Kennedy and KING KILL 33

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KING KILL 33

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Preface to King-Kill/ 33: James Shelby Downard’s Vision

This excerpt from the essay “King-Kill/33” has been out of print since 1987 and the publication of the first edition of Adam Parfrey’s conspiracy anthology, ‘Apocalypse Culture.’ Subsequent editions of ‘Apocalypse Culture’ (including the current Feral House edition), do not carry it.

The Campaign for Radical Truth in History (http://www.hoffman-info.com) is pleased to make this excerpt available once again, on the occasion of the 33rd anniversary of the immolation of America’s only Catholic president, John Fitzgerald Kennedy. May his surviving murderers be yet brought to justice.

Convicted Mafia hit-man Charles Harrelson, a suspected Kennedy assassin, is incarcerated in a Federal prison for the contract killing of a federal judge. (The suspect is the father of “Natural Born Killer” movie star Woody Harrelson, who was directed by “JFK” filmmaker Oliver Stone). Journalists have thus far shown little interest in attempting to interview the senior Harrelson and persuade him to provide information which might lead to the arrest and conviction of those responsible for Kennedy’s killing.

The late James Shelby Downard’s primal way of looking at things, which is the way I think ancient man perceived the world, encompasses a vision that detects every link and every symbol, beginning with the significance of names, then places and then the obsessive actions which stem from the confluence of the two and which have come to be known as ritual. Publisher Adam Parfrey, who first brought Shelby’s work to a mass audience, states:

“In Downard’s writings, the products of his subconscious bubble to the surface and catalyze painstaking research. The collision of the poetic against the logical works especially well in the field of conspiracy; it remains the freshest approach to a field of inquiry…”

I remember sitting in Shelby’s airstream trailer in St. Petersburg, Florida in 1977, along with the great Fortean philosopher William N. Grimstad and Charles Saunders, a brilliant recluse who was a close friend of Jack Kerouac toward the end of the Beat writer’s life (a fact missed by every one of Kerouac’s numerous biographers; so much for biographers).

Shelby’s conversation that day ranged from the occult significance of the Theremin musical instrument to the sorcerous implications of elevators, the relationship he had with an evanescent rabbit named Petey; the sinister connotations of the circus and the mystical topography of the American Southwest, which Mr. Downard knew the way you and I know our backyard.

As he fried our hamburgers, he regaled us in his prospector’s drawl with the hidden wonders of a tapestry of coincidences which he wove from the seeming mundane details of everyday living, into a magic carpet of incomparable strangeness and peerless utility.

Parfrey spoke for many of Shelby’s friends and associates when he stated: “Downard has influenced me to look with interest upon the details and the fantastic convergences of life…”

For my money, James Shelby Downard is the one man most intimately tied to the once and future November, on the Camelot calendar’s 33rd turning of the wheel, in this age of the Revelation of the Method; the era of the deluge of hidden facts made public, which Downard predicted would not liberate us, but only enslave us further.

More than two decades ago he foresaw the coming of this time as the fulfillment of the final dictum of the alchemical rampage of the elephant Must Be; the behemoth run amok in the fields of our nightmares. As the “X-Files” and the other fictional TV shows which neither I or Shelby have ever seen, purposefully muddy the waters with a flood of pop drivel disguised as revelation, the actual truths are lost in the swirl.

James Shelby Downard looked forward to the time beyond Must Be, to the era which will witness the return of could be. After the coming cataclysmic chastisement has run its cleansing course, we will once again wish upon a star and dream a destiny free of the masonic chain that at present binds our nation as tightly as the hangman’s rope once bound the rotted cadavers on Tyburn Tree.

Despite having been relentlessly targeted and attacked for more than a half century, Mr. Downard, unlike poor Kennedy, did trip the Harodim on the winding stairs and did slide down the railing, like a child outwitting enormously big and powerful bad guys, by the fortune which Providence reserves for the guileless. –Michael A. Hoffman II

KING-KILL/33°

Masonic Symbolism in the Assassination of John F. Kennedy

By James Shelby Downard with Michael A. Hoffman II

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The information I present in these pages on the Kennedy assassination is well-known to certain news agencies who have chosen to suppress it, just as the motivation for the assassination has been plunged into cryonic secrecy. Masonic betrayal of the “common man” involves archetypes of fertility and death symbolism seemingly motivated to bring about syncretism in opposing principles in order to green Israel, rebuild the Temple of Solomon and establish a One World government.

It is by way of Masonic sorcery that the union of opposing principles is supposed to be brought about. The criminals who stage-managed Dallas in the killing of Kennedy have controlled the American people’s will in exchange for a sleep without nightmares. I publish this in the wake of the situation Charles Seymour alluded to: “The moralist unquestionably secures wide support; but he also wearies his audience.” Most Americans are beyond being tired; the revelations have benumbed them.

Most Freemasons apparently have no idea of the evil that is part of Masonry, and if they do know about it they don’t believe it. The same holds true for most members of the “Clandestine Lodges” and Masonic-oriented fraternal organizations as well as Androgynous Masonic Societies.

It is certain that onomatology, or the science of names, forms a very interesting part of the investigations of the higher Masonry…. –(Encyclopedia of Freemasonry)

When the ancients saw a scapegoat, they could at least recognize him for what he was: a pharmakos, a human sacrifice. When modern man sees one, he does not, or refuses to, recognize him for what he IS; instead he looks for “scientific” explanations-to explain away the obvious.

–Thomas Szasz, (Ceremonial Chemistry)

The “science of names” word wizardry forms only one segment of the science of symbolism used by Masons. The JFK assassination encounters this science in a decisive way and contains a veritable nightmare of symbol-complexes having to do with violence, perversion, conspiracy, death and degradation. These elements are important not only as cause-and-effect in the murder of a president but in the ensuing reaction of the people of America and the world.

The fertility and death symbolism in the “Killing of the King” rite which is part of Greening Ritualism that has to do with JFK, has been suppressed because examination of it must necessarily link it to “Freemasonry” and its mysticism, as well as to the political influence it exerts. Obviously this would do some damage to public confidence in:

a. Masonic progressivism. i.e. Iiberty, equality, fraternity.

b. Those who have shielded the conspirators.

c. The entire mental concept that passes for knowledge about the genuine nature of the government of the United States.

Mystical Toponomy

Mystical toponomy incorporates word wizardry (onomatology) and the Masonic science of symbolism. In considering my data it would be helpful to consider a dictum of Einsteinian physics: “Time relations among events are assumed to be first constituted by the specific physical relations obtaining between them.”

My study of place names imbued with sorcerous significance necessarily includes lines of latitude and longitude and the divisions of degrees in geography and cartography (minutes and seconds).

Let us take as an example the “Mason Road” in Texas that connects to the “Mason No El Bar” and the Texas-New Mexico (“The Land of Enchantment”) border. This connecting line is on the 32nd degree. The 32nd degree is the penultimate Masonic degree awarded. When this 32nd degree of latitude is traced west into the “Land of Enchantment” it becomes situated midway between Deming and Columbus, New Mexico.

Slightly to the north of the town of Columbus are the Tres Hermanas (three sisters) mountains. It is approximately 32 miles between Deming and Columbus. The Three Sisters mountains are a minute and some seconds south of the 32nd degree line. When this line is traced further west it passes the ghost town of Shakespeare at a distance south of the town which is roughly equivalent to the distance which the 32nd degree line passes north of the Three Sisters mountains. The names “Shakespeare” and “Three Sisters” find a connection in the tragedy Macbeth which comprises such a large part of JFK assassination imagery.

