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Cinema Symbolism 4 teaser

Posted in Alchemy, Astrology, Blog, Blog post, Carl Jung, Cinema, Cinema Symbolism, Film, Freemasonry, Gnosticism, Halloween, Hollywood, Illuminati, Joseph Campbell, Kabbalah, Lucifer, Magick, Movie History, Movies, Mysticism, Mythology, Occult Hollywood, Star Wars, Supernatural, Symbolism, Tarot Cards, The Occult, United States, Wizard of Oz with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on October 18, 2023 by robertwsullivan4

“The ordeals thou shalt oversee thyself, save only the blind ones. Refuse none, but thou shalt know & destroy the traitors. I am Ra-Hoor-Khuit; and I am powerful to protect my servant. Success is thy proof: argue not; convert not; talk not over much! Them that seek to entrap thee, to overthrow thee, them attack without pity or quarter; & destroy them utterly. Swift as a trodden serpent turn and strike! Be thou yet deadlier than he! Drag down their souls to awful torment: laugh at their fear: spit upon them!” (AL III:42). So why did this skinwalker/Native American death hex latch onto Aleister Crowley’s Qabala, the new era’s prophet? Two of Crowley’s preeminent numbers for this neo-astrological epoch are, quite literally, The Wizard of Oz, designating the Æon of Horus/Aquarius. The first is 77, OZ, the new solar messiah, the Goat of Mendes, and the second is 42, the deathblow, symbolized by the rainbow, as in “♫ Over the Rainbow ♫,” baptized the Dark Mother by Master Therion, the destructive elemental linked to the devil Chronzon, whose number is 333 (vide supra). According to Aiwass, the new Æon began in 1904; adding a cusp phase, it is apparent that the Piscean Age terminated on September 11th, 2001, commencing the Horus/Aquarian Age proper because sevens are omnipresent, signifying Baphometic diablerie. For instance, the date has a reverse ordinal value of 154 = 77 x 2,[1] and the month’s name comes from the Latin septem, meaning seven, as it was originally the seventh of ten months on the ancient Roman calendar; thus, septem multiplied by the day of the week is 7 x 11 = 77, making it the day of the Goat. The Dark Mother, the multicolored arch, 42, was also very busy on 9/11; for example, at Newark International Airport (now Newark Liberty), Flight 93 was delayed 42 minutes on the runway before takeoff. But this was not the first time OZ and the rainbow reared their ugly heads on 9/11. Forty-four years earlier, the number of Horus and a digit Crowley links to blood sacrifice, on September 11th, 1957, ABC aired preview segments of the Rainbow Road to Oz on Disneyland’s fourth-anniversary show, but the project was shelved a few months later. Forty-four is also connected to the World Trade Center because it opened on the fourth day of April, the fourth month, 44, of 1973, which reduces to the number two (1 + 9 + 7 + 3 = 20 = 2 + 0 = 2), indicating twins or doubles, implying the WTC complex was constructed to be nothing more than a vessel to house burnt offerings to Horus qua the Goat of Mendes. On that same date, the demons from the Qliphoth were summoned via an Apollonian megastar: on the evening of April 4th, 1973, NBC aired Elvis’ Aloha from Hawaii via Satellite concert, the highest-rated program of the year, which was recorded at the Honolulu International Center (now the Neal S. Blaisdell Center), located at 777 Ward Avenue. April 4th, 1973, also anticipated the total lunar eclipse of April 4th, 1996; the blood moon, becoming a mark of the Ruby Slippers, signifies calamity, the destruction of all things, and the end of the world qua solar age.[2] This blood moon, in turn, foreshadowed the partial lunar eclipse of July 28th, 1999, with Diana/Artemis/Hecate reigning supreme in Aquarius, i.e., heralding the new age, 777 days before September 11th, 2001, when Christianity (the worship of the sun in Pisces), Islam (the worship of Venus), and Judaism (the sun in Aries mingled with the adoration of Saturn) became obsolete, but the Luciferian godhead lives! “The year is one!” – Roman Castevet/Steven Marcato, Rosemary’s Baby. And speaking of Luna, on September 11th, 2001, the moon was a waning crescent in the house of Gemini the Twins, fading away, signifying the two towers vanishing from NYC’s skyline. Easter egg: Baphomet and the Dark Mother made a cameo appearance with Bonesman and President George W. Bush on the morning of 9/11, as he was reading the short story “The Pet Goat” by American educationalist Siegfried “Zig” Engelmann (1931-2019) anthologized in the classroom workbook Reading Mastery: Rainbow Edition, Level 2, Storybook 1 (1994) to Floridian schoolchildren.

Gemini the Twins’ two brightest stars, Castor and Pollux, represent the mythological twin brothers of Helen of Troy, corresponding with Jachin and Boaz of Solomon’s Temple, and the Pillars of Hercules: the two promontories at the eastern entrance to the Strait of Gibraltar, a narrow opening 14 kilometers wide (7 doubled or 77) between the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean, separating the continents of Africa and Europe. Its glyph symbolizes two pieces of wood bound together, and its ruling planet is Mercury, alchemy’s destroying agent.

