The book "Apollyon Rising 2012" by Tom Horn

Chapter 1

SUMMONING THE ANGEL FROM THE WHIRLWIND

Some of the biggest men in the United States, in the field of commerce and manufacture, are afraid of something. They know that there is a power somewhere so organized, so subtle, so watchful, so interlocked, so complete, so pervasive, that they had better not speak above their breath when they speak in condemnation of it. -- Woodrow Wilson

The real rulers in Washington are invisible and exercise power from behind the scenes. -- U.S. Supreme Court Justice Felix Frankfurter

On January 20, 2001, President George W. Bush, during his first inaugral addess, faced the Obelisk known as the Washington Monument and twice referred to an angel that “rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm.” His reference was credited to Virginia statesman John Page, who wrote to Thomas Jefferson after the Declaration of Independence was signed, “We know that the race is not to the swift, nor the battle to the strong. Do you not think that an angel rides in the whirlwind and directs this storm?”
Five weeks after the inaugural, on Wednesday, February 28, 2001, Congressman Major R. Owens of New York stood before the House of Representatives and prayed to the “angel in the whirlwind.” He asked the spiritual force to guide the future and fate of the United States. Twenty-eight weeks later (for a total of thirty-three weeks from the day of the inaugural—a number invaluable to mysticism and occult fraternities), nineteen Islamic terrorists attacked the United States, hijacking four commercial airliners and crashing two of them into the Twin Towers of the World Trader Center in New York City. They slammed a third into the Pentagon, and a fourth, which had been directed toward Washington DC, crashed near Shanksville, Pennsylvania. What happened that day resulted in nearly three thousand immediate deaths, at least two dozen missing persons, and the stage being set for changes to the existing world order.
When Bush was giving his second inaugural speech four years later, he again offered cryptic commentary, saying, “For a half century, America defended our own freedom by standing watch on distant borders. After the shipwreck of communism came years of relative quiet, years of repose, years of sabbatical—and then there came a day of fire.” A few paragraphs following, Bush added, “By our efforts, we have lit a fire as well—a fire in the minds of men. It warms those who feel its power, it burns those who fight its progress, and one day this untamed fire of freedom will reach the darkest corners of our world” (emphasis added).
The phrase, “a fire in the minds of men,” is from Fyodor Dostoyevsky's nineteenth-century book, The Possessed (“The Devils”), a novel set in pre-revolutionary Russia, where civil resistance is seen championed by nihilist Sergei Nechaev, who tries to ignite a revolution of such destructive power that society will be completely destroyed. The fact that a United States president would quote this phrase in an official speech of record was astonishing to many analysts, given that The Possessed is about violent government crackdown on dissent that sparks civil unrest and revolution marked by public violence.” Fire in the Minds of Men is also the title historian James H. Billington chose for his famous book on the history of revolutions, including the origin of occult Freemasonry and its influence on Freemasonry and its influence in the American Revolution. In his closing comments, Bush himself tied the inaugural crypticisms to the Masonic involvement in the American Revolution, saying, “When our Founders declared a new order of the ages, they were acting on an ancient hope that is meant to be fulfilled.” The phrase, “a new order of the ages,” is taken from the Masonically designed Great Seal (novus ordo seclorum), and Bush further acknowledged that the secret society members were acting on an “ancient” hope that is “meant to be fulfilled.”
To the illumined elite and a handful of historians and scholars, the inaugural addresses by the president were important editions in a larger series of carefully crafted speeches in which line-by-line analysis of his public references uncovered what appeared to be coded language designed to convey shrouded messages at regular intervals to select members of his global audience. Biblical scholar Bruce Lincoln's examination of a speech delivered by Bush to the nation on October 7, 2001 announcing the U.S. Attack on Afghanistan repeatedly verified this practice, producing redundant, hidden references from apocalyptic books of the Bible concerning the end times. Lincoln concluded that the word-crafting was a strategy of “double-coding” to secretly appeal to people who saw Bush as divinely called to stand up to the enemies of God in an unfolding event in the Middle East, which they believed was foretold in the books of Revelation, Isaiah, and other ancient texts. In this instance, Lincoln asserted that Bush was mirroring the dualist conflict Osama Bin Laden had used in speeches to pit his worldview against the West as a struggle between good and evil, and thus to appeal to religious sentiments and traditions. U.S. officials were clearly uncomfortable with anything that allowed bin Laden to be cast in a sympathetic light through propaganda and the transmission of veiled messages; therefore, according to Lincoln, Bush joined Osama in constructing public perception of “a Manichaean struggle, where Sons of Light confront Sons of Darkness, and all must enlist on one side or another, without possibility of neutrality, hesitation, or middle ground.”
In his book, American Dynasty, Kevin Phillips confirms this practice of message-coding by Bush, pointing out the ever-present references in the president's speeches to words such as “evil” and “evil ones.” At the top of Phillips' list is reference again to the use of the metaphysical phrase “whirlwind”, which he interprets as “a medium for the voice of God in the books of Job and Ezekiel.” From an esoteric point of view, Phillips is either unaware of or unwilling to discuss the deeper, contemporary meaning of this language and its importance to secret societies. But such phrasing in the president's public speeches assuredly did not go unnoticed by the appropriate members of his audience. Lincoln comes closest to acknowledging this when he writes:

