{"id":57288,"date":"2018-01-12T00:47:47","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T00:47:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=57288"},"modified":"2018-01-12T00:47:47","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T00:47:47","slug":"early-occult-roots-of-the-shithole-notion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/?p=57288","title":{"rendered":"Early occult roots of the &#8220;shithole&#8221; notion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>[ by <strong>Charles Cameron<\/strong> &#8212; a wobbly, entirely speculative history would suggest a source in Johann Georg Gichtel transmitted to our President via Anabaptist, Rosicrucian and allied Hermetic strands ]<br \/>\n.<\/p>\n<p>It would be easy to <strong>DoubleQuote<\/strong> President <strong>Donald Trump<\/strong>&#8216;s shit-awful remark today in terms of his base appreciatiing it:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/QUO-dq-blank-shithole-sm-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"625\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57290\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/QUO-dq-blank-shithole-sm-1.png 600w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/QUO-dq-blank-shithole-sm-1-288x300.png 288w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;d like to go for broke and show you something far more intriguing: to wit, the earliest western expression of the &#8220;shithole&#8221; concept, drawn from <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Johann_Georg_Gichtel\">Johann Georg Gichtel<\/a><\/strong>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/alchetron.com\/Johann-Georg-Gichtel\">Theosophia Practica<\/a> (1701):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/QUO-dq-blank-shithole-1.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"950\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57292\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/QUO-dq-blank-shithole-1.png 600w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/QUO-dq-blank-shithole-1-189x300.png 189w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/> <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Note the clear indication of the anal region seen from behind as <strong>Satan&#8217;s Hell<\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>This image, with its corresponding face-forward companion, present what is widely acknowledged as the first western equivalent of the eastern <strong>chackra<\/strong> system of spiritual presences arranged in a progressive, ascending alignment up the spine:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/gichtel-double.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"573\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-57295\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/gichtel-double.png 600w, https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/gichtel-double-300x287.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>**<\/p>\n<p>I imagine Trump derives his association of &#8220;shithole&#8221; with that which he despises via the Anabaptist, Rosicrucian, and early upper New York State hermetic strands so ably reported by <strong>John L. Brooke<\/strong> in his Bancroft Prize-winning <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Refiners-Fire-Making-Cosmology-1644-1844\/dp\/0521565642\">The Refiner&#8217;s Fire: The Making of Mormon Cosmology, 1644-1844<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Not entirely kidding.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ by Charles Cameron &#8212; a wobbly, entirely speculative history would suggest a source in Johann Georg Gichtel transmitted to our President via Anabaptist, Rosicrucian and allied Hermetic strands ] . It would be easy to DoubleQuote President Donald Trump&#8216;s shit-awful remark today in terms of his base appreciatiing it: I&#8217;d like to go for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[526,102,1314,627,87,165,51,533,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-charles-cameron","category-diplomacy","category-donald-trump","category-doublequotes","category-foreign-policy","category-historians","category-history","category-religion","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57288"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57288\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57301,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57288\/revisions\/57301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}