When You Strike a King You Must Kill Him: The Imperium of the Hanged Man

[@didymussumydid9726]

Another film that includes elements of the Hanged Man motif is the original Predator. The godlike alien hunter invariably hangs and skins his victims, incorporating the flaying of Marsyas by the archer Apollo. The hero must also undergo a promethean journey in which he is thrown down from a great height (physically, and metaphorically by losing his technology and his brothers-in-arms), then has a katabasis in which he crawls through and wallows in the mud like a verminous critter. He then creates new weapons, including a lot of fire. I am not convinced that things like this are intentionally put in films according to specific plans by the artists and writers, but at a minimum it explains why some films are successful and some aren't. If you adhere to the perennial tropes, you take the express lane to the realms of meaning and significance with the viewers.

[@Catholic-Perennialist]

@@didymussumydid9726 Much agreed. Very good example. I think at times these are deliberate motifs, but it is also true that the "muses" will speak through the artist without his permission. The archetypes will erupt from anything if we stare long enough.

[@cdmille55]

Excellent talk. Political theater

[@Catholic-Perennialist]

@@cdmille55 Yes, for us it's all theater, but I believe that an actual conflict exists that they're also hiding. If we knew everything we would conclude that the republic is lost and there are no more "good guys."

[@exquofonte]

The Kennedy angle is especially interesting. Shadow rulers are more than plausible. Have you read Robert Sepehr’s booklet “1666: Redemption Through Sin”? He describes the rise of the Sabbatians as the real subversive faction in our midst who’s MO is secrecy and infiltration

[@Catholic-Perennialist]

The chance that so many Kennedys die early, under strange circumstances, with no body recovered or buried in a closed casket , is not statistically probable. That they could be crypto-hebrews ruling clandestinely would fit Sepehr's thesis about the Sabbateans because they famously will adopt whatever religion will help them secure power. Kennedy was also a philanderer in the extreme which again supports the transgressive doctrine of Sabbattae Zivi. I'm beginning to believe that the secret government is fighting to become the visible government once again, and that the true rift is between the steward kings and the secret kings.

[@exquofonte]

@@Catholic-Perennialist I like that idea a lot. Its one of the only ways to make sense of the fact that clearly both left and right are in bed with 'them' but also that clearly the Left actually hates Trump

[@Catholic-Perennialist]

Pledging fealty to the tribe seems to just be a cost of doing business. Any ammount of political latitude may be granted to the "friends of Israel," but the Democratic party is now the home of so many anti-semites that the preferred party my shift solidly Republican in the near future. ​@@exquofonte

[@zeiosmb]

Is there any other way to keep in touch with you, in case your channel gets deleted?

[@Catholic-Perennialist]

@@zeiosmb I have a blog by the same name. If you keep scrolling in the community posts you'll eventually find a link. But yes, I suppose I am flirting with deletion. Should anything happen I'll write an explanation there

[@KeillaSellay]

​@@Catholic-Perennialist You need to backup all your videos to multiple platforms (Rumble, Bitchute, etc ..) and on your own personal computer and offline hard drives.

[@Laj-t9k]

They need a moral authority like the Pope to "bless" a new age, franken state cult. Hence, the post Vatican II Church.

[@Catholic-Perennialist]

@@Laj-t9k Already great strides have been made to unite the Abrahamic faiths. The Imperial cult will likely require acknowledgment of a 3rd temple and adherence to Noachide laws in addition to being metaphysically new age. It will no doubt receive the approbation of Rome

[@st.mephisto8564]

​@@Catholic-PerennialistDo you oppose Ecumenism & religious tolerance? & are still a perennialist/gnostic?

[@Catholic-Perennialist]

@@st.mephisto8564 I oppose elimination of differences such that three religions are reduced, functionally, to one. That would represent a destruction of tradition and not a legitimate development.

[@st.mephisto8564]

@@Catholic-Perennialist Ah. Gotcha! you're my kinda guy then.

[@exquofonte]

What do you think of Manly P Hall's book 'the Secret Destiny of America'? Hall was an honorary 33rd° mason, so I take his opinions seriously, but when he starts talking about a future universal democratic government I get the feeling he is high on the fumes of WWII Allied optimism...

[@Catholic-Perennialist]

@@exquofonte He's very much a product of that time when a man could hope that a US led world order would be an Atlantis revived. I have not read that book, but I own it. I can't comment on its thesis yet, but if it is at all similar to the Secret Teachings then I'd say he suffers from a belief in inevitable progress. He even stated in Secret Teaching of All Ages that mankind began as androgynous and will ultimately resume this form. I doubt that the man-made horrors currently on display is something he would countenance, but those who push this agenda, I believe, are attempting to fulfill that prediction.

[@Catholic-Perennialist]

I'm with Spengler concerning democracy; that it really functions as a clearing house to launder policy from a manufactured concensus. In reality, few voters are capable of independent political thought and are really choosing between two options gifted to them by the establishment. Voting is an exercise in pacification. True progress would be the arrival of a philosopher king.

[@exquofonte]

@@Catholic-Perennialist ahh it makes sense now. Thanks!

[@exquofonte]

@@Catholic-Perennialist Yeah I fully agree with you (and Spengler).