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April 21, 2025 - Knowledge Fight
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#1027: Mystery Babylon #1

In this installment, Dan and Jordan decide that Easter is a good time to resurrect an old forgotten idea for a subject to cover, as they discuss the first installment of Bill Cooper's lecture series on the mystery religion that secretly runs the world.

Participants
Main voices
b
bill cooper
21:59
d
dan friesen
27:47
j
jordan holmes
20:31
Appearances
Clips
a
alex jones
00:12
p
pastor david manning
00:02
s
steve quayle
00:02
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unidentified
It's time to pray.
I have great respect for knowledge fight.
Knowledge fight.
alex jones
I'm sick of them posing as if they're the good guys saying we are the bad guys.
unidentified
Knowledge fight.
Dan and George.
Knowledge fight.
I need money.
Andy in Kansas.
Andy in Kansas.
jordan holmes
Stop it.
unidentified
Andy in Kansas.
jordan holmes
Andy in Kansas.
unidentified
It's time to pray.
jordan holmes
Andy in Kansas.
dan friesen
You're on the air.
unidentified
Thanks for holding.
I'm a huge fan.
jordan holmes
I love your world.
unidentified
Knowledge Fight.
KnowledgeFight.com.
I love you.
dan friesen
Hey, everybody.
Welcome back to Knowledge Fight.
I'm Dan.
jordan holmes
I'm Jordan.
dan friesen
Or a couple dudes like to sit around, worship at the altar of Celine, and talk a little bit about Alex Jones.
jordan holmes
Oh, indeed we are, Dan.
dan friesen
Jordan.
jordan holmes
Dan.
dan friesen
Jordan.
jordan holmes
Quick question for you.
dan friesen
What's up?
jordan holmes
What's your bright spot today, buddy?
dan friesen
Why don't you go first?
jordan holmes
My bright spot is a new album by Beirut.
dan friesen
Okay.
jordan holmes
I can't remember the name of it right off the top of my head, but yeah, it's great.
It's pretty good.
dan friesen
I am aware of the band Beirut, but I don't know if I know anything past the name.
jordan holmes
It is like...
What would I say?
It's like an NPR's wet dream.
It's an indie band inspired by Balkan folk music.
So you're like, yeah, of course.
It sounds a little bit like if...
Les Miserables kept writing songs on its own.
unidentified
The play itself, the musical itself came to light.
jordan holmes
Just kept genre-ing itself into other different songs.
And then there you are.
dan friesen
I'm sure it's great, and I'm glad you're enjoying the album, but you've done a bad job of selling it to me.
jordan holmes
I don't want to sell it to anyone.
dan friesen
Okay.
That's very NPR indie band of you.
jordan holmes
I mean, I don't know if there's a way to sell it to you other than, like, if you have an inkling of Balkan folk music.
Within your heart.
You're gonna like it.
dan friesen
Okay.
I guess it's a good test for whether or not you have an inkling of Balkan folk music in your heart.
jordan holmes
I think it's a perfect test.
dan friesen
Alright, I'll check it out.
jordan holmes
Absolutely.
dan friesen
It's the PCR of Balkan folk music.
jordan holmes
Yes, absolutely.
Everybody needs a TV test.
Everybody needs to know if they're related to Balkan folk music in some fashion.
dan friesen
Yeah, yeah.
Great.
jordan holmes
What's your bright spot?
dan friesen
So me and my friend Angela Lampsbury went out to the paper machete over at the Green Mill the other day, and I got to experience what it's like to do that with a pinky ring.
And it was fine.
jordan holmes
It was fine?
dan friesen
No, it was a lovely time.
It was a great show.
Very enjoyable.
Yeah, I don't know.
Showed up too early.
Ran into you on the street.
jordan holmes
Yep, that was interesting.
It's always weird to meet anybody that you know in the wild for some reason.
dan friesen
Well, especially because I think you and I both have very limited social circles.
And so I'm hanging out with my friend going to the Green Mill.
jordan holmes
Yep.
dan friesen
And I happen to run into the only other person I know.
jordan holmes
Yep.
dan friesen
What the fuck is happening?
Timing is very coincidental.
jordan holmes
It was great.
dan friesen
So, anyway, it was a good time.
I enjoyed it.
My pinky ring was not commented upon by anybody.
So, great.
I'm fitting in.
jordan holmes
I imagine if you were still a comic back in the old days and you were on the show...
It would have constantly been mentioned.
dan friesen
I would have been getting roasted a lot.
jordan holmes
Absolutely.
dan friesen
Especially if I brought it up as much as I have.
jordan holmes
Totally.
Totally.
It would have been a non-stop roasted.
But now that you're just a person, why would anybody be mean about the affectation that you enjoy?
dan friesen
And also, Wrestlemania is going on.
And Triple H was inducted into the Hall of Fame this year.
And so he came out.
jordan holmes
The Hall of Fame?
dan friesen
You bet.
jordan holmes
There we go.
dan friesen
So he came out with the Hall of Fame class, and he had his Hall of Fame ring on his pinky.
jordan holmes
On his pinky.
dan friesen
Exactly.
jordan holmes
It's catching fire.
dan friesen
Yep.
I'm on the vanguard of trends.
jordan holmes
The Sopranos trends, I guess.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
So, Jordan, today we have an episode to go over.
jordan holmes
All right.
dan friesen
And we'll see what happens.
But before we get to anything, let's take a little moment to say hello to some new wonks.
jordan holmes
I think that's a great idea.
dan friesen
So first, you guys are so kind.
The buttons are so nice.
How could I not become a wonk after that?
Michael P., thank you so much.
You're now a policy wonk.
unidentified
I'm a policy wonk.
Thank you very much.
dan friesen
Thank you.
Next, Alex's pregnant pauses are too long and should be aborted.
Thank you so much.
You're now a policy wonk.
unidentified
I'm a policy wonk.
jordan holmes
Thank you very much.
dan friesen
Thank you.
And Lord Rothschild of the Pez, thank you so much.
You're now a policy wonk.
I'm a policy wonk.
jordan holmes
Thank you very much!
dan friesen
And we got a technocrat at the mix, Jordan, so thank you so much, too.
Redbeard of House Gershman requests that you tell Liam that he only needs to apply a fake mustache to double his income.
Also, Melanie, you're the best wife ever.
Dan, also use your Dan voice to explain that charcuterie is just lunchables for adults to Jordan.
Jordan, stay angry.
Mic up for this.
Thank you so much, you're now a technocrat.
unidentified
I'm a policy wonk.
Go home to your mother and tell her you're brilliant.
pastor david manning
Someone sodomite sent me a bucket of poop.
jordan holmes
Daddy Shark.
alex jones
Jar Jar Binks has a Caribbean black accent.
unidentified
He's a loser little titty baby.
alex jones
I don't want to hate black people.
I renounce Jesus Christ.
dan friesen
Thank you so much.
jordan holmes
Yes, thank you very much.
dan friesen
If charcuterie is just lunchables for adults, does that mean that wine is just Capri Sun?
jordan holmes
Hmm.
It depends on what exactly crudité is.
dan friesen
Is it charcuterie?
jordan holmes
Well, right, but is...
dan friesen
Crudité is like vegetables.
Right.
Charcuterie is like sliced meats and crackers and...
jordan holmes
There we go.
dan friesen
They're similar words.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right.
But if charcuterie is lunchables and wine is Capri Sun...
What does that make crudité within this conception?
dan friesen
Uninvolved.
unidentified
Uninvolved?
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
I feel like these three are very similar things.
dan friesen
Just because the name, do the words are similar?
jordan holmes
No, like at restaurants, you would have a charcuterie board, you could have an appetizer of crudité, you could get a glass of wine.
These are very regular things.
dan friesen
Yeah, but you could also get chicken fingers.
unidentified
You could also get a...
jordan holmes
Well, then what are chicken fingers?
dan friesen
Get a burger.
I don't know.
jordan holmes
Okay.
If it's food, it's food.
unidentified
Yes.
