Yes, we’ll get to the Relics and Artifacts in a minute. I just wanted you to take a peek at the video above, to get yourself prepared for what’s going to happen in the realm of antiques and such.
We used to call them “junk stores” — overcrowded, dry and dusty with undisturbed age, the objects lanquished in the darkness, waiting for a new owner and new life.
Sometime around 1950, those same junk shops switched signs, and became “antique shoppes”, with fewer items, better arrangement, and much higher prices.
There were, in the 1960s and 1970s, a smattering of shops that sold things older than antiques — those items that are 2,000 years old or older are now called “antiquities”, to distinguish them from “antiques”, things that are 100 years old or more.
Stuff that’s around 1,000 years old are downright Medieval, and are collected as such. Medieval things are generally at about neolithic or at most, bronze-age in nature.
Of course, wood, leather, fabrics and later on, paper, don’t survive well in or near the ground.
Bronze oxidizes quickly and easily, and soon corrodes into a pile of rust. Silver doesn’t do a whole Hell of a lot better. It likes to combine with oxygen so much that you have to have your butler arrange for one of the maids to polish it before the formal dinner you’re planning for tonight.
Solid 18k gold face masks are de rigueur for the “cloth napkin” event. Formal attire with customary tails and black shorts, polka-dot shpritzing bow-tie and oversized diamond pinky ring are the rule, but nobody has to mention it — they all know.
Speaking of everyone knowing, the conspiracy theories are starting to crowd each other, and they can’t all be true, especially the one about Trump being the head of some sort of Diabolical Order that is reputed to eat Republicans, reduce taxes, and spit out gasoline.
Now, that I could see.
Meanwhile, what does all this chaos and stupidity mean for us? It means slim markets, that’s what it means. Slow season. Slack season. Dull season.
And Christmas is coming up a lot faster than you think. Is your marketing up to it? Can you keep up with the crises and still ship out your orders?
I sell Relics and Artifacts, Occult Power Stones and Ancient Rings and Talismans, and my work is totally unaffected by the whole political row.
At the same time, I want to mention here that I have already voted, and taken precautions to have my ballot hand-carried to the OFFICIAL collection box, not one of the ones the Republicans planted all around California, where they dump the Democrat ballots, or re-craft them to appear to vote for Trump.
This is a matter of public record, I’m not making this up. And they’re continuing to defy court orders, and they’re openly dumping votes they don’t like, into the Sacramento River.
If you voted in California, you need to TRACK your vote, to make sure it got counted. There is a tracking number for your ballot, and you can trace it all the way to the counting room.
Okay, NOW it’s time to talk about Relics & Artifacts — please note the use of the “Ampersand” instead of the word “and”.
It also means “and”, and was invented by a type designer named “Amper”, hence “Amper’s And”, or today, “ampersand”.
Kind of like the chops that used to be called “Burnsides”, after the famous and popular Civil War general, Burnside.
Now, of course, he’s long-forgotten, and the name has been twisted into what makes more sense these days, “sideburns”, which somewhat resemble scars on the sides of the face.
“Liberty Cabbage” is what they called sauerkraut during World War I — that didn’t stick, but “French Fries” did. They were originally called “German Fries”, but we were fighting the Germans.
I have some relics from World Wars I and II, but those are not the kind of relics that I collect and resell. “Relics” can have a meaning beyond merely “old” or “memorializing”.
Some Relics have Power.
I’m not talking minor parlor tricks here. I mean Power. For instance, the Holy Grail, said to confer immortality upon anyone who drinks out it, because it was used to catch Jesus’ blood.
I’m not saying that people don’t do that — they dipped their hankies in the blood of Public Enemy #1 John Dillinger, when he was shot several hundred times in front of a theater.
Luckily, it was the right guy. What if it had been someone who just happened to look like him? But no, it was him, all right. He was turned in by his girlfriend.
She was apparently upset with him for not giving her a ring that she wanted, but that’s what happens in those transactional relationships.
Lessee, where were we?
Oh, yeah, Relics and Artifacts. So an “Artifact” is something that is generally, although not always, older and revered for some reason, and the reasons vary greatly.
Idries Shah and Reshad Feild were having a conversation in our “Garden Room”, and Shah said something like “everyone has a reason, but nobody knows why.”
People think they’re doing things. They don’t realize that they are being done. That history is unfolding, but it’s already written.
So maybe we should ask, “What’s the difference between an Artifact and a Relic?” — maybe we should have asked that a long time ago.
Okay, fair enough. As they say on television, “Thank you for that question,” which translates roughly to: “Shit, I wish you hadn’t asked me that.”
Actually, it has to be answered sooner or later. An artifact is an item, generally an old item, traceable to a particular time, place and people. It may be manufactured or natural, but it is definitely connected to a social and cultural milieu.
A Relic, on the other hand, is something sacred, something that carries the fundamental power of the original owner.
It can be a bone, some hair, fingernails, clothing or an object of daily use, like a prayer wheel or a potato-peeler.
I’m not kidding about the potato-peeler. The leader of a very popular spiritual movement, a dear friend and colleague, was the cook in his spiritual community.