When this 32nd degree line is traced a little distance farther west, into Arizona, it crosses an old trail which meandered north of what is now another ghost town but which at one time was called the town of “Ruby.” Part of the old winding trail became known as the “Ruby Road.” The town of Ruby acquired its name officially on April 11, 1912, and was notorious for many brutal murders which had ritual aspects. Four of these homicides occurred in a store attached to the post office which had been erected over the grave of a Catholic priest.

Continuing on with mystical toponomy, one encounters the fact that Ruby road twists north into the area known as the Kennedy and Johnson mountains.

Johnson Mountain is supposedly named after the general manager of the Peabody Mining Company who also had a town named after him which was the location of the Keystone and Peabody copper mines. The 32nd degree of latitude is but a few seconds from Johnson. In this frontier town on a December evening, 1883, a Colonel Mike Smith and a man Mason were ambushed by gunfighters described as being of questionable reputation and questionable character. These terms are employed in Masonic writings:

He [Captain William Morgan, victim of an early 19th century torture-murder by Masons] was a man of questionable character and dissolute habits, and his enmity to Masonry originated in his refusal of the Masons of Leroy. (Encyclopedia of Freemasonry).

A “keystone” is the designation for which, when set in place, “keys” or locks the whole. A symbolic keystone is vital to the legend of the Masonic Royal Arch Degree of York. The earliest known record of such a degree is in the annals of the city of Fredericksburg, Virginia, on December 22, 1753. Fredericksburg is also the location of the “House of the Rising Sun,” a masonic meeting place for such notables as founding fathers George Washington and Benjamin Franklin (of Hell-Fire Club fame) and George Mason.

The Killing of the King

Never allow anyone the luxury of assuming that because the dead and deadening scenery of the American city-of-dreadful-night is so utterly devoid of mystery, so thoroughly flat-footed, sterile and infantile, so burdened with the illusory gloss of “baseball-hot dogs-apple-pie-and-Chevrolet” that it is somehow outside the psycho-sexual domain.

The eternal pagan psychodrama is escalated under these “modern” conditions precisely because sorcery is not what 20th century man can accept as real. Thus the “Killing of the King” rite of November, 1963 is alternately diagnosed as a conflict Needless to say, each of these groups has a place in the symbolism having to do with the Kennedy assassination.

But the ultimate purpose of that assassination was not political or economic but sorcerous: for the control of the dreaming mind and the marshalling of its forces is the omnipotent force in this entire scenario of lies, cruelty and degradation. Something died in the American people on November 22, 1963-call it idealism, innocence or the quest for moral excellence. It is the transformation of human beings which is the authentic reason and motive for the Kennedy murder and until so-called conspiracy theorists can accept this very real element they will be reduced to so many eccentrics amusing a tiny remnant of dilettantes and hobbyists.

President Kennedy and his wife left the Temple Houston and were met at midnight by tireless crowds present to cheer the virile “Sun God” and his dazzlingly erotic wife, the “Queen of Love and Beauty,” in Fort Worth. On the morning of November 22, they flew to Gate 28 at Love Field, Dallas, Texas. The number 28 is one of the correspondences of Solomon in kabbalistic numerology; the Solomonic name assigned to 28 is “Beale.”

On the 28th degree of latitude in the state of Texas is the site of what was once the giant “Kennedy ranch.” On the 28th degree is also Cape Canaveral from which the moon flight was launched-made possible not only by the President’s various feats but by his death as well, for the placing of the Freemasons on the moon could occur only after the Killing of the King. The 28th degree of Templarism is the “King of the Sun” degree. The President and First Lady arrived in Air Force One, code-named “Angel.”

The motorcade proceeded from Love Field to Dealey Plaza. Dealey Plaza is the site of the Masonic temple in Dallas (now razed) and there is a marker attesting to this fact in the plaza.

Important “protective” strategy for Dealey Plaza was planned by the New Orleans CIA station whose headquarters were a Masonic temple building. Dallas, Texas is located ten miles north of the 33rd degree of latitude. The 33rd degree is the highest in Freemasonry and the founding lodge of the Scottish Rite in America was created in Charleston, South Carolina, exactly on the 33rd degree line.

Dealey Plaza is close to the Trinity River. At 12:22 p.m. the motorcade proceeded down Main Street toward the Triple Underpass, traveling first down (“Bloody”) Elm St. The latter was the scene of numerous gun fights, stabbings and other violence, and it is the location of the Majestic Theatre, the pawn shop/negro district, and industrial district.

It was also the home of the Blue Front Tavern, a Masonic hangout in the grand tradition of “tavern-Masonry”: Sam Adams and the Masons of the American Revolution did much of their conspiring at the Green Dragon Tavern in Boston. One of the many bars claiming the honor of being the first Masonic lodge is the Bunch of Grapes Tavern, also in Boston.

The Blue Front was the site of the “broken-man” ritual in which various members of the “Brotherhood of the Broom” swept the floor and tended some fierce javelino pigs. The Blue Front was once a fire-house and was still sporting its fire-pole in the late 1920s. This is extremely germane symbolism. The national offices of the Texaco Oil Corporation are located on Elm St., Dallas. Its chief products are “Haviland (javalino) Oil” and “Fire Chief” gasoline.

On the corner of Bloody Elm and Houston is the “Sexton Building.” “Sexton” is heavily laden with graveyard connotations. It is closely associated to the beetles of the genus Necrophorus or Sexton Beetles, so-called because they bury the remains of tiny animals with their eggs.

Bloody Elm, Main, and Commerce form a trident pattern in alignment with the triple underpass as any Dallas map will show. Many analysts contend that at least three assassins were involved in the crossfire ambush of Kennedy.

It is a prime tenet of Masonry that its assassins come in threes. Masonic assassins are known in the code of the lodge as the “unworthy craftsmen.” Because Masonry is obsessed with earth-as-gameboard (tessellation) and the ancillary alignments necessary to facilitate the “game,” it is inordinately concerned with railroads and railroad personnel to the extent that outside of lawyers and circus performers, no other vocation has a higher percentage of Masons than railroad workers.

Minutes after John Fitzgerald Kennedy was murdered three “hoboes” (“unworthy craftsmen”) were arrested at the railyard behind Dealey Plaza.

No records of their identities have ever been revealed nor the “identity” of the arresting officer. All that remains of those few minutes are a series of photographs which have reached legendary proportions among persons concerned with uncovering the real forces and persons behind the assassination.

Dealey Plaza breaks down symbolically in this manner: “Dea” means “goddess” in Latin and “Ley” can pertain to the law or rule in the Spanish, or lines of preternatural geographic significance in the pre-Christian nature religions of the English.

For many years Dealey Plaza was underwater at different seasons, having been flooded by the Trinity River until the introduction of a flood-control system. To this trident-Neptune site came the “Queen of Love and Beauty” and her spouse, the scapegoat in the Killing of the King rite, the “Ceannaideach” (Gaelic word for Kennedy meaning “ugly head” or “wounded head”).

The systematic arrangement and pattern of symbolic things having to do with the killing of Kennedy indicates that he was a scapegoat in a sacrifice. The purpose of such macabre ritualism is further recognizable in patterns of symbolism culminating in the final “making manifest all that is hidden.”

Oswald

Oswald means “divine strength.” The diminutive form of the word is “os” or “Oz”: denoting strength. The role which “Divine Strength” played in the Dealey “Goddess Rule” Killing of the King ritual should be given careful consideration.