Great.
dan friesen
So the fact that these sound similar, these words sound similar, is actually more relevant than you could possibly know about...
jordan holmes
About today's episode?
dan friesen
Yes.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
So I made a joke at the end of our last episode that my birthday is coming up this week, and as a gift to myself, I don't even want to think about Alex, I don't want to talk about him.
jordan holmes
Yep.
dan friesen
And I meant that as a joke, but you responded well to it.
And then when I was hanging out with Angela Lampsbury, she responded well to it, too.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
And thought it was a good idea.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And so I decided, fuck it.
jordan holmes
Yeah!
dan friesen
No more Alex episodes until I'm 41. Done.
Yep.
jordan holmes
I'm all for it.
dan friesen
So that left me in a position where I was like, all right, let's do some more Tucker.
Sure.
And I can't do that to people.
jordan holmes
No, it's a lot.
dan friesen
Yeah, I can't.
I cannot.
He's just too much.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
I enjoy listening to it, and I enjoy how much more there is to think about, and how much more of a passive-aggressive dickhole he is.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
But I can't do that to the audience.
So I needed to do something different.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
And it happens, it just so happens, that we're recording on Easter.
jordan holmes
True!
dan friesen
This is Easter.
Sunday that we're recording.
jordan holmes
He is risen.
dan friesen
And that is what happens on Easter.
jordan holmes
Yes.
dan friesen
People rise from the dead.
jordan holmes
People do rise from the dead.
dan friesen
Yes.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
So I thought, like, let's do a Project Camelot.
jordan holmes
Absolutely.
dan friesen
Can't do it.
jordan holmes
Shit.
dan friesen
Yeah, it's not fun anymore.
So then I was like, oh, Jim Baker.
jordan holmes
Anybody rise from the dead?
dan friesen
Well, no, but that's a thing we don't do anymore.
jordan holmes
True.
dan friesen
It's rising from the dead this bit.
Sure.
This thing.
jordan holmes
Oh, I gotcha.
I was actually thinking that it's possible we could be talking about somebody who has claimed to have risen from the dead today.
dan friesen
If that had been there, yes.
I would definitely have covered that.
jordan holmes
I'm just saying that we're in the realm where that's a possibility.
dan friesen
The Jim Baker episodes that I stumbled across were uninspiring.
jordan holmes
That sounds true.
dan friesen
But there was one last thing that could be risen from the dead.
jordan holmes
Do not.
Do not play it!
Do not play that song!
dan friesen
He lives.
jordan holmes
Do not do it!
dan friesen
It's sort of a song.
jordan holmes
I'm gonna be honest.
I was hoping for Lionel.
unidentified
Ha ha ha ha.
Ha ha ha ha.
bill cooper
You're listening to the Hour of the Time.
I'm your host, William Cooper.
dan friesen
Yeah, Bill Cooper's back.
All right.
I'm a little excited.
Yeah, sure.
We got this asshole.
Now, having experience sitting through it here, I shouldn't have played that whole siren intro.
jordan holmes
Not at all.
dan friesen
It's a little too long.
jordan holmes
You can edit it out.
dan friesen
No, I'm not going to.
I'm going to let it be.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
But I just want to make that note for myself.
Okay.
Unnecessary.
Marching sounds and dogs barking.
jordan holmes
I think it was meant to be a little bit of a record scratch moment.
A little beat drop, a little like, now you know what you're in for kind of thing.
But that happens in a moment.
It doesn't last for...
dan friesen
And it sets the mood for him, but that's not the mood I necessarily enjoy all that much.
So yeah, Bill Cooper, the OG Alex.
Many, many years ago, a number of years ago, we covered some Bill Cooper episodes.
And they were a lot of fun.
His call-ins were ridiculous.
jordan holmes
Trying to buy Turner, or no, Gannett, yeah.
dan friesen
He wanted to buy his own news service.
jordan holmes
Wanted to buy the whole thing.
If everybody gives a dollar, we can do it.
dan friesen
Yeah, and he's a bit of a more interesting character than Alex in a lot of ways.
For one, he's dead.
He went out like conspiracy theorists are, the narrative is supposed to.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
And he's killed by the government.
jordan holmes
I mean, they're prone to that.
dan friesen
He, of course, wrote the book Behold a Pale Horse that is full of complete bullshit, nonsense that lays a lot of the groundwork for a lot of conspiracy belief.
jordan holmes
Ruined a lot of people's lives, yeah.
dan friesen
It centralizes a lot of really dumb ideas.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
So he is a legend in that world.
And he, on his radio show, did a series called Mystery Babylon.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
That is like a 30-something part series.
And I joked a long time ago, I'm gonna fucking cover Mystery Babylon.
I'm gonna fuck around and do it.
And so I'm covering the first episode today.
jordan holmes
You're fucking around and doing it.
dan friesen
I don't know if I'll do all of it.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
But I decided, why not?
You gotta resurrect something.
I'm gonna resurrect Bill Cooper describing the mystery religion.
jordan holmes
I think it's perfect.
And I'll give you two reasons why I think it's perfect.
The first is...
Alex needs to be on the back burner for a sec.
And the second is, it does feel like every year, the past gets like 10 years further away.
It feels like Bill Cooper is so much further in the past than he was five years ago, you know?
dan friesen
Yeah, but at the same time, I think if you listen to some of this shit, it's like, this is unfortunately relevant.
jordan holmes
Right on time, buddy.
dan friesen
You know, you're talking about like...
A world now in 2025 where, you know, Tucker got attacked by a demon.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And Alex is like this really esoteric religious bullshit underlies his politics.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Like, we're looking at the Mystery Babylon that Bill Cooper did.
It's pretty...
Close.
jordan holmes
God, I would give anything for him to have just saved Gene Hackman's life once.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Like, for him to just tell a story of just like, oh, this guy was broken down and he almost got swiped and I fixed his car and all this stuff and moved on.
And then for later on Gene Hackman to tell us a story where that's about Bill Cooper.
Fucking amazing.
It'd be amazing.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Yep.
If I find that, I will...
Probably end it.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I think we should just call it.
We should just call it a day.
We did it.
dan friesen
I have to walk into the woods.
jordan holmes
We're putting stones in our pockets.
dan friesen
Walking to Lake Michigan.
Yep.
So Bill starts this series off, and I think he has a lofty premise.
bill cooper
Tonight, ladies and gentlemen, we begin the origin, the history, the dogma, and the identity.
The ancient mystery religions which are now known as the mystery schools.
The Order of Dequest, Freemasonry, the ancient order of the Rose and Cross, the Knights Templar, the sovereign and military order of the Knights of Malta, the order of Saint John of Jerusalem,
the Priory de Sion, the Thule Society, or sometimes known as the Thule Society, The Order, the Skull and Bones, the Russell Trust, the Jason Society, the Scroll and Key, the Illuminati, and I could go on and on and on and on.
But the most important thing to realize is that they all have been collectively known throughout the ages as the Mystery Schools, the Illuminati, which literally means Illumined Ones.
International socialism, communism, they are all one and the same as you will come to know.
dan friesen
So lofty premise.
Yeah.
International socialism and communism is the same thing as all of these secret societies that go back to the mystery religions and time immemorial.
Yeah.
jordan holmes
That's a pretty big claim.
dan friesen
Yeah, and you kind of get the sense of why he needs 30 episodes in order to spell a lot of this out.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
Because that's crazy.
That's a crazy amount of stuff to bite off.
jordan holmes
Yeah, you're going to have to connect a lot of stuff that is really unconnected and not least of which...
I don't know if anybody has full claim to just the order.
You know what I mean?
Like, he's calling the order a completely separate...
There's probably at least five or six the orders.
dan friesen
Sure.
jordan holmes
You know, if you check the fossil record, you're not going to know if that's a stegosaurus or not.
So, you never know.
dan friesen
You know what's my order?
jordan holmes
What's that?
dan friesen
Charcuterie.
Crudite.
Fuck you.
jordan holmes
Hi-see.
dan friesen
So, Bill starts off at the beginning, as we all must.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And he establishes that the mystery schools believe in evolution.
jordan holmes
Okay.
bill cooper
But we have to begin in the beginning with every story and every history.
And we have to begin at the beginning of mankind.
And the beginning is the beginning according to the mystery religion.
And they believe wholeheartedly that man is a product of evolution.
