When Tom Cruise's character, Bill Harford enter the masked Heiros Gamos ritual gathering (filmed in Rothschild's former home) there are cloaked and masked women in a circle.
In the middle of the circle is the man conducting the ritual wearing a red cloak and gold mask.
When the women have dropped their cloaks, revealing they are naked, and begin to break off from the circle choosing masked guests from the observers, one chooses Tom Cruise.
She walks, semi-naked towards him and the camera moves in front of her, focusing our attention on her breasts. When she reaches him, in a rather awkward looking shot, she stands face to face with him for a few moments.
Now, Kubrick did this for a reason, which I am about to explain.
Tom Cruise is famous for being a very short actor. In fact, when Nicole Kidman ended her marriage to him, she made fun of him saying 'I can wear high-heel shoes again.'
In the film, when the woman is standing face to face with him, even though she is wearing high-heels, she is not much taller than him.
Now, if you watch the scene again, when she breaks off from the ring and walks towards Tom Cruise, instead of looking at her breasts, look to her right and she walks past a row of cloaked and masked guests that don't even come shoulder height to her. If you look at children to day, even lower teens come more than shoulder height to you. So, we are talking about pre-teens.
My second observation is the new Lynx after shave advert, which features a man carrying two fish under his arm. He is having a statue built in his honor. Crowds of adoring fans have gathered to watch. Then he drops the fish and the people no longer worship and love him and they wander off.
My final observation is just a bit of trivia for you. You probably know this already, but, for those who dont: The literary collective noun for a group of owls is a PARLIAMENT.
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Posted: Mon Oct 19, 2009 3:59 pm Post subject:
Lady G and the Pope
Lady Gaga's new single 'Paparazzi' got my attention today. She's obviously the new Madonna (the torch is being passed right now) so it's worth paying attention to something like this - in this case what I perceived as a hidden allusion to the current Pope whose real name is Ratzinger. So he is Pope Ratzinger or 'Papa Ratzi'.
I'm your biggest fan I'll follow you until you love me,
Papa-paparazzi,
Baby there's no other superstar you know that I'll be your
Papa-paparazzi
Promise I'll be kind, but i won't stop until that boy is mine,
Baby you'll be famous chase you down until you love me,
Papa-paparazzi
There is certainly a sudden surge in multicontextual allusion to the Pope, I must say...and perhaps even Rio (Brazil) being awarded the 2016 Olympics...since it's long been my speculation that the next pope may be a Brazilian (Claudio Hummes). And let's not forget about Angels & Demons which revolves around a papal election.
We may well be looking at timeframe of 2010-2012 for the next papal shift which has apocalyptic implications as according to St. Malachy's relatively famous papal prophecy, there is only one more pope left to go (or depending on how you read the list, the current one is the last one). My thinking is that the papal shift will closely interact with US presidential politics/elections, in particular... Sarah Palin who is our 'Whore of Babylon'. Together they can fulfill the Biblical Apocalypse (Revelation) storyline!
...little boys and girls come out to play...
...play the "dandelion" game...
...play the game with every flower you bring...
...blow away dandelion...
...tell me if she laughs or cries...
...beautiful daughters, wives...
FULL LYRICS
Prince or pauper, beggar man, or thing
Play the game with every flower you bring
Dandelion don't tell no lies
Dandelion will make you wise.
Tell me if she laughs or cries
Blow away dandelion
One o'clock, two o'clock, three o'clock, four o'clock chimes
Dandelion don't care about the time
Dandelion don't tell no lies
Dandelion will make you wise.
Tell me if she laughs or cries
Blow away dandelion.
Blow away dandelion
Though you're older now, it's just the same
You can play this dandelion game
When you're finished with your childlike prayers
Well, you know you should wear it
Tinker, tailor, soldier, sailors, lives
Rich man, poor man, beautiful daughters, wives
Dandelion don't tell no lies.
Dandelion will make you wise
Tell me if she laughs or cries
Blow away dandelion. Blow away dandelion
Little girls and boys come out and play
Bring your dandelions to blow away
Dandelion tell no lies.