One should also note the significance of (Jack) Ruby’s killing (destroying) of “Ozwald” in reference to the “Ruby Slippers” of The Wizard of Oz which one may deride as a fairy tale but which nevertheless symbolizes the immense power of “ruby light,” otherwise known as the laser.

Oswald may have undergone biotelemetry implantation in the Soviet Union while a “volunteer” at a Behavior Control Center at Minsk. Oswald roomed with Cubans and was allegedly friendly with a Castro-man identified only as being “burly” and a “key man.” “Burly” can mean burlecue, burlicue or burlesque. The “key,” of course, is one of the most important symbols in Masonry and the symbol of silence.

If Oswald was the result of some Soviet Frankenstein process why did he have to travel several thousand miles for such treatment when it is a routine operation in America?

While such activities of the Mill-of-Dread are pro forma at a variety of institutions at the present, there was once a time when it was deemed necessary to do such work at Walter Reed Hospital.

These implants were back alley operations in which the victims were overpowered in some place or other, drugged and then dragged to this government hospital. They were operated on, continued on a heavy drug regimen and varied from somnolent to comatose for a number of days. The electrical function of the victim was recorded and monitored and the biotelemetry plant tested. Subsequently the victims were “brainwashed” and returned to the place where they had been seized. The targets then continued their existence, unaware of how their bodies had been invaded and their autonomy stolen.

Occasionally, victims were returned to Walter Reed because of abscesses at the incision or for the replacement of the obsolete device with an updated one. Biotelemetry implants were made in various parts of the body depending on the desired effect and function.

Like the disgraceful treatment of the autopsy of President Kennedy, Oswald’s is similarly weird. Oswald was literally butchered in the “postmortem examination.” Pieces were actually cut out of his body. The major incision in his torso resembled a huge “Y” which ran from the area of his groin to the solar plexus region. From there incisions were made to the right and left armpits. The so-called “two horns of the letter Y” supposedly symbolize the paths of virtue and vice: the right branch leading to the former and the left to the latter. The letter is sometimes referred to as the “Litera Pythagorae” (The Letter of Pythagoras): “Litera Pythagorae, discrimine secta bicorni, Humanae vitae speciem praeferre videtur” (The Letter of Pythagoras parted by its two branched division appears to exhibit the image of human life).

In the 47th Problem of Euclid lies a secret of the 3rd Degree of Masonry. Pythagoras is called by Freemasons “our ancient friend and brother.” One of Pythagoras’ main doctrines was the system of “Metempsychosis” which pertains to the passing of a human soul into the body of an animal. Perhaps this was the intention of the autopsy-by incising in Oswald’s body the “Letter of Pythagoras” they sought to expedite transmigration, and they may even have gone as far as feeding sections of Oswald’s corpse to the intended animal, for this too is a practice of what used to be widely feared as necromancy.

Arlington Necrology

The Kennedy and Oswald burials were both at “Arlington”: JFK at the National Cemetery near Washington, D.C., and Oswald at Rosehill Cemetery near Arlington, Texas. “Arlington” is a word of significance in Masonic sorcery and mysticism and it has a hidden meaning which ties in with necrolatry.

At the Kennedy gravesite there is a stone circle and in its middle a fire that is called an “eternal flame.” The fire in the middle of the circle represents a point in the circle, the same type of symbolism that is recognizable in Kennedy’s bier and cof fin being in the center of the rotunda in the Capitol. A point in a circle symbolized the sun in ancient sun worship. It was also a symbol of fecundity, with the point symbolizing a phallus and the circle a vagina.

At the Oswald gravesite stands a small tree. There exists an old belief that a tree which grows at or on a grave is embodied with the spirit-force of the person buried at that site, and that a twig or branch taken from such a tree has magical powers.

I suggest that Lee Harvey Oswald’s mother should gently remove a twig from the tree at her son’s grave and then at every opportunity touch FBI agents, CIA operatives, policemen, etc., with that same twig. Such a procedure couldn’t help but be more efficacious in bringing the murderers of JFK to justice than the Warren Commission was.

Funerary Rites

John F. (Honey Fitz) Fitzgerald, the grandfather of John F. Kennedy, was elected mayor of Boston thanks in part to his “Wake House” campaigns which were much imitated. These consisted of a daily surveillance of the newspapers for announcements of deaths after which a discreet “sympathizer” would be dispatched and a good deal of political mileage accumulated in the bargain.

For a time the Fitzgeralds lived near the former site of the Green Dragon Tavern, established around 1680 and demolished for the widening of a street in 1820. The Fitzgerald home was on Hanover Street and the Green Dragon Tavern was on Green Dragon Lane (now Union Street). The tavern boasted the “first lodge room of Freemasonry in America,” the St. Andrew Lodge located within the tavern proper.

In the mysticism of the Chinese tongs, the Green Dragon is a death symbol. A symbol of the dragon is worn on a ring or held in the hand of a “hatchet man.” The Green Dragon is supposed to impart the notion of a “license to kill” for it signifies that the murder is an affair of “honor”: the Green Dragon is the guardian of the god-with-a-thousand-eyes who protects the sanctity of the third heaven.

Much of Boston’s Irish population arrived in American in what were nicknamed the “coffin ships.” Members of the Kennedy family were acquainted with the “Coffin” family. The Reverend William Sloane Coffin was the son of the theologian Henry Sloane Coffin; the younger Coffin was a member of the Peace Corps Advisory Council that Sargent Shriver headed. “Shriver” or “Shrive” has the meaning of one who grants absolution to a penitent, and it was customary to call upon a shriver before death. If the shriver was not available, a “sin eater” was summoned. The old pious cry which was connected with the request for a shriving was “Shrive me O Holy Land and Give Me Peace.” To this the shriver would respond “Pax Vobiscum“:

…the spell lies in two words, Pax Vobiscum will answer all queries. If you go or come, eat or drink, bless or ban, Pax Vobiscum carries you through it all. It is as useful to a friar as a broomstick to a witch or a wand to a conjurer. Speak it but thus, in a deep grave tone, Pax Vobiscum! It is irresistible-watch and ward, Knight and squire, foot and horse, it acts as a charm upon them all. I think, if they bring me out to be hanged tomorrow, as is much to be doubted they may, I will try its weights upon the finisher of the sentence. (“Wamba, son of Witless”)

Sargent Shriver, a Catholic and Kennedy by marriage, as head of the Peace Corps and in association with a Coffin, might be considered to be in a sensitive position in relation to mystical onomatology.

In the ancient mysteries the aspirant could not claim a participation in the highest secrets until he had been placed in the Pastos, bed or coffin. The placing of him in the coffin was called the symbolical death of the mysteries, and his deliverance was termed a rising from the dead; the “mind,” says an ancient writer quoted by Stobaeus, is afflicted in death just as it is in the initiation in the mysteries. And word answers to word, as well as thing to thing; for burial is to die and death to be initiated. The coffin in Masonry is found on the tracing boards of the early part of the last century, and has always constituted a part of the symbolism of the Third Degree, where the reference is precisely to the same as that of the Pastos in the ancient mysteries. [My emphasis.] (Encyclopedia of Freemasonry)

President Kennedy sat at the head of a coffin table at the White House. To his back, over a fireplace, hung a portrait of Abraham Lincoln, an assassinated president. On either side of the picture were urns that resembled the type called “cinerary urns” which are vessels in which the ashes of the dead are kept.

A book about JFK was called Three Steps to the White House. In Masonry are what is known as the “three symbolical steps.” “The three grand steps symbolically lead from this life to the source of all knowledge.” (Encyclopedia of Freemasonry)

It must be evident to every Master Mason without further explanation, that the three steps are taken from the darkness to a place of light, either figuratively or really over a coffin, the symbol of death, to teach symbolically that the passage from darkness and ignorance of this life through death to the light and knowledge of eternal life. And this from earliest times was the true symbolism of the step. (Ibid.)

