The Gold of the Gods
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Benson C Saili
THIS EARTH, MY BROTHER
It wrought wonders in and about the body – it still does
When the Anunnaki, the Old Testament gods, were directly ruling Earth, the one peculiar aspect about them was their longevity. Although they did grow older with the passage of time, they practically never died. If they died, it was on account of violence, not from disease or infirmity. In fact, there isn’t a single documented account of a chronically ill Anunnaki, from natural causes, that is (when Enki fell ill and teetered on the brink of death as we saw, it was the result of poisoning by Ninmah).
The closest they came to getting naturally ill was presenting with indispositions such as headaches arising from the much quicker axial rotation of Earth and other minor complaints attributed to the slightly thinner atmosphere and significantly hotter climate compared to Nibiru. This was particularly so in the early days of their settlement on the planet. With time, however, and with the establishment by Ninmah of a medical facility at Shurrupak, they became well-adjusted to the vagaries of Earth’s weather except for the comparatively intense sunlight, which they routinely avoided.
According to Sumerian records, Enki and Enlil arrived on Earth approximately half a million years ago. Yet in the 6th century BC, they were still alive though in semi-retirement from the centre stage of geopolitical matters due to old age. However, what made them grow old was not simply genetics: it was Earth’s much quicker circuit around the Sun as we underscored in the precedent piece.
For at one stage when King Anu, “Our Father Who Art In Heaven” who was the biological father of Enlil and the step-father of Enki visited Earth from Nibiru, he was surprised to find that both his sons looked considerably older than him when in Earth terms they were likely 30 to 35 years younger!
Yet even on their own planet, it was not only Nibiru’s 3600-Earth-year journey around the Sun that was responsible for the Anunnaki’s extraordinary longevity by our standards. To them, living, say, 360,000 Earth years (100 shars) was comparable to our living 100 years. It was therefore normal. It wasn’t even the average age: their average was in millions of Earth years, hence the reason why ancient Egyptians referred to Nibiru as “The Planet of Millions of Years”. The rather lengthy orbit of Nibiru was only an advantage when considered from the point of view of Earth.
From the Anunnaki’s point of view, Nibiru’s longer orbital circuit did not extend life expectancy at all. Thus just as we Earthlings would love to live, say, up to age 200 or even 300 instead of a mere 70 years, the Anunnaki too desired to live indefinitely. An indefinite lifespan would not derive from their planet’s longer orbital timeframe as that was simply physics: it would derive from near-perfect health.
It emerges that what guaranteed sound health through and through (and consequently a longer lifespan) for the Anunnaki and therefore kept disease at bay was gold. And this wasn’t simply ordinary gold, the yellow metal we are familiar with: it was what is known as monoatomic gold. In the Bible, it is commonly known as Manna!
THE POWDERY FORM OF GOLD
First, let us differentiate between ordinary gold and monatomic gold, also known as Ormus, without necessarily going into the intricacies of the associated physics and compositional chemistry. The gold that you are familiar with is metallic gold. Ormus, on the other hand, is a white powder generally. It is gold which is not metal-bonded. Notes one expert: “Monoatomic element structuring is the root of what we do.
A common, metallic gold molecule is formed with atom clusters bound together by shared electrons. Upon breaking these bonds it is possible to isolate a single gold atom, or ‘mono-atomic gold’. The gold then sheds its metallic properties and takes on a powdered, ingestible form. This is necessary for the body to process the mineral as taking it in metallic form would cause heavy metal poisoning. Monatomic Elements, however, are completely safe to be processed by the body while retaining their super conductivity. In essence ‘gold-plating’ your central nervous system.”
Ormus is an edible powder, something you can eat or otherwise ingest. For example, you can bake bread, scones, cakes, candies, or biscuits from Ormus; you can make Ormus capsules or tablets to take daily. You can make a drink out of Ormus. Ormus can also be taken intravenously by injection.
