In Webster’s dictionary, witchcraft is defined as the act or instance of employing sorcery, especially with malevolent intent: a magical rite or technique. The religious will say if you believe in God, and believe in what the Bible says, then you must believe in the powers of evil as well. You cannot take one side and then completely discount the other side…basically, evil power is real and witchcraft is the use of it. In reality, though, there is a very fine line between good and evil.

When it came to folk magic or witchcraft in my neck of the woods, Pow-wow was the preferred mystic art. Pow-wow is a unique combination of Christian theology and shamanistic belief. Shamanism is the oldest form of religion and the belief is that there is one Supreme Being…that all is derived from this and is interrelated. In Europe, Shamanic practitioners were persecuted as witches in the name of orthodox religion. It is still practiced in some rural areas of Pennsylvania, though it has been outlawed for several generations. In spite of the name, it is not of Native American derivation. The name comes from the book Pow-wows, or, The Long Lost Friend, written by John George Hohman and first published in German as Der Lange Verborgene Freund in 1820. The subtitle of the booklet hints at the breadth of its contents…a collection of mysterious and invaluable arts and remedies for man as well as animals with many proofs of their virtue and efficacy in healing diseases, etc. It was recognized mainly by Pennsylvania Dutch hex-meisters but after the translation to English in 1846, it had a tremendous influence on the commoner folk magicians of the Appalachians. This little book includes healing spells, binding spells, protective spells, wards and benedictions. Though I’m not a religious person, I am spiritual (and a bit superstitious…I’ll cover that later) and always have my copy of ‘The Long Lost Friend’ near me…it’s my personal talisman.

All religions have an upside and a downside. The downside of the Judeo-Christian tradition is Satanism. The downside of Pow-wow was corruption by practitioners, the hex-meisters, who would cast spells or hexes on anyone for a price. Hex-meisters were deeply feared by most people from all walks of life. These German immigrants came to Pennsylvania during the late 1800s and unlike the regular practitioners of Pow-wow, who were mainly of lower class and came here for religious freedom, these newcomers were of the middle and upper classes. There was, at the time, a revival of occultism in Europe, some of which was Satanic. This first wave of immigrant Germans brought this influence with them and became better known as the Pennsylvania Dutch.

In 1895, John Blymire was born in York County, Pa…into the world of witchcraft, magick and superstition. His father and grandfather were Pow-wows and he inherited their healing abilities, but not the strength of their skills. When Blymire was five, he suffered from opnema, a wasting away of the body that was believed to be caused by hexes, but was usually caused by poor diet and malnutrition. Neither his grandfather nor father could cure him, so they took him to a powerful Pow-wow healer named Nelson Rehmeyer who eventually cured him. (Note: Nelson D. Rehmeyer was a distant relative through marriage on my father’s maternal side. Several generations of the Rehmeyer family and my grandmother’s family attended the same church)

John Blymire
At age seven, Blymire attempted his first cure and was successful. He was of limited intelligence, homely and only modestly successful as a Pow-wow. People avoided him, except when they needed his Pow-wow skills. Because of this, Blymire was very lonely.

When he was thirteen, he quit school and worked in a cigar factory in York, Pa. He kept to himself, but word got out that he could heal. He supplemented his cigar factory earnings by accepting voluntary offerings for his work as a Pow-wow.

One day, there was an incident that should have made his reputation as a powerful Pow-wow. When work was done, Blymire and the other workers were leaving the factory when someone screamed that a “mad” dog was approaching. A collie, foaming at the mouth, was coming toward them. People tried to go inside the factory, but those leaving blocked their way. Blymire stood between them and the rabid dog, uttered an incantation and made the sign of the cross over the dog’s head. The dog’s mouth stopped foaming and it seemed to be cured of rabies. Blymire patted it on the head and the dog, tail wagging, followed him as he walked down the street.

Shortly after this incident, Blymire suffered from the opnema again. He was convinced someone had put a hex on him, possibly a jealous Pow-wow who did not want him to be successful. He quit his job in order to discover who had hexed him. He worked in odd jobs and practiced Pow-wow for financial survival and lived in rooming houses. It was at a rooming house where he met Lily, the woman who would become his wife. His health gradually improved and he found a regular job. His Pow-wow clientele steadily increased and it appeared the hex was removed or no longer worked.

