Mount Athos

In this week's blog we take a virtual pilgrimage to Mount Athos. Also, more updates to the 400, shop work and a headline review.

Orthodoxy

Because we are on the cusp of World War III, and that war involves Russia and her allies defending themselves from NATO, I have been interested in understanding Russia better.

The defining force in modern Russia appears to be the use of Orthodox Christianity to provide the moral framework for this war. Orthodoxy provides the moral framework for defending themselves from the west. Orthodox Christianity is not a state religion in Russia, but the state does appear to adhere to that religion and many in the government often endorse Orthodoxy.

So in last week's blog, for example, I linked to an interview with Dugan, who is one of the voices in Russia dealing with how to run a government in a moral fashion by connecting government action to a foundation of faith.

In the west, in contrast, the Talmud is the fundamental document driving political action. In particular, the empire of lies, 8 genders, the racism of the political class towards everyone else, and the goal of a world capital at Jerusalem, all this, and much more, come from the Talmud. From the perspective of the inspired text, the Talmud ties back to the Serpent/Hivite in the garden, to Pharaoh's Egypt and then to the Jebusite city renamed Jerusalem. The general public in the west does not understand much of this, but it is slowly learning.

When I was younger, and learning about Christianity, mainline Protestant teachers would contrast themselves with Christian offshoots that formed in the USA in the 1800s. Lutherans, Baptists and many independent mega churches usually look down on Mormons, Jehovah's Witnesses, Adventists and others. Mainline Protestants also contrast themselves with Catholics.

All of these examples I heard many times. But Orthodoxy, probably because it is an actual serious theological threat to Protestantism, was never mentioned. So it was a branch of Christianity I never learned much about.

The Orthodox side is far away. The general presumption is that Orthodoxy is just some other branch of Christianity, like any other branch of Protestantism. This is a mistake.

Prophetic Voices

Long time readers here also know my story about how, in the late 1990s, the church world in Portland Oregon, went through a season when it was warned about a future Chinese army ground invasion as well as a future nuclear war.

These warnings were widespread. There was a season when maybe half of the people I knew through Church circles had some testimony about dreams of nuclear attack. Sometimes spouses of people I knew had such dreams. They were usually quite precise. For example, a delivery driver was shown a specific future nuclear bombing location. In the dream it was viewed from a street that he knew from his delivery route. He drove over there later to confirm to himself he was not crazy. He had seen that exact location in a dream.

For another example, Ryan was in college at the time, and ran into a fellow student who commuted a long distance to the campus in Portland. That student had a nuclear attack dream dealing with Portland. That student told Ryan about his dream. The dream was so vivid he thought it might be going on that day, and he debated if he should even drive into Portland at all for class.

Others, including myself, had dreams about Chinese soldiers marching around parts of rural Oregon. There were enough of these dreams that they could be studied and collated, and there were people around at the time who did this.

Their summary was that it looked to them that Chinese soldiers would make landfall on the Oregon coast, south of the Columbia river. There are flat lands in that area where it would be easier to land. Further south along the coast are cliffs, which would be difficult, about like the Normandy landings in World War II. Those summaries from the 1990s also suggested the Chinese army will stay south of the Columbia River. This is apparently because the river will be free flowing again after loss of the dams. I also saw that in a prophetic dream at the time. They make quite a mess when they go. The military goal of Chinese ground invasion was also thought to be the solid rocket factories north of Salt Lake City.

Since that time, Ryan and I have crossed the country and found what we believe to be the geographic limits of the invasion part of the prophetic words that were wide spread in those days. The Missouri River, roughly, marks the eastern edge of that advance. Parts of Texas will also survive.

How Does This Work?

Now, stop thinking about the details I am reporting here. Think more about how the community of faith at that time was told about these things. This is sometimes called a meta study. We are now looking at the mechanisms, the machinery, that produces the summary given above.

This class of prophetic vision and warnings tends to be widespread. But it also tends to be quite local. People near the place where it it going to happen are the people who are shown the future of what will happen.

Then there are usually others who collate and report on what that local community of faith is seeing. This is a different function but is also important for the community to see what is being said.

What About Russia/Ukraine Now?

So is there anything like this going on around the war with Russia? By this I mean on the Russian side?

Because this is a war fought in Orthodox territory, and because these sorts of prophetic visions happen near to the events, any sort of prophetic visions similar to what I recounted above is going to be from people who today live in the eastern reaches of what was once the Roman empire. Why? Because that is the region where the ground war fighting is likely to take place.