Ormus occurs naturally, such as in volcanic eruptions. Of the gold that emanates from volcanoes, 98 percent is in the form of Ormus and only 2 percent is metallic. Ormus also occurs naturally in seawater, where it is most abundant. Minute quantities of Ormus can also be found in purple or violet skins of fruits and vegetables, and some medicinal plants such as red grapes, eggplants, and aloe vera (even a negligible bit in your urine!).
As much as Ormus occurs naturally, it can also be manufactured alchemically out of 24-carat metallic gold. When Ormus is made from metallic gold, that does not mean it maintains the properties of metallic gold. It has its own unique properties which are vastly different from metallic gold. It practically becomes a new element altogether. It will never even revert to the colour yellow again.
Now, although Ormus primarily takes the form of gold, this is not the only form tenable (note that Ormus is simply a substance which is in a high-spin state at the level of the electrons and exhibits superconductivity, which simply means electricity in the substance flows at a speed manifold faster than normal). There are two groups of metals that can assume Ormus status. First, there is the Platinum Metals, which are 8 in all.
They are ruthenium, rhodium, palladium, and silver (known as the “light platinum group”), osmium, iridium, platinum, and gold (known as the “heavy platinum group”). Of particular importance is the fact that all of these precious metals have a strong affinity for and are almost always found in their natural state in combination with gold.
Then there is copper, cobalt, nickel, and mercury. Altogether, these elements in their high-spin state are known as ORMEs, an acronym for Orbitally Rearranged Monatomic Elements but simply rendered as Ormus in common parlance. But it is the golden form of Ormus that is the most powerful and effectual.
THE HIDDEN MEANING OF ALCHEMY
Much has been written about an ancient science known as alchemy. Alchemy, saw it is said, was about transmuting (chemically transforming) base metals such as lead and tin into gold. Is this practical?
It is yes. It has been done in our own day using a sophisticated physics equipment known as a particle accelerator. The problem is that the amounts of gold that arise in this regard are negligible: they are “sub-microscopic”. In 1984, nuclear scientists at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory in California managed to produce very small amounts of gold from bismuth, a metallic element adjacent to lead on the periodic table. This process of creating gold also costs far much more than the value of the gold it yields.
Ancient alchemy was therefore not the simplistic process it was punted as. The notion of changing base metals to gold was a red herring. It was a decoy. Real alchemy, a secret of the Anunnaki and Earthlings who were integral to secret societies, was about the creation, possession, and employment of Ormus. It was about turning metallic gold or any of the platinum metals into monoatomic gold.
To the ancients, alchemy was about an ordinary mortal (symbolised by base metals) achieving heightened consciousness, sustained vitality of health, and extended longevity (symbolised and enabled by the consumption of gold in its monoatomic form). It was about transmuting base human ignorance and fragility into an allegorical ingot of gold. This process was accordingly aided by the preparation of a “powder of projection” which went by various names.
The Sumerians called it shemanna. The Egyptians called it mufkzut or the Golden Tear of Horus, one of their most famous gods. Later Alexandrians called it the Philosopher’s Stone or the Paradise Stone. The Anunnaki variously referred to it as the Food of Life, the Water of Life, the Tree of Life, or the Elixir of Life. In the Bible, it is called “our daily bread”, the shewbread, the bread of the presence, spiritual food, the white stone, and even more prominently Manna. Today, we call it Ormus.
When this white powder of gold was mixed with water, it was described as “that which issues from the mouth of the creator” or “the semen of the Father in Heaven”. It began as gold, and was transmuted with fire into white powder but was nonetheless called a stone. Why was it called a “stone”, the Philosopher’s Stone, when it was pure powder?
The ancient alchemists Lapidus and Eirenaeus Philalethes explain thus for us: “Our stone is nothing but gold digested to the highest degree of purity … In species, it is gold, more purer than the purest; it is fixed and incombustible like a stone, but it’s appearance is that of a very fine powder.”
THE WONDERS OF GOLD!
