What follows is the Preface (rough copy, and may see some changes between now and when it goes to press) of my next book, Cinema Symbolism 4, well over a year-and-a-half away, but I feel it necessary to put this out today, August 1st, 2023, Lammas (© Robert W. Sullivan IV, 2023). It reads like a vertical blog post with all the illustrations, but I cannot justify the graphic’s text as that option is not available; however, I intend to put this book out with a color interior, which will be a first for me. Know that all the math and gematria below has been quadruple-checked by me for accuracy because this is the first time this author has documented an active supernatural death curse, and a nasty one at that, so everything had to be pinned down. Unlike the Curse of King Tut’s Tomb, which affected those who breached the burial chamber, this jinx is kinetic, moving about in the shadows, patiently waiting to claim more victims. Know also that I have withheld the more hardcore and intense material for the Introduction and Chapter I, still, the reader will have a better understanding of how this death hex works if they choose to read the material below. I, as an attorney, would have no problem presenting this to a judge or jury. As always, this fish is not for everyone….
Preface
Sherwood got a handwriting match off wood?
Who etches in their own handwriting?
Mel Nicolai, Zodiac, 2007
You’re going to Camp Blood, ain’t ya?
You’ll never come back again.
It’s got a death curse!
Ralph Neeley, Friday the 13th, 1980
♫ Just as every cop is a criminal
And all the sinners are saints
As heads is tails just call me Lucifer
’Cause I’m in need of some restraint ♫
The Rolling Stones, “Sympathy for the Devil,” 1968
Everything is possible, even the impossible.
Mary Poppins, Mary Poppins Returns, 2018
What you are about to witness,
Miss Lin, is not so much a missile attack,
but the launch of a new world order.
Elliot Carver, Tomorrow Never Dies, 1997
To this author, the thought of writing 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 drafting 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 certain 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 specific 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, let me point out a few I’ve recently missed, starting with that elusive one in Mother! (2017). 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 goddess 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)?
Each time I watch Black Swan (2010), a movie that gave Emily Blunt an anxiety attack, I see something new, and here is another one.[1] When Nina Sayers (Natalie Portman) goes to bed after observing her mother labor arduously on her amateurish paintings, there is a white swan knickknack beside the ballerina’s bed. Its meaning is evident to the reader familiar with my other works on cinematic esoterica.
On podcasts and radio shows, I often talk about occult casting: the use of actors and actresses to convey hidden meanings, transferring iconography, themes, and tropes by bringing their cinematic baggage from an earlier film (or films) into their most recent project, creating a pop culture valence. Recently, I have just discovered the granddaddy of them all, but I should have picked up on it earlier. It has often been hypothesized–and I have analyzed it in my other movie books–that Stanley Kubrick (1928-1999) filmed the ’69 moon landing in a studio, a secret he reveals subtly in his haunted hotel repetitive masterpiece, The Shining (1980). The theory goes that NASA and other federal agencies, namely the CIA and FBI, were familiar with Kubrick’s work, specifically Dr. Strangelove (1964) and 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968). They were so impressed with Kubrick’s expert moviemaking techniques that they hired him to stage the astronauts jumping around on the moon, planting the American flag, lumbering here and there, taking “surface” samples, etcetera.
But The Shining is not the first film to imply the Apollo 11 footage was filmed in a soundstage designated RYBAT.[2] In the James Bond movie Diamonds are Forever (1971), 007 (Sean Connery, 1930-2020) breaks into a cloak-and-dagger government installation in the Nevada desert reminiscent of Area 51. Here, he stumbles into a film studio with men in spacesuits hopping about on a fake moon, where the British spy escapes his pursuers in a phony lunar vehicle. Accordingly, wouldn’t it stand to reason that Kubrick would reference the fictional MI6 agent in The Shining to imply with a wink and a nod that he had filmed the Apollo 11 footage? The answer to this question is an emphatic yes. In Kubrick’s horror movie, the winter caretaker position is offered to Jack Torrance (Jack Nicholson) by Stuart Ullman, portrayed by Barry Nelson (1917-2007). Make no mistake, Kubrick’s use of Nelson is deliberate because he–not Connery–was the first actor to portray James Bond. In 1954, on the CBS television show Climax (1954-1958), Nelson played 007 in a live-action broadcast of Casino Royale, the first of Ian Fleming’s (1908-1964) spy novels published a year earlier in 1953. By utilizing Barry Nelson, the original MI6 secret agent, Kubrick is linking (both consciously and subconsciously) The Shining to James Bond, pointedly Diamonds are Forever, insinuating ever so cleverly that he filmed the footage depicting the 1969 Apollo 11 moon landing.[3]
The Witch (2015), a Luciferian masterpiece scrutinized in Cinema Symbolism 3, was rewatched by this author during the summer of ’22. During this viewing, 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 ♫”). It’s potent stuff.
Also left out of my last book was the origins of Twin Peaks’ (1990-2017) Dweller on the Threshold and blue rose, the former a term lifted by David Lynch from the neo-Gnostic world of Madame Helena Blavatsky’s (1831-1891) Theosophy Society. The Russian mystic defined it as “certain maleficent astral doubles of defunct persons,” hence the entities inhabiting the Black Lodge representing the person’s shadow self and the unresolved issues at the time of their demise.[4] A blue rose symbolizes the impossible; in Twin Peaks, the FBI’s Blue Rose cases document the unexplainable, often emerging from the Black Lodge, becoming the forerunners of investigations designated X-Files.[5] Absent from Cinema Symbolism 2 (2017) was a circuitous allusion to The Wizard of Oz (novel 1900, film 1939), found in Lost Highway (1997) because a mystical freeway conjures the Yellow Brick Road; as expected, its director, David Lynch, is obsessed with all-things Oz, routinely planting references to it in his eccentric-dualistic work. The surrealist neo-noir Lost Highway is the final film of Richard Pryor (1940-2005), the Wiz himself, that is Oz’s Wizard, portrayed by the Freemason and comedian in The Wiz (1978), a blaxploitation pastiche; hence, his cameo appearance in Lynch’s strange film evokes Emerald City (the WTC in The Wiz), the domain of the Wonderful Wizard, or the Wiz, and consequently, Victor Fleming’s (1889-1949) doomed masterpiece, jinxed by the Goat of Mendes with a vicious and kinetic death curse (forthcoming, Introduction, and Chapter I) while consigning its signature tune to the flames of Hell, its lyrics a malediction, the polychromatic arc (thoroughly analyzed in the Introduction and Chapter I) becoming the Aquarian Age’s premier Satanic emblem leading not to a pot of gold but straight to Gehenna, the film and the prismatic crescent hexed by English ceremonial magician, Thelemite religion founder, and Freemason, Aleister Crowley (1875-1947). A warning to the reader: this curse is still active, what this author refers to as the OZ-rainbow jinx (I can think of nothing else to call it), what Master Therion baptized the Dark Mother, and after years of research, I believe I have uncovered how this curse was generated (Introduction and Chapter I). And speaking of Crowley, I should also point out that Twin Peaks’ White and Black Lodges immediately recalls the Beast’s Moonchild (1917), but they predate the novel (which I don’t think I covered in CS3), having their origin in Blavatsky’s Theosophy movement, with the former a group of perfected beings, known as Ascended Masters, or the Great White Brotherhood, who spread spiritual and occult teachings through selected humans, including but not limited to Crowley, Helena Roerich (1879-1955), Alice Bailey (1880-1949), Elizabeth Clare Prophet (1939-2009), and Benjamin Creme (1922-2016). The Black Lodge, or the Brothers of the Shadow, is a term given in occultism to individuals, men and women, who follow the Path of the Darkness, i.e., the Left-hand Path. They are black magicians, standing in sharp and notable contrast with the white magicians, who follow the pathway of self-renunciation, self-sacrifice, self-conquest, perfect self-control, and an expansion of the heart, mind, and consciousness in love and service for all that lives. On the other end of the spectrum is the existence and aims of the Brothers of the Shadow, which are essentially selfish. It is commonly, but erroneously, supposed that the Shadow Brotherhood are people with unpleasant dispositions and displeasing personal appearance, a mistake because the men are urbane and the women are intelligent and voluptuous, making them deceptive yet intriguing Angels of Light, disciples of Lucifer the Light-Bearer.[6]
