Ross McConnell

Ross Total Lunar Eclipse

2011-12-10T09:14:00.000-08:00

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9ar6CiRIZI

10-10-11

2011-10-10T05:51:00.001-07:00

New Post @
10-10-10
Ross In Chicago
Autumn Quarter 1977

Ross Music: Dr. Dream (1974)

2011-09-09T11:43:00.000-07:00

For Ross,
Kevin Ayers' Dr. Dream Theme (1974)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efupe4p87vw
suggested
Vincent Price as
The Abominable Dr. Phibes (1971)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEIjP_k-u_g

Ross Music: Rush - 2112 (Summer 1976)

2011-09-09T11:34:00.000-07:00

For Ross,
Oracle: The Dream
on Rush: 2112
referred to
The Great Old Ones:

They left the planet long ago
The elder race still learn and grow
Their power grows with purpose strong
To claim the home where they belong

This Day In Ross History

2011-07-10T08:32:00.000-07:00

07-10-11
Michael Ross McConnell
b. 07-10-52

Ross Solstice

2011-06-21T05:13:00.001-07:00

SUN STAND STILL

Ross: Fact-based Mysticism

2011-04-27T05:20:00.000-07:00

ADVENT AWAKENING = 151

Ross Supermoon

2011-03-19T07:23:00.000-07:00

HEX = 37

Ross' copy of the 1963 Ace paperback, pp.28 - 29

2011-01-11T08:13:00.000-08:00

01-11-11

"Father! Help the men who live at your machines!"

"I cannot help them," said the brain of Metropolis. "Nobody can help them. They are where they must be. They are what they must be. They are not fitted for anything more or anything different."

"I do not know for what they are fitted," said Freder, expressionlessly: his head fell upon his breast as though almost severed from his neck. "I only know what I saw - and that it was dreadful to look upon… I went through the machine rooms - they were like temples. All the great gods were living in white temples. I saw Baal and Moloch, Huitzilopochtli and Durgha; some frightfully companionable, some terribly solitary. I saw Juggernaut's divine car and the Towers of Silence, Mahomet's curved sword and the crosses of Golgotha. And all machines, machines, which confined to their pedestals, like deities to their temple thrones, from the resting places which bore them, lived their god-like lives: Eyeless but seeing all, earless but hearing all, without speech, yet in themselves, a proclaiming mouth - not man, not woman, and yet engendering, receptive, and productive - lifeless yet shaking the air of their temples with the never expiring breath of their vitality. And near the god-machines, the slaves of the god-machines: the men who were as though crushed between machine companionability and machine solitude...

And the machine, having neither head nor brain, with the tension of its watchfulness, sucks and sucks out the brain from the paralysed skull of its watchman, and does not stay, and sucks, and does not stay until a being is hanging to the sucked-out skull, no longer a man and not yet a machine, pumped dry, hollowed out, used up. And the machine which has sucked out and gulped down the spinal marrow and brain of the man and has wiped out the hollows in his skull with the soft, long tongue of its soft, long hissing, the maching gleams in its silver-velvet radiance, anointed with oil, beautiful, infallible - Baal and Moloch, Huitzilopochtli and Durgha…"

Ross' copy of the 1973 Film Script, p. 32

2011-01-01T14:42:00.000-08:00

01-01-11

The pater noster machine is seen from below. Most of the lights in the room have gone out and clouds of steam swirl across a white luminous expanse. Suddenly, in the center, a vast grotesque face appears out of the steam; the aperture with revolving cranks becomes a gaping mouth with a row of teeth at the bottom and a flight of steps leading up to it. Freder leans forward, staring in horror at this vision as he shouts:

MOLOCH!

Ross Film: The Complete Metropolis (1927)

2010-11-17T09:51:00.000-08:00

DVD Released November 16, 2010

The Complete Metropolis (2 DVD Set)
Director: Fritz Lang
Starring: Alfred Abel, Brigitte Helm, Gustav Froelich,
Rudolf Klein-Rogge (Rotwang)
Country: Germany
Genres: Sci-Fi / Fantasy, Silent
Type: B&W
Year: 1927
Language: English intertitles
Length: 148 mins.
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1

Ross In Chicago Autumn Quarter 1977

2010-10-10T13:41:00.000-07:00

10-10-10

Ross arrived at the University Of Chicago in mid-September 1977.

His theme song: New Kid In Town by The Eagles:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8u7J60I_wro

He set up in the Research Archives

of the Oriental Institute.

On Ross' desk: Erik Iversen's Canon And Proportions In Egyptian Art and ancient Egyptian paper doll action figures, models for his planned animated film.

