iTunes clue

[MikeNL]

I just looked at Bill's iTunes page, and if you click on the new Memory Almost Full Album you get to see this:


If you look closely, there is an exclusive song, called 222.

look closer:


there is a 3 there...
3x 222 makes; 666

The number of the beast; 666

Crowley reference

[skyward]

mikenl said:

I just looked at Bill's iTunes page, and if you click on the new Memory Almost Full Album you get to see this:


If you look closely, there is an exclusive song, called 222.

look closer:


there is a 3 there...
3x 222 makes; 666

The number of the beast; 666

Crowley reference

I think the 3rd song on the 2nd disc is called 222, that is on the special double album, right?

Anyway, 222 is NAZAPHNE/NAZARENE in Greek gematria.

Square of the Sun

"MAGIC SQUARE OF THE SUN = 222 = MAGIC SQUARE OF THE TONE
222 = 3 x 74

222 is the Greek gematria value of "NAZARENE" (a title for Jesus). Also Greek gematria for IBIS (bird sacred to Thoth). Also Greek gematria for "EARTH". (Source: Hulse, The Key of it All, Book 2)
"

Beatlies wrote a response in the RA thread, around page 10 or 11, posting only '222', not sure why.

Wikipedia on 222

A radii at 0 and 222.49 divides a circle into the golden mean.

[Jude]

222 is a very eerie song.
The lyrics, as I understand them, are:

Ooh look at that

Look at it walking

Turn away

Taking my breath away

Come to me

It brings to mind creepy images of Sir Paul summoning some sort of spirit from beyond.
A Beast, perhaps. I have little doubt in my mind that Paul has dabbled in the occult and has perhaps followed in the footsteps of Crowley, making contact with demons and the like.

[Mellow Yellow]

Anybody have someplace I can listen to this "222"?

I really am going to buy Memory Almost Full... Just not this week.

[CoconutFudge]

melloyello said:

Anybody have someplace I can listen to this "222"?

I really am going to buy Memory Almost Full... Just not this week.

www.sendspace.com/file/wwtqmk

[fourthousandholes]

Thanks Coconut Fudge.

And now a little bit of Crowley 101. It'll only take a minute. ;D

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAcmnW4Sn-k

Notice that the description of this video is called "call of the second".
We'll get to it in a second. ;D But first: did you take note of what Mr. C. said?

"I was in the death struggle with self: God and satan fought for my soul those three long hours."
(Pssst. That's a description of a famous religious person's experience.)
"God conquered; now have I only one doubt left: Which of the (3) was God?"

We'll get back to that, perhaps, later.
But why is this video described as the "call of the second"?
I don't know. It must be the chant at the end.
Anyhow, let's ask "What is a 'second'?"
Now, I'm not well versed in this, but a "second" is a version of yourself that you create to do
a job that it would not be expedient for you to do yourself.
Let's use a perfectly ridiculous example:

Your neighbor three houses down is an a-hole, and he's left his dog out in the yard. He's passed
out drunk, and oblivious to anything.
It's night, and the full moon is beaming down brightly. The dog is going nuts, bayfully mourning
and howling and barking and just generally being a royal pain in the arse.
You could go to the neighbor's house and wake him up, but that would be worse than letting
him be 'out of it'. You could sneak into his yard, and confront the dog. A good way to get bitten,
and step in dog poop along the way.
What to do?
You create an astral double of yourself - a "ghost" of yourself. A doppelganger. You send it
to the dog's yard, and he will see it as it comes into his moon-lit yard, because they see ghosts
and spirits. And he'll run! Into his dog house. And he'll shut up. Because he's scared.
Problem solved! ;D
Now there is a way to do this. Several ways, in fact. Some are, shall we say, better than
others. But that's not what this post is about.

It's about the song 222. It's clear by the lyrics that this person has created, and called, a second
version of himself for a mission to be accomplished. A "second".
He's admiring, in amazement and some terror, his own handiwork:

Ooh. Look at that!

Look at it walking!

Turn away. (He's freaked himself out, and looks away.)

Taking my breath away. (Literally. The second has a component of a person's breath to it.)

"Come to me." (He tells the thing.)
--------

OK, what do we have here? We have three twos: 222.
Three "copies" of someone. Three "seconds".
None of whom is the original.
Well, no, that's not quite right. They all are creations of the original person, and are, in fact,
him because they come from him, and are made out of him, but none of them are the sum
total of him. They are mere copies, each with a limited awareness and mission.

Hmmmm. What's this I see at the top of this thread? "Bill", but not written that way. B III[/u]
Three "second"s. And getting back to Crowley:
"Which of the three is 'God'?" All and none.
All the "McCartneys" represent a being much bigger and smarter than themselves.
They are merely "seconds", so to speak, on a mission. (An Apollo mission, I'd say.)
That's the point. B III[/u]
Big Being, and 3 seconds.
We haven't seen "Big B", but we kinda know what he looks like!

[fourthousandholes]

I don't mean to complicate this too much, but in the Crowley video there are Crowley, God,
and satan. And God wins, but Crowley wonders which of them is actually God.

