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    THE COMTE DI CAGLIOSTRO

    The "divine" Cagliostro, one moment the idol of Paris, the next a lonely prisoner in a dungeon of the Inquisition, passed like a meteor across the face of France. According to his memoirs written by him during his confinement in the Bastille, Alessandro Cagliostro was born in Malta of a noble but unknown family. He was reared and educated in Arabia under the tutelage of Altotas, a man well versed in several branches of philosophy and science and also a master of the transcendental arts. While Cagliostro's biographers generally ridicule this account, they utterly fail to advance in its stead any logical solution for the source of his magnificent store of arcane knowledge.
    Sincere investigators of the facts surrounding the life and mysterious "death" of Cagliostro are of the opinion that the stories circulated against him may be traced to the machinations of the Inquisition, which in this manner sought to justify his persecution. The basic charge against Cagliostro was that he had attempted to found a Masonic lodge in Rome--nothing more. All other accusations are of subsequent date. For some reason undisclosed, the Pope commuted Cagliostro's sentence of death to perpetual imprisonment. This act in itself showed the regard in which Cagliostro was held even by his enemies. .
    While his death is believed to have occurred several years later in an Inquisitional dungeon in the castle of San Leo, it is highly improbable that such was the case
    or in Spanish Leon....maybe




    After creating his Egyptian Rite, Cagliostro declared that since women had been admitted into the ancient Mysteries there was no reason why they should be excluded from the modem orders.
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    Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws.” -Confucius.

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    • from: Secret Teachings of All Ages: Conclusion

      I highly recommend you read the whole text for it will shade some light on some of your interrogations

      Thus it is demonstrated that to capture a man it is not sufficient to enslave his body--it is necessary to enlist his reason; that to free a man it is not enough to strike the shackles from his limbs--his mind must be liberated from bondage to his own ignorance. Physical conquest must ever fail, for, generating hatred and dissension, it spurs the mind to the avenging of an outraged body; but all men are bound whether willingly or unwillingly to obey that intellect in which they recognize qualities and virtues superior to their own.
      Philosophy ( ie knowledge ...not the modern definition of philosophy )bestows life in that it reveals the dignity and purpose of living. Materiality bestows death in that it benumbs or clouds those faculties of the human soul which should be responsive to the enlivening impulses of creative thought and ennobling virtue


      Today man, a sublime creature with infinite capacity for self-improvement, in an effort to be true to false standards, turns from his birthright of understanding--without realizing the consequences--and plunges into the maelstrom of material illusion. The precious span of his earthly years he devotes to the pathetically futile effort to establish himself as an enduring power in a realm of unenduring things. Gradually the memory of his life as a spiritual being vanishes from his objective mind and he focuses all his partly awakened faculties upon the seething beehive of industry which he has come to consider the sole actuality. From the lofty heights of his Selfhood he slowly sinks into the gloomy depths of ephemerality. He falls to the level of the beast, and in brutish fashion mumbles the problems arising from his all too insufficient knowledge of the Divine Plan. Here in the lurid turmoil of a great industrial, political, commercial inferno, men writhe in self-inflicted agony and, reaching out into the swirling mists, strive to clutch and hold the grotesque phantoms of success and power.


