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My Dinner With The Celtic Rebel - Part 1

"If you make yourselves into sheep, wolves will eat you." - Ben Franklin

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"The end is not coming, the coming is the end."- Sex and Death 101

It's time for yet another installment of My Dinner With The Celtic Rebel (clickfor his version of events), hurrah! This is the second to last of these podcasts,though it may be interrupted by an emergency session of holiday podcasting ifwe get around to it. Once again Alex out-did himself with excellent music, and

even audio clips this time, so give it a listen:

download link (~105 minutes)

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The Holy Mountain - Albedo

"I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance." - Socrates

"The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seemworth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will

believe it." - Bertrand Russell

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"In philosophy, it is not the attainment of the goal that matters, it is the thingsthat are met along the way." - Havelock Ellis

The introductory scene for this movie features the director and writer,Alexander/Alejandro Jodorowsky playing the character ofThe Alchemist(which he will be called from now on). The Alchemist is in the process ofritualistically cleaning two women. The process involves makeup and hairremoval which he does with very smooth and deliberate movements. He acts asthe zen-influenced Japanese might, where one meditates in every action withno-mind, or total awareness on the subject at hand. The next time we see TheAlchemist is when The Thief reaches his tower in the center of town, rightwhere I left off at the end of the first part of this series: Nigredo. For this andthe next post I'm going to refrain from too much speculation and let you, the

viewers/readers, make up your own minds as to what this stuff means. Thetarot cards seen further down are especially interesting. Then the last part ofthis series, "Rubedo," will be all ViolatoR, baby! (That's me, incase you didn'tknow.)

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The Thief and The Prostitute with chimp/Pan have walked out of the desert

into the town. Here they find the town's people gathered for a possiblyChristian meal of fish. They are all at the base of a tall red tower, and at themoment, they are all staring upward as a large golden fish hook is loweredfrom the only opening in the tower. The hook carries a small bag with a solarsymbol (circle-dot, also the symbol for gold) which is filled with small pieces ofgold. Someone takes the gold and places fruit on the hook as thanksgiving forthe gold. The Thief takes this oppertunity to ride the hook back up to thetower's port-hole to murder who ever is in the tower and take the rest of thegold.

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Once he reaches the portal, The Thief steps inside the circular opening to finda thin paper veil between the window and whatever lies inside. He pierces thepaper-hymen with his phallic-representing knife. Once he knows it's thin andeasily broken, he steps back then lunges forward through the veil into thearched room of The Alchemist.

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Readers might recognize this scene from various synchromystic videos. Theroom its self is painted with bands of the colors of the rainbow. The archedroof of the room might also indicate rainbow symbolism, and that The Thief has"gone over the rainbow" upon breaking through the veil. As a matter of fact,the soundtrack for this part of the movie has the song: "Rainbow Room." TheThief progresses from red to violet which represents a vertical movement ofthe kundalini through the chakras. He is following the rope which is attached atone end to the large golden hook, and at the other end, dissaperes under thetrilithon-shaped (two stones topped with a lintel, like at Stonehenge), ormaybe pi-suggestive chair which The Alchemist sits upon.

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original aum/om symbol

The rope, to me, feels like a spiritual umbilical cord, similar to the hook andanchor which I discuss in Opening the Stargate.

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The back wall of the arched room is a golden yellow color, possiblyrepresentative of a sunrise where the sun, half over the horizen, forms agolden arch/half circle. There is a raised platform of 3 steps upon which sitsThe Alchemist, between two goats and two pillars, one black and one white. Tohis left is a 2-humped camel making it a East-Asian camel as opposed to theMiddle-Eastern variety. To The Alchemist's right is a naked black womancovered in esoteric tattoos and silver jewlery, who will be known as TheWritten Woman from here on out.

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anyone care to translate?

