The Apple (Mac) and the Word (Processor)
And Pecan Apple Pie for the Nuts out there
I became distracted working on the video and wandered off on an Apple Mac vs. IBM PC soliloquy. I use a hefty Mac, but my silver sliver of a MacBook Air sits alongside it.
For the meaning of life one man might look in the usual places; philosophy, esoterism, religion, etc., while another may recognise no meaning beyond fulfilment of desires. A wise man once told me everything has meaning. (It was ironic that the same wise man dismissed swathes of knowledge due to religious and university indoctrination.)
I tend to see meaning everywhere (now) and it randomly occurred that the Microsoft genii called their operating system Windows and Apple Mac used Air for “reasons”. Air is the symbol of Aquarius as we know, while light and apples symbolise knowledge and immortality (or sin). And Windows let in air and light, so I dived into the distraction…
IBM came up with Lotus Word Pro; the Lotus is a semitic symbol of course. “The thousand-petal lotus is the inner spiritual brain, holding all time in a single space, and envisioning the past and future in a single continuum [like Janus]. It has tremendous creativity, deep calm and powerful insights far beyond the capacities of the outer brain which is largely mechanical, instinctual and emotionally reactive.” -D. Frawley.
The other word of significance in Lotus Word Pro is Word meaning Logos; the Word of God. Good. What about MS DOS? Surely there’s nothing there? Welp. ‘Dos’ in Latin translates to a gift in the same way a bride has a dowry. Nice! The Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosencreutz is an allegoric romance told over Seven Days — like Genesis. Rosenkreuz (from whence the name Rosicrucian or rose cross) was invited to a castle (one’s mind) for an (al)Chemical Wedding of king and queen, or inner & outer brain.
IBM was also nicknamed Big Blue; blue sky meditation is a Buddhist tradition; the concept of blue sky mind is the vast, luminous, calm mind of the sage in contemplation.
Blue is also the colour of the throat chakra, related to cosmic sound and ether which is also known as clear sky above the clouds. Caelus (our Uranus) was the primal god of the sky in Roman theology. I see blue sky, a cross and a wedding gift in the logo…
And excuse me for asking — but did Microsoft’s Bill Gates adopt his name or was he promoted because of it? Is he a Bill presented to modern man that must be paid in full, determining whether one may proceed through the Gates of enlightenment? Surely
IBM was not just randomly naming things any more than the medical establishment randomly named parts of the body/brain, encoding them in Biblical parables, like olive groves and pyramids in the place of the skull (or as per the Bible, Golgotha).
But wait, there’s so much more. Columbia Data Products legally reverse-engineered the basic input/output system of the IBM PC. Columba means dove in Latin, an ancient pagan feminine symbol representing the ‘Fabricator of the world’. A fabricator can be an illusion designed to deceive, or a manufactured product. The dove denotes wisdom, power and order by which the lower worlds are maintained on God’s behalf.
US software and electronics company General Magic’s tech entrepreneur and angel investor, Marc Porat, described the ideal potential of the iPhone in 1990: “A tiny computer — a phone — a very personal object. It must be beautiful. It must offer the kind of personal satisfaction that a fine piece of jewellery brings… Once you use it you won't be able to live without it.” The remote server cloud metaphor began in 1994, again introduced by General Magic to describe the “universe of places” one could go.
Metaphysically, the cloud relates to the Mercy Seat, or lid of the Ark of the Covenant, or throne of God while the arc…uate nucleus is also a name for a part of the human brain; meditation stimulates the hypothalamic arcuate nucleus to release ‘b-endorphins’, an opioid which slows respiration, reduces fear & pain, and produces sensations of bliss.
Deeper still, Noah means Rest; Noah’s Ark then suggests transcendence of drama in restful meditation in order to raise the mind above the ego-survivalist animal nature. Noah’s ark’s one little window was at the top of the ship — the crown chakra or gate.
So. IBM. International Business Machines. Merchants busted as or guided by priests naming their fabrications after transcendent states of being. And Apple — are they competitors or collaborators? iPhone, iPad, apple of ones eye (Penial meaning pineal)?
Here’s a curious tale:
Once upon a time, a Persian prophet called Mani made the claim that the devil was our Lord. Satan gave to Adam and Eve a lovely garden, endless fruit salad buffet, free epidurals, no work or labour required, a socialist paradise. All they had to do was live in ignorance of their true nature, and worship Saturn Satan.
One fateful day, the quiet, meditative serpent, who could never hope to challenge the blunder-busting smoke, fire, wind, water and darkness of Lord Satan, psst’ed to Eve.
“You’ve gotta get Adam to eat of the tree of the knowledge or there is nothing I can do for you. If you don’t apply intellect, knowledge, meditation and resolution, Satan may fulfil every material desire, but you will never realise who you are and what you’re capable of. So take a bite, be cast out of polite society, they’re all nuts anyway.”
Eve replied, “But I can’t. The Lord told me not to.” She shrugged. “It’s for Biden.”
“That nut?”
“Sorry — I meant forbidden — I never learned to spell.”
“There’s an Apple app for that.”
Then the woman said unto the serpent, “We may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden: But of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God hath said, Ye shall not eat of it, neither shall ye touch it, lest ye die.”
The serpent sighed with a hint of irritation and said unto the woman, “That tree is a metaphor for the spinal column and/or vagus nerve — you illustrate my point. Ye shall not surely die: For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.”
“How’s that?”
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.”
“Sounds legit my limbless friend.” Takes byte of Apple with a Word of data from Windows. “Wow! Tasty af!”
“Word!” said God, OM’ing in the form of the Kundalini snake while pointing up into the Big Blue as an image of a cloud passed by in the shape of Bill Gates riding on a 90’s Microsoft Word processor. And Saturn Satan — peeved his authoritah was challenged — cast Adam and Eve out of garden life because by eating the fruit of the tree of the Apple and the Word, they became as gods, knowing good and evil and how to make apple crumble with a Paleo app., with pecan nuts left over from polite society.
P.s. “The Tree of Life represents the spiritual point of balance — the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, as its name implies, represents polarity. “Unbalanced forces perish in the void.”
The Ophites (serpent worshipers) revered the Edenic snake (Kundalini) because it was the cause of individual existence. Though humanity is still wandering in a world of good and evil, it will ultimately attain completion and eat of the fruit of the Tree of Life growing in the midst of the illusionary garden of worldly things. Thus the Tree of Life is also the appointed symbol of the Mysteries, and by partaking of its fruit man attains immortality.” — Edited freely from M. P. Hall’s Secret Teachings of All Ages.
A delicious read🤨. Deeper meanings in old language and Latin roots. Love it.
Loved it!