      The great philosophic institutions of the past must rise again, for these alone can tend the veil which divides the world of causes from that of effects. Only the Mysteries--those sacred Colleges of Wisdom--can reveal to struggling humanity that greater and more glorious universe which is the true home of the spiritual being called man. Modern philosophy has failed in that it has come to regard thinking as simply an intellectual process.
      Measured by the infinities of time and space, what are the captains of industry or the lords of finance? If one of these plutocrats should rise until he ruled the earth itself, what would he be but a petty despot seated on a grain of Cosmic dust?
      If the Infinite had not desired man to become wise, He would not have bestowed upon him the faculty of knowing. If He had not intended man to become virtuous, He would not have sown within the human heart the seeds of virtue. If He had predestined man to be limited to his narrow physical life, He would not have equipped him with perceptions and sensibilities capable of grasping, in part at least, the immensity of the outer universe. The criers of philosophy call all men to a comradeship of the spirit: to a fraternity of thought: to a convocation of Selves. Philosophy invites man out of the vainness of selfishness; out of the sorrow of ignorance and the despair of worldliness; out of the travesty of ambition and the cruel clutches of greed; out of the red hell of hate and the cold tomb of dead idealism.
      In every man and woman these two spheres are connected by a gate which leads from the not-self and its concerns to the Self and its realizations. In the mystic this gate is the heart, and through spiritualization of his emotions he contacts that more elevated plane which, once felt and known, becomes the sum of the worth-while. In the philosopher, reason is the gate between the outer and the inner worlds, the illumined mind bridging the chasm between the corporeal and the incorporeal. Thus godhood is born within the one who sees, and from the concerns of men he rises to the concerns of gods( ie Celestial Intelligences ).


      Nevertheless, this little earth is bathed as of old in the sunlight of its Providential Generator. Wide-eyed babes still face the mysteries of physical existence. Men continue to laugh and cry, to love and hate; Some still dream of a nobler world, a fuller life, a more perfect realization. In both the heart and mind of man the gates which lead from mortality to immortality are still ajar. Virtue, love, and idealism ( 6 3 9 )are yet the regenerators of humanity. God continues to love and guide the destinies of His creation.
      The criers of the Mysteries speak again, bidding all men welcome to the House of Light.
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      • Numerology :: Knowledge Number 7




        a very nice Presentation on the magik of the Number Seven

        the doc:


        The Number "SEVEN" - YouTube

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        Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws.” -Confucius.

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        • Elusive Planet Mercury Shines Bright in Evening Sky Next Week | How to See Planet Mercury & Mercury Skywatching Tips | Amateur Astronomy & Mercury Photos | Space.com

          The planet Mercury is often cited as the most difficult of the five brightest naked-eye planets to see. I've always thought this was a bad rap because there are some times during the year when Mercury is surprisingly easy to see.
          Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws.” -Confucius.

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          • In the doc the following Name is Mentioned: Ouspensky

            Fourth Way - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

            The Fourth Way refers to a concept used by G.I. Gurdjieff to describe an approach to self-development learned over years of travel in the East [1] that combined what he saw as three established traditional "ways," or "schools" into a fourth way.[2] These three ways were of the body, mind and emotions. The term "The Fourth Way" was further developed by P.D. Ouspensky in his lectures and writings. Posthumously, Ouspensky's students published a book entitled Fourth Way, based on his lectures. The "Fourth Way" is sometimes referred to as "The Work," "Work on oneself," or "The System." [3]

            According to this system, the chief difference between the three traditional schools, or ways, and the fourth way is that "they are permanent forms which have survived throughout history mostly unchanged, and are based on religion. Where schools of yogis, monks or fakirs exist, they are barely distinguishable from religious schools. The fourth way differs in that it is not a permanent way. It has no specific forms or institutions and comes and goes controlled by some particular laws of its own."
            alchemical of sort...on Account of the many travels of Count St Germain


            wherever the Dragon takes you





            Origins

            In his autobiography, Gurdjieff credited certain people in Asia for many of his ideas, while he nevertheless did not divulge the origins of his system.


            There are some similarities between the Fourth Way teaching and other spiritual teachings.

            The stop exercise is similar to the Uqufi Zamani exercise in Omar Ali-Shah's book on the Rules or Secrets of the Naqshbandi Sufi Order.[22]
            Well after the promulgation of Gurdjieff’s ideas throughout the 1920s and '30s
            the 30's again

            Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws.” -Confucius.

