Sunday, December 31, 2017

a bumper year in cyberwar

-Gen. Valery V. Gerasimov, the first deputy defense minister of Russia, with Foreign Minister Sergey V. Lavrov, right, in October. Mr. Gerasimov published the Gerasimov Doctrine,
12-29-16    Mr. Vyarya, 33, a bearded, bespectacled computer programmer who thwarted hackers, said he was suddenly being asked to join a sweeping overhaul of the Russian military last year.  Under a new doctrine, the nation’s generals were redefining war as more than a contest of steel and gunpowder, making cyberwarfare a central tenet in expanding the Kremlin’s interests....
  “Sorry, I can’t,” Mr. Vyarya said he told an executive at a Russian military contracting firm who had offered him the hacking job. ...Mr. Vyarya said his problems began when he turned down the offer:  he was surveilled, and an acquaintance in law enforcement advised him to flee the country.  He left in August 2015 for Finland to seek asylum, he and his former employer said.  The Finnish government, citing safety and privacy concerns, would not comment on the asylum application....
  The military’s push into cyberwarfare had intensified in 2012, with the appointment of a new minister of defense, Mr. Shoigu. The next year a senior defense official, Gen. Valery V. Gerasimov, published what became known as the Gerasimov Doctrine.  It posited that in the world today the lines between war and peace had blurred and that covert tactics, such as working through proxies or otherwise in the shadows, would rise in importance.  He called it “nonlinear war.”  His critics called it “guerrilla geopolitics.”  But Russia is certainly not alone.   “Almost all developed countries in the world, unfortunately, are creating offensive capabilities, and many have confirmed this,” said Anton M. Shingarev, a vice president at Kaspersky, a Russian antivirus company.   https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/29/world/europe/how-russia-recruited-elite-hackers-for-its-cyberwar.html?_r=0
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Jan. 2017
-ChronoPay founder and owner Pavel Vrublevsky
  According to information obtained by KrebsOnSecurity, the arrests (in Russia of several FSB cyber officers) may very well be tied to a long-running grudge held by Pavel Vrublevsky, a Russian businessman who for years paid most of the world’s top spammers and virus writers to pump malware and hundreds of billions of junk emails into U.S. inboxes....
  I mentioned Vrublevsky in that story because I knew Fomenko (a.k.a. “Die$el“) and he were longtime associates; both were prominent members of Crutop[dot]nu, a cybercrime forum that Vrublevsky (a.k.a. “Redeye“) owned and operated for years. In addition, I recognized Vrublevsky’s voice and dark humor in the statement, and thought it was interesting that Vrublevsky was inserting himself into all the alleged election-hacking drama.
  That story also noted how common it was for Russian intelligence services to recruit Russian hackers who were already in prison — by commuting their sentences in exchange for helping the government hack foreign adversaries.  In 2013, Vrublevsky was convicted of hiring his most-trusted spammer and malware writer to attack one of ChronoPay’s chief competitors, but he was inexplicably released a year earlier than his two-and-a-half year sentence required.
  Meanwhile, the malware author that Vrublevsky hired to launch the attack which later landed them both in jail told The New York Times last month that he’d also been approached while in prison by someone offering to commute his sentence if he agreed to hack for the Russian government, but that he’d refused and was forced to serve out his entire sentence.
  My book Spam Nation identified most of the world’s top spammers and virus writers by name, and I couldn’t have done that had someone in Russian law enforcement not leaked to me and to the FBI tens of thousands of email messages and documents stolen from ChronoPay’s offices. 
  To this day I don’t know the source of those stolen documents and emails.  They included spreadsheets chock full of bank account details tied to some of the world’s most active cybercriminals, and to a vast network of shell corporations created by Vrublevsky and ChronoPay to help launder the proceeds from his pharmacy, spam and fake antivirus operations.   -Brian Krebs of VA   https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/01/a-shakeup-in-russias-top-cybercrime-unit/