If we say that in the battle Crowley describes, all of the participants are "seconds",
and that none of them were The Big Cheese, so to speak, due to the fact that the
event took place on an Earthly level, there's a point to be made:

One of the three seconds was evil.



This is a point Iamaphoney keeps trying to get across, imo:

"He was my brother", but also "this is how the (powers fall?), now that they say their grace
to Faul" etc.

One Faul was trying to show up the Paul that came before him.

In the song "How Do You Sleep?", Lennon says: "You'd better see right through that mother's eyes".
Now for those of you who don't know, the word "mother" in that line is sixties shorthand for
"motherfucker", a term that means a real son-of-a-bitch. A first class bastard.
So what Lennon is saying is that Sgt. Pepper is a bastard, among other things. Whether pepper is
Faul or Ringo or both can be discussed in another thread, but the
significant point here would be
that if the Pauls and Fauls, one and all, are figuratively "seconds" to a much bigger being,
one of the three filled the "satan" role Crowley describes.

I know it's a bit obtuse. Don't sweat it too much if you don't quite get it. But be aware of it.
"God" won, after all.

[jarvitronics]

Hey 4KH. To take this a step further, if we are dealing with seconds, or doubles, on Sgt Pepper we have two sets of Beatles. Four Beatles plus four Beatles is eight.

Who is number nine?

-j

[CoconutFudge]

Wow, that's a really compelling theory, 4KH! I absolutely NEVER would have thought of that on my own, but it makes a whole lot of sense. The song is so peculiar that, no matter how many times I looked at the lyrics or listened to it, I didn't really know what to think. NOw you've given me something really interesting to think about when I hear it. Thanks so much for thinking that all out!

[fourthousandholes]

You're welcome. ;D And yes, -j, good point!

[jarvitronics]

mikenl said:

there is a 3 there...
3x 222 makes; 666

The number of the beast; 666

Crowley reference

A bit off topic, but...666 is a fascinating number.

It is the sum of all the numbers from 1..36, (bonus: 36 is 6x6).

If you square the first seven primes, 2, 3, 5, 7, 11, 13, 17, and add the squares you get 666.

If you make a right-triangle (i.e. with one of the angles at 90 degrees) where the hypotenuse (long side) has a length of 666, then the other two sides will have lengths of 216, (which is 6x6x6), and 630, (which is 666 minus 6x6).

-j

[Valis]

I think Crowley has been villified too much.

IMO back in those days (like now) most people didn't understand his work so he chased them away by creating the myth of being the evil man.
He did bring a lof hidden esoteric knowledge to the public that until then had been hidden within the elite's secret societies.

Maybe that's the reason why the jealous elite did everything to give him a bad name, and he contributed to it himself as well probably to keep away the idiots and only let the true seekers find it.

I've learned a lot of his teachings, and his tarot set is the only one I'm comfortable with.

Most of his works are very obtuse and seemingly negative for beginners, but the next set of essays is a great introduction
www.hermetic.com/crowley/littleessays/index.html

Things are seldom what they seem

All Love Jan

[jarvitronics]

fourthousandholes said:

If we say that in the battle Crowley describes, all of the participants are "seconds" <snip>

In sync with this concept is the observation that Crowley is second on the cover of Sgt Pepper.

Here is another twist. Crowley's philosophy is called THELEMA, which is Greek for WILL or intention. Crowley stylized himself as the BEAST.

THE BEATLES makes the anagram THELE BEAST.

In Crowley's Liber LXV, (Book 65), he says:

O Snake that caresses the crown of mine heart!
Behold! we are one, and the tempest of years
Goes down to the dusk, and the Beetle appears.
O Beetle! the drone of Thy dolorous note
Be ever the trance of this tremulous throat!
I await the awaking! The summons on high
From the Lord Adonai, from the Lord Adonai!

-j

[Mellow Yellow]

*brain asplodes*

[jarvitronics]

Continuing with this Crowley theme... This lyric from Paperback Writer is strongly suggestive of Crowley:

It's the dirty story of a dirty man
And his clinging wife doesn't understand


Some or all of Crowley's wives are said to have gone insane, (depending on the version of the story you get).

Continuing with PBW we get this:

His son is working for the Daily Mail
It's a steady job
But he want to be a paperback writer


This is thick. The Daily Mail is a newspaper, but is is also the postal service. The postal service delivers epistles, and it is no accident that apostle and epistle are very similar, being from the Greek words apóstolos, meaning messenger, and epistolé, meaning message.

In a sense then, working for the Daily Mail makes one an apostle, whether it is the newspaper or the postal service. A sweet play on words.

If as we hear on Abbey Road, "a steady job" is what Faul got after quitting the police department, then having a steady job means being in The Beatles.

So to continue the hypothesis, suppose that Crowley, who is the dirty man, has a son working for the Daily Mail, i.e. this son is an apostle, and being an apostle is a steady job, i.e. he is in The Beatles.

The 1,000 page book mentioned in the song, which is based on a story by a man named Lear, is actually the story of a man named Leer?

Did I go too far? Because I could go further.

-j

[fourthousandholes]

"Farther along we'll know all about it;
Farther along we'll understand why.
Cheer up my brother; live in the sunshine.
We'll understand it all by and by."

