Monday, January 26, 2026

The blue and scarlet books

In a comment on "Alcohol, Islam, and Morpheus," I wrote, referring to an author who attempts to harmonize the world of Tolkien with that of Joseph Smith:

I guess the whole Daymon Smith thing is 'taking both pills': the Red Book of Westmarch and the blue Book of Mormon.

The Book of Mormon, for those who may not be aware, is blue. I'm not entirely sure when or why it made the transition from being a "Gold Bible" to being blue -- but the latter color is by now an inescapable part of its brand. Here, for example, is what the CJCLDS's online scripture site looks like:


None of the other volumes of scripture is any particular color, but the Book of Mormon just has to be blue.

The idea of a blue book and a red book got me thinking about the Scarlet Notebook -- a collection of Tychonievich family juvenilia, so called because those writings were originally kept in a three-ring binder of that color. (The collection outgrew that binder a very long time ago and has been housed in a much larger white one for decades, but it's still never called anything other than the Scarlet Notebook.)

This in turn made me wonder whether there was anything out there called the Scarlet Book. Could be, right? There's Jung's Red Book, Wittgenstein's Blue Book and Brown Book -- maybe some notable thinker had a Scarlet Book. When I googled scarlet book, though, most of the results were for a book with the title Scarlet -- a young-adult sci-fi novel by Marissa Meyer, based on "Little Red Riding Hood." Okay, so much for that idea.

In the afternoon, I popped into a used bookstore and found this:


It's a book called Scarlett -- with two t's, so it didn't show up in my search -- shelved right next to one called Sacré Bleu ("holy blue," an archaic French exclamation). The blue Book of Mormon is classified as un texte sacré, and the author of Sacré Bleu even has a name that sounds like the first syllable of Mormon.

The etymology of the word scarlet is highly uncertain, but one theory is that it ultimately derives from the Latin sigillatus, which means "sealed." A Scarlet Book is a sealed book.

8 comments:

Ra1119bee said...

William,
Part 1 of 2
What caught my eye on the
 blue and scarlet books is the letter M.
Why that caught my attention is this:
just now (1/25 at 4:44)after
napping , I woke up and read this post.

Before I woke up and for some odd reason the letter M
came to me. I think it was because the letter
M  is a flip letter with W.
In order words: they are both One and the Same.

I've commented about my perspective
of : 'one and the same' a gazillion
times on your blog and when I read your recent
'Taking Both Pills' post, I was going to comment
about my perspective of the significance
  of THE ONE again and my perspective regarding,
' everything is connected'.
 However I decided not to do so. The reason being
is I don't want to beat a dead horse
and wear out my welcome here.

However and IMHO that particular ideology (everything
is connected) is the essence
to our existence here in this duality dimension
particularly where it concerns the paranormal.

The Red Pill and Blue Pill are ONE and the SAME.
The big picture is the illusion, not the pill.
One pill takes Neo out of the illusion, the other
 pill keeps him in.
The pill just serves as the Vehicle to get Neo
where he  needs to be which is to see with
his One eye.

Recall Neo asking Morpheus;
" Why does my eyes hurt?"


  Supposedly Steve Jobs', who was also a first decan Pisces,
like myself ( Jobs born on Feb 24 ) last words according
to his sister was :  Oh Wow..  Oh Wow....Oh Wow!!

Btw, Rudolph Steiner was also first Pisces decan ( Feb27 ).
I only mention this about Steiner because if you recall
I've commented about Steiner many many times. The reason
being is that I've had several dreams about  Steiner, Germany
 and Switzerland and all have become a significance
part of my puzzle pieces which connects to my big picture.

Ra1119bee said...

William
Part 2
Anywho getting back to Jobs's last words.
The word wow when flipped is mom.