“So shall we burn thee once again this night, and with the flames that eat thine effigy, we shall read the sign: midsummer sets us free!”[7] If this book’s reader is familiar with Cinema Symbolism 3, then they should know Midsommar (2019) is a morbid retelling of The Wizard of Oz, released in theaters eighty years later, ushering Oz’s hoodoo into the 21st century because in Master Therion’s qabalistic system, 80 is a ruinous numeral, the value of the Hebrew letter peh פ, assigned to the Tarot’s lightning-struck Tower (XVI) typifying destructive transformation, one thing to another.[8] 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 where she has a Gnostic epiphany, a bumpy flight speeds Dani Ardor (Florence Pugh) to a beautiful yet saturnine landscape where she comes to know herself by liberating her dark side, joining the Hårga solar death cult accordingly. “Hail fellowship’s eternal flame! Once again, midsummer sets us free!”[9] Easter egg: Midsommar patently imitates The Wizard of Oz, but few realize the latter is a loose remake of Tod Browning’s (1880-1962) Freaks (1932) only with a backward-ass twist; what a triple feature at the midnight picture show this would be! Before World War II (1939-1945), nearly every carnival and circus had a collection of human monsters or freaks–persons deformed at birth, retarded, or maimed–who were proudly exhibited to the public for a price. Browning assembled the most famous of these performers and employed them in an intriguing story set in a circus. In its narrative, a voluptuous yet evil aerialist named Cleopatra (Olga Baclanova, 1893-1974) learns one of the midgets, the Germanic Hans (Harry Earles, 1902-1985), has inherited a fortune. She contrives to marry the dwarf and murder him for the money. In one of many memorable scenes, surrealistic in quality, the midget’s fellow performers, unaware of the trapezist’s intentions, organize a wedding celebration during which they offer a macabre toast to her and an honorary position amongst them with the orgiastic chant of, “♫ We accept her / we accept her / gooble gobble / gooble gobble / one of us / one of us ♫.” Later, Hans and his buddies discover the poison attempt, and, in a hair-raising climax, the freaks attack Cleopatra and deform her badly, turning her into a human chicken. The maiming segment in Freaks’ epilogue is considered the most horrible scene in movie history. Contrarily, in Fleming’s neo-Gnostic/kabalistic movie of good and wicked witches and a fraudulent wizard, the musical munchkin midget-freaks accept the perfect outsider, the farmgirl Dorothy, but do not harm her, unlike the screwy Hårga sun cult, who mangle and murder Dani’s compatriots horribly while welcoming her to the fold with open arms. Freaks to Oz to Midsommar represents a significant flip-flop in pop culture genres, from grotesque horror to musical adventure and back to grotesque horror. When Dorothy accepted the leprechaun-like Munchkins and the misfit triad as allies, Judy Garland could have hardly known that life would imitate art. Her identification with quirky strangers, that is, the Munchkins, Scarecrow (Ray Bolger, 1904-1987), Tin Man (Jack Haley, 1897-1979), and Lion (Bert Lahr, 1896-1967), the latter more a soft-core “dandelion” than a ferocious animal, was magnetic. “♫ It’s Raining Men ♫”: for the rest of her wretched life, Garland’s core audience was a stigmatized social subclass: homosexual hombres who, above all else, understood the suffering warble in her invincible singing voice. Five days after her death on June 22nd, 1969, New York City’s Stonewall Riots, started by shape-shifting genderqueer drag-queen freaks, broke out around midnight on June 27th-28th, ’69, beginning the gay liberation movement.[10] The LGBT+ community would adopt the symbol from Garland’s most famous song, “♫ Over the Rainbow ♫” (1939), as an emblem of their pride, unconsciously (or, perhaps consciously) marking them as the Prince of Darkness’ disciples, agents of the Abyss. What sort of fruity yet devilish witchcraft is this?
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 (1968-2023), 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, 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. Furthermore, 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. But what about Elvis’ death? Did it have an occult meaning? Was it connected to Aleister Crowley and his qabalistic system? Did it signal an astrological change over: the end of the Age of Pisces and the start of Aquarius based on the Precession of the Equinoxes? To the reader of this book: buckle your seatbelt because we are going for a ride down the rabbit hole. Robert W. Sullivan IV will now reveal new yet disturbing information never before presented in any book, radio show, or podcast.
The sun’s number is 666 (Elvis often recorded songs using an Electro-Voice 666 microphone),[11] the same numeral that English ceremonial magickian Aleister Crowley claimed for himself. In 1904, Crowley, through his guardian angel Aiwass, prophesied the Æon of Horus, named after the Egyptian sun god, synonymous with the Thelemic-Luciferian Aquarian Age that we are well into as of the writing of this book in 2023. Master Therion indicates the godhead of this new Thelemic era, viz., the worship of the sun in the house of the Water-Bearer, its macabre spiritual vibe coming from its ruling planets, deathly Saturn and authoritarian Uranus, is the androgynous Baphomet, i.e., Horus full grown, the Goat of the Sabbath, the Knights Templar’s dualistic deity, the Goat of Mendes, the great magical agent (i.e., Astral Light) analyzed and illustrated by Éliphas Lévi’s (1810-1875), the renowned 19th-century French occultist. In its terrestrial form, Baphomet is the offspring of Chaos (male) and the Scarlet Woman called BABALON (7 letters), procreated to topple the false god and the deities of ages past, being the product of a complex sex magick operation, generating coincidentia oppositorum, discussed in Frater Perdurabo’s magnum opus Magick, Liber ABA, Book 4 (1912-1913, aka Magick in Theory and Practice, 1929). In The Book of the Law (dictated by Crowley’s Holy Guardian Angel, Aiwass, in 1904), the holy book of both the O.T.O., Ordo Templi Orientis, Order of the Temple of the East, Crowley’s Thelemic sex magick cult, and the Argenteum Astrum, known as the A:. A:., Silver Star, Master Therion’s secret society), he states this godlike child would embody the Goat’s infernal essence and be “mightier than all the kings of the earth” (AL III:45). Per the Beast’s qabala, analyzed in his grimoire 777 (1909), a complex work explaining the waxing Age of Horus/Aquarius, 7 is a most evil number, the Goat of Mendes’ diabolical number is 77, and 777 is 77 on steroids thus exceedingly Mephistophelian. By releasing the spellbook 9 years after Baum’s The Wizard of Oz was published and 30 years before its cinematic version it the big screen, Master Therion conjured the curse of 39 (3 x 13; 3:13 is the length of Elton John’s song “♫ Goodbye Yellow Brick Road ♫” (1973)–more on this later), triakontenneaphobia; in the Middle East, the digit signifies a scandalous hex, further jinxing Oz, zeroing in on its lead actress, the doomed Judy Garland. In his book of magic, the Beast writes 777 is “the Unity of the Qliphoth [the Kabbalah’s evil forces marshalled]… a dangerous tool [and a] flaming sword [that] devils also believe, and tremble… [it is] the grand scale of 7.”