Dandelion will make you wise
Tell me if she laughs or cries
Blow away dandelion.
Blow away dandelion
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Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 1:44 pm Post subject:
Gaga was born on March 28, 1986 in Yonkers, New York as the eldest child to Italian American parents Joseph and Cynthia Germanotta. At age 11, Gaga was set to join Juilliard School in Manhattan, but instead attended Convent of the Sacred Heart, a private Catholic school.
(This could relate to the previous forum members post mentioning of the paparazzi song possibly referring to Pope Ratzinger. "Papa Razti". I am not sure if the masonic Royal Arch is related to Catholicism, but further decoding of the Gaga symbolism will connect to the Royal Arch of masonry and to her heart-bleeding ritual during the MTV Music Awards.)
At age 17, she gained early admission to the New York University's Tisch School of the Arts. There, she studied music and improved her songwriting skills by composing essays and analytical papers focusing on topics such as art, religion and socio-political order.
(Gaga has stated in interviews that she is responsible for all aspects of design concerning her stage show and live productions. I will elaborate further on interpreting the symbolism of the stage decor during her 2008 MTV Music Awards performance of the song paparazzi.)
Gaga signed with Def Jam Records when she was 19, after record executive L. A. Reid heard her singing down the hallway from his office. However, she claims Reid never met with her, and after three months, she was dropped from the label. She moved out of her parents' house and started performing downtown in the Lower East Side club scene, with bands Mackin Pulsifer and SGBand. Around the same time, she started taking drugs and performing at burlesque shows; Gaga said her father "just didn't understand" it, and that he could not look at her for several months. Gaga attributes much of her early success as a mainstream artist to her gay fans and is considered to be a rising gay icon. After The Fame came out, she revealed that the song "Poker Face" was about her bisexuality. It is also rumored that she is a hermaphrodite, and this would be quite significant to Hermetic symbolism and ritual."
Here is the video link to the MTV Music Awards live performance of Lady Gaga singing paparazzi...
The symbolism of this stage set corresponds to the Masonic Royal Arch...and a ritual is also being performed during the song. A ritual to Lucifer.
At the very beginning of the video/performance...a red curtain is drawn to reveal the stage...and the Royal Arch. The red curtain is a significant piece related to the Royal Arch as the link to this image will indicate. If you look at other old pictures of the Royal Arch you will see the curtain and the color red is depicted.
After the drawing of the red curtain one can plainly make out multiple symbols related to masonry and the Royal Arch.
To the extreme sides of the stage and video frame, the stage lighting resembles a modified checkerboard pattern, this can be seen more on the right side of video frame.
There are 2 chandeliers and the top/center of the arch is back-lit to give you the three luminaries of the sun, star, moon as depicted in masonic tracing boards. And one can clearly make out the Royal Arch. And the stairs leading up to the arch. As the following link will also illustrate.
As the video pans into Lady Gaga she is lying on the floor and under a downed white tree with lights on it that are not lit. What does the white downed tree with non-lit lights represent? There could be a couple of interpretations of this. And the tree is present in the Royal Arch symbolism in the following image link. Note in the following royal arch image link, next to the coffin on the right...there is a small tree.
Does the coffin symbolize death and the tree next to it also dead? This would correlate with Gaga's tree in the video. And she is lying down as if dead. And correlating with the royal arch image as this is exactly where the coffin would be lying. This is the coffin where Skull and Bonesmen would lie in for their process of transmutation during their rituals. Is that what Gaga is also doing here, lying where the coffin would be?
At :15 in the video, Gaga actually recites a very Catholic-like sounding prayer which is not a part of the song's original lyrics.
"Amidst all of these flashing lights I pray that fame won't take my life." (She is about to become a blood sacrifice, raised into the light of Lucifer)
It is important to note here that Gaga is dressed in and surrounded by the color white. And that she is wearing a white bear of rabbit/bunny ears. Why is she wearing bunny ears?