I have been watching for this type of reporting of prophetic words over the current war. I have had my eye out for awhile. Only recently have I begun to find what I consider to be some prophetic words that I would trust.

I am also finding that the online, say Youtube, level of reporting is pretty bad. Almost everyone online cites interesting prophetic voices, but does not accurately report those voices. The spoken word, especially in the USA, does not appear able to be technically precise. Online voices usually imitate media voices, which are nearly always lying Zionists.

So I have also been looking for written accounts that could be studied and accurately cited. I recently found one. The book arrived this week. I finished reading, at least a first pass, Thursday night. I intend to do a book report here in the blog, probably next week.

Understanding these visions first requires understanding Orthodox Christianity better than thinking it is just another branch of Protestant Christianity. So in this blog I want to give you a taste of Orthodoxy ahead of what is coming here soon.

Iconic Church Locations

Think about iconic locations for church denominations.

If you think about Mormonism, for example, you are likely to think about Salt Lake City, and in particular the buildings at Temple Square. There is a Mormon Temple located there. But more well known is the building where the Mormon Tabernacle Choir usually performs. In fact there are now 2 such buildings. The original from the 1800s, and then a larger more modern building where they also perform. That choir is better known than the church hierarchy itself. I remember when I was a child, my mom loved their Christmas music, even though we had no other connection to that denomination.

Salt Lake City is the Pe letter on the Qu Map for the USA, so the ear. The Mormon Choir is woven into the prophetic design for the USA. Apparently the only location where religion is overtly part of that map.

Think about the Catholics. Is there a similar iconic location? Of course. You are likely to think of either Saint Peter's Basilica, or else Vatican City where that church is located. Again, like Mormonism, there is a central and iconic location for the Catholic religion.

Think about the Jews. Though they have not occupied it for a long time, the iconic location is Temple Mount in Jerusalem. This is such a strong location we would naturally expect them to be rebuilding their temple. The timeline itself suggests as much, either at the start of 2026 or less likely in 2027.

In the rest of Protestantism there are not many iconic locations. For me, the only one that comes immediately to mind is Westminster Cathedral in London. This is where British monarchs are typically coronated. This is not anywhere near as iconic as the other locations listed above.

Most Americans will not think of, or know, a similar place for Orthodoxy. But it does exist. There is a spiritual capital for Orthodoxy. It is formally called Mount Athos, or in Orthodox circles, simply Athos. The term Athos is enough, and used as an Orthodox shorthand for Mount Athos.

Getting our heads around Orthodoxy, and the prophetic voices in Orthodoxy, requires we get our heads around Mount Athos.

Mount Athos Mapped

The link here is to Google Maps with the target selection being the region of Mount Athos in Greece. From this you can see it is a thin peninsula jutting out into the Aegean Sea. You can zoom out to see where it is on the world map. It is on the eastern edge of the Greek mainland. By moving around you can also see that Turkey is off to the east. You should also be able find Istanbul off sort of north and east.

So what is this place called Mount Athos?

The Orthodox Christian faith has almost no hierarchy. It is not organized like Pharaoh's Egypt. It does not have a king. It has no Pope.

Orthodoxy did have an iconic church building. Hagia Sophia, located in Constantinople. It was lost in 1453 to the Turks. The future history of that church will turn out to be the center of Orthodox prophetic visions that I am currently studying. But I am getting ahead of myself.

Mount Athos is the home territory of a collection of about 20 Orthodox monasteries. Those monasteries are generally independent, like the distributed nature of the Orthodox church itself. In 1988 it became a UNESCO World Heritage location, having been around for about 1000 years.

I have now given you enough introduction. You are now ready to make your first pilgrimage to Athos. We will do so with a Zionist media organization, just because we start this journey as deluded Americans.

60 Minutes Visits Athos

The link here is to a 60 Minutes report from 2011 when they took what at the time was a very rare media journey to Athos. It is a 27 minute video.

It is constructed for an American audience who knows nothing. This is a good place to start, but not enough to fully understand the place. It focuses mostly on how strange this place is, especially to an American audience who knows nothing. I recommend starting there.

But, we really want something more technical. So let me suggest a second pilgrimage to Athos, but this time with an Orthodox guide, not a Zionist guide.