The Thief makes it known he plans to attack The Alchemist, so The Alchemist

movies, in his typical deliberate fashion, to face The Thief. The fight isdecidedly one-sided as The Alchemist appears to be trained in Tai Chi. It's beensaid that it takes about two years to master any martial art's style, while it cantake 20 years or more to master Tai Chi, but it is the ultimate fighting styleonce mastered. The Alchemist disables The Theif by touching certain chakrapoints in a specific order. Once paralyzed and unconscious, The Written Womanlifts The Thiefs hair from the back of his neck to find a large tumor there. Sheslices it open as blue liquid leaks out. The Written Woman pulls out a blue-goo

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covered squid (?) from the tumor in the back of The Thief's neck and seals thewound with a touch.

Whatever the thing she pulls out is, it reminds me of multiple "pod people"type movies where humans are infected by a parasite which controls theiractions. Or, perhaps, even the millenial Y2K movie Strange Days, where a"squid" is a device which uses electrodes to record and play back memories, sothat a person can take a "memory vacation" similar to Total Recall's memoryvacation business "Recall." Speaking of which, Total Recall's Arnold

Schwarzenegger plays character "Jericho Cane" in millenial End of Days (samename of the protagonist in Dwane Johnson's movie script, "The Power," whichhis character writes in end-of-world movie Southland Tales), which brings usback to where we started when the death of a "Jeriko One" is the spark whichignites the end-of-world(-as-we-know-it) movie Strange Days. The tentacledthing that was in The Theif's neck may represent the pre-programmedbehaviours that society sticks in all of our heads. Over-indulgance (in alcohol inhis case), devotion to political and religious institutions, and a lust for money.

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The Alchemist then awakens The Thief by activating his chakra points again,whereupon The Thief no longer feels like attacking The Alchemist.

The Alchemist then says to The Theif: "Do you want gold?" And The Theifreplies: "Yes." Next, The Alchemist and The Written Woman take The Thief to

an octagonal fountain with a baby hippopotamus in it and give The Thief anextremelythorough bath/baptism. Much attention is paid to the endof the"human stargte." The hippo may represent the Egyptian goddess of childbirth.Taweret/Taueret; so, this is The Theif's re-birth.

Next we enter the Alchemical Room, where more practical alchemy takesplace. The room is shaped like a hexagram (heart chakra) with a circular areain the middle where the alchemical apperatus is located. There is a dual-flameathanor/oven/furnace which may be based on a "pelican" design, thoughusually more complicated designs are left for the flask or retort (usually madeof glass, or sometimes clay). Pelican flasks have two "arms" which feed backinto the body of the flask, and they represent the idea of a pelican feeding it's(dead) young with it's blood (to give them life). There is also a pelican walkingaround the room to let you know that there's some serious alchemy going on inhere!

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The pelican pecking at it's white breast (to get pieces of fish that fell in there),looks like it's biting it's self to get drops of blood with which to feed it's young,and this may represent the "reddening" stage in alchemy where the whitematerial becomes red. The pelican also represents the stage of multiplicationwhere the power of projection is multiplied (the ability of the Stone to turnbase metals to gold). The glass retort is cleary shaped as an egg, and this is

what it represents: a "hermetically sealed" vessel of creation. Even theathanor/furnace is called the "House of the Chick" indicating the egg symbolismis fitting.

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Many of the deifinitions of alchemical symbolism which I used are paraphrasedfrom Sorcerer's Stone by Dennis William Hauck, including this quote here: "Themountain is a symbol for the athanor, since the perfection of the metals takes

place under the guise of Nature within mountains." The anathor(furnace) is themountain, or rather, The Holy Mountain.

When The Thief enters the room, he is given a glass jar to "relieve" himselfinto. His excrement is collected in it and carried to the alchemical apperatuswhere it will under go the same change which The Thief will undergo.Traditionally, any external progress in the Great Work will mirror internalprogress of the alchemist himself.

