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.
Kevin Bacon got his start in Friday the 13th (1980), which is why he is in MaXXXine, making his appearance an art of memory trick. It looks like the Cecil Hotel also turns up, one of Richard Ramirez’s (1960-2013) haunts. Easter egg: Rob predicts that Pearl’s ghost (or maybe Maxine’s) will kill Elisa Lam during the film’s epilogue.
On the evening of February 27th, 2024, Rob was a guest on William Ramsey Investigates discussing movie symbolism and sorcery. The show streamed live, so if you missed it, here it is – check it out!
Weird Barbie (left, Kate McKinnon) is a stand-in for Oz‘s Glinda the Good Witch of the North (right, Billie Burke, 1884-1970), and the high heel and sandal allude to Dorothy’s Ruby Slippers (insert, lower right), initiating Barbie’s (Margot Robbie) journey of gnosis.
Just in time for Thanksgiving, Rob makes his second appearance on the Afraid of Nothing podcast, talking everyone’s favorite subject: The Wizard of Oz Death Curse. Enjoy, beware, take care, and happy holidays! To listen to this brand-new show, click the banner:
The Goat of Mendes wrote, produced, and directed the 847th episode of Sesame Street, debuting February 10th, 1976, with Margaret Hamilton (1902-1985) reprising her role as the green-skinned Wicked Witch of the West, featuring a segment wherein the green-colored Oscar qua OZcar the Grouch falls in love with her. However, parents protested, believing the installment was designed to terrify children, not entertain or educate them; hence, it never re-aired and was considered lost until it was leaked online on June 18th, 2022. The episode was the 52nd show of Sesame Street’s seventh season, 5 + 2 = 7, 77, and 847 = 77 x 11 or 7 x 112. Additionally, there appears to be a Baphometic influence since the show’s beginning; according to the U.S. Department of Education, during Sesame Street’s first ten years (1969-1979), 77% of preschoolers watched it once a week. In 2008, it was estimated that 77 million Americans had watched the series as youngsters.
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