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Empire of the Wheel presents itself as an investigation into a series of murders that took place in San Bernardino in 1915 that had ties to occultism and espionage. The book was written by Walter Bosley, a private investigator with a background in Air Force Intelligence and the FBI, and Richard Spence, author of Secret Agent 666: Aleister Crowley, British Intelligence, and the Occult. I picked this book up thinking it would be something like Maury Terry’s The Ultimate Evil. That is, I expected it to be well-researched and that offers a convincing portrait an occult conspiracy, even if it doesn’t quite meet the burden of proof. It turns out the book is not well-researched, nor is it believable.

The book is an analysis of seven deaths which Bosley and Spence claim were the work of some occult group that was also somehow involved in espionage. Everything the book draws on about these seven deaths came from the San Bernardino Sun. When Bosley did his research more than ten years ago he had to read the news stories on microfilm, but today the articles are available on newspaperarchive.com, so I was able to double-check his work.

The seven alleged victims are:
• Isidore Josseau, who drowned on October 13. Josseau and Lester Shay were dragging a shooting blind by boat on Baldwin Lake when their boat capsized. Shay was rescued, but Josseau went down with the boat and never resurfaced. His body was later dragged from the lake.
• The body of O.H. Bailey was discovered November 23 near the eastern end of Little Mountain, an apparent suicide who had shot himself in the head. A masonic pin and a signet ring were found on the body. After the body was found, Mrs. C.F. Kelly came forward and told the police that Bailey was a transient orange picker who boarded with her family when he was working in the area. He disappeared about the middle of August, leaving a simple goodbye note. Before he killed himself, Bailey destroyed some of his belongings, but left behind his Masonic regalia. Bosley and Spence claim that Bailey was a Knight Templar and that his Masonic regalia was prominently displayed in his room, but neither of these claims is supported by the newspaper articles. Bosley and Spence also make a big deal about the supposed fact that the suicide note was not found until his body was recovered, but the newspaper articles show this is untrue. The reality is that Kelly found the note and belongings when Bailey disappeared, but she thought the transient worker had just moved on. She came forward when the body was found and authorities sought to identify Bailey.
• On November 19 the body of an unknown woman was recovered from the lake at Urbita Springs Park in San Bernardino. Witnesses reported seeing her at a doctor’s office earlier that day, but she refused to wait to be seen. An autopsy found corrosive poison in her stomach; the woman would have been in great pain shortly before her death by drowning. About a week later, just outside the park, a suicide note was found with a woman’s hat and shirtwaist, a purse, a small amount of money, and chloride of mercury tablets. The note stated, “To whom it may concern: My name is Cora Stanton. I came here from El Paso, Texas. I have neither kith nor kin, and I am sick and cannot find work. So into the hand of God I give my soul.”
• Two-year-old Aileen Estep and four-year-old Charles William Glenn Estep died of poisoning. (Bosely and Spence call Charles “Willie,” probably because they misread the newspapers.) Charles took ill on November 15, and Aileen got sick on November 16, but both appear to have been poisoned about the same time. Bosley and Spence state that the Estep parents were investigated and cleared early in the investigation, but the newspaper reports never make this claim. The newspapers only state that the cause of the poisoning was never identified. The prevailing theory seems to have been that the two poisonings were a terrible accident.
• Orta Hedges died of poisoning on December 2 in Redlands. The only thing she had eaten that her family had not was a green orange she apparently picked herself on her way home from school. Her symptoms were consistent with strychnine poisoning, but no strychnine was found in her stomach. Since no other source of the poisoning was identified, doctors came to the conclusion that food poisoning from eating canned beans caused her death.
• E. Percy Braid was found dead in his room on December 9 from a gunshot wound to the head. Born in England, Braid was a stenographer studying to become a lawyer. He stole the pistol, which had previously been used in a suicide, from his employer. Braid had been despondent for some time due both to money problems but also an eye ailment which doctors informed him would eventually spread to his brain, causing insanity.

Bosley and Spence try and fail to relate these deaths to two strands: espionage and the occult.

