Let the show begin
It's a sorry sight
Let it all deceive
Now I'm pains in me
That I've never found
Let the show begin
Let the clouds roll
There's a life to be found
In this world
Show, Beth Gibbons
Well I think we've all seen enough of what was literally on the slab. Personally, my main takeaway from the last experiment was the attention to the detail and the focus on the words. May 8th brings us to a dovetail between Vax Live and Rocky's Rainbow Chamber and I will try to do a small special on that, sketch out maybe a month or two ahead and also something of the ''general key'' to the year. The step-by-step approach seems to have gathered some more readers so this is a quick insert summarizing where we are at and where we go from here.
THE UNIFYING COLOUR THEORY AND THE DARK CONCLUSIONS
The Unifying Colour Theory (and supporting articles) explores the Qabalistic correspondences of the dominant colours (and ''alchemy'') of the major studio movies from 2010-2019. Created in 2017 it allowed us to confidently predict the colours (and ''alchemy'') of 2018 and 2019. According to this theory studios (and therefore the programming) were descending through the colours of the Tree of Life implying two possibilities for 2020 - a) return to the top of the Tree of Life (Teshuvah) or b) deeper descent into the Qliphoth or Hell itself. When the Dark Conclusions were realised in the events of 2020 it became clear that this descent through the Qliphoth (a Qabalistic Apocalypse) implied a reversal or inversion of the associated Sephiroth e.g. the colours of Lilith (or the Qlipha of Malkuth) would run in reverse order to Malkuth. In order to underscore this the major cinema release of 2020 was TENET, a movie dealing with inversion whose title is a Ten (Malkuth) and a Ten reversed (Lilith). We could therefore confidently expect the same inversion to continue through the rest of the 20s and this was rapidly confirmed by the events of 2021 with the Purpocalypse.
THE SEARCH FOR STRUCTURE, CULT MOVIE META-THEORIES
However, while 2019 and 2020 appeared to follow the four act structure imposed by the principles of Malkuth (or Lilith/Algol/Medusa if reversed) a return to the single-colour inverted Sefiroth implied two possible approaches for the rest of the decade - a) year-long structureless ''mood pieces'' where we were bathed in the associations of the Qlipha of the Year or b) some elusive structure we were yet to discover. This search for structure characterized the early part of the work of 2021 and down to a combination of luck, logic and assorted mystical techniques we determined these structures appear to be being taken from cult movies. We experienced some precedent for this during our work throughout 2020 where there was a nagging suspicion that we were living through Clash of the Titans (1981). Up until now we have been testing a so-called Rocky Horror Meta-Theory which suggests the plot of this supreme cult musical is being used to structure the Qlipha of Yesod (or Gamaliel) and anyone who knows the Rocky ritual well will see how those correspondences have already played out. Similarly you could make the argument that A Clockwork Orange already is a Qlipothic ritual to Samael, the Demon associated with the orange of Hod and represented in the movie by Alex DeLarge, and is, therefore our inevitable future in 2022...
Supporting Articles:
- Annihilation (2018)
- Ready Player One (2018)
- Mad Max (2015)
- Pixels (2015)
- Star Trek: Into Darkness (2013)
- Joker (2019)
- The Arrival (2016)
- 10 Cloverfield Lane (2016)
- Skyfall (2012)
- Cowboys and Aliens (2011)
- 300: Rise of an Empire (2014)
- The Lighthouse (2019)
- Once Upon A Time in Hollywood (2019)
- Inception (2010)
And now I see
It's all but a game
That we hope to achieve
What we can
What we will
What we did
Suddenly
But it's all just a show
A time for us
And the worlds we'll never know
And daylight
Comes and fades
With the tide
I'm here to stay
Show, Beth Gibbons
