"A multiform crown, consisting of various flowers, bound the sublime summit of her head. And in the middle of her crown, just on her forehead, there was a smooth orb resembling a mirror, or rather a white refulgent light, which indicated that she was the moon... But that which most excessively dazzled my sight, was a very black robe, fulgid with with a dark splendour, and which, spreading round and passing under her right side, and ascending to her left shoulder, there rose protuberant like the center of a shield, the dependent part of the robe falling in many folds, and having small knots of fringe, gracefully flowing in its extremities. Glittering stars were dispersed through the embroidered border of the robe, and through the whole of its surface : and a full moon, shining in the middle of the stars, breathed forth flaming fires..."
-From Apuleius's description of the goddess Isis, quoted in Manly Palmer Hall's An Encyclopedic Outline of Masonic, Hermetic, Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian Symbolical Philosophy ("The Secret Teachings of All Ages") Pg. XLVI
The Black Standard flag of ISIS as an abstract representation of the Egyptian goddess. The "multiform crown" is the shahada - the muslim testimonial - in bold Arabic script above the circular seal of Muhammad, or "the smooth orb resembling a mirror... a white refulgent light," beneath which the smaller Arabic script represents the "glittering stars... dispersed through the embroidered border of the robe," with the characters highlighting the "small knots of fringe, gracefully flowing in its extremities". All this on a black field; in M. P. Hall's words: "Her black drape also signifies that the moon... has no light of its own, but receives its light, its fire, and its vitalizing force from the sun." (ibid)
Scholars of deep state politics are well familiar with the long going support that Islamic fundamentalist and jihadist groups have received from Western intelligence agencies - from British cultivation of Egypt's Muslim Brotherhood (sticking the thorn in Nasser's side) to the Mossad's early support of Hamas (to counter the PLO) to the CIA's sponsoring of the Afghan mujahideen (besetting the Soviets); it indeed can be said that these groups - all of whom adopted some variant of the Black Standard - have no genuine political force of their own, but receive their impetus, their weapons and their raison d'etre from the West.
Sources: Mark Curtis, Hassane Zarouky, Melkulangara K. Bhadrakumar
A veteran mujahideen, Nabeel Naiem, confirms this of ISIS and its leader Abu Bakr Baghdadi as well:
...It is known that the USA released him from prison and he spent 20 to 30 million US Dollars to establish these ISIS groups and the first ISIS camps were established in Jordan, and Jordan doesn’t allow camps for charity, when Jordan establish camps to train terrorist groups, it doesn’t do that out of good will and charity, these camps were supervised by the Marines, and the arming of ISIS is all American...
...As long as there are sources feeding this ideology ISIS will continue.. Bernard Lewis founder of Fourth-Generation Warfare said so, he said: we do not need trans-continent armies that would awake nationalism and they return to us as bodies like what happened in Afghanistan and Vietnam, but we should find agents inside the (targeted) country who will carry out the task of the soldiers, and we need a media tool to falsify truths for the people, and money to spend on them...
Naiem says that this support for ISIS and its tactical savagery conforms to the overarching strategy of the western powers to render the governments of the region as politically powerless:
Genghis Khan used to enter a village and annihilates all living in it, even animals he’d slaughter it, and burn down the houses, so the next village hears that Genghis Khan is coming they flee away and this is what ISIS is doing in Iraq, and what’s the goal of ISIS? When ISIS entered Samerra they killed a thousand Sunni, and now killing Shiites, and this is the American policy. Henry Kissinger wrote a memo in 1982 or 1984, don’t remember exactly, it’s titled The 100 Years War. When asked where this 100 years war will occur? He said in the Middle East when we ignite the war between the Sunnah and the Shiites...
...This is a conspiracy against the region, and I told you Netenyahu & Dick Chenney put the Clean Break plan in the year 1998, and it’s destroying 4 countries, they start with Iraq, then Syria then Egypt then Saudi Arabia. It’s called Clean Break plan (PNAC), well known.. Using radical groups in the region...
Returning to the iconography of the ancient Isis, the sistrum held in her left hand is emblematic of this "clean break" strategy of creative destruction. M. P. Hall writes: "The symbolic Virgin carries in her left hand a sistrum and a cymbal, or square frame of metal, which when struck gives the keynote of Nature (Fa)... By the process of death and corruption she gives life to a number of creatures of diverse forms through periods of perpetual change." (ibid. Pg. XLVII)
It is then noteworthy then that the executioner of journalist James Foley held the decapitating blade in his left hand. By the same token, however, here is where the ISIS of today departs from the Isis of yesteryear. By the ancient myth, Isis reassembles the body of Osiris after he has been dismembered by Set, or Typhon.
The executioner, as we read in The Mirror, is called Jihadi John... one of the four “Beatles” holding hostages in Syria. British members of ISIS are so designated "The Beatles" within the group. With this particular irony, we leave off, and refer to the Wizards, Buses and the Physiodelic Church blog for a unique interpretation of the Isis and Osiris myth by the lights of the "fab four"...
