Stars and Hollywood

I am a creator,
Inventor and innovator.
I observe the people,
The ordinary people
No matter what your occupation is
Everybody's in showbiz. . .
Cos I'm a Star (gonna make you a star),
And I can make you a Star (gonna make you a star),
I believe that everybody's a celebrity,
And we've all got personality
And individuality.
We all read lines,
And we all act a part,
We all need a script
And an audience to play to.
No matter what you do,
Or who you are,
Everybody's a star.

Ever since the dawn of human history, man has looked at the night sky and watched the twinkling stars with awe. Mythology is full of stories about how the gods placed legendary heroes and animals in the heavens for all eternity. But it has only been in the past 100 years that man himself may become one of those immortal luminous beings. It is not certain exactly when the term "star" became used to describe a performer or someone outstanding in their field, but it appears to be linked first to the Music Halls of the late 19th Century and certainly to the dawn of Hollywood and the Motion Picture Industry.



From Movie Stars, to Pop Stars, Sports Stars and now Reality TV Stars, everyone has the opportunity to be famous, or infamous. We can even name a star for our loved ones or for our own immortality. How has this shift in consciousness occurred? Some might point to the spiritual practices of the East such as Yoga and Theosophy that teach us that the divine resides within. Some might point to the development of the Space Program that captivates our attention with space travel. But I believe there is a more powerful influence at play here: the magic of Hollywood designed to distract us from our inner truth and transcendence. Is it mere coincidence that the wood of the holly tree is used for making magic wands? Hollywood Directors literally become creator gods as they conceive and create an artificial view of reality populated by performances of stars, our new heros and legendary characters projected across the big screen that substitutes for the night sky.



The history of film spans over a hundred years, from the latter part of the 19th century to the present day. Motion pictures developed gradually from a carnival novelty to one of the most important tools of communication and entertainment for the arts and mass media in the 20th century and into the 21st century. Motion picture films have had a substantial impact on the arts, technology, and politics and I would suggest our collective and individual consciousness.



The Birth of Hollywood
According to early accounts H.J. Whitley is the Father of Hollywood. He named the town with his wife Margaret Virginia Whitley while on their honeymoon in 1886. This prominent land developer orchestrated the building of the Hollywood Hotel which opened in 1902 and became internationally known as home of the movie stars for many years. The exact origin of the "star" concept is not certain, but it appears linked to this historic hotel that featured painted stars on its dining room ceiling over tables favored by its most famous celebrity patrons. The Hollywood Hotel stood for over 50 years on Hollywood Boulevard at the site now occupied by the Hollywood and Highland complex and the Kodak Theatre, home of the Academy Awards.



Hollywood is a neighborhood in Los Angeles, California and the historical center of movie studios and movie stars. The first movie studio in Hollywood was opened by Al Christie. It was called Nestor Studio and was established in October 1911 by a New Jersey based company called Centaur Co. Nestor filmed their first motion picture at the home of H. J. Whitley. With his encouragement other studios followed thus earning Whitely the name the Father of Hollywood. Christie-Nestor merged with Universal (barely readable under the the Nestor sign below) one year later.



The references to Centaur and Nestor, Greek mythological figures, from its very inception is intriguing and may reveal on an unconscious level the purpose of Hollywood and the film industry.



In Homer's Illiad King Nestor was an Argonaut who helped fight the centaurs and participated in the hunt for the Calydonian Boar. In this example, Nestor is depicted with the royal staff of his ancestors, eternal and imperishable. . . a magic want of sorts. Isn't it strange that a company called Centaur would name its studio after a hero who helped to defeat them? King Nestor and his sons fought on the side of the Achaeans (Greeks/Mycenaeans) in the Trojan War.

Is it me, or does anyone else wonder about the similarity between the words Achaeans and Archons? In late antiquity the term archon was used in Gnosticism to refer to several servants of the Demiurge, the "creator god" that stood between the human race and a transcendent God that could only be reached through gnosis. In this context they have the role of the angels and demons of the Old Testament. This play between good and evil, as in the selection of names like of Nestor and Centaurs, is a theme that persists throughout the history of the movie industry. The illusionary nature of film is itself Luciferian and thus a profound manipulative tool in the hands of skilled 'creator gods," such as movie producers, directors, actors, and stars. I am not the first to suggest that Hollywood is controlled by this Demiurge, or illuminated elite, who project infinite distractions to keep us from connecting with the true Transcendent one. The evidence of this machination is clearly projected for all to see in the logos and recurring symbols of the movie industry. The devil is literally in the details.



Various motion picture interests owned and operated Nestor Studios on the original site from 1912 until 1935, when the property was purchased by the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), which immediately demolished the Nestor stages and began construction of its new West Coast radio and television headquarters on the corner. Radio was the first medium that could reach out to the masses. One of the most notorious broadcasts produced by CBS occurred On October 30, 1938.





The infamous live broadcast of an adaptation of H.G. Well's War of the Worlds by Orson Welles and the Mercury Theatre created panic as frightened listeners believed invaders from Mars were devastating Grover's Mills, NJ. It is was a new and unusual format to broadcast a contemporary version of the story in the form of faux news broadcasts. Some believe it was a test to see what the population would do if such an event occurred.

In a later instance CBS once again had to revive the format for a TV drama Without Warning which told the story of asteroids crashing to Earth, also debuting on Halloween.



They aired disclaimers at every commercial break to avoid a replay of what happened in 1938. Both alien invasion and extinction level events such as asteroids hitting the earth were scenarios discussed by Werner von Braun, the famous ex-Nazi rocket scientist who help create NASA. Just before von Braun died, he gave an interview to Carol Rosin, in which he basically said that in order to sustain the military-industrial complex that first a false threat of terrorists would be created and used on the public and then asteroids and finally a false alien threat. She describes their conversation in the video below.