Not of an extraterrestrial race and not of the creation of some benevolent God.
They believe that the tree-dwelling ancestors of man were among the most intelligent beings of their distant age.
And when these creatures finally abandoned the trees and walked fully upright, freeing their hands to serve as implements of their minds as well as their bodies, there began the most successful evolutionary drive toward higher intelligence ever witnessed in nature.
As ground dwellers, these creatures were easy victims of the great predators who hunted them down by day and surprised them at night as they huddled in clearings or in caves.
They could not compete in strength, ferocity, or speed with their attackers.
Armed with little except their hands and what their complex brains enabled them to do with those hands, they had to think or die.
For untold thousands of years, most of them met early, violent deaths.
Only a few in each generation had the good fortune and the ability to outwit their enemies.
And these favored ones survived long enough to have and rear offspring.
The unwary, maladroit, or stupid died early.
And folks, I'm afraid that the stupid who live today are going to die early.
jordan holmes
Nice!
bill cooper
But back to the beginning.
Back to the beginning.
jordan holmes
Boom!
dan friesen
So, yeah, man's ancestors came down from trees, and it's dangerous down there.
And so they had to do stuff.
They had to figure it out.
jordan holmes
You know, what's funny about this is I was actually literally reading a book on the extinction of the Neanderthals this morning, which is really interesting.
But also what I was thinking about was...
This guy, in particular, doesn't believe that Homo sapiens and Neanderthals interbred.
Because we didn't live in the same exact areas or in the same time periods because of climate or whatever.
dan friesen
When you say this guy, you mean the person who wrote the book, not Bill.
jordan holmes
He's like the Harvard guy.
He's one of those guys who travel the world and is Harvard guy.
That kind of thing.
But we shared a common ancestor 135,000 years ago.
So that's why we have similar DNA.
Then I was thinking, if we did interbreed, and that means that we could have interbred to create more people ostensibly with souls, does that mean that the Neanderthals had souls when they interbred with us?
Right?
dan friesen
Do you want me to answer as me or as Bill?
jordan holmes
As anybody.
You know what I'm saying?
dan friesen
I'm not sure souls exist.
jordan holmes
Right.
So, but then that has to go back even further to when we had a common ancestor if we didn't interbreed and they do have souls.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
So what common ancestor developed the soul is a good question.
dan friesen
Is this book you're reading arguing about soul possessions?
jordan holmes
Absolutely not.
This is completely separate to them.
dan friesen
Okay, just making sure.
jordan holmes
No, it's very, very scientific.
dan friesen
Okay.
jordan holmes
It's really good.
It's a really well-written book.
dan friesen
I would be worried if the person who is from Harvard is writing a book about whether or not...
unidentified
No, no, no.
dan friesen
Common ancestry.
unidentified
Not at all.
dan friesen
Where did the soul diversion happen?
jordan holmes
See, but that's what I'm saying.
They don't think about things like this.
They don't think about the implications of the soul on whether or not different species can interbreed.
Because if only Homo sapien has a soul, then we can lay some sort of claim to this kind of religious thinking.
But if Neanderthals also have souls...
What doesn't have a soul, my man?
dan friesen
Well, here's the thing.
Bill doesn't believe in evolution, I don't think.
jordan holmes
That, I think, is probably where he and I are going to...
dan friesen
Man was created by a benevolent god.
unidentified
Well, there you go.
dan friesen
He does a couple times throughout this episode have to make the qualifier that like, don't get mad at me about the things I'm saying.
I'm explaining other people's belief.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
The mystery Babylon religion, I'm explaining that.
I'm not talking about what I believe.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right, right.
dan friesen
And even in that clip, you heard him say they believe that man wasn't brought by alien or brought by benevolent god.
jordan holmes
This is Alex doing the, ah, this is what they believe.
I'm not saying that there are interdimensional beings who appear inside it.
Actually, there are.
But that's what they believe, and I also believe it.
dan friesen
Yeah, Alex took a little bit of that panache here.
So, I think that Bill is a decent storyteller.
jordan holmes
I like it.
dan friesen
In as much as he's going through early history and discussing innovations like the creation of the knife.
bill cooper
Many edible nuts are too hard for eating a caveman to crack between his teeth.
Accordingly, they were useless to early man until some genius of his day discovered that any nut could be opened if it were just placed upon one stone and struck hard with another.
Better fed, the family of this innovator proliferated while the others died off.
Perhaps centuries later, while a man sat cracking nuts between two stones, one stone broke.
And the broken edge cut his hand.
Previously, men in the same situation had thrown the broken stone away and nursed their cuts.
But this man, this man, started thinking.
He possessed an original thought.
Since the edge had cut through his skin and drawn blood, it might also cut through the skin of the small animals he caught, making it easier to get at the meat.
unidentified
The first knife I don't know if this follows the archaeological record or anything, but it's a fine dramatization of this early history.
jordan holmes
Perfect, absolutely.
dan friesen
I got no qualms with it.
I wouldn't want this as a classroom setting for archaeology.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
But for his purposes...
I'm fine.
jordan holmes
Yeah!
dan friesen
A guy cut his hand when he was trying to open a nut.
Boom, we got a knife.
jordan holmes
I'm with you.
I loved the opening of Space Odyssey.
I'm fine with that.
Give me some bones.
Smash it.
monkeys, I'm good.
dan friesen
Well, unfortunately, he doesn't.
unidentified
Oh.
dan friesen
Because there's a bunch...
It goes on quite a while.
jordan holmes
Oh, he takes a lot longer.
dan friesen
Yeah, he discusses a lot of things like the invention of the spear.
bill cooper
A great many centuries later, a young father foraging for his brood may have come upon a long straight stick, splintered at one end.
Well, he pulled and chewed at the splinters until only one stout point was left, or at least that's how we can imagine that it was done.
It seemed to him a very useful stick, where it was sharper than the digging sticks which the women used.
He may have remembered a night during his boyhood when a great cat had charged his family's campsite and dragged away a younger sister.
Wait, did he?
Told him his pointed stick might be a better weapon against big cats than the clubs which he and the other men carried.
So for many days he kept the long stick near him, even when he was laughed at for having what was regarded as a woman's tool.
Not only did he possess a greater intellect than his fellow men, but he possessed More courage to resist their laughter.
Then one night, he heard a faint rustling.
He whispered a quick warning to his family.
Suddenly, a dim shape charged at him in the darkness.
Kneeling, he raised the point of his long stick toward the beast.
It sprang, clawed at him savagely, then fled.
The creature had struck the point so hard that the blunt end of the stick was shoved deep, deep into the ground.
Next morning, following a trail of blood, the man found a panther dead from a punctured chest.
The long, sharp stick had saved his life and the lives of his family members.
In the same situation, less perceptive men, armed only with clubs, would have been killed.
From that time, he, his sons, and their sons, Smart.
dan friesen
So, eventually, this ancestors of the guy who cut his hand on a rock made a knife.
He bred with the person whose family made the spear, and then they started throwing sticks at trees.
jordan holmes
That sounds right.
dan friesen
And arrows and stuff.
Yeah, you get the sense.
You get the general sense of what he's...
jordan holmes
I like the idea that somewhere in the fossil record is like, oh, and Ugg wasn't allowed to play in the reindeer games also.
Like, there's people, like, bullying you for having a stick.
Is that what's happening?
dan friesen
That is a woman's deal.
unidentified
Right?
jordan holmes
What?
dan friesen
Well, that's the thing, though, is, like, I...
I think it's dumb and whatever, but I get it.
It's dramatizing, this thing that Bill is trying to convey, and I don't begrudge it too much.
I think without it, this becomes a little too dry, and maybe, I mean, it's already quite dry.
Yeah, no, I mean, I both see why it needs 30 parts, and also I think we could probably bang it out in 10. I would like to say, like, if he wasn't dead, I would like to just be like, cut off the fat.
What's the point?
unidentified
Boom!
jordan holmes
Let's get to it.
dan friesen
Stop it with this.
unidentified
You are, woof.
dan friesen
Yeah.
I have places to be, and you're going on for eight minutes about a fucking spear.
jordan holmes
Yeah, somehow you've invented bullies.
