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The Shape of Things to Come is a work of science fiction by H. G. Wells, published in 1933, which speculates on future events from 1933 until the year 2106. In the book, a world state is established as the solution to humanity's problems. As a frame story, Wells claims that the book is his edited version of notes written by an eminent diplomat, Dr Philip Raven, who had been having dream visions of a history textbook published in 2106 and wrote down what he could remember of it. It is split into five separate sections or "books": Today And Tomorrow: The Age of Frustration Dawns – The history of the world up to 1933. The Days After Tomorrow: The Age of Frustration – 1933–1960. The World Renaissance: The Birth of the Modern State – 1960–1978. The Modern State Militant – 1978–2059. The Modern State in Control of Life – 2059 to New Year's Day 2106. The Shape of Things to Come was written as a future history. Seen in retrospect, it can be considered as an alternative history, diverging from reality in late 1933 or early 1934, the point of divergence being US President Franklin D. Roosevelt's failure to implement the New Deal and revive the US economy and Adolf Hitler's failure to revive the German economy by rearmament. Instead, the worldwide economic crisis continues for thirty years, concurrently with the war, as described above. source: https://archive.org/details/Shape_Of_Things_To_Come

Take a step back into history with this enlightening video that guides you through a realm of ancient wisdom and morality. This immersive journey into the landscape of the Regius Manuscript—a treasured text from the late 14th century—provides a unique exploration of moral duties and behaviors from a bygone era. The Regius Manuscript, dating from around 1390, is a Middle English poetic text, considered the oldest known Masonic document. Its origins remain shrouded in mystery, but its 64 pages of rhymed verse provide a compelling snapshot of medieval society's moral instructions, chivalric codes, and practical etiquette. This video blends modern technology & historical texts thanks to a collaboration between the language model ChatGPT-4, voicechanger.io, VoiceGenerator.io, and the timeless allure of "Greensleeves"; I wouldn't have been able to make this without all of them. It's a testament to the potential of technology in making ancient wisdom more accessible and engaging for everyone. ORIGINAL: The Regius Manuscript "A Poem of Moral Duties" The oldest known Masonic Document in Poetic Meter Written about 1390 (In the original text) Hic incipiunt constituciones artis gemetriae secundum Eucyldem. Whose wol bothe wel rede and loke, He may fynde wryte yn olde boke Of grete lordys and eke ladyysse, That had mony chyldryn y-fere, y-wisse; And hade no rentys to fynde hem wyth, Nowther yn towne, ny felde, ny fryth: A cownsel togeder they cowthe hem take; To ordeyne for these chyldryn sake, How they myzth best lede here lyfe Withoute fret desese, care and stryge; And most for the multytude that was comynge Of here chyldryn after here zyndynge. (They) sende thenne after grete clerkys, To techyn hem thenne gode werkys; And pray we hem, for our Lordys sake, To oure chyldryn sum werke to make, That they myzth gete here lyvnge therby, Bothe wel and onestlyche, ful sycurly. Yn that tyme, throzgh good gemetry, Thys onest craft of good masonry Wes ordeynt and made yn thys manere, Y-cownterfetyd of thys clerkys y-fere; At these lordys prayers they cownterfetyd gemetry, And zaf hyt the name of masonry, For the moste oneste craft of alle. These lordys chyldryn therto dede falle, To lurne of hym the craft of gemetry, The wheche he made ful curysly; Throzgh fadrys prayers and modrys also, Thys onest craft he putte hem to. He that lerned best, and were of oneste, And passud hys felows yn curyste; Zef yn that craft he dede hym passe, He schulde have more worschepe then the lasse. Thys frete clerkys name was clept Euclyde, Hys name hyt spradde ful wondur wyde. Zet thys grete clerke more ordeynt he To hym that was herre yn thys degre, That he schulde teche the synplyst of (wytte) Yn that onest craft to be parfytte; And so uchon schulle techyn othur, And love togeder as syster and brothur. Forthermore zet that ordeynt he, Mayster y-called so schulde he be; So that he were most y-worschepede, Thenne sculde he be so y-clepede: But mason schulde never won other calle, Withynne the craft amongus hem alle, Ny soget, ny servant, my dere brother, Thazht he be not so perfyt as ys another; Uchon sculle calle other felows by cuthe, For cause they come of ladyes burthe. On thys maner, throz good wytte of gemetry, Bygan furst the craft of masonry: The clerk Euclyde on thys wyse hyt fonde, Thys craft of gemetry yn Egypte londe. Yn Egypte he tawzhte hyt ful wyde, Yn dyvers londe on every syde; Mony erys afterwarde, y understonde, Zer that the craft com ynto thys londe, Thys craft com ynto Englond, as y zow say, Yn tyme of good kynge Adelstonus day; He made tho bothe halle and eke bowre, And hye templus of gret honowre, To sportyn hym yn bothe day and nyzth, Thys goode lorde loved thys craft ful wel, And purposud to strenthyn hyt every del, For dyvers defawtys that yn the craft he fonde; He sende about ynto the londe After alle the masonus of the crafte, To come to hym ful evene strazfte, For to amende these defautys alle By good consel, zef hyt mytzth falle. A semble thenne he cowthe let make Of dyvers lordis, yn here state, Dukys, erlys, and barnes also, Kynzthys, sqwyers, and mony mo, And the grete burges of that syte, They were ther alle yn here degre; These were ther uchon algate, To ordeyne for these masonus astate. Ther they sowzton by here wytte, How they myzthyn governe hytte: Fyftene artyculus they ther sowzton And fyftene poyntys they wrozton. Hic incipit articulus primus. The furste artycul of thys gemetry:-- The mayster mason moste be ful securly bothe stedefast, trusty, and trwe, Hyt schal hum never thenne arewe: And pay thy felows after the coste, As vytaylys goth thenne, wel thou woste; And pay them trwly, apon thy fay, What that they mowe serve fore; And spare, nowther for love ny drede, Of nowther partys to take no mede; Of lord ny felow, whether he be, Of hem thou take no maner of fe; And as a jugge stonde upryzth, And thenne thou dost to bothe good ryzth; And trwly do thys whersever thou gost, Thy worschep, thy profyt, hyt shcal be most. Articulus secundus. The secunde artycul of good masonry, As ze mowe hyt here hyr specyaly, That every mayster, that ys a mason, Most ben at the generale congregacyon, So that he hyt resonably z-tolde Where that the semble schal be holde; And to that semble he most nede gon, But he have a resenabul skwsacyon, Or but he be unbuxom to that craft, Or with falssehed ys over-raft, Or ellus sekenes hath hym so stronge, That he may not com hem amonge; That ys a skwsacyon, good and abulle, To that semble withoute fabulle. Articulus tercius. The thrydde artycul for sothe hyt uysse, That the mayster take to no prentysse, but he have good seuerans to dwelle Seven zer with hym, as y zow telle, Hys craft to lurne, that ys profytable; Withynne lasse he may not be able To lordys profyt, ny to his owne, As ze mowe knowe by good resowne. Articulus quartus. The fowrhe artycul thys moste be That the mayster hym wel be-se, That he no bondemon prentys make, Ny for no covetyse do hym take; For the lord that he ys bonde to, May fache the prentes whersever he go. Zef yn the logge he were y-take, Muche desese hyt myzth ther make, And suche case hyt myzth befalle, That hyt myzth greve summe or alle. For alle the masonus tht ben there Wol stonde togedur hol y-fere Zef suche won yn that craft schulde swelle, Of dyvers desesys ze myzth telle: For more zese thenne, and of honeste, Take a prentes of herre degre. By olde tyme wryten y fynde That the prenes schulde be of gentyl kynde; And so symtyme grete lordys blod Toke thys gemetry, that ys ful good. Articulus quintus. The fyfthe artycul ys swythe good, So that the prentes be of lawful blod; The mayster schal not, for no vantage, Make no prentes that ys outrage; Hyt ys to mene, as ze mowe here, That he have hys lymes hole alle y-fere; To the craft hyt were gret schame, To make an halt mon and a lame, For an unperfyt mon of suche blod Schulde do the craft but lytul good. Thus ze mowe knowe everychon, The craft wolde have a myzhty mon; A maymed mon he hath no myzht, Ze mowe hyt knowe long zer nyzht. Articulus sextus. The syzte artycul ze mowe not mysse, That the mayster do the lord no pregedysse, To take of the lord, for hyse prentyse, Also muche as hys felows don, yn alle vyse. For yn that craft they ben ful perfyt, So ys not he, ze mowe sen hyt. Also hyt were azeynus good reson, To take hys, hure as hys felows don. Thys same artycul, yn thys casse, Juggythe the prentes to take lasse Thenne hys felows, that ben ful perfyt. Yn dyvers maters, conne qwyte hyt, The mayster may his prentes so enforme, That hys hure may crese ful zurne, And, zer hys terme come to an ende, Hys hure may ful wel amende. Articulus septimus. The seventhe artycul that ys now here, Ful wel wol telle zow, alle y-fere, That no mayster, for favour ny drede, Schal no thef nowther clothe ny fede. Theves he schal herberon never won, Ny hym that hath y-quellude a mon, Wy thylike that hath a febul name, Lest hyt wolde turne the craft to schame. Articulus octavus. The eghte artycul schewt zow so, That the mayster may hyt wel do, Zef that he have any mon of crafte, And be not also perfyt as he auzte, He may hym change sone anon, And take for hym a perfytur mon. Suche a mon, throze rechelaschepe, Myzth do the craft schert worschepe. Articulus nonus. The nynthe artycul schewet ful welle, That the mayster be both wyse and felle; That no werke he undurtake, But he conne bothe hyt ende and make; And that hyt be to the lordes profyt also, And to hys craft, whersever he go; And that the grond be wel y-take, That hyt nowther fle ny grake. Articulus decimus. The then the artycul ys for to knowe, Amonge the craft, to hye and lowe, There schal no mayster supplante other, But be togeder as systur and brother, Yn thys curyus craft, alle and som, That longuth to a maystur mason. Ny thys curyus craft, alle and som, That longuth to a maystur mason. Ny he schal not supplante non other mon, That hath y-take a werke hym uppon, Yn peyne therof that ys so stronge, That peyseth no lasse thenne ten ponge, But zef that he be gulty y-fonde, That toke furst the werke on honde; For no mon yn masonry Schal no supplante othur securly, But zef that hyt be so y-wrozth, That hyt turne the werke to nozth; Thenne may a mason that werk crave, To the lordes profzt hyt for to save; Yn suche a case but hyt do falle, Ther schal no mason medul withalle. Forsothe he that begynnth the gronde, And he be a mason goode and sonde, For hath hyt sycurly yn hys mynde To brynge the werke to ful good ende. Articulus undecimus. The eleventhe artycul y telle the, That he ys bothe fayr and fre; For he techyt, by hys myzth, That no mason schulde worche be nyzth, But zef hyt be yn practesynge of wytte, Zef that y cowthe amende hytte. Articulus duodecimus. The twelfthe artycul ys of hye honeste To zevery mason, whersever he be; He schal not hys felows werk deprave, Zef that he wol hys honeste save; With honest wordes he hyt comende, By the wytte that God the dede sende; Buy hyt amende by al that thou may, Bytwynne zow bothe withoute nay. Articulus xiijus. The threttene artycul, so God me save, Ys, zef that the mayster a prentes have, Enterlyche thenne that he hym teche, And meserable poyntes that he hym reche, That he the craft abelyche may conne, Whersever he go undur the sonne. Articulus xiiijus. The fowrtene artycul, by food reson, Schewete the mayster how he schal don; He schal no prentes to hym take, Byt dyvers crys he have to make, That he may, withynne hys terme, Of hym dyvers poyntes may lurne. Articulus quindecimus. The fyftene artcul maketh an ende, For to the maysterhe ys a frende; To lere hym so, that for no mon, No fals mantenans he take hym apon, Ny maynteine hys felows yn here synne, For no good that he myzth wynne; Ny no fals sware sofre hem to make, For drede of here sowles sake; Lest hyt wolde turne the craft to schame, And hymself to mechul blame. Plures Constituciones. At thys semble were poyntes y-ordeynt mo, Of grete lordys and maystrys also, That whose wol conne thys craft and com to astate, He most love wel God, and holy churche algate, And hys mayster also, that he ys wythe, Whersever he go, yn fylde or frythe; And thy felows thou love also, For that they craft wol that thou do. Secundus punctus. The secunde poynt, as y zow say, That the mason worche apon the werk day, Also trwly, as he con or may, To deserve hys huyre for the halyday, And trwly to labrun on hys dede, Wel deserve to have hys mede. Tercius punctus. The thrydde poynt most be severele, With the prentes knowe hyt wele, Hys mayster conwsel he kepe and close, And hys felows by hys goode purpose; The prevetyse of the chamber telle he no man, Ny yn the logge whatsever they done; Whatsever thou heryst, or syste hem do, Tells hyt no mon, whersever thou go; The conwesel of halls, and zeke of bowre, Kepe hyt wel to gret honowre, Lest hyt wolde torne thyself to blame, And brynge the craft ynto gret schame. Quartus punctus. The fowrthe poynt techyth us alse, That no mon to hys craft be false; Errour he schal maynteine none Azeynus the craft, but let hyt gone; Ny no pregedysse he schal not do To hys mayster, ny hys felows also; And thatzth the prentes be under awe, Zet he wolde have the same lawe. Quintus punctus. The fyfthe poynte ys, withoute nay, That whenne the mason taketh hys pay Of the mayster, y-ordent to hym, Ful mekely y-take so most hyt byn; Zet most the mayster, by good resone, Warne hem lawfully byfore none, Zef he nulle okepye hem no more, As he hath y-done ther byfore; Azeynus thys ordyr he may not stryve, Zef he thenke wel for to thryve. Sextus punctus. The syxte poynt ys ful zef to knowe, Bothe to hye and eke to lowe, For such case hyt myzth befalle, Am nge the masonus, summe or alle, Throwghe envye, or dedly hate, Ofte aryseth ful gret debate. Thenne owyth the mason, zef that he may, Putte hem bothe under a day; But loveday zet schul they make none; Tyl that the werke day be clene a-gone; Apon the holyday ze mowe wel take Leyser y-nowzgth loveday to make, Lest that hyt wolde the werke day Latte here werke for suche afray; To suche ende thenne that hem drawe, That they stonde wel yn Goddes lawe. Septimus punctus. The seventhe poynt he may wel mene, Of wel longe lyf that God us lene, As hyt dyscryeth wel opunly, Thou schal not by thy maysters wyf ly, Ny by the felows, yn no maner wyse, Lest the craft wolde the despyse; Ny by the felows concubyne, No more thou woldest he dede by thyne. The peyne thereof let hyt be ser, That he prentes ful seven zer, Zef he forfete yn eny of hem, So y-chasted thenne most he ben; Ful mekele care myzth ther begynne, For suche a fowle dedely synne. Octavus punctus. The eghte poynt, he may be sure, Zef thou hast y-taken any cure, Under thy mayster thou be trwe, For that pynt thou schalt never arewe; Atrwe medyater thou most nede be To thy mayster, and thy felows fre; Do trwly al....that thou myzth, To both partyes, and that ys good ryzth. Nonus punctus. The nynthe poynt we schul hym calle, That he be stwarde of oure halle, Zef that ze ben yn chambur y-fere, Uchon serve other, with mylde chere; Jentul felows, ze moste hyt knowe, For to be stwardus alle o rowe, Weke after weke withoute dowte, Stwardus to ben so alle abowte, Lovelyche to