The body of President Kennedy was placed in a coffin which was positioned in the center of a circle under the Capitol dome. The catafalque was “a temporary structure of wood appropriately decorated with funeral symbols and representing a tomb or cenotaph. It forms a part of the decorations of a ‘Sorrow Lodge.’ ” This Masonic Encyclopedia entry refers to the ceremonies of the Third Degree in Lodges of the French Rite.

Pictures taken of the Kennedy coffin and catafalque show these two props of the funerary rite as a point in a circle. Fecundity is the symbolic signification of the Point within a circle and is a derivation of ancient sun worship.

In the lore of mystery cults and fertility religions was invariably the legend of the death of the hero god and the disappearance of his body. In the subsequent search and supposed finding of the body we see the contrivance of an elaborate psychological ruse. The body was said to have been concealed by the killer or killers of the hero god. The concealment of the body was called “aphanism” and is a rite of the Masonic 3rd Degree. Anyone interested in comprehending the mechanics of group mind control would do well to study the 3rd and 9th degrees in particular, and all the grades of Masonry in general. The disappearance of the body, this aphanism, is to be found in the assassination of President Kennedy:

The President’s brain was removed and his body buried without it … Dr. Cyril Wecht, chief medical examiner of Allegheny County, Pennsylvania, past president of the American Academy of Forensic Scientists, and a professor of pathology and law, received permission from the Kennedy family in 1972 to view the autopsy materials (at the National Archives) … When he routinely asked to see the brain, Wecht was told it was missing, along with the microscopic slides of the brain. Marion Johnson, curator of the Warren Commission’s material at the Archives said, “The brain’s not here. We don’t know what happened to it.” (Los Angeles Free Press, Special Report No. I, pg. 16)

If and when the brain is recovered, the entire process will have been completed under the term “euresis.” In the Masonic Mysteries are “symbolical ladders.” On the Masonic tracing board of 1776 there is a ladder with three steps, a significant revision of the usual ladder in such references (seven steps).

There are of course all sorts of ladders: the Brahmanical Ladder (seven steps), the Kadosh Ladder (seven steps), Rosicrucian Ladder (seven steps), Jacob’s Ladder (various numbers attributed), the Kabbalistic Ladder (ten steps); then there is old “Tim Finnegan’s Ladder” which is known to some as the “Ladder of Misfortune,” and it is seemingly comprised of one false step after another.

Tim Finnegan was an Irish hod carrier who fell off his ladder while drunk. Since he was apparently dead, his friends held a “Death Watch” (black watch or wake) at his coffin. This watch lived up to the traditional “liveliness” of these affairs and Mr. Finnegan was splashed with some vintage Irish whiskey (Fitzgerald’s?) and resurrected. “Finnegan’s Wake”…

After the Kennedy coffin was removed from the center of the Capitol rotunda circle, it was taken, with pageantry, to the street for viewing. The funeral procession made an “unplanned stop” on Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the “Occidental Restaurant” and a picture was taken of the flag draped Kennedy coffin with the word “Occidental” featured prominently over it. In Masonry and in the lore of the Egyptian jackal-god Anubis, a dead person is said to have “gone west.”

Several months after the Kennedy funeral, “Occidental Life,” an insurance branch of the Transamerica Corporation, ran an advertisement for group life insurance which it proclaimed to be “new” but contained a turn that was indeed original: the inferential weird claim was made that “Until now there was only one way to cash in on Group Insurance” (my emphasis); apparently some rather profound changes were made in the manner of things-as-they-are after the “Killing of the King” had become a fait accompli.

The spontaneous stop was made because of the horse Sardar (“chief”), a gelding (“Castro”), which was wearing boots pointing around to the rear in the Kennedy funerary rite. Horses figure prominently not only in the pleasure of kings but in their murders as well. James Earl Ray was convicted partly on the evidence of a “white Mustang” (automobile), Sirhan Sirhan claimed to his psychiatrists, trance-like, that he shot Robert Kennedy “for a mustang, mustang, mustang …”

John F. Kennedy had demonstrated affection for the performance of a lady who was a renowned ostrich-feather fan-manipulator (Norma Jean Baker a.k.a. Marilyn Monroe). In Egypt, lamenting girls with ostrich feather-fans sang a song of entreaty of the type that Nephthys and Isis reputedly sang as a dirge, before the partial resurrection and/or erection of Osiris. The sad dirge or lamentation has become known as a “Maneros” consisting primarily of the singers entreating the dead to return, by singing “come to my house” and then offering inducements of some type or other.

It is a damn pity that the ritualists didn’t have Marilyn Monroe and Rosemary Clooney sing a Maneros at the JFK funeral, for Rosemary Clooney just couldn’t believe that JFK was dead at the time, and Marilyn Monroe was killed because of JFK. In Ancient Egypt the entreaty to the dead of the type said to be performed by Isis and Nepthys was usually performed with a hawk-fertility-goddess statue present along with other funerary symbolism.

Jacqueline Kennedy was considered “fashionable, erudite, erotic and stunningly gorgeous.” Mrs. Kennedy visited an exhibition of Egyptian funerary rite symbols at the National Gallery of Art where she was photographed with a depiction of the “hawk-headed divinity that was said to be named Hor-khenty-khem.” Recently there was a traveling nightmare of funerary symbolism touring the country (the Tutankhamen exhibit of the National Endowment of the Humanities).

Before JFK began his Jornada del Muerto (Journey of Death), he was photographed with Yugoslavian dictator Tito on the winding stairs in the White House. Tito is a significant name in Masonry since it was the title given to Prince Harodim, the first Judge and Provost said to be appointed by King Solomon. The Tito was a reputed favorite of Solomon, whose temple was a hotbed of thievery, money-changing, male and female prostitution and sorcery. This ancient Tito presided over the Lodge of Intendants of this temple and was one of the “twelve knights of the twelve tribes of Israel.”

Let me repeat, JFK was on some winding stairs with a man named Tito. Winding stairs are symbolically important in Masonry.

The degree of the winding stair is taught in the degree of Fellow Craft. This is the Second Degree, and a person at this grade is of course a candidate for the symbolic assassination, euresis, autopsy and coffin resurrection of the Third Degree.

The number of steps in the winding stair are “odd” although no less so than the fact that this Tito or Harodim is a name translating as “those who rule over” the activities of the temple Solomon.

The winding stairs of this temple, according to the Masons, begins at the porch and winds to a level purified by the Divine Presence (Shekinah) and dominated by the Divine Strength (Oswald).

President Kennedy preceded Tito down the stairs to a portrait of the assassinated President Garfield where he was photographed, and another picture was taken on the stairs before a picture of Lincoln (recall the black walnut rocker of JFK, comparable to the black walnut rocker Lincoln was assassinated in; the “Lincoln Continental” limousine in which Kennedy was shot and the dozens of other parallels between the two men). It’s unfortunate that President Kennedy didn’t trip Tito and then slide down the stair-rail, for he was in a very vulnerable position as related to Masonic sorcery, and such unorthodox action might have rattled the “Prince of Harodim.”

John F. Kennedy, the one and only Catholic president of the United States, was a human scapegoat, a “pharmakos.” “Pharmakos” or “Pharmak-vos” can mean “enchantment with drugs and sorcery” or “beaten, crippled or immolated.” In alchemy, the Killing of the King was symbolized by a crucified snake on a tau cross, a variant of the crucifixion of Jesus.