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            • follow up

              Cosmic Laws

              Gurdjieff focused on two main cosmic laws, the Law of Three and the Law of Seven[citation needed]. (remember St Augustine )

              The Law of Seven ( as in Seven Principles ) is described by Gurdjieff as "the first fundamental cosmic law". This law is used to explain processes. The basic use of the law of seven is to explain why nothing in nature and in life constantly occurs in a straight line, that is to say that there are always ups and downs in life which occur lawfully. Examples of this can be noticed in athletic performances, where a high ranked athlete always has periodic downfalls, as well as in nearly all graphs that plot topics that occur over time, such as the economic graphs, population graphs, death-rate graphs and so on. All show parabolic periods that keep rising and falling. Gurdjieff claimed that since these periods occur lawfully based on the law of seven that it is possible to keep a process in a straight line if the necessary shocks were introduced at the right time. A piano keyboard is an example of the law of seven, as the seven notes of the major scale correspond exactly to it.
              The Law of Three is described by Gurdjieff as "the second fundamental cosmic law". This law states that every whole phenomenon is composed of three separate sources, which are Active, Passive[disambiguation needed ] and Reconciling or Neutral (6 3 9 ). This law applies to everything in the universe and humanity, as well as all the structures and processes. The Three Centers in a human, which Gurdjieff said were the Intellectual Centre, the Emotional Centre and the Moving Centre, are an expression of the law of three. Gurdjieff taught his students to think of the law of three forces as essential to transforming the energy of the human being. The process of transformation requires the three actions of affirmation, denial and reconciliation.
              How the Law of Seven and Law of Three function together is said to be illustrated on the Fourth Way Enneagram, a nine-pointed symbol which is the central glyph of Gurdjieff's system.


              Use of symbols
              In his explanations Gurdjieff often used different symbols such as the Enneagram and the Ray of Creation. Gurdjieff said that "the enneagram is a universal symbol. All knowledge can be included in the enneagram and with the help of the enneagram it can be interpreted ... A man may be quite alone in the desert and he can trace the enneagram in the sand and in it read the eternal laws of the universe. And every time he can learn something new, something he did not know before."[27] The ray of creation is a diagram which represents the Earth's place in the Universe. The diagram has eight levels, each corresponding to Gurdjieff's laws of octaves.

              Through the elaboration of the law of octaves and the meaning of the enneagram, Gurdjieff offered his students alternative means of conceptualizing the world and their place in it.


              Recognize it from Rodin Math

              Origins

              Ouspensky claimed in In Search of the Miraculous that the enneagram was part of the teachings originally presented by G.I. Gurdjieff in Russia during the First World War. Gurdjieff is quoted by Ouspensky as claiming that this form of enneagram was an ancient secret and was now being partly revealed for the first time.[1]

              Although no earlier publication of the Fourth Way version of the enneagram can be cited, it has been proposed that it may derive from, or be cognate to, the Jewish Tree of Life (Kabbalah) as used in Renaissance Hermeticism (which used an enneagram of three interlocking triangles, also called a nonagram)[2] or a nine-pointed figure used by the Christian medieval philosopher Ramon Llull.[2]

              Idries Shah, a populariser of Sufism, has claimed that the enneagram has a Sufi provenance and that it has also been long known in coded form disguised as an octagram.[3] Another claim to a Sufi provenance is offered by the Sufi Enneagram website.

              Robin Amis claims an Orthodox Christian origin, claiming that both Gurdijeff and Ouspensky developed their teaching with insights gained from visits to Mount Athos.[4]

              Another proposal suggests the diagram is a map of the chakras from yogic schools. [5]
              a fractal construct has an 'efficient function', it has a fractal ergonomy to them, they function on multiple levels and in multiple dimensions:

              The Fourth Way enneagram is a figure published in 1947 in In Search of the Miraculous by P.D. Ouspensky, and an integral part of the so-called Fourth Way esoteric system associated with George Gurdjieff. The term "enneagram" derives from two Greek words, ennea (nine) and grammos (something written or drawn).