When the others went to prayer, he stayed and cooked, not from choice but necessity. He could clearly be trusted with the community’s welfare, which is what the community leader’s job is all about.
I know, the parallels to politics are there, but the spirit is totally different. There’s no room for personal profit.
I have spent my entire lifetime collecting Relics for YOU to use for your personal spiritual transformation.
Don’t be afraid of using a tool. I have computer-assisted meditations and all sorts of computer-assisted affirmations. Why not? Don’t be too proud to use a tool to hoist yourself up the Ladder of Consciousness.
All tools are to be used knowing that they are eventually to be transcended. Relics can give you the push you need to get up to the next rung.
By the way, although body-parts are a very popular part of Relics, I don’t sell them or anything like that, although I do sell fossils, particularly Jurassic meat-eaters.
Now, there’s a bone you could wear, if you’re trying to tap into one of your past lives as a tail-brain in a Brontosaurus.
That’s a weird duty-station, but we’ve all done it, and here we are to tell the tale.
What??? You haven’t told YOUR story, yet? You’ve left a trail of dirty laundry through the time-track, and you certainly have some stories to tell … have you not started your personal history blog?
Don’t start your personal time journal with Ancient Rome, Hellenic Greece or Sumer — why not start your personal history with that incredible journey you made as a trilobite, back in the Cambrian Period, some 542 million years ago, come Tuesday at noon.
I have your Cambrian body here somewhere in my pile of Trilobite Fossils. I’ll be happy to send it to you, per your request.
If you can swing it, a small donation would help, so I can keep doing this. I don’t have an endless supply of money, so I’m limited in my responses to what you can do to balance my budget.
In short, send a couple of bucks, but don’t strap yourself. Generally, a bird-bone from the tar-pit bones, which date from 11,000 to 50,000 years ago.
The bird bones are not to be worn. I’ve mounted them in domes, to protect them and their owners from each other.
I have ancient rings from Roman times. They often contain magical intaglio stones, and I make polymer castings of these and even more ancient items such as Greek, Roman and Babylonian cylinder seals and ring seals.
I have parts of ancient sarcophagi, and the one I have may well have come from one of your past-life coffins — it’s a great way to get in touch with your past-lives and at the same time, draw from them the skills you’ve lost over the centuries.
Sure, skills, and they’re still of use, even the ancient skills. Everything works to create the total effect, and you should be working to get your level of consciousness up as high as you can manage.
Sometimes that’s not enough to raise you above the stink of local life-forms, and that’s when a Relic can really be of use.
Now, I shouldn’t leave out Artifacts entirely. They are a more passive application, but just as powerful, when used correctly. Artifacts support Relics.
Yes, there’s a science to it, and asking what that stuff all means is like asking a Chemistry 101 professor what chemistry is all about.
You’re only going to get as good an answer as you can understand. General knowledge generates general knowledge.
By the time you can ask the question correctly, you know enough to guess the answer.
All answers are guesses. Some guesses are correct. Some are wrong. Some are unclear. Why are you looking for answers, when questions are what you really need?
I have here on the left side of my desk a pottery fragment from the time of Moses — actually from the Exodus. It is clearly made in the desert by nomads, people on the move, with temporary kilns and rough pottery techniques.
The earlier pottery, from the Captivity, is finer and made lighter and stronger. I have some of that, too — little tiny fragments that can be varnished and glued to an 18k gold plated bail loop to make a wearable Relic.
Why that particular time period? Because you were there, why else? You can tap into that lifetime so easily with my pottery fragment Relic.
I have them for actually every culture of both the West and the East and that includes the Middle East, too, and they’re just sitting here, waiting for YOU to wake up to them and to begin to use them to get in touch with your ancient past.
Are Relics expensive?
Not for you, they aren’t, but for me, they are. I buy entire lots of ancient artifacts, and then comb through them, searching for the special ones, like you do with coins.
Sometimes there’s no visual clue — it’s all about FEEL and SENSING. When Dok asked antiquity dealer Joel Malter how he knew something was authentically ancient, he said, “I just KNOW”.
I can do it, too, so I know what he was saying was accurate. If you’ve handled thousands of these artifacts, or tens of thousands, as I have, including at museums — I have friends who are curators — it’s easy to detect a fake.
In the case of Greek urns, they’re typically too heavy, sometimes by only a few ounces, but you can FEEL it, you can definitely tell if it’s a fake or it’s real.
Then you spend a thousand bucks in the laboratory proving it’s real, because you need the paperwork to establish the value.
Okay, so what about the Artifacts and Relics that are too cheap to send to a lab?
Well, then, you have to take my word for it, but I do include a lifetime guarantee that it’s real, and you have until your end-of-life celebration to cash in on that.
Once you’ve handled even a few hundred artifacts, you’ll agree that it’s easy to spot the difference, just as you’d have no trouble seeing a French seam or a turned backing if you spent a lot of time dress-making or repairing canvas sails.
When you start out baking for the first time, it’s all a mystery. The mystery only starts to clear up after a year or two at the oven.
It’s the same with antiquities. Eventually it sinks in, everything you’ve seen and touched and felt and experienced helps you to understand the science of whatever it is.