For reasons unknown, the death curse remained dormant until The Wizard of Oz began filming in 1938, evidenced by all the accidents that occurred on set, suggesting it was hexed, as this is when 77, the Goat, its play backed by 42 and sometimes 333, la Madre Oscura and Choronzon, appeared on the scene, identifying itself as the God of the new age, desiring death, annihilation, and bloodshed, ascending to the divine solar throne on 9/11. To begin with, the film’s starlet, Judy Garland, started consuming amphetamines and barbiturates, which allowed her to stay thin and energized, but it turned her into a dope fiend, putting her in an early grave at 47. Buddy Ebsen, the original Tin Man, nearly died when aluminum powder got into his lungs, sending him to the hospital for two weeks and forcing him to drop out. The Wicked Witch of the West, Margaret Hamilton, was severely burned, and her stunt double, Bertha “Betty” Danko (1903-1979), suffered two accidents. The first was minor, hurting her back, but it was the second, during the SURRENDER DOROTHY skywriting scene, that a pipe attached to Witch’s broomstick exploded, landing her in a hospital bed with a dreadful leg injury. Then there is the old urban legend that a midget portraying one of the Munchkins committed suicide on the set, visible in the background when Dorothy, Scarecrow, and the Tin Man cavort down the Yellow Brick Road, leaving the latter’s hovel behind. Is it a dead dwarf or a stork? Regardless, The Wizard of Oz was released to the public on August 25th, 1939, seven days before the outbreak of WWII.


[1] S/8 e/22 p/11 t/7 e/22 m/14 b/25 e/22 r/9 = 140, 11 = 11, 2 + 0 + 0 + 1 = 3; 140 + 11 + 3 = 154.

[2] The Rev. Timothy Harley, Moon Lore (London: Swan Sonnenschein, Le Bas & Lowrey, 1885), 153-154.

The King and Star Trek

Posted in Astrology, Blog, Blog post, Carl Jung, Cinema, Cinema History, Cinema Symbolism, Film, Movie History, Mysticism, Occult Hollywood, Star Trek, Symbolism, The Occult, TV Show with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , on January 24, 2023 by robertwsullivan4

All the Star Trek imagery in Elvis (2022) is there because it was one of the King’s favorite television shows. Keep your eyes peeled the next time you watch it.

Happy New Year – Cinema Symbolism 4 sneak peek

Posted in Alchemy, Astrology, Blog, Blog post, Carl Jung, Cinema, Cinema History, Cinema Symbolism, Classic Horror, Film, Freemasonry, Gnosticism, Halloween, Hollywood, Horror Movies, Illuminati, Joseph Campbell, Kabbalah, Madam Blavatsky, Midsommar, Monsters, Movie History, Movies, Mysticism, Mythology, Occult Hollywood, Philosophy, Secret Societies, Stanley Kubrick, Symbolism, Tarot Cards, The Occult, Wizard of Oz with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on December 29, 2022 by robertwsullivan4

Happy New Year! Enjoy this sneak peek at Cinema Symbolism 4 (the Preface, rough copy). Enjoy!

To this author, the thought of composing another occult movie book in the vein of Cinema Symbolism 2 (2017) and Cinema Symbolism 3 (2021) is, quite frankly, nauseating. I have no interest in writing another volume focusing on a particular movie, then analyzing it through an esoteric-Hermetic-Gnostic lens while identifying Easter eggs. I’ll take a rain check on that.

Instead, this time around, I am taking Cinema Symbolism 4 in another direction. While select films will get individual chapters (those with well-hidden undercurrents like The Batman, 2022), this book will focus on arcane topics and how specific movies project and visualize the occult, magic, and mythology into pop culture, casting powerful spells. For instance, rather than apply Joseph Campbell’s (1904-1987) monomyth to a certain film, I will present the elements of the hero’s journey and identify them as they appear in cinema proper. Indeed, I will continue to point out Easter eggs as I discover them; if I didn’t do that, what sort of analyst would I be?

And speaking of Easter eggs, how did I miss that elusive one in Mother! (2017) and that diabolical homage in The Witch: A New-England Folktale (2015). Mother!, a Gnostic flick that looks like it was directed by Valentinus (ca. 100-ca. 180 CE) and produced by Philo of Alexandria (ca. 25 BCE-ca. 50 CE), was dissected thoroughly in Cinema Symbolism 3 (2021) by yours truly. However, upon rewatching it in the autumn of 2021, I noticed the yellow elixir Mother (Jennifer Lawrence) drinks to ease her anxiety alludes to the Rolling Stones’ appropriately titled song “Mother’s Little Helper” (1966). The tune is about a mama who consumes yellow tranquilizers to alleviate her depression. Does not Lawrence’s Sophia-like Mother “… go running for the shelter of her mother’s little helper ♫” to get her through her “♫ busy dying days ♫” spent with the demiurgic, capricious Him (Javier Bardem)?