serven uchon othur, As thawgh they were syster and brother; Ther schal never won on other costage Fre hymself to no vantage, But every mon schal be lyche fre Yn that costage, so moste hyt be; Loke that thou pay wele every mon algate, That thou hsat y-bowzht any vytayles ate, That no cravynge be y-mad to the, Ny to thy felows, yn no degre, To mon or to wommon, whether he be, Pay hem wel and trwly, for that wol we; Therof on thy felow trwe record thou take, For that good pay as thou dost make, Lest hyt wolde thy felowe schame, Any brynge thyself ynto gret blame. Zet good acowntes he most make Of suche godes as he hath y-take, Of thy felows goodes that thou hast spende, Wher, and how, and to what ende; Suche acowntes thou most come to, Whenne thy felows wollen that thou do. Decimus punctus. The tenthe poynt presentyeth wel god lyf, To lyven withoute care and stryf; For and the mason lyve amysse, And yn hys werk be false, y-wysse, And thorwz suche a false skewysasyon May sclawndren hys felows oute reson, Throwz false sclawnder of suche fame May make the craft kachone blame. Zef he do the craft suche vylany, Do hym no favour thenne securly. Ny maynteine not hym yn wyked lyf, Lest hyt wolde turne to care and stryf; But zet hym ze schul not delayme, But that ze schullen hym constrayne, For to apere whersevor ze wylle, Whar that ze wolen, lowde, or stylle; To the nexte semble ze schul hym calle, To apere byfore hys felows alle, And but zef he wyl byfore hem pere, The crafte he moste nede forswere; He schal thenne be chasted after the lawe That was y-fownded by olde dawe. Punctus undecimus. The eleventhe poynt ys of good dyscrecyoun, As ze mowe knowe by good resoun; A mason, and he thys craft wel con, That syzth hys felow hewen on a ston, Amende hyt sone, zef that thou con, And teche hym thenne hyt to amende, That the lordys werke be not y-schende, And teche hym esely hyt to amende, With fayre wordes, that God the hath lende; For hys sake that sytte above, With swete wordes noresche hym love. Punctus duodecimus. The twelthe poynt of gret ryolte, Ther as the semble y-hole schal be, Ther schul be maystrys and felows also, And other grete lordes mony mo; There schal be the scheref of that contre, And also the meyr of that syte, Knyztes and ther schul be, And other aldermen, as ze schul se; Suche ordynance as they maken there, They schul maynte hyt hol y-fere Azeynus that mon, whatsever he be, That longuth to the craft bothe fayr and free. Zef he any stryf azeynus hem make, Ynto here warde he schal be take. Xiijus punctus. The threnteth poynt ys to us ful luf. He schal swere never to be no thef, Ny soker hym yn hys fals craft, For no good that he hath byraft, And thou mowe hyt knowe or syn, Nowther for hys good, ny for hys kyn. Xiijus punctus. The fowrtethe poynt ys ful good lawe To hym that wold ben under awe; A good trwe othe he most ther swere To hys mayster and hys felows that ben there; He most be stedefast and trwe also To alle thys ordynance, whersever he go, And to hys lyge lord the kynge, To be trwe to hym, over alle thynge. And alle these poyntes hyr before To hem thou most nede by y-swore, And alle schul swere the same ogth Of the masonus, be they luf, ben they loght, To alle these poyntes hyr byfore, That hath ben ordeynt by ful good lore. And they schul enquere every mon On his party, as wyl as he con, Zef any mon mowe be y-fownde gulty Yn any of these poyntes spesyaly; And whad he be, let hym be sowzht, And to the semble let hym be browzht. Quindecimus punctus. The fifethe poynt ys of ful good lore, For hem that schul ben ther y-swore, Suche ordyance at the semble wes layd Of grete lordes and maystres byforesayd; For thelke that be unbuxom, y-wysse, Azeynus the ordynance that ther ysse Of these artyculus, that were y-meved there, Of grete lordes and masonus al y-fere. And zef they ben y-preved opunly Byfore that semble, by an by, And for here gultes no mendys wol make, Thenne most they nede the craft they schul refuse, And swere hyt never more for to use. But zef that they wol mendys make, Azayn to the craft they schul never take; And zef that they nul not do so, The scheref schal come hem sone to, And putte here dodyes yn duppe prison, For the trespasse that they hav y-don, And take here goodes and here cattelle Ynto the kynges hond, everyt delle, And lete hem dwelle ther full stylle, Tyl hyt be oure lege kynges wylle. Alia ordinacio artis gematriae. They ordent ther a semble to be y-holde Every zer, whersever they wolde, To amende the defautes, zef any where fonde Amonge the craft withynne the londe; Uche zer or thrydde zer hyt schuld be holde, Yn every place whersever they wolde; Tyme and place most be ordeynt also, Yn what place they schul semble to. Alle the men of craft thr they most ben, And other grete lordes, as ze mowe sen, To mende the fautes that buth ther y-spoke, Zef that eny of hem ben thenne y-broke. Ther they schullen ben alle y-swore, That longuth to thys craftes lore, To kepe these statutes everychon, That ben y-ordeynt by kynge Aldelston; These statutes that y have hyr y-fonde Y chulle they ben holde throzh my londe, For the worsche of my rygolte, That y have by my dygnyte. Also at every semble that ze holde, That ze come to zowre lyge kyng bolde, Bysechynge hym of hys hye grace, To stone with zow yn every place, To conferme the statutes of kynge Adelston, That he ordeydnt to thys craft by good reson, Ars quatuor coronatorum. Pray we now to God almyzht, And to hys moder Mary bryzht, That we mowe keepe these artyculus here, And these poynts wel al y-fere, As dede these holy martyres fowre, That yn thys craft were of gret honoure; They were as gode masonus as on erthe schul go, Gravers and ymage-makers they were also. For they were werkemen of the beste, The emperour hade to hem gret luste; He wylned of hem a ymage to make, That mowzh be worscheped for his sake; Susch mawmetys he hade yn hys dawe, To turne the pepul from Crystus lawe. But they were stedefast yn Crystes lay, And to here craft, withouten nay; They loved wel God and alle hys lore, And weren yn hys serves ever more. Trwe men they were yn that dawe, And lyved wel y Goddus lawe; They thozght no mawmetys for to make, For no good that they myzth take, To levyn on that mawmetys for here God, They nolde do so thawz he were wod; For they nolde not forsake here trw fay, An beyleve on hys falsse lay. The emperour let take hem sone anone, And putte hem ynto a dep presone; The sarre he penest hem yn that plase, The more yoye wes to hem of Cristus grace. Thenne when he sye no nother won, To dethe he lette hem thenne gon; By the bok he may kyt schowe, In the legent of scanctorum, The name of quatour coronatorum. Here fest wol be, withoute nay, After Alle Halwen the eyght day. Ze mow here as y do rede, That mony zeres after, for gret drede That Noees flod wes alle y-ronne, The tower of Babyloyne was begonne, Also playne werke of lyme and ston, As any mon schulde loke uppon; So long and brod hyt was begonne, Seven myle the hezghte schadweth the sonne. King Nabogodonosor let hyt make, To gret strenthe for monus sake, Thazgh suche a flod azayne schulde come, Over the werke hyt schulde not nome; For they hadde so hy pride, with stronge bost, Alle that werke therfore was y-lost; An angele smot hem so with dyveres speche, That never won wyste what other schuld reche. Mony eres after, the goode clerk Euclyde Tazghte the craft of gemetre wonder wyde, So he ded that tyme other also, Of dyvers craftes mony mo. Throzgh hye grace of Crist yn heven, He commensed yn the syens seven; Gramatica ys the furste syens y-wysse, Dialetica the secunde, so have y blysse, Rethorica the thrydde, withoute nay, Musica ys the fowrth, as y zow say, Astromia ys the V, by my snowte, Arsmetica the Vi, withoute dowte Gemetria the seventhe maketh an ende, For he ys bothe make and hende, Gramer forsothe ys the rote, Whose wyl lurne on the boke; But art passeth yn hys degre, As the fryte doth the rote of the tre; Rethoryk metryth with orne speche amonge, And musyke hyt ys a swete song; Astronomy nombreth, my dere brother, Arsmetyk scheweth won thyng that ys another, Gemetre the seventh syens hyt ysse, That con deperte falshed from trewthe ywys. These bene the syens seven, Whose useth hem wel, he may han heven. Now dere chyldren, by zowre wytte, Pride and covetyse that ze leven, hytte, And taketh hede to goode dyscrecyon, And to good norter, whersever ze com. Now y pray zow take good hede, For thys ze most kenne nede, But much more ze moste wyten, Thenne ze fynden hyr y-wryten. Zef the fayle therto wytte, Pray to God to send the hytte; For Crist hymself, he techet ous That holy churche ys Goddes hous, That ys y-mad for nothynge ellus but for to pray yn, as the bok tellus; Ther the pepul schal gedur ynne, To pray and wepe for here synne. Loke thou come not to churche late, For to speke harlotrey by the gate; Thenne to churche when thou dost fare, Have yn thy mynde ever mare To worschepe thy lord God bothe day and nyzth, With all thy wyttes, and eke thy myzth. To the churche dore when tou dost come, Of that holy water ther sum thow nome, For every drope thou felust ther Qwenchet a venyal synne, be thou ser. But furst thou most do down thy hode, For hyse love that dyed on the rode. Into the churche when thou dost gon, Pulle uppe thy herte to Crist, anon; Uppon the rode thou loke uppe then, And knele down fayre on bothe thy knen; Then pray to hym so hyr to worche, After the lawe of holy churche, For to kepe the comandementes ten, That God zaf to alle men; And pray to hym with mylde steven To kepe the from the synnes seven, That thou hyr mowe, yn thy lyve, Kepe the wel from care and stryve, Forthermore he grante the grace, In heven blysse to hav a place. In holy churche lef nyse wordes Of lewed speche, and fowle bordes, And putte away alle vanyte, And say thy pater noster and thyn ave; Loke also thou make no bere, But ay to be yn thy prayere; Zef thou wolt not thyselve pray, Latte non other mon by no way. In that place nowther sytte ny stonde, But knele fayre down on the gronde, And, when the Gospel me rede schal, Fayre thou stonde up fro the wal, And blesse the fayre, zef that thou conne, When gloria tibi is begonne; And when the gospel ys y-done, Azayn thou myzth knele adown; On bothe thy knen down thou falle, For hyse love that bowzht us alle; And when thou herest the belle rynge To that holy sakerynge, Knele ze most, bothe zynge and olde, And bothe zor hondes fayr upholde, And say thenne yn thys manere, Fayr and softe, withoute bere; "Jhesu Lord, welcom thou be, Yn forme of bred, as y the se. Now Jhesu, for thyn holy name, Schulde me from synne and schame, Schryff and hosel thou grant me bo, Zer that y schal hennus go, And vey contrycyon of my synne, Tath y never, Lord, dye therynne; And, as thou were of a mayde y-bore, Sofre me never to be y-lore; But when y schal hennus wende, Grante me the blysse withoute ende; Amen! amen! so mot hyt be! Now, swete lady, pray for me." Thus thou myzht say, or sum other thynge, When thou knelust at the sakerynge. For covetyse after good, spare thou nought To worschepe hym that alle hath wrought; For glad may a mon that day ben, That onus yn the day may hym sen; Hyt ys so muche worthe, withoute nay, The vertu therof no mon telle may; But so meche good doth that syht, As seynt Austyn telluth ful ryht, That day thou syst Goddus body, Thou schalt have these, ful securly;- Mete and drynke at thy nede, Non that day schal the gnede; Ydul othes, an wordes bo, God forzeveth the also; Soden deth, that ylke day, The dar not drede by no way; Also that day, y the plyht, Thou schalt not lese thy eye syht; And uche fote that thou gost then, That holy syht for to sen, They schul be told to stonde yn stede, When thou hast therto gret nede; That messongere, the angele Gabryelle, Wol kepe hem to the ful welle. From thys mater now y may passe, To telle mo medys of the masse: To churche come zet, zef thou may, And here thy masse uche day; Zef thou mowe not come to churche, Wher that ever thou doste worche, When thou herest to masse knylle, Pray to God with herte stylle, To zeve the part of that servyse, That yn churche ther don yse. Forthermore zet, y wol zow preche To zowre felows, hyt for to teche, When thou comest byfore a lorde, Yn halle, yn bowre, or at the borde, Hod or cappe that thou of do, Zer thou come hym allynge to; Twyes or thryes, without dowte, To that lord thou moste lowte; With thy ryzth kne let hyt be do, Thynowne worschepe tou save so. Holde of thy cappe, and hod also, Tyl thou have leve hyt on to do. Al the whyle thou spekest with hym, Fayre and lovelyche bere up thy chyn; So, after the norter of the boke, Yn hys face lovely thou loke. Fot and hond, thou kepe ful stylle From clawynge and trypynge, ys sckylle; From spyttynge and snyftynge kepe the also, By privy avoydans let hyt go. And zef that thou be wyse and felle, Thou hast gret nede to governe the welle. Ynto the halle when thou dost wende, Amonges the genteles, good and hende, Presume not to hye for nothynge, For thyn hye blod, ny thy connynge, Nowther to sytte, ny to lene, That ys norther good and clene. Let not thy cowntenans therfore abate, Forsothe, good norter wol save thy state. Fader and moder, whatsever they be, Wel ys the chyld that wel may the , Yn halle, yn chamber, wher thou dost gon; Gode maners maken a mon. To the nexte degre loke wysly, To do hem reverans by and by; Do hem zet no reverans al o-rowe, But zef that thou do hem know. To the mete when thou art y-sette, Fayre and onestelyche thou ete hytte; Fyrst loke that thyn honden be clene, And that thy knyf be scharpe and kene; And kette thy bed al at thy mete, Ryzth as hyt may be ther y-ete. Zef thou sytte by a worththyur mon. Then thy selven thou art won, Sofre hym fyrst to toyche the mete, Zer thyself to hyt reche. To the fayrest mossel thou myzht not strike, Thaght that thou do hyt wel lyke; Kepe thyn hondes, fayr and wel, From fowle smogynge of thy towel; Theron thou schalt not thy nese snyte, Ny at the mete thy tothe thou pyke; To depe yn the coppe thou myzght not synke, Thagh thou have good wyl to drynke, Lest thyn enyn wolde wattryn therbyThen were hyt no curtesy Loke yn thy mowth ther be no mete, When thou begynnyst to drynke or speke. When thou syst any mon drynkiynge, That taketh hed to thy carpynge, Sone anonn thou sese thy tale, Whether he drynke wyn other ale. Loke also thou scorne no mon, Yn what degre thou syst hym gon; Ny thou schalt no mon deprave, Zef thou wolt thy worschepe save; For suche worde myzht ther outberste, That myzht make the sytte yn evel reste, Close thy honde yn thy fyste, And kepe the wel from "had-y-wyste." Yn chamber amonge the ladyes bryght, Holde thy tonge and spende thy syght; Lawze thou not with no gret cry, Ny make no ragynge with rybody. Play thou not buyt with thy peres, Ny tel thou not al that thou heres; Dyskever thou not thyn owne dede, For no merthe, ny for no mede; With fayr speceh thou myght have thy wylle, With hyt thou myght thy selven spylle. When thou metyst a worthy mon, Cappe and hod thou holle no on; Yn churche, yn chepyns, or yn gate, Do hym reverans after hys state. Zef thou gost with a worthyor mon, Then thyselven thou art won, Let thy forther schulder sewe backe, For that ys norter withoute lacke; When he doth speke, holte the stylle, When he hath don, sey for thy wylle, Yn thy speche that thou be felle, And what thou sayst avyse the welle; But byref thou no hym hys tale, Nowther at the wyn, ny at the ale. Cryst then of hys hye grace, Zeve zow bothe wytte and space, Wel thys boke to conne and rede, Heven to have for zowre mede. Amen! amen! so mot hyt be! Say we so alle per charyte.

