“All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man in his time plays many parts, his acts being seven ages.” - just to make the point the quote is attributed to the actor called Shakespeare who never wrote anything. Magickians 'shake a spear' to control spirits (and the masses). Seven is the number of 'Spiritual completeness'.
After five years of folly and weakness, miscalled politeness, tact, discretion, care for the feeling of others, I am weary of it. I say today: the hell with Christianity, Rationalism, Buddhism, all the lumber of the centuries. I bring you a positive and primeval fact, Magick by name; and with this I will build me a new Heaven and a new Earth. I want none of your faint approval or faint dispraise... I want blasphemy, murder, rape, revolution, anything, bad or good, but strong. - Aleister Crowley, discussing his Freemasonic views to Gerald Kelly | ” |
- In comes Bowie with Blackstar: in the centre of it all your eyes. You may not be a popstar or a filmstar but you matter, you’re a blackstar.
- Every man and every woman is a star. (Aleister Crowley)
- The Star Sapphire by Crowley: “Let him return to the centre, and so the centre of all.” Also: 69 is the holy hexagram (Blackstar being released on Bowie’s 69th birthday).
Kaballah
Crowley and Bowie
Grateful Dead
Bowie and Tree of Life - The song "Station to Station" is about the soul's journey through the Kabbalistic Tree of Life. Each 'Station' is a Sepheroth, or level of attainment to 'Godhood'. Bowie was going from "Kether to Malkuth" in the lyric. He "drives like a demon from Station to Station". Sounds appealing to Narcissistic Psychopaths.
Madonna, Bowie and Baphomet - androgynous Goat God Devil (Satan perhaps?) of Freemasons, Kabbalists (same thing).