Could these false flag events first be tested collectively in the form of movies or television events, and then be projected as a potential false flag event at a later date? Is it coincidence that Columbia Broadcasting System was linked to both media events airing on the same date (Halloween), a date associated with magic and mystery?

Much has been written about the CBS logo as representing the ancient Egyptian All Seeing Eye of Horus linking it to masonic and illuminati secret societies, but equally interesting is the original logo. CBS Television used an oval spotlight on the block letters C-B-S. This artificial light create an eye-like oval as well as deep shadows. In numerology the letters of CBS add up to 24 which is related to Venus, the light bearer or Morning Star called Lucifer by the ancients.





CBS started as a radio network and pioneer in television becoming one of the big three American broadcast television networks. The name Columbia came from its parent company, Columbia Records and Columbia Phonographic companies which were named after the location of the record headquarters in the District of Columbia. Columbia was historically a popular name in American History and it is no surprise it was used in the entertainment industry as the Cohn brothers and Joe Brandt chose it for their movie company, Columbia Pictures in 1924. In 1982, the studio was purchased by Coca-Cola (how convenient) and then later that same year it launched TriStar Pictures as a joint venture with HBO and CBS. After a brief period of independence with Coca-Cola maintaining a financial interest, the combined studios of Columbia and Tristar were acquired by Sony in 1989.

Columbia, Tristar and Sony



Just who is this beautiful light bearer? Columba is Latin for dove associated with both Venus and Isis. Historically Columbia is a poetic name for the Americas and the feminine personification of the United States of America. It derives from the so-called founder of the Americas, Christopher Columbus, but it may have more mystical meaning as described by Richard Hoagland in his article The Age of Horus. According to Hoagland:

There was a Sixth Century monk who took the Church from Ireland to Scotland. He also was heavily involved with the importation of a "sacred stone" imported from the holy land (read: ancient Egypt) used in all subsequent Scottish (and later English) Coronations. Oh, his name ..?

"Columba!"

Why was he named "Columba?" And why did the Founding Fathers (mostly Masons -- from "Columba's" new home, from Scotland!!) centuries later call the New Republic they created in the New World "Columbia?" The classical story is, of course, that it all had to do with "Christopher Columbus" -- the "discoverer" of America and the New World; actually, as we have seen, Columbus was only rediscovering the "lost Atlantis" that most learned men of the day already knew was out there. In part, this prior knowledge was reinforced by at least one of the major "best selling manuscripts" of Columbus' time (even Queen Isabella was said to own a copy!): the remarkable story of another Irish monk -- "St. Brendan, the Navigator," a contemporary of "Columba" -- who also (curiously ...) made a pilgrimage to Scotland.

So, was this a real, 6th Century "Irish Expedition" to the New World, or ... merely a clever means of passing down through the centuries "secret" Gaelic knowledge of this crucial "Promised World?" Even more intriguing: was St. Brendan's name somehow accidentally substituted in this "code" for the far more appropriate (etymologically and geodetically speaking) "Columba," in the centuries-long recopying and retelling of the tale ..? Is this one of the reasons why the Masonic (Scottish) founders of the Republic ultimately called America "Columbia" ..?

The image of this personified Columbia is found throughout the 19th and 20th century as in this painting (c. 1872) by John Gast, called American Progress: Columbia, in the implementation of Manifest Destiny.



And Columbia Picture's logo portrays Columbia bearing the light of a torch, much like another iconic symbol for the United States, the Statue of Liberty.





Many scholars believe that the mythological source for this goddess figure is the Egyptian Goddess Isis. The Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor was presented in 1884 as a gift from the French Grand Orient Temple Masons to the Masons of America in celebration of the centenary of the first Masonic Republic as recorded in the cornerstone.



Its official title is Liberty Enlightening the World. She is holding the Masonic Torch of Enlightenment, also referred to as the Flaming Torch of Reason. The Torch represents the Sun in the sky. In the video above, notice how the light of Columbia's torch turns into the Sun. According to Masonic authors Albert Pike & Manley Hall, the religion of Illuminated Brethren (Illuminati and Freemasons) is revealed in the Isis - Osiris - Horus Mythos. From Albert Pike's Morals and Dogma:

The Blazing Star in our Lodges represent Sirius... the Blazing Star has been regarded as an emblem of Omniscience, or the All Seeing Eye, which to the Ancients was the Sun.

Ancient seers associated the Egyptian goddess Isis with the fixed star Sirius, or the Dog Star in the constellation of Canis Major. Below is an Egyptian hieroglyph that represents Sirius. It is made of three elements: a star, an obelisk/triangle, & a half-dome each representing as aspect of the ancient trinity of Isis, Osiris, and the child Horus. These symbols are used over and over again in the logos of film companies, as well as many other art forms.



Isis is historically associated with the Star Sirius (and the Pleiades meaning 'dove'), Osirus with the belt of Orion, and Horus with a mysterious unseen 'blazing star' or 'rising Sun'. As Hoagland points out, we are in the dawn of the age of Horus when this blazing star gets activated and turns into a rising Sun as depicted in the Columbia Pictures logo video. The triangle representing the third part of the trinity is depicted in its subsidiary's Tristar Pictures logo.

Another intriguing link between Columbia and the goddess Isis is the modern creation of the constellation Columba. This constellation was part of a reconstruction of the night sky, in which astronomers took some of the stars of Canis Major, the home of the "dog star" Sirius, and made a new one called Columba, the Dove. The Uranometria was published in 1603 and set new standards for stellar designation (meridians) while also creating several entirely new constellations. According to Hoagland: Bayer's new constellation is also located precisely on the meridian with Orion, a relationship which we took to be a "marker" of some kind for future events. He named this new constellation "Columba," apparently after "the dove that is sent out from Noah's Ark to search for dry land after the deluge." . . . It was secretly emblematic at that precise time of the transposition of the terrestrial Egyptian "meridians and parallels" into the sky. Hoagland gives an interesting case that these markers line up with Washington, DC (District of Columbia) which has also been shown to have been designed by Freemasons by authors like Wayne Herschel. (Click here for more.)