Embark on an enlightening journey back in time with this engaging video that leads you through the fascinating corridors of medieval wisdom and principles. This immersive exploration plunges you into the historical panorama of the Matthew Cooke Manuscript—a revered document penned around 1450, providing a profound examination of societal norms and moral standards from a time long past. The Matthew Cooke Manuscript, scribed roughly around 1450, is an important Middle English text, acknowledged as the second-oldest known Masonic document. While its origins continue to be a subject of intrigue, this invaluable document delivers an intriguing glimpse into the moral teachings, chivalric tenets, and societal codes prevalent during the Middle Ages. This video blends modern technology & historical texts thanks to a collaboration between the language model ChatGPT-4, voicechanger.io, VoiceGenerator.io, and the timeless allure of "Greensleeves"; I wouldn't have been able to make this without all of them. It's a testament to the potential of technology in making ancient wisdom more accessible and engaging for everyone. ORIGINAL TEXT: The Matthew Cooke Manuscript One of the oldest known Masonic Documents Written about 1450 Thanked be God, our glorious Father, the founder and creator of heaven and earth, and of all things that therein are, for that he has vouchsafed, of his glorious Godhead, to make so many things of manifold virtue for the use of mankind. For he made all things to be subject and obedient to man. All things eatable of a wholesome nature he ordained for man's sustenance. And moreover, he hath given to man wit and the knowledge of divers things and handicrafts, by the which we may labour in this world, in order to therewith get our livelihood and fashion many objects, pleasant in the sight of God, to our own ease and profit. To rehearse all these matters here were too long in the writing or telling, I will therefore refrain; but I will nevertheless, tell you some ; for instance, how and in what manner the Science of Geometry was first invented, and who were the founders both thereof and of several other crafts, as is declared in the Bible, and other histories. How, and in what manner this worthy Science of Geometry took its rise, I will tell you, as I said before. You must know that there are seven liberal sciences, from which seven all other sciences and crafts in the world sprung; but especially is Geometry the first cause of all the other sciences, whatsoevor they be. These seven sciences are as follows: The first, which is called the foundation of all science, is grammar, which teacheth to write and speak correctly. The second is rhetoric, which teaches us to speak elegantly. The third is dialectic, which teaches us to discern the true from the false, and it is usually called art or sophistry (logic). The fourth is arithmetic, which instructs us in the science of numbers, to reckon, and to make accounts. The fifth is Geometry, which teaches us all about mensuration, measures and weights, of all kinds of handicrafts. The sixth is music, and that teaches the art of singing by notation for the voice, on the organ, trumpet, and harp, and of all things pertaining thereto. The seventh is astronomy, which teaches us the course of the sun and of the moon and of the other stars and planets of heaven. Our intent is to treat chiefly of the first foundation of Geometry and who were the founders thereof. As I said before, there are seven liberal sciences, that is to say, seven sciences or crafts that are free in themselves, the which seven exist only through Geometry. And Geometry may be described as earth-mensuration, for Geometry is derived from geo, which is in Greek "earth," and metrona or a measure. Thus is the word Geometry compounded and signifies the measure of the earth. Marvel not because I said that all sciences exist only through the science of Geometry. For there is no art or handicraft wrought by man's hands that is not wrought by Geometry which is a chief factor (notabulle cause) thereof. For if a man work with his hands he employs some sort of tool, and there is no instrument of any material in this world which is not formed of some sort of earth (ore) and to earth it will return. And there is no instrument or tool to work with that has not some proportion, more or less. And proportion is measure, and the instrument or tool is earth. And Geometry is earth-mensuration therefore I affirm that all men live by Geometry. For all men here to this world live by the labour of their hands. Many more proofs could I give you that Geometry is the science by which all reasoning men live, but I refrain at this time because the writing of it were a long process. And now I will enter further into the matter You must know that among all the crafts followed by man in this world, Masonry has the greatest renown end the largest share of this science of Geometry, as is stated in history, such as the Bible, and the Master of History," and in the Policronicon a well authenticated (or trustworthy) chronicle, and in the history called Beda De Imagine Mundi, and Isodorus Ethomolegiarum Methodius Episcopus & Martiris. And many others say that Masonry is the chief part of Geometry and so methinks it may well be said, for it was the first founded, as is stated in the Bible, in the first book of Genesis and the fourth chapter. And moreover all the learned authors above cited agree thereto. And some of them affirm it more openly and plainly, precisely as in Genesis in the Bible. Before Noah's Flood by direct male descent from Adam in the seventh generation, there lived a man called Lamech who had two wives, called Adah and Zillah. By the first wife, Adah, he begat two sons, Jabal and Jubal. The elder son Jabal was the first man that ever discovered geometry and masonry, and he made houses, and is called in the Bible the father of all men who dwell in tents or dwelling houses. And he was Cain's master mason and governor of the works when he built the city of Enoch, which was the first city ever made and was built by Cain, Adam's son, who gave it to his own son Enoch, and give the city the name of his son and called it Enoch, and now it is known as Ephraim. And at that place was the Science of Geometry and Masonry first prosecuted and contrived as a science and as a handicraft. And so we may well say that it is the first cause and foundation of all crafts and sciences. And also this man Jabel was called the father of shepherds. The Master of History says, and Beda De Imagine Mundi and the Policronicon and many others more say, that he was the first that made partition of lands, in order that every man might know his own land and labour thereon for himself. And also he divided flocks of sheep, that every man might know his own sheep, and so we may say that he was the inventor of that science. And his brother Jubal or Tubal was the inventor of music and song, as Pythagoras states in Polycronicon, and the same says Isodorous. In his Ethemolegiis in the 6th book he says that he was the first founder of music and song, and of the organ and trumpet; and he discovered that science by the sound of the weights of his brother's, Tubal-Cain's, hammers. And of a truth, as the Bible says, that is to say, in the fourth Chapter of Genesis, Lamech begat by his other wife Zillah a son and a daughter, and their names Tubal Cain, that was the son, and the daughter was called Naamah. And according to the Policronicon, some men say that she was Noah's wife; but whether this be so or not, we will not affirm. Ye must know that this son Tubal Cain was the founder of the smith's craft and of other handicrafts dealing with metals, such as iron, brass, gold and silver as some learned writers say; and his sister Naamah discovered the craft of weaving for before her time no cloth was woven, but they span yarn and knit it and made such clothing as they could. And as this woman Naamah invented the craft of weaving it was called woman'scraft. And these four brethren knew that God would take vengeance for sin, either by fire or water. And they were much concerned how to save the sciences they had discovered, and they took counsel together and exercised all their wits. And they said there were two kinds of stone of such virtue that the one would not burn, called marble, and the other named "Lacerus" would not sink in water. And so they devised to write all the sciences they had found on these two stones, so that if God took vengeance by fire the marble would not burn, and if by water the other would not drown, and they besought their elder brother Jabal to make two pillars of these two stones, that is of marble and of "Lacerus," and to write on the two pillars all the sciences and crafts which they had found and he did so. And therefore we may say that he was the wisest in science, for he first began and carried out their purpose before Noah's flood, Fortunately knowing of the vengeance that God would send, the brethren knew not whether it would be by fire or water. They knew by a sort of prophecy that God would send one or the other, and therefore they wrote their sciences on the two pillars of stone. And some men say that they wrote on the stones all the seven sciences, but [this I affirm not]. As they had it in mind that a vengeance would come, so it befell that God did send vengeance, and there came such a flood that all the world was drowned and all men died save only eight persons. These were Noah and his wife and his three sons and their wives, of which sons all the world is descended, and they were named in this wise, Shem, Ham and Japhet. And this flood is called Noah's Flood, for he and his children were saved therein. And many years after the flood, according to the chronicle, these two pillars were found, and the chronicle says that a great clerk, Pythagoras, found the one, and Hermes the philosopher found the other, and they taught the sciences that they found written thereon. Every chronicle and history and many other writers and the Bible especially relate the building or the tower of Babel; and it is written in the Bible, Genesis, Chap. x how that Ham, Noah's son, begat Nimrod, who grew a mighty man upon the earth and waxed strong, like unto a giant. He was a great king and the beginning of his kingdom was the kingdom of Babilon proper, and Erech and Arend and Calnch and the land of Shinar. And this same Ham began the tower of Babel and taught his workmen the Craft of Masonry and he had with him many masons, more than 40,000, and he loved and cherished them well. And it is written in Polycronicon, and in the Master of History, and in other histories, and beyond this the Bible witnesses in the same 10th chapter, as it is written, that Ashur who was of near kindred to Nimrod went forth from the land of Shinar and built the City of Nineveh and Plateas (sic) and many more. For it is written "Do terra illa" [&c.] It is but reasonable that we should plainly say how and in what manner the Charges of the Mason's Craft were first founded, and who first gave it the name of Masonry And you must know that it is stated and written in the Polycronicon and in Methothus Episcopus and Martiris that Ashur who was a worthy lord of Shinar, sent to Nimrod the king to send him Masons and workmen of the Craft that they might help him make his city which he was minded to make. And Nimrod sent him 3000 masons. And as they were about to depart and go forth, he called them before him and said to them, "Ye must go to my cousin Ashur to help him build a city, but see to it, that ye be well governed, and I will give you a Charge that shall be to your and my profit. "When you come to that lord, look that you be true to him, even as you would be to me, labour at your Craft honestly, and take a reasonable payment for it such as you may deserve. Love each other as though you were brothers and hold together staunchly. Let him that hath most skill teach his fellow, and be careful that your conduct amongst yourselves and towards your lord may be to my credit, that I may have thanks for sending you and teaching you the Craft." And they received the charge from him, being their lord and master, and went forth to Ashur and built the city of Nineveh in the country of Plateas (sic) and other cities also that are called Calah and Rosen, which is a great city between Calah and Nineveh. And in this manner the Craft of Masonry was first instituted and charged as a science. Elders of Masons before our times had these charges in writing as we have them now in our Charges of the story of Euclid, and as we have seen them written both in Latin and in French. But it is only reasonable that we should tell you how Euclid came to the knowledge of Geometry, as stated in the Bible and in other histories. In the XlIth chapter of Genesis it is told how Abraham came to the land of Canaan and our Lord appeared unto him and said, "I will give this land to thy seed." But a great famine reigned in that land and Abraham took Sarah, his wife, with him and made a journey into Egypt to abide there whilst the famine lasted. And Abraham, so says the chronicle, was as a wise man and a learned. And he knew all the seven sciences and taught the Egyptians the science of Geometry. And this worthy clerk Euclid was his pupil and learned of him. And he first gave it the name of Geometry; although it was practised before his time, it had not acquired the name of Geometry. But it is said by Isodoras in the 5th Book and first Chapter of Ethomolegiarum that Euclid was one of the first founders of Geometry and gave it that name. For in his time, the river of Egypt which is called the Nile so overflowed the land that no man could dwell therein. Then the worthy clerk Euclid taught them to make great walls and ditches to keep back the water, and by Geometry he measured the land and parcelled it out into sections and caused every man to enclose his own portion with walls and ditches and thus it became a country abounding in all kinds of produce, and of young people and of men and women: so that the youthful population increased so much as to render