no Judgment.

Isaiah 59:14-15

For those who paid attention, there were no masses of the 1.5 million people of Tripoli protesting in the streets against Gadaffi. There were almost that many in support of Gadaffi demonstrating in Tripoli when the West attacked Libya. The West dismissed that as propaganda in the West’s intensive propaganda campaign against Libya to get control of the oil.

In addition to the Libyans, there were hundreds of thousands of workers from Africa and the Middle East working there making money where the jobs were, but Gadaffi was not under the control the Western powers. The 1st word of trouble in Libya was not of a spontaneous, peaceful, peoples revolution, but an armed insurrection supported by the North Atlantic Terrorist Organization.

Unquestioningly accepting Western propaganda, most people are not aware of the independently verifiable information in the following video about Gadaffi’s Libya. I would like to see President Obama or Prime Minister Harper having as much confidence in their own people to ride through their Capital cities like this.

If it were not for the 6500 NATO bombing sorties stopping Gadaffi’s forces in their tracks, the NATO trained, proxy boots on the ground rebels would not have won.

The Western media does not report on Libya any more. Libya is in worse shape Today than it was under Gadaffi. His huge armory of weapons he had secured are now being proliferated throughout the Middle East, just what the Middle East and this world needs.

The failures of governance in Libya discredit the gains of the uprising.

The new Libyan government the West recognizes has no authority beyond it’s offices. The rebel and tribal groups he united under his umbrella are now fighting each other for power, the unintended consequences of war in destroying the infrastructure of a Nation.

Libya Struggles to Curb Militias as Chaos Grows

TRIPOLI — Aid agency Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF or Doctors Without Borders) has halted its work in detention centers in the Libyan city of Misrata because it said its medical staff were being asked to patch up detainees mid-way through torture sessions so they could go back for more abuse.

Doctors refuse to aid Libyan ‘torture’

Syria is next on the West’s list on the Road to Tehran. With the pious condemnation by the Western Democracies of the Assad regime and the deaths of innocent civilians, the solution is to arm the rebels so there will be more innocent civilians killed in a much longer protracted struggle. There will be no orderly transition of power, as the consequences in Libya show, and in the chaos a regime worse than Assad’s could emerge sharing a border with Israel.

Most people not having a critical, questioning mind, just accept the propaganda as it is broadcast daily showing Assad’s forces bombing innocent civilians in fighting a Western backed armed insurrection. The shelling as shown on TV pales in comparison to the Mother of all terrorist bombings of sleeping civilians by the “good terrorists” as shown in the video below we watched live as it happened from the peace and comfort of our living rooms as if it was just a movie and innocent, live human beings were not being killed.

And in her was found the blood of prophets, and of saints, and of all that were slain upon the earth.

Revelation 18

While the West deals with Syria, Israel is planning to bomb Iran. People in their stupor remain oblivious to the Revelation day by day the world is on the Road to Armageddon as I have been warning about since 1976 and throughout this Blog being a Watchman along the Watchtower.

Son of man, speak to the children of your people, and say to them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman:
If when he sees the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people;
Then whosoever hears the sound of the trumpet, and does not take warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head.
He heard the sound of the trumpet, and did not take warning; his blood shall be upon him. But he that takes warning shall deliver his soul.
But if the watchman see the sword come, and  does not blow the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand.

So you, O son of man, I have set you a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore you shall hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me.
When I say to the wicked, O wicked man, you shall surely die; if you do not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at your hand.
Nevertheless, if you warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.

Therefore, O you son of man, speak to the house of Israel; You speak thus, saying, If our transgressions and our sins be upon us, and we pine away in them, how should we then live?
Say to them, As I live, says the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn you, turn you from your evil ways; for why will you die, O house of Israel?

Ezekiel 33:2-11

In the Days of my Youth before spy satellites in 1963, I was a labourer for the Foundation Company of CanaDa on the Distant Early Warning Line. This was the 1st line of Radar warning of a feared Soviet Bomber attack over the North Pole. The Warning Line is no longer Distant and it is getting Late.

The Witch’s Brew developing in Syria Today is the Spirit of this letter activated in our Time.