Then disaster struck…Blymire’s first child died within a few weeks after birth. Then a second child passed away three days after birth. In the meantime, his health declined and he lost his job.

Again, Blymire consulted with other witches to find out who had hexed him. One was Andrew C. Lenhart, a powerful witch who was feared by many police and city officials. Lenhart stated that he was hexed by someone close to him and Blymire was convinced it was Lily. She began to fear him and her father hired a lawyer who had Blymire evaluated by a psychiatrist. The diagnosis was borderline psychoneurosis. Blymire was committed to a state mental hospital from which he escaped by walking out of the door. There was no effort to recommit him.

In 1928, Blymire returned to work at the cigar factory where he met 14-year-old John Curry who had a cruel childhood due to abuse and believed he was hexed. Shortly after this, they met a farmer, Milton J. Hess who believed he was hexed. He and his wife were of Pennsylvania Dutch stock. They obeyed all of the regulations and rules hex-meisters gave them. Milton had been a successful farmer…crops flourished, chickens laid the right amount of eggs and the cows’ milk was plentiful. His wife, Alice had a stand at the farmer’s market, where she sold vegetables, flowers and fruit.

Hess explained that in 1926, for no apparent reason, things took a downward spiral. Crops began to fail, chickens were stolen and those that weren’t did not lay eggs, cows would not eat and no longer produced milk. Milton’s health was also severely affected. Wilbert, his 17-year-old son was also affected, psychologically, by hearing his father complain about the failures and lack of money and his mother changing from an energetic cheerful woman into a sad and silent one who withdrew from communicating with family. The family was convinced they were hexed. Hess got a job as a truck driver and Alice still had her stand, now, out of financial necessity.

In June, 1928, Hess met Blymire who lived in the Widow Detwiler’s boarding house in an alley. They would talk daily and the conversation, eventually, turned to hexes. About this time, Blymire consulted Nellie Noll, who was known as the ‘Witch of Marietta’, also as the ‘River Witch’ in the attempt to discover who had hexed him. She told him that it was the ‘Witch of Rehmeyer Hollow’…after much coaxing from Blymire, she named Nelson D. Rehmeyer.

Hess invited Blymire, as a ‘Pow-wower’ or ‘Braucher’, to his farm where the witch could see its condition for himself. He asked Blymire who had hexed the family, but he could not remember the name, so he visited Nellie Noll again. Again, she named Nelson D. Rehmeyer and added that Rehmeyer had also hexed Curry. She told him that all they had to do was to get Rehmeyer’s copy of John George Hohman’s ‘Pow-wows or Long Lost Friend’ and burn it. If they could not do that, they must get a lock of his hair and bury it 6 to 8 feet underground.

Once Blymire, Curry and the Hesses knew who had hexed them and what had to be done, there was a conference. Attending this meeting were Blymire, Curry and Milton, older brother Clayton and Wilbert Hess. Soon, plans were made for Blymire, Curry and Wilbert Hess to visit Rehmeyer and get a lock of hair or the book, do as they were directed and the hex would be removed. Clayton, the only family member who had a car, would drive them to the hollow. As events happened, Wilbert said he did not feel well and did not want to go. Blymire said it was OK if he did not. He and Curry would get the book or the lock of hair and would do what they had to.

The following information was taken from trial transcripts and records:



Nelson D. Rehmeyer, the ‘Witch of Rehmeyer Hollow’
When they got to Rehmeyer’s house, they discovered he was not home. They walked to the witch’s ex-wife’s house and saw a light through the window, so they knocked on the door. The duo was told that Rehmeyer was probably at his lady friend’s house. They walked back to the witch’s house and noticed a light on the second floor.

Blymire knocked on the door. Rehmeyer opened the door…he was much larger than Blymire remembered and was mean looking. Blymire asked if they could come in and Rehmeyer led them to the parlor where they sat and started to talk.

