08-06-2009, 11:29 AM
One key segment of EWS was, to my mind, where Cruise was saved from death at the masked ball by his hooker acquaintance. In rescuing him she knew she would have to pay the price of saving his life by surrendering her own life.
This tells us that there were far deeper and darker meanings to this film.
But as I have mentioned earlier in this thread, the choice of the incantation/song "backwards priests" and the score for the scene "Is it love , is it Hell" all speak of something diabolical. In fact Jocely Pook who composed the backward chant used by Kubrick choose it specifically to make it sound diabolical. Kubrick knew this and choose the piece for that reason.
This all leads me to wonder if the name of the chant "backward priests", was chosen as a substitute name for "dog priests"?. In the Biblical story of Sodom and Gomorra, Lot looking “backward” was turned to a pillar of stone. I mention this Biblical curiosity because, as Robert Graves has written, the priests who officiated at Sodomy rituals (the “Enariae”) were known colloquially as “Dog priests” - drawn from “Dog days”, a term relating to the rising of the “Dog star” Sirius (see: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sodomitic). (Robert Graves was an esotericist of standing. His book “The White Goddes” remains an occult masterpiece in the eyes of many esotericists).
Sex Magick featured throughout the film and indeed was the core aspect of the masked ball scene.
This also leads me to conclude that the choice of profession alloted to Cruise’s saviour, that of Hooker, was purposefully chosen by Kubrick to fit the overall occult dimensions of his film - sex magick, blood sacrifice and diabolos.
This tells us that there were far deeper and darker meanings to this film.
But as I have mentioned earlier in this thread, the choice of the incantation/song "backwards priests" and the score for the scene "Is it love , is it Hell" all speak of something diabolical. In fact Jocely Pook who composed the backward chant used by Kubrick choose it specifically to make it sound diabolical. Kubrick knew this and choose the piece for that reason.
This all leads me to wonder if the name of the chant "backward priests", was chosen as a substitute name for "dog priests"?. In the Biblical story of Sodom and Gomorra, Lot looking “backward” was turned to a pillar of stone. I mention this Biblical curiosity because, as Robert Graves has written, the priests who officiated at Sodomy rituals (the “Enariae”) were known colloquially as “Dog priests” - drawn from “Dog days”, a term relating to the rising of the “Dog star” Sirius (see: http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/sodomitic). (Robert Graves was an esotericist of standing. His book “The White Goddes” remains an occult masterpiece in the eyes of many esotericists).
Sex Magick featured throughout the film and indeed was the core aspect of the masked ball scene.
This also leads me to conclude that the choice of profession alloted to Cruise’s saviour, that of Hooker, was purposefully chosen by Kubrick to fit the overall occult dimensions of his film - sex magick, blood sacrifice and diabolos.
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