earning a livelihood difficult. And the lords of the country drew together and took counsel how they might help their children who had no competent livelihood in order to provide for themselves and their children, for they had so many. And at the council amongst them was this worthy Clerk Euclid and when he saw that all of them could devise no remedy in the matter be said to them "Lay your orders upon your sons and I will teach them a science by which they may live as gentlemen, under the condition that they shall be sworn to me to uphold the regulations that I shall lay upon them." And both they and the king of the country and all the lords agreed thereto with one consent. It is but reasonable that every man should agree to that which tended to profit himself; and so they took their sons to Euclid to be ruled by him and he taught them the Craft of Masonry and gave it the name of Geometry on account of the parcelling out of the ground which he had taught the people at the time of making the walls and ditches, as aforesaid, to keep out the water. And Isodoris says in Ethomologies that Euclid called the craft Geometry. And there this worthy clerk Euclid gave it a name and taught it to the lord's sons of that land whom he had as pupils. And he gave them a charge. That they should call each other Fellow and no otherwise, they being all of one craft and of the same gentle birth, lords' sons. And also that the most skilful should be governor of the work and should be called master; and other charges besides, which are written in the Book of Charges. And so they worked for the lords of the land and built cities and towns, castles and temples and lords' palaces. During the time that the childen of Israel dwelt in Egypt they learned the craft of Masonry. And after they were driven out of Egypt they came into the promised land, which is now called Jerusalem, and they occupied that land and the charges were observed there. And [at] the making of Solomon's Temple which king David began, King David loved masons well, and gave them [wages] nearly as they are now. And at the making of the Temple in Solomon's time, as stated in the Bible in the third book of Kings and the fifth chapter, Solomon held four score thousand masons at work. And the son of the king of Tyre was his master mason. And in other chronicles and in old books of masonry, it is said that Solomon confirmed the charges that David his father had given to masons. And Solomon himself taught them their usages differing but slightly from the customs now in use. And from thence this worthy science was brought into France and into many other regions. At one time there was a worthy king in France called Carolus Secondus, that is to say Charles the Second. And this Charles was elected king of France by the grace of God and also by right of descent. And some men say he was elected by good fortune, which is false as by the chronicles he was of the blood royal. And this same king Charles was a mason before he became king. And after he was king he loved masons and cherished them and gave them charges and usages of his devising, of which some are yet in force in France; and he ordained that they should have an assembly once a year and come and speak together in order that the masters and follows might regulate all things amiss. And soon after that came St. Adhabelle into England and he converted St. Alban to Christianity. And St. Alban loved well masons and he was the first to give them charges and customs in England, And he ordained [wages] adequate to pay for their toil. And after that there was a worthy king in England, called Athelstan, and his youngest son loved well the science of Geometry; and he knew well, as well as the masons themselves, that their handicraft was the practice of the science of Geometry. Therefore he drew to their councils (or took counsel, or lessons, of them) and learned the practical part of that science in addition to his theoretical (or book) knowledge. For of the speculative part he was a master. And he loved well masonry and masons. And he became a mason himself. And he give them charges and usages such as are now customary in England and in other countries. And he ordained that they should have reasonable pay. And he purchased a free patent of the king that they might hold an assembly at what time they thought reasonable and come together to consult. Of the which charges, usages and assembly it is written and taught in our Book of Charges; wherefore I leave it for the present. Good men! for this cause and in this way Masonry first arose. It befell, once upon a time, that great lords had so many free begotten children that their possessions were not extensive enough to provide for their future. Therefore they took counsel how to provide for their children and find them all honest livelihood. And they sent for wise masters of the worthy science of Geometry, that through their wisdom they might provide them with some honest living. Then one of them that was called Euclid a most subtil and wise inventor regulated [that science] and art and called it Masonry. And so in this art of his he honestly taught the children of great lords according to the desire of the fathers and the free consent of their children. And having taught them with great care for a certain time they were not all alike capable of exercising the said art, wherefore the said master Euclid ordained that those that surpassed the others in skill should be honoured above the others. And [comman]ded to call the more skilful "master" and for [him] to instruct the less skilful. The which masters were called masters of nobility, of knowledge and skill in that art. Nevertheless they commanded that they that were of less knowledge should not be called servants or subjects, but fellows, on account of the nobility of their gentle blood. In this manner was the aforesaid art begun in the land of Egypt by the aforesaid master Euclid and so it spread from country to country and from kingdom to kingdom Many years after, in the time of king Athelstan, sometime king of England, by common assent of his Council and other great lords of the land on account of great defects found amongst masons, a certain rule was ordained for them. Once a year or every three years as might appear needful to the king and great lords of the land and all the comunity, congregations should be called by the masters from country to country and from province to province of all masters, masons and fellows in the said art. And at such congregations those that are made masters shall be examined in the articles hereafter written and be ransacked whether they be able and skilful in order to serve the lords to their profit and to the honour of the aforesaid art. And moreover they shall be charged to well and truly expend the goods of their lords, as well of the lowest as of the highest; for those are their lords for the time being of whom they take their pay in recompense of their service and toil. The first article is this. That every master of this art should be wise, and true to the lord who employs him, expending his goods carefully as he would his own were expended; and not give more pay to any mason than he knows him to have earned, according to the dearth (or scarcity and therefore price) of corn and victuals in the country and this without favouritism, for every man is to be rewarded according to his work. The Second article is this. That every master of the art shall be warned beforehand to come to his congregation in order that he may duly come, there, unless he may [be] excused for some cause or other. But if he be found [i.e., accused of being] rebellious at such congregation, or at fault in any way to his employer's harm or the reproach of this art, he shall not be excused unless he be in peril of death. And though he be in peril of death, yet must, he give notice of his illness, to the master who is the president of the gathering. The [third] article is this. That no master take no apprentice for a shorter term than seven years at least, for the reason that such as have been bound a shorter time can not adequately learn their art, nor be able to truly serve their employer and earn the pay that a mason should. The fourth article is this. That no master shall for any reward take as an apprentice a bondsman born, because his lord to whom he is a bondsman might take him, as he is entitled to, from his art and carry him away with him from out the Lodge, or out of the place he is in. And because his fellows peradventure might help him and take his part, and thence manslaughter might arise; therefore it is forbidden. And there is another reason; because his art was begun by the freely begotten children of great lords, as aforesaid. The fifth article is this. That no master shall pay more to his apprentice during the time of his apprenticeship, whatever profit he may take thereby, than he well knows him to have deserved of the lord that employs him; and not even quite so much, in order that the lord of the works where he is taught may have some profit by his being taught there. The sixth article is this. That no master from covetousness or for gain shall accept an apprentice that is unprofitable; that is, having any maim (or defect) by reason of which he is incapable of doing a mason's proper work. The seventh article is this. That no master shall knowingly help or cause to be maintained and sustained any common nightwalker robber by which nightwalking they may be rendered incapable of doing a fair day's work and toil: a condition of things by which their fellows might be made wrath. The eighth article is this. Should it befall that a perfect and skilful mason come and apply for work and find one working who is incompetent and unskilful, the master of the place shall discharge the incompetent and engage the skilful one, to the advantage of the employer. The ninth article is this. That no master shall supplant another. For it is said in the art of masonry that no man can so well complete a work to the advantage of the lord, begun by another as he who began it intending to end it in accordance with his own plans, or [he] to whom he shows his plans. These regulation following were made by the lords (employers) and masters of divers provinces and divers congregations of masonry. [First point] To wit: whosoever desires to become a mason, it behoves him before all things to [love] God and the holy Church and all the Saints; and his master and follows as his own brothers. The second point. He must give a fair day's work for his pay. The third [point]. He shall hele the counsel or his fellows in lodge and in chamber, and wherever masons meet. The fourth point. He shall be no traitor to the art and do it no harm nor conform to any enactments against the art nor against the members thereof: but he shall maintain it in all honour to the best of his ability. The fifth point. When he receives his pay he shall take it without murmuring, as may be arranged at the time by the master; and he shall fulfil the agreement regarding the hours of work and rest, as ordained and set by the master. The sixth point. In case of disagreement between him and his fellows, he shall unquestioningly obey the master and be silent thereon at the bidding of his master, or of his master's warden in his master's absence, until the next following holiday and shall then settle the matter according to the verdict of his fellows; and not upon a work-day because of the hindrance to the work and to the lord's interests. The seventh point. He shall not covet the wife nor the daughter of his master or of his fellows unless it be in marriage neither shall he hold concubines, on account of the discord this might create amongst them. The eighth point. Should it befall him to be his master's warden, he shall be a true mediator between his master and his fellows: and he shall be active in his master's absence to the honour of his master and the profit of the lord who employs him. The ninth point. If he be more wise and skilful than his fellow working with him in the Lodge or in any other place, and he perceive that for want of skill, he is about to spoil the stone upon which he is working and can teach him to improve the stone, he shall instruct and help him; so that love may increase the more amongst them and the work of his employer be not lost. When the master and fellows, being forewarned are come to such congregations, the sheriff of the country or the mayor of the city or alderman of the town in which the congregation is held, shall if need be, be fellow and associate of the master of the congregation, to help him against disobedient members to maintain the rights of the realm. And at the commencement of the proceedings, new men who have never been charged before are to be charged in this manner. Ye shall never be thieves nor thieves' maintainers, and shall do a fair day's work and toil for your pay that you take of the lord, and shall render true accounts to your fellows in all matters which should be accounted for to them, and love them as yourselves. And ye shall be true to the king of England and to the realm: and that ye keep with all your might and [power] all the aforesaid articles. After that an enquiry shall be held whether any master or fellow summoned to the meeting, have broken any of the beforesaid articles, which, if they have done, it shall be then and there adjudicated upon. Therefore be it known; if any master or fellow being forewarned to come to the congregation, be contumacious and appear not; or having trespassed against any of the aforesaid articles shall be convicted; he shall forswear his masonry and shall no longer exercise the craft. And if he presume so to do, the sheriff of the country in which he may be found at work shall put him in prison and take all his goods for the use of the king, until his (the king's) grace be granted and showed him. For this cause chiefly were these congregations ordained; that the lowest as well as the highest might be well and truly served in the aforesaid art throughout all the kingdom of England. Amen, so mote it be.