Jesus Christ was tortured and murdered as the result of the intrigue of the men of the Temple of Solomon who hated and feared Him. They were steeped in Egyptian, Babylonian and Phoenician mysticism.

Masonry does not believe in murdering a man in just any old way and in the JFK assassination it went to incredible lengths and took great risks in order to make this heinous act of theirs correspond to the ancient fertility oblation of the Killing of the King.

I have stated that the three hoboes arrested at the time of the assassination in Dallas are at least as important symbolically as operationally and that they comprise the “Three Unworthy Craftsmen” of Masonry. This symbolism is at once a telling psychological blow against the victim and his comrades, a sign of frustrated inquiry– the supposedly senseless nature of any quest into the authentic nature of the murderers–and a mirror or doppelganger of the three assassins who execute the actual murder.

As for the three assassins themselves:

Perry Raymond Russo told a New Orleans grand jury that [CIA agent David] Ferrie said [regarding the assassination of JFK] that “there would have to be a minimum of three people involved. Two of the persons would shoot diversionary shots and the third … shot the good shot.” Ferrie said that one of the three would have to be the “scapegoat.” He also said that Ferrie discoursed on the availability of exit, saying that the sacrificed man would give the other two time to escape. (Quoted by W.H. Bowart in Operation Mind Control).

The Warren Commission

Gentlemen, don’t pass me by!

Don’t miss your opportunity!

Inspect my wares with careful eye; I have a great variety. And yet there is nothing on my stall.

(Witch in Goethe’s Faust I, Walpurgis Night)

These are the thoughts of a huckster-witch which one need not search for dressed all in black with conical cap; instead, look among the gray flannel suits in the board rooms and offices of the newspapers, electronic media, government and advertising agencies-that is, those who are not busy working for the CIA or Naval Intelligence selling the public lies.

Mason Lyndon Johnson appointed Mason Earl Warren to investigate the death of Catholic Kennedy. Mason and member of the 33rd degree, Gerald R. Ford, was instrumental in suppressing what little evidence of a conspiratorial nature reached the commission. Responsible for supplying information to the commission was Mason and member of the 33rd degree, J. Edgar Hoover. Former CIA director and Mason Allen Dulles was responsible for most of his agency’s data supplied to the panel.

Is it paranoid to be suspicious of the findings of the panel on these grounds? Would it be paranoid to suspect a panel of Nazis appointed to investigate the death of a Jew or to suspect a commission of Klansmen appointed to investigate the death of a negro?

Representative Hale Boggs, the only Catholic on the commission, at first agreed with its findings and when he later began to seriously question them he was “accidentally” killed in a plane crash.

HOODWINK. (Definition.) A symbol of the secrecy, silence and darkness in which the mysteries of our art should be preserved from the unhallowed gaze of the profane.”-Dr. Albert Mackey, Mason, member of the 33rd degree, foremost Masonic historian of the nineteenth century, writing in the Encyclopedia of Freemasonry.

That is how they see us, as “profane,” as “cowans” (outsiders), unclean and too perverted to look upon their hallowed truths. Yes, murder, sexual atrocities, mind control, attacks against the people of the United States, all of these things are so elevated, so lofty and holy as to be beyond the view of mere humans.

Ruby

On December 20, 1947, Jacob Rubinstein changed his name to Jack L. Ruby by decree of the 68th Judicial Court of Dallas, Texas. The etymology of the term “Ruby”: (French) rubis; (Spanish) rubi; (Latin) rubinus, carbuncle.

ln old law books it was once the practice to print some of the titles of the statutes in red and these were termed rubrics or a ruby and hence any fixed, formulated or authoritative injunction of duty was apt to be designated as being a rubric or ruby.

As a rubinus or carbuncle Ruby is associated with the “Breastplate of Judgment” used by the Chosen Mispet (High Priests) of Jewish sorcery, enabling them to receive “divine” answers regarding the welfare of Judaism; some interpretations claim that the “Breastplate of Judgment” manifested the immediate presence of Jehovah and was also worn by Masons in Royal Arch chapters.

This “breastplate [which] contained twelve stones” each symbolized one of the twelve tribes of Israel. The carbuncle or ruby was connected to the tribe of Judah (Nohpech).

The term “Jack Ruby” was once used by pawnbrokers to indicated a fake ruby.

In iconography a ruby or carbuncle symbolizes blood, suffering and death.

Truth or Consequences

District Attorney for New Orleans, James Garrison, was supported by a “Truth or Consequences” Club and is alleged to have been an ex-FBI agent and to have been mentally disturbed at one time. Jim Garrison was an outsider in the Secret Society machinations of the FBI and may very well have been pharmacologically or hypnotically induced to set up his ill-fated investigation and the position he acquired in the “Truth or Consequences Commission.”

Truth or Consequences, New Mexico, is a town located on the 33rd degree of parallel latitude, and near the same latitude John Fitzgerald Kennedy became an oblation and on the same latitude is the chief Temple on this planet in the minds of sorcerers, namely the Temple of Solomon at Jerusalem, which was once located there and is sworn to be rebuilt on this 33rd degree.

In a literal, alchemical sense, the Making Manifest of All That is Hidden is the accomplishment of the 3rd Law of the Alchemists and is, as yet, unfulfilled or at least not completed; the other two have been: the creation and destruction of primordial mater (the detonation of the first Atomic Bomb at the Trinity Site, at White Sands, New Mexico, on the 33rd degree of parallel), the Killing of the King (at the Trinity Site, at Dealey Plaza, Dallas, near the 33rd degree of latitude).

Only the repetition of information presented in conjunction with knowledge of this mechanism of Making Manifest of All That is Hidden provides the sort of boldness and will which can demonstrate that we are aware of all the enemies, all the opponents, all the tricks and gadgetry, and yet we are still not dissuaded, that we work for the truth for the sake of the truth. Let the rest take upon themselves and their children the consequences of their actions.

–James Shelby Downard with Michael A. Hoffman II

Source: http://www.revisionisthistory.org/kingkill33.html

She wants me to be / perfect like Kennedy.

Marilyn Manson, Posthuman

First referenced in 1998 in Mechanical Animals on the song ‘Posthuman’, JFK and the impact of his death upon America has been a theme which Manson has subsequently and continually referenced in his work ever since. Most noteworthy of these references have been the songs ‘President Dead’, ‘King Kill 33°’, as well as many off-handed allusion throughout the album Holy Wood and very prominently in the video for ‘Coma White‘ in which Manson actually reenacts Kennedy’s assassination. To those unfamiliar with Manson this seemingly unrelated juxtaposed imagery may seem as a whole something of mere sensationalism but in reality has been a theme which Manson has always played upon even long before he used Kennedy as an example of this; Celebritarianism, which mankind’s inherent violent nature and morbid fascination of such. In America, most children (though particularly of now slightly older generations) have grown up watching the Zapruder film of of Kennedy’s head being eviscerated on camera. The concept of Celebritarianism is Manson’s observation and indictment of a culture which places serial killers on the same celebrity status as a glamour starlet, where the very name ‘Marilyn Manson’ derives from. Celebritarianism (if taken literally, the devouring and consumption of the concept of celebrity) is where one is only cared about after one is dead; and where if one is killed on camera it’s a guarantee of a posthumous celebrity treatment, with Kennedy’s public and televised assassination being representative of this. After his death he became, and to many parties concerned, a Second Christ in the eyes of America.

