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William Kamm the

Fragmented Pebble

Rev. Father A. Maximiadis

“If you really want to make a million …the

quickest way is to start your own religion”.

Ron Hubbard (1911-86) Founder of the Church of

Scientology. L. Ron Hubbard Jr. 'L. Ron Hubbard

(1987). ch.3.

KeyStone PRESS 2008. Cover photograph of Little Pebble:

I was inspired to write 'William Kamm the Fragmented Pebble' when I read “a WOLF among the SHEEP”, a biography of Australian cult leader William Kamm (alias The Little Pebble). I had wanted to learn more about the self-styled ecclesiastical leader, millionaire, would-be “pope”, “prophet”, and convicted child sex offender who was reported in the media fifty-seven times (q.v.) during the years leading up to his imprisonment in 2005. The synoptic coverage left a false preconception that all had been reported, and the story had ended. I followed these condensed media reports for seven years, gaining not one iota of background information behind Kamm, e.g., “...stockpiling weapons … in preparation for the Apocalypse” (1.), the full extent of his adulterous activities; and paedophilic crimes. So troubled was I by the book’s revelations about Kamm’s destructive life that I wanted to help warn people about this treacherous cult leader by writing my own article, which is only the tip of the iceberg.

Graeme Webber, a young journalist with ethical concerns for in-depth reporting and social responsibility, plunged into the entire 360-degrees of Kamm's world, and left no stone (or 'Pebble') unturned. Kamm's sordid and reprehensible world - of iniquitous socio-psychological, financial manipulations of millions of dollars, et cetera, - behind his sanctimonious façade, has been stripped, and fully exposed in Webber's book: 'a WOLF among the SHEEP' (2.). An exposé which …

astrology

Recently astrology has re-emerged and became part of Western popular culture as a result of the rise of the utopian 'new age' counter-culture of the 1960s. This article, 'Astrology - A Cursory Gaze', has been written to challenge some of the principal astrological concepts, and to serve as an exploratory exercise to stimulate serious interest for those who wish to scratch below the surface to discover whether or not astrology has any intellectual value.

A CHRONOLOGICAL WESTERN
GLIMPSE OF ASTROLOGY FROM
626 BC TO 1727 AD:

Western astrology stems from two sources, the Hellenistic and Jewish. The former is derived from the ' Corpus Hermeticum ' text, for the most part, the ' Hermes Trismegistos ' (circa. 2nd cent . AD) containing a synthesis of Neo-Pythagorean, Platonic, and Stoic elements, as well as Eastern religions. The latter, the Kabbalah (12th cent. AD), id est., 'traditional lore' evolved from two reciprocal Jewish traditions: Firstly, the Talmudic Sages, the originators of Rabbinic Judaism, who perceived logic as their prime principal in comprehending YHVH ('God').

Secondly, the Kabbalists, who had the same objectives as the Sages, but with the addition of systematized mysticism. The Talmudic tradition is based primarily upon the three great canons of text: The Mishnah the canons of Oral Law (3rd cent. AD), the Jerusalem Gemara (amplification and comments on the Mishnah text) 4th cent. AD; and the Midrash (discourse on the Tanach ('Bible')) circa 500 AD.

The Jewish Kabbalists adopted the astrological system of the South Babylonians, also known as the "Chaldeans", during the collapse of the Assyrian Empire (circa. 626-539 BC). This astrological system was also taken over, at the same time, by the Greeks (who were the source of Indian astrology circa. 2nd and 3rd cent. AD), Egyptians; and the Romans. Greek and Indian astrology was exported to Persia, now Iran, during the period of the Sasanian Empire; circa. 226 AD.

Hellenistic astrology reached its zenith in Byzantium, also called 'Eastern Roman Empire', in the 5th and 6th cent. AD, after which it declined, but was later revived in the 8th and 9th cent. In the same period the Muslims espoused astrology from the Greeks, Indians, and Persians. Abu Ma'shar (9th cent. AD) interpolated Islamic astrology with borrowings from both Neoplatonism (A philosophical religious system developed by Plotinus from Plato, circa 205-70), and Aristotelianism (Based on the scientific and philosophic writings of Aristotle (384-322 BC)). The Muslims rejected astrology 400 years later; in the 13th century.