Embark on an intriguing voyage through time as you delve into the captivating realm of "Dowland's Manuscript." This captivating video takes you on a mesmerizing journey, guiding you through the hallowed corridors of medieval knowledge and insights. Immerse yourself in the rich historical tapestry of this esteemed manuscript, believed to have been authored during a bygone era. "Dowland's Manuscript," thought to have originated around a significant period, offers a mesmerizing window into the depths of Middle English literature. Revered as one of the notable Masonic documents, it holds the distinction of being the second-oldest known artifact within this esteemed tradition. Unveiling its secrets and hidden meanings, this cherished manuscript invites you to unravel the enigmatic teachings, chivalrous principles, and societal customs that permeated the Middle Ages. This video blends modern technology & historical texts thanks to a collaboration between the language model ChatGPT-4, voicechanger.io, VoiceGenerator.io, and the timeless allure of "Greensleeves"; I wouldn't have been able to make this without all of them. It's a testament to the potential of technology in making ancient wisdom more accessible and engaging for everyone. ORIGINAL TEXT: In the Gentleman's Magazine published in the year 1815, a copy of a very valuable old manuscript was printed. We believe it's likely that this original manuscript can be matched to one of the existing manuscripts after a careful comparison. This manuscript was sent to the Editor by Mr. James Dowland with some notes. He said, "For the enjoyment of your readers, I'm sending you an interesting speech about Freemasonry that I recently acquired. It's written clearly on a long scroll of parchment, seemingly from the 17th century, and it was likely copied from an even older manuscript." Brother Woodford, Mr. Wallbran, Mr. Sims, and other notable experts believe that the original manuscript, from which the Gentleman's Magazine copied its content, is from a scroll that's at least a hundred years older than the date given to Mr. Dowland's manuscript. As a result, they estimate its date around 1550, making it the second oldest, just after manuscript B. The wording of this manuscript doesn't differ much from the "Grand Lodge" and "Edinburgh-Kilwinning" manuscripts. The recorded wages mentioned in this manuscript are also in agreement with those found in the "Grand Lodge" manuscript and some of the York manuscripts. May the power of the Father of Kings, along with the wisdom of His glorious Son, through the grace and goodness of the Holy Spirit — three persons in one God — be with us at our beginning. May they give us the grace to live in this mortal life in such a way that we may enter His kingdom that will never end. Amen. Dear Brothers and Fellows: Our aim is to tell you how and in what way this valuable craft of Masonry began. We'll also explain how it was favored by notable Kings, Princes, and many other respected men. Furthermore, for those who are interested, we will outline the responsibilities that every true Mason must uphold — and take note, they are indeed worth upholding for this esteemed craft and complex science. There are seven liberal arts and sciences, and Masonry is one of them. The seven sciences are as follows: The first is Grammar, which teaches a man to speak and write correctly. The second is Rhetoric, teaching a man to speak eloquently and subtly. The third is Dialectic, which helps a man to discern or recognize truth from falsehood. The fourth is Arithmetic, instructing a man to calculate and account all kinds of numbers. The fifth is Geometry, which instructs on the measurement of the earth and all other things, and this science is what Masonry is called. The sixth is Music, teaching a man about songs, voices, tongues, organs, harps, and trumpets. The seventh is Astronomy, which educates a man about the course of the sun, moon, and stars. These are the seven liberal arts and sciences, all of which are based on one science: Geometry. One can argue that the science of work is based on Geometry because it teaches a man about measurement, weight, and balance, of all kinds of things on earth. No person who practices any science does so without using some form of measurement, and no one buys or sells anything without using some form of measurement or weight; all of these involve Geometry. And all these tradesmen, craftsmen, practitioners of the other seven sciences, especially the farmer and cultivators of all types of fields, grains, seeds, vines, and other produce, none of them can find their measurements without Geometry. So, in my opinion, the science of Geometry is the most honorable as it supports all others. I'm going to tell you how these important sciences first began. Before Noah's flood, there was a man named Lamech, as it's written in the Bible, in the 4th chapter of Genesis. This Lamech had two wives, one named Ada, and the other named Sella. With his first wife Ada, he had two sons, Jahell and Tubal. With his second wife Sella, he had a son and a daughter. These four children discovered the beginning of all sciences in the world. The eldest son, Jahell, discovered the science of Geometry. He separated flocks of sheep and lambs in the field and was the first to build houses from stone and wood, as noted in the said chapter. His brother Tubal discovered the science of Music, the art of song, harp, and organ. The third brother, Tubal Cain, discovered metalwork involving gold, silver, copper, iron, and steel, while the daughter discovered the craft of weaving. These children knew that God would take revenge for sins either by fire or water. So, they wrote down their discoveries on two stone pillars so they could be found after Noah's flood. One of these stones was marble because it wouldn't burn with fire, and the other stone was called "laterns," which wouldn't sink in water. We aim to tell you accurately how and in what way these stones, on which these sciences were written, were discovered. A great man named Hermaynes, who was the son of Cus, who was the son of Sem, who was the son of Noah, found one of the two pillars of stone. He read the sciences written on it and taught them to other people. When the Tower of Babylon was being constructed, Masonry was greatly esteemed. The King of Babylon, named Nimrod, was a mason himself and greatly appreciated the craft, as said by historians. When the city of Nineveh and other Eastern cities were being built, Nimrod, the King of Babylon, sent sixty masons to assist at the request of his cousin, the King of Nineveh. When he sent them, he gave them instructions to be honest with each other, to love each other truly, and to serve their lord honestly for their pay. In this way, the master may be honored, and all that belong to him. He gave them more rules to follow. This was the first time Masons were given any instructions or responsibilities related to their craft. Furthermore, when Abraham and his wife Sara went to Egypt, he taught the Egyptians the seven sciences. He had an outstanding student named Euclid who was a master of all seven liberal arts. During his time, it happened that the lord and the ruling class had many sons, some with their wives and some with other ladies of the realm. The land was abundant in offspring due to its warm climate, but they couldn't adequately support their children, which caused them great worry. The king of the land convened a large council or parliament to discuss how they might provide for their children in a respectable way fitting for gentlemen, but they couldn't find a solution. So, they announced throughout the realm that anyone who could suggest a solution should come forward and would be rewarded generously. Upon hearing this, the learned Euclid came forward and proposed to the king and his lords to take their children under his guidance and teach them one of the seven sciences, so they could lead respectable lives as gentlemen should. He made one condition - he should be granted authority to govern them as the science demands. The king and his council agreed to this, granting and sealing their permission. Then, Euclid took these lord's sons and taught them the practical science of Geometry for working with stones and creating impressive work associated with constructing churches, temples, castles, towers, manors, and all other kinds of buildings. He gave them certain rules to follow. The first rule was that they should be loyal to the king and the lords they served. They should love one another and be honest with each other, and refer to each other as fellows or brothers, not as servants or slaves or any other disrespectful name. They should earn their pay from the lord or master they served. They should appoint the wisest among them to be the master of the work and not let love, noble lineage, wealth, or favoritism prevent a less skilled person from being the master, as it would result in poor service to the lord and shame for them. They should also address the person in charge of the work as Master during the time they work with him. He gave them many other instructions and made them swear a serious oath, common at that time, agreeing to these rules. He arranged reasonable wages for them so they could live decently. Moreover, he also instructed them to assemble once a year to discuss how they could best serve their lord and bring honor to themselves, and to hold accountable anyone who had violated the science's rules. This is how the science was established there, and the distinguished Euclid named it Geometry. But now, it is called Masonry throughout the land. Then, long after, when the Children of Israel came into the land of Beheast, now known among us as Jerusalem, King David began to build the temple they called "Templum D'ni," or what we call the Temple of Jerusalem. King David appreciated masons, treated them well, and paid them well. He passed on the instructions and customs he learned from Egypt given by Euclid and other instructions that you will hear about later. After King David's death, his son Solomon completed the Temple his father started. He brought together masons from various countries and lands, amounting to eighty thousand stone workers, all referred to as masons. He selected three thousand from them to be masters and supervisors of his work. Moreover, there was a king from another region named Hiram, who liked King Solomon and gave him timber for his construction. Hiram had a son named Aynon who was a master of Geometry and was the chief master of all his masons, handling all the carvings and masonry work related to the Temple. This is affirmed in the Bible, in the Book of Kings, the third chapter. Solomon confirmed the duties and customs his father had given to the masons. This is how masonry was established in Jerusalem and other kingdoms. Craftsmen skilled in this work travelled far and wide to different countries, some to learn more skills and others to teach those who knew little. A skilled mason named Maymus Grecus, who had worked on Solomon's Temple, went to France and taught masonry there. There was a royal figure in France named Charles Martel who loved this craft. He learned the science from Maymus Grecus and also took up the responsibilities and customs. Later, he became the King of France by God's grace. When he came into power, he supported the masons, helped make more masons, and gave them the duties, customs, and good pay as he had learned from other masons. He also confirmed their right to hold annual meetings wherever they wished, treating them well. This is how masonry came to France. England didn't have any organized masonry until the time of Saint Alban. During his time, the King of England, who was a pagan, built a wall around the town called Saint Alban. Saint Alban was a respected knight and steward in the king's household, overseeing the realm and the construction of the town walls. He liked masons and treated them well, improving their wages to two shillings and six pence a week and three pence for their meals. Before this, throughout the land, a mason would only receive a penny a day and food. Saint Alban enhanced this, granting them a charter from the King and his Council to hold a general council or assembly. Saint Alban himself attended these meetings, helped make masons, and gave them their duties. Soon after Saint Alban's death, various wars came into England from different nations, disrupting the good order of masonry until King Athelstone's reign. He was a respected King of England who brought peace and built many great works like abbeys and towers. He liked masons and had a son named Edwin, who loved masonry even more than his father. Edwin was deeply interested in Geometry, liked to talk and learn about the craft from the masons, and even became a mason himself. He obtained a charter and commission from his father, the King, to hold an annual assembly anywhere within England to address any faults or transgressions within the craft. He held a meeting in York, where he created Masons, gave them their duties, and taught them their customs. He ordered these rules to be followed ever since, and then kept the Charter and Commission, making a rule that it should be passed on from king to king. When the assembly was gathered, he made a declaration asking all the old and young Masons, who had any written or understood instructions and customs from this land or any other, to bring them forward. When they were examined, they found some in French, Greek, English, and other languages, but all had the same intention. He made a book out of these and included the origins of the craft. He himself ordered that it should be read or recited whenever a new Mason is made, to give him his duties. Since that day, Masonic customs have been followed in that form as well as people could manage it. Also, several assemblies have established specific duties through the best advice of Masters and fellows. Then an elder holds the book, as they or he lay hands on the book, and then they should be ordered to do so by law. Every man who is a Mason, pay close attention to these duties. If anyone finds themselves guilty of any of these, they should correct themselves in the eyes of God. Most importantly, those about to be given these responsibilities, make sure you can carry out these duties well, because it's very risky to lie on a book. The first duty is, you should be a true servant to God and the Holy Church, not straying into error or heresy as per your understanding or as taught by wise men. Also, you should be a loyal subject to the King of England without committing treason or any falsehood. If you know of any treason or betrayal, try to fix it privately if possible, or else warn the King or his Council. Also, you should be true to each other, that is, to every Mason of the Masonry craft. You should treat them as you would want to be treated. Moreover, you should keep all the secrets of the Lodge and Chamber and all other secrets that a Mason should keep. Also, no Mason should be involved in theft or thievery as far as he knows. You should also be loyal to the lord or master you serve, and genuinely seek his profit and advantage. You should call other Masons your brothers or your fellows, and not use any insulting names. Also, don't disgracefully pursue your fellow's wife, his daughter, or his servant, and don't disgrace him in any way. You should also pay fairly for your food and drink wherever you board. Also, don't do anything disgraceful in the place where you board, that might harm the reputation of the craft. These are the general responsibilities every true Mason should keep, both Masters and fellows. Now, I will go over the specific responsibilities for Masters and Fellows. First, no Master should take on a lord's work or anyone else's work unless he knows himself to be capable and knowledgeable enough to complete the lord's work in a way that the craft won't be slandered or disgraced, and that the lord can be well and truly served. Also, no Master should take on work unless it's reasonable, so that the lord can be truly served with his own goods, and the Master can live honestly and pay his fellows fairly. No master or fellow should undercut each other's work. If you've taken on work or are in charge of a lord's work, you shouldn't push him out unless he's unable to finish the work. No Master or fellow should take an apprentice for less than seven years, and the apprentice should be able-bodied, freeborn, and sound of limbs as a man should be. Also, no Master or fellow should allow someone to be made a Mason without the agreement of at least six or seven experienced fellows. The person to be made a Mason should be free-born, of good kin, honest, and not a slave. Also, no Mason should take an apprentice unless he has enough work for at least two or three fellows. No master or fellow should put a lord's work out for bids that used to be paid by the day. Each Master should pay his fellows as they deserve, so you're not fooled by shoddy workers. None of you should slander another behind his back causing him to lose his good name or worldly goods. No fellow, either within the Lodge or outside, should answer disrespectfully without a reasonable cause. Every Mason should respect his elder and honor him. No Mason should gamble or play dice or any other unlawful games that might disgrace the craft. No Mason should indulge in promiscuity or act as a pimp, which could slander the craft. No fellow should go into town at night, where there's a lodge of fellows, unless he has a fellow with him who can vouch for his being in a respectable place. Every Master and fellow should attend the Assembly, if it's within fifty miles of him, if he has any written charges. If you've done something wrong against the craft, you should accept the decision of the Masters and Fellows, and try to make peace if possible. If you can't agree, go to the courts. Neither a master nor a fellow should make a mould, square or rule for a layman, nor allow a layman in the lodge, or outside, to cut mould stones. Every Mason should welcome and take care of fellow Masons when they travel through the country, give them work if they want, as is the custom. If he doesn't have work in his place, he should give him money to get to the next lodge. Every Mason should serve the lord faithfully for his pay, and every master should complete his work, be it by task or by the day, if you have your agreements and everything else you should have. These responsibilities that we've now gone over with you, and all that belong to Masons, you should uphold, may your God help you, as well as your faith, and according to what this book instructs, to the best of your abilities. Amen! (Reprinted from Volume 85 of the Gentleman's Magazine, first printed in June 1815)