Dear god the paper says you were the King / In the black limousine
Dear John and all the King’s men / can’t put your head together again

Marilyn Manson, Godeatgod

There was Christ in the metal shell / there was blood on the pavement

Marilyn Manson, Lamb Of God

Though the imagery Manson utilizes is one which both graphic and dark it is in no way one which is glorifying to such violence, and in fact quite the contrary. Manson has been quoted on numerous occasions that an artist he did not create the world but instead reflects upon it. This theme is one, as previously stated, concurrent throughout Manson’s body of work but one most apparent after being scapegoated for the Columbine shootings and also a theme which was subsequently validated by the very same society and media blitzing that Manson was indicting. The point was proven when the two killers, only days prior were mere ‘Nobodies’, made the cover of Time magazine for a mass killing just as Charles Manson made the cover of Life magazine in the late 1960’s under similar circumstances, just as the song ‘The Nobodies’ lyricizes on Holy Wood. On Manson’s preceding album, Mechanical Animals, the song ‘Posthuman’ summarizes this in what is referred to in metaphorical terms is a society where violence is the religion and the saints are dead stars with the preconditional of being beatified is either a public death or causing one.

In all of her dreams / she’s a saint like Jackie-O

Marilyn Manson, Posthuman

“A loved one laid his head in her lap. Red roses fell to the floor, and the world stood still.”
(Sample introducing the track ‘Coma Black’, and describing this particlar scene).

METAL EDGE: How do you see Kennedy as a Christ figure?

MARILYN MANSON: First of all, my theory that I’ve really been thinking about since I had so much interaction with Christianity after doing ‘Antichrist Svperstar’, is that Christ was the blue-print for celebrity. He was the first celebrity, or rock star if you want to look at it that way, and he became this image of sexuality and suffering. He’s literally marketed – a crucifix is no different than a concert shirt in some ways. I think for America, in my lifetime, John F. Kennedy kind of took the place of that in some ways. He became lifted up as this icon and this Christ figure. I started to, in my weird drugged version of Hollywood, dream up a world where these dead stars are really saints. Jackie O[nassis] is kind of like Mary Immaculate. That’s what I was thinking when I was writing the album, and I hinted that in a lot of song like ‘Posthuman’.The story was something that I had in my head, and that’s where the songs came from. As the songs came to life the story kind of grew also. It’s all really a metaphor for my own life, but the story, without giving away too much, takes place in an alternate dystopia of Hollywood where everything is taken to the extreme. It’s sort of Andy Warhol’s worst nightmare, combined with Scientology and communism. If you imagined everything was as far as anyone can take it, the way the movie stars are treated. There are a lot of references to the way that I see John F. Kennedy as a modern day Christ and how religion kind of sprouts from that. It’s really a strange story, but in the end it’s a parable about fame and love and what matters to you the most, but I can’t say it’s got a happy ending. The video for ‘Coma White’ is adapted from my script, so it will be a bit of a teaser, a hint at what people can expect… Though I’m sure they won’t understand it or make it any clearer.

Metal Edge, July 1999 ‘Marilyn Manson – Revelations of an Alien-Messiah’

A still frame from the ‘Coma White’ video portraying a crucified and deified Manson in the role of JFK, expressing how Kennedy had become a “second Christ” in the eyes of America when his televised assassination had made him into a martyr to the popular consciousness.

She’s got eyes like Zapruder / and a mouth like heroin

Marilyn Manson, Posthuman

Left; detail of The Fight Song single showing a still of frame 313 of the Zapruder film depicting Kennedy’s head being shot in the monitor screen on Manson’s shoulder.

Right; Two stills of frame 313 of the Zapruder film which appear in the opening vignette of Celebritarian.com. Frame 313 of the film, being annotated, is the frame in which Kennedy’s head is impacted and explodes; coinciding the song “President Dead” is 3 minutes and 13 seconds long.

“We applaud the creation of a bomb whose sole purpose is to destroy all of mankind, and we grow up watching our president’s brains splattered all over Texas. Times have not become more violent. They have just become more televised.”

‘Columbine: Whose Fault Is It?’ Marilyn Manson.
Essay published in Rolling Stone, June 1999.

Background projection and subliminal image of JFK in the 2004 Personal Jesus video, among several other Personal Jesus’s of history such as Staline or Gandhi.

For more on Celebritarian and Celebritarianism read THE LAMB OF GOD .COM, HIDDEN SITES, VALENTINE’S DAY and the CELEBRITARIAN CORPORATION section of The NACHTKABARETT.

 

 

 

“and I want you now to just kill the king…”

Marilyn Manson, King Kill 33°

One of the more esoteric references in Holy Wood, King Kill 33° is one of the most blatant references to the Kennedy assassination after the song ‘President Dead’, which again represents the theme of Kennedy becoming the Second Christ in the eyes of America because his death was televised and subsequently portrayed as martyrdom. The title is a reference to the manuscript ‘King Kill 33’ by James Shelby Downard and Michael A. Hoffman. Most Marilyn Manson fans at one time or another have probably come across the web page entitle King-Kill/33: Masonic Symbolism in the Assassination of John F.Kennedy which is a preface and excerpts to the entire 35 page manuscript, and upon reading the excerpt it is a very interesting treatise and is essentially what the song and imagery surrounding the album are evocative of.

Left; cover of Downard’s 1987 essay ‘King Kill 33’. Right; 18th century Masonic apron related to the death of Grand Master Hiram Abif, architect of King Solomon’s Temple, assassinated by the three ruffians with a square, gauge, and gavel to obtain his secret soon after the Temple was built.

“The assassination of JFK was a performance of the occult ritual called The Killing of the King, designed as a mass-trauma, mind-control assault against the national body-politic of the United States.”

James Shelby Downard, King Kill 33, 1987

The concept dealt with within ‘King Kill 33’ is reference to the esoteric rite of The Killing Of The King (an ancient, radical version of the Masonic initiation ritual of the Death of Hiram), often associated with alchemy, and particularly how the enactment of this rite was the motive behind John F. Kennedy’s assassination. The number 33 is the highest degree of the Scottish rite of Masonry, it is also the degree of latitude at which JFK was assassinated at the Dealy Plaza, the degree of latitude which the detonation of the first atomic bomb at Trinity and the degree of latitude which the the Temple of Solomon in Israel is to be rebuilt, as foretold in the Book of Revelations as one of the signs heralding the Apocalypse, The Second Coming Of Christ.

Left; depiction of Hiram Abif, sometimes amalgamated with Hiram, King of Tyre, in his coffin surrounded by the three assassins.

Right; 1866 engraving from the book of Duncan’s Ritual, in which the Mason aspirant blindly reenacts the final scenes of Hiram Abiff’s life before being resurrected, a ritual Downard associates to the Killing of The King one in his essay.

“In the ancient mysteries the aspirant could not claim a participation in the hightest secrets until he had been placed in the Pastos, bed or coffin was called the symbolical death of the mysteries, and his deliverance was termed as a rising from the dead; the ‘mind’, says an ancient writer quoted by Stobaeus is affected in death just as it is in the initiation in to the mysteries. And word answers to word, as well as thing to thing; for burial is to die and death to be initiated. The coffin in Masonry is found on tracing boards of the early part of the last century, and has always constituted a part of the symbolism of the Third Degree, where the reference is precisely to the same as that of the Pastos in the ancient mysteries.” .