Mount Athos Detailed Guide

This video is a presentation done by the host of the Talking Orthodoxy Youtube channel. It was recorded after his own visit to Athos. It starts with a rather dramatic trailer for a documentary, but then shifts to a live audience Power Point style presentation detailing how Athos functions. This video includes a detailed map, numerous interesting video clips and stills from his own visit there. This video is 41 minutes long. This video is a really good education as to how the Monastic life at Athos actually functions and the role of Athos within Orthodoxy itself.

There is a quiz early in this video which was given to the live audience when the video was first recorded. See how well you do. The 60 Minutes video above answered many of those questions already.

I don't want to go any further on the prophetic from the Orthodox world without giving readers here the chance to have taken these first pilgrimages to Athos. I will be taking the prophetic words of Saint Paisios, the first saint mentioned in this video, and going into detail on his various prophetic words. He dealt extensively with the recovery of Hagia Sophia to Orthodoxy, and the strange war leading up to that event.

400 App

The link here is to the 400 app. Ryan continues heavy work in this app. This week the story list within the Job row was set to roughly match the alphabet. Removing the attacks on Job allowed this list to be found. This list in Job is still a first draft. Because the row for Job is still mostly an island, the current story assignment is still subject to more work.

Ryan continues to move around in this table, shifting stories in the squares watching for patterns to emerge. The most interesting area this week is based on the diagonals out from the cells in the Dot and Colon columns.

Because of the way the Quads are skipped and because those diagonals wrap, the Colon cells on the right side will fold against the Dot cells on the left. This is not exactly in story order because of the Quad cells on the far right side. The Dot and Colon cells fold the same way for both the Vine and River pairs, so this fold is something like a double bond.

Solving for these cells is thus like finding the trim for a jigsaw puzzle. It helps to find the first story on each row. It also helps to nail down the order of the rows going down the able. There is still trouble for the Psalms and Proverbs rows, which may still be out of order, but the rest seems to be falling into place.

Skip Rows

If you take the Dot column alone, and scan down the column, you will see an alternate shading pattern. This originally done to be able to more easily follow the diagonals. It is similar to the gender pattern for the Qu Map.

If you scan down that Dot column, say down in the New Testament material, you can notice that there is a subtle alternating pattern of content.

After Tabernacles, which ends August 16, 2025, we may adjust the Sabbath Reads app to make it an annual reading plan instead of a half year plan. That change will likely return to a 50 story skip pattern which we have used previously. The light squares on the table are in 1 half of the year and then the dark squares on the table are in the other half of the year. We found the current Sabbath Reads material is too much reading for each week. Stay tuned for that change.

Diagonal Examples

To see some interesting examples, start with Colon story 373. In the Book of Daniel, Gabriel's 70 weeks is the start. It folds to the Dot, story 375, in the Book of Luke when Gabriel shows up to announce the births of John and Joshua.

For another, consider Colon story 498 where Paul and Barnabas finish their first missionary which had been documented across the row. This story folds down to Dot story 500, where they want to revisit the places where they had been before. Of course there is a dispute and Paul takes Silas instead, while Barnabas sails to Cyprus. This story pair also helps establish that Acts should be split across 2 rows in the table itself.

For an example from Genesis, consider Colon story 23. Abraham is tested and asked to bring Isaac to Mount Moriah. The story then ends with the genealogy of the other branch of Abraham's family. That includes Rebekah, where we see her name for the first time. This story folds to the Dot story 25 where Abraham sends a servant to fetch a wife for Isaac. The servant is not sent to find Rebekah by name, but the story fold suggests Abraham knew this future wife would be Rebekah mentioned in story 23. This example helps establish that Genesis material splits across 2 rows.

Vertical Examples

Returning to story 375, we can also show the skipping pattern down the Dot column. In story 375 we see how Gabriel is announcing the soon birth of John the Baptist and his future ministry. This is on a shaded Dot cell.

Skipping down to the next shaded Dot cell, story 425, we read about the mission of John the Baptist in the wilderness. This had been announced in 375, but here it is. At the end of the 425 story, John declares that he baptizes in water, but one is coming who will baptize in the spirit of the holy.

So skipping down to the next shaded Dot cell, story 475, we read about the ascension of Joshua. Joshua tells his disciples that John baptized in water but not many days from now you will be baptized in the spirit. His parting words are that when you receive the spirit of the holy, you will then be my witnesses to Jerusalem, Judah, Samaria and to the ends of the land. This is chaining back to John, but also forward.