"A soul cannot develop and progress without an appropriate body, because it isthe physical body that furnishes the material for its development." - Franz

Hartmann (quoted from Secret Teachings of All Ages) When theAlchemyLab.com website first opened, one had to answer a riddle beforegaining access to the site. The riddle was:"The key to life and death is everywhere to be found, but if you do not find itin your own house, you will find it nowhere. Yet, it is before everyone's eyes;no one can live without it; everyone has used it. The poor usually possess moreof it than the rich; children play with it in the streets. The meek anduneducated esteem it highly, but the privileged and learned often throw it

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away. When rejected, it lies dormant in the bowels of the earth. It is the onlything from which the Philosopher's Stone can be prepared, and without it, nonoble metal can ever be created."Here's a more concise version of the riddle:In speaking of the Philosopher's Stone, recieve this stone which is not a stone, a

precious thing that has no value, a thing of many shapes that has no shape, thisunknown which is known by all.Nobody was getting into the website though, but some answers were prettyclose; things like: consciousness, light, love, god, aether, blood, quintessence,etc. Dennis Willian Hauck says in his book that "even such answers as urine,menses, manure, and dirt would be considered by alchemists to be fittingresponses." The correct answer is, of course, the prima materia, or FirstMatter. He goes on, "even things such as urine and manure also have a ring oftruth in talking about the First Matter, since they are things associated withthe life force that humans tend to reject or not want to touch. Similarly, thewhole concept of the First Matter has been rejected by modern civilization."

"It takes a seed of gold to make gold," and all things have that seed within, theprima materia.

The Thief is made to sweat out his "mercury" which is recycled in the flask untila pure bowl of mercury fills before him. I covered the idea of the extraction ofthe spirit and soul as steam in my post, Purification: "But the philosophers havedescribed this 'spirit' and this 'soul' as 'steam' (...), and as there is moisture anddryness in man, our work is nothing but steam and water." (Turbaphilosophorum, Berlin, 1931) I connected it to the symbol of the dove which"signifies the change from the Black Phase to the White Phase," or Nigredo to

Albedo. The excrement in the glass container has been on fire (like The Thief)and changing through various states. It sits over a bowl of red liquid, asopposed to the blue on the other side. This may represent the Red Stone andDry Way/Path of the Great Work, which I believe is the quickest path to theStone. Next, the liquid extracted from The Theif is collected in a heart-shapedcontainer and added to the excrement which changes through several morephases of liquids and solids such as crystals until it becomes pure gold. TheAlchemist: "You are excriment. You can change yourself into gold."

The Thief exits the egg of transofmation and is presented with a vesica piscesshaped mirror called a "looking glass." The Thief sees his reflection and

immediately breaks the glass with the lump of gold that used to be his feces.He's exited the egg/ego and no longer is self-obsessed.

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compare to "fool" tarot card later on

Next, The Thief and The Alchemist are in a room of mirrors with a small stoneobalisk/pyramidion/capstone type object in the center of the room. The

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Alchemist says: "You broke the looking glass. Now break the stone," and handsThe Thief a silver hatchet which The Theif uses to no avial to break the stoneopen. The Alchemist takes the hatchet and breaks the stone open in one lighthit; revealing a hidden crystal sphere in the center of it. (See the image inlower-left of below picture.) He says of it: "This stone has a soul formed by the

work of millions of years."

Recently, television station "SyFy" (Sci-Fi) released a two night miniseries,"Alice," which was a new interpretation of the "Alice in Wonderland" story. Theworld of Wonderland is run by the tyrranical Red Queen who desires only tofeel the good all the time, and to accomplish her goal, she extracts positiveemotions from enslaved humans from the "real world." These people are called"oysters" because of the "pearls" they carry inside them. The pearls are theemotions, but they are extracted through the soles/souls of the feet. At onepoint I believe a person who wakes up during the process says "my sole(soul)hurts." The vampiric theft of emotional energy spans several belief systems

going from shamaic beliefs to even alien conspiracies. Some believe that ourpain is felt as pleasure "through the looking glass" where everything is inverted.So, these entities attempt to cause suffering here so that they feel pleasurethere. Fear mongering in our world may be feeding the chtchonic beings of theOtherworld. Careful with what you're sending out into the (Other)world!

