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Post by skyward on Jul 7, 2007 14:01:25 GMT -5
In the early 1900s, Crowley, purportedly, held some kind of ritual inside the King's Chamber of the Great Pyramid and he, purportedly, "contacted" some spirit/alien/djinn/demon named Aiwass. It's pronounced like 'I was' (there is a pic of Faul with 'I was') or iWoz as in iPod or iPhone (the Apple Computer creator's new book's name). It also, apparently, relates to Oz, the Wizard of Oz as Crowley's drawing of this Aiwass resembles the Wizard of Oz.
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Post by beatlies on Jul 22, 2007 16:59:11 GMT -5
From wikipedia:
Biographer Lawrence Sutin stated that "blatant bigotry is a persistent minor element in Crowley's writings."[62] The book's introduction calls Crowley "a spoiled scion of a wealthy Victorian family who embodied many of the worst John Bull racial and social prejudices of his upper-class contemporaries,"[63] Sutin also writes, "Crowley embodied the contradiction that writhed within many Western intellectuals of the time: deeply held racist viewpoints courtesy of their culture, coupled with a fascination with people of color."[64]
Crowley defended the use of violence against the Chinese, specifically the lower classes.[65] He applied the term "nigger" to Italians (in Diary of a Drug Fiend Book I, Chapter 9) and Indians,[66] and called the Indian Theosophist Jiddu Krishnamurti "negroid."
Crowley, according to his biographer, Lawrence Sutin, used racial epithets to bully his Jewish homosexual lover Victor Neuburg: "Crowley leveled numerous brutal verbal attacks on Neuburg's family and Jewish ancestry...".[67]
Crowley's published expressions of anti-Semitism were disturbing enough to later editors of his works that one of them, Israel Regardie, attempted to suppress them. In 777 and Other Qabalistic Writings of Aleister Crowley (Samuel Weiser, 1975), Regardie, a Jew, explained his complete excision of Crowley's anti-Semitic commentary on the Kabbalah in the 6th unnumbered page of his editorial introduction: "I am ... omitting Crowley's Preface to the book. It is a nasty, malicious piece of writing, and does not do justice to the system with which he is dealing."[68]
What Regardie had removed was Crowley's "Preface to Sepher Sephiroth", originally published in Equinox 1:8. Written in 1911,[69] at the same time that Menahem Mendel Beilis was accused of ritual cannibalism in Kiev, Russia, it contained a clear statement of Crowley's belief in the blood libel against the Jews:[70]
"Human sacrifices are today still practised by the Jews of Eastern Europe, as is set forth at length by the late Sir Richard Burton in the MS. which the wealthy Jews of England have compassed heaven and earth to suppress,[71] and evidenced by the ever-recurring Pogroms against which so senseless an outcry is made by those who live among those degenerate Jews who are at least not cannibals."[72]
After defending the then-current anti-Semitic pogroms in Kishinev Russia, on the grounds that the deaths of thousands of Jews was a rational response to what he saw as the danger of Jewish ritual cannibalism, Crowley rhetorically asked how a system of value such as Qabala could come from "an entirely barbarous race, devoid of any spiritual pursuit."[73]
Crowley repeated his claim that Jews in Eastern Europe practice ritual child-murder in at least one later work as well, namely the section on mysticism in Book Four or Magick.
Crowley studied and promoted the mystical and magical teachings of some of the same ethnic groups he attacked, in particular Indian yoga, Jewish Kabbalah and goetia, and the Chinese I Ching. Also, in Confessions Chapter 86[5], as well as a private diary which Lawrence Sutin quotes in Do What Thou Wilt chapter 7, Crowley recorded a memory of a "past life" as the Chinese Taoist writer Ko Hsuan. In another remembered life, Crowley said, he took part in a "Council of Masters" that included many from Asia. He has this to say about the virtues of "Eurasians" and then Jews:
"I do not believe that their universally admitted baseness is due to a mixture of blood or the presumable peculiarity of their parents; but that they are forced into vileness by the attitude of both their white and coloured neighbours. A similar case is presented by the Jew, who really does only too often possess the bad qualities for which he is disliked; but they are not proper to his race. No people can show finer specimens of humanity. The Hebrew poets and prophets are sublime. The Jewish soldier is courageous, the Jewish rich man generous. The race possesses imagination, romance, loyalty, probity and humanity in an exceptional degree. But the Jew has been persecuted so relentlessly that his survival has depended on the development of his worst qualities; avarice, servility, falseness, cunning and the rest. Even the highest-class Eurasians such as Ananda Koomaraswamy suffer acutely from the shame of being considered outcast. The irrationality and injustice of their neighbours heightens the feeling and it breeds the very abominations which the snobbish inhumanity of their fellow-men expects of them."