So skipping down again, the next shaded Dot cell, story 525, we read what Paul wrote to the Galatians. In that letter he indicates that he did not receive his message from men, but from Joshua, so via the spirit of the holy from story 475. Paul warns about how his readers have been turned away from the thinking that Paul had given them. Paul then gives a general retelling of his own missionary travels. That travel itinerary is fulfilling story 475 above. That problem of false teaching is pointing forward to story 575.

So skipping down again, the last shaded Dot cell, story 575, we find Jacob writing about the problem of various temptations. These must be faced in order to increase our own endurance. Enduring temptations is the path to receiving the crown of life.

Ryan and I are both hopeful that the final, inspired, arrangement of all the stories throughout that table will have similar topical chains running throughout.

Lake Ozette

Ryan and I took another day away from our regular work. Wednesday we traveled to Lake Ozette in the far corner of the Olympic Peninsula. We also visited Neah Bay, just because we were close. Neah Bay is the corner of the continental USA.

As always, we did a long lot set that ran most of the day. Most of the lots were on themes related to Sodom and Gomorrah, which we understand will eventually come to the USA. Saint Paisios indicates Russia will burn the USA. I will return to that soon.

I appear to have sprained an ankle walking around on uneven ground, though I did not notice it until the next morning. I am regulated to laptop work for another few days because of that.

Shop Work

Last week I started printing trim and the first rows of the Script exhibit. As that printing was starting, I was still working on details of some middle rows. Ryan helped me with some font work to show better historical examples of punctuation. I also added a Syriac row because Syriac was very important for the recovery of the punctuation characters.

This exhibit now indicates enough to understand the historical sources and provides confirmation for the designs of the Dot, Colon and Quad. This is unlike a poster I originally used that came from Jerusalem in 1997 which omitted punctuation.

The 3d print farm continues to run the Script exhibit and the Ladder exhibit. There were a few design problems dealing with the lettering on the back of the Script tiles that was strangely not seen on the Ladder rungs.

The tiles are labeled on the back so they can be placed correctly by future builders who may not know the drawn letter forms. That builder related tile lettering was correct on screen, but was missing when 3d printed. It turned out to be a very strange Openscad code bug related to extruded text characters. On screen they default to a 1mm extrusion. In the batch build there is no default extrusion of 2d letter shapes. Finding the bug took longer than fixing it.

For some exhibits there is a dramatic difference between looking at the designs and actually seeing the exhibit fabricated. The Script exhibit is one of those.

This is a really important demonstration from history that shows how the alphabet was known and carved in stone as far back as 4000 years ago. Because this exhibit is fabricated using letter reliefs it feels like finding a long lost stone wall. It has about the same sized letters as found on ancient stone carvings.

The second row, from 1000 BC, is enough to recover most of the letters. So this is also a testimony about the extreme age of the letter designs we are using. This exhibit also shows how the alphabet devolved across time, which is another important lesson.

Also this week, copper infused plastic was ordered and arrived for test printing of the birds. There is a learning curve with these materials that needs to be worked out and understood. That work waits until I can more easily walk around in the shop.

Finally, also this week, I was able to find a downloadable and geometrically corrected list of Ptolemy's star list for use on a star field exhibit. There are a total of 1025 unique stars spread across 48 ancient constellations.

This would normally be the ceiling of the upper room. For this round of exhibits, it will be another large wall exhibit. The edge of the star field is shared with the crown, so shared with the timeline.

I have learned enough to see there is some sort of unifying principle between the precession of the stars, so the historical timeline, folding down through various time bands to the daily 24 hour clock. In my previous timeline work there has never been a physical reality to ground this work.

There was a recommended star atlas for understanding that ancient list of stars given modern star maps. That atlas has been ordered. Finding this design-ready spread sheet was the biggest hurdle for building that exhibit.

The Rape of Europa

The link here is to a Zero Hedge article dealing with Ursula von der Leyen and her troubles visiting both Xi in China and then Trump in Scotland. It was a pair of very bad events for Europe.

On the Chinese side, the leader of Europe and her group of dignitaries were shuttled around in a tour bus, and were then rebuked by Xi for their war against Russia. They left China a day earlier than planned.

Then on 2025-07-27, the day we were watching for the story of a king appearing to Manoah and his wife, Ursula von der Leyen and her group of traveling dignitaries went to visit Trump at his golf course in Scotland. This was to announce a trade deal between the USA and the EU. Trump basically dictated terms of surrender of the EU to the USA. The EU, of course, being the vassal state of the USA, which is itself a vassal of Israel. Saint Paisios will nuance the Israel/US relationship. More on that later.

