Pre-Fall '66 PID themes

[linus]

Foreshadowngs of Abbey Road?

At the end of this scene, Paul calls his parked bicycle over to him and it falls over.

Many wonder if Abbey Road alludes to the Abbey of Thelema.
The Cult of Kaili painted the red footprints to lure the Beatles into their temple.

[linus]

Oct 3, 2013 2:15:39 GMT -5 linus said:

Lennon in suit of armor, and wearing beard from "...I'll murder you" scene in AHDN
on Revolver cover

Lennon was shot with a revolver

The other Tarot Trump in a suit of armor is the Death card

Interesting that there are three dead or dying people on the card, and the Pope remains alive.
Ringo plays the Pope in the film Lisztomania.

The three dying figures rising from their caskets in the Judgement card.
And Paul blowing the trumpet on the Revolver cover.

All roads lead back to Revolver.

That makes 4 Beatles albums with death & rebirth imagery on the cover (so far). 3 of which from before 1967.

And that’s not taking into account, Jayne Mansfield/Billie in the Beatles For Sale mural,
George turned around on AHDN,
The Eye of Horus imagery on With The Beatles
And the Beatles peering down into the Abyss on Please Please Me, which was their first album. The first Tarot card is The Fool, he is shown about to step off into the Abyss.



On Crowley’s Tarot, the Moon card is depicted with a beetle pushing the sun.
track 5 ‘I’ll Follow the Sun’
track 6 ‘Mr. Moonlight’
"It's been a hard day's night." The Moon card represents the "dark night of the soul", and the scarab pushing the sun represents the nightly journey of Ra through the Egyptian Underworld to be reborn in the morning as Khepri - the original "hard day's night".
Notice the subtle differences between the twin Anubises. (sound familiar?)
The one on the left is actually Set, the murderer of Osiris. Set represents the ability to defeat the demons of the unconscious mind. Anubis acts as the guide through the darkness of the Underworld.
They hold in their hands the staff of resurrection.

The Moon card is attributed to the Zodiac of Pisces, the twin fish.

Speaking of twins, The Zodiac of Gemini is attributed to The Lovers card. Which Crowley says should be called The Brothers.
What is interesting is that the earliest version of this card depicted Cain and his slain brother Abel, with Eve & Lillith on either side. Cain holding the blood-soaked Hammer of Thor, with which he murdered his brother. “Maxwell’s silver hammer came down upon his head.”
Crowley's Lovers card illustrates the Alchemical marriage of the Solar King and the Lunar Queen.
Even more interesting is that when Crowley’s Tarot deck is arranged in a Vesica Piscis, The Lovers card, the Gemini, is directly above The Tower card.



The Tower card depicts an eye overseeing the destruction of the Tower, more specifically, the old Aeon. The eye represents both the Eye of Horus (the New Aeon) and the Eye of Shiva the Destroyer. The crumbling tower also traditionally represents the transcendence of the state of manifestation, the destruction of one's previous notions & ego on it's way up the Tree of Life to Tiphareth.
Crowley states that the Lion-Serpent represents the two forms of desire: the Will to Live and the Will to Die.
The Tower card is associated with the Hebrew letter Peh, which means mouth. Eyes and mouths also form the shape of a Vesica Piscis, which, btw, means fish bladder. (going back to Pisces).

The Tower card is also attributed to the planet Mars. The twins Romulus & Rhemus, who built the foundation of Rome, were born of Mars. Taken with all this; the destruction of the Twin Towers corresponds with the destruction of the new Roman Empire.


Crowley’s O.T.O. logo is also in the shape of a Vesica Piscis.

[iameye]

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Oct 25, 2013 8:18:21 GMT -5 iameye said:

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[linus]

Oct 3, 2013 1:59:37 GMT -5 linus said:

From the film A Hard Day's Night


The very next scene after this line is where they rehearse ‘I'm Happy Just To Dance with You’.

The next scene after that is when Ringo & Grandpa are in the diner.
The book Ringo reads in the diner is




The 1959 film adaptation of Anatomy of a Murder starrs James Stewart as Paul Biegler. His best friend in the film is named Parnell McCarthy.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatomy_of_a_Murder
The artwork for the book cover was done by Saul Bass.
In the Bible, Saul becomes Paul
Bass
bass guitar

Then this is the very next scene

Ah, I'm Happy Just To Dance With You contains the line:
"If somebody tries to take my place, let's pretend we just can't see his face."



Right after George sings that line in the song, it cuts to Paul cracking up.