              The enneagram is a nine-pointed figure usually inscribed within a circle. Within the circle is a triangle connecting points 9, 3 and 6. The inscribed figure resembling a web connects the other six points in a cyclic figure 1-4-2-8-5-7. This number is derived from or corresponds to the recurring decimal .142857 = 1/7. These six points together with the point numbered 9 are said to represent the main stages of any complete process, and can be related to the notes of a musical octave, 9 being equivalent to "Do" and 1 to "Re" etc. The points numbered 3 and 6 are said to represent "shock points" which affect the way a process develops. The internal lines between the points; that is, the three point figure and the six point figure, are said to show certain non-obvious connections, although here very little elucidation is offered.




              Enneagram representing the evolution of food with "self remembering" at point 6
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              • You can also replace / associate the 6 3 9 Triangle with the following design to have a more complete image




                +









                a smile is good for the health, remember don't take yourself too seriously you'll scare the child within
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                • Originally posted by Dave45 View Post
                  Looks like Rodin got his start here.
                  looks like it he's done humanity a great favor....Thank you if you ever read this ....We are indebted to you


                  Principle of Mentalism

                  ps: You should watch the doc on the number 7...it is only 8 min long but you will learn quite a bit...on the fractal properties of 7

                  akcijak's Channel - YouTube 18.2.2012 - 2/4 - Alchemy & Magic
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                  • The points numbered 3 and 6 are said to represent "shock points" which affect the way a process develops. The internal lines between the points; that is, the three point figure and the six point figure, are said to show certain non-obvious connections, although here very little elucidation is offered.
                    the beauty of Fractal Constructs...when put together they will resonate to each other


                    the third figure above can be found here:



                    --------------



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                    Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws.” -Confucius.

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                    • I dedicate this to all of you fellow Alchemists of the Above and Below

                      Even if you don't know what you want, buy something,
                      to be part of the exchanging flow.
                      Start a huge, foolish, project, like Noah.
                      It makes absolutely no difference what people think of you.

                      Rumi


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                      • a little update for better visualization



                        the above cover is taken from: Saint Germain's Dragon

                        SAINT GERMAIN & THE DRAGON
                        The Secret Triangle Book of the Dragon Lineage


                        another little mash up that shows some interesting patterns






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                        • on our continuing discussion about Fulcanelli...and the Mystery of the Cathedrals...of Gothic Style

                          some of you maybe familiar with the Story of Rennes-le-Château

                          Rennes-le-Château - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

                          Rennes-le-Château (Rènnas del Castèl in Occitan) is a commune in the Aude department in Languedoc in southern France.

                          This small French hilltop ( Mountain) village is known internationally, and receives tens of thousands of visitors per year, for being at the center of various conspiracy theories, and for being the location of an alleged buried treasure discovered by its 19th-century priest Bérenger Saunière, the precise nature of which is disputed by those who believe in its existence, because of the sheer diversity of conflicting theories.[1]
                          The village church dedicated to Saint Mary Magdalene has an extremely complex history, having been rebuilt several times. The earliest church of which there is any evidence on the site may date to the 8th century.
                          possibly (imo ) ancient site of a temple of Venus

                          let us its geographic position:

                          History

                          Mountains frame both ends of the region — the Cevennes to the northeast and the Pyrenees to the south. The area is known for beautiful scenery, with jagged ridges, deep river canyons and rocky limestone plateaus, with large caves underneath.
                          Like many European villages, Rennes-le-Château has a complex history. It is the site of a prehistoric encampment, and later a Roman colony (or at least Roman villa or temple, such as is confirmed to have been built at Fa, 5 km (3.1 mi) west of Couiza); being part of the Roman province of Gallia Narbonensis, the wealthiest part of Roman Gaul.