Blymire asked Rehmeyer if he had seen the book. The response was yes. The next question was if he had one. Again, the answer was affirmative. Blymire was satisfied with the answers. The conversation, then, turned to more mundane topics. Finally, Rehmeyer asked them why they had stopped by. Blymire told him that he had cured him of the opnema when he was a child and he had worked by picking potatoes for him.

Blymire, while they talked, try to mentally will Rehmeyer to hand over the book, but this was not effective. After a while, Rehmeyer said he was going to bed and they could sleep downstairs if they wanted to.

Curry quickly fell asleep while Blymire stayed awake trying to will the old witch to give them the book. Finally, he woke Curry and told him that he could not control Rehmeyer’s mind. Should they try to use force and make him give them the book or a lock of hair? Blymire decided against this because the old witch was a big man and could easily overpower them. He decided they needed help.

That morning, Rehmeyer got up early and made the duo breakfast before they left. At some point, they bought a 25 foot length of strong rope and cut it into lengths of about 14 inches.

On Wednesday, November 27th, 1928, the night of the full moon and eve before Thanksgiving, Clayton drove the trio to Rehmeyer’s Hollow. The three walked to Rehmeyer’s house.

They demanded that he give them the book. He threw his wallet at them. Then, the three attacked Rehmeyer. Blymire wrapped a length of rope around Rehmeyer’s neck. The trio fought savagely with the old man…Curry got a block of wood and hit Rehmeyer in the head. The old man was kicked in the head and the stomach and his face was battered. Blymire said he groaned, took a few breaths, then died.

They ransacked the house and found a small amount of money. The trio decided they had to get rid of the evidence that would tie them into the murder. Curry thought setting fire to the house would achieve this. They lit matches and dropped them in the house to set the fire. The house was smoldering when they left.

The house did not burn as they thought it would. A neighbor, Oscar Glatfelter, was passing by Rehmeyer’s house on November 30th and heard his mule braying. When the man checked on the animal, he saw it had not been fed. Glatfelter knocked on the door and there was no answer, but the door was unlocked. After the neighbor entered the house, he saw Rehmeyer’s corpse lying on the floor.

The Rehmeyer House during the murder investigation

It did not take the police long to arrest Blymire, Curry and Wilbert for the murder of Rehmeyer. All three confessed and Blymire said he was at peace now that he had killed the witch. The newswire services informed the public that a practicing witch had been killed in York County, Pa.

The trials began on January 9th, 1929. Judge Sherwood presided. District Attorney Amos W. Herrmann represented the commonwealth. Public defenders Walter W. VanBaman represented Curry and Herbert B. Cohen, Blymire. The Hess family could afford to hire Harvey A. Gross, the best criminal defense attorney in the area.

Judge Sherwood decreed that all mention of hexes and witchcraft in the confessions be edited out before they were admitted to records. The attempts of the defense attorneys to make hexes and witchcraft a matter of record via testimony were quashed.

Herrmann made his opening statements, avoiding all mention of witchcraft and hexes and forgot to mention the motive for the murder that the judge wanted. He was sharply reminded of this. The decreed motive was robbery and, then, was stated.

When Cohen tried to bring out testimony about witchcraft, the judge thwarted his efforts.

The trials were the some of the speediest in Pennsylvania history. By obstruction of justice, the judge got what he wanted, guilty verdicts, Blymire and Curry, murder in the first degree and Hess, murder in the second degree.

The sentences were handed down on January 14th. Blymire and Curry were given life in prison and Wilbert was given 10 to 20 years. In 1934, Hess and Curry were paroled and lived quiet lives in the York area. Curry became an artist and died in 1962. Blymire was finally paroled in 1953, returned to York and worked as a janitor.

The Hex House in Rehmeyer Hollow, East Hopewell Township, York County, Pa.

This case has always intrigued me…especially after I read Arthur Lewis’ account of the incident in his book ‘Hex’. I also remember the tales of paranormal activity in Rehmeyer Hollow and the reports of strange apparitions, said to be Nelson Rehmeyer’s spirit, roaming the property nightly.