From Wikipedia
The Easter Bunny (or Easter Hare) is a mythical character depicted as an anthropomorphic rabbit. Its origin, mentioned in print as early as 1620, can be traced to the German fertility goddess Ēostre or Ostara. Eggs, like rabbits and hares, are fertility symbols of extreme antiquity. Since birds lay eggs and rabbits and hares give birth to large litters in the early spring, these became symbols of the rising fertility of the earth at the Vernal Equinox. The saying "mad as a March hare" refers to the wild caperings of hares as the males fight over the females in the early spring, then attempt to mate with them. Since the females often rebuff the males' advances before finally succumbing, the mating behavior often looks like a crazy dance; these fights led early observers to believe that the advent of spring made the hares "mad." This bold behavior makes the hares, normally timid and retiring animals, much more conspicuous to human observation in the spring. (This is interesting later in the video as a dancer dances behind/around Gaga in a sexual manner)
Fertility Goddess Ēostre from Wikipedia...
Ēostre derives from Proto-Germanic *austrō, ultimately from a PIE root *au̯es-, "to shine" and closely related to the name of the dawn goddess, *h2ausōs, whence Greek Eos, Roman Aurora and Indian Ushas. (Could this be synonymous with a female "Morning Star"?)
Ostara (1884) by Johannes Gehrts. The goddess flies through the heavens surrounded by Roman-inspired putti, beams of light, and animals. Germanic people look up at the goddess from the realm below. (Flying and beams of light will be most significant later in the video as that is exactly what Gaga will be doing.)
Also, in the above link with the picture of goddess Ostara, one can see the goddess is holding a staff with a bulb on the end, probably of a floral nature.
But look at this picture of Gaga in another picture where she too holds a similar scepter. And Gaga has used this scepter in a few live performances and a music video, and it is illuminated. In this picture you will also see her black and white checkerboard breast piece. Very similar to the Goddess Ostara with the scepter and the bunny rabbit character in the MTV show.
More on Ostara...
Grimm notes that in the Old Norse Prose Edda book Gylfaginning, a male being by the name of Austri is attested, who Grimm describes as a "spirit of light." Grimm comments that a female version would have been Austra, yet that the High German and Saxon tribes seem to have only formed Ostarâ and Eástre, feminine, and not Ostaro and Eástra, masculine. Grimm additionally speculates on the nature of the goddess and surviving folk customs that may have been associated with her in Germany:
Ostara, Eástre seems therefore to have been the divinity of the radiant dawn, of upspringing light, a spectacle that brings joy and blessing, whose meaning could be easily adapted by the resurrection-day of the christian's God. Bonfires were lighted at Easter and according to popular belief of long standing, the moment the sun rises on Easter Sunday morning, he gives three joyful leaps, he dances for joy [...]. Water drawn on the Easter morning is, like that at Christmas, holy and healing [...]; here also heathen notions seems to have grafted themselves on great christian festivals. Maidens clothed in white (as in the MTV performance video), who at Easter, at the season of returning spring, show themselves in clefts of the rock and on mountains, are suggestive of the ancient goddess.
Could the resurrection aspect have to do with the Royal Arch coffin placement and correspondence with Gaga lying down on the stage in the MTV Music Awards video for the use of ritual? Is she dying and being reborn imbued as this Goddess for the sake of an eventual sacrifice?
Charles J. Billson cites numerous incidents of folk custom involving the hare around the period of Easter in Northern Europe. Billson says that "whether there was a goddess named Eostre, or not, and whatever connection the hare may have had with the ritual of Saxon or British worship, there are good grounds for believing that the sacredness of this animal reaches back into an age still more remote, where it is probably a very important part of the great Spring Festival of the prehistoric inhabitants of this island."
In the MTV Music Awards video a lady in a wheelchair is presented onto the stage and Gaga is using a medical cane to walk.
Would this correspond to Tubal Cain also another masonic symbol?
Does the wheelchair represent one of the three main chairs commonly found in the masonic ritual rooms? The chair of the Grandmaster?