                          Rennes-le-Château was part of Septimania during the 6th and 7th centuries, during the trying period when the Visigoths had been defeated by the Frankish King Clovis I, and during the 19th century was popularly considered to be the center of the county of Razès.[2]

                          By 1050 the Counts of Toulouse held control over the area, involving a rapid increase of castles in the area, including the existence of a castle in Rennes-le-Château by around 1002,[3] though nothing remains above ground of this medieval structure – the present ruin is from the 17th or 18th century.[4]

                          Several castles situated in the surrounding region in the Languedoc (the parent of English )were central to the battle between the Catholic church and the Cathars at the beginning of the 13th century. Other castles guarded the volatile border with Spain. Whole communities were wiped out during the campaigns of the Catholic authorities to rid the area of the Cathar heretics during the Albigensian Crusades and again when Protestants fought for religious freedom against the French monarchy two centuries before the French Revolution.


                          ps: SEPTimania....the word Sept means Seven in French

                          Septimania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

                          Septimania (French: Septimanie, IPA: [sɛptimani]; Occitan: Septimània, IPA: [septiˈmanjɔ]; Catalan: Septimània, IPA: [səptiˈmaniə]) was the western region of the Roman province of Gallia Narbonensis that passed under the control of the Visigoths in 462, when Septimania was ceded to their king, Theodoric II. Under the Visigoths it was known as simply Gallia or Narbonensis. It corresponded roughly with the modern French region of Languedoc-Roussillon. It passed briefly to the Emirate of Córdoba in the eighth century before its conquest by the Franks, who by the end of the ninth century termed it Gothia or the Gothic March (Marca Gothica).


                          Septimania was a march of the Carolingian Empire and then West Francia down to the thirteenth century, though it was culturally and politically separate from northern France and the central royal government. The region was under the influence of the Toulousain, Provence, and Catalonia. It was part of the cultural and linguistic region named Occitania that was finally brought within the control of the French kings in the early 13th century as a result of the Albigensian Crusade after which it came under French governors. From the end of the thirteenth century it was known as Languedoc and its history is tied up with that of France.

                          The name "Septimania" may derive from part of the Roman name of the city of Béziers, Colonia Julia Septimanorum Beaterrae, which in turn alludes to the settlement of veterans of the Roman VII Legion in the city. Another possible derivation of the name is in reference to the seven cities (civitates) of the territory: Béziers, Elne, Agde, Narbonne, Lodève, Maguelonne, and Nîmes. Septimania extended to a line half-way between the Mediterranean and the Garonne River in the northwest; in the east the Rhône separated it from Provence; and to the south its boundary was formed by the Pyrenees.
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                          • follow up:

                            Moorish Septimania

                            The Moors, under Al-Samh ibn Malik the governor-general of al-Andalus, sweeping up the Iberian peninsula, by 719 overran Septimania; al-Samh set up his capital from 720 at Narbonne, which the Moors called Arbuna, offering the still largely Arian inhabitants generous terms and quickly pacifying the other cities. Following the conquest, al-Andalus was divided into five administrative areas roughly corresponding to Andalusia, Galicia and Lusitania, Castile and Léon, Aragon and Catalonia, and Septimania.[22] With Narbonne secure, and equally important, its port, for the Arab mariners were masters now of the Western Mediterranean, he swiftly subdued the largely unresisting cities, still controlled by their Visigoth counts: taking Alet and Béziers, Agde, Lodève, Maguelonne and Nîmes. By 721 he was reinforced and ready to lay siege to Toulouse, a possession that would open up bordering Aquitaine to him on the same terms as Septimania. But his plans were overthrown in the disastrous Battle of Toulouse (721), with immense losses, in which al-Samh was so seriously wounded that he soon died at Narbonne. Arab forces soundly based in Narbonne and easily resupplied by sea, struck in the 720s, conquering Carcassonne on the north-western fringes of Septimania and penetrating eastwards as far as Autun (725). But in 731, the Berber wali of Narbonne and the region of Cerdagne, Uthman ibn Naissa, called "Munuza" by the Franks, who was recently linked by marriage to duke Eudes of Aquitaine (also called Odo the Great), revolted against Córdoba, and was defeated and killed. In October 732, an Arab force under Abdul Rahman Al Ghafiqi encountered Charles Martel between Tours and Poitiers, and was defeated. This "Battle of Tours" (also called the Battle of Poitiers) is celebrated in popular history and traditionally credited with stopping the Moorish advance in Europe.




