Masque: Manifesting Hex Death

MASQUE:
MANIFESTING HEX DEATH

I really don’t know if the events of the past week have awakened you to the reality of manifestation with intent. Anymore we are beginning to see that mysteries and riddles are hidden in plain sight. Those with eyes wide open are beginning to see that the world is one big paranormal carnival and that standing there waiting to take your tickets is a fresh-faced devil that will tell you that you have entered a graveyard disguised as a circus with cute ballerinas and cartwheeling clowns.

If you look hard enough, you’ll realize that there are violent concepts that are peddled in video games. Illuminati themes subliminally placed in music videos. There are sigils and imaginary characters with powers that bring about chaos. Music, numerical sequences and movies can now trigger all kinds of strange thoughts.

These strange thoughts manifest in the most peculiar way, and if you take the time to breathe in the strangeness, you begin to understand that no matter what you do in your life you are always trying to be one step ahead of the trickster.

The cosmic trickster at times takes on the same attributes of a demon; however he is often represented as a clown or a feared human figure who wears the mask of death – or death paint.

There are many people today who have some unexplained deep rooted fear of clowns and while clowns in their element are not frightening, a clown outside of his element is a symbol of hex death and chaos.

The clown has always been a ceremonial trigger and psychologically affects everyone who sees it. Lon Chaney, the man known for his thousand faces, had once quipped that there is nothing scarier than a clown after midnight.

In the ancient Gnostic beliefs, the trickster is a god. The god you make a deal with to come to this planet. It is neither man nor woman. It is an androgynous figure with distorted features who plays tricks or otherwise disobeys normal rules and conventional behavior. Ancient memes within all of us confuse the trickster with the hero. The trickster and the culture hero are often combined in ancient cultures. It was Carl Jung that gave a very interesting view of the clown-turned-carnival barker who collected young, impressionable souls for food sources. The word ‘carnival‘ itself is taken from the Latin ‘carnus’ (‘flesh’) and ‘levare’ (remove) as in being skinned or shed of meat.

According to Jung, the trickster loves to play malicious pranks on people. His home is the carnival and he manages to achieve through flash and showmanship, what most people can do with their intelligence. He has the personality that appears to be gentle and childlike and yet on the inside, the trickster is dark, conflicted, and threatening. He can convince even the keenest of intellect to play in his world and has the ability to draw upon the innocence in the unconscious to cover up his devilish intent. The trickster is also obsessed with changing his shape and demeanor.

The clown is an ancient symbol of the shape shifter whose expression bends and molds a visage of death. I always wondered why people feared clowns and, as I grew older, I was able to figure out that not all clowns are evil. However, there are clown faces that represent the death mask and it is those faces that I would like to comment on. I would also like to demonstrate how the electronic medium is most certainly a powerful tool for sending out a meme and having it manifest at will.

Some of the most powerful images come from films and many of the most frightening characters that exist in our nightmares are white faced entities who utilize the death shape, whether masked or unmasked in order to stir primal thoughts and stir up anxiety and hysteria.

In films, the death clown visage appeared in various horror films and it turned out to be an effective tool to terrify audiences all over the world. Characters like Michael Meyers from ‘Halloween’, Captain Howdy from ‘The Exorcist’ and the immortal death image of the Joker portrayed by Heath ledger are all associated with the clown, the trickster, or the shape shifting, transmogrifying devil – all with the power to mesmerize, trick and, in some cases, attack.

Kenneth Anger, a well-known underground filmmaker and member of the Ordo Templi Orientis commented that some movies that are made are invocations or evocations to cast a spell on the audience.

The purpose for some films is to stir the primal forces and are used as magical weapons to stir the soul out of conformity. The flickering image, according to Anger, creates a thought form and even if the image flickers for no one, it is still a causal engine that sends the image into the ether. If someone picks up on the meme and it is successfully implanted in the zeitgeist it is theorized that the very nightmare could easily transpire in the real world.

In 1984, there were worries that perhaps the movie “Nightmare on Elm Street” inspired the real life “Night Stalker” Richard Ramirez.

In the 1996 film “The Long Kiss Goodnight,” Samuel Jackson is told in explicit detail by the government official that 4,000 people will be killed in a terrorist event at the World Trade Center in order to “scare some money out of congress“. Of course this event will be “blamed on the Muslims, naturally“.

‘The Matrix’ was released just weeks before the Columbine massacre. Like suspects Dylan Kliebold and Eric Harris, the character of Neo had no friends and was trained to be a killing machine for a group of outcasts that believed the world was a computer construct.

‘The Matrix’ was so effective that it created a mental disorder in people called “Matrix delusion” where people actually thought they are living in a computer program. The movie ‘The Truman Show’ also was effective in creating a disorder where people believed that they are living in a reality TV show.

It is also interesting to point out that the media blamed Marylin Manson and his music for influencing the killers Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris to carry out the Columbine massacre.

Many people are aware that Marylin Manson is a rock star known for wearing corpse paint that resembles a horrific clown. Again, it is the hex death image of the trickster and it is very powerful.

Manson is not the only rock star to use the clown face as a way to mesmerize an audience.