He audited Professor Helene J. Kantor's Art Of The Ancient Near East. He learned about the Gebel el-Arak Knife handle and the Narmer Palette. He quoted the Propyläen Kunstgeschichte and the Annales du Service des Antiquités de l'Égypte. He even offered to excavate Chogha Mish in Iran. Ms. Kantor gently explained that only Ph.D Candidates were eligible.

Breaks were at "The Club," the C-Shop in the Reynolds Club. The jukebox played the "Don't Be Cruel" / "Hound Dog" 45rpm single by the recently deceased Elvis Presley.

Ross rented a room near the Joseph Regenstein Library in the Phi Delta Theta fraternity house, 5625 S. University Ave. On Saturday night oceans of beer flooded the main stairs leaving a sticky and smelly residue to greet Sunday morning visitors.

"A strict vegetarian," Ross shared my meal plan at Woodward Court. Ross waited in the dining room with Sylvia Plath expert Joe from St Louis, Political Science grad student Takahachi and sometimes our Near Eastern Languages colleagues Liz (University Of Colorado), Rita (Bryn Mawr) and Carolyn (Assyrian Studies). I showed my paid ID and went through the main cafeteria line. Ross took my empty plate to the Seconds steam table. The arrangement worked well until he tried it without me.

Contests of discipline and self-control were common. After Ross fasted for a number of days, his prize was a meal at Lucita's Mexican Restaurant on 57th Street.

Ross kept his sense of humor despite the cold, depressing, overpoweringly negative aspects of Chicago academia. He characterized the Sahidic Coptic dialect as Sahidic Blop-um-bloptic. In the afterglow of THE ROSS STORY published earlier that year, he jokingly portrayed me as "Mr Coffee" (I switched to tea) and as an overly studious "Nazi guy." He wrote, "That Nazi guy don't look too happy" on the door of my apartment mailbox.

Still the University Of Chicago was not the ideal environment for Ross. Uptightness was everywhere. Even the most minor utterance ignited a rapid-fire severely judged intelligence competition. Laser-sharp "Eye Beams" constantly scrutinized one's achievements, credentials and publications. 6.3" of snow in November and 19.2" in December 1977 may have discouraged Ross. He was not in Chicago Winter Quarter 1978. He wrote and called for five years but

I never saw him again.

This Day In Ross History

2010-07-10T04:27:00.001-07:00

07-10-10
Michael Ross McConnell
b. 07-10-52

A Note From Ross

2010-07-05T08:19:00.000-07:00

Postmark
Eugene, OR
1 April 1978

The Ross Story

2010-01-10T08:55:00.001-08:00

01-10-10

Part glorification,
Part intervention,
Part prophecy,
Part hypocrisy,
THE ROSS STORY
(16 pages)
was inked in spring 1977
by J.B.P. a la J.T.C.

The Story Untold!

This Month In Ross History

2009-11-03T06:30:00.000-08:00

November 1976

Dawn Of The Desert Mule Deer

Ross quoted MULEY in John Ford's 1940 film THE GRAPES OF WRATH:

The rest of my fambly set out for the west - there wasn't nothin' to eat - but I couldn't leave. Somepin' wouldn't let me. So now I just wander around. Sleep wherever I am. I used to tell myself I was lookin' out for things, so when they come back ever'thing would be all right. But I knowed that wan't true. There ain't nothin' to look out for. And ain't nobody comin' back. They're gone - and me, I'm just an 'ol graveyard ghost - that's all in the world I am.

This Day In Ross History

2009-07-10T05:55:00.000-07:00

MICHAEL ROSS MCCONNELL
B. THURSDAY 10 JULY 1952

2 3
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8 9

CODEX ROSSAE CRUCIS
(Excerpts)

ISAIAH 28:16
Behold, I lay in Zion
For a Foundation
A Stone
A tried Stone
A precious corner Stone
A sure Foundation
He that believeth
Shall not make haste

PSALM 118:22
The Stone
Which the builders rejected
Has become the chief corner
Stone

TABULA SMARAGDINA HERMETIS
It is true, certain and without falsehood
That whatever is above is like that which is below
To accomplish the one wonderful work

THE CHYMICAL WEDDING OF
CHRISTIAN ROSSENKREUTZ -
THE FIRST DAY
On an evening before Easter Day, I sat at a table, and having (as my custom was) in my humble prayer sufficiently conversed with my Creator, and considered many great mysteries (whereof the Father of Lights his Majesty had shewn me not a few) and being now ready to prepare in my heart, together with my dear Paschal Lamb, a small, unleavened, undefiled cake. All of a sudden arose so horrible a tempest, that I imagined no other but that through its mighty force, the hill on which my little house was founded would fly into pieces.