[edit] Sexism Biographer Lawrence Sutin stated that Crowley "largely accepted the notion, implicitly embodied in Victorian sexology, of women as secondary social beings in terms of intellect and sensibility."[74] Occult scholar Tim Maroney compares him to other figures and movements of the time and suggests that some others might have shown more respect for women.[75]
Crowley stated that women, except "a few rare individuals," care most about having children and will conspire against their husbands if they lack children to whom to devote themselves.[76] In Confessions, Crowley says he learned this from his first marriage.[77] He claimed that their intentions were to force a man to abandon his life's work for their interests. He only found women "tolerable", he wrote, when they served the role of solely helping a man in his life's work. However, he said that they were incapable of actually understanding the work. He also claimed that women did not have individuality and were solely guided by their habits or impulses.[78]
Nevertheless, when he sought what he called the supreme magical-mystical attainment, Crowley asked Leah Hirsig to direct his ordeals, marking the first time since the schism in the Golden Dawn that another person verifiably took charge of his initiation.[79]
[edit] Aleister Crowley in popular culture Mr. Crowley, a song from Ozzy Osbourne featured on the album Blizzard of Ozz (1980). Crowley is the second man from the left on the top row on the cover of the Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album. Jimmy Page, lead guitarist in Led Zeppelin, collected many Crowley artifacts, including his mansion. "The Queen Quotes Crowley" is a song by English progressive rock band Porcupine Tree on the album On the Sunday of Life and features an eerie backward-speaking voice.[citation needed] The industrial band Ministry have an album titled Psalm 69-The Way To Succeed and To Suck Eggs[80] The webcomic Scary Go Round features a character based after Crowley, named Robert Crowley who is also well-known within the story as a master of the dark arts.
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Post by beatlies on Jul 22, 2007 17:29:39 GMT -5
Crowley was born in 1875, his father a preacher in an obscure Protestant sect and the heir to a small brewery fortune. He was educated at religious academies and at Cambridge, and in 1898 joined the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, the mystical society whose most prominent member was William Butler Yeats. Two years later Crowley was expelled from the Golden Dawn after he tried to take it over. He published many volumes of bad poetry, lived lavishly, studied yoga in Ceylon, climbed Himalayan mountains and tried to formulate a new spiritual program -- mostly, Sutin indicates, so that he would have no bureaucratic superiors to deny his claim to be the Beast prophesied in the Book of Revelations.
On a visit to Egypt in 1904, the Beast produced "The Book of the Law," a short text purportedly dictated to him by an emissary of some ancient god or other, which sets out the new creed of "Thelema" -- a mix of Egyptian, Masonic, cabalistic, Rosicrucian and Golden Dawn symbology on a bed of yoga with the catchy tag line "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law." (Not quite; Crowley wrote endlessly about the rules of Thelema.) Followers of Thelema would become conversant with higher planes of existence through "immersion in Chaos itself," as Sutin nicely boils it down. In practice this meant vaguely delineated rituals involving lots of drugs and sex; in Crowley's case with both men and women. Contrary to such public image as he has, he was neither Satan nor a Satanist; he saw good and evil as conceptual obstacles to the discovery of one's true will.