When Ormus is ingested, what is the effect on the body? It is phenomenal bordering on the unbelievable! Arguably the foremost authority on Ormus is the multi-millionaire American chemist David Hudson. According to his research as well as empirical evidence he turned up, ingesting Ormus in the right way brings about the below and this is not an exhaustive list:
“The aging process is reversed by the energetic repair of defective DNA programs. Ormus acts juvenescent (that is, rejuvenates) and expands the vital DNA life span. Damaged cells or energetic dysfunctions are regenerated (even brain cells). The endocrine gland system is energetically activated in a strong way, especially the thymus, pineal, and pituitary gland. The flow of light quantum/photons within the nerve and the meridian system is intensified and increased permanently. Self-healing powers are improved considerably.
The superconductivity of DNA is upgraded, and its energy flow increases up to 10,000 fold. “You are more centered and considerably more stable. You are more aware of solutions rather than problems because you more clearly see yourself and the outside. Manifestation effects of thoughts are increased. Intelligence expands to a higher level of the spirit. The frequency of the chakras and bodies is heightened. Awareness is expanded, and the mental-spiritual abilities are activated. Kundalini-Energy is increased harmonically. Sleeping (‘supernatural’) potentials are awakened.”
In addition, one is able to have perfect telepathy; be able to levitate (float in space), bilocate (be in two places at one go), and walk across a body of water without sinking (like Jesus!); automatically know good and evil when it’s in the room; project one’s thoughts into someone else’s mind; heal by laying on of hands; cleanse or resurrect the dead within two or three days after they have died; and shine ‘like the noon day sun’!” (Arguably the principal reason the Anunnaki were referred to as “Shining Ones”.)
Much more recently, the renowned author, researcher, and public lecturer David Icke once visited the Californian author and scientist Brian Desborough to learn more about monoatomic gold – Ormus. This is part of the knowledge he garnered: “When you consume this monoatomic gold by mouth or injection, it increases the current carrying capacity of the nervous system by ten thousand times.
This would allow a person to process fantastic amounts of information like a super computer and when enough has been absorbed it would allow them to consciously move through other dimensions and shapeshift because suddenly the brain is activated to open those vast areas that we do not use in today's world. It aligns the brain cells so they all start talking to each other again.
More than that, if you consume enough of this monoatomic gold your physical body would become luminous … Mono-atomic gold also has unbelievable healing properties in that it aligns the cells to carry phenomenal amounts of light energy, thus dispersing the blockages and imbalances we call disease or illness.” This confirmed precisely what David Hudson had spelt out.
To the uninformed, the above may sound like either fantasies or miracles. But to those in the know, it’s all easy and possible when one consumes the powdery form of gold. As the prophet Hosea aptly observed, “My children perish for lack of knowledge” (HOSEA 4:6).
A CURE FOR AIDS, CANCER!
Do we have documented evidence that Ormus is indeed what it is touted to be? Medically yes, from David Hudson, the foremost authority of our day on the substance. Hudson testifies that Ormus can cure cancer and other so-called incurable diseases and reverse full-blown AIDS. We will quote him verbatim.
“I can tell you that at 2 mg (milligrams), it totally has gotten rid of Karposi Sarcomas on AIDS patients … I can tell you that people who have taken it, at 2 mg injections, within 2 hours their white blood cell count goes from 2,500 to 6,500 white blood cells. I can tell you that stage 4 cancer patients have taken it orally, and after 45 days have no cancer any place in the body.”
One doctor Hudson was experimenting the curative effects of Ormus with had a patient who was staring death in the face from the ravages of AIDS. He had been given only two days to live. He couldn’t talk, could hardly move, and was being fed intravenously. He was administered only a little Ormus. “A week and a half later, he had pulled out all the feed lines out of his arms, he was feeding himself normally, getting dressed on his own, just doing great. A month and a half later he was on an airplane going back to a family wedding in Indiana and nobody even knows he has AIDS. The doctor said, ‘this is incredible stuff’.
