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From: Don <g@crcomp.net>
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Subject: Re: Deep focus on Freemason forms found in Forbidden Planet
Date: Sun, 2 Jun 2024 03:18:55 -0000 (UTC)
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petertrei wrote:
> Don 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_."
>>      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>
>>
>>      Do you see other, overlooked, occult Freemason symbols in
>> _Forbidden Planet_? Append any additional speculative symbology you spot
>> to this thread.
>
> Whoo boy. You're playing in *my* house now.
>
> I'm a Freemason, and have been one for over 35 years.
> I know a thing or two.
>
> I'm going to accept, as everyone does, that Forbidden Planet is
> a homage to The Tempest.
>
> The 'popular interpretation' is better characterized as 'a couple
> of people wrote speculative essays'.
>
> Freemasonry is remarkably free of canon, and there
> is complete freedom for any Mason to write any speculation about it he
> wants, without fear of sanction, unless he reveals a very small number
> of passwords, etc - all the 'real secrets' would fit on the 3x5 filecard
> with room to spare.
>
> I have, for example, a book claiming that Stonehenge was constructed as
> a Masonic temple. This is nonsense, but the author didn't get in
> trouble.
>
> There's a very long cottage industry of claiming that this or that
> work of art contains Masonic dogwhistles. Usually they're not supported.
>
> In the case of Forbidden Planet, the things the linked essay claims
> as 'Masonic forms' don't appear in the play - they were added for
> the movie. Certainly, Shakespeare didn't put them there.
>
> As to whether they were actually intended to invoke Freemasonry, I
> can't rule it out. But its highly speculative, and I strongly
> doubt it. Some are too strained (the Krell doorways), some have errors
> (the staircase),  some have far more mundane explanations (Cookies
> apron, the celestial globe), and some are just too common to require
> a Masonic explanation (the star blowing up).
>
> [Prediction, based on years of trying to debunk nonsense about
> Freemasonry. Don will say some combination of:
>
> * You're low level, and don't know the real secrets.
> * You're high level, and are hiding the real secrets.
> * My internet sources are better than your lived experience.

Please post greater detail about your "winding staircase" grievance.

On a happier note, it was fun to discover the Forty-seventh Problem of
Euclid staring at me right in the face from the chalkboard! It tickles
me to pull Euclid into my Masonic mosaic in the form of a new Figure.

Perhaps a wise guy can pull a pattern, a potential pièce de résistance,
out of this paper?

    <https://crcomp.net/arts/forbidden/paper.png>

Danke,

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