Their espionage angle is weaker than the occult angle. Bosley and Spence talk about an Indian-Irish-German conspiracy. There really were efforts by the Germans to arm Indian and Irish nationalists in revolts against the British. Bosley and Spence provide no evidence whatsoever that ties any such conspiracy to San Bernardino, other than that the transcontinental railroad passes through San Bernardino. Although they spend pages speculating about people’s motives based on their national origin, they present no evidence that an espionage ring was active in San Bernardino in 1915, let alone that such group was murdering people.

Bosley and Spence speculate that factions active within the local Spiritualist Temple and Episcopal Church were in reality worshiping the Greek goddess Hekate and murdered these seven people on intersections of earth’s power grid. The purpose of these human sacrifices was to channel the energy created by the mass human sacrifice of the sinking of the Lusitania the opening of the Panama Canal, possibly in order to grow oranges. The two authors eventually call this alleged series of human sacrifices “the San Bernardino Working.” The “empire” of the title is the Inland Empire region of California, in which San Bernardino is located, and the “wheel” is the earth’s power grid.
The theories about earth’s power grid are loosely based on ley line theories, but as mitigated by Bosley’s friend Sesh Heri, an idividual who similarly only publishes on Lulu.

Aleister Crowley is depicted on the cover of the book, and the authors make a great deal of the fact that Crowley would have passed through San Bernardino when he took a train from California east. But they show no evidence that Crowley made any contact with any of the other people identified in the book, and offer no evidence that Crowley had anything to do with the alleged string of murders. They speculate that Crowley would have opposed the murders, because they say Crowley was a good guy and wouldn’t dabble in such things.
Bosley and Spence speculate San Bernardino Police Chief Walter Shay’s attitude toward the alleged “case,” when it’s not clear that Shay thought of these incidents as anything more than a string of unfortunate accidents and suicides. About half of these deaths took place outside Shay’s jurisdiction.

Bosley and Spence consider a number of high-profile San Bernardinoites as potential occult murderers, including undertaker Mark Shaw and spiritualist minister Orliss Kennedy. But after page upon page of hinting and suggesting that these people were somehow involved in ghastly murders, they ultimately decide that they weren’t, based mostly upon Bosley and Spence’s readings of their characters based on newspaper articles. Given that most people won’t finish this book, it’s really unfair the way that Bosley and Spence drag these people into the story. There is really no evidence linking any of them to murder, and the only thing they have in common is that they were all involved in burying or eulogizing Cora Stanton.

Excluding the epilogue, the last chapter is an exposition that the Zodiac killings of the 1960s are somehow related to the San Bernardino deaths because, a) they both fall along Sesh Heri’s interpretations of the earth’s power grid; b) one of Zodiac’s alleged victims was killed in Riverside; and c) the carousel that was located in Urbita Springs Park was later moved to the San Francisco Bay area, where Zodiac did most of his killing.

In late 1915, seven people died in San Bernardino County. Bosley and Spence don’t offer any real evidence that these deaths were anything other than what they seemed to be at the time: an accidental drowning, three child poisonings that were probably also accidental, and three suicides. This book is a disservice to their memories, and a slight to the Episcopalians and Spiritualists Bosley and Spence suggest were guilty of murder. If Bosley and Spence weren’t so obviously sincere, I would have thought this book was a thought-experiment designed to prove that one can invent a conspiracy out of any unrelated series of events. This book is unworthy of the work of a tenured history professor, and it is unsurprising that it had to be published on the self-publishing platform Lulu.
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marc_beherec | Jan 17, 2022 |
This third installment by researcher Walter Bosley follows his rather incisive work which laid the foundation for this, and the previous book, namely his Empire Of The Wheel [Part 1] - An Investigation Of Occult Espionage & Murder by Walter Bosley & Richard B Spence, which was followed by the second part of this series called Empire Of The Wheel Part II - Friends From Sonora by Walter Bosley.

While all three installments delve into those who pay homage to the wheel, which is a symbol of the ever-present Hekate, also known as Catherine of the Wheel, part three of this series, just like the previous ones, has a slight different flavor and with good reason.