I found it interesting that mom/mum's origin in etymology
meaning : be silent, make silent, inability to speak.
 According to etymology.com:
 As an adjective meaning "secret" or "silent" from 1520s.
Phrase mum's the word is recorded by 1704.
You made reference to 'sealed' which I found
interesting as way back in the day when my grandmother
Sarah was still alive, my mother told my sister and I
that my grandmother sent my and my sister's name
to the UK to be 'sealed'.  My grandmother's family
lineage is from Wales. I still don't know to this day
what it meant. But sealed can be said to
be a secret, no?

 The word WOW is quite the opposite of silent.
My point being that wow and mom although quite different,
in meaning, are still one and the same when flipped.

In the movie Ides of March, both Meyers ( Gosling's character)
and Morris ( Clooney's character) are one and the same
and interestingly both surnames begin with M.

The movie poster's photo of Gosling holding a folded
Time magazine which only revels ME is interesting
given that when ME is flipped it becomes We.

" I am he as you are he as you are Me and We
are all together."--- I Am the Walrus

Different but same.
Wasn't Eve a part of Adam?

Of all of the letters in the alphabet, M appears to be
 ( correct me if I'm wrong) that when flipped is another
 totally different letter.

Blue and scarlet when mixed makes purple.
Purple is the color of royalty.
Indigo, Purple is the Third Chakra.
The Third Chakra is the One Eye.
Neo was ' the One'. 
Everything on this planet has a dual nature
but the soul connects back to the ONE source.

To be separated and scattered causes chaos,
which divide and conquer is what our 
opponents do best.

Oh, and it appears that on the cover illustration
of the Gone with the Wind book you posted the female
( who I assume is Scarlett O'Hara ) is wearing
a blue-green dress.
Wasn't my blue green dress and blue green
coat in the sync stream several times??

Coincidently Steve Jobs had a blue connection.
Note the word Blueberry comes up in this article.
Copy and paste:
"The original iMac is known by the moniker of "Bondi Blue" — 
that name being a reference to its color, which was inspired by the waters
 lapping up to the shore of Bondi Beach, a suburb of Sydney in Australia's
 province of New South Wales.
 (Note: my Bondi Blue iMac is more "Bondi" than "Blueberry"
 in reality than in my photos.
Blame it on my misreading of color temperature.)

Everything is connected. IMHO, of course.


https://www.theregister.com/2010/11/29/bondi_blue_imac/

https://www.rd.com/article/the-rumors-and-truth-behind-steve-jobs-last-words/

https://www.chakra-anatomy.com/third-eye-chakra-colors.html

William Wright (WW) said...

I'm surprised you didn't recognize Moore as a name that means Swamp.

The Red Book in my story is the Rose Stone associated with Joseph (of Egypt), so it was also interesting for me to look into the etymology of Scarlet as well.

Etymonline has scarlet meaning "rich cloth" (often, but not necessarily, bright red), from a shortened form of Old French escarlate 'scarlet (color), top-quality fabric' "

Seeing the phrase Rich Cloth brought to mind Joseph thanks to his Coat of Many Colors. That is how it is translated in the KJV, but other translations note the difficulty of the translation, and have it a little bit different. Relevant ones include "richly embroidered tunic", "ornate robe", etc.

In other words, several translations have Joseph being gifted "rich cloth", or Scarlet. His coat would ultimately also become the other meaning of scarlet as well. In the biblical tale, his brothers took his coat and dipped it in animal blood to convince Jacob that Joseph was dead.

"And they took Joseph's coat, and killed a kid of the goats, and dipped the coat in the blood;"

So, a scarlet coat in both senses of that word.

In the Book of Mormon, Captain Moroni relates an interesting prophecy regarding Joseph's coat that was given by Jacob. Jacob apparently noticed that a remnant of the coat had not decayed, and said that just like that remnant, some future remnant of Joseph's seed would be preserved and it seems will literally be taken up to be with God without dying (just as Zion was), while the remainder of Joseph's seed will perish.

