Aiwass done.
I was, honestly. Case closed, had enough and, quite frankly,
I was beginning to bore myself shitless with all the old Pepper is a treasure
map rhetoric.
It is though, and I think old Mac the knife may have added
an additional wee layer of lacquer to an already overly polished turd thanks to
his latest paean to all things Egypt, Egypt
Station. Not an #Ad – though open to offers!
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| Shit pushing solitary Dor Beetle |
Anyone vaguely connected with this amateur collection of autistically
rendered ramblings – and you’re here reading this, so you must be – will know
that palm trees denote treasure and Sir Machiavellian does not let us down.
It occurred to me that possibly there was a link between all
this Egypt gubbins and Aleister Crowley’s Cairo chat with his invisible friend
Aiwass.
Okay, okay, I’ll grant you that the simple fact that the
album title logo merely grazes the great baldie’s bonce is confirmation of very
little, however, conspiracy fans, the overlay does create some tantalising ‘clues’.
Firstly, there is an interesting placement of one of the
weird pyramid things right over the face of the waxwork Paul, the apex going
right into his eye in fact. Secondly, is it pure coincidence that the name of
Paul McCartney spreads out over the entire Beatles, almost as though there was
really only one talented member? Solitary beetle again! Then there is the placement
of another pyramid over the ‘S’ in Beatles, further elaborating the point
above?
Then we have the sun shining directly over Marlene
Dietrich’s head, pointing us back to the ‘key’ to the temple door. Again.
Now, whilst many of the more rational of you will be saying
that this is just mere coincidence, I will attempt to demonstrate why so many
Beatle ‘clues’ point back to Sgt. Pepper and its oft overlooked Alice in Wonderland references.
I shan’t bore you by repeating the references here – they’re
covered in other posts – however I shall attempt to further establish these
links by positing a potential explanation to the age-old riddle of the Savile
Row door photo that appeared on Ringo Starr’s Rotogravure album.
As you can see, the second-best drummer in the Beatles is
snapped for the front cover peering through a magnifying glass, or, in other
words, literally looking through a looking glass. Is this yet another ocular occult
Beatley reference? A pretentious all-seeing eye allusion or, yet another,
aspersion to Lewis Carroll and his all-pervading Alice tomes? Sir Ring-Piece
and Love explained it thusly:
Question: There is a photo of the front door of Apple
on the back of the cover, where did you get it?
Ringo: Neil Aspinall took it and sent us one each
and I thought, “I’m gonna put it on the back of the album.” It’s a front door,
but it’s a back door too. It’s got all these names scrawled on it from Finland.
That’s why you’re getting a magnifying glass with the album, so you can read it
all. And I thought it would be a nice bit of fun, especially for those who
actually wrote on it. It used to be so smart, with a doorman and a pretty
letterbox, and now it’s just…yeah!
Which, as topics for blog posts go, is pretty dull. Except,
it was Neil Aspinall who sent him the photo, the same Neil Aspinall for whom
nothing is a coincidence and the same Neil Aspinall who was rumoured to have
been the fun-loving forum lurker Apollo C. Vermouth.
The same Apollo C. Vermouth who authored this curious little
nugget of conspiratorial gold.
Keep searching the
clues on the door.
One in particular is
all you need.
Apollo
And…
As stated earlier in
another thread, the original release included a magnifying glass so one could
decipher the writings on the door.
Obviously, there
remains an important clue that he wished you all would find.
The hunt begins…
You’re on the right path.
Apollo
To the best of my knowledge that clue, such as it is, has
not been uncovered.
Until now.
Possibly.
I will freely admit that I have spent some of my precious,
sweet time pouring over the inane scribblings of many and varied Apple scruffs
trying to uncover the vital titbit that the little drummer boy wished us to
find. All to no avail.
Perhaps, therefore, it is not a graffiti-based clue but a
song title one that we should seek?
Indeed, one track on the album, ‘Pure
Gold’ was written by the first knight of Beatledom, Beatle Paul.
If we look back to the Pepper cover who is pure gold? Why
it’s the heavenly Diana Dors herself, a front door, a back door and, furthermore, a key to the temple door.
And, to further labour a point, who was it that was to be sacrificed in a
temple back in the Help! movie? Why ‘twas
our erstwhile ring-clad drummer.
So fucking what, I sense you’re mouthing now, big fucking
deal. And, too be fair, you’d have a point.
But whomsoforth* was it that led us to the fabled Walrus
keyhole in the first place, for it was not I?
No, it was Mr Vermouth, of course.
Hidden on the Pepper
cover is a WALRUS.
Using your trusty
mirror, place it vertically touching Diana Dors left elbow.
See him?
Apollo
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| Walrus keyhole |
A point confirmed in the video for ‘A Day in the Life’.
And just who is the movement upon the shoulder of the divine Miss
Dors, the enigmatic Buffalo? Why it is a distinctly Crowleyesque vision replete
with an Egyptian fez.
Which brings us back to Egypt
Station.
Where we see a strange, bald man stood next to a horned ram
or goat type beast.
The great beast and the strange beast also reappear on this
ingeniously cryptic homage to a departed Chuckle Brother and Gary Glitter**.
Whatever the identity of the said strange beast, it’s all a bit Baphomet like.
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| Horny goat weed crescent moon man |
As you can see the horny goat god gives us a hand signal
reminiscent of the ‘as above, so below’ tarot card of the magician and so
beloved of Sir Ring a ding ding from the Help!
movie where, as previously mentioned, he needs to be rescued from a temple because a magician who looks like a dead ringer for Crowley is chasing him. Sync after sync after sync.
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| Clang / Crowley in his fez from Help! |
Of course, the Walrus symbology emanates from the book Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice
Found There where we also find Humpty Dumpty.
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| Humpty Crowley |
Aleister Crowley has a peculiarly Humpty Dumpty like look
about him – what with his great big bald head ‘n all – and Crowley claimed that
Humpty Dumpty’s fall from the wall symbolised the descent of spirit into matter
– whatever that means.
Indeed, the great pompous prick said this:
This is so simple as hardly to require explanation. Humpty Dumpty is of
course the Egg of Spirit, and the wall is the Abyss--his "fall" is
therefore the descent of spirit into matter; and it is only too painfully
familiar to us that all the king's horses and all his men cannot restore us to
the height.
Only the King Himself can do that!
But one can hardly comment upon a theme which has been so fruitfully
treated by Ludovicus Carolus, that most holy illuminated man of God. His
masterly treatment of the identity of the three reciprocating paths of Daleth,
Teth, and Pe, is one of the most wonderful passages in the Holy Qabalah. His
resolution of what we take to be the bond of slavery into very love, the
embroidered neckband of honour bestowed upon us by the King himself, is one of
the most sublime passages in this class of literature.
So there you go, consider yourselves illuminated.
It’s been fun being back. Can I go now?
*Newly invented word © Me.
**For non-UK residents, Google it.
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| Reverse Abbey Road procession with added crescent moon |
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| olDIES merge: note car driving out of Macca’s head |
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| Full Egypt |
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| Radio Tavistock |