“Then we started working with another patient who had the HIV virus for 11 years. She was really starting to go downhill from full blown AIDS. Her white blood cell count and her T-cell count were really classic. We gave it to her orally for the first time and basically there was no change in her white blood cells and her T-cells. Now when we give it by injection the white blood cell count goes from 2200 to 6500 in an hour and a half. Unbelievable.”
Hudson though is quick to insist that Ormus is not a medicine as such but a DNA-correcting substance. “This is not an anti-anything. This is not anti-AIDS. This is not anti-cancer. This is pro-life. It literally is the spirit. The material is not here to cure AIDS. The material is not here to cure cancer. The material is here to perfect our bodies. It makes our bodies be in the state they are supposed to be in. It is our own immune system that fights and cures the disease.
If you can correct your DNA at every cell in your body, if you can correct the damage that's been done that brought about the cancer, if you can correct the damage that has been brought about by the virus, you literally will become a perfected being. You will return back to the original healthy state you were meant to be in. This is not a medicine. This material is, in fact, a philosophical material. It is here to enlighten and to raise the consciousness of mankind. If in doing that it happens to cure diseases so be it.”
Hudson was saying these things in 1996, before the advent of ARVs. Imagine if at that time Ormus was administered to all HIV-positive people and AIDS sufferers. AIDS would have long been eradicated and the need for the highly toxic, profit-driven ARVs would not have arisen. But the diabolical Big Pharma that has every citizen of this world by the scruff of their necks simply would not and cannot allow it. This Earth, My Brother …
NEXT WEEK: ORMUS IN THE BIBLE
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GONE FISHING
In recent years, using personal devices in working environments has become so commonplace it now has its own acronym, BOYD (Bring Your Own Device). But as employees skip between corporate tools and personal applications on their own devices, their actions introduce a number of possible risks that should be managed and mitigated with careful consideration. Consider these examples:
Si-lwli, a small family-run business in Wales, is arguably as niche a company as you could find, producing talking toys used to promote the Welsh language. Their potential market is small, with only some 300,000 Welsh language speakers in the world and in reality the business is really more of a hobby for the husband-and-wife team, who both still have day jobs. Yet, despite still managing to be successful in terms of sales, the business is now fighting for survival after recently falling prey to cybercriminals. Emails between Si-Iwli and their Chinese suppliers were intercepted by hackers who altered the banking details in the correspondence, causing Si-Iwli to hand over £18,000 (around P ¼ m) to the thieves. That might not sound much to a large enterprise, but to a small or medium business it can be devastating.
Another recent SMB hacking story which appeared in the Wall Street Journal concerned Innovative Higher Ed Consulting (IHED) Inc, a small New York start-up with a handful of employees. IHED didn’t even have a website, but fraudsters were able to run stolen credit card numbers through the company’s payment system and reverse the charges to the tune of $27,000, around the same loss faced by Si-Iwli. As the WSJ put it, the hackers completely destroyed the company, forcing its owners to fold.
And in May 2019, the city of Baltimore’s computer system was hit by a ransomware attack, with hackers using a variant called RobinHood. The hack, which has lasted more than a month, paralysed the computer system for city employees, with the hackers demanding a payment in Bitcoin to give access back to the city.
Of course, hackers target governments or business giants but small and medium businesses are certainly not immune. In fact, 67% of SMBs reported that they had experienced a cyber attack across a period of 12 months, according to a 2018 survey carried out by security research firm Ponemon Institute. Additionally, Verizon issued a report in May 2019 that small businesses accounted for 43% of its reported data breaches. Once seen as less vulnerable than PCs, smartphone attacks are on the rise, with movements like the Dark Caracal spyware campaign underlining the allure of mobile devices to hackers. Last year, the US Federal Trade Commission released a statement calling for greater education on mobile security, coming at a time when around 42% of all Android devices are believed to not carry the latest security updates.
