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This week’s episode sees us dust off the old VHS copy of the late 90s gnostic science fiction classic “Dark City,” written and directed by Alex Proyas. This is what your mom was talking about when you told her you wanted to see ‘The Matrix’ but she said “No, we have it at home,” with some scenes almost matching shot for shot visually. Perhaps more remarkably is how Dark City tackles similar themes on loan from ancient gnostic philosophy but does so in a way faithful to its science fiction roots in German expressionism where it finds inspiration in the fertile imaginations of Fritz Lang and Albin Grau, the creators of Metropolis and Nosferatu respectively. The result is a film which beneath its slick, noir surface is a thoughtful meditation on the dark side of spirituality, evolution and the destiny of the human soul. In the first half of the show we discuss some of the occult roots of the science fiction genre itself and what it has to do with the Aeon of Horus championed by Aleister Crowley before cutting into the dense symbolism in the film’s opening using the Tarot as our guide. In the extended show we visit the abode of Netzach and go deeper into Greek and even Hindu mythology to unpack some of the symbolism used in the film before discussing the overlap between The Strangers and their shadowy, real-life counterparts who manipulate our destiny from the circles beyond time. We hope you brought your Kabbalah glasses because we’ll be talking shop in this one. Thank you and enjoy the show!
In this week’s episode we discuss:
The Occult Roots of Science Fiction
Immanentizing the Eschaton
German Expressionism
The Black Brotherhood
The Allegory of the Cave
The Hotel, Malkuth
Mannequins of Hod
The Automat Scene
Mercury / Hermes
Gematria
In the extended show available at www.patreon.com/TheWholeRabbit we go quite a bit further and discuss:
Maia, Eldest Sister of the Pleiades
Venus Pudica
The Sacred Deer
The Scales of Libra
Emma Aphrodite
Adonism and Luciferianism
The Strangers
Brotherhood of Saturn and FOGC
The Tepaphon and GOTOS
Men in Black
Ganymede and Aquarius
Prometheus and Icarus
The Hand of God
The Wheel
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Sources:
Tepaphon:
https://josephmax.wordpress.com/2010/09/05/tepaphone-the-magickal-death-ray/
Steven Flowers, Fraternitas Saturni:
https://www.amazon.com/Fraternitas-Saturni-History-Doctrine-Brotherhood/dp/
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