                            Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws.” -Confucius.

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                            • Let us travel back in history on the African Side ....Having linked Rennes Le Chateau with the Berber Empire : This is a Town I included in the comic book....(I have to say that a lot of the info within the comic story is weiirdly connected to this research and this was before i started on our Discussion ): two towns to remember

                              Aoudaghost - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

                              Arabic sources

                              The earliest mention of Aoudaghost is by al-Yaqubi in his Kitab al-Buldan completed in 889-890 in which he described the town as being controlled by a tribe of the Sanhaja and situated 50 stages south of Sijilmasa across the Sahara desert.[1] "It is the residence of their king who has no religion or law. He raids the land of the Sudan who have many kingdoms."[2] From Ibn Hawqal writing in around 977 we learn that the distance from Aoudaghost to Ghana (presumably the capital of the Empire) was 10 days' journey for a lightly loaded caravan.[3] Ibn Hawqal wrote that the "king of Awdaghurst maintains relations with the ruler of Ghana" which suggests that at that time Aoudaghost was not part of the Ghana Empire.[4] He also mentions the trade in gold and writes that the king of Ghana is very rich because of his stocks of gold but that the kings of Ghana and Kugha "stand in pressing need of [the goodwill of] the king of Awdaghust because of the salt which comes to them from the lands of Islam."[4]

                              The only detailed description that we have for the town is given by al-Bakri in his Book of Routes and Realms which was completed in 1068. Al-Bakri made use of earlier sources and it is likely that his description of Aoudaghost comes from the writings of Muhammad b. Yusuf al-Warraq (904-973) whose own account has not survived
                              Then to Awdaghust which is a large town, populous and built on sandy ground, overlooked by a big mountain, completely barren and devoid of vegetation. ... there is one cathedral mosque and many smaller ones...Around the town are gardens with date palms. Wheat is grown there by digging with hoes, and it is watered with buckets...Excellent cucumbers grow there, and there are a few small fig trees and some vines, as well as plantations of henna which produce a large crop... [there are] wells with sweet water. Cattle and sheep are so numerous... Honey ... is abundant, brought from the land of the Sudan. The people of Awdaghust enjoy extensive benefits and huge wealth. The market there is at all times full of people... Their transactions are in gold, and they have no silver. Most of the inhabitants ... are natives of Ifriqiya [Tunisia]... but there are also a few people from other countries... [They own] slaves so numerous that one person from among them might possess a thousand servants or more


                              and the mine of Taghaza - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

                              Taghaza (also Teghaza) is an abandoned salt-mining centre located in a salt pan in the desert region of northern Mali. It was an important source of rock salt for West Africa up to the end of the 17th century when it was abandoned and replaced by Taoudenni. Salt from the mines formed an important part of the long distance trans-Saharan trade. Taghaza is located 857 km (533 mi) south of Sijilmasa (in Morocco), 787 km (489 mi) north-northwest of Timbuktu (in Mali) and 731 km (454 mi) north-northeast of Oualata (in Mauritania).


                              salt from an ancient ocean....full of ORMUS

                              How to make Ormus - YouTube

                              Dave's Ormus- How he makes it - YouTube

                              from: Leo Africanus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

                              At the time he visited the city of Timbuktu, it was a thriving Islamic city famous for its learning. Timbuktu was to become a byword in Europe as the most inaccessible of cities, but at the time Leo visited, it was the center of a busy trade carried on by traders in African products, gold, printed cottons and slaves, and in Islamic books. Nothing is known of Leo's later life.

                              Leo is credited with proposing that the origin of the word "Africa" comes from Greek meaning "without cold or fear."