That fits in with my own guesses as to what happens to some people as a result of the Rose Stone, or at least events associated with it and what is on it. It was thus also interesting "Gone with the Wind" was on the spine of the Scarlett book.

Back in March 2024 I had a dream in which people flew away on the wind up into the sky - gone with the wind:

"As I was in the process of waking up this morning, I had very clear but strange mental images of people blowing away in the wind. Not in a bad or forceful way, but just people individually being carried up to the sky on a gentle breeze. It was a good thing, in other words. For example, in one of the pictures, one of my children was standing in our house, and a wind came along and just carried them up into the sky. Along with the images, was a thought that went something like 'People need their wind', and it was really at an individual level, it seemed, in some strange way. There was also some thought about a magic trick, a great or the greatest one, or something like that, but I don't remember the exact words, just the sense of it."

William Wright (WW) said...

Here is that prophecy as related by Moroni just for reference. The Book of Mormon editors cross-reference "remnant" to Ether's prophecy of a future New Jerusalem that will be built on "this land" in Ether 13. "This land" in my own guess, as you know, is not here on this Earth but some other world, so the thought of the same remnant being taken up to be with God in Jacob's prophecy as also living in that New Jerusalem in Ether's makes sense.

"Yea, let us preserve our liberty as a remnant of Joseph; yea, let us remember the words of Jacob, before his death, for behold, he saw that a part of the remnant of the coat of Joseph was preserved and had not decayed. And he said—Even as this remnant of garment of my son hath been preserved, so shall a remnant of the seed of my son be preserved by the hand of God, and be taken unto himself, while the remainder of the seed of Joseph shall perish, even as the remnant of his garment."

There can be all sorts of figurative interpretations of these words, but I assume they are literal... meaning, some people will be preserved and not die, and that they will be taken somewhere.

Wm Jas Tychonievich said...

Your dream made me think of this:

https://wmjassync.wordpress.com/2016/12/08/people-flying-into-the-sky-for-no-reason/

Wm Jas Tychonievich said...

Yes, Moore can mean swamp.

The author of the other book is Ripley, which I believe means "large, or to exceed all."

William Wright (WW) said...

It took me a minute to get the Ripliancum reference.

I actually went Elvish with that word, surprise. Rip-li, which fits with the Gone with the Wind theme and people flying into the sky. Rip in Elvish can mean "fly". Li means "people (of one kind or origin)".

One kind of people flying fits well with the prophecy I just mentioned of a remnant of Joseph's seed and combining it with the notion of people flying away into the sky.

The names associated with those two flying stories you related in the other post were interesting. For example the second story with the man named Mark suddenly flying up into the sky, with Mark another Mars / Red reference. I like the description of it being a 'strange day' for that reason also.

In Isaiah 28, God is quoted as talking about a Stone that will be laid in Zion, shortly followed by mention that the Lord will "rise up".... "that he may do his work, his strange work; and bring to pass his act, his strange act". Joseph Smith relates the strange act aspect a couple times in D&C as well. The Isaiah passage is followed by Isaiah 29, which among other things, mentions the Sealed Book.

Back to Ripley, that is also the name of the character in the Aliens movie franchise, as I think about it. Ellen Ripley is her name, which we've seen before as a symbol, with Ellen meaning "the Bright One/ Shining Light". So, I would expect their to be another clue, which I think we have the actress is Sigourney Weaver, but her real first name is Susan (or is it Shu-shan?). Susan is "Lily" as you've heard now lots of times, I think mostly from Debbie, and a bit from me, though my take on that name is more specific. This Susan is a Weaver, which also gets to flying through the air/ going somewhere far away. My belief has been that it will be made possible through the manipulation of Space and Time in some fashion, with Space and Time being compared to the Warp and Woof, or fabric, of our material universe. Warp and Woof are Weaving terms.

My guess is the Holy Ghost was responsible for weaving this universe together, and also created the means by which that universe can be traversed in the way I am thinking of. Hugo Weaving is the name that comes to mind just now in thinking about that.