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2-7-17   
https://gosint.wordpress.com/2017/02/07/who-is-shaltay-boltay-fsb-colonel-sergey-mikhailov/
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2-17-17    According to a Reuters source, the treason charges are related to accusations made by a Russian businessman named Pavel Vrublevsky seven years ago.  In 2010, Vrublevsky, founder of internet payment firm ChronoPay, reported the suspects to authorities.  He claimed that they had passed state secrets to American firms including  Verisign, a company that specializes in domain name services and internet security, which then turned them over to US intelligence. Reuters reports the accusations were never investigated.
  A spokesperson from Verisign, the only American firm identified, denied that it had been given any secret information.  The company does have an iDefenseunit that gathers information on cybercrime and supplies dossiers to US intelligence, but the spokesperson insisted that it does not deal in classified information.  “Nothing like the arrangement as described by Pavel Vrublevsky ever took place,” said Kimberly Zenz, a former analyst at Verisign’s iDefense unit.  https://gizmodo.com/russias-mysterious-cyber-treason-case-just-got-even-ske-1792786218
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3-18-17   The U.S. indictment paints a picture of the FSB officers overseeing or being directly involved in computer hacking, including stolen e-mail accounts, and other secret programs designed to manipulate a user’s account.  Yahoo said the 2014 breach affected 500 million user accounts.
The indictment identified Sushchin as the “head of information security at the Russian financial firm, where he monitored the communications of Russian financial firm employees."
Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov
Russian billionaire Mikhail Prokhorov
Renaissance Capital is a major Moscow investment bank owned by Onexim group, a holding company that manages the assets of Prokhorov.  A billionaire who made his wealth investing in Russia’s nickel industry, Prokhorov challenged Vladimir Putin for the presidency in 2011 running as a liberal, pro-business opposition candidate.  https://www.rferl.org/a/russia-fsb-officer-indicted-worked-moscow-investment-bank/28377570.html
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4-6-17   FSB Col. Mihailov was arrested in December during a meeting of senior officers at the agency's Lubyanka HQ,and could face 20 years in jail....
  A media attack on Mikhailov by Tsargrad TV, controlled by a Putin friend, reported that Mikhailov passed to US agents the information that allowed Washington to issue the intelligence report blaming Moscow for election-related hacking....
  There are also claims - not confirmed - that the FSB detainees are linked to a trio arrested from the Shaltai-Boltai - Humpty Dumpty - hacking group.
  This outfit has caused embarrassment in the Kremlin, for example by hacking prime minister and ex-president Dmitry Medvedev, and releasing documents on propaganda initiatives.
  The leader of the group Vladimir Anikeyev, aka 'Lewis', has done a pre-trial deal with Russian prosecutors under which he admits his guilt in exchange for a lighter sentence.
  One version suggests he has given compromising evidence against Mikhailov.
'My client has made a pre-trial agreement with the investigation, but we are not commenting on its terms,'said Anikeyev's lawyer Ruslan Koblev.
  If the courts accept the deal, Anikeyev cannot be given a sentence exceeding two-thirds of the maximum five-year term for which he is accused.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4376566/Was-Russian-spy-CIA-hacking-mole-years.html#ixzz52sa9SsrH 
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Vladimir Anikeyev, leader of the Shaltai Boltai hacking collective, in an enclosure in a Moscow courtroom on Thursday. CreditIvan Sekretarev/Associated Press 
7-6-17  MOSCOW — After a two-day trial conducted behind closed doors, the Moscow City Court on Thursday sentenced Vladimir Anikeyev, the head of a hacking group that the authorities cracked down on last winter, to two years in a penal colony....
  The security service detained Mr. Anikeyev after luring him to Russia from Ukraine, where he had lived for several years, with the promise of payment for a hacking operation....
  Like other cybercriminals-turned-government hackers, Shaltai Boltai’s members are believed to have collaborated with Russian intelligence personnel, namely, those from the Federal Security Service.
  That led to the arrest of Sergei Mikhailov, the deputy director of the service’s cybersecurity organ, and one of several individuals arrested around the same time as the members of Shaltai Boltai and charged with treason, though the authorities never publicly linked the two cases.    https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/06/world/europe/vladimir-anikeyev-russia-hacking.html
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   Dec. 2017     Relations between intelligence agencies working on the cyber front were strained, one of Mikhailov’s acquaintances said.  The FSB and GRU compete for funding and Mikhailov felt the FSB carried out cyber tasks more professionally than the GRU, according to one of his acquaintances.
  He used to say that “the GRU breaks into servers in a brazen, clumsy, and brutish manner and it interfered with his own work”, the acquaintance said.   Moreover “the GRU’s hackers didn’t even try to cover their tracks”....
  The most surprising conclusion in Crowdstrike’s report was that the DNC was broken into by hackers not once, but twice.  The first breach occurred in summer 2015, and, according to Crowdstrike, was carried out by hackers with links to the FSB.   That attack was so meticulously carried out that almost a full year passed without anyone in the DNC suspecting anything.   The next attack took place in spring 2016 on the orders of the GRU, the Crowdstrike report claims.   It was spotted by U.S. intelligence agencies, which warned the DNC.  https://thebell.io/en/arrest-russian-intel-top-cyber-crime-expert-american-elections/
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12-15-17  
https://intelnews.org/tag/konstantin-kozlovsky/
  Hacker KK (shown above) of Lurk testified in Russian court that he was key in WannaCry attack and in DNC hack, that he worked on WannaCry at SamoletGroup in Kutuzoff Tower, Moscow (below), that he was connected to FSB....