[12] Crowley designates 77 as Baphomet’s number because the Hebrew letters ayin ע and zayin ז have the numeric value of 77 in gematria (the system of assigning numbers to letters); ayin is 70, and zayin is 7 (70 + 7 = 77), עז pronounced OZ, meaning he- or she-goat, epitomizing Capricornus and the Devil of the Tarot.[13] Although 7 has many numinous qualities,[14] in the world of the occult and black magic, it is considered a dark, mysterious, obscure, and hidden number.[15] This is especially true in the Æon of Horus; as such, when one detects the numbers 7, 77, 777 (their multiples are fair game for this killing curse), or OZ (conjuring the Ruby Slippers, jinxed because they are crimson, the color of blood, or the rainbow with its 7 colors) either overtly or covertly, one is observing Baphomet’s hoof prints, the Goat spreading Crowley’s dreaded Wizard of Oz-rainbow death hex, letting us know its diablerie is with us as the sun takes up residence in Aquarius for the next 2000 years. Easter egg: it should come as no surprise that Baphomet was Aleister Crowley’s motto in the O.T.O;[16] furthermore, it is only par for the course that Ozzy Osbourne recorded the song “♫ Mr. Crowley ♫” (1980) and, years later, was present in NYC on 9/11/01, remarking the terrorist attack “excited” him because it was “his kind of craziness.”[17]
Back to the original question: was Elvis Presley claimed by the Goat of Mendes or, perhaps, supernatural forces working at its disposal, making his demise a sacrifice to usher in the Baphometic Age? The solar King of Rock ‘n’ Roll perished on August 16th (1 + 6 = 7), ’77, for 777; moreover, his death date has the value of 77 in basic gematria using Pythagorean reverse reduction, with the sun in the fixed sign of Leo the Lion, its sole house, but at odds with the starry king of the jungle is Aquarius the Water Bearer, its opposite house, casting its saturnine shadow that August day.[18] To put this more in perspective, let’s go back in time to October 15th, 1793, when Marie Antoinette (1755-1793) was tried and found guilty of treason, becoming the high-water mark of the French Revolution (1789-1799), indicating Baphomet was down with Robespierre (1758-1794) and the Reign of Terror (1793-1794). On October 15th, 1888, the serial killer Jack the Rippers sent his “From Hell” letter to the Whitechapel Vigilance Committee, identifying Baphomet’s “♫ Return to Sender ♫” address just like Elvis sang, the lost note including part of a cannibalized human kidney. On October 15th, 2008, during the peak of the Great Recession (2007-2009), the Dow Jones Industrial Average closed down 33.08 points, or 7.87 %, the second-worst percentage drop in the Dow’s history. Why October 15th? Because it is the Gregorian calendar’s 288th day of the solar year; thus 77 days remain until the year’s end. What about the 77th day of the year, March 18th? On that date in 1068, an earthquake in the Levant and the Arabian Peninsula left 20,000 dead. On March 18th, 1925, The Wizard of Oz-like Tri-State Tornado hit the Midwestern states of Missouri, Illinois, and Indiana, killing 695 people; on that same date in 1937, the New London School explosion in Texas killed 300 people, mostly children. And on March 18th, 1953, an earthquake hit western Turkey, killing at least 1,070 people. As a 32nd-degree Scottish Rite Mason, this author can report the Goat of Mendes’ impetus was behind all these tragedies, presaging the Aquarian Age. I will now make sense of these vicissitudes, bringing order from chaos.
“O be thou proud and mighty among men!” (AL II:77). OZ, the Goat of Mendes, strikes, leaving its numbers behind like a calling card, macabre fingerprints, as it spreads Crowley’s deadly Oz-rainbow curse: the beautiful and darkly intriguing Elizabeth “the Black Dahlia” Short (1924-1927), Hollywood’s most famous unsolved murder, was severed in twain between January 14-15, 1947, the cleaved body dumped in Los Angeles’ Leimert Park, the deathly timeframe having a sum of 77 in base gematria utilizing Pythagorean reduction, implying the cloven-hoofed killer was once worshipped by the Order of Solomon’s Temple.[19] Dying aged 22, her body cut into two pieces at the waist, suggests black magic, her grisly killing evoked Crowley’s accursed dyad, viz. a pair, fatal finality because duality introduces the lethal alternative to unity and good, namely evil; two is a number of mourning and death, and misfortunes are apt to follow; for example, turn to the history of England and see the unhappiness of Kings numbered the second: William II (1060-1100), Edward II (1284-1327), and Richard II (1367-1400) of England were all murdered.[20] Easter egg: the dyad envelopes Oz’s Judy Garland, born in ’22, dying on the 22nd, putting a stamp on her miserable life. Another Easter egg: the Black Dahlia used to hang out at the Cecil Hotel’s bar; I direct the reader to this author’s Cinema Symbolism 3 for more on its bleak history. Baphomet had it in for the Scarlet Pimpernel, the time-traveling enthusiast Leslie Howard (1893-1943), perishing when the Luftwaffe shot down BOAC Flight 777 over the Atlantic, off the coast of Cedeira, A Coruña, on which he was a passenger, the Hollywood megastar gone with the wind like the Age of Pisces.
The doomed Norma Jeane Mortenson (1926-1962) was a sexy stimulant for this curse because her birthdate of June 1st, 1926, has a reverse ordinal value of 77, and her stage name, Marilyn Monroe, has a value of 73 employing Pythagorean reduction both in base gematria.[21] In Master Therion’s Aquarian Age system of qabala, 73 personifies the glamorous lunar goddess, an initiator or Firestarter, marking her as the death hex’s mercury, one of its perpetuating kinetic agents.[22] For it was in Some Like It Hot, a movie that grossed 49 (72) million at the box office, that she portrayed Sugar Kowalczyk, a name having a Pythagorean reduced value of 77 in base gematria,[23] featuring actor-comedian Joe E. Brown (1891-1973) in the role of Osgood Fielding III, the ill-omened name OZgood invoking the Goat of Mendes. But Hot’s central filming location, the Hotel del Coronado across the bay from San Deigo, was Monroe’s death sentence, allowing the hex to fester and metastasize, killing a down-and-out Marilyn at age 36, spreading like a virus thereafter. Everyone remembers Marilyn qua Sugar “Kane” frolicking at the hotel’s beach in the flick, a resort L. Frank Baum resided for months at a time in the early 20th century, writing three of his Oz books there during that time: Dorothy and the Wizard of Oz (1908), The Road to Oz (1909), and The Emerald City (1910), and even designed the chandeliers in the famous Crown Room. The hotel, with its fanciful red roofs, magical spires, and whimsical design, The Del is as close to the Emerald City as you can ever get in real life; thus, someone with a birthday having a value of 77, playing a character in a movie with the sum of 77, featuring another persona named OZgood, should keep away, avoiding the place like the Black Death. Baum writing and fusing his Oz stories with the Hotel del Coronado was also bad news because OZ qua the Goat of Mendes would employ the resort’s name as a deadly illness over a century later: the coronavirus. Some Like It Hot was theatrically released on March 29th, 1959, and according to Crowley’s qabala, 42 (7 x 6) is the number of the Dark Mother (but there is more to it than this); ergo, 42 years later, the curse would strike on September 11th, 2001. Know, dear reader, that this death curse is clever and bloodthirsty because Leslie Howard and Marilyn Monroe were not the only Hollywood celebrities to fall victim to it as director Stanley Kubrick and Oscar-winner Robin Williams (1951-2014) would also bite the dust, the former going under the rainbow, the Ruby Slippers plaguing the latter.