Tristar
The concept for TriStar came about in 1982 when Columbia Pictures, HBO, and CBS decided to pool resources to split the ever-growing costs of making movies, creating Nova Pictures as a joint venture. In the summer of 1998, Sony Pictures Entertainment merged Columbia and TriStar to form Columbia TriStar Pictures with both divisions continued producing and distributing films under their own names. Like a "superNova" Sony/Sunny merged with Columbia/Sirius and Tristar/Osiris creating a super film and entertainment (read distraction) company. Notice in the logo how two blazing stars (Sony-Horus and Columbia-Isis) come together and meet at the tip of the pyramid (Tristar-Osiris) as the horse leaps forward.



In modern times, Pegasus is seen as the symbol for the immortality of the soul, and as the carrier and protector that guards the spirit in its journeys into the astral plane. Pegasus is the power of the creative spirit in all of us. He is the symbol of the Muses, of inspiration, and of the beauty we bring to our life and the lives of others. Another celestial horse is the constellation of Monoceros, or the Unicorn, which flies between the constellations of Canis Major and Orion. Could the TriStar logo represent this mythical creature without its horn as it would literally be the third constellation of the Isis-Osiris-Horus trinity? Both horses are mythical and magical beings that carry the hero to the skies ensuring immortality -- just like the vehical of film.



Sony Pictures Entertainment
Sony Pictures Entertainment, Inc. (SPE) is the television and film production/distribution unit of Japanese multinational technology and media conglomerate Sony. Like Columbia Pictures it shares its name with a music label. Sound and Light are the "creator gods" favorite tools -- and we all know what came first in Biblical lore. The name Sony was chosen for the brand to sell to an American market as a mix of two words. One was the Latin word sonus which is the root of "sonic" and "sound" and the other was sonny, a familiar term used in 1950s America to call a boy, or child sun god like Horus. It's logo is again sound and light expanding. There are 11 bars which is another esoteric and masonic number. It is said to be a master number of spirituality, as well as a number of disintegration of perfection (10). It is also the coupling of two 1s of masculine energy to make a 2 of feminine energy -- not how things are created in the three dimensional world on Earth. 11 is also a trigger number as in the 11:11 phenomenon and of course 9/11. Notice the bars are lit up to number 9. . . 9 out of 11. . . Could we see this as a symbol that we are approaching the 11th hour? Dawn of Horus? Or could the 11 bars be seen as steps, like the stairway/starway-to-heaven depicted in Masonic tracing boards.





Masonic Tracing boards are painted or printed illustrations depicting the various emblems and symbols of Freemasonry. They were used as teaching aids during the lectures that follow each of the three Masonic Degrees, when an experienced member explains the various concepts of Freemasonry to new members. Here the seven stars of the Pleiades are illustrated on the right next to a stairway emanating from a bright Star believed to be Sirius. And the rising Sun on the upper left represents the blazing star, the all seeing eye of Horus. Notice the Angels, or extraterrestrial beings, descending the ladder from the Star Sirius to the Masonic Lodge ready to reveal the secrets of the universe to the initiates. Freemasonry is an esoteric art in that certain aspects of its internal work are not overtly revealed to the public, but rather expressed through allegory and symbols in both art and architecture. Thus from the beginning the Motion Picture Industry adopted symbols that reveal its connection to Freemasonry. From the all seeing eye of the logos of CBS and Columbia Pictures it become clear that the Movie Industry is a modern tool of Freemasonry.

Part II

When he shall die, take him and cut him out in little stars,
And he will make the face of heaven so fine
That all the world will be in love with night,
And pay no worship to the garish sun. ~ Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet 3.2

God makes stars. I just produce them. ~ Samuel Goldwyn



In Part I of Stars and Hollywood, we began to look at how the term "star" became associated with performers, the motion picture industry, and fame. Just as Juliet projects her lover's face upon the heavens expressing her undying love, so too does the movie industry create an illusion of reality by projecting beautiful faces across the silver screen for the world to worship and adore.



Nothing exemplifies our culture's fascination with fame and celebrity as well as the garish stellar motifs embedded in The Hollywood Walk of Fame at Grauman's Chinese Theatre. The grand opening of this Hollywood icon in 1927 was the most spectacular theatre opening in motion picture history. Thousands of people lined Hollywood Boulevard and riots broke out as fans tried to catch a glimpse of the movie stars and other celebrities as they arrived for the opening. The film being premiered that night: Cecil B. DeMille's epic The King of Kings, the legendary story of Jesus Christ, arguably the world's first superstar.

Today Grauman’s Chinese Theatre is still a sought-after theatre in Hollywood for movie premieres. Enthusiastic and obsessive fans continue to flock to these events to see the celebrities arrive and walk up the red carpet. The Chinese theatre immortalizes the brightest stars with its cement handprints and footprints in the forecourt, and with embedded stars in the Walk of Fame. Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks were the first actors to imprint their handprints, footprints, and signatures in the concrete of the Chinese Theatre's Forecourt of the Stars.



Legend has it that Joanne Woodward was the first celebrity to receive an embedded "star" on the Walk of Fame, when in fact the first star to be installed was that of director Stanley Kramer in 1960 who is most associated with Columbia Pictures. As revealed in my previous post, from its inception Columbia Pictures appropriated Masonic imagery of stars, in particular Sirius, under the disguise of national symbolism.