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Here is the link to the version available online - use it to see the diagrams and charts: https://www.lawfulpath.com/ref/sw4qw/index.shtml Here is the script for this video: Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars An Introduction Programming Manual Operations Research Technical Manual TW-SW7905.1 The following document is taken from two sources. The first, was acquired on a website (of which I can't remember the address) listing as its source the book titled Behold A Pale Horse by William Cooper, Light Technology Publishing, 1991, ("Copy furnished by Mr. Tom Young; A fellow Warrior in the cause of Freedom" is what Bill put in his book as his source.) The second source is a crudely copied booklet which does not contain a copyright notice, or a publishers name. With the exception of the Forward, the Preface, the main thing that was missing from the first source was the illustrations. 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For more you can go to either of these websites: The Lawful Path http://www.lawfulpath.com https://www.lawfulpath.com/ref/sw4qw/index.shtml Or, read Chapter One in Bill Cooper's book "Behold A Pale Horse", any edition will have the chapter titled "Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars", and he goes into it with added comments and emphasis, so it is worth a look to get the full picture. This manuscript was delivered to our offices by an unknown person. We did not steal the document, nor are we involved with any theft from the United States Government, and we did not get the document by way of any dishonest methods. We feel that we are not endangering the "National Security" by reproducing this document, quite the contrary; it has been authenticated and we feel that we are not only within our rights to publish it, but morally bound to do so. Regarding the training manual, you may have detected that we had to block out the marginal notes made by the selectee at the C.I.A. 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The consensus opinion was to distribute this to as many people as who wanted it, to the end that they would not only understand that "War" had been declared against them, but would be able to properly identify the true enemy to Humanity. Delamer Duverus Preface Conspiracy theories are nothing new to history. Plots to "kill Caesar" and overthrow Rome abounded, for instance. however, it is seldom that concrete clues to such plots come to light, and are generally known. Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars, An Introduction Programming Manual was uncovered quite by accident on July 7, 1986 when an employee of Boeing Aircraft Co. purchased a surplus IBM copier for scrap parts at a sale, and discovered inside details of a plan, hatched in the embryonic days of the "Cold War" which called for control of the masses through manipulation of industry, peoples' pastimes, education and political leanings. It called for a quiet revolution, putting brother against brother, and diverting the public's attention from what is really going on. The document you are about to read is real. It is reprinted in its virgin form, with diagrams, as a touch of reality. Table of Contents Foreword Preface Security Historical Introduction Political Introduction Energy Descriptive Introduction of the Silent Weapon Theoretical Introduction General Energy Concepts Mr. Rothschild's Energy Discovery Apparent Capital as "Paper Inductor Breakthrough Application in Economics The Economic Model Industrial Diagrams Three Industrial Classes Aggregation The E-model Economic Inductance Inductive Factors to Consider Translation Time Flow Relationships and Self-destructive Oscillations Industry Equivalent Circuits Stages of Schematic Simplification Generalization Final Bill of Goods The Technical Coefficients The Household Industry Household Models Economic Shock Testing Introduction to the Theory of Shock Testing Example of Shock Testing Introduction to Economic Amplifiers Short List of Inputs Short List of Outputs Table of Strategies Diversion, the Primary Strategy Diversion Summary Consent, the Primary Victory Amplification Energy Sources Logistics The Artificial Womb The Political Structure of a Nation - Dependency Action/Offense Responsibility Summary System Analysis The Draft Enforcement The following document, dated May 1979, was found on July 7, 1986, in an IBM copier that had been purchased at a surplus sale. TOP SECRET Silent Weapons for Quiet Wars Operations Research Technical Manual TM-SW7905.1 Welcome Aboard This publication marks the 25th anniversary of the Third World War, called the "Quiet War", being conducted using subjective biological warfare, fought with "silent weapons." This book contains an introductory description of this war, its strategies, and its weaponry. May 1979 #74-1120 Security It is patently impossible to discuss social engineering or the automation of a society, i.e., the engineering of social automation systems (silent weapons) on a national or worldwide scale without implying extensive objectives of social control and destruction of human life, i.e., slavery and genocide. This manual is in itself an analog declaration of intent. Such a writing must be secured from public scrutiny. Otherwise, it might be recognized as a technically formal declaration of domestic war. Furthermore, whenever any person or group of persons in a position of great power and without full knowledge and consent of the public, uses such knowledge and methodologies for economic conquest - it must be understood that a state of domestic warfare exists between said person or group of persons and the public. The solution of today's problems requires an approach which is ruthlessly candid, with no agonizing over religious, moral or cultural values. You have qualified for this project because of your ability to look at human society with cold objectivity, and yet analyze and discuss your observations and conclusions with others of similar intellectual capacity without the loss of discretion or humility. Such virtues are exercised in your own best interest. Do not deviate from them. Historical Introduction Silent weapon technology has evolved from Operations Research (O.R.), a strategic and tactical methodology developed under the Military Management in England during World War II. The original purpose of Operations Research was to study the strategic and tactical problems of air and land defense with the objective of effective use of limited military resources against foreign enemies (i.e., logistics). It was soon recognized by those in positions of power that the same methods might be useful for totally controlling a society. But better tools were necessary. Social engineering (the analysis and automation of a society) requires the correlation of great amounts of constantly changing economic information (data), so a high-speed computerized data-processing system was necessary which could race ahead of the society and predict when society would arrive for capitulation. Relay computers were to slow, but the electronic computer, invented in 1946 by J. Presper Eckert and John W. Mauchly, filled the bill. The next breakthrough was the development of the simplex method of linear programming in 1947 by the mathematician George B. Dantzig. Then in 1948, the transistor, invented by J. Bardeen, W.H. Brattain, and W. Shockley, promised great expansion of the computer field by reducing space and power requirements. With these three inventions under their direction, those in positions of power strongly suspected that it was possible for them to control the whole world with the push of a button. Immediately, the Rockefeller Foundation got in on the ground floor by making a four-year grant to Harvard College, funding the Harvard Economic Research Project for the study of the structure of the American Economy. One year later, in 1949, The United States Air Force joined in. In 1952 the grant period terminated, and a high-level meeting of the Elite was held to determine the next phase of social operations research. The Harvard project had been very fruitful, as is borne out by the publication of some of its results in 1953 suggesting the feasibility of economic (social) engineering. (Studies in the Structure of the American Economy - copyright 1953 by Wassily Leontief, International Science Press Inc., White Plains, New York). Engineered in the last half of the decade of the 1940's, the new Quiet War machine stood, so to speak, in sparkling gold-plated hardware on the showroom floor by 1954. With the creation of the maser in 1954, (Microwave Amplification by Stimulated Emission of Radiation) the promise of unlocking unlimited sources of fusion atomic energy from the heavy hydrogen in sea water and the consequent availability of unlimited social power was a possibility only decades away. The combination was irresistible. The Quiet War was quietly declared by the International Elite at a meeting held in 1954. Although the silent weapons system was nearly exposed 13 years later, the evolution of the new weapon-system has never suffered any major setbacks. This volume marks the 25th anniversary of the beginning of the Quiet War. Already this domestic war has had many victories on many fronts throughout the world. Political Introduction In 1954 it was well recognized by those in positions of authority that it was only a matter of time, only a few decades, before the general public would be able to grasp and upset the cradle of power, for the very elements of the new silent-weapon technology were as accessible for a public utopia as they were for providing a private utopia. The issue of primary concern, that of dominance, revolved around the subject of the energy sciences. Energy Energy is recognized as the key to all activity on earth. Natural science is the study of the sources and control of natural energy, and social science, theoretically expressed as economics, is the study of the sources and control of social energy. Both are bookkeeping systems: mathematics. Therefore, mathematics is the primary energy science. And the bookkeeper can be king if the public can be kept ignorant of the methodology of the bookkeeping. All science is merely a means to an end. The means is knowledge. The end is control. Beyond this remains only one issue: Who will be the beneficiary? In 1954 this was the issue of primary concern. Although the so-called "moral issues" were raised, in view of the law of natural selection it was agreed that a nation or world of people who will not use their intelligence are no better than animals who do not have intelligence. Such people are beasts of burden and steaks on the table by choice and consent. Consequently, in the interest of future world order, peace, and tranquillity, it was decided to privately wage a quiet war against the American public with an ultimate objective of permanently shifting the natural and social energy (wealth) of the undisciplined and irresponsible many into the hands of the self-disciplined, responsible, and worthy few. In order to implement this objective, it was necessary to create, secure, and apply new weapons which, as it turned out, were a class of weapons so subtle and sophisticated in their principle of operation and public appearance as to earn for themselves the name "silent weapons." In conclusion, the objective of economic research, as conducted by the magnates of capital (banking) and the industries of commodities (goods) and services, is the establishment of an economy which is totally predictable and manipulatable. In order to achieve a totally predictable economy, the low-class elements of society must be brought under total control, i.e., must be housebroken, trained, and assigned a yoke and long-term social duties from a very early age, before they have an opportunity to question the propriety of the matter. In order to achieve such conformity, the lower-class family unit must be disintegrated by a process of increasing preoccupation of the parents and the establishment of government-operated day-care centers for the occupationally orphaned children. The quality of education given to the lower class must be of the poorest sort, so that the moat of ignorance isolating the inferior class from the superior class is and remains incomprehensible to the inferior class. With such an initial handicap, even bright lower class individuals have little if any hope of extricating themselves from their assigned lot in life. This form of slavery is essential to maintain some measure of social order, peace, and tranquillity for the ruling upper class. Descriptive Introduction of the Silent Weapon Everything that is expected from an ordinary weapon is expected from a silent weapon by its creators, but only in its own manner of functioning. It shoots situations, instead of bullets; propelled by data processing, instead of chemical reaction (explosion); originating from bits of data, instead of grains of gunpowder; from a computer, instead of a gun; operated by a computer programmer, instead of a marksman; under the orders of a banking magnate, instead of a military general. It makes no obvious explosive noises, causes no obvious physical or mental injuries, and does not obviously interfere with anyone's daily social life. Yet it makes an unmistakable "noise," causes unmistakable physical and mental damage, and unmistakably interferes with the daily social life, i.e., unmistakable to a trained observer, one who knows what to look for. The public cannot comprehend this weapon, and therefore cannot believe that they are being attacked and subdued by a weapon. The public might instinctively feel that something is wrong, but that is because of the technical nature of the silent weapon, they cannot express their feeling in a rational way, or handle the problem with intelligence. Therefore, they do not know how to cry for help, and do not know how to associate with others to defend themselves against it. When a silent weapon is applied gradually, the public adjusts/adapts to its presence and learns to tolerate its encroachment on their lives until the pressure (psychological via economic) becomes too great and they crack up. Therefore, the silent weapon is a type of biological warfare. It attacks the vitality, options, and mobility of the individuals of a society by knowing, understanding, manipulating, and attacking their sources of natural and social energy, and their physical, mental, and emotional strengths and weaknesses. Theoretical Introduction Give me control over a nation's currency, and I care not who makes its laws. -- Mayer Amschel Rothschild, 1743 - 1812 Today's silent weapons technology is an outgrowth of a simple idea discovered, succinctly expressed, and effectively applied by the quoted Mr. Mayer Amschel Rothschild. Mr. Rothschild discovered the missing passive component of economic theory known as economic inductance. He, of course, did not think of his discovery in these 20th-century terms, and, to be sure, mathematical analysis had to wait for the Second Industrial Revolution, the rise of the theory of mechanics and electronics, and finally, the invention of the electronic computer before it could be effectively applied in the control of the world economy. General Energy Concepts In the study of energy systems, there always appears three elementary concepts. These are potential energy, kinetic energy, and energy dissipation. And corresponding to these concepts, there are three idealized, essentially pure physical counterparts called passive components. In the science of physical mechanics, the phenomenon of potential energy is associated with a physical property called elasticity or stiffness, and can be represented by a stretched spring. In electronic science, potential energy is stored in a capacitor instead of a spring. This property is called capacitance instead of elasticity or stiffness. In the science of physical mechanics, the phenomenon of kinetic energy is associated with a physical property called inertia or mass, and can be represented by a mass or a flywheel in motion. In electronic science, kinetic energy is stored in an inductor (in a magnetic field) instead of a mass. This property is called inductance instead of inertia. In the science of physical mechanics, the phenomenon of energy dissipation is associated with a physical property called friction or resistance, and can be represented by a dashpot or other device which converts energy into heat. In electronic science, dissipation of energy is performed by an element called either a resistor or a conductor, the term "resistor" being the one generally used to describe a more ideal device (e.g., wire) employed to convey electronic energy efficiently from one location to another. The property of a resistance or conductor is measured as either resistance or conductance reciprocals. In economics these three energy concepts are associated with: Economic Capacitance - Capital (money, stock/inventory, investments in buildings and durables, etc.) Economic Conductance - Goods (production flow coefficients) Economic Inductance - Services (the influence of the population of industry on output) All of the mathematical theory developed in the study of one energy system (e.g., mechanics, electronics, etc.) can be immediately applied in the study of any other energy system (e.g., economics). Mr. Rothchild's Energy Discovery What Mr. Rothschild had discovered was the basic principle of power, influence, and control over people as applied to economics. That principle is "when you assume the appearance of power, people soon give it to you." Mr. Rothschild had discovered that currency or deposit loan accounts had the required appearance of power that could be used to induce people (inductance, with people corresponding to a magnetic field) into surrendering their real wealth in exchange for a promise of greater wealth (instead of real compensation). They would put up real collateral in exchange for a loan of promissory notes. Mr. Rothschild found that he could issue more notes than he had backing for, so long as he had someone's stock of gold as a persuader to show his customers. Mr. Rothschild loaned his promissory notes to individual and to governments. These would create overconfidence. Then he would make money scarce, tighten control of the system, and collect the collateral through the obligation of contracts. The cycle was then repeated. These pressures could be used to ignite a war. Then he would control the availability of currency to determine who would win the war. That government which agreed to give him control of its economic system got his support. Collection of debts was guaranteed by economic aid to the enemy of the debtor. The profit derived from this economic methodology mad Mr. Rothschild all the more able to expand his wealth. He found that the public greed would allow currency to be printed by government order beyond the limits (inflation) of backing in precious metal or the production of goods and services. Apparent Capital as "Paper" Unquote Inductor In this structure, credit, presented as a pure element called Quote, "currency," Unquote has the appearance of capital, but is in effect negative capital. Hence, it has the appearance of service, but is in fact, indebtedness or debt. It is therefore an economic inductance instead of an economic capacitance, and if balanced in no other way, will be balanced by the negation of population (war, genocide). The total goods and services represent real capital called the gross national product, and currency may be printed up to this level and still represent economic capacitance; but currency printed beyond this level is subtractive, represents the introduction of economic inductance, and constitutes notes of indebtedness. War is therefore the balancing of the system by killing the true creditors (the public which we have taught to exchange true value for inflated currency) and falling back on whatever is left of the resources of nature and regeneration of those resources. Mr. Rothschild had discovered that currency gave him the power to rearrange the economic structure to his own advantage, to shift economic inductance to those economic positions which would encourage the greatest economic instability and oscillation. The final key to economic control had to wait until there was sufficient data and high-speed computing equipment to keep close watch on the economic oscillations created by price shocking and excess paper energy credits - paper inductance/inflation. Breakthrough The aviation field provided the greatest evolution in economic engineering by way of the mathematical theory of shock testing. In this process, a projectile is fired from an airframe on the ground and the impulse of the recoil is monitored by vibration transducers connected to the airframe and wired to chart recorders. By studying the echoes or reflections of the recoil impulse in the airframe, it is possible to discover critical vibrations in the structure of the airframe which either vibrations of the engine or aeolian vibrations of the wings, or a combination of the two, might reinforce resulting in a resonant self-destruction of the airframe in flight as an aircraft. From the standpoint of engineering, this means that the strengths and weaknesses of the structure of the airframe in terms of vibrational energy can be discovered and manipulated. Application in