"The symbols of the Masonic Lodge are permeated with sexual meaning. The "Tubal Cane" pin worn by some Masons symbolizes the male genitals (tubal=two balls; cane=male phallus). The familiar Masonic square and compass represents the male mounting the female in the sex act. The "G" within stands for the "Holy Fire," the act of sexual regeneration." -Texxe Marrs
At 3:19 in the video, Gaga stands up from the piano she was playing on. From her heart area blood begins to flow. The following Royal Arch masonic picture shows the sword and heart.
http://www.lol842bristol.com/web_images/symbols4.jpg
The sword piercing the heart can be found on this masonic apron...
I wonder if this symbolism has to do with the sword piercing the heart should you violate your oath...or the act of sacrifice.
Gaga begins to bleed profusely. At 3:57 she is carried to center-stage and lets out an agonizing moan. The lights then turn completely red...indicating blood. And red is a common color in some of the color pictures depicting the Royal Arch. At this very frame of 3:57 when all things turn red, marking the point of the sacrifice and blood.
Gaga is then hoisted or is "flying" (as the goddess Ostara link would suggest) up to the center of the Royal Arch.
And there, bleeding and bloodied, she is bathed in the blinding golden Luciferic light that emanates from the center of the Royal Arch. The dancers raise their arms heavenward in worship.
The camera pans out...the light is still emanating and the very sides of the stage lights now show a new pattern. At 4:20 in the video...the lights to the side of the stage or sides of the video frame now have a peculiar geometry. The pattern of this lighting at the closing of the performance reminded me immediately of this very similar geometry found in this most disturbing image.
It will take a few viewings and readings of this post to see all the connections. But they are there.
I have tried to look at the three iconic images in the music video's Royal Arch, but they are quite small. The one of the right side does look as if it could be Jesuits in their older style of clothing. Here is a pick of Ignatius for comparison.
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Posted: Mon Oct 26, 2009 10:47 pm Post subject:
The movie Collateral Damage came out in 2002, just one short year after the 911 tragedy and President Bush's aggressive illegal attacks against Iraq and Afghanistan.
In the movie, Columbian terrorists explode a bomb meant to murder US and Columbian officials as they enter a government building to negotiate peace. The terrorist bomb goes off and kills the wife and young son of the main protagonist/hero played by Arnie Swarchenegger. His character, Gordon Brewer, is a fire fighter.
Of course there are many levels of subtext in this highly propagandist movie. Two of the most outstanding examples of subtextual (or subliminal) content are shown in the following early scenes of the film.
After Brewer decides to take the law into his own hands and locate the "wolf" - who set off the bomb that murdered his family, he goes to the internet to research the terrorist organization he seeks to locate in Columbia. The web page he turns to reads as follows:
Anti-Democratic Forces: Bloodthirsty Fascist Troops Attacking the People
In the same scene we see a cup with heart logo and the word "love." We also see a family photograph suggesting the perfect "loving" American family that has been decimated by evil fascists.
In a following scene, we see something truly amazing. Brewer takes a sip from a coffee mug. This mug bears the american flag AND the EU flag. (Click pics to enlarge)
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Posted: Sun Nov 08, 2009 8:28 pm Post subject: Personal Symbology
While studying the symbols that others use don't forget to discover your own, personal symbol vocabulary. As your personal symbol vocabulary develops you can understand yet be unattached to the symbols used by others. They will no longer have an effect on you because they have no meaning to you. If you want to understand yourself fully you must discover YOUR symbols.
Furthermore, you can co-opt symbols used by others. For example, I used to not wear a cross because I thought it was a "Christian symbol." I understood the symbol basically but it was not in my personal vocabulary mainly because I was not a Christian. Later, I saw the cross, particularly the Celtic cross as a symbol of the sun (something very real and very practical) and a symbol of the Door to Eternity (as a meditation on the Now). I've always been rather fond of the Celtic cross, being Irish I guess (and being born on St. Patrick's Day?), and I'm a Sun Worshiper like George Carlin so it was a nice personal fit.
Yes, it is important to understand symbols but they are only universal if you think they are (what are the symbols used by blind people?). Think of symbols as suits of clothes. You can wear an "off the rack" suit or get yours tailor fitted.
Oh, and don't forget that you are naked under that suit.
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