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Click "All" She and Rihanna both gave no fuck about the Grammys, the two Queens of Spotify

Praise G-d http://www.bustle.com/articles/13748-new-maleficent-trailer-premieres-during-grammys-steals-the-show

Somehow she always wins, even when she doesn't The "Radio"-esque crackle is intentional, for sure

Carmen's red rose = lower created world of Becoming (Malkuth) Eden as Paradise is populated with pop culture archetypes. Los Angeles, as the Land of Gods and Monsters, is the lower reflection of the eternal idea, the world of Becoming (material Eidolons) in distinction from the world of Forms. ("Life imitates Art"--Becoming imitates Eternity.) "Every time I close my eyes It's like a dark paradise" (= inner reality) "Most of my friends are dead" = "I wish I was dead (dead like you)" "Elvis is my daddy, Marilyn’s my mother, Jesus is my bestest friend. We don’t need nobody 'cause we got each other, Or at least I pretend...." "Adam and Eve are abolished from the Garden and kind of catapulted into this hell on earth, where nobody really does anything ... To me, that’s a fascinating examination of the result of putting pop culture icons as your pantheon of gods.” (Anthony Mandler) Aliens ... I theorize Lana is referencing Katy Perry's "ET" video for obvious reasons (Shaun Ross) "My pussy tastes like Pepsi-Cola" http://www.usatoday.com/story/money/business/2013/10/20/katy-perry-soft-drinks-pepsi-coke-childhood-obesity/3004777/ The devil has Katy's soul; can Lana redeem her from being the sellout pop culture icon of the music industry? "Put your red dress on, put your lipstick on Sing your song, song, now the camera's on..." (Dancing in the dark in the pale moonlight) "The boys, the girls, they all like Carmen She gives them butterflies Bats her cartoon eyes She laughs like God Her mind's like a diamond Audiotune lies" The pop idol's Audiotune lies http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/rockandpopmusic/10426239/Gareth-Malone-pop-stars-who-use-auto-tune-are-cheating.html Lana appears to have a certain self-awareness about being another pop culture icon in our pantheon of gods . . . can the idol break through from the silver screen in which she is imprisoned, and directly address those watching her? Falling from Cloud 9 Seeing "through a glass darkly" (of commercial product placement) "We can escape to the great sunshine" "Got my bad baby by my heavenly side" "Gargoyles standing at the front of your gate. Trying to tell me to wait, But I can’t wait to see you" Twin lions in the Paradise tour stage = Cybele's two lions = the two tigers in BTD with Lana as the Great Mother, addressing audience as the "spiritual collective" as Attis her son-lover "Don't be afraid of me, don't be ashamed. Walk in the way of my soft resurrection. Idol of roses, iconic soul. I know your name." TL;DR: Fuck yourself

"You'd make a night time of the day, so it'd suit the mood of your soul." (The Dark Night of the Soul) "But on some summer nights, it could feel like Paradise--Paradise Lost." http://www.sacred-texts.com/myst/myst/myst13.htm "Life is beautiful, but you don't have a clue Sun and ocean blue Their magnificence, it don't make sense to you"