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    Baratov, 22, is a Canadian and Kazakh national who lived in Canada (he’s now being held in California).  He was charged with being hired by two Russian FSB officer defendants in this case — Dmitry Dokuchaev, 33, and 
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Igor Sushchin, 43 — to hack into the email accounts of thousands of individuals. According to prosecutors, Baratov’s role in the charged conspiracy was to hack webmail accounts of individuals of interest to the FSB and send those accounts’ passwords to Dokuchaev in exchange for money.
Karim Baratov, a.k.a. “Karim Taloverov,” as pictured in 2014 on his own site, mr-karim.com.
Baratov’s co-defendant Dokuchaev is embroiled in his own legal worries in Russia, charges that could carry a death sentence.  He and his former boss Sergei Mikhailov — once deputy chief of the FSB’s Center for Information Security — were arrested in December 2016 by Russian authorities and charged with treason.  https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/12/carding-kingpin-sentenced-again-yahoo-hacker-pleads-guilty/
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  Even though ChronoPay was headquartered in Amsterdam, the company developed into a true leader for processing credit card payments in Russia – controlling roughly 25% of the market share.  The company’s client roster boasted several Russian companies as well as larger multinational corporations including Sony and Microsoft. Most Russian charitable foundations and non-profit organizations also use ChronoPay, including Greenpeace and the Red Cross. Additional clients included Russia’s second largest airline, Transaero, and the country’s largest cellphone operator, MTS.  In 2011 ChronoPay had five worldwide offices; Moscow, Amsterdam, Barcelona, and Florida in USA and Riga in Latvia. There were two franchises in China and an active business in Brazil.  In 2011, the company had more than two hundred employees....
  In 2009, Pavel Vrublevsky, part of the working group on combating spam under the Ministry of Communications,[24] initiated a campaign against his former partner Igor Gusev (according to Spamhaus rating of the world's main spammer[25]), the owner of the largest partner spam network for sale Viagra Glavmed.[26]
  Experts agree that after the commencement of the criminal prosecution of Gusev and the closure of Spamit's spam in 2010, the global level of spam fell by half.[27]
  ...In 2007, Pavel Vrublevsky first came under the pressure of the Central of Information Security of the Federal Security Service of the Russian Federation,[34][35] in 2010 he accused the CIS of the FSB of Russia of treason and the promotion of the myth of the Russian cyberthreat, and in 2011 was arrested several times by officers of the FSB in the case Aeroflot.[36]  In 2016, on the basis of materials from Vrublevsky, officers of the CIS FSB were arrested[37][38] because of high treason,[39][40][41] which led to the termination of cooperation between the US and Russia on cybercrime [40].               https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pavel_Vrublevsky
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Saturday, December 30, 2017