The Witch, a Luciferian masterpiece also scrutinized in Cinema Symbolism 3, was rewatched by this author during the summer of ’22. Once more, something jumped off my flat-screen television I hadn’t observed before. William’s (Ralph Ineson), the pride-infected father of the doomed family, ceaseless wood splitting hearkens back to The Amityville Horror (1979), wherein the hapless patriarch, George Lutz (James Brolin), also incessantly chops firewood. Whether the impetus is conscious or subconscious, Robert Eggers, The Witch’s director, uses woodcutting as an occult mnemonic, transferring the evil lurking inside 112 Ocean Avenue to the Puritan family’s seventeenth-century homestead where the satanic Black Phillip is king (because “ a crown grows out his head [and] to a nanny queen is wed ♫”).

Also left out of my last book was the origin of Twin Peaks’ (1990-2017) Dweller on the Threshold, a term lifted from the neo-Gnostic world of Madame Helena Blavatsky’s (1831-1891) Theosophy Society. The Russian mystic defined them as “certain maleficent astral doubles of defunct persons,” hence the entities inhabiting the Black Lodge representing the person’s shadow self and unresolved issues at the time of their death.[1] Make no mistake, David Lynch and his ilk are occult experts.

If the reader is familiar with Cinema Symbolism 3, then they should know Midsommar (2019) is a morbid retelling of The Wizard of Oz (1939) eighty years later. Ergo, the conspicuous airplane turbulence in the former is a throwback to the tornado in the latter. Just as a violent twister whisks Dorothy Gale (Judy Garland, 1922-1969) to a magical yet foreboding land, a bumpy flight speeds Dani Ardor (Florence Pugh) to a beautiful yet saturnine landscape accordingly. I can’t believe I did not pick up on this one earlier.

Then there is the solar tapestry woven around Elvis Presley’s (1935-1977) life that I analyzed in my last movie book. I thought I had nailed everything, only to recently learn the King of Rock ‘n’ Roll purchased Graceland in mid-March ’57, a few days before the vernal equinox when daylight and warmth overcome darkness; thus, Elvis’ heliacal career was on its way symbolized by his opulent estate. He married Priscilla (née Wagner) on May 1st, 1967. Beltane is midway between the vernal equinox and the summer solstice when daylight triumphs; ergo, it’s only appropriate for the Apollonian musical messiah to take a wife that day. Elvis’ daughter, Lisa Marie, was born on Imbolc, February 1st, 1968, halfway between the winter solstice and the vernal equinox when light continues to gain strength.

On top of that, the sun king’s manager, Col. Tom Parker (1909-1997), was born on June 26th, a mere two days after midsummer when the life-giving orb is at its apex in the northern hemisphere. Thanks to him, Elvis famously began performing at the International Hotel in Las Vegas on Lammas Eve, 1969, midway between the summer solstice and the vernal equinox signifying the forthcoming harvest while honoring the weakening sun. As such, Elvis would entertain audiences at the renowned venue up to the year he perished. However, the King met with the leader of the free world, the thirty-seventh President of the United States, Richard Milhous Nixon (1913-1994), on December 21st, 1970, the day before midwinter when the sun is annually renewed or born again, signifying his pop culture transcendence.  

How the fuck did I miss these? The answer: ultimately, no one is perfect.

Unlike my other cinema tomes, this preface will be brief as my purpose in writing it is to explain the book’s template, then move on to the good stuff. As with my other volumes, keep an eye out for Easter eggs concealed in the text and image layout. With that, I unveil Cinema Symbolism 4.

Robert W. Sullivan IV, Esq.
Lughnasadh 2022
Baltimore, MD, USA

Copyright 2022 Robert W. Sullivan IV. All Rights Reserved.


[1] G. de Purucker, Occult Glossary: A Compendium of Oriental and Theosophical Terms (London: Rider & Co. Paternoster House, E.C., 1933), 50-51.

Quod Superius Macroprosopus, Quod Inferius Microprosopus

Posted in Astrology, Blog, Blog post, Carl Jung, Cinema History, Cinema Symbolism, Education, Egypt, Entertainment, Esoterica, Film, Freemasonry, Gnosticism, Joseph Campbell, Kabbalah, Movies, Mysticism, Mythology, Occult Hollywood, Symbolism, Tarot Cards with tags , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , , on May 29, 2022 by robertwsullivan4

It is only apropos that the latest biopic about Elvis Presley (1935-1977), the Apollonian sun god, will be released on June 24th. That is midsummer, the feast day of the Baptizer (aka John the Baptist, the Lord of Summer), three days after the summer solstice, the apex of the sun in the northern hemisphere, and the birthday of modern-day Freemasonry. As above, so below as they say, so inscribed of the Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus. Coming soon: Cinema Symbolism 4.