This is an era when employees increasingly use their smartphones for work-related purposes so is your business doing enough to protect against data breaches on their employees’ phones? The SME Cyber Crime Survey 2018 carried out for risk management specialists AON showed that more than 80% of small businesses did not view this as a threat yet if as shown, 67% of SMBs were said to have been victims of hacking, either the stats are wrong or business owners are underestimating their vulnerability. A 2019 report by PricewaterhouseCoopers suggests the latter, stating that the majority of global businesses are unprepared for cyber attacks.
Consider that a workstation no longer means a desk in an office: It can be a phone in the back of a taxi or Uber; a laptop in a coffee shop, or a tablet in an airport lounge. Wherever the device is used, employees can potentially install applications that could be harmful to your business, even from something as seemingly insignificant as clicking on an accidental download or opening a link on a phishing email. Out of the physical workplace, your employees’ activities might not have the same protections as they would on a company-monitored PC.
Yet many businesses not only encourage their employees to work remotely, but assume working from coffee shops, bookstores, and airports can boost employees’ productivity. Unfortunately, many remote hot spots do not provide secure Wi-Fi so if your employee is accessing their work account on unsecured public Wi-Fi, sensitive business data could be at risk. Furthermore, even if your employee uses a company smartphone or has access to company data through a personal mobile device, there is always a chance data could be in jeopardy with a lost or stolen device, even information as basic as clients’ addresses and phone numbers.
BOYDs are also at risk from malware designed to harm and infect the host system, transmittable to smartphones when downloading malicious third-party apps. Then there is ransomware, a type of malware used by hackers to specifically take control of a system’s data, blocking access or threatening to release sensitive information unless a ransom is paid such as the one which affected Baltimore. Ransomware attacks are on the increase, predicted to occur every 14 seconds, potentially costing billions of dollars per year.
Lastly there is phishing – the cyber equivalent of the metaphorical fishing exercise – whereby cybercriminals attempt to obtain sensitive data –usernames, passwords, credit card details –usually through a phoney email designed to look legitimate which directs the user to a fraudulent website or requests the data be emailed back directly. Most of us like to think we could recognize a phishing email when we see it, but these emails have become more sophisticated and can come through other forms of communication such as messaging apps.
Bottom line is to be aware of the potential problems with BOYDs and if in doubt, consult your IT security consultants. You can’t put the own-device genie back in the bottle but you can make data protection one of your three wishes!
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“I Propose to Diana Tonight”
About five days before Princess Diana and Dodi Al Fayed landed in Paris, General Atiku, a certain Edward Williams was taking a walk in a woods in the Welsh town of Mountain Ash. Williams, then 73, was a psychic of some renown. He had in the past foretold assassination attempts on US President Ronald Reagan, which occurred on March 30, 1981, and Pope John Paul II, which came to pass on May 13, 1981.
As he trudged the woods, Williams had a sudden premonition that pointed to Diana’s imminent fate as per Christopher Andersen’s book The Day Diana Died. “When the vision struck me, it was as if everything around me was obscured and replaced by shadowy figures,” Williams was later to reminisce. “In the middle was the face of Princess Diana. Her expression was sad and full of pathos. She was wearing what looked like a floral dress with a short dark cardigan. But it was vague. I went cold with fear and knew it was a sign that she was in danger.”
Williams hastily beat a retreat to his home, which he shared with his wife Mary, and related to her his presentiment, trembling like an aspen leaf as he did so. “I have never seen him so upset,” Mary recounted. “He felt he was given a sign and when he came back from his walk he was deeply shaken.”
The following day, Williams frantically sauntered into a police station to inform the police of his premonition. The officer who attended to him would have dismissed him as no more than a crackpot but he treated him seriously in view of the accuracy of his past predictions. He took a statement and immediately passed it on to the Special Branch Investigative Unit.