Great.
dan friesen
So, throughout all this, man creates sharp things.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
And can fight off panthers.
jordan holmes
Hell yeah.
dan friesen
And stuff.
But, they come to a realization.
jordan holmes
Radios.
dan friesen
No.
unidentified
Oh.
dan friesen
That's episode 20. Way later.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
They come to the realization that man's greatest enemy...
Is the darkness.
jordan holmes
Okay.
bill cooper
Even with man's new weapons and tools, it did not take him very long to decide that in this world the single greatest enemy to be feared was the darkness of night and all the unknown dangers that came with it.
Simply stated, man's first enemy was darkness.
Understanding this one fact alone, one can readily see why the greatest and most trustworthy friend of the human race could ever have was, by far, heaven's greatest gift to the world, that glorious rising orb of day, the sun.
jordan holmes
I was going to go with dogs.
bill cooper
And with this simple truth understood, we can now begin to unravel the most ancient and still The most successful religion upon the face of this earth.
Its success lies in its ability to remain hidden from the rest of the people.
But first, let me assure you folks that no people of the ancient world believed the Son to be God.
dan friesen
Oh, that's a relief.
jordan holmes
Wait, they didn't?
dan friesen
No.
jordan holmes
Why not?
dan friesen
Because they didn't.
jordan holmes
I kind of think they probably did.
Or at least some of them did.
dan friesen
Some might have.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
I don't know.
Bill's take on it is that it's all a metaphor.
jordan holmes
Gotcha.
dan friesen
The sun's a metaphor for God, you know.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
We'll get to that.
unidentified
Sure.
dan friesen
But the darkness is man's enemy.
unidentified
Yep.
dan friesen
I don't think we needed all the spear and knife talk to lead up to that.
I think we could have just started from man is scared of dark.
jordan holmes
Yeah, it was a little bit of a rug pull to have all these other fears that a man solves first.
dan friesen
Like a panther.
jordan holmes
Yeah, but then to be like, ah, but that one, all of that is meaningless.
So, um...
If something, just my personal opinion on writing, is if I, at the end of something, go, all of that was meaningless, that also means I could just get rid of it.
dan friesen
Yeah, but I think on some, you know, to be an advocate for Bill, I think some of it is setting the stage.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
It's dramatic build-up in a little way.
It's like, yeah, we overcame these things, but we can't overcome the dark.
jordan holmes
Darkness is, it's just gonna keep being there.
dan friesen
And that's where, like, the big cats...
Right.
It's a metaphor.
jordan holmes
The sun is God because it's the light.
The darkness is evil because it's the darkness.
The things come out of the darkness, they kill you.
You can see shit coming in the sun.
I get it.
dan friesen
And he expands on that metaphor a bit here about how the sun is a proxy for God.
bill cooper
In point of fact, every ancient culture and nation on earth have all used the sun as the most logically appropriate symbol to represent the glory.
Of the unseen creator of the heavens.
In the Old Testament it says, quote, the heavens are declaring the glory of God, unquote.
That's in Psalms 19, verse 1. In the Old Testament, quote, the sun of righteousness will arise, unquote.
Malachi, chapter 4, verse 2. The ancient peoples reasoned That no one on earth could ever lay claim of ownership to the great orb of day, it must belong to the unseen creator of the universe.
It became, figuratively speaking, not man's, but God's Son.
Truly, God's Son was the light of the world.
dan friesen
Sure.
bill cooper
As I stated before, folks, in the dark cold of night, man realized his utter vulnerability to the elements.
Each night, mankind was forced to wait for the rising of the sun to chase away the physical and mental insecurity brought on by the darkness.
Therefore, the morning sun focused man's attention on heavenly dependence for his frail short existence on earth, and in doing so, it became the appropriate symbol of divine benevolence from heaven.
For without the sun there was no light, there was no warmth, and nothing could grow or live upon the face of this earth.
So just as a small fire brought limited light into man's own little world of darkness, likewise the great fire of day served the whole earth with its heavenly presence.
For this reason it was said, That the God of the Bible was a consuming fire in heaven.
And so he was.
dan friesen
Makes sense.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Sure.
jordan holmes
I mean, who believes this now?
dan friesen
The demon schools.
The mystery schools.
jordan holmes
See, this is, I think, where I'm getting confused.
dan friesen
Please.
jordan holmes
If you are telling me about somebody else's beliefs that you don't respect...
It feels strange to give it so much narrative heft.
dan friesen
Give it narrative heft and also being like a plausible kind of explanation for anthropological explanations.
Like, yes, okay, God's son allows life on Earth.
It makes sense.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Compared to something divine.
jordan holmes
Right.
So are you fucking with me through?
This?
unidentified
Or...
jordan holmes
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Because it seems like he's very invested in telling this story.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Of what's wrong.
jordan holmes
Right!
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Like, if somebody is telling me about Scientology, they're not like, and let's start on page one of Dianetics, and then we're gonna go through bit by bit until we get to the end, you know?
Usually they're like, ah, it's crazy.
dan friesen
But if you're someone like Bill, and you believe, for example, that Scientology has run the world secretly since the time of...
The guy who invented that knife or whatever from broken stone.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Then maybe you would want to dramatize it all like this to give the story of history according to the people that I believe are wrong.
Absolutely.
So, you know, the sun gives life.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
That's true enough.
unidentified
Yeah.
jordan holmes
I mean, we wouldn't be here without the sun.
I'm on board.
dan friesen
Yep.
jordan holmes
You've nailed it.
dan friesen
And so Jesus is the son of God.
jordan holmes
Oh, no, so we're doing the word thing.
dan friesen
You bet we are.
jordan holmes
Oh, goddammit.
dan friesen
So Jesus is the son of God.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
This makes total sense if you think about it.
bill cooper
Ancient man, even with his limited intelligence at that time, had no problem understanding that all life on earth depended directly on life-giving energy from the sun.
Consequently, all life was lost without the sun.
It followed that God...
God's Son was nothing less than man's Savior.
Since energy from the Son gave life, and we sustained our very existence by taking energy in from our food, which came directly from God's Son, the Son must give up its life, supporting energy, so that we may continue to live.
God's Son must give His life for us to live.
I know that if you are intelligent out there listening, you are making some connections here.
dan friesen
Yeah, I think even if you're not, you're probably making some connections because they're pretty obvious.
jordan holmes
Yeah, are those connections that English didn't exist?
Never mind.
dan friesen
Well, that's an interesting thought that you have.
But just sort of from a metaphorical construct standpoint, yeah, okay, this is one way of explaining the idea of...
Like, God sacrificing his son in order to give life to humans?
Yeah.
At least from a metaphor, linguistic standpoint, Bill is not talking shit.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Like, at least it makes sense from a, like, I follow your thoughts.
jordan holmes
Right.
If you had a foundation that was anything but the foundation you currently have...
you would have something that makes sense.
As it is, you have something that makes sense out of absolutely nonsense.
dan friesen
But it's also, like, what you have as your real ideology does not really make sense.
And you're explaining the villains'mythology, Way of thinking about things.
And it unfortunately makes sense.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that is a problem for your...
dan friesen
So that's tough.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
Well, I mean, it's nice to make an enemy that you can't defeat.
That's outside of our normal reality, where he's just like, man, these guys are just better than us.
That would be an interesting take on religion.
dan friesen
Well, I don't know if that's the case, because we've got to get through 30-something of these episodes before we really know.
jordan holmes
That's a fair point.
dan friesen
But at this point, I think he's starting off on a bad foot.
I think that the mystery schools and stuff kind of make more sense than him.
jordan holmes
Yeah, currently.
Currently.
dan friesen
I don't know if that status quo will remain.
Right.
jordan holmes
So he's giving us a dramatic reenactment of the evolution of man beyond ape, or simple ape.
While at the same time saying that, yeah, but that's crazy because actually God created everything about 6,000 years ago.
dan friesen
Sure.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
And I think that this is not necessarily, in terms of the evolution of religious thought, I don't believe that this is necessarily even accurate.
jordan holmes
No.
dan friesen
I think scholars would probably take some issue with this, but I'm leaving that alone for the sake of like...