THE HOLY MOUNTAIN, A ROSSICRUCIAN ALLEGORY
BY THOMAS VAUGHAN
Every man naturally desires a superiority, to have treasures of gold and silver, and to seem great in the eyes of the world. God indeed created all things for the use of man, that he might rule over them, and acknowledge therein the singular goodness and omnipotence of God, give Him thanks for His benefits, honor Him and praise Him. But there is no man who looks after these things, otherwise than by spending his days idly. They would enjoy them without any previous labor and danger; neither do they look for them in that place where God hath treasured them up.

This Day In Ross History

2009-04-27T04:18:00.001-07:00

Michael Ross McConnell
b. Thursday 10 July 1952
d. Orthodox Easter Sunday 27 April 2008

~~~

Seasons they change
But with gaze unchanging
I have been waiting
Beyond the years
Now over the skyline
I see you're traveling
Brothers from all time
Gathering here
Come let us build
The ship of the future
In an ancient pattern
That journeys far
Come let us set sail
For the Always Island
Through seas of leaving
To the summer stars
~ 'The Circle Is Unbroken'
The Incredible String Band

~~~

Remembering Ross McConnell
http://www.mjville.com/?cat=7

Georgian TV On Ross McConnell's Death
http://www.mjville.com/?page_id=14

This Day In Ross History

2009-03-14T05:23:00.001-07:00

Ross Films
Antioch College
Thursday March 14, 1974

Shewing Myne Eye

Ross Song
I Wish We'd All Been Ready
(We've Been Left Behind)

This Day In Ross History

2008-10-10T05:11:00.000-07:00

10:10:08
11:00 AM
Memorial Service
Spring Hill Cemetery
Lynchburg, Virginia

Michael Ross McConnell
b. Thursday 10 July 1952
d. Orthodox Easter Sunday 27 April 2008

This Month In Ross History

2008-09-05T09:25:00.001-07:00

September 1975

Re-admitted to Harvard University, Ross was full of energy, enthusiasm, curiosity and humor. I stayed in the off campus apartment he shared with three very tolerant graduate students.

We ran rampant. Widener Library. Andover-Harvard Theological Library. The Harvard COOP. Occult bookstores. Harvard Square. Pennypacker Hall. An Ingmar Bergman film festival. Oven baked grinder sub sandwiches.

I learned that Ross' freshman class at Harvard had included Dave Duxbury ("Dux")
whom I had known in Colorado in 1969.

Ross would vanish for hours, returning with tales of world-class scholars and incredible research opportunities. During one consultation Maya expert Tatiana Proskouriakoff of Harvard's Peabody Museum expressed interest in a Native American Astronomy symposium.

So on Monday 22 September 1975 Ross and I hitchhiked to Colgate University in the Village of Hamilton, NY. The distance: 291 miles. One of our rides informed us that Sara Jane Moore had attempted to assassinate President Gerald R. Ford. We rode with an elderly drunk gentleman who cried as he told us about his wife and daughter. When police detained the driver, we paused to enjoy the blazing fall foliage that graced the rolling hills of upstate New York.

Arriving in Hamilton at 1:47 AM, we established a residence under the golden dome in the upper balcony of Colgate Memorial Chapel. I heard Marty Balin of the Jefferson Starship:
If only you believed in Miracles baby - So would I.

We stashed our packs behind couches in the lower level of Case Library and sat through numerous droning highly technical presentations. Our favorite speaker was the heavily accented University Of Guadalajara professor of pre-Colombian architecture Horst Hartung (Ancient Maya Architecture And Planning: Possibilities And Limitations For Astronomical Studies). During a break "someone" scrawled COLGATE TOO STRAIGHT - GET HIGH on a bathroom stall. Ross convinced a female Colgate student to let us stay at her apartment. Her roommate blasted Cat Stevens' Tea For The Tillerman.