The burden of Damascus. Behold, Damascus is taken away from being a city, and it shall be a ruinous heap……………………………………………….
At that day shall a man look to his Maker, and his eyes shall have respect to the Holy One of Israel.
And he shall not look to the altars, the work of his hands, neither shall respect that which his fingers have made, either the groves, or the images.
In that day shall his strong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left because of the children of Israel: and there shall be desolation.
Because you have forgotten the God of your salvation, and has not been mindful of the rock of your strength, therefore shall you plant pleasant plants, and shall set it with strange slips:
In the day shall you make your plant to grow, and in the morning shall you make your seed to flourish: but the harvest shall be a heap in the day of grief and of desperate sorrow.
Woe to the multitude of many people, which make a noise like the noise of the seas; and to the rushing of nations, that make a rushing like the rushing of mighty waters!
The nations shall rush like the rushing of many waters: but God shall rebuke them, and they shall flee far off, and shall be chased as the chaff of the mountains before the wind, and like a rolling thing before the whirlwind.
And behold at evening tide trouble; and before the morning he is not. This is the portion of them that spoil us, and the lot of them that rob us.

Isaiah 17

The Holy One of Israel Declares: Blessed are the Peacemakers for they shall be called the Children of God.

This Spirit transcends Judaism, Christianity, Islam & Atheism.

Where are the Children of God at this Time when the world needs them most?

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.

Ephesians 6:12

The March to War: Fighting ISIL is a Smokescreen for US Mobilization against Syria, Iran


US End Game in Syria is Just the Beginning for Wider Regional War October 17, 2015

Why the Arabs don’t want us in Syria

They don’t hate ‘our freedoms.’ They hate that we’ve betrayed our ideals in their own countries — for oil.

SYRIA: NATO’s Next “Humanitarian” War?

April 17, 2018 – I just saw this article Today, written by Michel Chossudovsky, published in February 2012, confirming the essentials of my article posted at the same Time.

THE SPIRIT AND THE FLESH


Today is my 37th Birthday even though my Flesh begins the 69th earth year May 21. I was born again on February 1, 1975, being Aquarius in the Spirit and Gemini according to the Flesh.

Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.

John 1:13

Today 37 earth years have gone by since I came alive to God or God came alive to me. The circumstances of that Day are described here,

DAY OF AWAKENING – DAVID vs GOLIATH vs ARMAGEDDON

It is said hindsight is 20/20 and that Day did not just appear out of a vacuum. There was a 2 year preparation for that Day to happen as described here which I didn’t realize until after the fact.

I HAD A DREAM

Like the majority of people, I never thought of or meditated on the Mysteries of God. My thoughts were preoccupied with my work to make money, sexual fantasies, things, and entertainment. Having as much fun as possible without thinking of the larger world issues was my reason for living.

Up to that Day, the President of the Unites States was the most powerful being in existence, along with the Soviet and Chinese leaders. The world was messed up, but that’s just the way it was and there was nothing I could do about it, so don’t think about it.

All that changed for me February 1,1975.  A power greater than men appeared in my sight. The God of Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Muhammad, the Author of History came alive to my consciousness. The greed, the wars and the conflicts no longer made any sense or could be justified without being challenged.

The powerful experience of that Day had me believing the Kingdom of God would reveal itself to the whole world within 3 years. Obviously I was wrong on that, and I had to realize it is not my plan. No doubt the Universe is unfolding in the way that it should. I had stop my wishful thinking and get realistic with God’s higher plan.

I am the Rose of Sharon, and the lily of the valleys.
As the lily among thorns, so is my love among the daughters.
As the apple tree among the trees of the wood, so is my beloved among the sons. I sat down under his shadow with great delight, and his fruit was sweet to my taste.
He brought me to the banqueting house, and his banner over me was Love.

Song of Solomon 2:1-4

PROCLAIM LIBERTY THROUGHOUT ALL THE LAND

Behold, the LORD’s hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; neither his ear heavy, that it cannot hear:
But your iniquities have separated between you and your God, and your sins have hid his face from you, that he will not hear.
For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue has muttered perverseness.
None calls for Justice, nor any pleads for Truth: they trust in vanity, and speak lies; they conceive mischief, and bring forth iniquity.

They hatch cockatrice’ eggs, and weave the spider’s web: he that eats their eggs dies, and that which is crushed breaks out into a viper.

Their webs shall not become garments, neither shall they cover themselves with their works: their works are works of iniquity, and the act of violence is in their hands.
Their feet run to evil, and they make hast to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; wasting and destruction are in their paths.

The way of peace they don’t know; and there is no Judgment in their goings: they have made them crooked paths: whosoever goes in them shall not know Peace.

Therefore is Judgment far from us, neither does Justice overtake us: we wait for light, but behold obscurity; for brightness, but we walk in darkness.