During my senior year in high school, I decided to make a short trip to Rehmeyer Hollow to see what all the fuss was. I had found a copy of ‘The Long Lost Friend’ and decided to carry it with me. Like I said earlier, I’m a bit superstitious and thought the book may protect me in some way.

I made the journey alone in mid October 1975…it was late afternoon when I arrived at a locked gate that was suspended over the access road that had a ‘No Trespassing’ sign attached to it. At that time, the sparse open areas were overgrown with briers and high weeds. The woods were very thick and dark and as I started walking on the road I could make out the roof of the small house jutting over the trees. As I approached, I noticed what looked like an older man in dark pants and a jacket standing on the road near the bend that led to the house….I estimated he was about 150 feet in front of me. It looked like he was searching for something because he was looking face down in a peculiar manner.

I stopped walking and stood for a few seconds watching this person go back and forth across the road, never raising their head. So I decided it was time to find out if this was a caretaker or if it was OK for me proceed any further even though I knew was trespassing.

I shouted “hello…sir”. No response. So I was about to shout again thinking this person was hard of hearing or possibly ignoring me. Just as I began to open my mouth to shout, this person quickly looked up and….

Now, I realize that I was a fair distance away but this ‘person’ that, I swear to this day, had no facial features. No eyes, no mouth, no nose…just a head. I spun around and hauled my butt back to the car. The ghost hunt was over. I wheeled my Mustang out of that hollow onto the main road in record time. Honestly, I don’t remember the drive home. I was absolutely stunned by the experience.

A few days later, my girlfriend and I were in my room and she found ‘The Long Lost Friend’ on my desk. I was lying on the bed with headphones on when I looked over and saw that she was looking in the book. As I watched her, I noticed that there was writing on the book cover. I had purchased the book as new, had never written in it or had it anywhere other than when I was at Rehmeyer Hollow. As I looked closer, there was an “NR” written in pencil.

The next day, I lit the grill in the backyard and promptly burned the book and buried the ashes. I wasn’t leaving anything to ‘chance’. A few weeks later, I purchase a new copy of ‘The Long Lost Friend’ and it’s been with me since.

Pow-wow
The following is a description of how the Pow-wower applied their skills in 20th-century York County, as noted by Arthur H. Lewis in his 1969 book “Hex”:

Except for two days a month, the Rohrbaugh Convalescent Home in rural Spring Grove, York County, Pennsylvania, is about as quiet a spot as you’re likely to find anywhere in the Keystone State. But on the first and sixteenth, it becomes a mecca for scores of ailing men, women and children who flock to this tiny village, there to be powwowed back to health by Mrs. Leah Frank.

Mistakenly, I assumed there was some significance in the choice of the two days on which Mrs. Frank practices her profession.

“When I reached ninety, and that was four years ago,” Mrs. Frank explained, “I thought maybe I’d better quit altogether; it’s so hard on a body. But my people wouldn’t let me, tole me they needed me. So, instead of workin’ every day, I tole ‘em I’d ‘try for’ two days a month and I picked the first and the sixteenth. Then people will know when to come and not be disappointed in between. That’s all there is to it.”

Through the windows of the second-floor bedroom she seldom leaves, Mrs. Frank can view the soft hills of York County where she has lived all her years. As a matter of fact, the aged powwower spends most of her daylight hours in an old-fashioned Morris chair facing the east. “I’d rather see the sun come up than go down,” she says gently.

Except for a slight diminution in hearing and arthritis, only lately beginning to cripple the long, tapered fingers she needs for “laying on” ill or otherwise troubled patients, Mrs. Frank remains in excellent health. Her cheeks, though wrinkled, have a healthy glow; her teeth are her own, and her sharp blue eyes still regard with abiding interest that small portion of the world she sees.

“Prettiest part of the world, though I wouldn’t know much about the rest of it,” Mr. Frank said in a clear voice with a strong Pennsylvania Dutch inflection. “Born and raised ten miles from here and never been no further away than forty. But you don’t have to travel to learn things and how to take care of ‘em that needs you, do you?”

She smiled and went on.