Kremlin has detained opposition politician Ilya Yashin

Ilya Yashin (Sergei Savostyanov / TASS)
12-28-17   Police in Moscow have detained opposition politician Ilya Yashin less than a week after he held an unsanctioned rally in the Russian capital. 
Yashin, a Moscow municipal deputy, held a "meeting with voters" on Sunday after a court struck down his permit request for a "Day of Free Elections."  The event was organized to educate voters about their rights and coincided with the sixth anniversary of one of the largest anti-government protests in Russian history on Dec. 24, 2011.   ...
Reports say that police seized Yashin's phone, keys and documents and that he would remain in custody until an unspecified court date.
Police visited the opposition politician at his home before Sunday's event, but eventually allowed 300 people to gather to hear him speak, Yashin said at the time.   https://themoscowtimes.com/news/moscow-police-detain-opposition-politician-ilya-yashin-60079

Lubyanka Square, 1991-now

Lubyanka Square.  Federal Security Service headquarters is the gray one to the left side.    https://www.systemaspetsnaz.com/lubyanka-the-kgb-headquarter
   
         After coming to power Yeltsin tried to control the KGB by dividing it into a dozen agencies and diminishing their power.  He eliminated the feared Fifth Directorate which pressured dissidents and spied on ordinary citizens.  Later Yeltsin became heavily dependent on the military and security services in carrying out his agenda.
  In 1992 Yeltsin never made a clear statement of his plans for the security services, except for occasional claims that the new services would be very different from the KGB.  Nevertheless, early in 1992 certain trends already could be discerned.  Generally speaking, Yeltsin had three main aims for the internal security services.  Above all, he wanted to use the services to support him in his battles with high-level political opponents.  Second, he wanted the security apparatus to counter broader domestic threats--ethnic separatism, terrorism, labor unrest, drug trafficking, and organized crime. Third, he intended that the security apparatus carry out counterintelligence against foreign spies operating in Russia.  [Source: Library of Congress]
  By the mid-1990s the remodeled KGB had regained much of its power.  Yeltsin gave the secret police broad powers as part of is his anti-crime initiative.  Police were allowed to conduct searches without warrants, tap hones, set up front organizations, interrogate suspects for days, and make arrests without charges.  They were also put in charge of the prisons.
 Parliament members and former Yeltsin ministers complained they were being bugged.  But the KGB provided poor intelligence on Chechyna and worsened that situation.  The KGB was renamed the Federal Security Service (FSB). It leaders accompanied Yeltsin on hunting and fishing trips and reportedly provided him advice on the occult and astrology….
  In July 1998 Putin was made head of the FSB,…Putin helped Yeltsin by firing people who were loyal to Yeltsin's main rival at the time, Vevgeny Primakov, who concurrently was moving in on Yeltsin, his family and supporters.  In August 9, 1999, Putin was appointed Prime Minister by Yeltsin after the sacking his predecessor Sergei Stepashin.  Some say Putin was selected by Yeltsin because of his connections to the FSB (KGB) and ability to protect Yeltsin after he left office (Putin’s first decree was to grant Yeltsin and his family immunity from any future prosecution).
  As the Russian president, Putin has been very systematic and patient, carefully analyzing polices through cost-benefit analysis.  Half of Putin's official decisions were classified as secret. He liked to do things in a top-down “vertical power” sort of way and expected loyalty from those below him the same he way he was loyal to those who were above him in the past.  The machinations of power under Putin have been largely opaque.  Putin placed members of the KGB in key positions in his government.  Explaining why, he said, "I have know them for many years and I trust them.  It had nothing to do with ideology.  It’s only a matter of their professional qualities and personal relationships.”  http://factsanddetails.com/russia/Government_Military_Crime/sub9_5e/entry-5203.html
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   After the failed August 1991 putsch, Primakov was appointed First Deputy Chairman of the KGB and Director of the KGB First Chief Directorate responsible for foreign intelligence.  After the formation of the Russian Federation, Primakov shepherded the transition of the KGB First Chief Directorate to the control of the Russian Federation government, under the new name Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR).  Primakov preserved the old KGB foreign intelligence apparatus under the new SVR label, and led no personnel purges or structural reforms.  He served as SVR director from 1991 until 1996.[13] 