He's telling a story.
jordan holmes
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
These evil people believe that the story of Jesus is really just this metaphor for the sun giving life to earth.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Like, alright, let's see, what's your next thought?
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Jesus came back, though, right?
jordan holmes
There is that, well, the sun comes back.
dan friesen
You bet it does.
Oh, boy, here we go.
unidentified
It rises.
jordan holmes
Oh, God.
bill cooper
You see, the mystery schools believe that Christianity is a perversion of the mysteries.
While it was plainly true that our life came from and was sustained each day by our Savior, God's Son, it was and would be true only as long as the Son would return each morning.
And our hope of salvation would secure only in a risen Savior.
For if He did not rise from His grave of darkness, all would be lost.
All the world waited for His imminent return each morning.
The Father would never leave us at the mercy of this world of darkness.
The heavenly promise was surely that, quote, he would come again, unquote, to light our path and save those lost in the darkness.
Logically, even if man himself died, as long as the sun comes up each day, life on earth will continue forever.
Therefore, it was said in ancient texts, That everlasting life was the gift the Father gives through His Son.
For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that we may have life everlasting on earth.
And the ancient text did not mean for you personally, but on earth everlasting life.
That is the interpretation of the mystery schools.
dan friesen
So, yeah, their interpretation is that if the sun rises, life will always exist on Earth.
unidentified
Sure.
dan friesen
And so that's Jesus coming back from the dead.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
God sacrifices the energy of the sun in order to give life to things on Earth.
jordan holmes
Uh-huh.
dan friesen
It rises and falls.
Okay.
jordan holmes
Yeah!
Is that all the mystery schools?
Does the Order also believe in that?
Or does the Order have their own little thing?
dan friesen
I mean, I get that this is, like, rejecting of Bill's religious beliefs.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
And I can understand how he would be upset about that.
jordan holmes
It happens.
dan friesen
But so far, I don't really see anything evil.
jordan holmes
No, not yet.
dan friesen
If you don't have the religious framework of, you know, like, God...
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And, you know, the Christianity that Bill subscribes to, this is just, like, understanding plants.
jordan holmes
Yeah, is this the, like, is his essential point, like...
These people look at Christians, who obviously believe the correct stuff, and they, in their attempts to interpret what it is we believe, don't just agree that what we believe is true.
They find some sort of secret meaning behind what we believe that is involved with, like, you know, history.
dan friesen
And they believe that Christianity is a perversion of the mysteries of the universe that they have solved.
Right.
And so that's, yeah, yeah.
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
Basically.
jordan holmes
All right.
I mean, I guess when pots call kettles black, I'm fine.
dan friesen
It's a lofty premise, is what I'm telling you.
jordan holmes
No, I get you.
I get you.
I get you.
Yeah, no, I get it.
dan friesen
So most of this, I think, is reliant on wordplay.
jordan holmes
It does seem very heavily reliant on wordplay.
dan friesen
At this next clip, I was like, uh-oh, we've run into a wall.
jordan holmes
Oh, no.
bill cooper
That being true, then the great orb of day, God's son could rightly say of itself that, quote, I am.
unidentified
The light and the truth, unquote.
bill cooper
We should all, in their words, not mine, give thanks to the Father for sending us His Son, spelled S-U-N, in case some of you were getting confused.
unidentified
Boo!
bill cooper
In the instance where I have mentioned the word Son, it has been in reference to the Son.
unidentified
S-U-N.
bill cooper
For the peace and tranquility he brings to our life is even called solus.
Solus is from the word solar, which means sun.
Are you beginning to see the light?
jordan holmes
Oh, my God.
dan friesen
So solus doesn't come from solar.
It comes from the Latin solasium, which means a soothing or a comfort.
Solar comes from the Latin solaris, which means of the sun.
I know in English it sounds like these words have a common root, but they don't.
jordan holmes
That is the problem.
dan friesen
This is...
A lot of what the games being played rely on.
Like, this word sounds like this word.
jordan holmes
Yeah, it is trouble, whatever.
Anytime somebody who doesn't introduce themselves as having a PhD in philology or something and then is going like, hey, you want to talk about the etymology of this word?
The answer is no, I do not.
dan friesen
Yeah, if you're just throwing together weird superficial connections as opposed to like, I understand, I have an intimate, Knowledge of these words.
Yeah.
It definitely comes off as like, I don't know, I'm going to double check this and you're probably wrong.
jordan holmes
It is so weird how there's a combination of like, it is very, very interesting whenever somebody accurately traces words that you use every day all the way back, you know, however long to their root origin.
While at the same time being incredibly boring in 99.9% of all other situations when somebody's like, did you know soul means son?
dan friesen
But soul can, just not in every time soul is the beginning of a world.
jordan holmes
Exactly.
dan friesen
I think that you're right.
I don't know if I'm going 99.9, but it's damn close.
A percent of the time, it's a card trick.
If someone is doing something in order to blow your mind in a way that is dishonest, and I don't trust it without confirmation.
jordan holmes
If somebody ends a point with...
These two words, ah, ah.
dan friesen
God gives us solace.
jordan holmes
Nobody who actually studies etymology ever ends a point with these two words are similar.
It ends with, like, and we'll never know.
dan friesen
I think, yeah, if someone pulls off this little sleight of hand trick and then they end it with, you get it?
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
You see the light?
jordan holmes
You see what I'm saying?
dan friesen
That's bad.
jordan holmes
Fuck you.
dan friesen
So anyway, he does it again.
jordan holmes
Of course.
bill cooper
We now have before us two cosmic brothers, one very good and one very bad.
One brings the truth to light with the light of truth.
The other is the opposite, or in opposition to the light, the opposer, the prince of the world of darkness.
It is at this point we come to Egypt.
More than 3,000 years before Christianity began, the early morning son, the Savior, was pictured in Egypt as the newborn babe.
The infant Savior's name was Horus.
The early morning son, our newborn babe, was pictured in two ways.
The dove, known as the bringer of peace.
The hawk, the god of war who punishes the enemies of God.
Today, in government, we still use these terms, doves and hawks.
How powerful this religion is is that we use the terms of this religion even today, and know it's not.
At daybreak, this wonderful newborn child is, of course, born again.
Hallelujah.
Horus is risen.
That is what hallelujah means.
Even today, when the sun comes up, We see it on the Horus Risen, or Horizon.
jordan holmes
Boo!
unidentified
Boo!
bill cooper
The 12 Horus Hours, the 12 signs of the zodiac.
unidentified
Oof.
Oof, oof, oof.
dan friesen
So, Horizon doesn't come from Horus.
jordan holmes
Horus Risen?
It's not Horus Risen?
dan friesen
No.
jordan holmes
Weird!
dan friesen
It comes from the Greek, horizon, which means bound or limit.
Also, Hours doesn't come from Horus, but...
This sounds close enough that Bill can just play these games.
jordan holmes
Yeah, why not?
dan friesen
It blows people's minds.
jordan holmes
Why not?
dan friesen
Yeah, like, this is great.
It's so fun, but it is not real.
jordan holmes
No, not even a little bit.
dan friesen
It's just...
jordan holmes
It feels like a classic one.
I mean, aside from an assumed misogyny that underlies everything I'm sure he believes, period.
This is classic, just like...
Red string from point to point.
dan friesen
Yes.
jordan holmes
These are not actually connected, but this red string really makes you think they are.
dan friesen
So, you know how he said he was getting at this idea that the guy who made the knife ends up marrying the ancestor of the spear person?
It's kind of like if the red string, the platonic ideal of the red string, the ancestor of that fucked the...
Yes, I see what you're saying.
Beanbag, pot-smoking older brother who's gonna blow your mind.
jordan holmes
Right, right, right, right.
dan friesen
They came together to create this.
jordan holmes
Plus, uh...
dan friesen
Plus anger.
So, uh, you know, we've done some word stuff.
unidentified
Sure.
dan friesen
And I think Bill's shown himself to be...
jordan holmes
Horrazing.
dan friesen
Horrific.
jordan holmes
Horr...
dan friesen
Why not jump into numbers?
jordan holmes
Oh, God, yes.