“I’ve been tryin’ for people for a long, long time. I always know’d I had the power but I learned how to use it from a veterinarian who practiced powwowin’ too. That was back in 1904; I’ve been doin’ it ever since.

“Course that’s not all I ever done. I just used to try for people on the side like most of us faith healers do. From the time I was a little girl ’till I was seventy-seven years I worked in a mill and I worked hard, too. Anymore I don’t work so hard. Now I’m so old I only powwow.”

What troubles Mrs. Frank is the current shortage of apprentices willing to undergo the rigors of training in order to become worthy practitioners.

“I don’t mean those that don’t have the power inside ‘em ’cause they’ll never learn no matter how much they want to. Some of ‘em try but I always say to ‘em, ‘If you can’t stop blood, you’ll never be a powwower, so don’t waste your time.’”

“What I’m referrin’ to is those that got the power but don’t want to use it. It ain’t easy; you have to work hard and it makes you mighty tired to try for people.

Mrs. Frank did not elaborate upon the curriculum required before the neophyte can become a full-fledged practitioner. She did say, however, that after “blood stopping,” which, incidentally, she claims can never be taught and must be known congenitally, the next training step is wart removal. After that come the many other branches of the discipline concluding with cures for the opnema, St. Anthony’s fire and finally tumors.

Mrs. Frank also holds to the orthodox belief, one shared by the majority of her colleagues, that an instructor in powwowism or witchcraft may impart his knowledge only to members of the opposite sex.

“A man shouldn’t teach another man or boy and a woman can’t teach another woman or girl,” claims this nonagenarian necromancer. “I’m helpin’ train a young man who lives ’round here and he’s doin’ all right. But I sure wish I could teach my granddaughter. She was born with the power but she don’t know how to use it. She could do wonderful good.”

I asked Mrs. Frank what would happen if she attempted to teach the profession to her granddaughter. She shuddered.

“Oh, my goodness! That would be terrible. I’d suffer for it the rest of my days and maybe lose my own power if I tried.”

Like the Willow Street powwower, to whom she is not related, Mrs. Frank is aware of the present of evil area witches. However, she does not subscribe to Clair Frank’s depressing theory that practitioners of the black art are getting smarter as well as increasingly numerous.

“Not many of ‘em ’round as there used to be,” Mrs. Frank said cheerfully. “And they’re getting dumber and dumber all the time. But when I was a girl!”

NOTE: In 1988, the film Apprentice to Murder was released and starred Donald Sutherland, Chad Lowe and Mia Sara. The story was based on the Rehmeyer Hollow Murder…Lon

ARTICLE SOURCE: Phantoms and Monsters

The occurrence is located in Watersmeet, Michigan. The interesting thing is, this light doesn’t just appear randomly. It has happened every single night, for the past 40 years. Thousands of people, from all over the world come to see this light, and those who live nearby come to see it very often. Some people even claimed to see the “Grim Reaper” floating across the road near the light.

As to be expected theres a couple legends to this story. One legend has it, that there was once a railroad on this long stretch of road. A train happened to stall on the track, and the signalman stepped in with his light to try to signal to the oncoming train to stop, the train crushed him and he died. So apparently, the light appears every night, as a ghostly warning.

Another, states that an engineer was murdered along the railroad grade. And the last being, a man was out late at night carrying a lantern looking for his lost son in the woods, and the man accidently got hit by the train, and so the light is his ghost still looking for his son.

Now just recently, the show Paranormal: Fact or Faked, went to the location to do a series of tests. They tried driving a car down there to see if it re-created the light, they tested the area for radioactive activity, swamp gas, and electromagnetic activity, none of which showed any off results of what it could be caused by. And finally, they even rented a small plane, so when the light appeared they could fly to the location and see what was causing it, when they got there, they saw absolutely nothing, yet the people who were still in the area looking at the light, saw the light very clearly.

Here’s an excerpt from someones personal experience:

My mom and I sat there and talked. After a while it almost seemed like it was getting brighter, that it seemed like it was getting closer, but we were not sure. When we knew it was getting closer, we backed up slowly. I pointed my flashlight to where it was coming from. It almost seemed like it was dancing up the power line. It crept closer and closer. When we knew that it was less that 20 feet away from us we hopped in the car. When we noticed that it was less then 10 feet away from the car we tried to start the car, but it wouldn’t start! The huge red light got closer and closer and my mom tried to start the engine so much that she almost broke the key! Finally it started and we sped out of there.