Again, Ringo shooting Paul

This also ties in with Ringo's wife Barbara Bach starring in James Bond:The Spy Who Loved Me
which was released on 7/7, Ringo's birthday.
In the film she rides in a Lotus Submarine.
in '66, Ringo sang Yellow Submarine, and Tara Browne died in his Lotus.
Bach's character in The Spy Who Loved Me was Agent XXX.
X is the 24th letter. 2 + 4 = 6
X also = 6 in Pythagorian numerology.

[linus]

Oct 14, 2013 2:26:47 GMT -5 linus said:

in How I Won the War, when Lennon’s character dies he looks at the camera and says, “I knew this would happen. You knew it would happen, didn’t ya?”
Earlier in the film, another character predicts his own death, while cutting into one of Lennon’s lines.

The German poster for How I Won the War has Lennon in the bullseye.
And more beheading imagery.

And speaking of Gewann, I mean, Jack MacGowran; he is not only in this film with Lennon, but he also stars in Polanksi's Fearless Vampire Killers as The Professor, with Sharon Tate. He also stars as The Professor in Wonderwall, which George Harrison wrote/recorded the soundtrack for.
He's also in The Exorcist, and in Polanksi's Cul-De-Sac with Donald Pleasence, who starred in Eye of the Devil with Tate.
Jack's bio states, "He established his professional reputation as a member of the Abbey Players in Dublin.”
Aunt Jessie from MMT plays Tate's mother in Fearless Vampire Killers.




Baby Cherub heads often adorn gravestones.
It is Paul who has the baby doll head on his lap, and has the other held to his head on the Butcher cover.


Paul's watch also plays prominently in their photos.
Time & Death being associated with Saturn/Chronos.



The original title for ‘For No One’ was ‘Why Did It Die?’

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/For_No_One

[linus]

Billy Liar, a 1963 British film based on the book of the same name, which was published in 1959.
The lead character is compulsive liar and constant daydreamer Billy Fisher. The Tarot Death card is attributed to the Hebrew letter Nun, which means Fish.
Billy works for an Undertaker at a funeral home.
He co-writes pop songs with his best friend. Their song ‘Twisterella’ gets published. (Twist & Shout)
He wants to be a paperback writer.
Whenever he gets mad at somebody he imagines shooting them with a machine gun.
He has two fiancés. One is named Rita.
His fiancés are constantly talking about their Ring, which they unknowingly share. When the two women first meet, they are standing under signs that read "Bingo"
Billy takes one of them for a walk through a graveyard.
Jessie Robbins, Aunt Jessie from MMT, is also in the film. She is sitting in the waiting room of the hospital when Billy goes to check on his dying grandmother. Jessie gets up right as Billy’s mom says to him, “What a fine mess you’ve gotten yourself into.” A few seconds later his mom says, “We all can’t be Shakespeares.”

Jessie Robbins also plays the mother of Sharon Tate’s character in Polanski’s Fearless Vampire Killers. Which also stars Jack MacGowran, who starred in Wonderwall, the film George Harrison wrote/recorded the soundtrack for, which was the first Apple release.

The man who plays Billy's father is actor Wilfred Pickles, who plays Uncle Fred in The Family Way, which McCartney & G. Martin wrote the soundtrack for.

Billy sometimes gets the names of his fiancés mixed up, which brings to mind the mixed identities in Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead & American Psycho. Remember, in the latter, Jared Leto played Paul Allen, who was killed. Paul Allen had landed the coveted Fisher account. Jared Leto (JL) also played Mark David Chapman in Chapter 27.


Billy’s grandmother died at 11:07
11 x 7 = 77
The value of the Hebrew word OZ = 77
Dorothy was taken to Oz by a Twister.
In his imaginary eulogy for his grandmother, Billy says she was known as “The Lady of the Lamb.” (shears)

from a scene in the funeral car.

He often imagines himself wearing this Pepper-like suit.


Billy Liar was also a famous play, and a tv show in the early-70s.

[cherilyn7]

Nov 12, 2013 4:47:15 GMT -5 linus said:

Billy Liar, a 1963 British film based on the book of the same name, which was published in 1959.
The lead character is compulsive liar and constant daydreamer Billy Fisher. The Tarot Death card is attributed to the Hebrew letter Nun, which means Fish.
Billy works for an Undertaker at a funeral home.
He co-writes pop songs with his best friend. Their song ‘Twisterella’ gets published. (Twist & Shout)
He wants to be a paperback writer.
Whenever he gets mad at somebody he imagines shooting them with a machine gun.
He has two fiancés. One is named Rita.
His fiancés are constantly talking about their Ring, which they unknowingly share. When the two women first meet, they are standing under signs that read "Bingo"
Billy takes one of them for a walk through a graveyard.
Jessie Robbins, Aunt Jessie from MMT, is also in the film. She is sitting in the waiting room of the hospital when Billy goes to check on his dying grandmother. Jessie gets up right as Billy’s mom says to him, “What a fine mess you’ve gotten yourself into.” A few seconds later his mom says, “We all can’t be Shakespeares.”