Economics To use this method of airframe shock testing in economic engineering, the prices of commodities are shocked, and the public consumer reaction is monitored. The resulting echoes of the economic shock are interpreted theoretically by computers and the psycho-economic structure of the economy is thus discovered. It is by this process that partial differential and difference matrices are discovered that define the family household and make possible its evaluation as an economic industry (dissipative consumer structure). Then the response of the household to future shocks can be predicted and manipulated, and society becomes a well-regulated animal with its reins under the control of a sophisticated computer-regulated social energy bookkeeping system. Eventually every individual element of the structure comes under computer control through a knowledge of personal preferences, such knowledge guaranteed by computer association of consumer preferences (universal product code, UPC; zebra-striped pricing codes on packages) with identified consumers (identified via association with the use of a credit card and later a permanent "tattooed" body number invisible under normal ambient illumination). Summary Economics is only a social extension of a natural energy system. It, also, has its three passive components. Because of the distribution of wealth and the lack of communication and lack of data, this field has been the last energy field for which a knowledge of these three passive components has been developed. Since energy is the key to all activity on the face of the earth, it follows that in order to attain a monopoly of energy, raw materials, goods, and services and to establixh a world system of slave labor, it is necessary to have a first strike capability in the field of economics. In order to maintain our position, it is necessary that we have absolute first knowledge of the science of control over all economic factors and the first experience at engineering the world economy. In order to achieve such sovereignty, we must at least achieve this one end: that the public will not make either the logical or mathematical connection between economics and the other energy sciences or learn to apply such knowledge. This is becoming increasingly difficult to control because more and more businesses are making demands upon their computer programmers to create and apply mathematical models for the management of those businesses. It is only a matter of time before the new breed of private programmer/economists will catch on to the far reaching implications of the work begun at Harvard in 1948. The speed with which they can communicate their warning to the public will largely depend upon how effective we have been at controlling the media, subverting education, and keeping the public distracted with matters of no real importance. The Economic Model Economics, as a social energy science has as a first objective the description of the complex way in which any given unit of resources is used to satisfy some economic want. (Leontief Matrix). This first objective, when it is extended to get the most product from the least or limited resources, comprises that objective of general military and industrial logistics known as Operations Research. (See simplex method of linear programming.) The Harvard Economic Research Project (1948-) was an extension of World War II Operations Research. Its purpose was to discover the science of controlling an economy: at first the American economy, and then the world economy. It was felt that with sufficient mathematical foundation and data, it would be nearly as easy to predict and control the trend of an economy as to predict and control the trajectory of a projectile. Such has proven to be the case. Moreover, the economy has been transformed into a guided missile on target. The immediate aim of the Harvard project was to discover the economic structure, what forces change that structure, how the behavior of the structure can be predicted, and how it can be manipulated. What was needed was a well-organized knowledge of the mathematical structures and interrelationships of investment, production, distribution, and consumption. To make a short story of it all, it was discovered that an economy obeyed the same laws as electricity and that all of the mathematical theory and practical and computer know-how developed for the electronic field could be directly applied in the study of economics. This discovery was not openly declared, and its more subtle implications were and are kept a closely guarded secret, for example that in an economic model, human life is measured in dollars, and that the electric spark generated when opening a switch connected to an active inductor is mathematically analogous to the initiation of war. The greatest hurdle which theoretical economists faced was the accurate description of the household as an industry. This is a challenge because consumer purchases are a matter of choice which in turn is influenced by income, price, and other economic factors. This hurdle was cleared in an indirect and statistically approximate way by an application of shock testing to determine the current characteristics, called current technical coefficients, of a household industry Finally, because problems in theoretical electronics can be translated very easily into problems of theoretical electronics, and the solution translated back again, it follows that only a book of language translation and concept definition needed to be written for economics. The remainder could be gotten from standard works on mathematics and electronics. This makes the publication of books on advanced economics unnecessary, and greatly simplifies project security. Industrial Diagrams An ideal industry is defined as a device which receives value from other industries in several forms and converts them into one specific product for sales and distribution to other industries. It has several inputs and one output. What the public normally thinks of as one industry is really an industrial complex, where several industries under one roof produce one or more products. A pure (single output) industry can be represented oversimply by a circuit block as follows: Industry 'K' The flow of product from industry #1 (supply) to industry #2 (demand) is denoted by 112. The total flow out of industry "K" is denoted by Ik (sales, etc.). A three industry network can be diagrammed as follows: 3 Industry Network A node is a symbol of collection and distribution of flow. Node #3 receives from industry #3 and distributes to industries #1 and #3. If industry #3 manufactures chairs, then a flow from industry #3 back to industry #3 simply indicates that industry #3 is using part of its own output product, for example, as office furniture. Therefore the flow may be summarized by the equations: equations Three Industrial Classes Industries fall into three categories or classes by type of output: Class #1 - Capital (resources) Class #2 - Goods (commodities or use - dissipative) Class #3 - Services (action of population) Class #1 industries exist at three levels: Nature - sources of energy and raw materials. Government - printing of currency equal to the gross national product (GNP), and extension of currency in excess of GNP. Banking - loaning of money for interest, and extension (inflation/counterfeiting) of economic value through the deposit loan accounts. Class #2 industries exist as producers of tangible or consumer (dissipated) products. This sort of activity is usually recognized and labeled by the public as "industry." Class #3 industries are those which have service rather than a tangible product as their output. These industries are called (1) households, and (2) governments. Their output is human activity of a mechanical sort, and their basis is population. Aggregation The whole economic system can be represented by a three-industry model if one allows the names of the outputs to be (1) capital, (2) goods, and (3) services. The problem with this representation is that it would not show the influence, say, the textile industry on the ferrous metal industry. This is because both the textile industry and the ferrous metal industry would be contained within a single classification called the "goods industry" and by this process of combining or aggregating these two industries under one system block they would lose their economic individuality. The E-Model A national economy consists of simultaneous flows of production, distribution, consumption, and investment. If all of these elements including labor and human functions are assigned a numerical value in like units of measure, say, 1939 dollars, then this flow can be further represented by a current flow in an electronic circuit, and its behavior can be predicted and manipulated with useful precision. The three ideal passive energy components of electronics, the capacitor, the resistor, and the inductor correspond to the three ideal passive energy components of economics called the pure industries of capital, goods, and services, respectively. Economic capacitance represents the storage of capital in one form or another. Economic conductance represents the level of conductance of materials for the production of goods. Economic inductance represents the inertia of economic value in motion. This is a population phenomenon known as services. Economic Inductance An electrical inductor (e.g., a coil or wire) has an electric current as its primary phenomenon and a magnetic field as its secondary phenomenon (inertia). Corresponding to this, an economic inductor has a flow of economic value as its primary phenomenon and a population field as its secondary field phenomenon of inertia. When the flow of economic value (e.g., money) diminishes, the human population field collapses in order to keep the economic value (money) flowing (extreme case - war). This public inertia is a result of consumer buying habits, expected standard of living, etc., and is generally a phenomenon of self-preservation. Inductive Factors to Consider: Population Magnitude of the economic activities of the government The method of financing these government activities (See Peter-Paul Principle - inflation of the currency.) Translation (a few examples will be given.) Charge: coulombs; dollars (1939). Flow/Current: amperes (coulombs per second); dollars of flow per year. Motivating Force: volts; dollars (output) demand. Conductance: amperes per volt; dollars of flow per year per dollar demand. Capacitance: coulombs per volt; dollars of production inventory/stock per dollar demand. Time Flow Relationships and Self-Destructive Oscillations An ideal industry may be symbolized electronically in various ways. The simplest way is to represent a demand by a voltage and a supply by a current. When this is done, the relationship between the two becomes what is called an admittance, which can result from three economic factors: (1) foresight flow, (2) present flow, and (3) hindsight flow. Foresight flow is the result of that property of living entities to cause energy (food) to be stored for a period of low energy (e.g., a winter season). It consists of demands made upon an economic system for that period of low energy (winter season). In a production industry it takes several forms, one of which is known as production stock or inventory. In electronic symbology this specific industry demand (a pure capital industry) is represented by capacitance and the stock or resource is represented by a stored charge. Satisfaction of an industry demand suffers a lag because of the loading effect of inventory priorities. Present flow ideally involves no delays. It is, so to speak, input today for output today, a "hand to mouth" flow. In electronic symbology, this specific industry demand (a pure us industry) is represented by a conductance which is then a simple economic valve (a dissipative element). Hindsight flow is known as habit or inertia. In electronics this phenomenon is the characteristic of an inductor (economic analog = a pure service industry) in which a current flow (economic analog = flow of money) creates a magnetic field (economic analog = active human population) which, if the current (money flow) begins to diminish, collapse (war) to maintain the current (flow of money - energy). Other large alternatives to war as economic inductors or economic flywheels are an open-ended social welfare program, or an enormous (but fruitful) open-ended space program. The problem with stabilizing the economic system is that there is too much demand on account of (1) too much greed and (2) too much population. This creates excessive economic inductance which can only be balanced with economic capacitance (true resources or value - e.g., in goods or services). The social welfare program is nothing more than an open-ended credit balance system which creates a false capital industry to give nonproductive people a roof over their heads and food in their stomachs. This can be useful, however, because the recipients become state property in return for the "gift," a standing army for the elite. For he who pays the piper picks the tune. Those who get hooked on the economic drug, must go to the elite for a fix. In this, the method of introducing large amounts of stabilizing capacitance is by borrowing on the future "credit" of the world. This is a fourth law of motion - onset, and consists of performing an action and leaving the system before the reflected reaction returns to the point of action - a delayed reaction. The means of surviving the reaction is by changing the system before the reaction can return. By this means, politicians become more popular in their own time and the public pays later. In fact, the measure of such a politician is the delay time. The same thing is achieved by a government by printing money beyond the limit of the gross national product, and economic process called inflation. This puts a large quantity of money into the hands of the public and maintains a balance against their greed, creates a false self-confidence in them and, for awhile, stays the wolf from the door. They must eventually resort to war to balance the account, because war ultimately is merely the act of destroying the creditor, and the politicians are the publicly hired hit men that justify the act to keep the responsibility and blood off the public conscience. (See section on consent factors and social-economic structuring.) If the people really cared about their fellow man, they would control their appetites (greed, procreation, etc.) so that they would not have to operate on a credit or welfare social system which steals from the worker to satisfy the bum. Since most of the general public will not exercise restraint, there are only two alternatives to reduce the economic inductance of the system. Let the populace bludgeon each other to death in war, which will only result in a total destruction of the living earth. Take control of the world by the use of economic "silent weapons" in a form of "quiet warfare" and reduce the economic inductance of the world to a safe level by a process of benevolent slavery and genocide. The latter option has been taken as the obviously better option. At this point it should be crystal clear to the reader why absolute secrecy about the silent weapons is necessary. The general public refuses to improve its own mentality and its faith in its fellow man. It has become a herd of proliferating barbarians, and, so to speak, a blight upon the face of the earth. They do not care enough about economic science to learn why they have not been able to avoid war despite religious morality, and their religious or self-gratifying refusal to deal with earthly problems renders the solution of the earthly problem unreachable to them. It is left to those few who are truly willing to think and survive as the fittest to survive, to solve the problem for themselves as the few who really care. Otherwise, exposure of the silent weapon would destroy our only hope of preserving the seed of the future true humanity. Industry Equivalent Circuits The industry 'Q' can be given a block symbol as follows: Industry 'Q' Terminals #1 through #m are connected directly to the outputs of industries #1 and #m, respectively. The equivalent circuit of industry 'Q' is given as follows: Equivalent of 'Q' Characteristics: All inputs are at zero volts. A - Amplifier - causes output current IQ to be represented by a voltage EQ. Amplifier delivers sufficient current at EQ to drive all loads Y10 through YmQ and sink all currents i1Q through imQ. The unit transconductance amplifier AQ is constructed as follows: transconductance amplifier * Arrow denotes the direction of the flow of capital, goods, and services. The total demand is given as EQ, where EQ=IQ. Coupling Network The coupling network YPQ symbolizes the demand which industry Q makes on industry P. the connective admittance YPQ is called the 'technical coefficient' of the industry Q stating the demand of industry Q, called the industry of use, for the output in capital, goods, or services of industry P called the industry of origin. The flow of commodities from industry P to industry Q is given by iPQ evaluated by the formula: iPQ = YPQ* EQ. When the admittance YPQ is a simple conductance, this formula takes on the common appearance of Ohm's Law, iPQ = gPQ* IQ. The interconnection of a three industry system can be diagrammed as follows. The blocks of the industry diagram can be opened up revealing the technical coefficients, and a much simpler format. The equations of flow are given as follows: equations of flow Stages of Schematic Simplification Stages Generalization All of this may now be summarized. Let Ij represent the output of industry j, and ijk, the amount of the product of industry j absorbed annually by industry k, and ijo, the amount of the same product j made available for 'outside' use. Then equation Substituting the technical coefficiences, yjk equation which is the general equation of every admittance in the industry circuit. Final Bill of Goods equation is called the final bill of goods or the bill of final demand, and is zero when the system can be closed by the evaluation of the technical coefficients of the 'non-productive' industries, government and households. Households may be regarded as a productive industry with labor as its output product. The Technical Coefficients The quantities yjk are called the technical coefficients of the industrial system. They are admittances and can consist of any combination of three passive parameters, conductance, capacitance, and inductance. Diodes are used to make the flow unidirectional and point against the flow. gjk = economic conductance, absorption coefficient yjk = economic capacitance, capital coefficient Ljk = economic inductance, human activity coefficient Types of Admittances admittance schematic admittance schematic The Household Industry The industries of finance (banking), manufacturing, and government, real counterparts of the pure industries of capital, goods, and services, are easily defined because they are generally logically structured. Because of this their processes can be described mathematically and their technical coefficients can be easily deduced. This, however, is not the case with the service industry known as the household industry. Household Models When the industry flow diagram is represented by a 2-block system of households on the right and all other industries on the left, the following results: labor, etc. The arrows from left to right labeled A, B, C, etc., denote flow of economic value from the industries in the left hand block to the industry in the right hand block called 'households'. These may be thought of as the monthly consumer flows of the following commodities. A - alcoholic beverages, B - beef, C - coffee, . . . . , U - unknown, etc. . . The problem which a theoretical economist faces is that the consumer preferences of any household is not easily predictable and the technical coefficients of any one household tend to be a nonlinear, very complex, and variable function of income, prices, etc. Computer