How Does A Baetyl Live?

On December 8, 1980, the wages of truth were paid to John Lennon.

Fourteen years earlier, John had given an interview which was published in the London Evening Standard and which contained the following words (you can see the entire printed interview @ http://headsup.freeshell.org/beatles-articles/standard.html):

'Christianity will go,' he said. 'It will vanish and shrink. I needn't argue about that; I'm right and I will be proved right. We're more popular than Jesus now; I don't know which will go first-rock 'n' roll or Christianity. Jesus was all right but his disciples were thick and ordinary. It's them twisting it that ruins it for me.'

When those words were reprinted in the United States, all hell broke loose. Beatles records were smashed and burned, demonstrations were held, and threats were made. And the controversy never really went away, no matter what John later said in clarification.

John had made a giant mistake: like David Koresh, he had compared himself to Jesus, perhaps even implying to some that he (John Lennon) thought he was worthy to open the seals of the seven-sealed book. But had he really said anything not supported by the Bible? Consider the two following scriptures:

The day of Christ is at hand. Let no man deceive you by any means: for that day shall not come, except there come a falling away first. (2 Thessalonians 2:2-3 KJV)

And it was given unto him (the beast) to make war with the saints, and to overcome them. (Revelation 13:7 KJV)

His disciples were thick and ordinary. Jesus Himself said that they twisted things and got them wrong. It wasn’t until they were filled with The Holy Spirit that they had the courage, the wisdom, and the spirit to go forth and preach the Gospel.

No, John Lennon’s crime was not that he had contradicted the Bible, but that he dared to compare himself to Jesus and to say (even unintentionally) that he was in a sense better than Jesus (i.e., more popular). This is a big no-no in the United States of America!

But there’s more to it than that. You see, in addition to the Demeter Cult there is a second cult in America: the Cybele Cult. Not only had John run afoul of America’s Christians, he had also run afoul of her Corybantes.

The Phrygian goddess Cybele had been worshipped in ancient Greece and Rome. She was an exotic mystery-goddess who rode in a lion-drawn chariot to the accompaniment of wild music, wine, and a disorderly, ecstatic following. She had a transgender or eunuch priesthood. She was associated with mountains, town and city walls, fertile nature, and wild animals, especially lions. Like the Roman goddess Hera, she wore a crown called a polos, which is similar to the tiara-like crown on the so-called “Statue of Liberty”. Some additional facts about her are quite illuminating:

• She was said to dwell in caverns;
• She had wild, ecstatic followers who would tear out their hair;
• Her orgiastic rites accompanied by wild cries and the frenzied music of flutes, drums, and cymbals; and
• She was worshipped in Pessinus (later Rome) as a sacred stone or meteorite known as a Baetyl (pronounced just like “Beatle”).

The “Beatles” of the so-called British music invasion had the following characteristics:

• They were discovered in the Cavern Club (which their manager Brian Epstein called "a cellar full of noise");
• They had wild, ecstatic followers who would scream and pull on their hair;
• Their orgiastic concerts were accompanied by wild cries and the frenzied music of guitars, drums, and cymbals; and
• Thanks to that 1966 interview by John Lennon, it may have appeared to some that America’s youth had taken up worshipping The Baetyls instead of Jesus Christ.

And to make matters even worse, there’s the picture of John standing in front of The Mother of Harlots:

What that picture may have symbolically implied to some (within the context of what I have written in this blog) is the following:

John Lennon, who has claimed to be more popular in his day than was Jesus in His, is the beast who rose up out of the sea (the fort, the ten seals of the pedestal) and the beast who rose up out of the earth (the V hand sign). That's his girlfriend standing behind him, The Mother of Harlots, and he is her Baetyl.

I have no idea whether John was aware of this symbolism. If he were, I don’t think he would have posed for this picture. If he was aware, perhaps he meant it as a warning for the rest of us. Whatever the case, although we believe that Mark David Chapman pulled the trigger that killed John Lennon, it was America that put the gun in his hand: the America of killer Christians and worshipers of Demeter and Cybele.

By the way, there is speculation that the Black Stone in the Kaaba of Mecca (see my October 6 post) is the original sacred stone of the goddess Cybele. If that is true then Muslims are venerating one of the original Baetyls.

[First there were the Baetyls, and then came the Rolling Stones.]