Enlisting the specialized reading/listening and hermeneutical skills they cultivate, he encouraged them to probe beneath the surface of his text. There, sotto voce [“under voice”], he told them he understands and sympathises with their views, even if requirements of his office constrain him from giving full-throated voice.”

Of course, Bush was not the first president to use the language of the divine to cast himself as “defender of the faith” in order to win support for public policy. Who can forget Ronald Reagan's view of the Soviet Union as the “Evil Empire” and his feeling that war in the Middle Easy might draw “Gog” into nuclear war and fulfill biblical prophecy? In his 1984 debate with Walter Mondale, Reagan admitted, “No one knows whether those prophecies mean that Armageddon is a thousand years away or the day after tomorrow.”
Yet few would argue that, with George W. Bush, the language of godlike appointment went disturbingly deeper. Even members of his own Methodist denomination saw a change in him after he took office. He seemed, to them, to have become a man on a mission, somebody who believed he was “chosen” by God to initiate a prophetic “master plan.” And until the 2006 midterm elections unseated Republican control of Congress and effectively stopped the juggernaut of his administration's changes to domestic and foreign policy, the presidency of Bush was believably on a path toward an apocalyptic vision led by inspiration from the angel in the whirlwind. Whether the president fully understood the ramifications of his words and actions, he and others around him had: 1) acknowledged; 2) prayed to; and 3) welcomed supernatural agents to guide and influence the future machine of national sovereignty in a way oddly familiar to end-times prophecy and Dostoyevsky's novel.
We allow that the president might have been unaware of parts of his abstruse actions because he was not the author of his speeches in the conventional sense; members of his staff, with input from unnamed guides, crafted most of these words. Bush nevertheless delivered these speeches after reviewing them, contemplating them, practicing them, and making personal margin notes. More importantly, “He spoke in his official capacity as head of state, representing the state and beyond that the nation,” notes Lincoln. So whether Bush was aware of his actions or was puppeted by domimionist allegiances that he and his father had nurtured (or at a deeper level spoke for fraternal societies), occultists in and behind government knew exactly what they were doing. Their choice of words and actions—from the president's speeches to the counsel he received from members of an elite, top-secret cell of spiritual authorities in Washington (note: this is not a reference to the Christian groups or faith councils that meet with U.S. presidents)--reveal subtle but informing truths: Words were placed in the president's mouth to be spoken in mystic harmony of a sacred craft, an otherworldly discourse, which the men behind the president, the “voices behind the voice”, believed would invoke the arrival of a spiritual “kingdom on earth” led by an embodied theocratic representative if these words were uttered at the right moment in history and from chosen men of God. For this “Angel in the Whirlwind,” wrote Christopher Findlay, “also carries unsettling connotations of a day of vengeance and judgment...a notion that appeals to...the apocalyptic frame of mind...reminiscent of Winthrop's 'shining city on a hill' image, coupled with the fear of being expelled from this earthly paradise if the new society failed to fulfill its role in the divine plan.”
Later, when some in the public were taking courage that the midterm backlash of November 2006 had sufficiently restrained the administration's dreams of playing a vital role in initiating Armageddon, behind the scenes in Washington DC, this influential group of powerful men retained faith in their paranormal forces. Setting their eyes on the timeframe of 2009-2012, they were not for the moment concerned if Congress or even the executive branch changed hands now and again. They had received what they wanted—official invitation to supernaturalism by the nation's leaders and, for sufficient time, conformity by the majority of uninitiated Americans. An angel from the whirlwind spread its powerful wings, and a new epoch of American history was ushered in, a time when the government of the U.S. Was intentionally brought under influence to dark angelic power.
The statement above may seem daring. But the connection between the president's speeches, signals to “the family” of spiritual advisors as well as to leaders of the Craft (discussed later), the Bush administration's subsequent actions, and coalescence of Congress—and for a while, the majority of Americans—set in motion the rules for cosmic game play as defined in the sacred texts of all major religions, including the Bible. Invitation to angels by elected officials, combined with passive civilian conformity, is key to opening doorways for supernatural agents to engage social governance. This is a classic tenet of demonology. Spirits go where they are invited, whether to possess an individual or to take dominion over a region. One would content, therefore, that starting in 2001, the United States became so disposed in following and not challenging unprecedented changes to long-standing U.S. policies, including the Christian rules for just war, that a powerful force known to the Illuminati as the “Moriah Conquering Wind”, a.k.a. “the “angel in the whirlwind,” accepted the administration's invitation and enthroned itself in the nation's capital. Immediately after, it cast its eyes on the ancient home of the Bab-Illi, Babylon, where the coveted “Gate of the Illi” had opened once before.

