04-11-2009, 10:21 AM
Helen Reyes Wrote:FWIW,
The Priory of Sion and related hoaxes were perpetrated from what I understand by depositing spurious folios in the Bibliotheque Nationale in Paris, also a favorite of Lovecraft.
Agreed Helen. The PoS appears to have been manufactured and one of the principal manufacturers is believed to have been the former No.2 man in the CIA's Paris station, Colonel John Driscoll who was a fiend of Philippe de Cherisey. O'Driscoll later retired in Ireland, bought and renovated Castle Matrix and changed his name to Sean O'Driscoll.
Earlier in his career he was a member of the Shickshinny Knights and close to wandering bishops of the ilk of Forest Barber and racist Robert Gayre of Gayre and Nigg and several others who, it seems, moved lump, sum and barrel to another somewhat curious outfit - this one also indirectly associated with the Vatican SMOM - namely, the somewhat spooky and occult-focused (I am told) Augustan Society.
Having said all that the story of the Pos and the documents deposited in the Biblothechque Nationale contains deeply occult messages of the Rosicrucian/Alchemical kind.
Back to EWS where, during the film the image of a "Rainbow" appears or forms part of the dialogue: Bill is propositioned by two models in an early sene who says "where the Rainbow ends". Then we have "Rainbow Costumes" from which Bill later hires his costume to attend the Satanic ritual at Somerton under the password of Fidelio. Then, of course, we move quickly on to the possible significance of this, namely the Alchemical stage known as the Cauda Pavonis or "Peacocks Tail" which contains all the colours of the Rainbow - and which Jung discusses deeply as a meaningful psychological stage in his Collected Works on Alchemy"
Quote:The cauda pavonis announces the end of the work, just as Iris, its synonym, is the messenger of God. The exquisite display of colours in the peacock's fan heralds the imminent synthesis of all qualities and elements, which are united in the rotundity of the philosophical stone...
and then later amplifies:
Quote:This plainly alludes to the phoenix, which, like the peacock, plays a considerable role in alchemy as a symbol of renewal and resurrection, and more espectially as a synonym for the lapis.
(rather than race upstairs to gather the necessary citations for Jung I have been lazy and Googled and obtained the foregoing quotes from the following website: http://home.earthlink.net/~hipbone/IDTWeb/Heggaia.htm
And so from Le Serpent Rouge:
"Comme ils sont étranges les manuscrits de cet Ami, grand
voyageur de l'inconnu, ils me sont parvenus séparément, pourtant ils
forment un tout pour lui qui sait que les couleurs de l'arc-en-ciel
donnent l'unité blanche, ou pour l'Artiste qui sous son pinceau, fait
des six teintes de sa palette magique, jaillir le noir."
--
"How strange are the manuscripts of this Friend, great
traveller of the unknown, they appeared to me separately, yet they
form a whole for him who knows that the colours of the rainbow
give a white unity, or for the Artist for whom the black springs
out from under his paintbrush, made from the six colours of his magic palette."
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14