The report read as follows:
“On 27 August, at 14:12 hrs, a man by the name of Edward Williams came to Mountain Ash police station. He said he was a psychic and predicted that Princess Diana was going to die. In previous years, he has predicted that the Pope and Ronald Reagan were going to be the victims of assassination attempts. On both occasions he was proved to be correct. Mr Williams appeared to be quite normal.”
Williams, General, was spot-on as usual: four days later, the princess was no more.
Meanwhile, General, even as Dodi and Diana were making their way to the Fayed-owned Ritz Hotel in central Paris, British newspapers were awash with headlines that suggested Diana was kind of deranged. Writes Andrew Morton in Diana in Pursuit of Love: “In The Independent Diana was described as ‘a woman with fundamentally nothing to say about anything’. She was ‘suffering from a form of arrested development’. ‘Isn’t it time she started using her head?’ asked The Mail on Sunday. The Sunday Mirror printed a special supplement entitled ‘A Story of Love’; The News of the World claimed that William had demanded that Diana should split from Dodi: ‘William can’t help it, he just doesn’t like the man.’ William was reportedly ‘horrified’ and ‘doesn’t think Mr Fayed is good for his mother’ – or was that just the press projecting their own prejudices? The upmarket Sunday Times newspaper, which had first serialised my biography of the princess, now put her in the psychiatrist’s chair for daring to be wooed by a Muslim. The pop-psychologist Oliver James put Diana ‘On the Couch’, asking why she was so ‘depressed’ and desperate for love. Other tabloids piled in with dire prognostications – about Prince Philip’s hostility to the relationship, Diana’s prospect of exile, and the social ostracism she would face if she married Dodi.”
DIANA AND DODI AT THE RITZ
Before Diana and Dodi departed the Villa Windsor sometime after 16 hrs, General, one of Dodi’s bodyguards Trevor Rees-Jones furtively asked Diana as to what the programme for the evening was. This Trevor did out of sheer desperation as Dodi had ceased and desisted from telling members of his security detail, let alone anyone else for that matter, what his onward destination was for fear that that piece of information would be passed on to the paparazzi. Diana kindly obliged Trevor though her response was terse and scarcely revealing. “Well, eventually we will be going out to a restaurant”, that was all Diana said. Without advance knowledge of exactly what restaurant that was, Trevor and his colleagues’ hands were tied: they could not do a recce on it as was standard practice for the security team of a VIP principal. Dodi certainly, General, was being recklessly by throwing such caution to the winds.
At about 16:30, Diana and Dodi drew up at the Ritz Hotel, where they were received by acting hotel manager Claude Roulet. The front entrance of the hotel was already crawling with paparazzi, as a result of which the couple took the precaution of using the rear entrance, where hopefully they would make their entry unperturbed and unmolested. The first thing they did when they were ensconced in the now $10,000 a night Imperial Suite was to spend some time on their mobiles and set about touching base with friends, relations, and associates. Diana called at least two people, her clairvoyant friend Rita Rogers and her favourite journalist Richard Kay of The Daily Mail.
Rita, General, was alarmed that Diana had proceeded to venture to Paris notwithstanding the warning she had given Dodi and herself in relation to what she had seen of him in the crystal ball when the couple had consulted her. When quizzed as to what the hell she indeed was doing in Paris at that juncture, Diana replied that she and Dodi had simply come to do some shopping, which though partially true was not the material reason they were there. “But Diana, remember what I told Dodi,” Rita said somewhat reprovingly. Diana a bit apprehensively replied, “Yes I remember. I will be careful. I promise.” Well, she did not live up to her promise as we shall soon unpack General.
As for Richard Kay, Diana made known to him that, “I have decided I am going to radically change my life. I am going to complete my obligations to charities and to the anti-personnel land mines cause, but in November I want to completely withdraw from formal public life.”
Once she was done with her round of calls, Diana went down to the hair saloon by the hotel swimming pool to have her hair washed and blow-dried ahead of the scheduled evening dinner.
