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  • The Batini Menace

    A Sufi Ode to the Divine Mother On the face of the earth There is no one more beautiful than You Wherever I go I wear your image in my heart Whenever I fall in a despondent mood I remember your image And my spirit rises a thousand fold Your advent is the blossom time of…

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  • Introduction to the Batini Menace

    Editor’s Note: This is a continuation from an earlier post, ‘Understanding the Present Eschatology” (http://zaidpub.files.wordpress.com/2011/05/winged-demon-assyia.jpg?p=2802). Notwithstanding the astonishing anecdotes from communities and individuals, what is unknown to pedestrian Muslims is that the Qur’an, Sunnah, and Sirah of our Prophet were subjected to apologetics and speculations in veiled support of materialism ala the notorious Abdullah ibn…

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  • For Those Who Mourn the Waning Caucasian Dignitas

    As a nation, the waning American dignitas is subliminally governed by Hellenic doctrines (think ‘Troy’) that spread through the Levant from Alexandria. These ‘idea seeds’ are now mature trees tended by Roman Orthodoxy’s political pawns. [i] Though not readily discernible by flag wavers of Yankee-Doodledum or those across the “pond”, this is appreciated once a…

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  • COLUMBIA COLUMBIA! Why for art thou? by Omar Zaid

    The icon used by our elite boyscout brotherhoods of Hermetic Adepts represents a goddess.  American cult Initiates call her Columbia, thus we have the District of Columbia (Washington DC), Space Shuttle Columbia, Columbia Pictures, etc. The British magi (Druids) call her Britannia, hence, we have ‘British Columbia’ and the siren call of “Hail Britannia.” The…

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