The 1984 San Ysidro McDonald’s massacre outside San Deigo saw James Huberty (1942-1984) mass murder 21 people and wound 19 others before a police sniper killed him a whopping 77 minutes after he first opened fire, implying Baphomet’s spirit protected the demented gunman. At the time, the massacre was the most fatal mass shooting by a lone gunman in U.S. history, surpassed 7 years later by the Luby’s shooting in Killen, Texas, yet remaining the deadliest mass shooting in the Golden State’s history. Decades later, the Goat of Mendes sheltered Salvador Ramos (2004-2022), allowing him to kill 19 people and wound 17 others (19 + 17 = 36) at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24th, 2022, because the police did not move against the shooter for 77 minutes, the exact same response time in San Ysidro.
According to Crowley, 36 is Mercury’s number,[24] the critical ingredient in alchemy necessary for transmutation or, in this instance, a changeover from Pisces to Aquarius. Baphomet tinkered with the Space Shuttle Challenger’s O-ring seal on the frigid morn of January 28th (7 + 7 + 7 + 7), 1986, because the vehicle exploded approximately 77 seconds after takeoff, killing all 7 astronauts for 777. On January 25th, 1990, Baphomet siphoned jet fuel from Avianca Flight 52 (5 + 2 = 7), a Boeing 707 on service from Bogota, Colombia, as it approached New York City’s JFK International Airport, awaiting landing clearance, crashing because it was flying on fumes, its tanks dry as a martini, remaining in a protracted holding pattern for 77 minutes. The Goat of Mendes was playing with matches on April 19th, 1993, when it set fire to the Branch Davidian’s Mount Carmel Center, situated on a 77-acre ranch in Waco, Texas, the siege killing 86 in total, a number Crowley writes is synonymous with mischief, and the commencement of the Great Work.[25] Cutting through Waco is Route 77; heading north, it passes through Dealey Plaza in Dallas (where Camelot was turned into the magical land of OZ–more on this later) and Oklahoma City before it ends in Sioux City, Iowa. A stone’s throw off Route 77 in OKC once stood the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, constructed in ’77 with nine stories, blown to smithereens on April 19th, 1995 at 9:02 am (9 + 2 = 11, and with its 9 floors produces 9/11, creepily predicting another terrorist strike 77 months later). Seventy-seven is the value of the Oklahoma City Bombing’s date in simple gematria using Pythagorean reverse reduction, turning the Big Friendly into OZ, making it obvious Baphomet was John Doe No. 2, conspiring with Timothy McVeigh (1968-2001) and Terry Nichols to explode the federal complex at 200 N.W. 5th Street; 2 + 0 + 0 + 5 = 7.[26] How do we know this? Because the ANFO industrial bomb used to take out the edifice contained aluminum powder (traces were found in Nichols’ home), magnifying the device’s destructive energy by 77%; this is the same substance that was used for Buddy Epsen’s (1908-2003) makeup as the Tin Man. However, it got into his lungs, sending him to the hospital, bringing the actor to the edge of death, forcing the filmmakers to recast the role, replacing him with Jack Haley. Seeking retaliation for Waco and 1992’s siege at Ruby Ridge (evoking Dorothy’s magical slippers), McVeigh drove an explosive-laden Ryder rental truck along Route 77 to the target; after it was detonated, he fled the crime scene behind the wheel of an Easter yellow ’77 Ford Mercury Grand Marquis, only to be arrested 77 minutes later. The vehicle’s hue conjures Oz’s Yellow Brick Road, and Mercurius is a destroying agent, alchemy’s omnipotent Red Dragon, a critical element qua archetype in deciphering the subconscious mind and decoding dreams, according to Swiss psychiatrist Carl G. Jung (1875-1961);[27] as such, McVeigh and Nichols planned the catastrophic bombing days beforehand at the Dreamland Hotel off Interstate 70 (7 + 0 = 7), Grandview Plaza, Kansas (there’s no place like home), in Room 25 (2 + 5 = 7), 77, summoning the Goat of Mendes. The Oklahoma City Bombing killed 168 people and wounded another 680 for a grand total of 848, which is 106 x 8; per Master Therion’s qabala, 8 denotes instability, and 106 is death; the former number signifies the chaotic birthing pains of the new age, its turmoil,[28] and the latter flirts with Christ, the two astrological fishes, heralding the Piscean Age’s termination (more on the Precession of the Equinoxes in the Introduction and Chapter I).[29] McVeigh’s accomplice, Terry Nichols, stole a cache of 77 guns from a man named Roger Moore (not the James Bond actor) in 1994, selling them to help finance the terrorist attack, making the Goat smile; Nichols was born on April 1st, 1955, having an ordinal value of 77 in simple gematria.[30]
Ergo, as with 9/11/01, the people that perished that morning in OKC were burnt offerings welcoming the Age of Horus, sacrifices to the Goat of the Sabbath because it has an insatiable appetite for immolated human flesh, guzzling plasma like Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis) drinks milkshakes in There Will Be Blood (2007). Ultimately, in 2019, Baphomet fucked over McVeigh’s attorney, Dennis Hartley, once considered one of the most powerful attorneys in Colorado, having him disbarred for professional malfeasance at age 77. On Christmas morning 1996, the Goat of Mendes murdered child beauty queen JonBenét Ramsey (1990-1996), her name having a value of 77 in base gematria using reverse Pythagorean reduction, and her birthday, August 6th, 1990, has the unfortunate tally of 42 in simple gematria applying Pythagorean reduction, a number linked with the Antichrist’s reign on Earth (Revelation 13: 4-5), but more importantly, Aleister Crowley’s foremost cursing number.[31] Seventy-seven is the sum of April 20th, 1999’s Columbine High School massacre in basic gematria employing Pythagorean reduction, indicating Baphomet’s ghoulish spiritus was alongside Dylan Klebold (1981-1999) and Eric Harris (1981-1999), killing their fellow students (and a teacher) to usher in the Æon of Horus, furthering the Great Work.[32] It should come as no surprise their first victim was a devout Christian, Rachel Joy Scott (1981-1999), her demise likewise signaled the end of the Piscean Age. Crowley prophesied this: using simple gematria, the name Rachel Joy Scott has a sum of 78 employing reverse Pythagorean reduction, the number of Tarot cards in a deck, which, according to Master Therion, means the account of Aiwass follows, viz. the Age of Horus is at hand.[33]