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The clear crystal "soul" of the stone may reference the book, Mount Analogue:A Novel of Symbolically Authentic Non-Euclidean Adventures in MountainClimbing. A quote from the novel: "Its summit must be inaccessible, but itsbase accessible to human beings as nature made them. It must be unique and itmust exist geographically. The door to the invisible must be visible." The novelalso has a spherical crystal which is called a "peradam," an "object that isrevealed only to those who seek it":One finds here, very rarely in the low lying areas, more frequently as one goesfarther up, a clear and extremely hard stone that is spherical and varies in size- a kind of crystal, but a curved crystal, something extraordinary and unknownon the rest of the planet. Among the French of Port-des-Singes, it is calledperadam. Ivan Lapse remains puzzled by the formation and root meaning ofthis word. It may mean, according to him, harder than diamond, and it is;or father of the diamond, and they say that the diamond is in fact theproduct of the degeneration of the peradam by a sort of quartering of thecircle or, more precisely, cubing of the sphere. Or again, the word maymean Adams stone, having some secret and profound connection to theoriginal nature of man. The clarity of this stone is so great and its index ofrefraction so close to that of air that, despite the crystals great density, the

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unaccustomed eye hardly perceives it. But to anyone who seeks it with sinceredesire and true need, it reveals itself by its sudden sparkle, like that ofdewdrops. The peradam is the only substance, the only material object whosevalue is recognized by the guides of Mount Analogue. Therefore, it is thestandard of all currency, as gold is for us.

So, this "Soul-Stone" is the equivalent to "Gold" which is the end-result of thealchemical work. Mount Analogue (and the peradam) "can only be viewed froma particular point when the sun's rays hit the earth at a certain angle." Kindalike a rainbow, huh? "Peradam" can be arranged into the anagrams: "A RedMap," or, "Read Map." Adam of the Bible means "red earth," so the red map ofthe red earth is Adam, the human microcosm, and we "Read (the) Map" to findthe treasure, per Adam. Interestingly, the peradam has already been seen inthe movie as it lies at the end of the necklace of The Prostitute (who walksaround with an ape "ancestor" of Adam/Man: "This stone has a soul formed bythe work of millions of years".

The Alchemist takes The Thief into the Tarot Room and tells him, "The Tarotwill teach you how to make a soul." There appears to be 12 large Tarot cardpaintings on the 12 walls of the room. These are all original AlejandroJodorowsky paintings, as are other works of art in the movie, and are

presumably designed based on his intimiate understanding of the originalMarseille's Tarot. Here again we can see his use of red and blue to indicateduality.

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I'll let you guys meditate on the paintings without my interference. The floor ofthe room has a lotus with a triangle with a circle in the center. The Theif layson the floor while The Alchemist adorns him with 4 symbolic items representingthe 4 suits of the Tarot. He lays a Wand/staff between The Thief's legs torepresent a phallus, and says, "To know." Then a Sword along the spine (infront) with the words, "To dare." Then a Cup/chalice in front of his heart withthe words, "To want." And then a Pentacle/disk upon The Thief's brow with thewords, "To be silent."

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Next they are in the same room which now has a vulture seated upon the backof an ox. The oxen has a symbol drawn upon it's side which seems to me to be aletter, such as the Hebrew letter Teth which means: serpent. (I mentioned this

symbol in a previous post: The Journey Back Home.) The letter is also underthe belly button of The Written Woman, perhaps as a hint of the kundalini. Theidea that the ox represents a serpent might not be too far fetched as thesymbol of an eagle, or any bird, with a serpent in it's talons is already an oldone. The Alchemist explains to The Thief, "The same force the vulture uses tosieze the ox, is needed by the ox to receive the vulture." (At least that's what Iheard through his thick accent!) Sort of an equal-but-opposite reaction there.The vulture has been shown by me in a previous post (Opening the Stargate) torepresent "the power of reconcilliation (after the serpent who representsdissection). In Alchemy, the subject of the work is first broken down into itsindividual parts, purified, and then put back together in a more perfect, or

more evolved state."

Continue this series with part 3 here: The Holy Mountain - Cauda Pavonis

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