Into the Home of Bab-Illi

Despite a series of ever-changing explanations as to why George W. Bush was stubbornly resolved to take the U.S. into Iraq/Babylon even though Iraq was not connected to the events of September 11, 2001, years later, if you asked twenty analysts to define the true nature behind the U.S. entering that war, they would probably give you twenty different answers.
Some say it was strategic placement of U.S. Military resources against what the administration saw as a growing threat from Islamic radicals. Some say it was an effort to seize and maintain control of Iraqi oil reserves. Others content that 9/11 was itself either a convenient or orchestrated event (false flag) allowing the Bush administration to extend a global domination project. Still others believe something unusual connected to biblical sites in Babylon had been uncovered during Saddam Hussein's reconstruction of the ancient city, and that the administration went there to capture it. But according to the British press, Bush let his real reasons slip during a meeting with the Palestinian leaders in June 2003, when he admitted he committed the United States to enter Babylon because “God told me to invade Iraq.” The same year, while lobbying nations to join his “Coalition of the Willing,” Bush startled France's president, Jacques Chira, by telling him that supernatural forces known as “Gog and Magog” were rising in the Middle East and that his administration had been “willed by God...to use this conflict to erase his people's enemies before a New Age [novus ordo seclorum] begins.” In 2009, it emerged that not only was this Bush's state of mind, but that Donal Rumsfield, as defense secretary, had followed up by routinely adorning top-secret memos concerning the Iraq war for cabinet members and the president, using prophetic quotations from the Bible.
Did a voice from God instruct the leader of the world's most powerful nation to begin what quickly results in, at least on the surface, a debacle? One disturbing possibility is that the president was delusional. On the other hand, if God did tell Bush to invade Iraq, given other “signs of the times,” we tune our ears to the prophets who foretold an end-of-days event when Babylon would be overthrown by a foreign invader, followed by the release of apocalyptic forces—powers known by the prophets as the descendants of fallen angels who went into hell “in full battle dress.” When the prophet Jeremiah prophesied the future of Babylon, he specifically foresaw the catalyst for its destruction as happening when the God of the angel-armies (LORD of hosts) sends a warning that “evil” (ra in Hebrew) is to be unleashed upon the nations of the world by “a great whirlwind” that is raised up from the coasts of the earth (Jerimiah 25:32). The people of earth are afterward viewed as hopeless and in need of a savior.
Forebodingly, the end of Bush's second term witnessed such civil clamor for renewed “hope” amidst widespread messianic fervor surrounding the election of America's current presicent, Barrak Hussein Obama. Bush's “angel in the whirlwind” administration was indeed prophetic in that it accomplished exactly what elite occultists wanted: a fire burning in the minds of men, fanned by multinational chaos and desperation, resulting in universal entreaty for an inspirational and political demigod—a savior—to arise on the global scene promising a New World Order.

Did Bush Know What He Was Doing?