Please tell me more numerology shit.
dan friesen
We got some number stuff.
jordan holmes
I love it.
bill cooper
It is at this point that we should look at the significance of the recurring number 12 in the Bible.
Obviously.
unidentified
First, 13 is said to be unlucky for humans.
bill cooper
It is a heavenly number and represents the sun plus the sun.
It's unlucky for a different reason, folks.
And I will explain that on another program.
It has to do with the persecution of the mystery school, the mystery religion.
dan friesen
I guess we'll get to that later.
I don't know why 13's unlucky, because Bill just brought it up and then moved along.
I don't know.
jordan holmes
Is the concept of 13 unlucky?
dan friesen
For humans.
jordan holmes
Right?
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Okay.
Alright.
dan friesen
Sure.
jordan holmes
Sure.
unidentified
Okay.
dan friesen
We've got nothing to go on.
jordan holmes
12 plus 1?
That's unlucky.
dan friesen
We know 12 is an important number.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And part of the justification for it is that 13 is not.
Right.
And we're not going to explain why it's not.
jordan holmes
Because it's not.
dan friesen
Until another day, maybe.
Has something to do with the persecution of this...
jordan holmes
Well, Jesus plus 12, and then one of them obviously got in trouble.
dan friesen
Well, you're saying Jesus.
Maybe it was the Son.
jordan holmes
Oh, that's a good point.
dan friesen
Yeah.
Hard to tell at this point.
So anyway, let's get back to 12. Sure.
Or maybe 7. Ah, goddammit.
bill cooper
It would be well to get a Bible concordance and look to see how many times the number 12 is used in the entire Bible.
jordan holmes
Would it?
bill cooper
Remember, the mystery religion is a religion of the heavens.
Also in the Bible you'll find many combinations of the number seven in the mystery religion that represents the seven stars of the Pleiades.
And you can see the emergence of the mystery religion in the UFO movement when the Pleiadians come to talk to Billy Meyer in Switzerland.
Oh my.
How we are deceived by these people.
dan friesen
So now we're on to seven.
jordan holmes
Wait.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Hold on.
dan friesen
Yep.
jordan holmes
Did the mystery religions come before Christianity or after Christianity?
Because if Christianity is a perversion of the mystery religions, then it suggests that the mystery religions existed prior to the Bible being written.
Otherwise, the numerology within the Bible meaningfully relating to the mystery religions doesn't actually make any sense if they're separate.
dan friesen
I think Bill might get to that in a later episode.
I don't fucking know.
jordan holmes
Okay, no, no, no.
Listen, I'm not interrogating you regarding what is clearly insanity.
dan friesen
The religion is real.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And correct.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
The mystery schools are pre-dating and post-dating, but also wrong and bad and evil.
jordan holmes
Right.
Right.
dan friesen
Yes.
Okay.
One of the things that we're going to have to deal with is that you will get to the end of this I'm not going to be satisfied.
Yeah, the Mystery of Babylon, you'll be like, what is your point?
jordan holmes
Right, right.
dan friesen
Because there isn't really a point.
jordan holmes
You wouldn't need 30 if you had already nailed your point right out the gate.
dan friesen
Yeah.
So 12 is an important number in the Bible.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And so is 7. And then also the Pleiadians.
Uh, are bringing the mystery religion, the mystery school is being communicated by these fake Pleiadians to inject it into the UFO community.
unidentified
Yeah.
dan friesen
I assume he's thinking that, like, the UFO folks are commies or something like that.
jordan holmes
That must be it.
dan friesen
Because maybe it's more left at the time, more left-leaning hippie-ish people are into space and UFOs and stuff.
jordan holmes
I guess.
How are they tricking me with this?
dan friesen
I mean, I don't know.
jordan holmes
You know what I'm saying?
They're manipulating and deceiving us.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Right.
How am I being deceived by different combinations of seven?
dan friesen
I think...
Well, I don't know about the seven part of it, but that has something to do with the Pleiades.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
The mystery schools are injecting ideas into the Pleiadians who are fake.
These Pleiadians aren't real.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
But they're injecting their ideas into the mouthpiece of the Pleiadians who are telling it to the UFO community who are being tricked by the fake Pleiadians who are just regurgitating mystery religion ideas.
jordan holmes
Gotcha.
dan friesen
I think that's what he's saying.
jordan holmes
Okay.
Okay.
I'm seeing the red string on the board.
I'm seeing the pins go in.
I'm seeing the circling as we draw another line.
dan friesen
You're hearing the bubbling of the bong water.
jordan holmes
I am absolutely.
I'm enjoying myself, but I am too sober for this.
dan friesen
So there's 12. Of course there is.
jordan holmes
But not 13!
dan friesen
No, that's unlucky.
There's 12 zodiac signs.
jordan holmes
Is there?
dan friesen
Yeah, so let's talk about them.
jordan holmes
Alright.
bill cooper
And since the zodiac divided the sky into twelve equal portions, each of these houses was also equal.
Comprising 30 degrees are one twelfth of the 360 degree circle.
And the houses, the signs of the zodiac were as follows.
Aries was the ram, or lamp of God.
Taurus, the bull, the golden calf.
Gemini, the twins, which represented Cain and Abel, Jacob and Esau, are Jesus and Satan, for in mystery Babylon, Jesus and Satan are brothers, and in some sects of the mystery religion, they are the same entity.
Cancer, the crab.
Leo, the lion of the tribe of Judah.
unidentified
Wait, wait, wait.
dan friesen
Hold on.
What about that crab?
jordan holmes
I was going to say, we need more information on the crab.
You can't just say cancer, the crab, as if that's enough.
dan friesen
All of these other things I've elaborated.
jordan holmes
Absolutely.
dan friesen
Christian connections.
jordan holmes
Nah, just the crab.
dan friesen
The crab.
jordan holmes
I mean, I'd take anything but just the crab.
unidentified
Right.
jordan holmes
The crab of the sea.
That would be fine.
I'd be like, oh, the sea crab.
That's different.
That's a unique crab.
dan friesen
The crab that counsels Jonah in the belly of the whale.
jordan holmes
Yeah, something.
Something.
dan friesen
Just the crab.
I give up.
jordan holmes
We don't need it.
Do you need anything for the crab?
dan friesen
These other ones are pretty simple.
The lion.
jordan holmes
The twins.
dan friesen
The ram.
The crab.
jordan holmes
The crab.
The delicious crab.
dan friesen
Crab.
I thought that was funny.
jordan holmes
I love it.
No, I immediately felt it too.
dan friesen
You can't have all of this significance that's ascribed to all of these things and then be like, except that one.
jordan holmes
Yeah, that's the problem.
It has to fit.
It's like the prediction, you know?
It's worse if you're close.
Because the closeness is even more meaningless.
You can only hit it on the head, or it sounds stupid.
dan friesen
Yeah, you can't claim to have deciphered a message if a couple of the things are wrong.
jordan holmes
Hey, you don't need to worry about ease.
Come on.
dan friesen
That's a problem, crab boy.
jordan holmes
You can figure it out where the ease would have been.
It's Jeopardy rules.
dan friesen
Doesn't quite work that way, but I...
Tip my hat.
So anyway, Bill's citing some real good sources here.
This is just outrageous.
bill cooper
We belong to one another.
According to the Mystery School, we are part of God's creation.
We are part of a great fraternity of man, according to them.
We are creation's voice to sing praise to God as we gather in the morning.
The morning, folks.
To pray.
The very time of day recalls our creation and our new creation in Christ.
During the gathering time, reflect on this mystery.
Using the silence, the sounds of mourning, the psalms and other scriptures, be aware that the rising sun is the image of Christ, our sun and source of life.
And that is taken right out of a Protestant church's leaflet.
Calling for the congregation together for the Easter sunrise service.
dan friesen
Hey, it's Easter!
jordan holmes
Okay.
dan friesen
I don't care about this leaflet.
A random church's leaflet?
jordan holmes
I think you're going to need more than just a leaflet for proving the mystery religions of perverted Christianity.
dan friesen
Yeah.
Also, a lot of that stuff that he's saying does not sound like evil mystery religion type of...
Like, we are a community of people.
jordan holmes
Sounds fine.
dan friesen
Of gods.