The man who plays Billy's father is actor Wilfred Pickles, who plays Uncle Fred in The Family Way, which McCartney & G. Martin wrote the soundtrack for.

Most interesting Linus: there does seem to be a lot of "coincidences" (I don't believe in them)...the same names keep coming up (in AHDN Paul's grandad was played by Wilfred Brambell, another old actor); regarding Jessie Robbins the Robbins family are related to "Paul McCartney". Having seen her play the part of Ringo's aunt Jessie in MMT (she didn't change one bit in 5 years!), I had not realised she was a "real" actress not just getting the part as she was related to Paulie! However, I'm now thinking that Jessie is more likely related to "Bill". The scene with the hearse is strange (approaching the zebra crossing "Abbey Road"?) There are so many double meanings here; also the photo of The Beatles with the ladder. It portrays a pyramid shape (why does a stepladder need to be in this photo?) with Paul underneath, however, George and Ringo both have a hand on John's shoulder and arm I think symbolising that John will be sacrificed? Strange picture. One always wears something different from the others: in this photo Ringo is wearing a pink shirt. Why? PS. I don't think JPM wrote film scores, but Bill may have.

[linus]

Paul of all people, in 1966 of all years.
“If one of us dropped out, the group would break up.”


Tiger Beat magazine April 1966



“…without Ringo, John, Paul and George working together as a team, there could be no Beatles. Not one of them could ever be replaced. And many times each Beatle has said, “If one of us were to quit… we’d all have to quit. We wouldn’t know how to get along without everyone one of us working together.”



And then top it off with a feature article on some PIDers' favorite 'Faul', Keith Allison. With the headline, “This Paul McCartney look alike has exciting plans!”


“…these fab assets…”
“And he does look like Paul McCartney. He’s handsome, tall…”
“Standing 6”1’ tall and weighing 165 pounds… Hidden behind his brawny build…”
“In 1963 and 1964 he worked with Peter Asher & Gordon"


His hair parts on the left, and it looks like his earlobes are attached. Keith's beard grows differently than P/Faul's, too.
If Keith was a replacement, why'd they make him look less like Paul?



Keith did a cover of ‘The Girl Can’t Help It’, which is the theme song to the film starring Beatle friend and car-crash victim Jayne Mansfield.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=lyaKnbFBGM8


Beatles For Sale album, inner gatefold image, the lads in front of a mural at Twickenham Studios. Not only is Paul holding a cigarette in his right hand, a la Abbey Road, and the mural quite similar to the Sgt. Pepper crowd, but next to his head is an image of Jayne Mansfield from the film It Takes a Thief. In Which she plays a car thief named Billie. In 1967 Jayne died in a car wreck and was scalped by the ceiling of the car, thus losing her hair.

Legend has it that the Beatles were inspired to finish recording The White Album after watching The Girl Can't Help It on tv. A film that was a big inspiration to them in their early days.
(was Don't Pass Me By about her?)


And speaking of Billie
Patty Duke starred as the title character in the 1965 film Billie. In it she has a pet sheepdog*.
Patty Duke also had the famous tv show where she played her own identical cousin.


Patty Duke's husband John Astin played his own twin in Candy, which starred Ringo.
Ringo played his own identical doppelganger in the 1978 tv movie Ringo.
Hayley Mills starred in the original Parent Trap, the theme song to which is "Let's get together, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah!" McCartney (allegedly) wrote the soundtrack for her film The Family Way.
Lindsay Lohan also played her own twin in Parent Trap (1998). She again played her own twin named Dakota Moss in the film I Know Who Killed Me, which came out the same year as Chapter 27 in which she played Jude, with Jared Leto as Mark David Chapman. In I Know Who Killed Me, her boyfriend is named Jerrod. Jared Leto plays his own identical doppelganger in his band's video 'The Kill (Bury Me)' which was filmed as an homage to The Shining. (In I Know Who Killed Me, Dakota's twin is buried alive).
The other members of the band also play their own identical doppelgangers, and towards the end, they perform at a ball in which all the attendees are twins.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yvGCAvOAfM
Jared Leto described the meaning of the ‘The Kill (Bury Me)’, "It's really about a relationship with yourself. It's about confronting your fear and confronting the truth about who you are." He has also said it is about "confrontation as a crossroads" — coming face-to-face with who you really are. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kill

Double Fantasy is the Lennon LP that had just come out in the fall of 1980. Jude convinced Chapman to buy a copy for Lennon to autograph.