Passage from Encyclopedia of Freemasonry quoted by Downard in ‘King Kill 33’

“The Abraham Lincoln town cars / arrive to dispose of our king and queen
and they orchestrated dramatic new scenes / for Celebritarian™ needs”

Marilyn Manson, The Fall of Adam

The whole mass manipulation idea in the essay is obviously at the basis of Manson’s Celebritarian philosophy, as illustrated in the lyrics for ‘The Fall of Adam’, with a nice allusion to Downard’s essay :

“The entire left wing-right wing scenario is a chess game where various pawns are motivated by emotions to follow the orders of “Kings and Queens” whose allegiance is to psychological control objectives and propaganda is one of the ways that psychological control is established.”

James Shelby Downard, King Kill 33

As outlined by the book Secret Societies And Psychological Warfare, “Fabled alchemy had at least three goals to accomplish before the total decay of matter was fulfilled. These are :

  • The Creation and Destruction of Primordial Matter
  • The Killing Of The King
  • The Bringing of Prima Materia to Prima Terra

“The Creation and Destruction of Primordial Matter was accomplished at the White Head (“Ancient of Days”), at White Sands, New Mexico, at the Trinity Site. The Trinity Site itself is located at the beginning of an ancient western road in old Mexico as the Jornada del muerto (the Journey of Death).

“Early in this century a Freemason named Peter Kern was ordered to build a highly symbolic ‘Gate of Death’ at a key point on the ancient Jornada del muerto trail. It was known as the Gate with a Thousand Doors. At the front of this gate Kern was ceremonially murdered (decapitated) by a hooded executioner.

“The are 33 segments in the human spinal column which according to occult lore is the vehicle of the fiery ascent of the Kundalini serpent force which resides in the human body. 33 is the highest degree of Scottish Rite Freemasonry. The Creation and Destruction of Primordial Matter occurred exactly on the Trinity Site, the ‘Place of Fire,’ with the explosion of the first atomic bomb, culminating untold thousands of years of Alchemical speculation and practise.

“The Killing of the King rite was accomplished at another Trinity Site located approximately ten miles south of the 33rd degree of north parallel latitude between the Trinity River and the Triple Underpass at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas. Dealey Plaza was the site of the first masonic temple in Dallas. In this spot, which had been known during thr 19th century cowboy era as ‘Bloody Elm Street,’ the world leader who had become known as the ‘King Of Camelot,’ President John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was shot to death.” The third and last goal, The Bringing of Prima Materia to Prima Terra, was also allegedly fulfilled in 1969 when the Apollo brought back moon rocks from the ‘Prima Materia,’ to the Earth, the ‘Prima Terra.’

Left; photograph of Kern’s Gate revealed in Marilyn Manson’s hidden website TheLambOfGod.com, among other images hinting at the themes for the album.

“Peter Kern, a turn-of-the-century Mason built a ceremonial entrance to his land to represent an esoteric gateway to death. This is the Jornada del Muerto, the journey of the dead man. Some believe that JFK passed through here on his way to Trinity and on to Dealy Plaza. It is located near El Paso. To my knowledge, it has no affiliation with Nazis nor do I CONDONE or PROMOTE any such beliefs. This is merely a mystical and bizarre piece of architecture I discovered on my quest for knowledge. If you look deeper, you will see its connection to Adam Kadmon as well.”

Marilyn Manson, in a post from his Official BBS,
Concerning his choice of Kern’s Gate as an inspiration for Holy Wood.

Menu for ‘The Death Parade’ from the Guns, God and Government DVD, documenting backstage scenes from the band’s trip around the world. The first part is entitled Journada Del Muerte as a reference to Kern Gate’s site.

Manson has also used the moniker ‘The King Of Camelot’ in referencing Kennedy during the writing of Holy Wood. At a later date I plan on adding more on how this actually relates to In The Shadow Of The Valley Of Death and the Triptych but as this is a very esoteric and misunderstood reference in Holy Wood, this is what the title of the song if referring to.

It should be noted that these facets of Alchemy stated here are those claimed by Hoffman in relation to the manuscript ‘King Kill 33’ which are his own interpretations and are are not discussed herein for the purpose of accuracy in regard to historical alchemy, but those which reflect the theme of the writing.

 

“The Masons apply this fertility information to their own death rites: ritual assassination, the symbolical euresis and the autopsy. The latter comes from the Greek, “to see with one’s own eyes”. In the ancient mysteries an autopsy signaled the communication of mystical secrets. After the autopsy the corpse or in the case of the ritual, the Fellow acting as a corpse, i placed in a coffin and the coffin on a catafalque and the catafalque in the center of a circle. There the symbolical corpse awaits resurrection.”

James Shelby Downard, King Kill 33

The deadly ritual Downard invokes which is part of Greening Ritualism corresponds to a fertility oblation, and thus expresses by its symbolism an idea of cyclicical nature of time and actions, another theme which is recuringly played upon by Manson. This was first seen in 1996’s Antichrist Svperstar where each of the albums three sections were titled ‘cycles’ and with the last track 99 flowing seamlessly back into track one creating such a loop. As Holy Wood is the third dimension of the story drawn upon in the Triptych of Antichrist Svperstar, Mechanical Animals and the aforementioned, the use of cycles continued and particularly through the use of alchemical themes. Most notable is the theme of rebirth and transformation which is not only present Holy Wood but is one of the most consistent links throughout all of Manson’s works.

The cyclical nature of Holy Wood is represented both by the parallelism of ‘Godeatgod’ and ‘Count To Six & Die (The Vaccuum of Infinite Space Encompassing)’, the first and last songs respectively, but also through the use of visuals in this occurrence. The hidden feature of Holy Wood when it was released was that it was an enhanced disc that when inserted into the computer it acted as a link to a video which most recently was also included as a bonus on the newly released Lest We Forget video collection DVD. As discussed above and the reasons for which, Manson has previously reenacted Kennedy’s death. The bonus video of Holy Wood is a black and white depiction or Manson reenacting Kennedy’s autopsy (or revelation of secrets), and the removal of his brain, the disappearance of which afterwards is compared in Downard’s essay to ‘aphanism’, or disappearance of Hiram’s body from the Masonic legend.

The operative intentional difference between the original footage of Kennedy and Manson’s interpretation is that instead of the removal of Manson’s brain at the end of the film, when his skull is sawed open the technicians remove from the head cavity a fetus attached to an umbilical cord.

“When One World Ends Something Else Begins
But Without A Scream….”

The Fall of Adam

Left; detail from Holy Wood artwork representative of life emerging from death, and also related to the Tree Of Life. Notice the fragments from Kennedy’s autopsy cover sheet. Right; alchemical drawing borrowed by Manson on his website during Holy Wood. A remarkable depiction about cyclical nature of times and actions. Read more about this symbol on our page ‘GODEATGOD – The Dawn of Holy Wood‘.

Though a very squeamish and disturbing imagery, the autopsy bares much significance and many parallels throughout Holy Wood and Manson’s work. One of the aspects which, prior to its release Manson stated about the album, was that two core themes throughout was the idea of evolution and revolution (and yes, that in itself is also a reference to John Lennon who, like Kennedy, is another public martyr) with this bonus video being yet another reiteration of such. Manson, in Holy Wood, took the concept of being Born Again and applied it to another more metaphorical dimension, which specifically in alchemy, is the idea that one transforms oneself continually throughout the accomplishments of one’s work. This, again, was played upon in Antichrist Svperstar with the use of a cyclical timeline and recurs in Holy Wood with the illustration that metaphorical death is a necessary step to such a rebirth, with the use of a cyclical illustration to depict the regeneration to life. The title of the song ‘Godeatgod’ reflects this particularly in that, as in the above illustration, the concept of Ouroubourous the self devouring serpent to represent the infinite process that there is no life without death, an vice versa.

“…some of us are really born to die.”

