Everyone by now probably recognizes the first image. This is the "temple" built on Epstein's Little St. James island.
The meaning and design come from an era in Syria known as the Slave King Lineage, painted in Israhell colors.
The second image is the temple that was Hammam Yalbugha built in 1491 by the Mamluks. "Mamluk" is Arabic and literally means "owned" and "possessed," as in "owned slaves." The Mamluks were not from there; they were imported Turkic and Caucasian boys that were purchased and brought there by the dominant Ayyubid Sultanate, which was a Kurdish-Islamic dynasty. They were property.
And that's what Epstein revered, and so he honored it on the highest part of his island in Israeli colors. That should give some psychological insight into Epstein.
This area in Syria was the heart of Ba'al worship; Ba'al was the supreme cultic authority, and the masonry was native to Ba'al country. The Arabic word "hammom" means "bathhouse," and in ancient mid-east religious practice, purification rituals were done before entering into the presence of Ba'al.
Over time Ba'al worship combined with other deities as it spread to other areas. Baal Hammon was the chief god of ancient Carthage, for example. In Greece, Ba'al became associated with the Greek Cronos (time and space.) In Rome: Saturn (dominion over generational cycles.) It reflects symbolic inheritance.
In mythological history, Cronos fears overthrow by his offspring. So what does he do? He consumes them. He eats the babies, one by one, after birth—he is the devourer of his own children. Cronos represents power that preserves itself by consuming the next generation, power that maintains sovereignty by preventing succession, and power that devours youth—physically—in order to avoid displacement. That is the archetype—and symbolic systems encode worldviews.
Saturn is not merely the devourer in mythology—Saturn also represents the physical world: the material realm that consumes everything it produces; time consumes youth; power consumes innocence; institutions consume generations. When structures of power appear to consume the vulnerable in order to sustain Elite dominance, the myth ceases to be abstract—it becomes metaphorically descriptive.
This is the metaphysical map that governs the Elite class. They do not feel horror at what they do because they see it not as horror but as structural, as necessary, as required for order. So while the important question is, what governing metaphysical map governs the Elite? The next important question is, what governing metaphysical map governs me?
And until we ask that question...we remain trapped in someone else's architecture.
The most dangerous form of political lying is not the concealment of facts; it is the construction of an internally coherent alternative world—one that shields itself from the corrective force of reality. But at some point that metaphysical belief structure becomes ruptured by reality—and that is what we are seeing now in the world: the constructed narrative ruptured by reality itself.
So, the important question is, what metaphysical belief structure leads people to this? My answer: one that creates a second class, where you have one class that are the 'chosen ones' or the 'anointed ones,' and the other class—the rest, basically—which are lesser, or unworthy, or even equivalent to animals, and so, can be treated as such.
Anyone that holds this metaphysical belief structure will time after time have problems, all the way down through history, until they shape that up and change it to conform to reality. I'm not going to name names and point fingers, because there is more than just one metaphysical structure like this. The wisdom here is to stay sharp for ANY OF THEM. They all lead to disaster as reality eventually will rupture them.
-Kuddos to Prof. Courtney Brown of the Farsight Institute.