Though he proselytized constantly, went broke self-publishing dozens of books and founded a short-lived Thelemic abbey in Sicily, the Beast never managed to retain more than a handful of disciples at any one time. Sutin itemizes his futile attempts to persuade parties as diverse as the British government, Adolf Hitler and Henry Ford to adopt Thelema and his history of derision in the English and American yellow press, which billed him as "The Wickedest Man in the World." Despite Sutin's sympathetic intentions, Crowley emerges here as an egomaniacal blowhard who used his role as the prophet of the New Aeon as an excuse to treat women horribly, get buggered as often as possible and become a heroin addict, which he remained for decades until his death in 1947.
Sutin leaves no doubt that Crowley believed wholeheartedly in Thelema, but his efforts to make sense of the Beast's drug-addled rantings are in vain. And largely missing here is the context of more popular spiritual movements of Crowley's time, like theosophy and the burgeoning Western passion for Zen, Hinduism and other Eastern philosophies. Why should we care about a confusing cult promulgated poorly by a weirdo who lacked for sane disciples? Because unlike Krishnamurti, say, Crowley stalked around in black cloaks, looked spooky and claimed he could make himself invisible at will, which means he's still a great poster boy for everybody who'd rather embrace cool-sounding mystifications and the promise of "Magick" than submit to more rigorous or metaphysically plausible spiritual disciplines.
Sutin's earnest, clunky, overlong biography portrays a spoiled fourth-rate poet who not only didn't get over that adolescent yearning for new spiritual kicks, but insisted until the impoverished end on his own spiritual supremacy over all other men -- a regular fascist of the soul.
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About the writer Greg Villepique plays guitar in the band Aerial Love Feed.
------WHAT WAS ALEISTER CROWLEY'S RELATIONSHIP WITH HITLER, THE NAZIS, HIMMLER AND THE "LEBENSBORN" HUMAN BREEDING PROGRAM, NAZIPHILE HENRY FORD, AND THE BRITISH GOVERNMENT AND MILITARY?
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Post by beatlies on Jul 22, 2007 18:04:43 GMT -5
John "Jack" Whiteside Parsons (October 2, 1914 – June 17, 1952), (born Marvel Whiteside Parsons), was an American rocket propulsion researcher at the California Institute of Technology and co-founder of the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) and Aerojet Corporation. He was also an enthusiastic occultist.
Parsons' rocket research was central to the United States rocket program in the 1930s and 1940s, notably in the development of solid space-capable rocket fuels and the invention of JATO units for aircraft.
He is less well known than Wernher von Braun or Theodore von Kármán in the rocket program and the origins of JPL. Nonetheless, von Braun remarked that Parsons, and not he, should be regarded as the father of the American space program.[1][this source's reliability may need verification].
Contents [hide] 1 Parsons and the Occult 2 Death 3 Honors 4 Bibliography 5 References 6 External links
[edit] Parsons and the Occult Parsons was also an avid practitioner of the occult arts, and a follower of Thelema. He saw no contradiction between his scientific and magical pursuits: before each rocket test launch, Parsons would invoke the god Pan.
He was chosen by Aleister Crowley to lead Agape Lodge, the Thelemic Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.) in California in 1942 after Crowley expelled Wilfred Smith from the position.
Sarah Elizabeth Northrup (aka 'Betty'), began living with Parsons after his wife (Sarah's half-sister) Helen Northrup left with Wilfred Smith. Sarah Elizabeth Northrup later married L. Ron Hubbard, the founder of Scientology and sometime magickal partner of Parsons. Parsons and Hubbard participated in a ritual known as the Babalon Working which is famous in occult circles — loosely, it was an attempt to summon a living goddess and change the course of history. They were aided in this work by Sampson Bennetts of the Rosicrucian Order and his wife Sara Melian Gabriel, a well known spiritualist from India.
In January of 1946, Parsons, Betty, and Hubbard started a boat dealing company named Allied Enterprises. Parsons put in a large sum of approximately $21,000—Hubbard put in $1,200, and Betty nothing. Hubbard eventually abandoned Parsons and their business plans, leaving a port in Florida with the boat and Betty. It is said Parsons retreated to his hotel room and summoned a typhoon in retribution (i.e. evocation of Bartzabel [2] - intelligence presiding Mars). Legend or not, Hubbard and the ship were washed ashore in a freak storm the same day. A Florida court later dissolved the poorly contracted business, ordered repayment of debts to Parsons and awarded ownership of the boat to Hubbard.