Just as the Founding Fathers of the United States before them, the Founding Fathers of the entertainment industry (including film, radio and television) used specific Masonic themes and images associated with esoteric stars to align themselves with destiny and perhaps reveal a hidden agenda or plan in plain view. By examining Hollywood's "a star is born" metaphor, it is possible to understand what that hidden agenda may be.

A Star is Born
One of the earliest associations of the term "star" being associated with performers appears to originate in the British Music Halls of 19th Century Europe as seen in this 1907 poster.



Music Halls presented a variety of entertainment involving a mixture of popular song, comedy and specialty acts such as Vaudeville and Burlesque. The first commercially exhibited movies were shown at Kinetoscope Parlors in amusement arcades and sideshows. These attractions featured mundane modern images and representations of modern life. The technology "wowed" viewers more than the stories. These films were made in the world's first film production studio called the "Black Maria," and affectionately nicknamed the "doghouse" by Edison. It is uncanny that veiled references to Sirius, the "dog star" would be used by the inventor/creator god of artificial light. "Black Maria" alludes to the "Black Madonna" whose iconography associates her with the Egyptian goddess Isis, represented by the dog star Sirius and purportedly protected by the Knights Templar, the suspected Fathers of Freemasonry.

By the early 1900s, motion pictures ("flickers") were no longer innovative experiments, but soon became an escapist entertainment medium for the working-class masses. Kinetoscope parlors, lecture halls, and storefronts were converted into Nickelodeons, the first real movie theatres.



The normal admission charge was a nickel - hence the name Nickelodeon. Well guess whose head was on the U.S. 5 cent piece back in 1900: Liberty surrounded by thirteen six-pointed stars. (As we shall see later the numbers 5 and 6 have an intriguing meaning.)



The Nickelodeons primarily attracted working-class, urban and often immigrant audiences who loved this cheap form of entertainment. The demand for films increased the volume of films being produced and raised profits for their producers. Soon Nickelodeons were being transformed into lavish movie palaces which brought in more profit. According to Tim Dirks:

Businessmen soon became interested in the burgeoning movie industry. Some of the biggest names in the film business got their start as proprietors, investors, exhibitors, or distributors in nickelodeons. They realized that further profits could be derived from new systems of distribution, and by expanding the film audience to the middle-class, women, and children. At first, films (and the necessary projection machinery and equipment) were sold, not rented, to exhibitors. As film production increased, cinema owner William Fox was one of the first (in 1904) to form a distribution company (a regional rental exchange), that bought shorts and then rented them to exhibitors at lower rates. Carl Laemmle opened his first nickelodeon in Chicago in 1906.

It turns out that Carl Laemmle might be the source of identifying performers with the term "star." Laemmle was a pioneer in American film making and a founder of Independent Moving Pictures (IMP) which later evolved into one of the original major Hollywood movie studios - Universal Pictures. He began buying Nickelodeons, eventually expanding into a film distribution service, and movie studios. In 1910 Florence Lawrence was was the first actor to be associated with the label of "star" when Laemmle promoted her as "America's foremost moving picture star" in the Independent Moving Pictures Company literature -- "A Star is Born."



Promotion in advertising led to the release of stories about movie personalities to newspapers and fan magazines as part of a strategy to build brand loyalty for each movie company. It all began with what today might be called a "false flag" story planted in the press by a film producer named Carl Laemmle, whose Independent Moving Pictures Company were located across the street from Christie-Nector Studios in Hollywood -- and would later morph into Universal Pictures. According to The Pop History Dig:

In February 1910, Laemmle planted a fictitious news story that the actress had been killed in a street-car accident. Newspapers and magazines were the only real “media” then, and key to spreading a story of the kind Laemmle had created. After Laemmle gained press attention for his false story, he then placed ads in newspapers and the movie trade press that the story about Lawrence’s death was, in fact, a lie. In the March 12, 1910 edition of Moving Picture World, a full-page announcement appeared explaining that Biograph — angry over losing its “Biograph girl,” Lawrence, to Laemmle — had created the false story. This announcement also included a small photo of Lawrence and explained, by the way, that she was making a new movie for Laemmle’s IMP called, The Broken Oath, and that “very shortly, some of the best work of her career” would be released (in the ad, the film’s title was misspelled as “The Broken Bath”).

Notice the cat-like devil in this ad on the Florence Lawrence incident.



Ironically the name Laemmle means "little lamb," but as history shows he was more like a cunning and sly fox. Laemmle also arranged for the first personal appearance of his newborn star. According to historian Robin Cross the actress “[Florence Lawrence] was mobbed by a huge crowd of fans, who tore the buttons off her coat.” By the 1920s, Hollywood film company promoters had developed a massive industrial enterprise that peddled a new intangible -- fame of the newly born film stars on Earth. Thus from its inception, Hollywood used lies and deception to promote its stars and cash in from the fame business.

The Silver Screen of Cinema Heaven



Hollywood's appropriation of star imagery to cast a honorary light on actors and associate the movie industry with specific constellations linked to mythic gods and heroes is all part of this original sin, ie deception. Just as ancient story-tellers transfigured the gods, heroes and mythical animals of legend onto the night sky earning immortality, the movie industry has transformed mere mortals into "stars" who are projected through magic and light across the silver screen. And yes, the original screens did contain silver. The term "silver screen" comes from the actual silver content embedded in the material that made up the screen's highly reflective surface; and later became synonymous for motion picture industry.

Silver is one of the seven metals used in alchemy. It is one of the three base metals often used as prima matera, prime matter, at the inception of a work. Silver is associated with the moon, and thus expresses traits of the divine feminine such as intuition, inner wisdom, and contemplation. Profound artistic expression can be harnessed by using silver. Thus the early motion picture industry developed an alchemical simulacrum of the night sky using the prima materia in its lenticular screens. The goal of alchemy is often described as process of the transmutation of metals, ie turning lead into gold, or in the case of movies, turning silver into gold using the artful magic of light and sound manipulated by creator-god movie-makers.

