From: www.toolband.com



TOOL NEWSLETTER JULY, 2000 E.V.


With a blown fuse in a bass amp, several members of the band decided to
take some R&R during the last weeks of May. Adam traveled to Japan where
he went in search of the strange: strange mech(like that used by Shaver's
detrimental robots), instruments with odd numbers of strings, ungodly
artwork and additions to his fine collection of toy-teratomas. While
there, he visited Hiroshima. Here, according to the locals, something big
went down during World War Two(I'm going to do further research to try and
verify these outrageous claims). On his way to Hakone, one of the few
places in Japan where there are still authentic Rodan sightings, he had a
chance to sample one the region's culinary aberrations - black
eggs(something he had wanted to do since childhood, but never had the
means - that is until Tool's success). Justin, in turn, headed the other
direction, back to England where there were pub-crawls, after which he
attended a friend's wedding(congratulations to Ben and his wife), saw a
soccer match in which the usual hooligans in attendance were better
behaved then those watching a local chess tournament(though, to be fair,
there wasn't as much excitement with those chaps kicking that ball back
and forth as there was during said chess match). This was followed by
one-or-more pub-crawls, as prescribed by his physical therapist. For some
reason, Danny decided to take his vacation in hell - - or, rather, he went
to look for the possible Gate to Hell in Stull, Kansas. He didn't see
anything that could conclusively verify this claim, although he did spot
Texas governor George Bush jr.( Bush-Lite)in the area. (So much for urban
legends, folks)... After much trudging about, Dan found himself in the
local Denny's-IHOP clone where, coincidentally, he also had black
eggs.(NOTE: According to Adam, the black discoloration of the ones he ate
in Japan had something to with sulfur springs or thermal venting. Hmmm.)
But all was not lost, in KC, Danny was able to see Maynard with A Perfect
Circle who opened for Nine Inch Nails. Okay, with Adam's amp-head duly
removed from the refrigerator (and a new fuse for Justin), the group is
now back at work finishing the new material. All so that you will once
again worship the ground they walk on. (By the way, the writer of the
newsletter gets paid by the parenthesis).


WEB NEWSFLASH: Tool merchandise is now available on our website, all
proceeds going to Ralph Reid and the Christian Coalition... well, not
really, but maybe we'll send them some good folks some complimentary
"Ænima" keychains with malefic eyes that appear and disappear at the
slightest movement of those foolish enough to handle them, positive proof
that they are indeed the handiwork of some devil from Stull. Also, Tool
shirts are now available in different sizes! Every 50th person who orders
something on-line automatically receives an autographed picture from the
band and anyone who spends over $100 receives a picture as well. http://www.toolband.com/store

Q: What is the status of TOOL/LARRIKIN? A: There has been a split between
TOOL and their former Management Company Larrikin, although the details
have not been released yet.


Q: Where is the true Gate to Hell located? A: Where the mauve zone meets
the corn in Stull, Kansas, at least according to some. But, my best guess
would be Dillon, S. C. near Myrtle beach. If you don't believe me, try
speeding through that place sometime. 


Q: What are powdered peanuts used for? A: Powdered peanuts are used by
Nuba chiefs(ju-ju men)in the rituals of African sorcery to draw a
protective circle in which to evoke the power of Nagua. However, if
practicing the black arts isn't your thing, it can be used to make peanut
butter.

Okay. That's enough questions, its getting dark outside.


THE BESTIRRING OF THE NOMMOS: A SERIOUS MYSTERY REVISITED PART TWO
Excerpts from a lecture given at P.U.P. LODGE(Hollywood) by FRATER IJYNX
on January 17, 2000 e.v. APING THE GLORIOUS NETERS? To recap, in the
1940s, reputable French anthropologists published information about the
Dogon , a near stone-age tribe living in the remotest part of Africa,
whose tribal priests have precise and detailed knowledge of the Sirius
star system. Among this astrophysically-acurate information is knowledge
of a dark companion of Sirius A known prosaically as Sirius B(and a third
star, Sirius C), its elliptical orbital period of 49.9 years, and that it
is one of the heaviest types of stars, being a white dwarf.  


When Robert Temple first published these findings in his book, "The Sirius
Mystery", he drew extensively on ancient Sumerian, Babylonian and Egyptian
mythology to bolster his argument that the Dogon knowledge derived from
extraterrestrial visitors who arrived on earth around 4500 B.C. However,
there are other available sources which he did not mention in the book
,either because A) he wasn't aware of these or B)he was dubious of these.
What I am referring to is the vast literature of the occult which is
filled with references of contact with beings from the Sirius system. In
these , Sirius is the Star of the Tarot, An aspect of Isis, the Star of
Set and the Silver Star of Aleister Crowley's mystical fraternity, the
Argentum Astrum, or A.A. 


Members of Crowley's Lodge were interested in finding their "hidden god"
from "the Sun behind the Sun"(Sirius)which was focusing cosmic influences
on the planet via an Earth-Sirius channel. In this Sirius cult, both
galaxies and stars are conscious entities with termini scattered
throughout the cosmos which act as transmitter, receiver and decoders of
information. This notion is similar to what Temple suggests in the
up-dated version of "The Sirius Mystery". The Sol-Sothis system "are
elements of a larger entity" which he proposes to call "the Anubis Cell.
"Both are in a continuous harmonic resonance with one other" and with cell
potential "psychic communication and nonmaterial interactions of souls may
be possible". Temple adds that "inspiration may come to humans on earth
from the Sirius system by harmonic resonance articulated by the field of
the cell. Compare this form of interstellar telepathy with the "signals"
from invisible beings which Lodges like Crowley's A.A. were attempting to
channel through the prescribed magical rituals. 