                              In around 1510 Leo Africanus spent 3 days in Taghaza. In his Descrittione dell’Africa he mentions that the location of the mines, 20 days journey from a source of food, meant that there was a risk of starvation. At the time of Leo's visit, Oualata was no longer an important terminus for the trans-Saharan trade and salt was instead taken south to Timbuktu. Like Ibn Battuta before him, Leo complained about the brackish well water
                              Ruins

                              At Taghaza there are ruins of two different settlements, one on either side of the ancient salt lake (or sabkha). They are separated by a distance of 3 km.[18] The larger more westerly settlement covered an area of approximately 400 m by 200 m.[19] All the houses, except the mosque, were aligned in a northwest to southeast direction, perpendicular to the prevailing wind. The houses in the more easterly settlement were aligned in the same manner and occupied an area of 200 m by 180 m. The reason for the dual settlements is not known but could be connected with the fact that Taghaza served both as a salt mine and as a stopping point on an important trans-Saharan trade route

                              Principle of Polarity


                              The Principle of Polarity.

                              "Everything is Dual; everything has poles; everything has its pair of opposites; like and unlike are the same; opposites are identical in nature, but different in degree; extremes meet; all truths are but half-truths; all paradoxes may be reconciled." - The Kybalion


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                              • AMSSETOU - Vidéo Dailymotion

                                Parole de Amssétou:
                                Au Mali j’ai retrouvé
                                Oh ma li, ma liberté
                                Au Mali j’ai retrouvé
                                Oh ma li, ma liberté

                                Même si je ne sais presque rien
                                Même si toi tu sais presque tout
                                Tu sais la vie, c’est trois fois rien
                                Trois fois rien, c’est déjà beaucoup


                                {Amssétou} (x2)

                                C’est ma vie qui veut ça
                                C’est ta vie qui veut ça
                                C’est ma vie qui veut ça
                                C’est ta vie qui veut ça


                                Amssétou
                                L’âme, c’est tout
                                {Amssétou} (x2)

                                Je suis pour toi crocodile blanc
                                C’est comme ça, on n’y peut rien
                                {C’est comme ça on n’y peut rien}
                                Depuis que je suis loin de toi
                                Je fais moins le malien

                                C’est ma vie qui veut ça
                                C’est ta vie qui veut ça
                                C’est ma vie qui veut ça
                                C’est ta vie qui veut ça

                                Amssétou
                                {Amssétou}
                                L’âme, c’est tout
                                {Amssétou}
                                Amssétou
                                {Amssétou}
                                L’âme, c’est tout
                                {Amssétou}

                                Au Mali j’ai retrouvé
                                Oh ma li, ma liberté
                                Au Mali j’ai retrouvé
                                Oh ma li, ma liberté
                                Oh ma li, ma liberté
                                google translation

                                Word of Amssétou:
                                I found in Mali
                                Oh my li, my freedom
                                I found in Mali
                                Oh my li, my freedom

                                Although I know almost nothing
                                Even if you, you know almost everything
                                You know life is next to nothing
                                Next to nothing, that's a lot

                                Amssétou {} (x2)

                                This is my life that wants it
                                This is your life who wants it
                                This is my life that wants it
                                This is your life who wants it

                                Amssétou
                                The soul, that's all
                                Amssétou {} (x2)

                                I am for you white crocodile
                                That's how we can do nothing
                                {This is how we can do nothing}
                                Since I am far from you
                                I am the least of Mali

                                This is my life that wants it
                                This is your life who wants it
                                This is my life that wants it
                                This is your life who wants it

                                Amssétou
                                Amssétou {}
                                The soul, that's all
                                Amssétou {}
                                Amssétou
                                Amssétou {}
                                The soul, that's all
                                Amssétou {}

                                I found in Mali
                                Oh my li, my freedom
                                I found in Mali
                                Oh my li, my freedom
                                Oh my li, my freedom
                                Signs and symbols rule the world, not words nor laws.” -Confucius.

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