Clif High - For my Valentine

Feb. 14, 2025 - Clif High

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For my Valentine

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	Hello humans, hello humans.
	February 14, 611 a.m.
	I actually planned on talking about the corporations and the drones this morning, the breakaway civilization stuff.
	But we're going to go on to uh something more traditional, which is um Valentine's Day.
	So I'll try and make this cohesive.
	It's um got to be a little rambling of a necessity here.
	So there's all kinds of understanding of Christianity.
	There's an understanding of Christianity that the uh Cathars had of themselves, and they called themselves the good Christians, as opposed to the bad Christians, right?
	They never would say that because they were good guys, but they were just the other, the other Christians.
	These were the people that worshipped uh the one principle.
	Uh basically they were under the uh sway of uh disincarnate evil that the Cathari called the demiurge.
	All right, so now here's the setup on this.
	Uh there's at least five personalities in the 200s in the year between 200 and I think 210 and uh 288 uh current era um there's at least five personalities that that had a last name or a name of Valentine.
	Uh the church sanctified three of them, okay, because it couldn't decide which one was the legit one or something, okay.
	The Catholic Church has three people named Valentine that are also made saints.
	One of these guys was a what uh was claimed by the Cathari as one of the perfecti.
	So the perfecti are the people that like the in terms of spirituality, they are the most uh pure in their expression.
	Okay, they were known as the pure ones.
	And the uh the idea is that uh you're gonna live m perhaps hundreds of millions of lives as uh a human.
	And so the perfecti uh the goal was that from life to life to life to life, you would perfect each life until you ended up at a point of the perfect life, which was the goal, and um then there was something after that, okay.
	We don't know what it's it's speculation because of all of the loss of all of this incredible amount of literature and so on.
	Anyway, though, so uh the perfecti are these cool guys.
	They walk around and they a lot of them uh nowadays it's understood that they were vegetarian pacifists, right?
	That's not necessarily as um close to the truth as um uh uh the detractors would have you believe.
	But nonetheless, the perfecti were people that were attempting to live uh in this body's life, as perfect a life as they could, because they knew it set them up on karma for a better life the next time, right?
	So there's a practical goal.
	You get a bet better life each and every time out of this, less strife, less struggle, you're more perfect in your body, it's in your expression, etc.
	Anyway, though, so um Valentine that was later said to have been a priest of the church in Rome in the 200s, uh was the one that the Cathari claim.
	And uh they also claimed that he was the progenitor of the German branch of the Cathari, okay.
	This Valentine was an educated in Persia uh magi, a magician, uh, an herbalist.
	Uh he came in um uh uh went to Rome and set up shop there as the Perfecti do.
	They wander around and basically do good, right?
	Trying to remove the demi-urge uh effects from the this reality.
	Uh we can get into the philosophical baits about the wisdom of that, but nonetheless, um so this guy goes to Rome, and it's in a very chaotic period.
	Uh so the perfecti that the or the Valentine that the Cathari claim was in was this guy that the Catholic Church later on said was a priest in Rome in this period in the uh mid-200s, okay.
	And so uh he goes there and he sets up shop and he's doing herbalist stuff.
	He's a magician, all right.
	And um He uh he runs a foul of the local officialdom.
	And this is because there was an emperor at the time, and I think his name was Claudius, I think that was the one.
	Uh can't trust me on my memory on that.
	But anyway, this emperor in Rome at the time uh had a bunch of wars he wanted to undertake, so he said no young men uh could get married.
	So his decree was that no man uh under 33 could get married.
	And uh so all of the um the cults that had uh would later become the Catholic Church uh in 325 A.D. in the Council of Nicaea with um Constantine and Eusebius.
	Uh so all of those cults agreed with the emperor, and they said, sure, okay, we'll stop performing marriages.
	Well, uh Valentine didn't.
	He didn't agree with the emperor, right?
	He said, uh, fuck you, right?
	And so he kept per performing marriages.
	The idea was that um the emperor said that you know, he wanted his young men uh frustrated and have a lot of testosterone built up, so they would go and kill, right?
	And and part of that too was that at the time the soldiers were not only paid in denarius, they were paid in booty.
	So they could go and capture and take whatever they wanted uh from the enemy, and it was fine with officialdom at that time.
	So there was a like a sexual incentive in that because they could go and capture women from the enemy.
	And so that that's the setup that the emperor wanted to have, and he didn't want his young men satiated, so they they were not supposed to be married, okay.
	And this is why Valentine is a saint, because he performed these marriages, the emperor got really pissed, threw him in jail, uh, kept on him to he was very valuable in the community because of this herbalist stuff, right?
	Um uh and he kept on him for a while.
	I uh the the stories say that he was in jail on the order of eight years before they executed him.
	Um but you know, who knows, right?