    Primakov had refused to dismiss Communist ministers while the Communist Party was leading the process of preparing unsuccessful impeachment proceedings against the president.[28]   Beginning in 1999, he promoted Russia, China, and India as a "strategic triangle" to counterbalance the United States; he was dismissed as Foreign Minister in May 1999.  Ultimately, Yeltsin resigned at the end of the year and was succeeded by his last prime minister, Vladimir Putin.[29]    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yevgeny_Primakov
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http://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2017/06/29/in-russia-nostalgia-for-soviet-union-and-positive-feelings-about-stalin/
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Shasta


https://www.flickr.com/photos/24429795@N04/23213776675
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              The depth of man's inferiority, inefficiency, doubts and fears always stems from past momentums either of the self or of infections carried into the self from other selves....This is a matter of uprooting weeds which have no place in the garden of reality and of cultivating the virtues implanted there which have been choked out by the incumbent growth.  Momentums are built as people go over the old patterns again and again until these patterns become so deeply rutted that it is almost impossible to eradicate them from the face of consciousness....We advocate then in the overcoming of unwanted habits and conditions a recognition of the all-power of God.  
                                  -Maha Chohan:   Pearls of Wisdom 13:33

Friday, December 29, 2017

that God-government might manifest in the earth

        The first connection of Joseph of Arimathea with Britain is found in the 9th century Life of Mary Magdalene by Rabanus Maurus (AD 766-856), Archbishop of Mainz.   Rabanus states that Joseph of Arimathea was sent to Britain, and he goes on to detail who travelled with him as far as France, claiming that he was accompanied by "the two Bethany sisters, Mary and Martha, Lazarus (who was raised from the dead), St. Eutropius, St. Salome, St. Cleon, St. Saturnius, St. Mary Magdalen, Marcella (the maid of the Bethany sisters), St. Maxium or Maximin, St. Martial, and St. Trophimus or Restitutus."  An authentic copy of the Maurus text is housed in the Bodleian Library of Oxford University.  Rabanus Maurus describes their voyage to Britain:

  Leaving the shores of Asia and favoured by an east wind, they went round about, down the Tyrrhenian Sea, between Europe and Africa, leaving the city of Rome and all the land to the right.  Then happily turning their course to the right, they came near to the city of Marseilles, in the Viennoise province of the Gauls, where the river Rhône is received by the sea.  There, having called upon God, the great King of all the world, they parted; each company going to the province where the Holy Spirit directed them; presently preaching everywhere….
  The route he describes follows that of a supposed Phoenician trade route to Britain, as described by Diodorus Siculus. http://www.incrediblestuff.theosophywales.org.uk/theosophyjosephofarimathea.htm
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     The basic story of Joseph's trip to England varies in some details from account to account.  But the bare facts are that Joseph, with many disciples travelled from the holy land by boat and landed at Marseilles, in the Vienoise province of the Gauls (France).  From there he went on to England established seminaries, sent out missionaries, and helped in the conversion of the Royal family.  In his "Ecclesiastical Annals" Cardinal Baronius, Curator of the Vatican library, gives this account.  "In that year the party mentioned was exposed to the sea in a vessel without sails or oars.  The vessel drifted finally to Marseilles and they were saved.  From Marseilles Joseph and his company passed into Britain and after preaching the Gospel there, died."  The reason for the boat having been set adrift was that the Jews wanted to get rid of these Christians but couldn't get away with murder.
  How many of the disciples were with Joseph of Arimathea during his short stay in Gaul, before going on to England, is hard to say.  Various existing records agree in part with the Cardinal Baronius record, naming among the occupants of the castaway boat Mary Magdlene, Martha, the hand-maiden Marcella, Lazarus whom Jesus raised from the dead, and Maximin the man whose sight Jesus restored.  Other records state that Philip and James accompanied Joseph.  Others report that Mary, the wife of Cleopas, and Mary, the mother of Jesus, were also in the boat.   http://asis.com/users/stag/josephar.html
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    Around 36 CE would be the most appropriate date for the exodus of Joseph of Arimathea from the land of Palestine. Yet the date of the exodus of James the Just to Jericho and the date of the forced exile of Joseph of Arimathea and those under his protective care off the coast of Caesarea appear to be before the death of Stephen by stoning by the members of the Sanhedrin....