I’m not sure what the hell it is, but it does appear to get closer to you and the lighten intensifies and grows larger.
Strange stuff indeed.

Several books and magazines have over the years outlined ways to tell if your house was haunted. One of the commonly listed suggestions that stands out has always been, “Do you see ghosts regularly in your house?” It stands to reason if a reader was seeing ghosts in their house on a regular basis that they would likely be able to make a well informed conclusion on their own without further advice on the matter. But not all ghosts manifest in such overt ways. In fact the vast majority of hauntings, according to many respected paranormal investigators manifests in ways that are largely subtle.

The first thing to do is take stock of the goings on in the house. If you feel a negative energy, this could partially be due to circumstances arising from your own life. Have a number of tragic events transpired in your space in your presence? If so, it’s possible for this negativity to be causing you strife. But don’t be too quick to dismiss negative feelings without first moving on to step two.

Step two is to examine the space objectively. Even if you do have a personal negative feeling about a given location it is possible that others do as well. When friends and family stop by, how do they react to the environment? When something happens in the space (even if it is perfectly rational and explainable) do they react in fear? Do non-psychic individuals suddenly get moments of inspiration and have knowledge that cannot be explained otherwise while in your home? If others are noticing a mysterious or unearthly energy in the house, this is definitely something to take into consideration. Even if you don’t actually see something unusual, if you feel it (and if others do as well) this is something to pay attention to.

If you or someone you know is psychically inclined, develop your abilities and then intuit whether communication with your general environment would be a good idea. If you live alone, try having a friend around when this happens. It’s quite possible the entity will be friendly, but in the event that something seems hostile or otherwise makes you feel uncomfortable, contact someone who can assist you.

But why seek trouble if none is to be found, you may ask. The truth of the matter is, many people live in haunted or reportedly haunted houses for years and never hear so much as a bump in the night, even if informed of the paranormal background the house has. If you are one of the lucky (or unlucky as some might say) people who lives in a dormant haunted house, you may wish to keep it that way. But if your ghost is giving off a sad or troubled energy it may affect you and others in the household in subconscious ways. Any individual household resident must make the decision on whether to pursue contact with the other side or not for themselves. Only then can you truly be sured that you are acting on your own intuitions and not being influenced by forces beyond your control – natural or otherwise.

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Master sorcerer Balthazar Blake recruits a seemingly everyday guy in his mission to defend New York City from his arch-nemesis, Maxim Horvath.

Based on the True Story, The Watseka Wonder, America’s first documented possession in 1870. A chilling story of a 13-year-old girl from the small town of Watseka, Illinois who became possessed by spirits of the insane dead.

“Now the last age by Cumae’s Sibyl sung Has come and gone, and the majestic roll Of circling centuries begins anew: Justice returns, returns old Saturn’s reign, With a new breed of men sent down from heaven. Only do thou, at the boy’s birth in whom The iron shall cease, the golden race arise, Befriend him, chaste Lucina; ‘tis thine own Apollo reigns.” Virgil’s Eclogue IV, line 5

With Tom Horn’s revealing of the 36-cubed Magic Square’s numerology—111, 555, and 666, which binds the Bible in the base of the Washington Obelisk, the great time-line spoken by the Cumaean prophetess can be seen in relation to it. The great numeric secret of the mystery school concerned these numbers. For example: Since the magic square of the sun has 36 numbers arranged in 36 squares the number 72 is produced. 72 is quintessentially Pythagorian. Pythagoras has been called the father of “symbolic Freemasonry”. It is said that he would offer an apple to initiates of his school. Those considered worthy of further teaching would halve the apple at its equator revealing the organic pentagram within.

The 5 points of the pentagram, each 72 degrees apart produced a formula for the time-cycle spoken by the priestess of Apollo, known as the precession of the equinox.