Master Therion’s OZ-rainbow curse continues in England using 4, the number of the evil magician’s weapons: the four Islamic terrorists behind the London bombings suckled the Goat of Mendes’ teats on July 7th, 2005, because July 7th is 77 (all hail the Goat!), and 2 + 0 + 0 + 5 = 7, for 777, implying Baphomet was running amok on the city’s public transport system that morning, blowing up people left and right. Outside the jihadists, 52 United Kingdom residents were killed; 5 + 2 = 7, the Beast’s evilest number. Luckner “the Vampire of the Caribbean” Cambronne (1930-2006), former chief of the Tonton Macoute (est. 1959), Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier’s (1907-1971) voodoo militia, died aged 77 years, crossing the River Styx with Baphomet as the ferryman; in The Serpent and the Rainbow (1988), Cambronne’s counterpart is Dargent Peytraud (Zakes Mokae, 1934-2009), a Haitian bokor possessing the occult secrets of zombie-making. Bearing a Bonesman’s name, USS George H.W. Bush (CVN-77), a Nimitz-class supercarrier of the United States Navy, was christened on October 7th, 2006, a date selected by Baphomet because it has an ordinal value of 93 in basic gematria.[34] Ninety-three is Aiwass’ numeral,[35] the number of the Aeon of Horus’ mantra using Greek isopsephy, i.e., Crowley’s Do what thou Wilt shall be the whole of the Law Thelemic axiom (see Chapter I), manifesting sixfold on September 11th, 2001, five years earlier, signifying Crowley’s unicursal hexagram, and its five-petalled flower, the pentagram. Baphomet visited the Virginia Tech campus on April 16th, 2007, in Blacksburg, Virginia, a thirty-minute drive off Interstate 77. That morning, the Goat steadied the aim of Seung-Hui Cho (1984-2007), enabling him to murder 32 people and wound 17 others with two-semiautomatic pistols; 32 + 17 = 49 (72). Easter egg: heading north on I-77 into Ohio, near Cuyahoga Valley National Park, is the boyhood home of infamous serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer (1960-1994) right off the interstate. On July 22nd, 2011 (7th month, with 22 and 11, Crowley’s ill-omened dyad), terrorist Anders Behring Breivik (aka Fjotolf Hansen) committed the deadliest attack in Norway (Oslo and Utøya) since WWII, mass murdering 77 people, 8 with a car bomb and 69 with gunfire, saluting Baphomet appropriately. Adam get your gun: in December a year later, Baphomet challenged Adam Peter Lanza (1992-2012) to beat Breivik’s high score of 77 fatalities, prompting him to go on a killing rampage at Sandy Hook Elementary School.[36] But the bug-eyed creep came up well short, murdering 26 people and wounding 2 (26 + 2 = 28, 7 + 7 + 7 + 7); Lanza was born to do this because his birthdate, April 22nd, 1992, has a sum of 77 in simple gematria employing Pythagorean reduction.[37] Earlier that year, on July (7th month), 20th, 2012 (2 + 0 + 2 + 0 + 1 + 2 = 7, 77), the Goat of Mendes went to his favorite movie theater, the Century (7 letters) 16 (1 + 6 = 7, 77) in Aurora, Colorado to catch a midnight showing of The Dark Knight Rises. Do what thou Wilt shall be the whole of the Law: born on December 13th, 1987, James Egan Holmes was in attendance, and the crazed motherfucker did whatever he wanted that evening, killing 12 people and wounding 70 because his birthdate, and the date of the mass shooting, both have ordinal values of 93 utilizing base gematria.[38] Departing from Seoul, South Korea, Asiana Airlines Flight 214 (2 + 1 + 4 = 7), a Boeing 777, registration HL7742, captained by 49-year-old (72) Lee Jeong-min, stalled and crashed on its final approach to Runway 28L (7 + 7 + 7 + 7) at San Francisco International Airport (the destination of 9/11’s Flight 93), on July 7th (7/7, Korean date), 2013, killing 3, and wounding 187, 49 (72) of them seriously–when it comes to its number, Baphomet doesn’t mess around. Note to the reader: this author will not list all the Boeing 777s that have crashed or suffered major malfunctions over the years other than to say the number is abnormally high. On June 17th, 2015, the Goat of Mendes helped Dylann Roof reload his Glock .45-caliber handgun when he lit up the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina, peeling off 77 rounds, no more, no less, killing 9, wounding 1. Almost a year later, on June 12th, 2016, Baphomet was in the 77th most-populous city (at the time) in the United States, Orlando, Florida, stopping by the gay nightclub Pulse for a Latin-themed dance party, but a jihadist named Omar Mateen (1986-2016) showed up and killed 49 revelers (72) while wounding others. Next, on October 1st, 2017, Baphomet attended the Route 91 Harvest country music festival in Las Vegas when sniper Steven Craig Paddock (1953-2017) opened fire from the 43-story (4 + 3 = 7) Mandalay Bay luxury hotel, covering 49 (72) hectares, with a general inquiry phone number of 877-632-7700, killing and wounding nearly a 1000 concert-goers, but the Goat was unharmed, naturally. On February (2nd month), 14th (2 + 1 + 4 = 7), 2018 (2 + 0 + 1 + 8 = 11; 7 x 11 = 77), Baphomet returned to the Sunshine State, demanding 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz turn Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland into a shooting gallery, murdering 17 people and injuring 17 others with a Smith & Wesson M&P15 Sport II semi-automatic rifle; per Frater Perdurabo, 17 signifies violently hurled thunderbolts, i.e., gunfire.[39] In March 2019, the Goat of Mendes urged 28-year-old (7 + 7 + 7 + 7) Brenton Harrison Tarrant to smoke two mosques in Christchurch, New Zealand, killing 51 people and injuring 40 for a grand total of 91 victims, which is 7 x 13; according to Master Therion, 91 conjures the spiritual energies of the septenary.[40] Al Noor Mosque was targeted first, then the Linwood Islamic Centre at 223A Linwood Avenue (2 + 2 + 3 = 7) where Tarrant killed 7 of his 51 murder victims, for 77. Easter egg: Marjory Stoneman Douglas also has a value of 91 in basic gematria employing Pythagorean reduction.[41] In December 2019, enabled by the Some Like It Hot-Baum-Crown Room link to the Coronado Hotel, Baphomet’s supernatural essence stirred the shitstorm by releasing COVID-19 from the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China; we know this because infections and deaths from the coronavirus were routinely reported coming in waves of 154 (77 x 2), 231 (77 x 3), 308 (77 x 4), 385 (77 x 5), 462 (77 x 6), 539 (77 x 7), 616 (77 x 8), 693 (77 x 9), 770 (77 x 10), and 777 victims,[42] and so on (see footnote 43), increasing as the pandemic dragged on.[43] Then, Baphomet masterminded two mass shootings: the first on February 26th, 2020, at the Molson Coors Brewing Company in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, when 51-year-old Anthony Ferrill pumped his coworkers full of lead, killing 5 before committing suicide; 777 days later, on April 12th, 2022, 62-year-old black nationalist, Frank Robert James, put on a gas mask, threw two smoke grenades then opened fire on the NYC subway’s N train, wounding 29. Recently, on November 21st, 2021, Baphomet compelled Darrell E. Brooks Jr. to drive his Red Ford Escape SUV through the annual Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, killing and injuring people all over the place, leading him to face 77 criminal charges. On May 14th, 2022, Payton S. Gendron blasted the Tops Friendly Market in Buffalo, New York, murdering 10 and wounding 3 for a tally of 13, the same number of people Klebold and Harris murdered years earlier, evoking the Tarot’s 13th card: Death. Gendron, born on June 20th, 2003, is a disciple of Baphomet because 2003 was the year of the Goat in Chinese astrology. The androgynous Goat of Mendes pitches a tent when transgender weirdos go off the deep end and slaughter Christians, waving bye-bye to Pisces, wetting their whistles with a new-age Saturnian elixir from Aquarius’ jug. As such, on March 27th, 2023, Baphomet had the back of 28-year-old (7 + 7 + 7 + 