That sounds like pretty in line with my idea of Christianity.
jordan holmes
That's pretty alright.
Everybody's pretty chill.
You know, the sun?
Pretty important.
Without it?
Not least of which, we wouldn't have the magnetic field that protects us from all those kind of outboard radiation.
dan friesen
We would be left without solace.
jordan holmes
And then there is the food thing.
The food thing is pretty crucial.
dan friesen
The food thing is big.
jordan holmes
Pretty big.
Pretty big, yeah.
dan friesen
So I think you have a guy who's operating off words that sound similar and then a pamphlet from a church.
I don't know if we're really doing high-level work here.
jordan holmes
I just...
I want...
I want to go to the pamphlet.
I want Gladys from New Life Church of First Day Adventism to suddenly hear this and be like...
I was just doing a little something, you know?
dan friesen
It was copy and paste.
I took it from something else.
jordan holmes
I was trying to make it a little bit nicer for the day.
You know, it's Easter.
I was trying to put a little ceremony in there.
Do you want to see my last leaflet?
Zero mystery religions in there.
dan friesen
I would imagine this is just a leaflet that one of his listeners sent him.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
Right?
From one of their churches.
And it just references the morning?
I guess.
Basically?
jordan holmes
Mourning.
M-O-U-R-N-I-N-G.
That's when we mourn the loss of the sun at night.
So the mourning is when you wake up, but then the mourning is also when you go to sleep.
Mournings are mourning.
Mournings!
dan friesen
We're trapped in an eternal mourning.
jordan holmes
Ah, I'm mourning that.
dan friesen
So we should mourn the age of Pisces.
jordan holmes
Yeah, okay.
dan friesen
Because that's going to be ending.
jordan holmes
Right.
How's the crab doing?
dan friesen
Crab's good.
Crab's good.
The crab is the key.
So the age of Pisces is the age of fish or something.
jordan holmes
Sure, sure.
dan friesen
And it's coming to an end.
The age of Aquarius will be upon us.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
My note here is this is all over the place.
bill cooper
The New Testament tells us three different times that God's Son was taught by and learned all things from the Father.
He was the pupil.
dan friesen
Like the eye.
bill cooper
We are told in Matthew 14:17-19 that God's Son tends to His people's knees with two fishes.
The two fishes being the astrological sign all astrologers know as Pisces.
Thus we have had for almost 2,000 years God's Son ruling in His kingdom, or sign of Pisces, the two fishes.
As stated before, these signs are called houses, therefore Pisces is the Lord's house at this time.
Truly, the greatest fish story ever told.
Now, according to astrology, sometime after the year 2010, catch that date, folks, the year 2010.
Remember what I told you about 2001.
Arthur C. Clarke is obviously a member of the Mystery Schools.
dan friesen
Sure.
unidentified
Stanley Kubrick.
bill cooper
Who's responsible for making the movie, is obviously a member also.
According to astrology, sometime after the year 2010, the sun will enter into his new sign, or his new kingdom.
As it was called by the ancients, this next coming sign, or kingdom soon to be upon us, So we're entering the age of Aquarius.
dan friesen
I've heard that song.
Yep.
So yeah, the fish, the age of Pisces, it all checks out.
jordan holmes
I'm sensing a clear pattern that he has, wherein a very consistent rising and falling action to all of his paragraphs.
But my favorite is how a lot of them seem to end with like a...
Two fish we all eat.
Hungry now.
And then he just moves on.
As though there's no...
I don't need to explain anymore about the two fish.
Houses.
It's God's house.
Moving on.
dan friesen
The loaves and fishes.
Two fish.
jordan holmes
Pisces.
dan friesen
We're in the house of Pisces for the last 2,000 years.
That's God's house.
God's moving to Aquarius.
Sometime around 2010, which is the sequel to 2001, The Space Odyssey, which means Arthur C. Clarke and Kubrick.
jordan holmes
Of course.
dan friesen
They're members of this...
jordan holmes
Because you made a movie.
dan friesen
See, that's kind of a nice little bit of connective tissue between him and Alex, too.
This idea that these sci-fi people were giving you prophecy and all kinds of hints at what is to come.
That blurring of fiction and reality is certainly a part of their tradition.
jordan holmes
You know what I find fascinating?
dan friesen
What's that?
jordan holmes
It suggests that the mystery religions of people are also still getting You know, like, if you're making a movie, but everybody else also has movie technology, it's not like the mystery religions got movies first.
Do you know what I mean?
dan friesen
Maybe they did.
jordan holmes
Well, but even if they did, they didn't get them that much first.
dan friesen
I don't know.
Can you prove that?
jordan holmes
I mean, I guess I can't.
dan friesen
You can't prove that people in the, like, 1400s didn't have movies.
jordan holmes
I feel like I actually can't prove that.
dan friesen
I'd say you can't.
jordan holmes
I feel like if you go back further, I can't.
But I feel like the 1400s, I've got a pretty clear idea on whether or not movies were available.
dan friesen
Well, really, like, someone yelling on the street is the equivalent of a movie.
Right?
I mean, it's just...
jordan holmes
Yelling, yelling, yellow, yelling and yellow in the street.
Streets are made of yellow submarines.
Don, streets of gold.
The Beatles are in the mystery religions.
dan friesen
Streets of gold, heaven.
Heaven is the sky.
jordan holmes
Love it.
dan friesen
What's in the sky?
God's sun.
jordan holmes
Boom.
Nailed it.
Which mystery religion is that?
Are we in the order?
dan friesen
Yep, we're in the order.
This is out of order.
jordan holmes
I want to join the Knights of Malta.
dan friesen
Sure, do it.
All right.
So if you're confused about this...
jordan holmes
I am.
dan friesen
Yeah, me too.
Bill tells you what to do with that.
jordan holmes
Okay, good.
Thank you.
bill cooper
A rule of thumb to remember is that signs measure your inherent qualities.
The planets influence those qualities, and the houses indicate directions for them.
In other words, the houses indicate certain things.
Any planet, any house influences or activates the things indicated.
Now this is all according to their religion.
If you want more explanation, please ask Nancy Reagan.
dan friesen
I will not.
jordan holmes
Got her.
dan friesen
I will not go ask Nancy Reagan.
You can't make me.
jordan holmes
I really, really don't want to ask Nancy Reagan anything.
dan friesen
About the planets?
jordan holmes
Period.
I mean, I guess maybe one good question would be like, are you sure you want to entrust nuclear weapons to the planets?
dan friesen
It's a choice.
So I guess most of this comes down to some kind of belief in astrology.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
I guess.
jordan holmes
These people fundamentally think that outside the Earth has stuff that makes the Earth different.
dan friesen
Right.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Maybe.
jordan holmes
I mean, you know, like, you know, Earth does a thing and then just the way stars are shaped.
In our perspective, affects the things.
But at no point in time do they just go, God is completely sovereign over everything?
dan friesen
Because I think that the constellations and all that stuff.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
Pretty arbitrary what shapes you want to draw around stars.
jordan holmes
Feel real strongly about the arbitrariness of those constellations.
dan friesen
A lot of them could be connected.
The stars could be connected in different ways and stuff, and you could make a different design.
And so all of these houses and the astrological signs, they were created by the mystery religion in order to...
Create their framework.
It doesn't affect us.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
We're affecting it.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
And the crab is the key.
jordan holmes
The crab has to be the key.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Now, my question to that would be like, what about all the places that weren't in the same place as the people who clearly invented those constellations?
Because if you're on different parts of the Earth, when you look up at the sky, it's not the same.
So we don't all have the same constellations.
But we do all have the same houses of God?
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Oh, okay.
dan friesen
I don't know, man.
jordan holmes
All right, I'm just asking.
dan friesen
I can't go ask Nancy Reagan for clarification about this.
jordan holmes
Actually, that I would like her to know.
dan friesen
So we come to the end of Bill's first presentation, and I don't know if I have a whole lot of clarity.
jordan holmes
Okay.
bill cooper
Yet another simple mistranslation to clarify, and there are many in the Bible with the proper understanding of the actual words used, this end of the world is translated differently in various Bibles.
Some say end of time.
Some say end of the days, and still others say conclusion of this system of things.
