So enjoy this one from my personal collection. It is a vintage signed photo of Margaret Hamilton (1902-1985) as the Wicked Witch of the West, inscribed, “Help, Bill, bring me a blotter! Oh dear me
here I – go – Best Wishes, Margaret Hamilton”

For Rob’s 2025 Masonic Halloween Special, he will be returning to The Farm podcast, hosted by Recluse, and will be analyzing the highly conspiratorial and creepy ass Under the Silver Lake (2018). However, this show will be released on November 10th, so in the meantime, enjoy these past Samhain classics!
I was finally able to acquire this from a fellow collector in California (along with another item). Behold the 1939 hardback first edition of The Wizard of Oz tied to the film’s release on August 25, 1939. The dust jacket is in near-mint condition, and the book, binding, and pages are also in mint condition; it is a choice example, the best I have ever seen. Not pictured is that the edition is inscribed and signed by Margaret Hamilton (1902-1985) on a blank page, the actress who portrayed the Wicked Witch of the West. One will notice that the price of the book in 1939 was $1.19 (as indicated on the interior of the dust jacket), which is 9/11 backward, as demons often communicate in reverse, anticipating and announcing the Crowleyan OZ-Rainbow death curse.

In Back to the Future II (1989), the Biff Tannen wax figure’s left hand (perhaps denoting the Left-Hand Path) pinches a gold horseshoe, signifying his unparalleled good luck, but generates a weird paradox, an ill omen, i.e., misfortune. The gold horseshoe appears briefly, syncing the video homage to “Mad Dog” Tannen on the monitor, foreshadowing a future event that will occur in the past. In Back to the Future III (1990), Buford shoots and kills Doc Brown over an 80-dollar dispute regarding a thrown horseshoe; in the late summer of 1885, Doc shooed Mad Dog’s horse, but when the shoe was thrown, Buford was hurled to the ground, so he shot the steed dead (valued at $75), broke a bottle of fine Kentucky Red Eye Whiskey (worth $5) that he was drinking, and wants Doc to recompense him for both. Cinema Symbolism Third Edition is coming along nicely.
Here’s a shocker: the name Ryan Wesley Routh has a sum of 77 using reverse Pythagorean reduction.[1] One cannot help but notice the Baphometic pentagram behind him, and it’s only a matter of time before The Wizard of Oz, The Dark Mother (42), Choronzon (333), and 93 turn up. More forthcoming…
[1] R/9 + y/2 + a/8 + n/4 = 23, W/4 + e/4 + s/8 + l/6 + e/4 + y/2 = 28, R/9 + o/3 + u/6 + t/7 + h/1 = 26; 23 + 28 + 26 = 77.
7. A most evil number, whose perfection is impossible to attack. – Aleister Crowley, Liber 777, 1909.
Shades of Suspira (1977, 2018), Black Swan (2010), Dirty Dancing (1987), The Shining (1980), and, of course, The Wizard of Oz (1939) manifest in the trailer; for example, Terry Gionoffrio’s (Julia Garner) light blue socks and red shoes (seen when the demon emerges) give her away, making her Dorothy Gale’s counterpart – a stranger in a strange land. Can’t wait to see this one. Easter egg: The Pale Crook is a knockoff of The Black Crook (1866), the first produced Broadway play that features a dark sorcerer as one of the antagonists. Naturally, Apartment 7A is scheduled to be released on September 27th, 2024, generating a Baphometic nexus, linking Crook to Thomas Matthew Crooks (2003-2024), who attempted to assassinate President Trump 77 days earlier on July 13th. Another Easter egg: Dracula (1931) is playing in the next theater over, written by Bram Stoker (1847-1912), who the Bramford is named after.
Recorded on June 22nd, 2024, Rob makes his debut appearance on the newly launched Paranormal Book Club. Listen to Rob analyze cinematic Freemasonry, Gnosticism, 9/11, Kabbalah, and preview Cinema Symbolism 4 and Cinema Symbolism OZ. Check it out! FYI: Tomorrow is Midsummer, June 24th, 2024, which is 77 days after the solar eclipse of April 8th, 2024. We’ll see if something wicked our way comes.
The Apotheosis of Chance: Being There (1979), a parable that reveals the Illuminati at its conclusion, also alludes to Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999) filming the 1969 moon landing in a NASA studio. When Chauncey Gardiner (Peter Sellers, 1925-1980) horses around in front of the television store, its shop windows are the lunar surface, complete with a video camera that projects his image onto a monitor on the moon’s surface. A jazz-rock cover of Richard Strauss’ (1864-1949) Also sprach Zarathustra (1896) booms over the scene, which immediately recalls Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) and its theme song, arguably one of the most recognizable signature tunes in cinema history. The tone poem, coupled with the storefront and Sellers, who starred in Kubrick’s Lolita (1962) and Dr. Strangelove (1964), suggests the legendary director shot the moon-landing footage, which must have been one of the worst-kept secrets in Hollywood.
In honor of the album’s 57th anniversary (June 1), here’s a little CS4 teaser.
It is not a coincidence that Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967), released precisely 20 years after Master Therion bought the farm (d. 1947, pictured on the upper left-hand side of the album), opens with the lyric, “♫ It was 20 years ago today ♫” when Sergeant Pepper–a stand-in for Crowley–“♫ taught the band to play ♫,” implying his postmortem influence on rock ‘n’ roll, coming into its own in the late 1940s.