Until experience supports it, there is no understanding.
Yes, you may quote me on that.
But how can you apply the science of Artifacts & Relics to your own life, your own needs, your own aspirations and your own style?
Simple, just dig right in, starting with something cheap.
Like what?
Okay, how about one of these???
Here’s a relic you can relate to. It’s a coin, comparable to today’s penny, but a penny bought a LOT back in those days.
Just a few years ago, when I was a kid back in the 1940s, a HUGE candy bar, double the size of bars now or more, cost a nickel.
You could get into the movies for a nickel, and you could ride the subway system all over Manhattan, Queens, Brooklyn, the Bronx and all the way to Staten Island on the ferry and back again, for the same nickel.
A phone call cost a nickel, but you had to find a pay phone or phone booth somewhere, and today’s Superman would have nowhere to change costumes.
A nice meal at Clifton’s Cafeteria could be had for a nickel. You couldn’t eat a meal today for five dollars — even for a chicken sandwich, you need an extra dollar.
So, sure, a coin can operate as a Relic or as an Artifact. The power of an Artifact is imposed, while the power of a Relic is inherent. I hope you get that.
In the case of a Relic, it’s self-powered, but in the case of an Artifact, you’ll have to make the effort to arouse it to Power — it’s simple and easy, but you have to remember to actually DO it.
How that’s done is through the invocational procedure, starting with fumigation and charging.
Your DOME is intended to activate Artifacts and Relics, and it does a good reliable job of that. Placement in a smoked and fumigated dome with a captured aromatic for about three minutes — five minutes to be entirely sure — will activate any Relic or Artifact.
What other kinds of Relics & Artifacts can we dig up, so to speak? And more importantly, can we experiment with something cheap?
Yep. Beads are your answer. We can find beads that are provably 2,000 years old, 3,500 years old, 6,400 years old and even some that go back to neolithic and even paleolithic, but those are profoundly rare and they tend to cost a lot if proven to be authentic.
Okay, so I have some beads from 2,000 years ago — mostly these would be Roman glass or stone.
In Roman beads, you can find garnets, carnelian, lapis and many more semi-precious stones, which means stones that are softer and easier to cut and drill than the harder precious stones.
Stones are measured in relative hardness, starting at the top with diamond, then sapphire, then emerald, then ruby, regardless of color. The very best diamonds are perfectly clear, no color whatsoever.
In the ancient world, the harder stones just weren’t cut, although natural crystals sometimes occurred to make a faceted stone, but they just couldn’t cut the precious stones, except for rubies.
Rubies are very common in the ancient world, but the hardest to find are more collectible. I have a collection of one necklace’s worth of Hellenic Greek garnets, very very rare and very authenticated, seen at Christie’s and Sotheby’s and shown on exhibit in museums around the world.
That collection is tied to a collection of Hellenic Greek Electrum beads. Electrum is a natural alloy of gold and silver, and these are exceptionally rare and beautiful, and they are royal — not even the very rich could have obtained these.
I have a number of royal Egyptian pieces, mostly faience, some bronze and some glass, along with rare published inlays and such, not for you to meddle with, really for a museum, but the pieces I got on the side of that collection ARE for you to meddle with, and I have them standing at the ready to go to work for YOU.
Souvenir hundred-dollar chip from the McCarlie’s High Sierra Bardo Run — the group won a lot, but kept the chips. The club is now closed, and the chips are collectible and rare. I sell these chips as you see it, in a gold-filled bezel when I can get them, silver bezel when I can get them, and a plain coin-edged bezel when I can’t.
Right now, I have one available, at $225 — the empty gold-filled bezel sells for $200, while a silver bezel runs about $175.
Everything’s gotten wildly more expensive since the covid crisis, because they’re not able to get skilled labor to show up at work.
Would you risk death to make a few bucks?
That’s why I’m recommending you learn the antiques trade, including books, rare fine art prints, authenticated originals and of course, coins and ancient beads.
You can actually make the beads into objects of daily use, meaning that they’re wearable. I have some wonderful neolithic beads made out of steatite and hematite, and they’re pretty reasonable, about $10 bucks apiece.
Not bad for something handmade some 8,000 years ago, in the recently challenged “Cradles of Civilization”, Ur and Babylon, later to become the Persian Empire — I have beads from that time zone, too.
You may well ask, what do these Artifacts and Relics actually DO???
Well, they’re connectors, in the same way that a psychic sensitive would use a watch, ring or coin to connect with a subject.
Think about Sherlock Holmes’ Half-Spaniel “Toby”, which he uses as a blood-hound, to track a variety of killers, notably in “Sign of the Four”.
Like the bloodhound, the Artifact or Relic is continually connected to its origination point, and seeks that connective link always.
It’s an eternally vigilant watcher, and you want to tap into that aspect. There are other things, things you’ll pick up in the course of a few lessons on the subject.
Using these tools is easy. Getting yourself to use them is not.
You want ME to arouse your interest? What, are you kidding? You’re an Essential Being — arouse your own interest. It’s in your power.
See You At The Top!!!
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