Michael Jackson permanently made his face look like a ghoulish clown. The Insane Clown Posse and KISS play with the demonic clown look, making them ageless and larger than life. Gene Simmons of KISS explained that when KISS eventually took off the makeup, the whole feeling of the band had changed. He was having a hard time adapting to being a pretty boy, or hair band front man.

Eventually, the temptation of the smell of the greasepaint won out and KISS again wore their ghoulish faces for their fans.

Why should you fear a clown? It is simple really: the clown represents death, shape shifting, the deceiver or trickster. The image of the trickster is a powerful one and anything associated with it, any triggering mechanism or meme could spark a backlash or ethereal blowback. The result is chaos. Chaos has no regard for race, creed, color or morality.

During the massive marketing campaign for the second Batman movie franchise the ‘Dark Knight’, images of Heath Ledger as the Joker started popping up everywhere. One of the most disturbing images was Ledger in joker make-up with puffy scars on his lips. While most clowns wear a full white paint, and use colorful accents to their image, Ledger chose to wear “corpse paint” a term coined by death metal bands to invoke an image of death and decay. The colors they use are limited to black white and red.

Ledger’s Joker was the image of the classic “dead clown” and was even more ghoulish when you consider that after playing the Joker Ledger died of a drug overdose.

With Ledger’s death there was a cold feeling that came over Hollywood. There were so many people that felt that it was the part of the Joker that killed Heath Ledger. However, it was the clown that vexed Ledger and there were many instances where he was made to play a clown.

“Clowning Around” was an Australian film produced in 1992. It follows the story of 14-year old Simon Gunner, who has been in and out of foster homes all his life and dreams of becoming a professional circus clown.

The film was shot in Perth and Paris, and was Heath Ledger‘s film debut.

He also played Bob Dylan in the film, “I’m Not There.” Coincidentally, in Don McLean’s hit song “American Pie” he refers to Bob Dylan as the jester.

The Joker was not Ledger’s final role. He appeared in the film ‘The Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus’ as Pierrot, the sad clown and fool. Ledger died before the film could finish and so there were other actors that portrayed the role creating a shape shifting theme throughout the film.

Like any powerful archetype that begs to escape from the movie screen into reality, “The Joker” – or death clown – literally leapt from the movie screen into reality as an unstable 24-year-old killer named James Holmes opened fire in a crowded movie theater that was attending the midnight screening of ‘The Dark Knight Rises’, “the final movie in a Batman trilogy, following “The Dark Knight” in which The Joker was the principal villain,” as ABC News reported at the time.

What was it that Lon Chaney said about “clowns at midnight?”

The particular comic that inspired Ledger’s portrayal the most was a one-shot Batman comic called, “The Killing Joke” written by comic writer and magic practitioner Alan Moore, who has written comics such as ‘The Watchmen’ and ‘V for Vendetta’ – which are full of Illuminati and satanic symbolism. ‘V for Vendetta’, in particular, not only quotes Satanist Aleister Crowley in several portions – but mentions him by name.

Agent Codename V wears a ghoulish clown mask that is supposed to represent Guy Fawkes. His character has also leapt from the big screen and comic books and is now the official face of the computer group Anonymous. His clownish mask is also worn by activists and protestors worldwide.

Both times, characters associated with magicians have manifest in our reality either for good or evil. The image of the death clown is the most effective image because it plays on base core shadow archetypes.

Recently, there have been ghostly clown sightings being reported and actually filmed all over the world.

Back in March, people in Staten Island were filing several reports to police of a mysterious clown wandering the borough.

As the Staten Island Advance reported:

“While it’s uncertain who the person is, folks have photographed the face-painted individual wearing a yellow clown suit, white puffy collar, and trademark red nose.

This clown is also bald and was spotted holding green and yellow balloons.

Sightings have been reported by the Grasmere and Richmond Valley train stations.”

Last year, Northampton in the United Kingdom was terrorized by a mysterious clown that was seen there.

There is actually a Facebook page called “Spot Northampton’s Clown” where people can register their sightings.

There is a deep and psychological reason why clowns are feared or are seen as creepy. The base reason is because a clown is literally an exaggerated or cartoonish character of a corpse.

The human corpse becomes pale so many hours after death. Sometimes the lips of the corpse become enlarged and puffy. Some lips become purplish blue and some become engorged bright red and full of blood.

Clowns usually wear huge shoes and even puffy gloves. This also is similar to a corpse as some parts of the body swell after death, hands, fingers, feet and ankles.

There is also the psychological disconnect with a clown. Some people are unable to see emotion or even character buried in the greasepaint. Even though clowns paint on happy faces, there are some things a clown is told not to. Clowns should avoid using black on their eyes, blue is also a corpse paint color, and shapes that are used on the face should be rounded and not pointed.

It is believed that as much as 2 percent of the adult population has a fear of clowns. Oddly it seems that the fear is increasing as clowns are being used more and more as evil entities in movies and books. Adult clown phobics are unsettled by how clowns are able to engage in manic behavior, often without consequences.

There is also a trend that is showing that more and more children no longer fear clowns and that it might be just a generational hang up.

However, with clowns becoming the new villain in horror films, I am sure there will be plenty of clowns to be afraid of in the future.

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