This particular book begins as the others do, posing rather poignant questions as the author ruminates 'out loud' into what might have taken place in the early 20th century in respect to the ritual murders he analyzes, what possible reasons there could have been behind those nefarious incidents, how they dovetail into each other, as well as where they all lead to in modern times.

That last point should be of at least slight interest: modern times. This issue of those who have carried out these occult incidents isn't something that only resides in the past. In fact, the latest San Bernardino Shooting has many 'synchronicities' with the older events that the author has attempted to solve, and has shed light to.

This particular book merges many notable subjects, such as Telluric fields, the infamous Hekate, ritual killing, Mt. Rubidoux even the mysterious.Mission Inn,

Other more unexpected aspects such as the work of H.P. Lovecraft and what the author possibly knew as well as who, are covered in detail. Knowledge of ancient history are covered where pertinent and the author also connects some other individuals to buttress the argument that there was extremely nefarious dealings taking place in honor of the wheel and all that it entails.

The book even hearkens back to people presented in the past such as Crowley, Harry Houdini, the Sundance Kid, and the Zodiac killer, but adds additional layers within each in its examination of how each of those people were possibly connected.

Out of all three books, this particular one does the best job of dot connecting with some rather keen support for his research. That's not to say the other books weren't outstanding as well as grounded, because they were, its just that this book had more information to rely upon than the previous installments. One can only do so much with the information supplied, and with that the author has done quite the superb job considering the circumstances.

All in all, the author's search into who The Nameless Ones are, follows a rather abstruse road mostly untaken before, but which leaves readers aghast at the possibilities when all is said and done.

From ritual murders, to ancient civilizations, to more modern occult sacrifices of rather notable subjects, the book leaves no stone unturned. And as stated before, those who follow these type of beliefs, are still around today.
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ZyPhReX | Jan 5, 2017 |
Latitude 33:Key To The Kingdom - The Arcane Science & Hermetic Engineering Of The Happiest Place On Earth [Revised Edition] by Walter Bosley is an absolute foray into the more esoteric aspects that revolve within Disney land.

There are many fascinating aspect of this search Bosley provides us with.

For starters, the particular latitude at which this theme park resides in will spark the flames of curiosity in those seekers of hidden knowledge. That particular 'hidden in plain sight' aspect of the park is most probably not by coincidence either. But that's up to you to decide.

Bosley make's it quite clear, as he has done in many of his other groundbreaking books series such as Hidden Missions & the Empire Of The Wheel series, the information is for you - the reader - to judge by yourself. He is merely providing many facts, with a lot of reasonable theories, coupled with intriguing questions in order to provide the canvas that might lay the foundation for some deep thinking.

The exploration carried out book deals with the activation of consciousness via esoteric knowledge. This is put forth with a view into the works of known Tesla, the [unknown?] C.V. Wood, as well as glances into how this all dovetails not only with Stanford Research Institute, but also the Mind Science Foundation.

Some specific personnel within these establishments are taken a gander at [looked into] due to their field of expertise. That alone should give one pause given the possibilities that could arise from such crossing of paths so to speak.

Within his venture into the abstruse, the author also sifts through data from a variety of other fields. These in include a cursory glance at the work of Dr. Joseph P. Farrell where applicable as well as the works of David Hatcher Childress, as well as the work of Sesh Heri regarding Ley Line energies as he details in his book The Handprint Of Atlas.

Furthermore, not only does Bosley also delve into the more older [and cautionary] aspects of the modern versions of the Disney stories that are commonplace within society today such as Snow White, Pinocchio, Alice in Wonderland, but he also couples that to the other esoteric layers that these stories are connected too. Elements within those stories as well as others litter the landscape of Disney offering even more synchronicities to the already coincidence-heavy theme park.

Other notable subjects that merge within this book revolve around the tapping into of other possible dimensions given the technological aspect of it, but also alchemy, fairy folklore, hauntings, occult symbols, transcendental alchemy, and much much more.

All of this centers upon King Arthur's Carrousel.