A possible example of just such a Sirian communication is LIBER AL, better
known as "The Book of the Law". According to Crowley, Liber Al was a
received text ,channeled through his first wife Rose(named Ouarda the
Seeress by Crowley) while in Cairo, Egypt. The forebodding prophecy of the
text was dictated in a rich timber by a higher intelligence which called
itself Aiwass, an emissary of the Egyptian Neter, Horus. One passage in
the book even asks "is a god to live in a dog?", a possible reference to
the Dog Star, Sirius. 


During the 1950s, Crowley's last disciple, British occultist and current
Outer Head of the Typhonian OTO, Kenneth Grant, worked rituals with his
NU-ISIS lodge that were designed to receive Maatian emanations from
Sirius. In his remarkable Typhonian trilogies, Grant leaves a record of
the lodge's attempts to establish traffic with non-human entities from a
planet he describes as being trans-Plutonic. According to KG, the best way
to survive an alien apocalypse is to align oneself with the Crowleyan
forces or extraterrestrial current being channeled. In other words to
allow those forces associated with the entities of magic into the human
life-wave. It is also interesting to note that one of Crowley's drawings
currently in the possession of the Typhonian OTO depicts an entity called
Lam (The Way)which closely resembles those beings described by modern-day
abductees(ie. greys). While the Stellar Gnosis of Grant and other
practitioners of chaos magick is quite complex, involving rituals based on
multidimensional Tantric practices and kundalini mechanics of
hyperdimensional consciousness, it makes one wonder if the beings from
Sirius physically landed on the Earth or communicated instructions for
contact via the telepathic methods discussed.


Psychedelic guru, Timothy Leary also claimed to be receiving these Sirian
manifestations. During the dog days(July 23-Sept 8)of 1973, he recorded
his Starseed Transmissions. According to Leary, the purpose of the
communications was to upgrade our larval circuitry so that humankind might
join(or return)to the Galactic Network. Through private correspondence,
Temple was familiar with these workings but chose to disassociate himself
from the late doctor because of his(Leary's) recommending the use of drugs
to facilitate the Earth-Sirius channel, a practice which Crowley also
advocated. Again, to quote from Liber AL: "To worship me take wine and
strange drugs whereof I will tell my prophet & be drunk thereof."

Although much of the occult literature dealing with beings such as LAM,
Assoic-Aiwass etc. is obscure, even to Temple's readers, if one makes the
effort to research Crowley, Grant, etc., one will find many similarities
with the ideas laid out by Temple. Yet, despite the idea of interstellar
telepathy between the two systems, Temple, it seems, is still a proponent
of a physical landing on the earth by the Sirians. In the new forward he
makes a case that the erosion damage of the great Sphinx on the Giza
plateau is due to its having been encircled by an artificial lake or, at
the least, a moat of sorts. Others, such as geologist Robert Schoch of
Boston University and maverick Egyptologist John Anthony West have
suggested that rainwater was responsible for the weathering in the
statue's remote past - during a time when there was a very different
climate in the region - thus pushing back the date of construction by
thousands of years, an idea not accepted by conventional Egyptologists.
According to Temple, the reason for this retaining-pit of water was that
the Nommo's(the amphibian creatures from Sirius described by the DOGon
priests)labyrinth of watery chambers were located beneath the Sphinx .
Here, they were inaccessible to humans, that is until sometime in our
future when they could be breached using modern technology. Compare this
idea with the occult legends of a "Hall of Records" hidden under the
Sphinx's paws.

Temple also speculates that interstellar voyages may be one way trips
and that the ark of the Nommos(their spacecraft) may still be "parked" in
orbit around one the outer planets in the solar system. The best candidate
for this, so Temple believes, is the Saturnian moon, Phoebe. Phoebe is the
tenth moon of Saturn and the Dogon say that the Nommo will one day return
to earth from their new home which they call the "star of the tenth moon".


Due to its many anomalies, such as its retrograde orbit and unusual
albedo(very low reflectivity at .05), Temple as asks us to consider that
Phoebe may in fact be an artificial structure(many astronomers believe
that Phoebe might be a captured asteroid or Kuiper-Belt object). The core
of this sphere might be filled with water in which the Sirians remain in
suspended animation, waiting, as Temple says, "for things to get more
interesting down here". If this is the case, might then the ancient
Egyptians practice of mummification be a childlike mimicking of the
high-tech method of preserving those by putting them in suspended
animation. Were the royal embalmers, then ,aping the glorious Neters in
their attempts to project the pharaohs into the celestial realm, the
dwelling place of the gods?


Calendar of Events
July 4.....................................TOOL's big BBQ Bash


July 10 ...................................Drummer's Dad "Big Bob's" Birthday 


July 22 ...................................Just another boring day in paradise


July 23 ...................................Sirius Rises 


July 24 ...................................Danny visits his probation officer


HAPPY TRAILS

JUSTIN
DANNY
MAYNARD
ADAM