Parsons set out to find another partner, his so called "scarlet woman", a magickal partner with whom he could sire a "Moonchild." The Moonchild is traditionally the incarnation of a God, as prophesied in Crowley's channeled script 'The Book of the Law' (The creation of this Moonchild was covered in Crowley's novel of the same name).
When Parsons met artist and poet Marjorie Cameron [Cf. "CAMERON DIAZ"], he regarded her as the fulfilment of his magical rituals. This same year he resigned his leadership of the O.T.O.
The Hubbard/Allied relationship lasted until 1947, when Hubbard defrauded Parsons of a sum of money and ran off with Sarah Northrup. Hubbard used much of this money from Allied Enterprises to promulgate and publish his book Dianetics, which later evolved into and was superseded by Scientology.
Jack Parsons has an appearance in Anthony Boucher's murder mystery Rocket to the Morgue (1942) as the character Hugo Chantrelle. The book also includes L. Ron Hubbard as D. Vance Wimpole.
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Post by horseloverphat on Sept 30, 2007 14:29:58 GMT -5
Parson's magic box eh....? A cine film....mother, dog, jack..... you work it out! all allegedly of course.
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Post by mindgames on Oct 1, 2007 3:06:16 GMT -5
Did Charlie Manson stay with Brian Wilson for a time ? And Charlie stayed In San Fran just a block or so from the Process church . Before he started his "family" or at the start of it. The Process sign: Reminds me of the Beatle photo that shows them on the floor from '66 I think The logo of "the invisible emperor" David Rockefeller's Trilateral Comisssion: Recycle logo
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Post by mindgames on Oct 1, 2007 3:41:12 GMT -5
So there is a pic of Faul with Wosniak or Faul with the Demon Djinn? Wut you tryin' ta say?
"In the early 1900s, Crowley, purportedly, held some kind of ritual inside the King's Chamber of the Great Pyramid and he, purportedly, "contacted" some spirit/alien/djinn/demon named Aiwass. It's pronounced like 'I was' (there is a pic of Faul with 'I was') or iWoz as in iPod or iPhone (the Apple Computer creator's new book's name). It also, apparently, relates to Oz, the Wizard of Oz as Crowley's drawing of this Aiwass resembles the Wizard of Oz. "
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Post by mindgames on Oct 1, 2007 3:58:04 GMT -5
"Known as the Wizard of Woz, Steve Wozniak along with Steve Jobs founded Apple Computers Inc. and started a computer revolution that has yet to slow down. Wozniak and Jobs introduced the Apple II which was one of the first personal computers originally aimed at medium to large size businesses. It was responsible for the species of small powerful computers that inhabit almost every part of our daily life. " Quotation: If Apple were the Beatles, Steve Jobs would have been Paul McCartney, the commercializer and pop icon. Steve Wozniak would have been a cross between John Lennon and Ringo Starr - a combination poet and teddy bear. ei.cs.vt.edu/~history/WOZNIAK.HTMFaul is on the Apple computers board? I can testify that Apple computers is one of the most evil company in existance. "The Apple I sold at $666 and was the first single-circuit board computer with on board Read only Memory or ROM , which told the machine how to load other programs from an external source, and a built-in video interface. This model sold mainly to computer hobbyists and the 600 they sold generated $774,000 (Halliday, 206). Improving on the Apple Is without departing from it's simplicity, Wozniak brought out the Apple II or what is now known as the Volkswagen of computers. " edit- after reading the whole story Steve became a sort of philantropic Genie in a bottle!!!!
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Post by revolver on Oct 1, 2007 15:59:15 GMT -5
Did Charlie Manson stay with Brian Wilson for a time ? And Charlie stayed In San Fran just a block or so from the Process church . Before he started his "family" or at the start of it. The Process sign: Reminds me of the Beatle photo that shows them on the floor from '66 I think The logo of "the invisible emperor" David Rockefeller's Trilateral Comisssion: ALso looks a bit like 3 6's.