Thus it is no surprise that we find more alchemical and Masonic symbols such as the rising sun, all seeing eye, and five-pointed star, or pentagram. Have you ever wondered why the star associated with fame is a five pointed one and not a six-pointed one (especially if the stereotyped belief that the Jews invented Hollywood were actually true)? It seems that the roots of Hollywood are actually entwined with Freemasonry.

Stars, Pentagrams and Alchemy
Alchemy has always been closely aligned with, if not the roots of, Freemasonry. In alchemy the pentagram represent Spirit and the four basic elements: earth, water, air, and fire as depicted below.



To Masons the pentagram is also an emblem of the five points of felicity: The Five-pointed Star reminds us of the five points of felicity, which are to walk with, to intercede for, to love, to assist, and to pray for our Brethren, so as to be united with them in heart and mind. Zelator ritual of Society of Rosicusians.



According to Albert Pike, the pentagram is synonymous with the Blazing Star of Masonic Lodges.

The Blazing Star in our Lodges, we have already said, represents Sirius, Anubis, or Mercury, Guardian and Guide of Souls. Our Ancient English brethren also considered it an emblem of the Sun. In the old Lectures they said: ‘The Blazing Star or Glory in the centre refers us to that Grand Luminary the Sun, which enlightens the Earth, and by its genial influence dispenses blessings to mankind. It is also said in those lectures to be an emblem of Prudence. The word Prudentia means, in its original and fullest signification, Foresight: and accordingly the Blazing Star has been regarded as an emblem of Omniscience, or the All-Seeing Eye, which to the Ancients was the Sun.

As legendary artist Leonardo Da Vinci, the reputed Grand Master of the Masonic secret society the Priory of Sion, revealed to the world, the pentagram is the symbol of the Divine design in man. The five-pointed star with a single point upward represents the Divine. It also symbolizes man for its five points allude to the five senses, the five members (head, arms and legs) and his five fingers on each hand (also reflected in the hand and foot prints at on the Hollywood Walk of Fame). Thanks to Dan Brown, the author of the book and blockbuster movie The Da Vinci Code (produced by Columbia Pictures), the veil of secrecy surrounding this symbol has been lifted for the masses to consume. The question is how accurate is this information?



In chapter six of The Da Vinci Code, Dan Brown's character, Robert Langdon, was amazed to learn that the planet Venus traces a perfect pentagram in the sky over a four-year period. This isn't quite correct. It is a half-truth, a ploy used by Masonic initiates to give the illusion of revelation while keeping the real truth hidden. In reality, Venus traces an imperfect pentacle every eight years, or six consecutive synodic appearances. In numerology the number 6 is considered the mystical number for Venus. Most astrologers would agree that the planet Venus represents love, the arts, and attraction. It is a perfect planet to represent to glamor of the movie industry.



During a Venus cycle the planet undergoes five retrogrades forming a path that appears from our perspective on the Earth as a five-pointed star or pentagram. Thus this ancient symbol of alchemy and the divine feminine originated from astronomical observation of this cycle. Historically this phenomenon was observed by ancient sky-watchers and mystics, and became the basis of many myths involving death and resurrection. The Babylonians called Venus the double-phased Ishtar -- the Morning Star of War and the Evening Star of love. Greek astrologers called the morning phase of Venus Lucifer meaning "the light bearer" and the evening phase Hesperus meaning "setting in the West".

The planet Venus has been referred to as the Morning Star or Evening Star for thousands of years. Because it is closer to the Sun than the Earth is, it can never appear very far from the Sun in our twilight skies. In other words, when the Sun sets Venus may be rising in the west as the Evening Star; or it may appear in the pre-dawn sky before sunrise as the Morning Star. According to Babylonian mythology Ishtar (Sumerian Ianna) as the Evening Star of love, travels down to the underworld to bring back her lover Tammuz. After a terrifying ordeal, she is returned to the land of the living because the other gods cannot abide even their utopian existence without a goddess of love. Ishtar returns to reign as the Queen of Heaven, though without her lover, Tammuz. This story is believed to be another version of the Isis and Osiris myth.

The Morning Star, Venus-Lucifer or "light-bearer" has been misinterpreted as actually being the Biblical devil by modern fundamentalists. The Bible does not name the devil as Lucifer. The use of this name in reference to the devil stems from an interpretation of Isaiah 14:3-20, a passage that describes the defeat of a particular Babylonian King. As the essential message of Freemasonry teaches that man is becoming a god, Lucifer, the light-bearer, then is an activator of that process. Thus the pentagram becomes a symbol for Venus, the light-bearer, who illuminates man's true destiny of becoming a god through his creative acts.





Another pentagram that reveals how this process may work is illustrated in the Chinese Wu Xing, or five elements that stems from the alchemical tradition of Taoism. The word xing may translate as elements, phases, transitions or movements. Although a different character, another word sounding like xing translates as "star." Yep! Although it is a Chinese Theatre, I still find it fascinating that the designers of Grauman's stars also have incorporated 5 separate emblems representing 5 elements of the entertainment industry into its own pentagram:

A Classic film camera representing motion pictures



A Television set representing broadcast television




A Phonograph record representing audio recording or music



A Radio microphone representing broadcast radio



A Comedy/tragedy masks representing theatre/live performance



In five element theory each element engenders the next in a circular pattern or cycle, the interaction of the elements, or transition of energy, occur under control or rebelling cycles. (Sound/Water, Film/Wood, Radio/Fire, TV/Earth, Tragedy/Metal.) Makes one wonder about the power play within the entertainment and fame business. Like a martial artist or acupuncturist, if you know the pattern, you know how to control it.