THE “TELL ME YES” RING IS DELIVERED
Since the main object of their Paris trip was to pick up the “Tell Me Yes” engagement ring Dodi had ordered in Monte Carlo a week earlier, Dodi decided to check on Repossi Jewellery, which was right within the Ritz prencincts, known as the Place Vendome. It could have taken less than a minute for Dodi to get to the store on foot but he decided to use a car to outsmart the paparazzi invasion. He was driven there by Trevor Rees-Jones, with Alexander Kez Wingfield and Claude Roulet following on foot, though he entered the shop alone.
The Repossi store had closed for the holiday season but Alberto Repossi, accompanied by his wife and brother-in-law, had decided to travel all the way from his home in Monaco and momentarily open it for the sake of the potentially highly lucrative Dodi transaction. Alberto, however, disappointed Dodi as the ring he had chosen was not the one he produced. The one he showed Dodi was pricier and perhaps more exquisite but Dodi was adamant that he wanted the exact one he had ordered as that was what Diana herself had picked. It was a ploy on the part of Repossi to make a real killing on the sale, his excuse to that effect being that Diana deserved a ring tha was well worthy of her social pedigree. With Dodi having expressed disaffection, Repossi rendered his apologies and assured Dodi he would make the right ring available shortly, whereupon Dodi repaired back to the hotel to await its delivery. But Dodi did insist nonetheless that the pricier ring be delivered too in case it appealed to Diana anyway.
Repossi delivered the two rings an hour later. They were collected by Roulet. On inspecting them, Dodi chose the very one he had seen in Monte Carlo, apparently at the insistence of Diana. There is a possibility that Diana, who was very much aware of her public image and was not comfortable with ostentatious displays of wealth, may have deliberately shown an interest in a less expensive engagement ring. It may have been a purely romantic as opposed to a prestigious choice for her.
The value of the ring, which was found on a wardrobe shelf in Dodi’s apartment after the crash, has been estimated to be between $20,000 and $250,000 as Repossi has always refused to be drawn into revealing how much Dodi paid for it. The sum, which enjoyed a 25 percent discount, was in truth paid for not by Dodi himself but by his father as was the usual practice.
Dodi was also shown Repossi’s sketches for a bracelet, a watch, and earrings which he proposed to create if Diana approved of them.
DIANA AND DODI GUSH OVER IMMINENT NUPTIALS
At about 7 pm, Dodi and Diana left the Ritz and headed for Dodi’s apartment at a place known as the Arc de Trompe. They went there to properly tog themselves out for the scheduled evening dinner. They spent two hours at the luxurious apartment. As usual, the ubiquitous paparazzi were patiently waiting for them there.
As they lingered in the apartment, Dodi beckoned over to his butler Rene Delorm and showed him the engagement ring. “Dodi came into my kitchen,” Delorm relates. “He looked into the hallway to check that Diana couldn’t hear and reached into his pocket and pulled out the box … He said, ‘Rene, I’m going to propose to the princess tonight. Make sure that we have champagne on ice when we come back from dinner’.” Rene described the ring as “a spectacular diamond encrusted ring, a massive emerald surrounded by a cluster of diamonds, set on a yellow and white gold band sitting in a small light-grey velvet box”.
Just before 9 pm, Dodi called the brother of his step-father, Hassan Yassen, who also was staying at the Ritz that night, and told him that he hoped to get married to Diana by the end of the year.
Later that same evening, both Dodi and Diana would talk to Mohamed Al Fayed, Dodi’s dad, and make known to him their pre-nuptial intentions. “They called me and said we’re coming back (to London) on Sunday (August 31) and on Monday (September 1) they are
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RAMADAN – The Blessed Month of Fasting
Ramadan is the fasting month for Muslims, where over one billion Muslims throughout the world fast from dawn to sunset, and pray additional prayers at night. It is a time for inner reflection, devotion to Allah, and self-control. It is the ninth month in the Islamic calendar. As you read this Muslims the world over have already begun fasting as the month of Ramadan has commenced (depending on the sighting of the new moon).