So what does all this talk of the end time or last days really mean?
unidentified
Nothing.
bill cooper
Well, here's the simple answer, folks.
According to the mystery schools, when the scriptures speak of, quote, the end of the world, unquote, the actual word used is not, I repeat, not, end of the world.
The actual word in Greek is aeon, which when correctly translated means age.
That's spelled, folks, A-G-E.
Don't do this.
work to use here, look up the word age in any secular dictionary or Bible concordance.
There you will find the word for age is from the Greek aeon or A-E-O-N.
Don't do it.
Remembering that in astrology each of the twelve houses, or signs of the zodiac, corresponds to a 2,000 year period of time called an age, we now know we are 1,992 years into the house, or age of Pisces.
Now correctly understood, it can rightly be said that we today, in fact, are living in the last days.
Yes, according to the mystery schools, we're in the last days of the old age of Pisces.
Soon, God's Son will come again into His new kingdom, or new age, and that's where all this new age movement and new age comes from, new age of Aquarius, man with the water pitcher, Luke chapter 22, verse 10. That's right, folks, the new aeon, or the new age.
This, according to the mystery schools, Now, what you choose to believe is your business?
Remember, don't get mad at me.
I am teaching you the mystery religion of ancient Babylon.
And I'm telling you right now, many people practice this mystery, religion in secret, and they hate Christians.
They hate Christians because they believe that Christianity is a perversion of their religion, and thus is their enemy.
Wait.
unidentified
When viewing the shimmering rays of sunlight on a body of water at dawn or sunset, according to the mystery schools, one can still see today How God's Son Walks on Water.
bill cooper
Good night, and God bless you all.
dan friesen
What?
unidentified
God bless you too, Bill.
dan friesen
Uh, yeah.
What?
unidentified
What?
dan friesen
What do you mean?
jordan holmes
I guess that's the end.
dan friesen
This light is reflected off water?
jordan holmes
Fine.
Fine.
dan friesen
I don't understand from this first installment how the Mystery School people hate Christianity.
I don't feel that at all from what he has presented.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
I think that we have him representing the side of Christianity.
I guess.
And saying that the mystery schools are a perversion of Christianity.
unidentified
Right.
dan friesen
And then the mystery schools are saying that Christianity is a perversion of their ideology.
And I'm being left with either I'm supposed to believe that someone has walked on water or light reflects off water and it's a metaphor.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
And I think that that's more plausible.
jordan holmes
Probably.
dan friesen
Of explanation for someone walking on water.
jordan holmes
It would make sense.
dan friesen
It's strange to me that he's presenting these two things and one of them makes a whole lot more sense.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
I'm also confused as to why it is he's interested in what the mystery schools interpret the scripture as.
You know what I mean?
So if the mystery schools are not coming up with this idea, if they are instead taking something you believe and...
And just believing something different about it.
What does that matter?
Unless they existed before you, in which case you're kind of like pissed off.
dan friesen
Not necessarily, because I think that you could say that the Mystery Schools, as Bill is presenting it...
Are an effort to undermine the reality of the Christian Bible.
So you have a miracle that Jesus did, which was walking on water.
And the mystery schools are like, no, that's just light reflecting on the water.
So it's an undermining of this religion.
So it could exist after...
jordan holmes
Okay, we're talking ancient Babylon, alright?
dan friesen
Sure, and we're talking about Horus.
jordan holmes
Yeah, right?
So we're going way back.
dan friesen
We're going back.
jordan holmes
Ancient Babylon, because I feel like maybe I just don't have my dates right.
dan friesen
Sure.
There's some dates that maybe should be fleshed out.
jordan holmes
Yeah, I want to say that if we're talking about, I mean, depending on what time period, but yeah, we're talking way before Jesus was born and the Bible was compiled.
dan friesen
Sure.
jordan holmes
Like, way before then.
dan friesen
But I don't think that based on what we're being presented with in this first episode, we know whether or not this is the religion of Babylon or if it's hearkening back to Babylon and was created after Jesus.
jordan holmes
Okay, so we're leaving open the possibility that when he says ancient Babylonian mystery people, that is him describing a religion that was created relatively recently.
And harkens back to ancient Babylon as a tradition, as opposed to something that was originated in ancient Babylon that has stayed with us throughout, I guess, the Knights of Malta.
dan friesen
Yes.
I think that's possible.
We're confining ourselves to the information that's being presented in this lecture.
jordan holmes
Of course.
dan friesen
And I think that that's possible.
jordan holmes
Right.
dan friesen
I don't know what he's talking about.
jordan holmes
I believe it is on the lecturer.
For you to then, at the end of the lecture, know what the lecture was talking about.
dan friesen
I think the lecture is about feelings of persecution as a Christian.
jordan holmes
Sure.
dan friesen
I definitely get that sense.
jordan holmes
That's true, but not from the people that he is saying.
dan friesen
He's created an eternal persecution that he's describing through riddles and word puzzles.
I don't know.
I have this tension.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
And that I'm interested.
And I would like to learn more.
Yeah.
But do I actually think that there's much more in the 29-plus episodes?
jordan holmes
Absolutely not.
dan friesen
No.
But I feel inclined to explore it more.
I think it's probably boring.
And I don't know what the point is.
And maybe, maybe this Easter, the thing that rose from the dead should have stayed dead.
jordan holmes
I will say this.
dan friesen
I don't know.
jordan holmes
I will say this.
From a pure vocal standpoint, his storytelling style is digestible.
It is somewhat hypnotic.
And ultimately, if you are not thinking, it's kind of enjoyable.
dan friesen
Yeah, and he has a certain amount of authority that he's able to put on.
jordan holmes
The tone is great.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
dan friesen
So if you're just...
Like, passively listening and assume he knows what he's talking about.
jordan holmes
Yeah.
dan friesen
You could end up internalizing some bad information.
jordan holmes
Yeah, he has a very professorial tone to him.
He's got that depth of age to his voice that gives you...
And then he's got the lilt.
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
The lilt that gives you the, like...
You know, it's good.
dan friesen
It sounds more human in its conveying, whereas Alex just sounds like an idiot.
jordan holmes
Yeah, he sounds like a lunatic.
dan friesen
And so there is something to that.
Yeah, so I don't know.
I want to know what he's talking about.
And so far, it's nothing.
jordan holmes
It is weird to hear somebody deliver utter nonsense in that tone, though.
You know, like, just complete batshit lunacy, but with the calm confidence of a true psychopath.
dan friesen
The crab.
jordan holmes
Right?
dan friesen
Yeah.
jordan holmes
Cancer, the crab.
Leo, the Lion of Judah.
dan friesen
I think that I'm going to at least do another...
Mystery Babylon episode.
jordan holmes
I'm in.
dan friesen
I think I'm going to.
I don't want to say that we're going to cover it all.
I'm not committing to that kind of nonsense.
jordan holmes
30 might be a lot.
dan friesen
But I think I'm resurrecting this at least for a bit.
We're going to try it for a little bit.
unidentified
Like...
jordan holmes
Somebody of the mystery religions from ancient Babylon.
Are you revealing yourself to be the fulfillment of Bill Cooper's prophecy here?
Is this whole 30-part thing about how Dan Friesen of the mystery religions will arise on Easter?
dan friesen
Exactly.
jordan holmes
Oh, shit.
dan friesen
I don't want to say that is the case, but I want to leave open the possibility.
unidentified
I think that's wise.
jordan holmes
I think it's wise to leave open that possibility.
dan friesen
So we'll find out if that's the case later on another episode.
But until then, we have a website.
jordan holmes
We do.
It's SolidFight.com.
unidentified
Yep.
dan friesen
We'll be back.
But until then, I'm Leo.
I'm Leo.
I'm DZX Clark.
I am the Mysterious Professor.
Mysterious Professor.
unidentified
Woo!
Yeah!
Woo!
Yeah!
Woo!
steve quayle
And now here comes the sex robots.
alex jones
Andy in Kansas.
unidentified
You're on the air.
Thanks for holding.
Hello, Alex.
jordan holmes
I'm a first-time caller.
unidentified
I'm a huge fan.
jordan holmes
I love your work.
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