Thus it appears from looking at the birth of the modern concept of "star" and even "superstar" the the Founding Fathers of the entertainment industry may indeed have had a Masonic game plan: the revelation that we are becoming gods. In particular, the light-bearer creator gods of the movie industry have changed our perception of the world and ourselves. With the advent of reality TV stars we are indeed beginning to see in a perverted way that "Everybody is a Star" and has the opportunity to be immortalized. As we shall see in Part III of Stars and Hollywood, the "devil" is literally in the details.


Part III

What's in a Name? Very often there is more in it than the profane is prepared to understand, or the learned mystic to explain. It is an invisible, secret, but very potential influence that every name carries about with it and "leaveth where ever it goeth." ~ Madame H.P. Blavatsky



As I mentioned in Part I of Stars and Hollywood, the name Hollywood is charged with profound creative potential and influence since its name derives from the holly tree whose wood is traditionally used in the fabrication of magic wands. Thus by Theosophical principles the foundations of the U.S. film industry, which peddled enchantment and illusion, was itself conjured and rooted by the magic of its name.




In Part II of Stars and Hollywood, we began to look at how the term "star" became associated with performers, the motion picture industry, and fame. It became clear that, like the Founding Fathers of the United States before them, the Founding Fathers of the U.S. entertainment industry (including film, radio, music and television) used specific Masonic themes and images associated with esoteric stars to align themselves with destiny and ultimately to reveal a hidden agenda or plan in plain view. By examining Hollywood's "a star is born" metaphor, we began to uncover what that hidden agenda may be: the revelation that we are becoming gods.

In particular the theme of the light-bearer, a pun on the intrinsic nature of film itself, is used as an obvious reference to film, and in some cases, like Columbia Pictures, to national archetypes both of which are embedded with veiled significance in the Masonic tradition with roots in ancient Gnosticism.

According to Timothy Hogan:
Gnosticism and Gnostic thought are mentioned several times in the Scottish Rite degrees, and we can see it as a general theme in Freemasonry, though it is rarely mentioned specifically by name outside of the Scottish Rite. . . Gnosticism is a school of thought originally developed in the ancient pagan world and championed by philosophers like Pythagoras, and later instrumental in the development of early Christianity, in which an initiate can attain a Gnosis- or direct knowledge of the divine. As a result, schools of initiation were set up by the Gnostics in order to engage in study and initiation, and to attain connection with the path of Sophia - the Greek word for “wisdom”. Gnosticism therefore showed the connection between God and Nature, and contributed to the esoteric sciences of alchemy and sacred geometry. The “G” emphasized in Freemasonry may therefore have other implications!

In the Gnostic view, there is a true, ultimate and transcendent God who emanated or brought forth from within Itself all there is in all the worlds, visible and invisible. God was represented as the supreme light, and in fact, the Gnostics were often called the Sons of Light.

The basic Gnostic myth has many variations, but all of these refer to Aeons or Archons, intermediate deific beings who exist between the ultimate, True God and ourselves. In late antiquity the term archon was used in Gnosticism to refer to several servants of the Demiurge, a "creator god" that stood between the human race and a transcendent God that could only be reached through gnosis.



Thus any deity or demon may be considered an archon: that which keeps us distracted from true transcendence and gnosis. Gnostics believe that they have secret knowledge about God, humanity and the rest of the universe of which the general population was unaware. Their doctrine of 'salvation by knowledge' has mistakenly associated them with Satan, the guardian of the Tree of Knowledge, and his misnamed alter-ego Lucifer -- a misconception clarified by the 19th century theosophist Madame H.P. Blavatsky in a letter to her sister Vera:

We are about to found a magazine of our own, Lucifer. Don’t allow yourself to be frightened: it is not the devil, into which the Catholics have falsified the name of the Morning Star, sacred to all the ancient world, of the ‘bringer of light,’ Phosphoros, as the Romans often called the Mother of God and Christ. And in St. John’s Revelation does it not say, ‘I, Jesus, the morning star’? I wish people would take this to mind, at least. It is possible that the rebellious angel was called Lucifer before his fall, but after his transformation he must not be called so....

Like the mythical Prometheus who gave fire to man and angered the gods, Lucifer is a viewed by gnostics as the bringer of light and gnosis - knowledge, a gift which angered and frightened the Catholic Church enough to demonize it.

The Theosophical Society of New York City was founded in 1875 and its philosophy had a profound effect on the arts and literature at the end of the 19th Century. Through its expanding membership the metaphor of the light-bringer/lucifer was infiltrating the collective consciousness at the time of the burgeoning film and entertainment industries. The illusionary and luciferan (light-based) nature of film is itself may in fact reflect the gnostic view of material reality -- a false reflection of the true reality through the machinations of a Demiurge.

I am not the first to suggest that Hollywood is controlled by this Demiurge, or illuminated elite. Hollywood's creator-gods, such as movie producers, directors, actors, and stars project infinite distractions to keep us from connecting with the true Transcendent one, while at the same time secretly reveal the truth disguised in allegorical movies that today is called The Revelation of the Method. The Revelation of the Method is a term in conspiracy circles meaning something revealed, especially a dramatic disclosure of something not previously known or realized. The evidence of this machination is clearly projected for all to see in the logos and recurring symbols and themes of the movie industry, especially in the archetypes projected by 20th Century Fox.













Twentieth Century Fox
Le bon Dieu est dans le detail. ~ Gustave Flaubert
Der liebe Gott steckt im Detail. ~ Aby Warburg
The devil is in the details. ~ Proverb

In numerology every letter of the alphabet gets assigned a number according to its position, ie a=1, b=2, c=3 to the end. The letters F, O and X all equal 6 (the number associated with Venus, and lucifer/morningstar). Thus the FOX call letters are numerologically 6-6-6 associated with the mark of the beast, or the devil, adding up to 24 which itself adds up to 6. Even disgruntled actors and directors occasionally describe Fox as the devil. This amusing correspondence becomes an enlightening coincidence with other luciferan themes embedded throughout the history of 20th Century Fox.