The three line III design is very similar to glyphs used by Jared Leto’s band, 30 Seconds to Mars.

III X
Jared Leto also starred as the murderer in Lonely Hearts.
He also played Paul Allen, the murder victim in American Psycho, which is rife with mixed identities, just like Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead.
And he starrs as Paul Gardner in Urban Legend.
(In American Psycho, his apartment overlooks Central Park, as did Lennon’s. Leto stars with Christian 'Batman' Bale, who plays his own identical twin in The Prestige, while Hugh Jackman's character clones himself).

Sheryl Lee plays Laura Palmer, the murder victim in Twin Peaks, and also plays her own identical cousin. Kyle MacLachlan plays Agent Cooper, the investigator of her murder. He also plays Paul Atreides in Dune, and his father is Leto Atreides.
Sheryl Lee also plays Beatle friend Astrid Kirchherr in the film Backbeat.


Jeff Bridges plays his own doppelganger in Tron. He is also the main character in the 1976 King Kong which takes place on the Twin Towers, and he signs a check dated Sept. 11th in The Big Lebowski, where he plays the title character, and there is another Mr. Lebowski in the film.


*Patty Dukes dog in Billie is named Clown.
In 1967, Jane Asher starred in The Winter's Tale with Laurence Harvey (the manchurian candidate in The Manchurian Candidate).
In The Winter's Tale, Asher's character is adopted by a shepherd, whose son goes by the name "Clown". She becomes a shepherd girl, and is later rescued by a woman named Paulina.
Later, a statue is made of her biological mother and it comes to life.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Winter's_Tale

In 1965, Asher starred in Pygmalion, a story about falling in love with a statue and bringing it to life.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pygmalion_(play)


Beatlemania, the waxen Eidelons hiding Sophia (Loren) Wisdom.
"We just sent four dummies out there." George Harrison on the Dick Cavett Show

[linus]

Their first outdoor photo session after Ringo joined the band, Paul in front of wrecked car.

One of Paul's first solo hits was a song called 'Junk', in 1970
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbpHewkDrgA


Here's the whole set from the junkyard photo shoot.
They sure loved that wrecked car.
www.beatlesource.com/savage/1962/62.09.XX%20peter%20kaye/03bally/62.09.xxbeautyspot.html

And remember they also loved guns. How many different photo shoots were there during the Beatlemania years with guns? 5 or 6?



Ringo seems pretty happy about Paul being in the box.





The A.'. A.'. 7-pointed Star of Babalon
The seal upon the Ring of IT.
Notice the 77 - the Gematrical value of Oz
Ringo was born on 7/7

Oz also means goat in Hebrew. Pan also = 77 in Greek Gematria. Both tie into The Devil Tarot card mentioned in the post below.

from Crowley’s Liber Oz
Notice the 7-pointed starr within the ring.


The name Ringo, transposed into Hebrew, resh-yod-nun-gimel-ayin, has the Gematrical value of 333. The name Choronzon also equals 333. He is the Dweller on the Threshold, the devil of Crowley's 10th Aethyr.
Choronzon is the Dweller on the Threshold who strips the Adept of his ego.
(hence Ringo always shooting Paul?)


"Every man and woman is a star" - Crowley

[linus]

from The Book of Lies by Aleister Crowley.
Chapter 16
The Stag-Beetle
Death implies change and individuality; if thou be THAT which hath no person,
which is beyond the changing, even beyond the changelessness, what hast thou to do with death?
The birth of individuality is ecstasy; so also is its death.
In love the individuality is slain; who loves not love!
Love death therefore, and long eagerly for it.
Die Daily.

In his commentary he states the Stag-Beetle is a reference to Kheph-ra the Egyptian God of Midnight, who bears the sun through the Underworld. He says he used the Stag-Beetle because of its horns which represent phallic energy. He states that the last line is in regards to the daily practice of Samadhi.
He also states this chapter is a comment on the previous chapter….


Chapter 15
The Gun-Barrel
Mighy and erect is this Will of mine, this Pyramid of fire whose summit is lost in Heaven. Upon it have I burned the corpse of my desires.
Mighty and erect is this Phallus of my Will. The seed thereof is That which I have borne within me from Eternity;
And it is lost within the Body of Our Lady of the Stars. (Nu/Nuith)
I am not I; I am but a hollow tube to bring down Fire from Heaven.
Mighty and marvelous is this Weakness. This Heaven which draweth me into Her Womb, this Dome which hideth, which abosrbeth, Me.
This is The Night wherein I am lost, the Love through which I am no longer I.