5 times 72 equals 360. Further more, 360 times 72 equals 25,920… the exact number of years in one cycle of the precession.The duration of the precession was known by all of antiquity’s illuminated elite. It was an important component of their religious infrastructure. In fact, the precession marked the destruction and re-birth of world civilizations, the most important of which was the first, before the flood of Noah. It was said that that the knowledge of civilization itself had been bestowed to man by gods that descended from heaven. The understanding of the precession was said to have come from the gods themselves.

For the Egyptians, the “Zep Tepi” (the first time) recounted this genesis of humanity from primitive wanderers to communities organized under the patronage of the gods. The heavenly markers of this event included the milky way and the two points in which the line that the planets traced across the sky (the ecliptic) cut across it. The ecliptic crosses the milky way at opposite sides, between Gemini and Taurus and between Sagittarius and Aquarius. This later crossing place is the most important. It is where the milky way galaxy’s center lies. This center resembles a “serpent eating it’s tail”, an Ouroboros. In Hebrew cosmology, this symbol is “Leviathan” literally (Levi – tan, a connected serpent).

Sagittarius, the centaur, draws an arrow in his bow directly at the dividing point of Leviathan. The Greek word for arrow is obolus, meaning “pointed, arrow or pertaining to the shooting of arrows”. This is the root origin for the word “Obelisk” translated by the Latins into sagitta.

Greek myth explains that the centaur Cheiron, the tutor of Hercules, had been taught archery by Apollo himself and the arrow (obelus) in Sagittarius’ bow was a gift from Apollo.

From here the Washington Monument obelisk takes on advanced meaning. Not only is it the regenerative organ of Apollo, but it is also the time-marking arrow that points to the end of the Aions. It combines the prophecy of Apollo’s priestess of when “the majestic roll Of circling centuries begins anew” with the identity of the god that will arise when that cycle ends. The sun’s count of days is the natural clockwork for measuring time. It is the deity of the sun, Apollo whose return is timed by its rising and setting.

On December 21st, 2012, the sun will rise in the center of the milkyway where Leviathan bites its tail. The arrow of Apollo marks this time both in heaven and on earth at Washington DC.

Apollo as the ‘sun god’ has his magic square, the numbers 1 through 36 arranged in 6 rows of 6. Each row added together equals 111. All rows added together equal 666. Since this magic square is incorporated into the Washington monument “obelisk”, the symbolism clearly indicates the intended incarnation of the sun god Apollo.

There is more time-based information in these numbers however. The precession occurs due to the slow rotation of the earth’s celestial axis. This axis is 23.3 (mean average) from perpendicular to the earth’s orbit around the sun.

If one takes the length of precession 25,920 divided by 23.3 the result is 1,111.

The magic square number (36 x 72)= 2,592 divided by 23.3 is 111… or the total of the numbers in each row of the square.

The name Apollyon in Greek equals 1461. This is the number of the sides of a square times the number of days in a solar year, 365.25 x 4.

The difference between the biblical year count (360 days) and the solar year count (365.25 days) in one cycle of precession 25,920 is 378 years.

378 x 2 = 756 (the length of one side of the Great Pyramid)
378 x 3 = 1135 (360 x 3.15 ‘PI rounded’)
378 x 4 = 1512 ( the gematria of ‘revelation’ in Greek) The square root of 1512 is the exact latitude of the Washington Monument, 38.88 degrees north.
378 x 8 = 3024 (the perimeter of the Great Pyramid)

Apollo, like other Greek deities, had a number of epithets applied to him, chief among them Phoebus (“shining one”), which was very commonly used by both the Greeks and Romans in Apollo’s role as the god of light and the sun. Apollo’s most common attributes were the bow and arrow. As a god of archery, Apollo was known as Aphetoros (“god of the bow”) A??-?????? Aeballon (“ever-shooting” and Argurotoxos (“with the silver bow”). The Romans referred to Apollo as Articenens (“carrying the bow”) as well.

The connection between obelisks, money and Apollo:

The great Dionysiak myth 375-379 Robert Brown – 1877
Meteorites, fallen from heaven, were worshiped in antiquity as arrows from the sun god. As these were often composed of iron nickel they were fashioned into arrow points.

