McCain/Obama Alchemy photo?

[sunya]

I came across this picture in a newspaper a few weeks ago. For some reason I couldn't stop looking at it; something wasn't right.

http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp301/solipsis/81016Egan.jpg

'NEW YORK - Presidential rivals John McCain and Barack Obama have agreed to participate in what historian and author Theodore H. White once called "a ritual of American politics" — the annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner.'

http://www.vietcatholic.net/News/Html/60154.htm

Then it dawned on me. What I was looking at was the 'alchemical marriage' as depicted in the Tarot. Several of the Major Arcana cards in the Tarot deck deal with the 'Great Work' of Alchemy. Transmutation through the union of opposites.

http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp301/solipsis/thothlovers.jpg

The Lovers - Crowley/Harris Thoth Tarot

http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp301/solipsis/Le-Diable-The-Devil.jpg

The Devil - Rider Waite Tarot

Notice the chain affixed to the priest's crucifix in the picture above, seeming to 'bind' the clasped hands, and referencing the Devil card.

Presiding over the wedding in the Thoth Lovers image is the Hermit*, or in this case Cardinal Edward Egan.

*According to DuQuette.

http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp301/solipsis/thehermit.jpg

The Hermit - Thoth Tarot

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Cardinal_Egan

Another of the alchemical cards is the High Priestess, which depicts two pillars, one black and the other white. They bear the initials B (Boaz/Barack) and J (Jachin/John).

http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp301/solipsis/highpriestess1.jpg

The High Priestess - Rider Waite Tarot

Boaz ("fleetness, strength") stood on the left and Jachin ("founding"), also spelled Jakin (יָכִין, Standard Hebrew Yaḫin, Tiberian Hebrew Yāḵîn) stood on the right... Some variants of the Tarot card the High Priestess depict Boaz and Jachin in reverse representing an anti-temple or rejection of Solomon's religion.[citation needed]


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boaz_and_Jachin

It seems likely that these pillars also reference the vertical struts in the Cabbalistic Tree of Life.

http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp301/solipsis/Tree-of-Life_Queens-Colour.png

What do y'all think - am I seeing things or is there some bizarre ritual shit going on here?

[planetsadhana]

yup good spot , It looks pretty creepy , as if it was set up as a ritual ....

I get the feeling obama is being used, mind manipulated in some way

[phildee3]

I came across this picture in a newspaper a few weeks ago. For some reason I couldn't stop looking at it; something wasn't right.

http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp301/solipsis/81016Egan.jpg

'NEW YORK - Presidential rivals John McCain and Barack Obama have agreed to participate in what historian and author Theodore H. White once called "a ritual of American politics" — the annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Foundation Dinner.'

http://www.vietcatholic.net/News/Html/60154.htm

Then it dawned on me. What I was looking at was the 'alchemical marriage' as depicted in the Tarot. Several of the Major Arcana cards in the Tarot deck deal with the 'Great Work' of Alchemy. Transmutation through the union of opposites.




I think you're absolutely right.
This ritual clearly invokes the union of opposites,
but rather than to achieve transmutation (into a sacred, higher consciousness) they then brutally destroy the union by having one achieve victory over the other - which invokes the principle of supremacy of the state over the people.

[kiwimaj]

[QUOTE=sunya;604693]I came across this picture in a newspaper a few weeks ago. For some reason I couldn't stop looking at it; something wasn't right.

http://i422.photobucket.com/albums/pp301/solipsis/81016Egan.jpg


VERY OBSERVANT INDEED !!........I do the tarot and didn't notice it, but this is only the second time I have seen this shot.

It's almost like Barak is thanking John for playing his part so well in that deceiptful show call an "election". They certainly don't look like adversaries to me...:rolleyes: