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Subject: Re: Deep focus on Freemason forms found in Forbidden Planet
Date: Sat, 01 Jun 2024 08:06:35 -0700
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On Sat, 1 Jun 2024 12:02:44 -0000 (UTC), Don <g@crcomp.net> wrote:

>    We have set it down as a law to ourselves to examine
>    things to the bottom, and not to receive upon credit,
>    or reject upon probability, until these have passed a
>    due examination. - Bacon's Natural History.
>
>_The Tempest_ is popularly interpreted as an allegory for Freemason
>initiation [1][2]. And some Shakespearean scholars simultaneously see
>_Forbidden Planet_ as an adaptation of _The Tempest_ [3][4].
>    Given all of the above, it's fun to forage for Freemason forms in
>_Forbidden Planet_."

In the 50s, our teacher actually /encouraged/ us to see it because it
was based on Shakespeare.=20

So this is nothing new, as ideas go.

>    The link below shows some symbols spotted in the movie along with
>associated commentary. Views expressed are for informational purposes
>only; they do not constitute an endorsement or an approval of
>Freemasonry, Shakespeare, or Bacon.
>
>    <https://crcomp.net/arts/forbidden/index.php>

As Grave's /The White Goddess/ also illustrates, when you have a bee
in your bonnet, you will find what you are looking for anywhere,
whether it is there or not.

/From Hell/, the graphic novel, was tedious (the second appendix is
the only part I really enjoyed) in part because of its long and boring
explanation of how London was laid out in Masonic symbols.=20

Still, it /did/ explain why /From Hell/, the movie, paused to give us
a clear view of a horse's harness: it has what the graphic novel
identifies as a Masonic symbol on it.

>    Do you see other, overlooked, occult Freemason symbols in
>_Forbidden Planet_? Append any additional speculative symbology you spot
>to this thread.

I wouldn't know one if I saw one. I might recognize a few that are
said to be Masonic in various films, but there is no reason to believe
that those films are correct.
--=20
"Here lies the Tuscan poet Aretino,
Who evil spoke of everyone but God,
Giving as his excuse, 'I never knew him.'"