The first coinage was also of this type; All the ancient money consisted either of pieces of iron or bronze, which, from their arrow form, were called obeliskoi; whence we have still a quantity of small money called oboloi, six of which make a drachme or handful, that being as much as the hand can contain.’1 To the same effect writes the learned Isidoros, Bishop of Hispalis (Seville), A.D. 600-636 :—’ The obol was made formerly like an arrow, whence also it received the name Obel (Arrow) from the Greeks.’2 Obolos and Obelos are only Ionik and Attik differences in pronunciation,8 and belos is a glance, an arrow, or their effect. Obeliskos, the diminutive, is any small pointed instrument. The obelisk, also known as obeliscie we elongated blocks of stone consecrated to the divinity of the Sun, Osiris, or Apollo.The blocks had this form given to them in resemblance to the rays of that luminary. These obols or obelisks … represent the spears, rays, arrows, or golden-locks of the beaming sun; for, as Macrobius observes, ‘ Under the name of arrows the darting of the rays is shewn.’1 By the Nile, Euphrates and in Syria, monetary transactions were anciently conducted by weighing the metals employed. Barter appears to have sufficed for the earlier Phoenicians, chiefly engaged in traffic with barbarous peoples, and it was reserved for the Lydians to originate a regular coinage.2 Later the solar disk was substituted for the solar rays. The familiar circular form of coin was more transportable and was the last and highest development of the art.

Understanding that the first denomination of exchange was the obelisk, the origin of another extremely recognized name in the bible surfaces.

In Greek the name devil (diabolos) is spelled

??a????? meaning “opposing the cause of God, to act the part of the devil or to side with him” Strong’s G1228. This is derived from diaball?, to throw or shoot over or across, to send over (from dia “through” and ballow “to hurl or throw”)Strong’s G1225

The Greek word for the monetary unit diobolus is spelled;

??o?????
Diabolos and Diobolos are virtually the same etymological framework, connected to Apollo’s arrows.

The Greeks believed that the Milky way was a passageway for souls to enter Hades.The gate for entering the next life was at the dividing point indicated by Cherion’s obolus, pointed at the mouth of the connected serpent. In order to gain entry, the deceased had to provide two obolus that had been provided at their burial, placed over each eye.

HERACLES. Ah! that’s a long journey. First you will reach the edge of the vast, deep mere of Acheron.
DIONYSUS And how am I to cross?
HERACLES. There is an ancient ferryman, Charon by name, who will pass you over in his little boat for a diobolus.
DIONYSUS. Oh! what power the diobolus has the whole world through! But however has it got as far as that?
HERACLES. ‘Twas Theseus who introduced its vogue. After that you will see snakes and all sorts of fearful monsters …
The Frogs Aristophanes 405 B.C.E

This explains a great part of the mystery surrounding the mark of the beast and the number of his name. It is intimately connected with Apollyon and the creation of money itself. It also shows the time-based nature of the obelisk pointing out the dividing point of the connected serpent, where the dead pass into eternal life or eternal damnation. “Oh! what power the diobolus has the whole world through!”

“For the love of money is the root of all evil: which while some coveted after, they have erred from the faith, and pierced themselves through with many sorrows”. 1Ti 6:10

A couple more points I’ve discovered:

Revelation 9:11 provides the name of the angel of the abyss that releases a plague of locusts on the earth “Apollyon”.
As a plague god Apollo was known as Parnopius (“locust”). The word locust appears in 9 chapters of the bible 11 times.

As Apollyon equals 1461 in Greek it is more than significant that the greatest symbol ever erected in his honor “the Washington monument” stands 555 feet high. It marks the ultimate point in the future when Apollo will rise to his most ‘diabolical’ height.

555 + 1461 = 2016

…and 1461 was the year of the end of the Holy Roman Empire.

The number 555 has particular meaning in the bible. It is found to equal:
“Discerning”… “The Rulers”… “The kingdoms of nations [Is 13.4]“

Judge for yourself, are these spirits in transition or is it a clear case of Paradolia ?