We grope for the wall like the blind, and we grope as if we had no eyes: we stumble at noonday as in the night; we are in desolate places as dead men.
We roar all like bears, and mourn sore like doves: we look for Judgment, but there is none; for Salvation, but it is far off from us.
For our transgressions are multiplied before you, and our sins testify against us: for our transgressions are with us; and as for our iniquities, we know them;
In transgressing and lying against the LORD, and departing away from our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

And Judgment is turned away backward, and Justice stands afar off: for Truth is fallen in the street, and EQUITY cannot enter.
Yea, Truth fails; and he that departs from evil makes himself a prey: and the LORD saw it, and it displeased him that there was no Judgment.
And he saw that there was no man, and wondered that there was no intercessor: therefore his arm brought Salvation unto him; and his righteousness, it sustained him.

Isaiah 59

As for me, I am not the only voice crying in the wilderness. Things have to change or we will destroy ourselves. I have written about some of the “Signs” throughout this Blog, but I have no power to make people read them or think about them. In my own estimation, these are the most significant.

From the Revolutionary Spirit of ’76 to the Revolutionary Spirit of ’11

THE REVELATION OF JESUS CHRIST: From 19/11 to 9/11

For now, like everyone else, I can only put into practice the Patience of Christ in my Life as the details of the General Vision God revealed to me so many years ago are being reported in the secular main stream media only these days.

Son of man, speak to the children of your people, and say to them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman:
If when he sees the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people;
Then whosoever hears the sound of the trumpet, and takes not warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head.
He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood shall be upon him. But he that takes warning shall deliver his soul.
But if the watchman see the sword come, and does not blow the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman’s hand.

So you, O son of man, I have set you a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore you shall hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me.
When I say to the wicked, O wicked man, you shall surely die; if you do not speak to warn the wicked from his way, that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at your hand.
Nevertheless, if you warn the wicked of his way to turn from it; if he do not turn from his way, he shall die in his iniquity; but you have delivered your soul.
Therefore, O you son of man, speak to the house of Israel;  speak thus, saying, If our transgressions and our sins be upon us, and we pine away in them, how should we then live?
Say to them, As I live, says the Lord GOD, I have no pleasure in the death of the wicked; but that the wicked turn from his way and live: turn you, turn you from your evil ways; for why will you die, O house of Israel?

Ezekiel 33

THE ARMAGEDDON GENERATION

DAY OF AWAKENING – DAVID vs GOLIATH vs ARMAGEDDON


On January 31, 1975 in my 31st Year, I quit my position printed on my Business Card reading, “National Marketing Representative, Mining Division, Dominion Engineering Works ltd. of Montreal, without having secured another Position. DEW was so big, they poured steel in their metal foundry. I was hired a year earlier to sell Ball Mills to Mining Industries, essential in separating the desired mineral from the rock on a massive conveyor belt scale. They were VERY EXPENSIVE costing over $100,000 in 1974 Dollars.

I soon realized I was misled about the Position. It was nothing like the Title on my DEW Business Card. I learned a Canadian or American Mining company would not open a new Mine in CanaDa when the cost of Labour was $30/hr + in salary and Benefits to operate, not including the cost of the necessary expensive equipment to start a new Mine. This was before US-CanaDa Free Trade, NAFTA – North American Free Trade, and Globalization of the Economy. It was much cheaper and much more profitable for Business to go to the 3rd World and pay the workers $2/hr with NO Benefits.

It turned out I was hired to prepare Sales Proposals and Production Scheduling within the Plant. I did not sign up for that! The Export Marketing Representative was flying all over the World. Business was booming for the 3rd World Countries.

Recognizing if this was happening in such a primary manufacturing industry, other manufacturing industries would go the same route causing great disruptions in our system.

I hated the job and it showed by my lack of interest and quit!

The next Day, February 1, 1975 was an extra-ordinary, extra special Day for me. To use the commonly known phrase, It was to my great surprise and awesome wonder I was “BORN AGAIN” that Day by the Spirit. To me, it was a clear delineation in my personal Life BC and AD. I didn’t know it then but now I know God chose me to be one of God’s Chosen in these Times. The Chosen People of ancient Biblical History are dead and gone. The Living God is choosing People all over the World to be effective Representatives in Today’s World.

Though my body is 78, Spiritually for me, I live in the Year of the Lord 37 AD learning the Ways of The Christ Spirit for these Days, while the World of Business operates in this Year of The Lord 2022.

Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. 

That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

John 1

I was born May 21, 1944, making me a Gemini according to the Flesh, but born again February 1, 1975 making me Aquarius according to the Spirit. Up to that Day I was like the majority of the People. Self-seeking, materialistic, earth bound. Sexual fantasies, money and things pulled my strings.

I never thought about God. I made no room or Time for God in my Life, in my thoughts, in my Reality. God did not exist to me in my self-centred life. I did not go to church and the only time I talked with believers was when Jehovah Witnesses or Mormon Missionaries knocked on my door. Even so, I always had a decent respect for all others whose path in Life crossed with mine.