7) Audrey Elizabeth Hale/Aiden Hale (1995-2023) when she/he/it busted a cap in the ass of the Covenant School in Nashville, Tennessee, resulting in 7 deaths (including the gunperson) while wounding 1. Audrey’s/Aiden’s birthday, March 24th, 1995, has a sum of 77 in simple gematria using reverse Pythagorean reduction,[44] and her/his/its death date, March 27th, 2023, has an ordinal value of 77 in base gematria,[45] suggesting Baphomet was all in with the shemale. Easter egg: fifteen mass shootings at U.S. schools, from 1999’s bloodbath at Columbine High School in Colorado to the massacre at the Covenant School in Tennessee, have resulted in 175 murders (excluding the shooters),[46] syncing with Master Therion’s ASTARTE vel Liber BERYLLI sub figura CLXXV, aka Book 175 (1912), an instruction manual about how to unify with a supernatural entity, invoked in accordance with 777, during the ceremonial devotion, making these deaths ritual sacrifices to Baphomet to bring forth the Æon of Horus. What was the number of the United Airlines flight that struck the South Tower on September 11th, 2001? The Goat of Mendes is a motorcycle enthusiast; while in NYC, it hung around with the Hell’s Angels at their 77 East 3rd Street lair. It is also evident Baphomet supports Volodymyr Zelensky as the results of a June 2023 survey by the Kyiv International Institute of Sociology indicate 77% of Ukrainians want him to remain President until after the end of the Russian invasion.[47] Going back in time, 77 is the ordinal value in base gematria of December 7th, 1941’s attack on Pearl Harbor, indicating the Goat of Mendes inspired the Japanese Navy to slaughter 2,403 United States servicemen and 68 civilians on that day of infamy.[48]
Just like with the Tri-State Twister (vide supra), the Goat of Mendes loves to screw with the weather, making it lethal, like Ming the Merciless (Max von Sydow, 1929-2020) in Flash Gordon (1980), a film that copies of The Wizard of Oz. Hurricane Diane struck Connecticut with heavy rain and floods in mid-August 1955, killing 77 people. In the middle of August 1991, Hurricane Bob took out much of New England with sustained winds of 77 miles per hour. Hurricane Katrina destroyed New Orleans, Louisiana, making landfall on August 29th, 2005, becoming the deadliest storm in U.S. history since 1928’s Okeechobee Hurricane 77 years earlier, all three tempests coinciding with The Wizard of Oz’s August 1939 theatrical release. On June 8th, 2011, thinking itself Zeus, Baphomet hurled a lightning bolt at Camp Shelby Joint Forces Training Center, sending 77 Air Force ROTC cadets to hospitals in the Hattiesburg, Mississippi metro area; the Goat’s aim was off that day because no one bit the dust. On July 21st, 2021, the MV Heng Tong 77 cargo ship ran aground off the coast near Karachi, yet it was not immediately clear what caused the massive tanker to drift and get stuck in shallow water, eventually determined to be rough seas causing it to lose its anchor–the Goat did it.
Occasionally, Baphomet likes to fart around at nuclear power plants. On March 28th, 1979, it caused a partial meltdown of reactor 2 at the Three Mile Island station in Pennsylvania, targeting it because of its 700 employees, most of them electricians belonging to IBEW Local 777. In 1990, the International Nuclear and Radiological Event Scale (INES) was introduced by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) to enable prompt communication of safety information in case of nuclear accidents, with 7 levels: one is an anomaly, and seven is a significant accident. As of this book’s writing, there have been two 7-level incidents because that’s the Goat’s number, 77. First was the Chernobyl disaster (April 26th, 1986), where unsafe conditions during a test procedure resulted in a criticality accident, leading to a powerful steam explosion and fire that released a significant fraction of core material into the environment, generating an eventual death toll of 4,000–27,000. Second was the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Japan 25 years later (2 + 5 = 7), a series of events beginning on March 11th, 2011 (11, 11, Crowley’s dreaded dyad), inflicting severe damage to the backup power and containment systems caused by the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami, resulting in overheating and leaking from Fukushima nuclear plant’s reactors, like something out of a Godzilla movie. One last thing: despite hexing John Lennon (vide supra), the Goat of the Sabbath is a Beatles fan; first published in August 1963, the band’s monthly fanzine, The Beatles Book, continued for 77 editions, stopping publication in December 1969, a few months after the Tate-LaBianca Murders of August 8th-10th, 1969 in Los Angeles.[49] The massacre appears to be a satanic invocation syncing with Rosemary’s Baby (1968) because Rosemary LaBianca (1929-1969) was killed, and so was an 8-and-a-half-month pregnant Sharon Tate (1943-1969), her unborn child butchered, murdering both a Rosemary and a baby, searing the homicides with hellfire. Charles Manson (1934-2017) and his Family took their cue from the Beatles’ White Album, released on November 22nd, 1968 (11, 22, the dyad) five years after JFK’s assassination, transforming 10050 Cielo Drive and 3301 Waverly Drive (today 3311, 33, 11, the dyad again) into Dealey Plaza, splattering the residences with blood and gore, turning them into psychedelic nightmares. The Manson Family did want ever they wanted, slaughtering the victims mercilessly, enacting Crowley’s Thelemic mantra because the album is 93 minutes long, a work of prophecy heralding the Apocalypse, according to Manson. The tune that inspired Charlie the most was “♫ Helter Skelter ♫”; in British English, a helter skelter is a fairground attraction consisting of a tall spiral slide winding around a tower (or lighthouse), but it can also mean chaos and disorder. Thus, during the White Album’s July (7th month) 18th, 1968 (1 + 9 + 6 + 8 = 24; 7 + 18 + 24 = 49 or 72) session, the Beatles initially recorded 3 takes of the song,[50] lasting 27 (2 + 7 = 9) minutes and 11 seconds, 9/11, because the towers are “♫ Coming down fast / oh yeah ♫” just as the blood-stained song goes, sending the Beast’s hex to September 11th, 2001 when “♫ Tuesday’s on the phone to me” as they sang on “♫ She Came In Through the Bathroom Window ♫” (1969). “♫ Helter Skelter ♫” is not the only jam that put Gary Hinman (1934-1969), Leno LaBianca (1925-1969), Sharon Tate, Abigail Folger (1943-1969), Steven Earl Parent (1951-1969), Jason Sebring (1933-1969), Rosemary LaBianca, and Wojciech Frykowski (1936-1969) into a meat grinder that summer. Kenny Rogers and The First Edition’s “♫ Ruby, Don’t Take Your Love to Town ♫” peaked in the Billboard Hot 100’s Top 10 from August 8th-10th ’69, intensifying Frater Perdurabo’s OZ killing curse, saturating that sweltering month with plasma.[51] Easter egg: Crowley, who bought the farm in 1947, is Sergeant Pepper, pictured on the upper left-hand side of the album; thus, “♫ It was 20 years ago today / Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play ♫” because the record was released in 1967, 20 years after Master Therion’s demise, indicating his spiritual ascendancy as a Secret or Hidden Master.