information derived from the use of the universal product code in conjuction with credit-card purchase as an individual household identifier could change this state of affairs, but the U.P.C. method is not yet available on a national or even a significant regional scale. To compensate for this data deficiency, an alternate indirect approach of analysis has been adopted known as economic shock testing. This method, widely used in the aircraft manufacturing industry, develops an aggregate statistical sort of data. Applied to economics, this means that all of the households in one region or in the whole nation are studied as a group or class rather than individually, and the mass behavior rather than the individual behavior is used to discover useful estimates of the technical coefficients governing the economic structure of the hypothetical single-household industry. Notice in the industry flow diagram that the values for the flows A, B, C, etc. are accessible to measurement in terms of selling prices and total sales of commodities. One method of evaluating the technical coefficients of the household industry depends upon shocking the prices of a commodity and noting the changes in the sales of all of the commodities. Economic Shock Testing In recent times, the application of Operations Research to the study of the public economy has been obvious for anyone who understands the principles of shock testing. In the shock testing of an aircraft airframe, the recoil impulse of firing a gun mounted on that airframe causes shock waves in that structure which tell aviation engineers the conditions under which some parts of the airplane or the whole airplane or its wings will start to vibrate or flutter like a guitar string, a flute reed, or a tuning fork, and disintegrate or fall apart in flight. Economic engineers achieve the same result in studying the behavior of the economy and the consumer public by carefully selecting a staple commodity such as beef, coffee, gasoline, or sugar, and then causing a sudden change or shock in its price or availability, thus kicking everybody's budget and buying habits out of shape. They then observe the shock waves which result by monitoring the changes in advertising, prices, and sales of that and other commodities. The objective of such studies is to acquire the know-how to set the public economy into a predictable state of motion or change, even a controlled self-destructive state of motion which will convince the public that certain "expert" people should take control of the money system and reestablish security (rather than liberty and justice) for all. When the subject citizens are rendered unable to control their financial affairs, they, of course, become totally enslaved, a source of cheap labor. Not only the prices of commodities, but also the availability of labor can be used as the means of shock testing. Labor strikes deliver excellent tests shocks to an economy, especially in the critical service areas of trucking (transportation), communication, public utilities (energy, water, garbage collection), etc. By shock testing, it is found that there is a direct relationship between the availability of money flowing in an economy and the real psychological outlook and response of masses of people dependent upon that availability. For example, there is a measurable quantitative relationship between the price of gasoline and the probability that a person would experience a headache, feel a need to watch a violent movie, smoke a cigarette, or go to a tavern for a mug of beer. It is most interesting that, by observing and measuring the economic models by which the public tries to run from their problems and escape from reality, and by applying the mathematical theory of Operations Research, it is possible to program computers to predict the most probable combination of created events (shocks) which will bring about a complete control and subjugation of the public through a subversion of the public economy (by shaking the plum tree). Introduction to the Theory of Economic Shock Testing Let the prices and total sales of commodities be given and symbolized as follows: Commodities Price Function Total Sales alcoholic beverages A A beef B B coffee C C gasoline G G sugar S S tobacco T T unknown balance U U Let us assume a simple economic model in which the total number of important (staple) commodities are represented as beef, gasoline, and an aggregate of all other staple commodities which we will call the hypothetical miscellaneous staple commodity 'M' (e.g., M is an aggregate of C, S, T, U, etc.). Example of Shock Testing: Assume that the total sales, P, of petroleum products can be described by the linear function of the quantities B, G, and M, which are functions of the prices of those respective commodities. P = aPG B + aPG G + aPM M Then where B, G, and M are functions of the prices of beef, gasoline, and miscellaneous, respectively, and aPB, aPG, and aPM are constant coefficients defining the amount by which each of the functions B, G, and M affect the sales, P, of petroleum products. We are assuming that B, G, and M are variables independent of each other. If the availability or price of gasoline is suddenly changed, then G must be replaced by G + G. This causes a change in the petroleum sales from P to P + P. Also we will assume that B and M remain constant when G changes to G + G. (P + P) = aPB B + aPG (G + G) + aPMM. Expanding upon this expression, we get P + P = aPB B + aPG G + aPG G + aPM M and subtracting the original value of P we get for the change in P Change in P = P = aPG G Dividing by G we get aPG = P / G . This is a rate of change in P due only to an isolated change in G, G. In general, ajk is the partial rate of change in the sales effect j due to a change in the causal price function of commodity k. If the interval of time were infinitesimal, this expression would be reduced to the definition of the total differential of a function, P. equation: When the price of gasoline is shocked, all of the coefficients with round G (2G) in the denominator are evaluated at the same time. If B, G, and M were independent, and sufficient for description of the economy, then three shock tests would be necessary to evaluate the system. There are other factors which may be represented the same way. For example, the tendency of a docile sub-nation to withdraw under economic pressure may be given by equation where G is the price of gasoline, WP is the dollars spent per unit time (referenced to say 1939) for war production during 'peace' time, etc. These quantities are presented to a computer in matrix format as follows: equation and X1 = G Y1 = P - KP X2 = B Y2 = F - KF X3 = etc. Y3 = etc. Finally, inverting this matrix, i.e., solving for the Xk terms of the Yj, we get, say, [bkj] [Yj ] = [Xk] . This is the result into which we substitute to get that set of conditions of prices of commodities, bad news on TV, etc., which will deliver a collapse of public morale ripe for take over. Once the economic price and sales coefficients ajk and bkj are determined, they may be translated into the technical supply and demand coefficients gjk, Cjk, and 1/Ljk. Shock testing of a given commodity is then repeated to get the time rate of change of these technical coefficients. Introduction to Economic Amplifiers Economic amplifiers are the active components of economic engineering. The basic characteristic of any amplifier (mechanical, electrical, or economic) is that it receives an input control signal and delivers energy from an independent energy source to a specified output terminal in a predictable relationship to that input control signal. The simplest form of an economic amplifier is a device called advertising. If a person is spoken to by a T.V. advertiser as if he were a twelve-year-old, then, due to suggestibility, he will, with a certain probability, respond or react to that suggestion with the uncritical response of a twelve-year-old and will reach into his economic reservoir and deliver its energy to but that product on impulse when he passes it in the store. An economic amplifier may have several inputs and output. Its response might be instantaneous or delayed. Its circuit symbol might be a rotary switch if its options are exclusive, qualitative, "go" or "no-go", or it might have its parametric input/output relationships specified by a matrix with internal energy sources represented. Whatever its form might be, its purpose is to govern the flow of energy from a source to an output sink in direct relationship to an input control signal. For this reason, it is called an active circuit element or component. Economic Amplifiers fall into classes called strategies, and, in comparison with electronic amplifiers, the specific internal functions of an economic amplifier are called logistical instead of electrical. Therefore, economic amplifiers not only deliver power gain but also, in effect, are used to cause changes in the economic circuitry. In the design of an economic amplifier we must have some idea of at least five functions, which are: the available input signals the desired output-control objectives, the strategic objective, the available economic power sources, the logistical options. The process of defining and evaluating these factors and incorporating the economic amplifier into an economic system has been popularly called game theory. The design of an economic amplifier begins with a specification of the power level of the output, which can range from personal to national. The second condition is accuracy of response, i.e., how accurately the output action is a function of the input commands. High gain combined with strong feedback helps to deliver the required precision. Most of the error will be in the input data signal. Personal input data tends to be specified, while national input data tends to be statistical. Short List of Inputs Questions to be answered: what. where. why. when. how. who. General sources of information: telephone taps. analysis of garbage. surveillance. behavior of children in school. Standard of living by: food. shelter. clothing. transportation. Social contacts: telephone - itemized record of calls. family - marriage certificates, birth certificates, etc. friends, associates, etc. memberships in organizations. political affiliation. The Personal Paper Trail. Personal buying habits, i.e., personal consumer preferences: checking accounts. credit-card purchases. "tagged" credit-card purchases - the credit-card purchase of products bearing the U.P.C. (Universal Product Code). Assets: checking accounts. savings accounts. real estate. business. automobile, etc. safety deposit at bank. stock market. Liabilities: creditors. enemies (see - legal). loans. Government sources (ploys)*: Welfare. Social Security. U.S.D.A. surplus food. doles. grants. subsidies. * Principle of this ploy -- the citizen will almost always make the collection of information easy if he can operate on the "free sandwich principle" of "eat now, and pay later." Government sources (via intimidation): Internal Revenue Service OSHA Census etc. Other government sources -- surveillance of U.S. mail. Habit Patterns -- Programming Strengths and weaknesses: activities (sports, hobbies, etc.) see "legal" (fear, anger, etc. -- crime record) hospital records (drug sensitivities, reaction to pain, etc.) psychiatric records (fears, angers, disgusts, adaptability, reactions to stimuli, violence, suggestibility or hypnosis, pain, pleasure, love, and sex) Methods of coping -- of adaptability -- behavior: consumption of alcohol consumption of drugs entertainment religious factors influencing behavior other methods of escaping from reality Payment modus operandi (MO) -- pay on time, etc.: payment of telephone bills energy purchases water purchases repayment of loans house payments automobile payments payments on credit cards Political sensitivity: beliefs contacts position strengths/weaknesses projects/activities Legal inputs -- behavioral control (Excuses for investigation, search, arrest, or employment of force to modify behavior) court records police records -- NCIC driving record reports made to police insurance information anti-establishment acquaintances National Input Information Business sources (via I.R.S., etc): prices of commodities sales investments in stocks/inventory production tools and machinery buildings and improvements the stock market Banks and credit bureaus: credit information payment information Miscellaneous sources: polls and surveys publications telephone records energy and utility purchases Short List of Outputs Outputs -- create controlled situations -- manipulation of the economy, hence society -- control by control of compensation and income. Sequence: allocates opportunities. destroys opportunities. controls the economic environment. controls the availability of raw materials. controls capital. controls bank rates. controls the inflation of the currency. controls the possession of property. controls industrial capacity. controls manufacturing. controls the availability of goods (commodities). controls the prices of commodities. controls services, the labor force, etc. controls payments to government officials. controls the legal functions. controls the personal data files -- uncorrectable by the party slandered. controls advertising. controls media contact. controls material available for T.V. viewing disengages attention from real issues. engages emotions. creates disorder, chaos, and insanity. controls design of more probing tax forms. controls surveillance. controls the storage of information. develops psychological analyses and profiles of individuals. controls legal functions [repeat of 15] controls sociological factors. controls health options. preys on weakness. cripples strengths. leaches wealth and substance. Table of Strategies Do this: Keep the public ignorant To get this: Less public organization Do this: Maintain access to control points for feedback To get this: Required reaction to outputs (prices, sales) Do this: Create preoccupation To get this: Lower defenses Do this: Attack the family unit To get this: Control of the education of the young Do this: Give less cash and more credit and doles To get this: More self-indulgence and more data Do this: Attack the privacy of the church To get this: Destroy faith in this sort of government Do this: Social conformity To get this: Computer programming simplicity Do this: Minimize the tax protest To get this: Maximum economic data, minimum enforcement problems. Do this: Stabilize the consent To get this: Simplicity coefficients Do this: Tighten control of variables To get this: Simpler computer input data -- greater predictability Do this: Establish boundary conditions To get this: Problem simplicity / solutions of differential and difference equations Do this: Proper timing To get this: Less data shift and blurring Do this: Maximize control To get this: Minimum resistance to control Do this: Collapse of currency To get this: Destroy the faith of the American people in each other. Diversion, the Primary Strategy Experience has prevent that the simplest method of securing a silent weapon and gaining control of the public is to keep the public undisciplined and ignorant of the basic system principles on the one hand, while keeping them confused, disorganized, and distracted with matters of no real importance on the other hand. This is achieved by: disengaging their minds; sabotaging their mental activities; providing a low-quality program of public education in mathematics, logic, systems design and economics; and discouraging technical creativity. engaging their emotions, increasing their self-indulgence and their indulgence in emotional and physical activities, by: unrelenting emotional affrontations and attacks (mental and emotional rape) by way of constant barrage of sex, violence, and wars in the media - especially the T.V. and the newspapers. giving them what they desire - in excess - "junk food for thought" - and depriving them of what they really need. rewriting history and law and subjecting the public to the deviant creation, thus being able to shift their thinking from personal needs to highly fabricated outside priorities. These preclude their interest in and discovery of the silent weapons of social automation technology. The general rule is that there is a profit in confusion; the more confusion, the more profit. Therefore, the best approach is to create problems and then offer solutions. Diversion Summary Media: Keep the adult public attention diverted away from the real social issues, and captivated by matters of no real importance. Schools: Keep the young public ignorant of real mathematics, real economics, real law, and real history. Entertainment: Keep the public entertainment below a sixth-grade level. Work: Keep the public busy, busy, busy, with no time to think; back on the farm with the other animals. Consent, the Primary Victory: A silent weapon system operates upon data obtained from a docile public by legal (but not always lawful) force. Much information is made available to silent weapon systems programmers through the Internal Revenue Service. (See Studies in the Structure of the American Economy for an I.R.S. source list.) This information consists of the enforced delivery of well-organized data contained in federal and state tax forms, collected, assembled, and submitted by slave labor provided by taxpayers and employers. Furthermore, the number of such forms submitted to the I.R.S. is a useful indicator of public consent, an important factor in strategic decision making. Other data sources are given in the Short List of Inputs. Consent Coefficients - numerical feedback indicating victory status. Psychological basis: When the government is able to collect tax and seize private property without just compensation, it is an indication that the public is ripe for surrender and is consenting to enslavement and legal encroachment. A good and easily quantified indicator of harvest time is the number of public citizens who pay income tax despite an obvious lack of reciprocal or honest service from the government. Amplification Energy Sources The next step in the process of designing an economic amplifier is discovering the energy sources. The energy sources which support any primitive economic system are, of course, a supply of raw materials, and the consent of the people to labor and consequently assume a certain rank, position, level, or class in the social structure, i.e., to provide labor at various levels in the pecking order. Each class, in guaranteeing its own level of income, controls the class immediately below it, hence preserves the class structure. This provides stability and security, but also government from the top. As time goes on and communication and education improve, the lower-class elements of the social labor structure become knowledgeable and envious of the good things that the upper-class members have. They also begin to attain a knowledge of energy systems and the ability to enforce their rise through the class structure. This threatens the sovereignty of the elite. If this rise of the lower classes can be postponed long enough, the elite can achieve energy dominance, and labor by consent no longer will hold a position of an essential energy source. Until such energy dominance is absolutely established, the consent of people to labor and let others handle their affairs must be taken into consideration, since failure to do so could cause the people to interfere in the final transfer of energy sources to the control of the elite. It is essential to recognize that at this time, public consent is still an essential key to the release of energy in the process of economic amplification. Therefore, consent as an energy release mechanism will now be considered. Logistics The successful application of a strategy requires a careful study of inputs, outputs, the strategy connecting the inputs and the outputs, and the available energy sources to fuel the strategy. This study is called logistics. A logistical problem is studied at the elementary level first,