From the hymn "Farther Along", one of the last songs the Byrds recorded.

Fascinatin' stuff, -j. And yes, Leer, a punster like yourself, but the other Lear may have been
intentionally connotated there, imo. Proceed.

[jarvitronics]

fourthousandholes said:

"Farther along we'll know all about it;
Farther along we'll understand why.
Cheer up my brother; live in the sunshine.
We'll understand it all by and by."

From the hymn "Farther Along", one of the last songs the Byrds recorded.

Fascinatin' stuff, -j. And yes, Leer, but the other Lear is intentionally connotated there, imo.

I knew you wouldn't be able to leave that one alone, Los Horn Nachos Por Que.

Yes Leer/Lear plays into the King Lear dub on Walrus. Speaking of Walrus, how about that elementary penguin? Penguin was/is a major British paperback label.

And then there is Tennessee Tuxedo, that popular 60's cartoon in the United States, which is about a penguin and a walrus. The zookeeper at the zoo where Chumley and Tennessee reside is Stanley Livingston. He found Chumley and Tennessee on an expedition to the South Pole. (There are no walruses in the south, they are only Northern songs.)

The name Stanley Livingston is a play on David Livingstone and H. M. Stanley, who is famous for quipping upon their first meeting, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"

And there is David Livingstone on the cover of Sgt Pepper, at #44.

These Beatles were exceedingly clever chaps they were!

-j

[fourthousandholes]

invanddis.proboards29.com/index.cgi?action=display&board=Clues&thread=1161623142&page=1

Reply #11

been there; done that.

[jarvitronics]

Continuing with the Crowley / Paperback Writer bunny hole...

The son of the dirty man is working for the Daily Mail, which is a steady job - BUT - he needs a break and he wants to be a paperback writer.

If you really like it you can have the rights
It could make a million for you overnight
If you must return if you can send it here
But I need a break
and I want to be a paperback writer


This plays into the hypothesis that Paul was tired and wanted out. If Faul really likes the 1,000 page story he can have it. If he gets tired of the game later on and wants out himself, he can always return to sender, i.e. ask Paul to Get Back.

Has this limb broken out from under me yet? Because I don't think I am quite all the way out to the end of it.

-j

[jarvitronics]

Still more Crowley / Paperback Writer bunny hole...

If you remove the word paper from the title you get "back-writer," suggesting Crowley's technique of reversals.

On the back side of Paperback Writer is Rain, the first song in which The Beatles intentionally mixed in a tape playing backward.

Paperback Writer was released in June 1966 in Crowley's home country, the U.K., and reached #1 in both the U.S. and U.K. that same month.

6/66

Sgt Piper Back-writer, or Sir Gent Paper?

-j

[jarvitronics]

One last thought about Paperback Writer.

Of The Beatles' 27 #1 hits, Paperback Writer came smack dab in the center, at number 14.

The thirteen #1 songs preceding PBW dealt with boy-girl relationships. After PBW, all bets were off.

The next #1 featuring JPM as lead singer was Eleanor Rigby, the recording of which was completed on 6/6/66.

-j

[mommybird]

So much symbolism, Jarv. I have to wonder how much of it we can attribute to synchronicity. Those boys were clever, but they weren't that clever. Now, if they were being "handled" as has been suggested before on this forum, it could be the "handlers" who set everything up so that things would happen on certain dates.
John was a genius. I bet you a dollar to a bag of donuts that he was behind all the backmasking from day one. Now whether he did it for a lark, or for some deeper purpose, who knows ? John was John.

Jarv wrote:This plays into the hypothesis that Paul was tired and wanted out. If Faul really likes the 1,000 page story he can have it. If he gets tired of the game later on and wants out himself, he can always return to sender, i.e. ask Paul to Get Back

You're right in that Paul wanted out. What I think is the real iffy part is whether he knew what would happen when he pushed the envelope. The squeaky wheel doesn't always get the grease. The squeaky wheel sometimes gets replaced !
My personal opinion is that Paul was replaced alright, but it wasn't with any intention of him ever coming back.

[jarvitronics]

There may in fact be two images of Crowley on Sgt Pepper.

As beatlies mentioned in "The rotten apple 2" thread, the OTO Grand Lodge web site claims that two images of Crowley were intended for Pepper, but one was "removed" because it looked too much like McCartney. Read it here...

oto-usa.org/crowley.html

Now look at this image of Crowley. Notice the pointy ears.



Who is this pointy-eared bald RAOB gentleman, obscured and veiled behind the Temple Dors on the cover of Sgt Pepper?



Why, it's number 69! A dirty story of a dirty man. Always shouts out something obscene. Such a dirty old man.

-j

[jarvitronics]

This is the sleeve from the U.S. release of Paper Back-writer.



The images of John and George are backward.

-j

[JoJo]

jarvitronics said:

Who is this pointy-eared bald RAOB gentleman, obscured and veiled behind the Temple Dors on the cover of Sgt Pepper?



Why, it's number 69! A dirty story of a dirty man. Always shouts out something obscene. Such a dirty old man.

Hear no evil?