I was already upbeat since I was going to seal the deal to take possession of a 5 room Dream apartment in the heart of Montreal decorated by a French Canadian artist that was well laid out with large rooms and really beautifully furnished. Moving to Quebec City, he was turning over the apartment with artwork and furnishings for $1000. The rent in 1975 was $69 a month plus oil heat and hydro in downtown Montreal.

Arriving with a wealthy Jewish friend to make the final arrangements, after taking care of business, we got into an intense discussion of Society, Morality, Politics and Religion. In other words, the Human Condition, Life and Death, War and Peace on Planet Earth.

I was sitting back listening to them passionately go at it, when at a certain point, it was as if a veil was removed from my eyes, and with the sound of rushing water, within myself I felt and thought, ‘God! You’re alive! You exist! You really exist!’ In a Spiritual sense of another dimension, I came alive to God or God came alive to me that Day. From that moment on, I began communion with God and Christ in me. Because I did not understand exactly what was happening, I said nothing to the others who did not have the same experience.

I had experienced much in my life but never anything like this. At 24, in 1968 dollars I was making $25,000. This bought me the stuff that costs $215,000 in Today’s dollars. At that day you shall know that I am in my Father, and you in me, and I in you. John 14:20

What I didn’t know then, was there was a long period of time preparing the ground for me to Spiritually, Mentally, Emotionally and Socially accept the God of Abraham still Lives!

Part of that preparation I understood only with the benefit of hindsight can be seen here:

Over many years I moved to several neighbourhoods in Montreal, but could never get any apartment together, always remaining an unfinished work with no progress once I got comfortable. This apartment and furnishing was beautiful. My wealthy Jewish friend who lived in an expensive apartment on the slope of Mount Royal said he was jealous.

Later that evening, I was with another group of friends and did not tell them about the change now starting to take root within me. We were joined by another friend who was also a promising artist, not the one turning over his apartment to me earlier in the Day. Three months earlier, to encourage him, I asked him to do my portrait and paid him a deposit. He arrived with the finished work that evening not knowing what happened to me earlier.

While I was expecting a conventional portrait, I was surprised when he presented me with the portrait you see above. The image above is a reduced size photo copy of a full size photo copy of the original artwork. It was done in pencil and did not have the Canadian Coat of Arms on the Shield which I added later.

A thief stole the original drawing in a break & enter to my apartment and it is probably hanging on some wall in Ottawa.

Again I emphasize, no one knew the new feelings that came alive in me earlier that Day. It is said art is in the eye of the beholder and as I questioned the artist I said these words: “Dave, that’s a jock looking type of image. I wish my body looked that good.” Pointing to the shield I asked, “Is that a cowboy hat?” He answered, “No. It’s not that. That’s a shield and that’s a slingshot. You know. Like David and Goliath” Imagine my surprise and wonder as he laid those words on my ears, not knowing what was happening inside me. I didn’t fully know what was happening inside me. Examining it further, I noticed the the car, the symbol of the driving force of the economy and the license plate with the D between the legs. I asked Dave if the D was for his signature. He answered, “No. It’s not that. It could be Death. It could be Divinity. I have no idea.” Again, I had to wonder what all this meant and how could I make sense of it all? It was the sense of Timing that was amazing. Studying the drawing further, I reasoned since a headless body could not stand. To me it symbolized God of the Universe being the Head of the Body.

The automobile, the engine of the economy, is at a cliff with no place else to go, much as the Global economy has arrived at the point of stagnation requiring radical change. The bare veins of the Canadian Maple Leaf, the unfinished Canadian Mosaic, represents the theme in my earlier article ‘CanaDa.’

The head in the stump represents the earth bound man oblivious to what the Spirit is doing and the Signs of the Times.

At home later that night, I was experiencing the most sublime feelings of Peace, Joy, and Liberation. I was crying with Gratitude on the thoughts GOD IS, thinking, ‘God I don’t know what you’re doing with me, but whatever it is, keep on doing it. I love it! I love you! At the instant of those thoughts, a radio broadcast started with the words, “NOW that you’re a Christian, your work is just beginning.”

Even though it was a multi year struggle for me to finally have an apartment that would impress and make any visitor feel comfortable, I gave it up 7 months later on September 1, 1975, and with shoulder length hair, beard, and backpack on my back, entered the United States to discover more of God, and the Spirit of ’76.