It is entirely possible that Bush's understanding of his calling as the catalyst of these end-times events was a revelation that grew on him over time. In the beginning, many of his ties to evangelical Christianity appear to have been simply for the purpose of producing political advantages. While still in his second term as governor, Bush actually hired influence-peddler Karl Rove to help strategize how he might endear himself to the fundamental base in anticipation of a presidential run. Not long after, the highest-ranking members of the nation's politically enthused church leaders were summoned to the governor's mansion, where the hand-picked movers and shakers, selected for their proven power to sway religious voters, were encouraged to conduct a “laying on of hands” to anoint the future president. As the executive mantle was vicariously conferred on Bush, he surprised the group by suddenly evoking the prophetic commissions of the prophets, telling the attendees that he had been “called” (by God) to become the presidential candidate.
Most people, including perhaps even Bush himself, were blissfully unaware of the ancient signature these events represented especially as it involved the language of Bush's two inaugural speeches following the precedent-setting “anointing” by “holy men” in the state-owned mansion. For a few adepts of history and secret orders, the ritualistic parody was deliciously staged. The term “inaugurate” is from the Latin inauguratio and refers to the archaic ceremony by which the Roman augurs (soothsayers) approved a king or ruler (or other action) through omens as being “sanctioned by the gods.” As with Bush, the ancient “inauguration” of the leader occurred after the priestly blessing and magical words were uttered, which assured the congregations and heads of state that the course of action was endorsed by the gods. The omens that the augurs used in determining the will of the gods included, among other things, thunder and lighting, as reflected in Bush's “angel of the whirlwind” statements. In modern times, the date on which the U.S. inauguration occurs is also important for occult astrological reasons. January 20 is when the sun moves into the sign of Aquarius, an important fact tied to the presidency of Barack Obama, who likewise rode the “whirlwind” into the White House with equally telling symbolism and commentary.
Following Bush's consecration by the holy men of 1999, only a brief period transpired in which public religious rhetoric surrounding him was no more unusual than the historiography of other American presidents. Then came the election, followed by 9/11, and the “calling” Bush believed he had received started defining itself in unsettling ways.
Author Bob Woodward noted in his book, Bush at War, that just three days after 9/11, during the National Day of Prayer and Remembrance at the National Cathedral in Washington DC, the president seemed to assume a divinatory role, as if suddenly he had accepted a fantastic cosmic destiny, declaring that the nation's responsibility to history was already clear: “to answer these attacks and rid the world of evil.” By taking up the language of “good vs. evil,” Woodward viewed the president “casting his vision and that of the country in the grand vision of God's master plan.”
Immediately, the dialect of Armageddon theology began surfacing in presidential briefings. Even religious publications were startled by it. Some reacted right away, calling on the president to plainly set out his views. Kevin Phillips recorded how, in March 2003, “The editors of Christian Century insisted that 'the American people have a right to know how the president's faith is informing his public policies, not least his design on Iraq.'” Phillips further stated:

“More than Bush's earlier religious phraseology, his Scripture-flavored preparation for war against Iraq—the latter-day Babylon of biblical notoriety—stirred scrutiny. Those who followed Bush's religiosity had seen a change, in one pundit's words, “from talking about a Wesleyan theology of 'personal transformation' to describing a Calvinist 'divine plan' laid out by a sovereign God for the country and himself.”

So alarming was the president's change in demeanor that even leaders of his own denomination registered dissent. Robin Lovin, Southern Methodist Univeristy professor of religion and political thought, cautioned that, “All sorts of warning signals ought to go off when a sense of personal chosen-ness and calling gets transplanted into a sense of calling and mission for a nation.”
Ultimately, the prophetic context for war in the very land associated with future Armageddon (and against Saddam Hussein, no less, the main who claimed to be the reincarnated Nebuchadnezzar) held for Bush the language of moral dualism necessary to play out a “divine mission” while earning him admiration from Dominionists, Neocons, Bonesmen, and the guardians of the Craft.
Perhaps more than anyone else, it was precisely for these members of the “family” and their comrades in secrecy that the most startling coding language was drafted at regular cycle. For them, the phrase “fire in the minds of men” from the second inaugural was not only a call for a societal upheaval to usher in a New World Order, but a reference to the Promethean faith. That neoconservatism and Prometheanism could be married in this way is keen, as both doctrines are occult visions of a kingdom of God (or gods) on earth established through human endeavor and enlightenment. Prometheus was the Greek titan who stole fire from the gods and gave it to man. When Prometheus is incarnated in the human mind as the mystical longing for illumination (a “fire in the mind”), the latter produces what James Billington called the “revolutionary faith” or “Promethean faith,” a Gnostic doctrine whose origin was solidified in occult Freemasonry and “scientific” Marxism.
Thus, in view of recent history, a “fire in the minds of men,” plus two references to “the angel in the whirlwind,” were perfect choices for George Bush's inaugurals. This was also key for those who understood it at the time to unlocking what researcher and academic Peter Dale Scott describes as “deep politics”--those below-surface realities that may be for political reasons be hidden from the radar of civilians while at the same time signaling the appropriate brokers of power concerning the real or “deep” political and/or spiritual agenda at play. By twice referring to the “angel in the whirlwind,” Bush also certified confirmation from God for his actions (“For God speaks once, yea twice” [Job 22]; “In the mouth of two...witnesses” [2 Corinthians 13:1]). In occult theology, the number two is also the Zoroastrian math for dualism, and it extended the Manichaean prose necessary for Bush to cast himself as the “son of light” at war with “sons of darkness.” For the Illuminatist, this light is derived from Lucifier, the light-bearer, and as we shall discover, the angel in the whirlwind is key to such dark forces.