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Post by skyward on Oct 1, 2007 17:44:19 GMT -5
So there is a pic of Faul with Wosniak or Faul with the Demon Djinn? Wut you tryin' ta say? JoJo posted pics from the MMT Booklet- 'I Was' pronounced like Aiwass. "..Crowley wrote the Book of the Law on April 8, 9, and 10, between the hours of noon and 1:00pm. He describes the “Voice of Aiwass” as coming from over his left shoulder, as if the speaker were standing in the corner of the room..." From- Thelemapedia article There is a guy beside Faul's left shoulder. The movement you need is on your shoulder? Aiwass was purported to be the messenger of Horus as Harpocrates is a form of the god Horus depicted as an innocent child. At any rate, Macca was purported to be involved with Crowley in the 70s, per Denny Laine, and there is the Sgt Pepper link.
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Post by plastic paul on Oct 1, 2007 18:12:50 GMT -5
So there is a pic of Faul with Wosniak or Faul with the Demon Djinn? Wut you tryin' ta say? JoJo posted pics from the MMT Booklet- 'I Was' pronounced like Aiwass. "..Crowley wrote the Book of the Law on April 8, 9, and 10, between the hours of noon and 1:00pm. He describes the “Voice of Aiwass” as coming from over his left shoulder, as if the speaker were standing in the corner of the room..." From- Thelemapedia article There is a guy beside Faul's left shoulder. The movement you need is on your shoulder? Aiwass was purported to be the messenger of Horus as Harpocrates is a form of the god Horus depicted as an innocent child. At any rate, Macca was purported to be involved with Crowley in the 70s, per Denny Laine, and there is the Sgt Pepper link. A well written post, there could well be something in this, especially like the Hey Jude lyric. Bear in mind that it's in there twice and in the Anthology films Faul makes a point of mentioning that he told John he'd fix the fact that he'd used the same lyric twice but John told him to leave it because he liked it.
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Post by mindgames on Oct 1, 2007 19:24:56 GMT -5
That helps, thanks, I've seen this pic but this is a clearer res. I am thrown off by the "you" in I Was banner.
Was not Wos (hee hee)
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Post by horseloverphat on Oct 2, 2007 14:29:37 GMT -5
more grist for the mill.... He is currently the Secretary General of the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities[1]; prior to that, he was the Director of the Giza Plateau. A Faul/Aleister/Zahi triple whammie.... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zahi_Hawass
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Post by brotherdave on Oct 11, 2007 17:32:27 GMT -5
Could it be some word play,should it be read: "I was you" or "I saw you"
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Post by ccinri on Oct 11, 2007 18:24:56 GMT -5
Who is that moustachioed man in the emblem under the flags? Is that document familar to anyone?
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Post by The Deceptionist on Oct 11, 2007 19:10:28 GMT -5
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Post by linus on Sept 25, 2012 2:10:39 GMT -5
George = Osiris Slain John = Sign of Apophis and Typhon. Also called the trident. Paul = Isis Mourning Ringo = Earth sign, as well as… (notice pentagram star(r) on devil's head). ^ also note that George, John and Ringo's images were used flipped on the album cover. (coat buttons, Paul's watch) This particular sequence is used in many ceremonies. But with the last being the X, which they replaced with the Earth Sign. Paul is making the L sign, which is the L in LVX, or latin for LUX, as in light. Thelemic ritual magick. The following sets of signs were assigned by Aleister Crowley to the various Grades of his order, the A.'.A.'.. The first sets (the Neophyte, elemental grade signs and L.V.X. signs) were derived from the grade signs of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Such signs often have multiple uses and meanings, depending on the context. Step Three: The Death-Rebirth Cycle These three letters also are Qabalistically and visually/formally linked to the principle dynamic structure of all Western Mysticism, that of the Death-Rebirth Cycle. According to The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn: L == Isis Mourning (Osiris slain by Set) V == Apophis Triumphant (the Rule of Death) X == Osiris Risen (dead-yet-alive, to rule in the new order) Also notice George’s top hat, signifying the top hat worn by the Masonic Worshipful Master. And of course George's Mason Claw, and the red/white stripe scarf. And, the photo is used flipped in the inside gatefold of the Help! soundtrack. Doing things backwards... a practice of Crowley's. Ringo doing the claw gesture here in 1963. And what of George’s hands? (also, one of the short Pauls) John makes the same Typhon gestures in the I Am The Walrus segment of the MMT film. As well as the others. (For all you PIDers) They even made it a point to include it on this album cover. Also notice that George is now making the X sign. Ringo snared by ankle with rope in Help! film. It’s also interesting that in the song Help!, John says, “And now I find I’ve changed my mind, I’ve opened up the doors.”