‘The month of Ramadan is that in which the Qur’an was revealed as guidance for people, in it are clear signs of guidance and Criterion, therefore whoever of you who witnesses this month, it is obligatory on him to fast it. But whoever is ill or traveling let him fast the same number of other days, God desires ease for you and not hardship, and He desires that you complete the ordained period and glorify God for His guidance to you, that you may be grateful”. Holy Qur’an (2 : 185)
Fasting during Ramadan is one of the five pillars upon which the structure of Islam is built. The other four are: the declaration of one’s belief in Allah’s oneness and in the message of Muhammad (PBUH); regular attendance to prayer; payment of zakaat (obligatory charity); and the pilgrimage to Mecca.
As explained in an earlier article, fasting includes total abstinence from eating, drinking, smoking, refraining from obscenity, avoiding getting into arguments and including abstaining from marital relations, from sunrise to sunset. While fasting may appear to some as difficult Muslims see it as an opportunity to get closer to their Lord, a chance to develop spiritually and at the same time the act of fasting builds character, discipline and self-restraint.
Just as our cars require servicing at regular intervals, so do Muslims consider Ramadan as a month in which the body and spirit undergoes as it were a ‘full service’. This ‘service’ includes heightened spiritual awareness both the mental and physical aspects and also the body undergoing a process of detoxification and some of the organs get to ‘rest’ through fasting.
Because of the intensive devotional activity fasting, Ramadan has a particularly high importance, derived from its very personal nature as an act of worship but there is nothing to stop anyone from privately violating Allah’s commandment of fasting if one chooses to do so by claiming to be fasting yet eating on the sly. This means that although fasting is obligatory, its observance is purely voluntary. If a person claims to be a Muslim, he is expected to fast in Ramadan.
The reward Allah gives for proper fasting is very generous. Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) quotes Allah as saying: “All actions done by a human being are his own except fasting, which belongs to Me and I will reward it accordingly.” We are also told by the Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) that the reward for proper fasting is admittance into heaven.
Fasting earns great reward when it is done in a ‘proper’ manner. This is because every Muslim is required to make his worship perfect. For example perfection of fasting can be achieved through restraint of one’s feelings and emotions. Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) said that when fasting, a person should not allow himself to be drawn into a quarrel or a slanging match. He teaches us: “On a day of fasting, let no one of you indulge in any obscenity, or enter into a slanging match. Should someone abuse or fight him, let him respond by saying: ‘I am fasting!’”
This high standard of self-restraint fits in well with fasting, which is considered as an act of self-discipline. Islam requires us to couple patience with voluntary abstention from indulgence in our physical desires. The purpose of fasting helps man to attain a high degree of sublimity, discipline and self-restraint. In other words, this standard CAN BE achieved by every Muslim who knows the purpose of fasting and strives to fulfill it.
Fasting has another special aspect. It makes all people share in the feelings of hunger and thirst. In normal circumstances, people with decent income may go from one year’s end to another without experiencing the pangs of hunger which a poor person may feel every day of his life. Such an experience helps to draw the rich one’s conscience nearer to needs of the poor. A Muslim is encouraged to be more charitable and learns to give generously for a good cause.
Fasting also has a universal or communal aspect to it. As Muslims throughout the world share in this blessed act of worship, their sense of unity is enhanced by the fact that every Muslim individual joins willingly in the fulfillment of this divine commandment. This is a unity of action and purpose, since they all fast in order to be better human beings. As a person restrains himself from the things he desires most, in the hope that he will earn Allah’s pleasure, self-discipline and sacrifice become part of his nature.
The month of Ramadan can aptly be described as a “season of worship.” Fasting is the main aspect of worship in this month, because people are more attentive to their prayers, read the Qur’an more frequently and also strive to improve on their inner and outer character. Thus, their devotion is more complete and they feel much happier in Ramadan because they feel themselves to be closer to their Creator.