 Raymond Capt – “without sails and oars, they drifted with the wind and the currents arriving unharmed at Cyrene, in northern Africa.  After obtaining sails and oars, the little party of refugees followed the trade route of the Phoenician merchant ships as far west as Marseilles, France.”  (Raymond Capt, The Traditions of Glastonbury, cited by Joseph of Arimathea and David’s Throne in Britain, Triumph Prophetic Ministries, Altaden CA, pg 21)...
-Glastonbury Tor
http://www.biblesearchers.com/hebrewchurch/primitive/primitive6.shtml
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-Cadbury/Glastonbury ruins

-Joseph of Arimathea preaching  (from Mysteries of the Holy Grail, S.U. Press)
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The Chalice Well – photo by Robert Mock MD
  Here according to the best traditions they found a small round mud and wattle hut built to the designs of Celtic architecture that Joseph and Mary testified was the site where Yahshua as a young man lived, studied and worshipped while living in this area.  

  This land is ripe with traditions that are very strong that Yahshua (Jesus) came to Britain as a child with his great uncle, Joseph of Arimathea, a Roman Decurion, to scout for tin and lead mines so that these metals could be shipped back to Rome.  The purported site where the original Josephean settlement was built was around the oratory that was built by the hands of Jesus.  Twelve mud and wattle huts similar to the construction of homes in ancient Britain surrounded this place of worship near an ancient native spring now called the Chalice Well. ...
  It was also here at Avalon, that Lazarus life is identified, in the Celtic MSS, known as The Triads (Laws) of Lazarus.  (Capgrave, De Sancto Joseph ab Aramathea, quoting ancient manuscript and the Book of the Holy Grail, quoted in Jowett 163)  And it was from here that Lazarus, returned to Gaul, the area of Provence, France with Mary and Martha.  In the ancient church records of Lyon it states, ‘Lazarus returned to Gaul from Britain to Marseilles, taking with him Mary Magdalene and Martha.  He was the first appointed bishop.  He died there seven years later.”   (-Jowett, George F. The Drama of the Lost Disciples, Covenant Publ., Co, 8 Blades Court, Deodar Road, London SW15 2NU, 1961, 1993, pg 164)
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  The religion of the Druids was kept by oral laws and nothing was written in parchment or stone.  The Triads were committed to memory on the simple beliefs of God and the trinities of life, nature, and worship.  Some of these triads have been preserved from antiquity.
    • There are three obligations of every manJustice, Love and Humility.
    • There are three rights of every man:  Life, Freedom and Achievement.
    • There are three duties of every man:  Worship God, Be Just to all men, Die for your country.
    • There are three beliefs in God:  Believe in God who made you; Love God Who saved you; Fear God who will judge you.
    • Three persons have the claims of brother and sister:  The widow, the orphan and the stranger.
 The educational system of the Druids was the most extensive educational system in the ancient world.  There were forty known universities which were located in the forty tribal capitals of the Druids. These tribes eventually formed the boundaries of the modern counties in England and depict the ancient tribal boundaries.  