	We don't have history that's accurate and so on.
	But the the stories say that uh while in jail, uh he was as much of a perfect perfecti as he was on the outside, and he was able to induce one of the jailers to provide him with the materials, and he set about and cured that jailer's uh daughter of blindness, right?
	And this is where we get this um uh these ideas about um sending um gifts to people on Valentine's Day, right?
	Uh because the he would send these gifts to the daughter, which were these tonics, and which he brewed.
	Okay, and this is this gets back to the Germanic and all of this sort of thing as well, because the perfecti, or all of the Cathars were uh very adept at knowing um uh having a base of knowledge about plants and extractions and so on and combinations and this sort of thing, right?
	This is what formed the um the underlying medical system in the in that era at that time, and the Cathari were so skilled at this uh from these traditions uh that even though they were real pain in the ass to officialdom, uh they were frequently just tolerated because the benefit to the social order was such that uh it even benefited the officials.
	They even had officialdom send for Cathari to come and heal him, that kind of thing.
	Anyway, so Valentine cures the jailer's daughter uh within the Cathari tradition, he uh had fallen in love with her and wanted her to um see his face before he was executed.
	And all that happened and blah blah blah, right.
	Uh but he still got ended up getting executed.
	Later on, the Catholic Church claims this guy was a a um precursor to a Catholic priest, which is not the case.
	Uh this guy was very set upon by officialdom and the cults, mainly led by the Pharisees at that time, because what they were saying, there's there were some small things we saw in Europe that indicated that the situation was that the um uh uh the emperor had these other cults on his case, and they were saying, Look, dude, look, you're letting this guy uh perform marriages, and that and for them that was a source of income, right?
	Big source of income.
	Um basically they would do marriages and divorces on demand, and they would collect a fee for it, right?
	The Cathari never charged that that they they were the sanctifiers.
	That was another name for them, uh, or the blessed.
	Um Anyway, so uh so the Pharisees and these other guys, the um uh officialdom of the church at the time got really pissed, went to the emperor and demanded that he do something about this because he'd issued an edict saying nobody could perform marriages for anyone under 33, and yet he tolerated this guy doing it very, very, very consistently.
	And so it was basically the uh social pressure that um got um Valentine uh executed.
	The of the other five Valentines, or the other four Valentines that we have, uh two of them say that they were in the same situation of being executed.
	So there's some kind of level of distortion of the story across there.
	But the um the Valentine who is claimed to be the priest, the marrying priest who gets killed for it.
	Uh the Cathari have his history uh orally, and uh maybe even in written form in France or Germany, uh, that traces it all the way back to his education in Persia, because a lot of the uh the magic of the Cathari, the the history of the um or the um the knowledge base comes from the Persians at that time, from Persia at that time.
	Uh it it just I find that a little bit fascinating.
	Also, the um my dad used to call them witches, the women in Europe that were um Cathari women that did herbalism, but um the masters of it were always male, okay?
	So they were always shaman.
	The thing about shaman is that um uh shaman is a male, usually a sigma male, who has uh great insight into his um uh own nature as a male, but also has great insight into the nature and use of emotion as a male.
	And so it gives these guys a little bit of power.
	So most of the men were not um what'd they call them?
	Uh brassier, brassius uh in French.
	They were not brewers, okay.
	And so that's what the um Cathari called their magicians, were brewers.
	And usually they use brasi, which was this uh diminutive form of the feminine French for the for the word brewer at the time.
	And this is because uh there's basically two kinds of extractions for uh retrieving medicines out of plants and even out of you know certain kinds of seaf uh seafood and so forth, right?
	But there's just basically at that time were only two kinds of extractions: an alcohol extraction or a water extraction.
	And um the most potent ones in many cases were the alcohol, and of course, you do not have uh readily available ever clearer something at that time, so you had to make your own alcohol.
	So that it was quite the laborious process.
	But my dad picked up on it when we were in Germany.
	He got into brewing, and then when we came back to the States, he was always making um, he called them spiced, but they were really more herbal brews, were in the process of making the beer.
	You would put in specific kinds of um uh herbs, right, for specific effects.
	Uh so anyway, just a long rambling story there, but that's uh that's one of the the stories about Saint Valentine's.
	Now about uh Valentine's Day.
	Now, the the Valentine who was the marrying priest who was executed for that, he's the one that that they say delivered his gifts to the um uh blind daughter of the jailer with notes from your Valentine.
	And so that's where we get that.
	Anyway, guys, just a tiny bit of history.
	Uh deviant um uh distorted and um uh uh anti-officialdum version of this stuff.

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