Arthur James Balfour

Its early membership included serious academics and scientists, people at the top of their fields.

Philosopher Henry Sidgwick became its first president, and people such as Harvard psychologist William James, Nobel laureate Lord Raleigh, and future Prime Minister Arthur Balfour all became involved.

In 1882, I imagine there were quite a few paranormal claims floating around because science was, uh, you know, it was relatively early, so like, oh my gosh, how does this work? Anything a magician does today, a physicist and that magician, y- you know, if he's willing to disclose what he's doing, he could say, "Yeah, I do this," and the physicist goes, "This is how this works." But back then, a magician would just be able to do something, and it's like, how does that work? I don't know.

I put this black rock onto this other one and the thing floats.

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... with, uh, which is very useful because y- it's got hyperlinks in it, and one of them I, I, I found was the, the link to Andrew Balfour's-

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... speech in Parliament about the Alien Act, and he is outlining exactly that, that this, he's ...

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Well, Arthur Balfour, do you remember that name? We've used it before.

Who was a member of Hort's apostles? You remember Hort? This is the professor that, uh, helped to produce the Greek text that changed the emphasis of the Bible and removed many of the aspects of Jesus Christ's power and sovereignty from the Word of God.

And the apostles were the secret society that, uh, functioned and at that time, and Hort was a member as well as Arthur Balfour.

Hort called this group a senior apostles club as well as president of the Psychic Research Society, Society for Psychic Research, soon became Prime Minister of England, Arthur Balfour, and instrumental in the first League of Nations.

So this pres-- this, uh, Prime Minister was also, of course, active in the writing of the original charter of the League of Nations, much of which formed the basis for the United Nations.

He not only headed the Society for Psychic Research, holding seances at his home, but he initiated a group called the Synthetic Society, whose goal was to create a one-world religion.

I didn't mind the election at all because I liked that.

But to walk up the House of Commons between Arthur Balfour and Lloyd George, both of them who had said they believed in women but who would rather have had a rattlesnake in the House than me at that time, they all felt that way, it was really very alarming.

And you know sometimes I would sit five hours in that house rather than get out of my seat and walk down.

But I knew what really kept me going.

And the Oppenheimers that are famous in South Africa for this stuff are lackeys, basically.

And so in 1917, you had the so-called Balfour Declaration.

And that... term the Balfour Declaration which said the British Empire the British government supported a homeland for Jewish people in Palestine they you think that it was a declaration that this guy who was a foreign secretary at the time Lord Arthur Balfour stood up and declared but it wasn't it was a letter and it was a letter that written by Lord Balfour to a bloke called Lord Rothschild, who was the funder of the Round Table.

And Lord Arthur Balfour was an inner circle member of the Round Table.

So the British government declaration that they supported a homeland for Jewish people in Palestine was from an inner circle member of the roundtable secret society to the funder of the roundtable secret society and Just by coincidence nothing to worry about the Versailles peace conference basically handed and and what followed? handed the so-called mandate over Palestine to the British government and Eventually, of course, the British government handed it to the, well, what were Jewish terrorists, actually, who bombed Israel into existence in 1948 and the British left.

This is the thing you see.

I should be grateful if you would bring this declaration to the knowledge of the Zionist Federation.

Yours sincerely, Arthur James Balfour This was perhaps the most momentous declaration made throughout the war, and it derived a special significance from the fact that it was made just at the time when the first definite steps were being taken towards freeing Palestine from the yoke of the Turk.

It was received by practically all sections of the British press with the most cordial approval.

By pious Jews it was regarded as little short of the voice of God bringing their long-cherished aspirations within sight of fulfilment.

Yeah, it's for sure the Brits, damn Brits.

The famous story links the phrase to British Prime Minister Robert Bob Cecil who appointed his nephew Arthur Balfour to a high political post in 1887.

People joke that success is easy if you had Bob as your uncle.

Interesting.

But again, this required quite a lot of interpretive work.

So the book is about showing how He goes from being this like slippery opportunistic guy to being this amazing visionary prophetic statesman who combined politics with imagination and creativity and foresight and because that wasn't that wasn't a kind of uniform you know or kind of convincing view of disraeli within his own lifetime so the book is really about like showing how you know we get to the disraeli that you're talking about that can be this kind of like authoritative legitimizing force um and then the ways in which the ways in which that was put so for example you know this idea of israeli as like this kind of like imaginative prophetic leisure which comes out of plays and hollywood films as well as biographies and all kinds of things that are in details in the book and then get put to use for example after the 1996 general election where the conservatives you know is a huge landslide victory for the liberals and people israeli across the political spectrum to criticize Arthur Balfour, who was the then conservative leader, being like, he needs to go and read Sybil.

You know, he should study Disraeli.

And it's kind of like, we need our Disraeli.