20th Century Fox is one of the six major U.S. film studios located in Century City just southwest of Hollywood. It was founded in 1935 as a result of a merger of Fox Film Corporation (founded in 1915 by William Fox) and 20th Century Pictures (founded in 1933 by various studio executives). Today it is a subsidiary of News Corporation owned by Rupert Murdoch who became a U.S.Citizen in 1985 in order to purchase it. 20th Century Fox includes Fox Broadcasting (News) and Fox Entertainment Group (Music). The latest headline coming from the studios syncs nicely with our solar-stellar theme: Fox signs its latest big star: the Sun -- as it completed its installation of solar panels.



A list of its recent popular films include an intriguing collection of Revelation of the Method themes: Avatar, Star Wars, Independence Day, The Day After Tomorrow, Aliens, and Planet of the Apes; its popular television series include the X-Files, The Simpsons, American Idol, and Fringe; and its news group includes the likes of Glenn Beck, Sarah Palin, and Bill O'Reilly. 20th Century Fox movies have changed our collective consciousness and made us more aware of the possibility of alien invasion, asteroid impact, and global climate change. Their television shows have intrigued us with various conspiracy theories and fringe science. These revelatory productions have created memorable quotes reflecting this shift in consciousness, such as "May the Force be with You" (Star Wars), "I 'see' you" (Avatar), and perhaps the most insidious "The Truth is Out There" (X-Files). And they have seeded images of events that seem prophetic, but may in fact have been planned.





And there is a strange contrast between the fantasy film and television productions and the "fantasy" news that FOX broadcasts. How could a company that produces so many movies and television programs about revelation and promotes liberal ideology when they simultaneously also produce obviously biased conservative "news" that influences the minds the 'other side.' Well FOX has cornered the market. It may bring you the Apollo Moon Hoax and The X-Files as well as the crazy rants of Glenn Beck and Bill O'Reilly.

During the first decade of 2000s, FOX news expanded with its coverage of the Iraqi war and expanded its base of conservatives. Although still popular in the marketplace, people are beginning to see FOX news as a joke and to understand what it really does: it divides us. Division is the tool of the ultimate deception of a dualistic belief system -- that we are separate from the divine when in fact we are all one. Division creates yin/yang, positive/negative, angels/demons and nobody cashes in on it like Fox News. (It also makes us believe that the other networks are "real" news when in fact those networks are under the same manipulative powers -- but that's another article.) Fox divides and conquers the market. It does this to keep the viewer tuned in, raise ratings, and cash in. As Fox Mulder realized after falling through the rabbit hole, over and over again, that the truth is not out there. It is inside us, as the gnostics might say, and the masters of illusion at 20th Century Fox (and other entertainment companies) do everything to make us forget that. Fantasy is the key word and tool of the sly Fox of 20th Century Fox.

FOX Films
In 1915 William Fox formed The Fox Film Corporation by merging two companies he had established in 1913: Greater New York Film Rental, a distribution firm, which was part of the Independents; and Fox (or Box, depending on the source) Office Attractions Company, a production company. This merging of a distribution company and a production company was an early example of vertical integration. A year before the merger Fox Office Attractions had distributed Windsor McCay's groundbreaking cartoon Gertie the Dinosaur. Although not the first animated film, Gertie the Dinosaur it was the first cartoon to feature a character with a distinctive personality and is considered a predecessor to popular cartoons, such as those by Walt Disney.



Thus one of the first productions of Fox Films was indeed a fantasy film about a brontosaurus strangely named Gertie. Gertie seems more of a name for a goose than a dinosaur. The name comes from Gertrude meaning "strength of spear" or "spear maiden." Like the strange coincidence of naming Nestor studios after King Nestor with his royal "magic" staff as we discussed in Part I of Stars and Hollywood, Gertie the Dinosaur also conjures up magic from deep inside the well of nebulous synchronicity. She is like a modern dragon that has been tamed by the artist.



Gertie was probably inspired by 19th and 20th century archeological finds of dinosaur fossils which were beginning to become popular exhibits in museums. Like her antecedents on Fox, Gertie the Dinosaur combines both science and fantasy. In the late 1890s the American Museum of Natural History in New York City collected an Apatosaurus specimen, which became the first sauropod dinosaur ever mounted. Museum paleontologists labored over the specimen for several years before it went on view in 1905, and it has been a focal point of the collection ever since. Perhaps Windsor McCay was inspired by work like the 1910 illustration below by Mary Mason Mitchell that originally appeared in On the Manner of Locomotion of the Dinosaurs, Especially Diplodocus, with Remarks on the Origin of the Birds in Proceedings of the Washington Academy of Sciences.



Thus from its inception, Fox Films produced a strange mix of science and fantasy that ultimately makes it today's leader in science fiction and fantasy broadcasts. I bet Sarah Palin would like Gertie the Dinosaur as she still believes that humans and dinosaurs walked the earth together.

20th Century Fox LOGOS
A logo, or logotype is a graphic representation or symbol of a company name that is uniquely designed for ready recognition. Stemming from the Greek logos, meaning word or speech it also refers to the rational principle that governs and develops the universe, ie God, and/or the divine word of God. Like a name, a logo carries potential influence and magic, and when established become an archetypal symbol on its own.



This compilation of 20th Century Fox TV logos reveals that the original logos for the studio contained the same solar and star archetypes as Columbia Pictures. The initial logo has the rising sun motif rising behind the letters TCF (Twentieth Century Fox). The first change to the logo expands the letters to the full name floating across a sea of stars with what looks like an Egyptian pyramid floating on top of the URY of Century. Can you guess what constellations these stars represent? And next we see the familiar search light logo with the distinctive Art Deco building. Over the years this famous logo was modified by various artists. From lightening bolts in the Fox TV logo, to Fox STAR productions, it becomes modified to specific TV and movie characters and themes.



