Ok.Everyone lie down on the floor and keep calm. I am reading this book and it is FREAKIGN CRAZY!! Bill and Jimmy took their Modus operandi straight from this book. THE JAMMs, 23, all of that stuff. I freaked out today when I read all of the sayings. It is all in the book. It is a good read but hard to follow sometimes and it bounces back and forth, but it is worth the reading if you have not done so. It takes so much lore and blends it all together.
From the Book:
"I got into the JAMs in Michigan City Prison," (John)Dillinger, much relaxed and less arrogant, was saying as he, Simon, and Joe sat in his living room drinking Black Russians. "And Hoover knew, from the beginning?" Joe asked . "Of course. I wanted the bastard to know- him and every other high-ranking Mason and Rosicrucian and Illuminati front-man in the country." The old man laughed harshly; except for his unmistakable eyes, which still held the strange blend of irony and intensity that Joe had noted in the 1930s photos, he was indistinguishable from any other elderly fellow who had come to California to enjoy his last years in the sun. "The first bank job I pulled off, in Daleville, Indiana, I used the line that I always repeated: 'Lie down on the floor and keep calm.' Hoover couldn't miss it. That's been the motto of the JAMs ever since Diogenes the Cynic. He knew no ordinary bank robber would be quoting an obscure Greek philosopher. The reason I repeated it on every heist was just to rub it in and let him know I was taunting him." "The basic book to confirm our tradition," he said, "is The Seven Tablets of Creation, which is dated at about 2500 B.C. the time of Sargon. It describes how Tiamat and Apsu, the first gods, were coexisting in Mummu, the primordial chaos. Von Junzt, in his Unausprechlichen Kulten, tells how the Justified Ancients of Mummu originated, just about the time the Seven Tablets were inscribed. You see, under Sargon, the chief deity was Marduk. I mean, that was what the high priests gave out to the public- in private, of course, they worshipped lok-Sotot, who became the Yog-Sothoth of the Necronomicon. But maybe I'm going too fast. Getting back to the official religion of Marduk, it was based on usury. The priests monopolized the medium of exchange and were able to extract interest for lending it. They also monopolized the land, and extracted tribute for renting it. It was the beginning of what we laughingly call civilization, which has always rested on rent and interest. The old Babylonian con. "The official story was that Mummu was dead, killed in the war between the gods. When the first anarchist group arose, they called themselves Justified Ancients of Mummu. Like Lao-Tse and the Taoists in China, they wanted to get rid of usury and monopoly and all the other pigshit of civilization and go back to a natural way of life. So, grok, they took the supposedly dead god, Mummu, and claimed he was still alive and was actually stronger than all the other gods. They had a good argument 'Look around,' they'd say, "what do you see most of? Chaos, right? Therefore, the god of Chaos is the strongest god, and is still alive.' "Of course, we got our ass whipped good. We were just no match for the Illuminati in those days. Didn't have a clue, about how they performed their 'miracles,' for instance. So we got our asses whipped again, in Greece, when the JAMs got started again, as part of the Cynic movement. By the tune the whole thing was happening again in Rome- usury and monopoly and the whole bag of tricks- the truce took place. The Justified Ancients became part of the Illuminati, a special group still keeping our own name, but taking orders from the Five. We thought we'd humanize them, like the anarchists who stayed in SDS after last year. And so it went until 1888. Then Cecil Rhodes started the Circle of Initiates and the big schism occurred. Every meeting would have a faction of Rhodes boys carrying signs that said 'Kick out the JAMs!' It was the parting of the ways. They just didn't trust us- or maybe they were afraid of being humanized." Dillinger laughed. "Yes," he said. "I'm the president of Laughing Buddha Jesus Phallus Inc. You've seen them- 'If it's not an LBJP it's NOT an L.P.'? "Laughing Buddha Jesus Phallus?" Joe exclaimed. "My God, you put out the best rock in the country! The only rock a man my age can listen to without wincing." "Thanks," Dillinger said modestly. "Actually, the Illuminati own the companies that put out most of the rock. We started Laughing Buddha Jesus Phallus to counterattack. We were ignoring that front until they got the MC-5 to cut a disc called 'Kick Out The Jams' just to taunt us with old, bitter memories. So we came back with our own releases, and the next thing I knew I was making bales of money from it. We've also fed information, through third parties, to Christian Crusade in Tulsa, Oklahoma, so they could expose some of what the Illuminati are doing in the rock field. You've seen the Christian Crusade publications-Rhythm, Riots and Revolution, and Communism, Hypnotism and the Beatles, and so forth? Adaptations - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illuminatus!_Trilogy The 23-strong cast featured several actors, such as Jim <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Broadbent> Broadbent, David Rappaport <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Rappaport> and Chris <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chris_Langham> Langham, who went on to successful film, stage and television careers. Broadbent alone played more than a dozen characters in the play.[36] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illuminatus%21_Trilogy#_note-broadbent> Bill Drummond <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Drummond> designed sets for the show, and it was eventually seen (when it moved to London, with Bill Nighy <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Nighy> then joining the cast) by the young Jimmy Cauty <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Cauty> . The duo later went on to form the Illuminatus!-inspired electronica band The KLF <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_KLF> . The Illuminatus Trilogy! is steeped with references to the 1960s popular music scene (at one point a list of 200 fictional bands performing at the Walpurgisnacht <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walpurgisnacht> rock festival is reeled off, and there are numerous references to the famous rock and roll song, "Rock Around the Clock <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Around_the_Clock> "), and has influenced many bands and musicians. The anarchic British band The KLF <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_KLF> was named after one of the secret societies from the trilogy.[42] <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Illuminatus%21_Trilogy#_note-3> They released much of their early material under the name "The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Justified_Ancients_of_Mu_Mu> " (JAMs), also from the trilogy, and much of their work was Discordian in nature. They mirrored the fictional JAMs' gleeful political tactics of causing chaos and confusion by bringing a direct, humorous but nevertheless revolutionary approach to making records. RMStringer ++++++++++++++++++ My BLOG: <http://renigade.blogspot.com/> BOB's Thoughts... Link - http://renigade.blogspot.com/ Other BLOG: <http://randomfallingtrees.blogspot.com/> Random Falling Trees Link - http://randomfallingtrees.blogspot.com/