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.
The number 42 is the Great Number of the Curse. – Aleister Crowley, Liber CCCXXXIII, 1912.
7. A most evil number, whose perfection is impossible to attack. – Aleister Crowley, Liber 777, 1909.
77. OZ, the Goat, scil. of the Sabbath of the Adepts. The Baphomet of the Templars, the idol set up to defy and overthrow the false god–though it is understood that he himself is false, not an end, but a means. Note the 77 = 7 x 11, magical power in perfection. – Aleister Crowley, Liber 777, 1909.
333. ChVRVNZVN, see Liber 418, 10th Aethry. It is surprising that this large scale 3 should be so terrible a symbol of dispersion. There is doubtless a venerable arcanum here connoted, possibly the evil of Matter summó. 333 = 37 x 9 the accurséd. – Aleister Crowley, Liber 777, 1909.
Twenty-five (2 + 5 = 7) days after the sale of the Ruby Slippers on December 7th, 2024, at Heritage Auctions in Dallas, Texas, and 77 days after the supermoon of October 17th 2024, 42-year-old Shamsud-Din Bahar Jabbar, whose name has a sum of 77 using Pythagorean reduction[1] and is also from Texas, killed and wounded many when he drove his truck through the French Quarter in New Orleans, transforming it into the magickal Land of Oz. Syncing with the theatrical release of the Russian film The Wizard of Emerald City on January 1st, 2025 (the moon is a waxing crescent in Capricorn, the leaping goat, i.e., the godhead), the attack occurred at the intersection of Bourbon and Iberville Streets, a block from the Old Absinthe House (Bourbon and Bienville Streets), Aleister Crowley’s (1874-1947) favorite haunt in the Crescent City (the Mississippi River’s bend around the French Quarter resembles a crescent moon hence the moniker) when he wasn’t busy writing Moonchild (1917), summoning Diana’s brightness 77 days earlier. Of course, a few blocks from the scene of the carnage are two Ruby Slipper cafes, and the closest movie theater is the Prytania at Canal Place, located on the third floor of 333 Canal Street, suggesting the demon Choronzon’s involvement. Currently, the theater is playing both Wicked and Wicked Sing-A-Long films. Rob knows more but is keeping quiet for now as this curse is highly active! Cinema Symbolism 4 and Cinema Symbolism OZ coming soon.
(Left) The Wizard of Oz (1939) one-sheet poster, (top right) Oz‘s author L. Frank Baum, (bottom right) Professor Marvel with Dorothy Gale in The Wizard of Oz.
An astounding Jungian synchronicity (or Swedenborgian correspondence) occurred on the set of The Wizard of Oz that defies all rational explanation. The unbelievable story was told in Aljean Harmetz’s seminal The Making of the Wizard of Oz (1977),
“For Professor Marvel’s coat,” says Mary Mayer [a unit publicist on Oz], “they wanted grandeur gone to seed. A nice-looking coat but very tattered. So the Wardrobe Department went down to an old second-hand store on Main Street and bought a whole rack of coats. And Frank Morgan and the wardrobe man and Victor Flemming got together and chose one. It was kind of a Prince Albert coat. It was black broadcloth and it had a velvet collar, but the nap was all worn out off the velvet.” Helene Bowman recalls the coat as “ratty with age, a Prince Albert jacket with a green look.”
The coat fitted Morgan and had the right look of shabby gentility, and one hot afternoon Frank Morgan turned out the pocket. Inside was the name “L. Frank Baum.”
“We wired the tailor in Chicago,” says Mary Mayer, “and sent pictures. And the tailor sent back a notarized letter saying that the coat had been made for Frank Baum. Baum’s widow identified the coat, too, and after the picture was finished we presented it to her. But I could never get anyone to believe the story.”
The story was published once–as an example of the lies press agents are willing to tell in order get a story into print.[1]
[1] Aljean Harmetz, The Making of The Wizard of Oz (1977; repr., Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2013), 241-242.
In 777 (1909), Master Therion identifies 28 as his number of triumph and strength. Crowley writes “28 [7 + 7 + 7 + 7]. Attainable; and, so useful. ‘My victory,’ and ‘My power,’ says the Philosophus.” On Saturday, December 7, 2024, Heritage Auctions sold a screen-worn pair of the Ruby Slippers for $28 million (the final bid) in Dallas, Texas, the location of JFK’s assassination, and where Jack Ruby dispatched Lee Harvey OZwald, 61 years (6 + 1 = 7) earlier, continuing to remind us the curse is active.
Rob and Vadim continue their fascinating discussion about The Wizard of Oz (1939) and its nexus to the Back to the Future trilogy, John F. Kennedy (1917-1963), and President Donald J. Trump. This is the Russian dub – enjoy!
Rob returns to The Farm for his annual Masonic-Halloween Special 2024! Hosted by Recluse, and running 49 minutes long (72), Rob talks Immaculate (2024) and The First Omen (2024) in this spooktacular Samhain podcast! To listen to this show, click the banner:
To honor Samhain 2024, here is a spooky teaser from Cinema Symbolism 4 (coming along nicely).
In The House of the Devil (released on October 30th, 2009, this author’s 38th birthday), unsavory pizza turns up twice, foreshadowing and denoting the repugnant Ullmans (Tom Noonan and Mary Woronov), who hire an awkward college student, Samantha (Jocelin Donahue) to babysit a remote mansion during a lunar eclipse, wherein they plan to supernaturally impregnate her via a satanic rite. Their surname recalls The Shining’s Stuart Ullman (Barry Nelson, 1917-2007), who likewise employed an eccentric Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) to babysit a remote hotel where fiendish ghosts roam its gloomy corridors. In the former film, Greta Gerwig plays Megan, who, while eating greasy pizza at a diner, arms and hands imitate Levi’s Goat of Mendes’ as above, so below occult kinesics since her initials are G.G. = 77, the gesture also seen on July 4th, 1921 photo during the closing moments of Kubrick’s fright flick. Greta was born on August 4th, 1983, a date with a Pythagorean reduced value of 42,[1] the Dark Mother obviously influenced her Ozian tour de force Barbie years later, released on July 21st, 2023 = 7, 777, 7. Easter egg: when Samantha orders a pizza, she is asked if she wants “extra anchovies,” a clever nod to the comedy Loverboy (1989), meaning the deliveryman would be providing a hell of a lot more than pizzas; in The House with the Devil, the guy bringing the pizza is a demonic assassin, keeping a Sauron-like eye on the babysitter.
Since it is the haunting season, one of Rob’s Masonic-Halloween Specials has dropped early! Rob joins Nyx, hostess of the popular podcast Stygian Charters, analyzing Longlegs (2024) and Late Night with the Devil (2024). To listen to this soon-to-be classic 14th episode, click the banner:
Rob pre-recorded one of his annual Masonic-Halloween Specials last weekend with The Farm, discussing the the Aeon of Horus masterpieces Immaculate (2024) and The First Omen (2024). Rob will be on with Nyx of Stygian Charters this weekend analyzing Late Night with the Devil (2024) and Longlegs (2024), both Crowleyan-Ozian productions. These two kabalistic episodes will be released around Samhain, so check back for updates!
Rob returns to the airwaves in October with appearances on Stygian Charters and The Farm for two brand-new Masonic-Halloween Specials! Stay tuned for details.
Robert W. Sullivan IV 