This modern CGI version of the logo contains a multitude of symbols. It begins from a perspective above the blinding search lights. The distinctive Art Deco Fox building is placed in an expanded virtual Los Angeles City. In the distant background you can just make out the Hollywood sign which gives the Fox monument an actually location in Century City.


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It seems that sun is setting to the northwest, and that it is twilight -- magic hour. In the still below, I tried to figure out what constellation might be brightening as the sun fades.





At first I was sure that I was going to find Sirius and Orion, but my sky-watching friend Lori pointed out that it seems to be the constellation of Cygnus -- the swan, also known as the northern cross. What is fascinating is that below Cygnus is the constellation of Vulpecula, the FOX, which would be located behind the building itself. Like the constellation Columba, Vulpecula was a creation of another 17th century astronomer, and possible illuminati member, named Johannes Hevelius. (For more see Hoagland's article on why these constellations may have been created and how they relate to the dawning of the age of Horus.) During the Middle Ages and Renaissance the fox appears as a symbol of the sly, sophisticated devil. The red fox is the most common of this smallest member of the canine family. Ah, yes. I said CANINE. Once again another layer of the veil parts. But the fox has also has its own long history of magic and cunning associated with it. Because it is most visible during the between times of dusk and dawn, it is believed to have access to magical worlds. Thus the logo of 20th Century Fox, with the fall of twilight is steeped in fox iconography.



She's a twentieth century fox,
She's a twentieth century fox,
She's got the world locked up inside a plastic box,
She's a twentieth century fox,
She's a twentieth century fox


Although on the surface this song appears to written about Jim Morrison's girlfriend Pamela Courson, it describes a glamorous but artificial LA woman (a female fox is called a "vixen") and simultaneously conjures up images our iconic movie studio. Jim Morrison may have been alluding the imprisonment of the world mind locked up in a plastic pandora box (T.V) by the entertainment industry. (Ironic in light of the mystery around the original name of Fox Films -- Box/Fox.) It is also a comment on the fame machine of Hollywood.

No doubt Morrison was steeped in myth and symbolism having grown up in the heart of the U.S. film industry, as well as having attended film school at UCLA whose motto Fiat Lux translates: "let there be light." A poet, philosopher, and singer, Jim Morrison was an iconoclast who used his fame to promote his artistic message. He felt it necessary to push the envelope and society as far as as possible to find freedom. He openly used drugs as "doors" to access other worlds where few explorers ventured. Morrison's music, lyrics, and charismatic passion took listeners to some dark places in our collective psyches. Like any good shaman, his real talent was taking us along on on his journeys into these forbidden realms and opening our minds with his vivid perceptions.

According to his own self-made mythology, Morrison saw an Indian get hit by a car in his youth and believed the Indian's spirit was released and living in him. He named this Indian spirit the Lizard King, and took on its energy like a modern shaman on Ayahuasca. The native mythology around lizards are that they are dream-keepers and protect the space between the worlds. Under stress they hide, or even play dead, leading many fans to believe that Morrison ran and hid in France and faked his own death. And guess what constellation lies next to the Fox -- Lacerta, the Lizard. What a strange and lovely coincidence, eh?



During their national debut on The Ed Sullivan Show the Doors performed Light my Fire causing consternation when they sang "higher" instead of the studio's request to sing "better" -- at that time you could not say "high" on national television. This controversy may have blinded critics to the more intriguing Masonic themes of this song. Mr. Mojo Risin (an anagram of Morrison's name) asked Columba to light his fire and release the rising sun. And strangely enough Jim Morrison died on July 3, 1971 -- during the dog days of summer when Sirius disappears into the Sun's glow and and Lacerta, the Lizard is twinkling with the Fox in the midheaven of summer stars. Mythic indeed.


Dinosaurs, Lizards, Dragons, and Fox

There is an intriguing Aesop's Fable linking the Fox and the Dragon. From a translation by Laura Gibbs:

While excavating her den, a fox dug a hole in the earth and as she made deeper and deeper tunnels in the ground, she finally reached the cave of a dragon who was guarding a hidden treasure. When the fox saw the dragon, she said, 'First of all, I beg your pardon for this carelessness on my part; second, you no doubt realize that gold means nothing to me, so I hope that you will be so kind as to explain to me what profit you gain from this work, and what reward could be so great that you would forgo the pleasure of sleep and live out your life here in the dark?' 'I have no reward,' the dragon replied, 'but this task was assigned to me by Jupiter on high.' 'Does that mean you take nothing for yourself and do not give anything to anyone?' 'That is what the Fates have decreed.' 'Please don't be angry then if I speak freely,' concluded the fox, 'but someone who lives like this must have been born under an unlucky star!'

Is our 20th Century Fox actually seeking the Dragon's gold? And what might that gold be? Gold is traditionally the metal assigned to the Sun. Aesop's fox was troubled that the Dragon was to live its life out in the dark, blind to the truth that the Gods are not his friend and that the Dragon holds the treasure himself. This reaction of anger that the gods keep us in the dark is very luciferan, as is the desire to bring light and knowledge. Once again this recurring light-bearer theme suggests that the entertainment industry is embedded in this philosophy which uses artificial light to bear gold. But like gold, it is only a reflection of the true power of the Sun.

Namaste!

So much of the knowledge in our minds is based on lies and superstitions that come from thousands of years ago. Humans create stories long before we are born, and we inherit those stories, we adopt them, and we live in those stories.

All around the world, people believe that there is a great conflict between good and evil. Well, it’s true that there’s a conflict, but it only exists in the human mind.

~ excerpts from The Voice of Knowledge, by Don Miguel Ruiz