In his commentary he states that this chapter is in regards to the 15th Trump of the Tarot, The Devil. He also states that the Rosey Cross is the Universal Key.

As we see on The Devil card, the phallus reaches into the sky and penetrates the body of Nu/Nuith, who is The Milky Way. The Phallus or dick(Richard), is the Star Key entering the ring o' stars.
Also notice the figures in the right testicle; three are upright while one is prostrate. And in the left, we see three figures subdued by a 'minotaur'.
Also notice again the horns of phallic energy.

Billy goat?
The Hebrew word Oz means goat with one pronunciation, and strength with another.


Incidentally, Chapter 14 is titled Onion-Peelings, and is very poignant to the research of mysteries.


Chapter 13 is about the Adept crossing the Abyss. In the first paragraph it states, “Thy teeth fixed in the Sodom-Apple.” Is that how Paul chipped his tooth? Shortly before crossing the Abyss in Got To Get You Into My Life and Tomorrow Never Knows.
(Remember, Ringo means Apple in Japanese).


Skipping back up now to Chapter 18, titled Dewdrops, which is about The Moon card
First paragraph
Verily, love is death, and death is life to come. Man returneth not again; the stream floweth not uphill; the old life is no more; there is a new life that is not his.

Last paragraph
This is the Dew of Immortality.

Notice on the Moon card, the moon is dripping dew drops of blood into the river “relax and float downstream” “Stay in bed, float upstream”, and we have the Scarab/Kheph-ra pushing the sun up from the waters of the subconscious. The Moon card represents midnight and the ‘dark night of the soul’.
And as previously mentioned, notice the subtle differences in the TWIN anubises. (‘Paul vs. Faul’?)





Back to the Stag-Beetle
Remember, the McCartney Clan shield is emblazoned with a stag.


and as Beacon pointed out:
In 1966 Paul received, or commisioned, this painting by Peter Blake of Sir Edwin Landseer's 'Monarch of the Glen'.

[linus]

in 1961 Jane Asher starred in the film The Greengage Summer, aka Loss of Innocence.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Greengage_Summer

In it she plays a 13 year-old girl who is on vacation with her siblings.
She takes a liking to one of the main-characters, the hotel errand-boy named Paul.

who later falls to his death during a fight.


In one scene, Paul paints this fake blood on the wall with fake bullet holes, to attract guests looking for old hotels with war history appeal.
In this scene Jane says, “Paul says blood makes good business.”
(no subtitles on the dvd)



In another (seemingly meaningless) scene, Jane and her younger sister are in the kitchen. Jane is conversing with the maid while her sister is simultaneously conversing with the chef.
At one point the younger sister asks what the figures are on the cake, and the chef answers that they are members of a band and that the cake is for the instrument-makers ball. While at the same exact time, Jane reads from the newspaper about a jewel thief that held up the museum with a Revolver.
There was no apparent reason this scene needed to have both dialogues spoken simultaneously.


The jewel theft becomes important later in the movie, but there was no real reason for the child to ask about the brass-band cake figures. Especially not over the other dialogue.
This scene begins with a close-up of the band figures.
Notice it is a 5-member band, with a conductor.


And of course, it was Paul who put up the banner for the ball.


In the film, Jane is a shutterbug always carrying around her camera, as were the Beatles during Beatlemania.


At the end of the film, the kids are put into the custody of their Uncle William.


Also notice the green fruit motif throughout the film.

They mention that they’re green peaches, but they are fashioned much like Apples.
Here is the entire title sequence. each title card includes a painting of these fruits. www.youtube.com/watch?v=IENHrTtVeSM



Sort of interesting Pepper-like design on the cuff of Jane’s older sister’s coat sleeve, which she wears when Paul dies.



When toasting, Paul says, “To the Devil and the cockroaches.” (beetles?)
Here is this entire scene: www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ4iZ8w2pyk


The actor who played Paul was David Saire.
In 1962 he was in an episode of Suspense titled “Killer in the Band”
And in 1967 he was in an episode of Man In a Suitcase titled “Dead Man’s Shoes”.
www.imdb.com/name/nm0756803/?ref_=tt_cl_t8

[LOVELYRITA]

Interesting thread, indeed looking to other "British" works...you do find strange connections...who knew?

[astro4]

Here is a 1979 cover image of a Beatle Fanzine 'Strawberry Fields forever,' entitled 'The Savage Young Beatles and Paul's ... Coffin' and dated c.1961. 

It looks iike the Fab Four in Hamburg ... with Paul tragically dying! Anyone know anything about this???