The Goods 3/28/24
Milton William Cooper
Last Sunday I was mowing my lawn while wearing my weighted ruckpack and listening to Pale Horse Rider, a biography of William Cooper by Mark Jacobson. I’m about halfway in and enjoying it. Mark Jacobson does a great job of telling Cooper’s story with a levelheaded tone, not presenting him as a prophet or a madman.
The cover of Behold A Pale Horse is striking and folksy, with an eerie element of anticipation. The cover art is a combination of southwestern kitsch, Anasanzi petroglyphs, and the Book of Revelation. Cooper lived and broadcast his radio program Hour of the Time (HOTT) from his home in eastern Arizona.
Cooper pioneered a lot of the now classic conspiracy theories. Stuff like FEMA camps, JFK was shot by the limo driver, the Mystery Schools, Secret Societies, UFOs, Extraterrestrial and Beuricratic partnerships. Stuff like that. Some of the main story of The X-Files is inspired by William Cooper's theories. The Cigarette Smoking Man is supposed to be a member or henchman of the Majestic 12, a group Copper said was formed after the Roswell crash in 1947 to collect UFO technology.
For as many copies of BAPH were sold, just as many copies were stolen to the point where the book was kept behind the counters of big bookstore chains. It was thought that if you bought a copy, you'd end up on a government watchlist. Hearing that now is pretty funny, considering you're two clicks away from getting into an algorithm with an endless stream of this stuff. For as many theories on something like the JFK assassination are out there, at least one of them has got to be true. I don't think it affects anything if you know "what's really going on" as long as you keep it to yourself or in your small community of freaks. The truth can set you personally free, but there's no chance for society at large.
There are a few cool side quests in Pale Horse Rider. One big chunk deals with BAPH's influence on rap music in the 1990s. Jacobson spends some time explaining the history of the Nation of Islam, the Five-Percent Nation, and how the book became one of the most widely read books in prison.
William Cooper was killed in a shootout with the local Sheriff's Department in front of his home in Eagar, Arizona on November 6th, 2001, one day after Guy Fox day and 26 days after the attack on the World Trade Center. He shot a Sheriff's Deputy twice in the head before being gunned down.
William Cooper’s autopsy report (link)
Hour Of The Time Archive (link)
Mystery Babylon series (link)
Mystery Babylon is a detailed history of secret societies and the mystery schools. Episode 1 dissects the occult symbolism of 2001: A Space Oddyssey.