"In the name of higher consciousness I let the best man I knew go 'Cause it's nice to love and be loved But it's better to know all you can know I said it's nice to love and be loved But I'd rather know what God knows" “Like all truth-seekers, I’m looking for answers,” she says. “I want to know why we don’t talk about where we come from and why we are here. When I found philosophy, I found other thinkers who were asking questions about the origins of the universe. I felt comforted by that.” Angels (in the Garden of Evil) Forever . . . https://suite101.com/a/decoding-the-bible-adam-and-eve-a354363 "Was it doubted that those who corrupt their own bodies conceal themselves? And if those who defile the living are as bad as they who defile the dead? And if the body does not do fully as much as the soul?" (Walt Whitman) "We are heavy metal lions" ("Strength" = harnessing sexual energy) http://evolver.civicactions.net/user/litewave/blog/esoteric_interpretation_lana_del_reys_songs Lana's omnipresent lions and tigers evoke the iconography of Cybele, the Mother of the Gods. Much of the symbolism of Born to Die is elaborated in Tropico. Lana with white roses on her head in BTD represents the Shekinah "above" as Mary inviolate, while Lana in the red roses, as the Eve "below," is slain by a sinful world. In a manner, she is also the Supernal Mother herself--that is to say, she is the bright reflection. It is in this sense of reflection that her truest and highest name in bolism is Shekinah--the co-habiting glory. According to Kabalism, there is a Shekinah both above and below. In the superior world it is called Binah, the Supernal Understanding which reflects to the emanations that are beneath. In the lower world it is MaIkuth--that world being, for this purpose, understood as a blessed Kingdom that with which it is made blessed being the Indwelling Glory. (Arthur Waite, "The High Priestess," The Pictorial Key to the Tarot) Lana's understanding of the Genesis narrative is heavily influenced by the Jewish mysticism of the Kabbalah. The Garden represents the world of timeless Form-archetypes prior to their manifestation in the material world in which we live, represented by the unfolding red rose. THE GARDEN OF EDEN BEFORE THE FALL ... At the summit are the THREE SUPERNAL SEPHIROTH summed up into ONE — AIMA ELOHIM, the Mother Supernal — The Woman of the Apocalypse (Chap. 12) clothed with the SUN, the MOON under her feet, and on her head the Crown of Twelve Stars. It is written 'So the Name JEHOVAH is joined to the Name ELOHIM, for JEHOVAH planted a Garden Eastward in Eden.' From the Three Supernals follow the other Sephiroth of THE TREE OF LIFE. Below the TREE, proceeding from MALKUTH is THE TREE OF KNOWLEDGE of GOOD AND of EVIL which is between the Tree of Life and the World or Assiah or Shells, represented by the Coiled Up DRAGON with Seven Heads and Ten Horns—being the Seven Infernal Palaces and the Ten Averse Sephiroth.... in MALKUTH is EVE, supporting with her hands the TWO PILLARS.... Is it but now that the higher life is beset with dangers and difficulties; hath it not been ever thus with the Sages and Hierophants of the Past? They have been persecuted and reviled, they have been tormented of men, yet through this has their glory increased. Rejoice, therefore, O Initiate, for the greater thy trial, the brighter thy triumph. When men shall revile thee and speak against thee falsely, hath not the Master said "Blessed art thou." The Great Goddess EVE, being tempted by the fruits of the TREE OF KNOWLEDGE whose branches tend upwards to the seven lower Sephiroth, but also downward to the Kingdom of Shells, reached down to them and the two pillars were left unsupported. Then the Sephirotic Tree was shattered. She fell and with her fell the Great ADAM. And the Great Red Dragon arose with his seven heads and ten horns, and EDEN was desolated—and the folds of the Dragon enclosed MALKUTH and linked it to the Kingdom of the Shells. And the heads of the Dragon rose into the seven lower Sephiroth, even up to DAATH at the feet of Aima Elohim. Thus were the four Rivers of EDEN desecrated and the Dragon Mouth gave forth the Infernal Waters in DAATH—and this is LEVIATHAN, The Piercing and Crooked Serpent.... And it became necessary that a Second Adam should arise to restore the System, and thus, as ADAM had been spread on the Cross of the Four Rivers, so the Second ADAM should be crucified on the Infernal Rivers of the four armed Cross of DEATH — yet to do this He must descend into the lowest, even MALKUTH the Earth, and be born of her. (Golden Dawn Knowledge Lecture) "Heaven is my baby, suicide’s her father" = self-sacrifice leads to new birth "Jesus was a dying man If he can't do it, no one can When will you learn that we ain't nothing without you" "I'm in love with a dying man All our love's flying in the sand" "I got the ice You got the fire I’ve got the stuff To take you higher" "But I wish I was dead (dead like you) Every time I close my eyes It's like a dark paradise" "Come on, baby, let's ride We can escape to the great sunshine. I know your wife, and she wouldn't mind We made it out to the other side" The Other Side: http://www.chabad.org/kabbalah/article_cdo/aid/380687/jewish/The-Other-Side.htm http://realitysandwich.com/180037/tzimtzum_tikkun_repairing_universe/ The result of the breaking of the vessels is that the world, which the Ein-Sof had originally planned to be formed of the highest values beauty, love, mercy, wisdom, knowledge is now corrupted by