The US Authorities would have never known about me had I not become highly visible at the 1976 Republican National Convention in Kansas City. The Secret Service called out of a compressed crowd of delirious Republicans looking up to the Secret Service restricted Mezzanine with the podium of the President set up expecting the President of the United States to be standing there any minute.

To my surprise and wonder, the SS Agent led me to the Podium of The President of The United States, questioning me in full view of the crowd below in the Lobby of the Crown Center Hotel in Kansas City. With my shoulder length hair, beard and #13 football jersey, waving to all those Republicans below and the TV networks broadcasting live, it was an unusual image for anyone to be standing at The President’s podium as Americans were celebrating the 200th Anniversary of the 1776 Revolution. 

Having hitch hiked through 45 States over 15 months, when I got to Kansas City, after the Republicans left town, I was a guest on a phone in Radio Talk show about a dozen times, was interviewed on TV, and The Kansas City Times published 2 newspaper reports on my presence in the City, the 1st on September 13, with a follow up on ALL SOULS DAY, November 2. Because of that high visibility, I was arrested as an ALIEN for deportation from Kansas City in December 1976 back to CanaDa.  (you are in the world, but not of the world – an ALIEN – John 17:14-16) I convinced the authorities to allow me to leave on my own without formal deportation, but having to report to US Customs before exiting the US and returning home to CanaDa.

It turned out to my good fortune and Blessing I met someone by chance driving to upper New York State not that far from home in Montreal. He had a spare ticket for the Eagles Concert at the Kemper Arena and we flew away right after the show. I have not visited the US since then.

Even though it is 42 years later, I am still trying to make sense of it all in a David vs Goliath struggle to prevent the coming Armageddon starting with Israel escalating in the explosive Middle East,in a world where people don’t pay attention, don’t care and don’t give a damn.

I have come full circle. That Dream apartment in 1975 was on Hotel De Ville Street in the heart of downtown Montreal close to Sherbrooke Street and St. Laurent Blvd., the dividing line between East and West.

The Executive Personnel Agency who always found me a better position at better pay everytime I was in the Job referred me for many excellent positions but because my Spiritual Awakening was the most important thing to happen to me in my Life, I talked about it during Job interviews. One person was so interested asking me many questions, I left that Interview thinking I was hired. Calling the Personnel Agency the next Day, my Contact asked, “WHAT HAPPENED?” “What do you mean, what happened? Didn’t I get the job, I asked?” No was direct. Asking what the man said, my Contact told me the Interviewer said these words, “I don’t know what that guy was high on, but I sure wish I had some!”

Today, I live on Hotel De Ville Street in downtown Hull and it’s still a Dream apartment. I’m paying $566/month for a large well laid out 1 bedroom downtown apartment, heated, with a parking space. Smaller apartments on my Block are now going for $1300/month with electric heat extra. It’s perfect for me, having so many reasons to thank God for something every Day. For transparency, I lived in this apartment for 2 years in 2006 before I thought of the connection with that Dream apartment I gave up on Hotel de Ville in Montreal in 1975. I thank God that DREAM apartment I gave up in 1975 was being saved for me by God.

In this Year of the Lord 2024, I have a Dream apartment costing $566/month to this Day, enabling me to survive with no stress as rents are a nightmare for so many people these Days, able to live on my Old Age pension of $1883/month.

The LORD IS my Shepherd. I shall not want. Surely Goodness and Mercy shall follow me all the Days of my Life and I will dwell in the House of The LORD forever.      

Psalm 23

Biography of Ray Joseph Cormier

What is in the record is this: The Kansas City Times: SIGNS OF THE TIMES, September 13, 1976, & ALL SOULS DAY, November 2, 1976 https://rayjc.com/2013/09/01/signs-of-the-times/

And when they were come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified him, and the thieves, one on the right hand, and the other on the left.
Then said Jesus, Father, forgive them; they don’t know what they are doing. And they parted his raiment, and cast lots.     

Luke 23:33-34

Then were there two thieves crucified with him, one on the right hand, and another on the left.        

Matthew 27:38

All we like sheep have gone astray; we have turned every one to his own way; and the LORD has laid on him the iniquity of us all.
He was oppressed, and he was afflicted, yet he opened not his mouth: he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter, and as a sheep before her shearers is dumb, so he opened not his mouth.
He was taken from prison and from judgment: and who shall declare his generation? for he was cut off out of the land of the living: for the transgression of my people was he stricken.

And he made his grave with the wicked, and with the rich in his death; because he had done no violence, neither was any deceit in his mouth. 

Isaiah 53:6-9

The LORD IS my Shepherd. I shall not want Surely Goodness and Mercy shall follow me all the Days of my Life and I will dwell in the House of The LORD forever.