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Edward Arthur Wilson, better known as Brother XII, (July 25, 1878–November 7, 1934?) was an English mystic who founded a spiritual community in the Pacific Northwest near Canada's Nanaimo region in the late 1920s.
Born in Birmingham, England, Wilson travelled the world as a mariner and studied world religions, preparing himself, by his own account, for a destiny which was subsequently revealed to him in a remarkable vision in the south of France in the fall of 1924. By virtue of his personal charisma and powerful spiritual message, he soon attracted a devoted following, including a group of wealthy and socially prominent individuals. Having taken the name Brother XII, he established the Aquarian Foundation in 1927, the group's beliefs being based largely upon the teachings of the Theosophical Society. Wilson encouraged Foundation members to build homes at the colony's headquarters on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, at idyllic Cedar-by-the-Sea. With the goal of being a self-sufficient community independent of the outside world, the Foundation acquired additional property on nearby Valdes and De Courcy Islands through the donations of a wealthy socialite named Mary Connally from Asheville, North Carolina. Other followers gave donations, large and small, to support Brother XII's work as a spiritual teacher, as well as his political activity relating to the 1928 American presidential election.
Tattoo Shop,
Hi, Doc
Hey Fish, what are you doin'?
If you don't mind we're gonna record this
Is that cool?
Oh, that's cooler 'n hell
Hell yeah, 52's biggest dream man
You know his biggest dream was
Me and him go party with you
On the trail of torn out twisters
Two angels on a mission came
Dust devils danced before them
In the path of the hurricane
On the road to Oklahoma
Through the flatlands from L.A.
From the shadows in the valley
From a country where the lizards play
While they drove they kept the radio on
Why don't you sing along, sing along, sing along?
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I don't think so
A man stands behind his shadow
A man stands behind his words
These men are together with family
To defend their rights in another man's world
Most people stood against them
Most people disagreed
With the need for all those weapons
In our safe, secure society
Paint the words and the pictures on another man's skin
We are lovers, warriors, magician kings
Brother 52
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Well, I don't think so, don't think so
Fuckin' brilliant, man
Okay, here's what happened
52 barred the door shut from the inside
A gunfight started on the front porch
52 shot back
You know they come into his home with it
So he's protecting himself
The guy inside the house blew his brains out
Yeah, they made it look like he killed himself
But no one believes he would
'Cause he's not that kind of man, that's all
I think, he wasn't afraid of death
You know, he believed in something to die for
That's what he did
Some say he had it coming
Others say he was sole to blame
But who says they've got the rights
If any at all to blow the brothers away
A man got a right to wonder
A man got a right to dream
Without looking over his shoulder
To choose the manner of the life he leads
One man's thoughts on another man's skin
We are lovers, warriors, magician kings
Brother 52
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Well, I don't think so
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We don't think so
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I don't think so
What they have done
Was they've come in and murdered him
For his bombs and his ammunition
Just like that Waco Texas
Or any of these other things
Over here in the United States
Anybody that's stockpiling firearms and ammunitions
Is a threat to the government
So the government wages war against us
They tortured him, he went out
But I'm sure he stood up
Like he was supposed to, you know?
They smashed all the rings
Shut on his fingers with a hammer
It was all an orchestrated plan, man
The more the closer I was getting to it to the truth
The more they got everybody looking at me
As being the guy that pulled the trigger
And what they did when they killed 52
Is they broke the whole family up
That's exactly what they wanted to do