We were watching 2025-07-27 for some sort of prophetic replay of the story in Judges 13 where a king appears to the wife of Manoah, announcing the birth of Samson.

There are very few places in the text where a woman is the central figure in the prophetic story. Elizabeth and Mariam in the New Testament being another famous and rare pair.

We also have very few women who are heads of state, much less a head of a place like the European Union. So Ursula's trouble with Trump is most likely the correct fulfillment. This headline also looks to be tightly aligned, which is a good thing too. It also suggests to watch for something being birthed at this point.

In both her visit with Xi and then with Trump, the subject of the meetings are things which are going to happen in the future. The NATO war against Russia may get worse in the future because of that meeting. The EU will also be paying tribute to the USA. So this headline is also a general thematic match to the underlying story.

The prophetic Samson who will bring the political will to shed American/Israeli oppression of Europe was likely birthed this past week because of the utter shaming of Europe by Xi and Trump.

Headlines

The following are other headlines that caught my attention this week.

Richard Werner Interviewed by Tucker

Oh wow. Tucker has had a long string of interesting interviews. This is one of the best. Richard Werner is an economist. He wrote a book about Credit Creation, in Japanese, that became a Japanese national best seller. The book was banned, of course, in the USA. His book explained to the Japanese how banks function, for both good, rarely, and evil, mostly. It also explained how the banks destroyed the Japanese economy, booming for good reason since the end of World War II, but then brought down for reasons of western banking empire against Japan.

This is the game running since at least Solomon. See 1 Kings 10:21 and 1 Kings 10:27 for references to Silver, so banking inflated currency, in Solomon's day. The central banking game was brought into the now lost tribes by Solomon, running through credit creation cycles that make currency worthless.

This central banking function is the first leg of Pharaoh's Triad. It is how he enslaves everyone. Cycling the value of currency causes debtors to default, and the central bankers to own everything. Werner hints at plans for the largest of all possible planned financial collapses still to come.

Werner's book, if it ever becomes available again in the USA, should replace the Creature From Jekyll Island as the gold standard for how banks function. Haven't read it yet. Sold out on Amazon. What would we expect?

For those who may care, pay attention to several points in the interview above. In particular, note how the general ledger of companies licensed as banks differs from the general ledger of all other companies. This is the heart of the banking fraud. Either every company should function this way, or no company should function this way.

Also, pay attention to the function of small banks, most were intentionally wiped out in the USA after the Federal Reserve act. Also note how Werner himself coined the term Quantitative Easing. Note also how and why he thinks lending should be limited to mostly business loans. Watch as he tells of his interactions with western bankers and how those bankers control the book publishing industry. Why would that be? I wonder. There is very much more in this important interview.

Plant Food No Longer A Pollutant

The US EPA just dropped the regulation that considered CO2 to be a pollutant. Plants can start growing again. Most of the Green New Deal is gone. The link here is to an X post with a thread with details.

M8.8 Quake in Eastern Russia

The link here is to a Youtube video dealing with a major M8.8 quake that hit around 8:30 AM local time on Wednesday July 30, 2025 off Russia's eastern coast. The tallest volcano in the northern hemisphere, located near by, erupted hours later. This was said to be the 6th largest quake ever recorded. Is someone running a weapons test?

Union Pacific - Norfolk Southern Merger

Details

The first link here is to a short, 2 minute, video dealing with the proposed merger between the Union Pacific and Norfolk Southern railroads. The second link is to a long form Zero Hedge article with more details on the same merger.

If it passes regulatory scrutiny the new combined company, still named Union Pacific, will be the first American railroad company running all the way across the USA. I would guess some other company, say BNSF, may out-bid UP for NS.

Because of the heavy debt structure of companies in this industry, growth comes from merger activity. Imagine a world with no central banks, and a Debt Jubilee enforced by contract every 50 years. Companies like these would be very, very different. Their cost structures would be very, very much lower. Their overall risk profiles would also be very, very much lower. The value creation benefits of their services would go to their owners, not banks. They are currently slaves to Pharaoh, they do not work for their normal owners, they work for the banks.

Expect CSX to look for a merger partner. Either BNSF or else one of the Canadian companies. Before this is over we probably find there are only 2 railroads covering all of North America.

More Later,

Phil