The November 26, 2025, shooting of the National Guard members in Washington, D.C., occurred precisely 77 days after the assassination of Charlie Kirk on September 10, 2025. The killing occurred five days after the release of Wicked: For Good on November 21, 2025, generating a calendrical pentagram. The shooting also occurred 7 minutes from the AMC Georgetown 14 (7 doubled, i.e., 77), the closest venue where Wicked is currently playing to audiences. The theater’s address is 3111 K Street NW, which has a Pythagorean reduced value of 42.[1]
Debuting a little after Samhain, Rob’s Masonic-Halloween Special 2025 has now been released! Click the banner to listen to Rob on The Farm podcast discussing the arcana of Under the Silver Lake (2018) with Recluse. Check it out!
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.
Brand new podcast! On Sunday August 10, 2025, Rob returned to Forbidden Knowledge News to preview his next book, Cinema Symbolism 4, and talk a little occult movie symbolism. Check it out!
As Cinema Symbolism 4 nears completion, I will share a teaser from Chapter V called “Alchemical Hollywood.” I believe I may have posted some of this before, but here it is regardless. I should be done writing it the first week of September 2025, but then have to start the editing and formatting process. In the meantime, enjoy!
Hermes is the spirit of alchemy because he is a deity of complete being, revealing what many forget in their inhabitation of a half-world: chaos and the ocean are the secret grounds of the cosmos and the city. Actress Audrey Hepburn was paired with a paragon of the citrinitas, Fred Astaire (1899-1987), who was always searching for the goddess Terpsichore, in the musical romantic comedy Funny Face (1957). Hepburn, who plays Jo Stockton, an albedo exemplar, is both sprite and diva, embodying the nigredo and rubedo, i.e., she is a bashful melancholic bookseller and vivacious supermodel; in 36 seconds of film (Master Therion’s qabalistic number for Mercurius), she successfully performs alchemy, forever turning from mere mortal into everyone’s ideal goddess when she descends the marble staircase in the Louvre, swathed in a red Givenchy gown, signifying the spagyric art’s rubedo, with her crimson scarf flying around the pagan statue The Winged Victory of Samothrace, transmogrifying her into Nike if only temporarily.
The spagyric art pervades pop culture, but before delving into cinema, let us revisit CS2 and explore the most excellent alchemical-Masonic music video ever made: Gloria Estefan’s “♫ Live for Loving You ♫,” which was the fourth and last single from her third solo album, the Luciferian titled Into the Light (1991). The video opens with an Enochic sun rising over a black and white checkered floor, evoking Solomon’s Temple and the Threshing Floor of Ornan the Jebusite, recalling not only the First Temple, but also the construction of the Second Temple, i.e., the Temple of Zerubbabel, the purview of Masonry’s high degrees. The video’s director then appears before the rising sun, incarnating as a cigarette-smoking flamingo between two palm trees, representing the Pillars of Enoch, thereby transmogrifying into a living Royal Arch Word, the Tetragrammaton, which implies that the music video is a Masonic production. Owls and serpents, i.e., wisdom totems, appear throughout the music video, signifying esoteric Masonic knowledge that is veiled in both the Blue Lodge and high-degree rituals. In a rainforest, Gloria starts as an unassuming earth goddess but, as the video progresses, she exhibits all the colors of alchemical transition, specifically black, white, and red dresses; at one point, she drives a red car with a black and white dog sporting a red scarf tied around its neck. Gloria Estefan dons a white bathrobe alluding to the albedo, a sexy black ensemble representing the nigredo, and a sleek yellow bodysuit, embracing the citrinitas and betokening her animus, while relaxing in a rickshaw pulled by an Apollonian male, the sun. Gloria must conclude the alchemical process she began by becoming the rubedo, shrouded in the nigredo, as they often taint each other. Thus, Gloria wears a sleek and sultry red dress and high heels, indicating completion of the magnum opus, while sitting on a nocturnal crescent moon, the supreme symbol of the sacred feminine, i.e., the albedo. The great work finished, Gloria has transitioned from a telluric numen to a majestic lunar goddess like Isis, Diana, Hecate, and Artemis, transcending the Earth and its inhabitants by becoming Mozart’s apotheosized Queen of the Night, ruling in the starry canopy above.[1]
[1] See this author’s Cinema Symbolism 2 and The Royal Arch of Enoch.
(Left) Gloria Estefan achieves the rubedo, enveloped in the nigredo, at the conclusion of the music video for her song, “♫ Live for Loving You ♫.” (Right) The cover of Gloria Estefan’s Greatest Hits depicts the Cuban-American singer in a white blouse, representing the albedo, i.e., her femininity, and wearing red high heels, fishnets, and a fairy tutu dress, the rubedo, because the album is the culmination of her career, at least up to the early 1990s. Easter egg: the album was released on October 30, 1992, this author’s twenty-first birthday.
Join Rob on Monday, July 7th, ’25 (2 +5 = 7), i.e., 777, when he will be live on Jimmy Church’s Fade to Black! Rob will be previewing Cinema Symbolism 4, the Rainbow-OZ death curse, and discussing the Crowleyan masterpieces Longlegs (2024) and Late Night with the Devil (2024) The show debuts live at 10:00 p.m. EST; to watch, click the banner:
The Rob Sullivan Experience will be live on July 7, (77) 2025, when Rob returns to Fade to Black, hosted by fellow History Channel personality Jimmy Church. The show debuts at 10:00 p.m. EST; to watch, click the banner:
The Kenny Chesney song “The Tin Man,” which conjures The Wizard of Oz (1939) in its lyrics, was originally released on April 19th, 1994, on Capricorn Records, suggesting the Goat of Mendes, the leaping goat, the godhead, a year after the Branch Davidian Compound burned to the ground (4/19/93) and a year before the OKC Murrah Building terrorist attack (4/19/95), was re-released on his Greatest Hits album on September 26th, 2000. Forty-two weeks later, on July 23rd, 2001, “The Tin Man” was re-released as a single; its music video was scheduled to be filmed seven weeks later, on September 11th, 2001, in front of the World Trade Center but was canceled a few days beforehand because BNA Records (the new label) did not believe a video was necessary. “The Tin Man,” both the Ozian character and the tune’s name, has a sum of 49 = 72 using reverse Pythagorean reduction.[1]Cinema Symbolism 4, Cinema Symbolism OZ, and Cinema Symbolism Third Edition are coming along splendidly.
Robert W. Sullivan IV 