Ra1119bee said...

WW,
Yes you're correct I do speak quite often
 of Shushan ( Lily) because it came to me
in a dream in 2008 and it has become
a VERY significance puzzle piece for
not only me personally but what
I believe  for humanity's future, as
 I believe the El's (aka Lilies)
 are at the helm of this duality dimension
 ship.
 I did not know the Hebrew meaning
of the name Susie/Suzy before the dream.

I personally, coming from a metaphysical lens ,
( my lens more purple as opposed to  red and/or blue)
research symbolism from dreams ( many premonition),
  synchronicity, telepathy, and paranormal experiences
and I follow where the symbolism takes me. 

I share the information I receive to whomever wishes
 to hear it and truth be told their numbers are few. 
However and IMHO
when we are given knowledge from the soul,
 I believe  that it's our reasonability to pay it forward.

Also btw, I found it interesting what
you wrote about Suzy flying in the air defying  gravity.
I've shared on this blog many many times
 about my levitation dreams starting at 10 years
old after my grandmother Sarah passed over into
spirit, which my sister and I 'saw' her spirit
leave in September of 1965. The levitation
dreams still persist to this present day.

In 1974 a Past Life Reader ( in real life ) whom
I did NOT know, told me about one of my incarnations
in Atlantis, and being led to an alter ( by a group
of men all dressed in white robes ) to be
sacrificed . I suddenly broke away
and began levitating.

 There is no way he would have known
 about my levitation dreams.
I was reduced to tears when he told me this.

So yes, I too believe that we transcend space
and time every night in REM
sleep.  I believe that We ALL are Weavers.
Most of us just don't know it because
we have been divided and conquered
by those who understand its power.

Below I posted a link to Gary Wright's
1977 song Dream Weaver. I've NEVER seen
this video before and just found it today (1/27)
Lo and behold what got my immediate
attention was the white robes.
What's the odds????

Copy and paste Dream Weaver lyrics(asterisks mine)

"Though the dawn may be coming soon
There still may be some time
***Fly me away to the bright side of the moon***
And meet me on the other side"

Much like Gary Wright ( the singer)
 I too unfortunately believe that the 'Dawn' is coming soon. 
The dawn is lucifer, the morning star, bringer of light
aka THE SHINING ONE.
Which you made reference to Ellen being a Shining One.

All EL's ( aka 11's ) are Shining Ones.
Lily's are also L's (EL's ). Omit the two vowels,
i and y and what's left are two (twin) L's.

Copy and paste: ( see link )
"The Shining Ones
by Christian and Barbara Joy O'Brien

This book includes all the material contained within
 The Genius of the Few,  but adds a great deal more
 information on the unfolding diaspora of the Shining Ones
 from the Southern Lebanon site around the world,
 their advanced technology and their influence
over the next 8,000 years."
~~~~~~~~~
 Out of the 'blue' while writing all of this in the last several days
regarding ONE, the 1968 song,One written by Harry Nilsson
also sung by the Three Dog Night came to mind.

Neo was the One, because he saw through the illusion
with his ONE eye (Third Eye)

The word Dawn ( as in bringer of the dawn)
 phonetically sounds like Don.
Replacing vowels , Don becomes Den
or Dan. ( Tribe of Dan perhaps? )

Isn't it interesting that Donald Trump ( the shiny Gold lover)
and Den ( Denmark and Greenland  )
are currently on the World
Stage now?

The sync fairies never disappoint,
at least they don't for me.


Gary Wright - Dream Weaver 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4ESFFtgpZE


One—-Harry Nilsson ( note the beep beep beep
sound at the beginning of the song. Nilsson was inspired
 by and wrote the song One because of an experience he had
trying to contact someone by telephone and 
continually getting a busy signal which sounds
like the beeps.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DYzY7-V5vxY

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