  It is reputed that the Druidic universities enrolled a total of sixty thousand youth which included most of the younger nobility of Britain and they attracted thousands of youth from the continent of Europe including the Senatorial families of Rome.  
http://www.biblesearchers.com/hebrewchurch/primitive/primitive6.shtml

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                         I Return to Glastonbury   
 Out of the light of the Ancient of Days I come on this day of Pentecost to bring to you my heart’s love of the Mother-flame.  As I brought to this land the light of the chalice so I bring a flame to fill your chalice with the renewal of the ancient covenant that God-government might manifest in the earth in preparation for the golden age and that this government might be through each and every son of God and child of the light who shall raise up that flame of the victorious Christ-consciousness.
I return to Glastonbury and to the site of our ancient focus.  I come to renew then the trust of the Lord Jesus Christ, my son.  I come to recall to you that he, as the great master of the Piscean age, waits to initiate souls who will become his disciples in deed, in word, in service to the Brotherhood.  Discipleship unto him through the mystery school of Lord Maitreya is the way that we have opened that this dream of Camelot might truly come into manifestation.
We have called the sons of our heart to the United States, but there are many in this land and in many nations who are yet to come forth in the understanding of the mysteries of the grail.  As your feet touch the ground which they have touched before and as you celebrate again the communion that we shared in his body and in his blood I am here to bear the light of the resurrection of all that has gone before and for the conclusion of an age that must pass through the nexus of the judgment ere the new age can dawn.
You have come with an understanding that Morya has called astute--an understanding of the forces of Armageddon, a penetration of the causes of the crumbling of our Camelot and of the crumbling of the British Empire.  These same forces of degeneration and decay have set in to the very roots of the United States.  And in the very roots of that nation they must be burned out by the sacred fire and by consecration to the ruby ray.  There is the possibility to understand the nature of decay by studying modern British history.  And tracing that modern history back into the past one sees even further into the origins.
All of the nobility and light which Saint Germain brought through the dispensation of the Shakespearean plays, all that has been brought by Thomas More as El Morya has played his role of loyalty to the Church, loyalty to the inner matrix and to truth itself--all of this has been a foundation which could have been for the victory of these nations.  And yet the seeds of degeneration and death sown by the fallen ones who walk the way of death have manifested even the records of the decline of Rome and of other past civilizations.  Thus nation by nation it has been the work of the archdeceivers of mankind to implant the seeds of unrest and the coils of the descending spirals.
Now you come to match these and to supersede them with a great light and a great energy of the resurrection flame.  Thus the reversing of the spiral is the call of the hour--and the arresting of those spirals as the Great Divine Director has taught us.  I AM the Mother-flame in the earth.  I AM the very heart of the brooding Universal Mother Spirit.  And yet I cannot enter in where there is not devotion and love given unto the Eternal Mother--unto that Mother of the Saviour and unto the Mother in embodiment who does truly embody the Mother-flame of Camelot as the Community of the Holy Spirit come again.  Thus the eternal Guru/chela relationship is always the nucleus, is always the magnet of the heart in the center of every constructive endeavor.  And therefore the destructive endeavors that have come to manifest on this soil and on the shores of America are composed of an anti-light forcefield, an anti-nucleus and an anti-magnet.
This usurping of the light of Alpha and Omega has manifested in many ways--ways with which you are entirely familiar in the culture of drug, rock, sensuality and perverse misuses of the body of the Mother’s children and of the sacred fire of Her light.  Thus crime and death and murder and rape and all forms of dishonor in the body of the lightbearers, as seeds of the wicked, are the forces of corruption which are counteracted today.  So the knights went forth of old to slay these dragons, to redress social injustice, and to challenge the Nephilimwho had set themselves up then as kings, as feudal lords--and in holding their fiefdoms, holding bound the children of the light and depriving them of their energy and their very lifeblood.
So the history of cycles moves on.  There is an opening in these cycles in this very era and in this decade as the seven archangels bring into manifestation the mysteries and the initiations of the eighth ray under Sanat Kumara.  It is a moment in cosmic history and in planetary history.  And be ever mindful, my children, that it is a moment in your personal history when you also can redress all wrongs and injustices of the past.  In order to accomplish this you must be diligent on the path.  And this diligence must take care in the understanding that the path of discipleship, the path of acceleration of the chela must be tended to daily.  The very fires of the heart must continually be enhanced and multiplied for the sustainment of the Guru’s light within your heart.