Eventually we found ourselves drenched, penniless and stranded on the NY Thruway. But Ross entered the Howard Johnson's restaurant, eyed three young people and charmed them into giving us a ride to our door.

~~~

Edited versions of papers presented at the symposium held at Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, 23 - 26 September 1975:
Native American Astronomy. Anthony F. Aveni, ed. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1977. xvii + 286 pp. ISBN 0-292-75511-2

This Day In Ross History

2008-08-16T12:30:00.001-07:00

Tuesday, August 16, 1977

Ross hitched into El Paso, Texas, arriving via Interstate 10 in the early morning. I found him walking down Yarbrough Drive, North of Trawood Drive. At dawn Gaylon Page's collies barked loudly next door, reminding Ross of PeeDee and Numie, Ellen's griffin-like Rhodesian Ridgebacks from Greywood in Yellow Springs, Ohio. After chicory-flavoured coffee we sat down at the drawing board to plot another "flipped out" scenario involving the Great Old Ones. The day's musical selections began with "Bend It" by Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich (1966). That evening on El Paso's KTSM Channel 9 the lead story on John Chancellor's NBC Nightly News was the death of Elvis Presley. I loaned Ross a clean, wrinkle-free white shirt and we drove to nearby Juarez, Mexico for dinner at the Casa Del Sol. Ross feasted on a huge, freshly grilled black Boquilla Bass. Coming back through customs Ross proudly proclaimed himself a citizen of the United States of America with no contraband to declare. A Ross day to remember!

Ross Victorious

2008-07-16T08:00:00.001-07:00

Ross Images

2008-07-16T07:58:00.001-07:00

Ross Wrote:
The Beast Of Luck In Your Every Endeavor
666

April 1979

Ross Wrote:
Inside my Morris Minor looking out through Mantra - Solomon's Seal.

Ross TV

2008-07-16T07:57:00.001-07:00

Ross Said:

M double C
O double N
E double L

Ross Calculation

2008-07-16T07:52:00.001-07:00

Ross said:
A Mystery assuredly.
Far hence remain, O' ye profane.
While the heathen babble, the Adepts dabble.
We're the dwellers on the threshold At the instant of the magical wish
To place our living bodies In a sepulcher of light.
Behold I come quickly, Amen.

Ross Art

2008-07-16T07:50:00.001-07:00

Ross Art

2008-07-16T07:49:00.001-07:00

1979 Albuquerque
Ross wrote:
c/o General Delivery, Tahlequah, Okla Ancestral Home Of John Ross, Chief of the Cherokee Nation 1828 - 1866 My Great Great Great Grand Uncle. In the son there is a dragon; its tongue is hot and fierce; with summer comes its stinging darts; all nature it will pierce

Ross Art

2008-06-15T10:26:00.001-07:00

Ross Art

2008-06-15T10:25:00.001-07:00

Ross Art

2008-06-15T10:02:00.001-07:00

HERE IS THE LIGHT I HAVE BEEN PROMISED

The Testament Of Dr. Mabuse

2008-06-15T09:59:00.001-07:00

Dr. Baum: He was going to prove the power of the Supermen. He was the Superman, the Messenger, the Archetype who alone could save us, the one man who could build, could create… a New State of Being. He left us the plans to create the New Order, the New World.

Inspector Lohman: Do you have these plans?

Dr. Baum: No, not I.

The Testament Of Dr. Mabuse, Fritz Lang, 1933

Ross Books

2008-06-15T09:53:00.000-07:00

The Mysteries Of The Qabalah by Eliphas Levi, 1974

Ross' Bookstore Of Choice

The Mysteries Of The Qabalah by Eliphas Levi, 1974

~~~

Also:

Canon and Proportions in Egyptian Art
by Erik Iversen

Complete Works Of
H. P. Lovecraft

The Cthulhu Mythos
by August Derleth

The Mind Parasites
by Colin Wilson

The Crying Of Lot 49,
Gravity's Rainbow
by Thomas Pynchon

The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception
by Max Heindel

The New Jerusalem
Concerning The Sacred Scripture
From The Latin Of Emanuel Swedenborg

City Of Revelation,
The View Over Atlantis and
The Flying Saucer Vision
by John Michell

The Survival Of The Pagan Gods

A Christian Rosenkreutz Anthology 1974 Edition
by Paul M. Allen

The Secret Teachings Of All Ages
An Encyclopedic Outline Of
Masonic, Hermetic,
Qabbalistic and Rosicrucian
Symbolical Philosophy
Being An Interpretation Of The
Secret Teachings Concealed within The Rituals, Allegories and
Mysteries Of All Ages, Nineteenth Edition, 1973
by Manly P. Hall

Codex Rosae Crucis
A Rare And Curious Manuscript Of Rosicrucian Interest,
Now Published for the First Time In Its Original Form
1971
by Manly P. Hall

The Lost Keys Of Freemasonry, Tenth Edition 1968
by Manly P. Hall

A Primer Of Higher Space (The Fourth Dimension), 1972
by Claude Bragdon

The Dance Of Death
41 Woodcuts by Hans Holbein The Younger
Complete Facsimile Of The Original 1538 French Edition, 1971

Magic Squares And Cubes
by W. S. Andrews

The Thirteen Books Of Euclid's Elements, Volume 1
by Sir Thomas L. Heath

Ancient And Modern Initiation
by Max Heindel

The Cipher Of Genesis
Bantam Edition, April 1973
by Carlo Suares

The Adepts In The Western Esoteric Tradition
Part Three Orders Of Universal Reformation
by Manly Palmer Hall

The Kabbalah Unveiled
by S. L. MacGregor Mathers

The Theoretic Arithmetic Of The Pythagoreans
by Thomas Taylor