As will be revealed in the first chapter, the Beast’s qabalistic digits lasso 9/11, John F. Kennedy (1917-1963), and Diana, Princess of Wales (1961-1997) like a cowboy at a rodeo, while Baphomet’s cloven hoofs trample these like stampeding wildebeests (recall The Lion King, 1994), imprinting its black magic, while linking them with diseased sinew to The Wizard of Oz, becoming harbingers of the Æon of Horus. For example, Lower Manhattan was transformed into the Land of OZ on 9/11/01, beginning when the FDNY issued a 10-60 (1 + 0 + 6 + 0 = 7) Code/Alarm for a major emergency response 7 minutes (big mistake) after the first plane hit for 77, inadvertently invoking the Goat of Mendes, who took over from there. Dispatched to the World Trade Center, 343 (73) FDNY firefighters died battling the blazes inside the Twin Towers when they collapsed; before 9/11/01, the total number of FDNY firemen who lost their lives on active duty was 777. The time between the first aircraft, Flight 11, striking the North Tower at 8:46 am, and the final plane, Flight 93, crashing in Shanksville, Pennsylvania at 10:03 am is 77 minutes… bah bah bah bah… the terrorist attacks killed 2,977 people that late summer day… eleventh September has a value of 77 in base gematria using Pythagorean reduction…[52] bah bah bah… The Wizard of Oz has a sum of 77 employing Pythagorean reduction utilizing simple gematria[53] and had a budget of $2.777.000, indicating the flick’s secret financial backer.[54] The movie’s title also has an ordinal value of 176 in basic gematria,[55] a pentagonal digit, spreading the curse, allowing Baphomet to bilocate and appear in the halls of the Defense Department on 9/11 where 7 is pervasive, and Crowley’s rainbow hex turns up like a bad penny, set in motion by Daniel Ellsberg (1931-2023, see Introduction and Chapter I) in the early ’70s. Easter egg: on May 30th, ’77, New York Daily News columnist Jimmy Breslin (1928-2017) received a letter from the serial killer, the Son of Sam, referring to himself as “The Wicked King Wicker,” an allusion to The Wicker Man (1973), a movie about a human sacrifice made to the sun god Nuada. Seventy-seven days would pass between the Breslin letter and the death of the sunlike King of Rock ‘n’ Roll, further inaugurating Crowley’s new age of Horus wherein OZ, the Goat of Mendes, is the Christlike godhead, demanding death and bloodshed as worship. The Egyptian deity Horus is depicted with a falcon’s head; ergo, David “Son of Sam” Berkowitz’s birth name is Richard David Falco. A few days before the King’s death, Berkowitz was arrested, ending his murder spree. Berkowitz claimed Harvey, a black Labrador Retriever belonging to his neighbor Sam Carr, was possessed by a demon, ordering him to kill. Life imitates art again: one recalls the film Harvey (1950), in which the titular pooka qua rabbit is Elwood P. Dowd’s (Jimmy Stewart, 1908-1997) drinking buddy. It syncs mystically and ironically that the Son of Sam would be captured on August 10th, 1977, during the Dog Days of Summer, when Sirius, the Egyptian Dog Star, is exalted in the northern hemisphere; the above and below of Hermes Trismegistus was in full effect that day.
How the fuck did I miss these? Ultimately, no one is perfect, but the more important question is who will the Goat of Mendes come for next? Beware, dear reader, because it might be you!
Unlike my other cinema tomes, this preface will be brief as my purpose is to explain the book’s template, give a couple teasers, then move on to the good stuff. Conversely, as with my other volumes, keep an eye out for Easter eggs concealed in the text and image layout.[56] With that, I unveil Cinema Symbolism 4.
Robert W. Sullivan IV, Esq.
Lughnasadh 2023
Baltimore, MD, USA
[1] Mabel Andrady, “‘I hurt every day, it was hell’: Emily Blunt Had a Full Anxiety Attack Because of Marvel Star Natalie Portman,” FandomWire, April 26th, 2023, https://fandomwire.com/i-hurt-every-day-it-was-hell-emily-blunt-had-a-full-anxiety-attack-because-of-marvel-star-natalie-portman/ (accessed April 27th, 2023).
[2] RYBAT: CIA cryptonym meaning secret.
[3] Whether NASA was able to send astronauts to the moon is beside the point. What is relevant is they couldn’t film on the lunar surface, so Kubrick was brought in to orchestrate the footage seen by the world of men on the moon.
[4] Gottfried de Purucker, Occult Glossary: A Compendium of Oriental and Theosophical Terms (London: Rider & Co. Paternoster House, E.C., 1933), 50-51.
[5] J. E. Cirlot, A Dictionary of Symbols (New York: Philosophical Library, 1962), 263.
[6] De Purucker, Occult Glossary, 32-33.
[7] Mike Hanson, Bohemian Grove: Cult of Conspiracy (2012; 3rd printing, Spicewood, TX: RiverCrest Publishing, 2021), 89; the high priest proclaims this during the Grove’s Cremation of Care ritual/mock human sacrifice.
[8] Aleister Crowley, 777 and other Qabalistic Writings of Aleister Crowley, ed. Israel Regardie (1909/1973; repr., San Francisco: Weiser Books, 1986), 31.
[9] Hanson, Bohemian Grove, 90.
[10] Jack Fritscher, Popular Witchcraft: Straight from the Witch’s Mouth, 2nd ed. (Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press/Popular Press, 2004), 114-115.
[11] “Microphone Locker,” Rash Decision Audio, n.d., https://rashdecisionaudio.com/microphones/ (accessed May 27th, 2023).
[12] Crowley, 777, 20, 43, 49.
[13] Aleister Crowley, The Book of Lies (1913; repr., York Beach, ME: Red Wheel/Weiser, LLC., 1981), 165.עז:the same word is found in the Indo-Germanic languages as the Sanscrit. adsha, a he-goat; adsĥ, a she-goat; Goth. ǵitsa; Anglo-Sax. gát; Germ. Geis, with a harder form, Gems, chamois; Gr. αἴξ, αἰγός; also, the Turkish gieik, ghieizi; comp. Grimm, Deutsche Gram. iii. 328.) גְּדִי עִזִּים a kid of goats, Genesis 27:9. שֵׂה עִזִּים a goat, i.e., the goat (ein Stück Ziegenvieh), [an individual for the species], Deuteronomy 14:4.
[14] Crowley, 777, 27-28; Master Therion acknowledges that 7 is a divine digit in the Bible and Islam, writing, “There is however a secondary attribution of 7, making it the holiest and most perfect of the numbers.”
[15] Dr. Roy Page Walton, Names, Dates, and Numbers: What They Mean to You (New York: Edward J. Clode Publisher, 1914), 11-12.
[16] Aleister Crowley, The Confessions of Aleister Crowley, eds. John Symonds and Kenneth Grant (1979; repr., London: Penguin/Arkana, 1989), 832.
[17] Jennifer Newton, “Ozzy Osbourne says he felt ‘excited’ after the 9/11 terrorist attacks as it was ‘my kind of craziness,’” DailyMail.com, https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2786388/Ozzy-Osbourne-says-9-11-terrorist-attacks-feel-excited-kind-craziness.html. (accessed July 25th, 2023).
[18] Pythagorean reversed reduction: z is 1, y is 2…q is 1 (10, or 1 + 0 = 1), m is 5 (14, or 1 + 4 = 5), a is 8 (26, 2 + 6 = 8); thus, A/8 u/6 g/2 u/6 s/8 t/7 = 37, 16 = 16, 1 + 9 + 7+ 7 = 24; 37 + 16 + 24 = 77.