The very presence of Sanat Kumara indicates to the entire Brotherhood that this is a moment when we can descend to earth to contact many chelas of the light.  Therefore it is an hour for intensity, for acceleration, for going after the initiations that will propel you to new rungs of the ladder of God-d­ominion and self-mastery and the ability to convey a greater and greater heartflame unto the children of the Sun.  Thus with fond hope for the renewal of all that Morya and Saint Germain and the Lord Jesus Christ and Lanello have held in their hearts we come and we gather with you on this site now made famous by the excavations.
So it is good that men come to consecrate a place, a place that they can go back to and say, “This is where Camelot was.”  But we are more interested in defining where Camelot is today.  Not on the ruins of the past but upon the altar of the heart do we build anew.  For that mighty threefold flame that is God’s gift to every son is the true record and the place of all that Camelot has been and of every sacred mystery school, ultimately going back to the original of Lord Maitreya.  So the dream of Merlin conveyed to Arthur and conveyed to all the knights is truly derived from the yearning for the Edenic light, for the return to the Source and for the return to Maitreya.  All sons of light in the earth, all children of the light have a longing for that return to the blessed Buddha and to the blessed Mother.
And therefore when there is the gathering on the hillsides of the world again and again, as there is this gathering in this hour, it is always the celebration of the master and the disciple, the Guru and the chela who are one, the Lamb and the Lamb’s wife.  And thus the marriage of the Lamb is come.  And the marriage of the Lamb can come only when the bride is ready; and the bride is truly the chela who loves and loves again.
Therefore place yourselves in proximity to Maitreya and to the Mother.  Understand that in your questing in the world and in the world of the Spirit there is a need to be close to the flame, all the while increasing your prowess, your ability to deal with the fallen ones through education, through professional experience and through the founding of the holy family.  Saint Germain comes to sponsor you and all that you hold dear.
Therefore I take from my heart the mighty fires carried from the very place where the Last Supper was held.  I take from my heart the body and blood of Christ as from the holy grail.  In blessing this bread and this wine I convey to you a physical and tangible focus of all these initiations which Life will unfold to you if you endure on the path.  I remind you to contemplate as we celebrate this communion that the disciples went forth, that many were blessed and baptized and received in the Holy Church; but out of all that were received and consecrated only the few by comparison actually fulfilled the spiral and attained to the victory of the ascension.
Now at the conclusion of the age it is the hour for those mass ascensions on the hillsides of the world.  And I tell you that one day there shall be an ascension from this very hillside.  And the focus which I plant here in this hour, through your hearts and prayers and the heart of the Messenger, begins a spiral of ascension’s flame that will rest in the etheric octave until those devotees of Camelot and of all for which it stands can draw that flame out of the etheric into their physical temples and raise up a pillar of fire for the ascension current passing through then the lifestream (i.e., the lifestream itself will pass through) from the matter to the Spirit; and the fusion of the spheres will take place.  When the sphere of your causal body and your mighty I AM Presence fuses with the threefold flame in your heart then is come the hour of the fullness of your ascension.
I AM ever the Mother receiving you in the hour of your crucifixion, receiving you in the hour of your resurrection.  As I have sponsored Jesus so I sponsor you.  As you take the opportunity to be sponsored by me, O pilgrims of the Central Sun, remember that all is possible and all can be accomplished by you in this very life.  Will you not then seize the torch of Camelot and run with it and go and tell, tell them, tell all the nations that Camelot is come again, that Camelot is the real and living flame of Life--adequate, sufficient and God-victorious to every need.
Let the fallen ones challenge the light; let the light swallow up their darkness.  Let the Life prove in you that it, as Light and as Life, is God-victorious at every hand.  Blessed ones, go forth to conquer, for we behold the dawn of victory.  [Messenger invokes the Lord’s blessing of the bread and the wine.   Communion is served.]
(by Ruth Hawkins)
-Mother Mary, delivered to Messenger of the Brotherhood Elizabeth Clare Prophet on the hill at Cadbury, England, on Pentecost, May 25, 1980 during the Montessori International pilgrimage to the British Isles.  Mother Mary with Joseph of Arimethea carried the holy grail to Glastonbury following the resurrection of Jesus Christ. 
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