The placement of this particular apparatus, given its precise accuracy among a triple ley line conversion, that's located at the 33 degree latitude [synchronicity alert!], would have had the capability of transmuting consciousness in various ways.

Is all of this just 'random' information plucked from the air by the author, or is there something more tangible here?

Personally, knowing how much of our history has been kept from us [after all, knowledge is power, and lack of knowledge is lack of power], and knowing how many ancient sites, and even modern ones, are located within precise points on the globe that could possibly tap into telluric energy, it would stretch the mind to think its merely coincidence.

Now, is that strong evidence for what the author alleges? That's for you to decide.

Someone, somewhere though, in modern history as well as in ancient times aligned these structures - that in many cases took great effort to create given the hundreds of tons some of these stone weigh that we can't even do now - to carry out something rather extremely unusual. And those sights number in the dozens, aligned with mathematical precision that boggles the mind. Another coincidence? Up to you to decide.

That's not to say that was attempted via King Arthur's Carrousel was also attempted in other ancient/modern sites. Was only stating that the use of the ley [telluric] lines was not only tapped into, but magnified for its use.

A more interesting question is, if what the book hypothesizes is possible, is there any places such as this out there that are accessible and were created in more modern times? How would they be used? Has the technology advanced?

It would be a shame if there wasn't, but then again, technology and its uses are only as good as those who stand behind it, and for great progress to take place great individuals - visionaries, as the author mentions - are needed.

It's sad to see Walt Disney's legacy descend into the dismal state it has in some areas in the last few decades. It hasn't been without a concerted effort either.

With that said however, the fact that it really was a great place to visit ['the happiest place on earth'] early on shows what's possible when a true visionary goes to work.

We can only hope more visionaries shed light amidst these troublesome times.
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ZyPhReX | 1 outra crítica | Jan 5, 2017 |
In Empire Of The Wheel – An Occult Investigation Of Occult Espionage And Murder Walter Bosley & Richard Spence take us on a fascinating, and yet disturbing examination of the occult happenings of 20th Century Southern California.

From the get go the authors begin to paint the picture of what the environment was like, and what was taking place when each of the unfortunate victims were slain.

A very detailed and extensive inspection is done of the facts, as well as various theories that might shed light into what possibly took place during those murky times. The word might is used because it’s up to the reader to decide whether or not these murders [that’s what my gut says] were ‘random’, or if they had a more deeper meaning – an esoteric one perhaps.

The authors caution against expecting answers outright, as definitive answers are one of the things that are hard to pinpoint with such an abstruse case that has facts missing and is about a century old.

The book is part “Unsolved Mysteries” and part “X-Files” [of the esoteric type]. Sprinkle in the author’s unique perspectives and they elucidate a picture – a rather astounding one at that – that is being painted of such astonishing magnitude that it would shock the average mind.

As mentioned in the book, this mystery is nigh forgotten [if not outright unknown] by most. It is quite sad, because the events that took place 100 years ago seem to have a devious connection to the latest San Bernardino event that took place in 2015, yes, 100 years ago to the date that it all took place. Coincidence?

This investigation of this [esoteric] criminal casts its web across many different characters, and is absolutely so chock-full of coincidences synchronicities that its mind boggling. Seriously. That’s not an overstatement. There are so many by the end of the book that to argue against some sort of coordination would stretch the incisive mind.

From ritual sacrifice, to , and even British & German spies coupled with an examination of the sinking of the Lusitania that might dovetail with the book’s main premise, this book has as much range as it has scope. And still, it has more.

The authors even anchor part of their analysis with an assessment of the Zodiac Killer and his machinations. Keeping in mind that the Zodiac Killer was never caught, it was disturbingly eerie how poignant the correlations were between what took place in 1915, and what took place 1968.

All in all, this book paints a much murkier picture of this segment of history than people would ever imagine. Still, it’s a much needed point of view that is needed in order to not only understand what did take place a long time ago, but for what has taken place again since then and is taking place still now.
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ZyPhReX | Jan 5, 2017 |

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