[19] Pythagorean reduction: a is 1, b is 2…j is 1 (10, or 1 + 0 = 1), m is 4 (13, or 1 + 3 = 4), z is 8 (26, 2 + 6 = 8); as such J/1 a/1 n/5 u/3 a/ r/9 y7 = 27, 14 = 14, 15 = 15, 1 + 9 + 4 + 7 = 21; 27 + 14 + 15 + 21 = 77.
[20] William Wynn Westcott, Numbers: Their Occult Power and Mystic Virtues (Collectanea Hermetica, Vol. IX. London: Theosophical Publishing Society, 1911), 38; Crowley, 777, 29.
[21] Reverse ordinal value: a is 26, b is 25, y is 2, and z is 1; thus J/17 u/6 n/13 e/22 = 58, 1 = 1, 1 + 9 + 2 + 6 = 18; 58 + 1 + 18 = 77; M/4 a/1 r/9 i/9 l/3 y/7 n/5 = 38, M/4 o/6 n/5 r/ o/6 e/5 = 73.
[22] Crowley, 777, 31; Aleister Crowley, Liber Al vel LEGIS sub figura CCXX as delivered by XCIII = 418 to DCLXVI Being of the Angels of the Thirty Aethyrs The Vision and the Voice (1904; repr., n.p., n.d.), 128.
[23] S/8 u/6 g2 a/8 r/9 = 33, K/7 o/3 w/4 a/8 l/6 c/6 z/1 y/2 k7 = 44; 33 + 44 =77.
[24] Crowley, 777, 30.
[25] Ibid, 43, 45. In this instance, the Great Work is the destruction of the Piscean Age to usher in the Age of Aquarius/Horus.
[26] A/8 p/2 r/9 i/9 l/6 = 34, 19 = 19, 1 + 9 + 9 + 5 = 24; 34 +19 + 24 = 77.
[27] Carl Jung, The Portable Jung, ed. Joseph Campbell, trans. R.F.C. Hull (New York: Penguin Books, 1976), 340-342.
[28] Matthew 24: And as he sat upon the mount of Olives, the disciples came unto him privately, saying, Tell us, when shall these things be? and what shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world [age]?… For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places… All these are the beginning of sorrows… And then shall many be offended, and shall betray one another, and shall hate one another.
[29] Crowley, 777, 28, 32.
[30] A/1 p/16 r/18 i/9 l/12 = 56, 1 = 1, 1 + 9 + 5 + 5 = 20; 56 + 1 + 20 = 77.
[31] Crowley, The Book of Lies, 95; J/8 o/3 n/4 B/7 e/4 n/4 é/4 t/7 = 41, R/9 a/8 m/5 s/8 e4 y/2 = 36; 41 + 36 =77; A/1 u/3 g/7 u/3 s/1 t/2 = 17, 6 = 6, 1 + 9 + 9 + 0 = 19; 17 + 6 + 19 = 42.
[32] A/1 p/7 r/9 i/9 l/3 = 29, 20 = 20, 1 + 9 + 9 +9 = 28; 29 + 20 + 28 = 77.
[33] Crowley, 777, 31, 45; R/9 a/8 c/6 h/1 e/4 l/6 = 34, J/8 o/3 y/2 = 13 S/8 c/6 o3 t/7 t7 = 31; 34 + 13 + 31 = 78.
[34] O/15 c/3 t/20 o/15 b/2 e/5 r/18 = 78, 7 = 7, 2 + 0 + 0 + 6 = 8; 78 + 7 + 6 = 93.
[35] Aleister Crowley, Liber Samekh Theurgia Goetia Summa Congressus Cum Daemone Sub Figura DCCC, n.d., sacred-texts.com, https://www.sacred-texts.com/oto/lib813.htm (accessed July 16th, 2023).
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[37] A/1 p/7 r/9 i/9 l/3 = 29, 22 = 22, 1 + 9 + 9 + 2 = 21; 29 + 22 + 21 = 77.
[38] D/4 e/5 c/3 e/5 m/13 b/2 e/5 r/18 = 55, 13 = 13, 1 + 9 + 8 + 7 = 25; 55 + 13 + 25 = 93; J/10 u/21 l/12 y/25 = 67, 20 = 20, 2 + 0 + 1 + 2 = 5; 67 + 20 + 5 = 93.
[39] Crowley, 777, 43.
[40] Ibid, 32.
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[43] This COVID-19 death calculator-counter regarding infections and deaths continues for the numbers 847 (77 x 11), 924 (77 x 12), 1001 (77 x 13), 1078 (77 x 14), 1155 (77 x 15), 1232 (77 x 16), 1309 (77 x 17), 1386 (77 x 18), 1463 (77 x 19), 1540 (77 x 20), 1617 (77 x 21), 1694 (77 x 22), 1771 (77 x 23), 1848 (77 x 24), and 1925 (77 x 25) and so forth, so I invite the reader to go to Google and investigate for themselves.
[44] M/5 a/8 r/9 c/6 h/1 = 29, 24 = 24, 1 + 9 + 9 + 5 = 24; 29 + 24 + 24 = 77.
[45] M/13 a/1 r/18 c/3 h/8 = 43, 27 = 27, 2 + 0 + 2 + 3 = 7; 43 + 27 + 7 =77.
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[48] D/4 e/5 c/3 e/5 m/13 b/2 e/5 r/18 = 55, 7 = 7, 1 + 9 + 4 + 1 = 15; 55 + 7 + 15 = 77.
[49] The magazine was revived in 1976, ceasing publication in 2003.
[50] Other takes of the song would follow in September 1968.
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[52] e/5 l/3 e/5 v/4 e/5 n/5 t/2 h/8 = 37, S/1 e/5 p/7 t/2 e/5 m/4 b/2 e/5 r/9 = 40; 37 + 40 = 77.
[53] T/2 h/8 e/5 = 15, W/5 i/9 z/8 a/1 r/9 d/4 = 36, o/6 f/6 = 12, O/6 z/8 = 14; 15 + 36 + 12 + 14 = 77.
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[55] T/20 h/8 e/5 = 33, W/29 i/9 z/26 a/1 r/18 d/4 = 81, o/15 f/6 = 21, O/15 z/26 = 41; 33 + 81 + 21 + 41 = 176.
[56] Be on the look out for the occasional Taylor Swift reference, an allusion to this author’s first book, The Royal Arch of Enoch (2012, 2016), the thirteenth degree of the Scottish Rite, the highest degree of Freemasonry, because the number 13 blankets Swift: born on December 13th, 1989, she turned 13 on Friday the 13th, and her debut album went platinum in 13 weeks. “The Lucky One,” the 13th track on her album Red, has a 13-second intro, and the word lucky is said 13 times in the song. Every time she has been honored at an award show, she’s been seated in the 13th row or row M, the 13th letter. Her 7th album, Lover, was released on August 23rd: 8 + 2 + 3 =13, and her Twitter account is @taylorswift13; these are a few examples of many. But what about the number 77? Using simple gematria, her birthday, December 13th, 1989 has a value of 77 using Pythagorean reduction: D/4 e/5 c/3 e/5 m/4 b/2 e/5 r/9 = 37, 13 = 13, 1 + 9 + 8 + 9 = 27; 37 + 13 + 27 = 77. Baphomet must be a Taylor Swift fan!
Robert W. Sullivan IV 