Valentine’s Day

Left; Interior back cover of Holy Wood depicting a fetal skeleton within its mother. A morbid illustration of life emerging from death. Right;
The Four Worlds of the Kabbalah as shown within the Holy Wood booklet alongside the original sourced diagram of occult historical antiquity.

“John F. Kennedy, the one and only Catholic president of the United States, was a human scapegoat, a “pharmakos.” “Pharmakos” or “Pharmak-vos” can mean “enchantment with drugs and sorcery” or “beaten, crippled or immolated.” In alchemy, the Killing of the King was symbolized by a crucified snake on a tau cross, a variant of the crucifixion of Jesus.”

James Shelby Downard, King Kill 33

Manson as the Magician holding the bronze serpent coiled around the silver crucifix. Besides bearing the reference to Moses’ bronze serpent mentionned in our page The Tarot & Holy Wood, the serpent on a tau cross (right, from “Les Devises Heroiques”, 1551) happens to be an alchemical symbol for the Killing of the King rite according to Downard, and is believed by some to have given its shape to the Dollar Sign Manson would later borrow in the video for “Arma…Geddon“.

See also: ALCHEMY & KABBALAH on The NACHTKABARETT.

 

 

Now we hold the ‘ugly head’

A Place in the Dirt

The next day Mrs. White’s funeral is held on a renovated motion picture lot still equipped with essential sound and lighting effects required for such a tragedy-inspiring media drama. This place is called the Holy Wood Memorial Cemetery and everyone is in attendance. The President wears his best mask of grief–Academy Award winning, in fact. He even adds a drop of glycerin to his eye before his eulogy. The best make-up artists available concealed his gash perfectly but a few more hours in the sun and it will get as the Gaelic say “Kennedy,” which means, of course, ugly or wounded head.

HOLY WOOD, The Novel
CHAPTER 10

The closing sentence is another reference to ‘King Kill 33’ and throughout the text of the one chapter of the Holy Wood novel which has been public are further allusions to Kennedy as the King of Camelot which is prevalent in the American lore of Kennedy but discussed particularly within the manuscript as occult elements surrounding Kennedy’s assassination :

“For many years Dealey Plaza was underwater at different seasons, having been flooded by the Trinity River until the introduction of a flood-control system. To this trident-Neptune site came the “Queen of Love and Beauty” and her spouse, the scapegoat in the Killing of the King rite, the “Ceannaideach” (Gaelic word for Kennedy meaning “ugly head” or “wounded head”).”

James Shelby Downard, excerpt from KING KILL 33

Within the album of Holy Wood, the song ‘A Place in the Dirt’ holds further reference to Downard’s essay and Kennedy with the chorus repetition of “Put me in the motorcade, put me in the death parade” and with “Now we hold the ‘ugly head’” to the manuscript allegations of Kennedy being Gaelic for the term “ugly or wounded head”.

 

“Sometimes we walk like / we were shot through / our heads, my love”

Marilyn Manson, Disassociative

Detail of Disposable Teens single cover with the Kennedy autopsy face sheet. Detail of The Fight Song single cover with Boswell’s diagram of JFK’s fractured skull.
Face/Descriptive sheet and diagram of JFK’s skull noting the 10 x 17 cm missing piece from the President’s skull as drawn by J. Thornton Boswell, MD.

“Dear god the sky is as blue / as a gunshot wound”

Marilyn Manson, GODEATGOD

Left; Cover of Holy Wood featuring the martyred Manson silenced via his absent jawbone with a detail of the Kennedy autopsy cover sheet which follows through the album artwork. Right; another fragment from the autopsy sheet dissimulated in a detail of the artwork… CAUSE OF DEATH: Gunshot wound, head.
Illustration of the “Magic Bullet” theory deatiled in the Warren Commission investigation into Kennedy’s assassination in which a single bullet allegedly shot Kennedy, causing two wounds, and then hit Texas Governor Nellie Connally three times, passing through bone, and was removed from his left thigh in pristine condition as opposed to the completely flattened and obliterated state in which it should have been. Since such a series of wounds and as many multiple changes of trajectory of a single bullet are theoretically and otherwise impossible, the “Magic Bullet” theory remains as the key physical evidence which points to a conspiracy in the assassination of JFK as more than one gunmen from more than one location with more than the three shots which were documented as being fired would have been needed to to coincide with the physical evidence and witness testimonials of the assassination.

“Anti cop / Anti fun / Here is my anti-president gun”

Marilyn Manson, 1996

Left; the Secret Service agent John 5 as the Fool in the Holy Wood Tarot, wearing sunglasses and carrying a poster of Kennedy hung on his rifle; obliviously walking toward the abyss and unaware of the importance he plays to the man he must protect. Notice Jackie O in the pink dress worn the day he was assassinated.

Center; ‘Eventually they discovered that J.F.K. was, in fact, a firearm.’ Watercolor by Marilyn Manson.

Right; 2008 Rape Of The World tour poster, with an apropos montage for the Dallas venue of the tour showing the presidential couple with sights on JFK’s head, a closeup his killer Lee Oswald’s eyes, an epitaph and a period ad of the rifle model Oswald used for the killing.
The same rifle that was used for Manson’s Gun Crucifix and microphone stand during Holy Wood.

“Am I sorry you killed the Kennedy’s and Huxley too?”

Marilyn Manson, Target Audience

Left; Manson as a pope reenacts Psalm 23 during the Guns, God and Government tour, officiating a Celebritarian mass surrounded with tapestry reproducing the faces of iconic celebrities who are more revered in death than in life : Christ, Elvis, Monroe, Manson, Lenin and Kennedy.

Right; Lee Harvey Oswald’s widow on Time magazine cover dated February 14th, 1964, as it appeared on Manson’s hidden website ThisAsValentinesDay.com launched February 14th, 2001, hiding links to a chapter of Manson’s unreleased ‘Holy Wood’ novel and to the “sister” site ComaWhite.com.
Left; background screen of JFK during the ‘Against All Gods‘ tour, flashing with other fathers of nations like Stalline, Hitler or Bush a la Personal Jesus video. Right; video sequence of JFK displayed on a loop when hovering the News link on the late 2006 Celebritarian MarilynManson.com main page.

“Let’s shoot up the mall / the school / or the president of whatever / or whoever wants to fight.”

Marilyn Manson, Blank and White

Left; Manson’s speech before his performance of ‘The Beautiful People’ with Shock podium reworked in the fashion of the U.S. Presidential Seal at the
1997 MTV Video Music Awards. Background subliminal projection of flashing words during the 2007 ‘Rape Of The World‘ tour in Manson’s pure tradition.

 

Still frame from the “Día de los Muertos” procession of the ‘Coma White’ video.

 

 

Sources & references of interest within The KENNEDY: KING KILL33° section of The NACHTKABARETT:

  • King Kill 33 by James Shelby Downard & Michael A. Hoffman
  • Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare by Michael A. Hoffman

 

Source: http://www.nachtkabarett.com/KennedyKingKill33

Comments
  1. gyulyano says:
    February 9, 2012 at 6:13 pm

    “The Masons apply this fertility information to their own death rites: ritual assassination, the symbolical euresis and the autopsy. The latter comes from the Greek, “to see with one’s own eyes”. In the ancient mysteries an autopsy signaled the communication of mystical secrets. After the autopsy the corpse or in the case of the ritual, the Fellow acting as a corpse, i placed in a coffin and the coffin on a catafalque and the catafalque in the center of a circle. There the symbolical corpse awaits resurrection.”

    James Shelby Downard, King Kill 33

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