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Post by iameye on Sept 25, 2012 8:11:11 GMT -5
It’s also interesting that in the song Help!, John says, “And now I find I’ve changed my mind, I’ve opened up the doors.” Don't you love her face? Don't you love her as she's walkin' out the door? Like she did one thousand times before
Don't you love her ways? Tell me what you say! Don't you love her as she's walkin' out the door?
All your love All your love All your love All your love All your love is gone So sing a lonely song Of a deep blue dream Seven horses seem TO BE ON THE MARK Nataraja or Nataraj, the dancing form of Lord Shiva, is a symbolic synthesis of the most important aspects of Hinduism, and the summary of the central tenets of this Vedic religion. The term 'Nataraj' means 'King of Dancers' (Sanskrit nata = dance; raja = king). In the words of Ananda K. Coomaraswamy, Nataraj is the "clearest image of the activity of God which any art or religion can boast of…A more fluid and energetic representation of a moving figure than the dancing figure of Shiva can scarcely be found anywhere," (The Dance of Shiva)[/color] O.K.! it's a ballet! ;D
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Post by iameye on Sept 25, 2012 15:48:35 GMT -5
includes Heaven and Hell Literally, the Womb of the Universe and voilà, the Big bang lol ;D
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Post by iameye on Sept 25, 2012 16:08:49 GMT -5
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Post by seasaltcaramel on Sept 26, 2012 3:22:19 GMT -5
a golden strand from china town to china town. the magic bus.
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Post by linus on Sept 30, 2012 16:23:28 GMT -5
From Crowley’s “The Book of the Law” which was dictated to him in 1904 by an entity that called himself Aiwass and claimed to be a messenger from Horus. “Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law.” “Love is the law, love under will.” Does that sound a little like “All you need is love”? What kind of love was he talking about?
"The Strange Side of Love"
Aiwass also told Crowley that Crowley was the prophet of the new aeon. Years later, Crowley declared that Aiwass was his “higher self”.
Also, In De Lege Libellum (Liber CL), Crowley defines True Will as the will which "does not rest content with things partial and transitory, but ... proceed firmly to the End," and in the same passage he identifies that "End" as the destruction of oneself in Love. “And in the end…”
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Post by linus on Oct 5, 2012 13:45:05 GMT -5
Jack Nicholson's character makes this same pose in a photograph hanging on the wall in Kubirck’s film The ShiningThe statues near the end of 2001: A Space Odyssey. Interesting that in the AHDN film, George & Paul basically form their same poses as seen on the Help! record, during the Can't Buy Me Love segment. John & Ringo, not quite the same, but still somewhat similar. In fact, is John forming the L pose? And the scene where they pacify the tiger by singing Ode to Joy, in the Help! film, is reminiscent of the Strength tarot card. Here is a fascinating blog which illustrates how Stanley Kubrick’s films are structured on Egyptian mythology and tarot. The blogger is a NIR member, as well. I also just recently noticed his blog is linked at the top of the fourm. This post is particularly good, but the whole blog is worth a read. subliminalsynchrosphere.blogspot.com/2012/09/kubricks-shining-2001-aso.html
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Post by iameye on Oct 5, 2012 14:44:49 GMT -5
Jack Nicholson's character makes this same pose in a photograph hanging on the wall in Kubirck’s film The ShiningPerhaps worth mentioning is that's a photoshopped image of Jack's head grafted into an existing period photo OverLook it up! lol ;D
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Post by iameye on Oct 5, 2012 15:23:55 GMT -5
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