their evil counterparts. And we too, who are fragments of the androgynous Primordial Man, are infected with the corruption. The klipoth that make up the universe are in us too, and we find ourselves here, separated into opposites, male and female, stranded on the Other Side. Hence our world is one of pain, suffering, falsehood, conflict, and the other evils we are all too familiar with. In the esoteric understanding, there is a further layer to the Genesis story, in which the individual lost in the mire of ignorance, surrounded by her imaginal false gods of popular culture (Eidolons of sense), becomes aware of her own fallen state, having her eyes opened by the movement of the telluric serpent. The awareness of the Fall into the Other Side becomes necessary before greater wholeness and redemption can take place. "Nahash, the serpent, "Sheens" her: that is, he blends his earthly fire with her lost heavenly fire, which thus comes to life again." Rabbi Hizkiyah opened (began): “It is said, as a rose among thorns” (Shir HaShirim, 2:2). He asks, “What does a rose represent?” He answers, “It is the Assembly of Israel, meaning Malchut. For there is a rose, and there is a rose. Just as a rose among thorns is tinged with red and white, so does the Assembly of Israel (Malchut) consist of judgment and mercy. . . .” . . . The color red designates the rose’s connection with the outer, impure forces, which, because of this connection, can suck the strength (Light) from it. This is because nine of her Sefirot are in exile below the world of Atzilut, in the world of Beria, which may already contain impure forces. And the rose also has a color white in its Sefira Keter, for her Sefira Keter is in the world of Atzilut, above the Parsa, where there is no contact with the lower, impure forces. In other words, there are two opposite states: perfection and its absence, Light and darkness. They are felt by him who merits it. (The Zohar) The two girls, dressed in red and white, on a doomed car ride recur in the "Summertime Sadness" video. She seems to always be telling the same story; Tropico merely let her pull back the veil a bit more. Eve "dies" when she eats the apple, after which she becomes an objectified image, dimly reflecting the image of the ewig-weibliche. Her stage persona becomes that of the doomed Hollywood starlet, Eve (the soul) eternally pining to be rescued by Adam (the ego) from her gilded cage on a silver screen. "I sing the body electric, The armies of those I love engirth me and I engirth them, They will not let me off till I go with them, respond to them, And discorrupt them, and charge them full with the charge of the soul.... "As I see my soul reflected in Nature, As I see through a mist, One with inexpressible completeness, sanity, beauty, See the bent head and arms folded over the breast, the Female I see." (Whitman) For Whitman, the female form as it appears in Nature is the visible image of the invisible soul. Woman as an expression of the Anima-Mundi. When Eve becomes the pole-dancer, she becomes an object of lust rather than Adam's redeemer. She will put her red dress on and sing to those she loves, until they remember that she is not distinct from themselves. "There's something I have never told you I'm not really from this world There's something I have been withholding I'm not like every other girl So if you begin to think that my light might be supernatural I'd have to say alright, you're right mon cher it is I come from a place that your mind cannot even imagine" Cybele was a "stone fallen from heaven," or, as the Tarot would have it, a fallen star. "I can be your china doll, if you'd like to see me fall." I submit the robbery scene is tied to the lyrics of "Live or Die," which position Adam and Eve as outlaws from the fallen world (run by "Criminals"). It's "Us Against the World." http://thestreetphilosopher.tumblr.com/post/25766633453/the-basic-secrets-of-sexual-alchemy-from-the Lyrics of "Heavy Hitter"-- "You're the King of fear, baby I'm the Queen of Alchemy I know a way to make gold by mixing our souls to escape reality... You can be my higher power baby I can be your endless USA" Rather than Israel, Lana represents the soul of America. Thus John Wayne's "America, Why I Love Her" speech in Tropico--He is YHWH to her Shekinah; Heaven to her Earth. Malkuth, as Eve, is raised to heaven and restored from her fallen state. In the "Bel Air" segment, Lana addresses the viewer directly; we are all Adam watching Eve. The invisible Subject-Object wall has been breached.

This is brilliant. I understand you completely and interpret BTD in much the same way. With the release of Tropico, I think much of what you say here, as outlandish as it appears, has been proven correct.

Forbidden Gates: How Genetics, Robotics, Artificial Intelligence, Synthetic Biology, Nanotechnology, and Human Enhancement Herald The Dawn Of TechnoDimensional Spiritual Warfare by Tom and Nita Horn SPIRITUAL WARFARE? No wonder she wants to live in the sixties. Those who will give no attention to the world without, will seek only to ascertain the truth, will look only for wisdom, will find that this wisdom will unfold and disclose the source of all power, that it will manifest in thought and purpose which will create the external conditions desired. This truth will find expression in noble purpose and courageous action. Create ideals only, give no thought to external conditions, make the world within beautiful and opulent and the world without will express and manifest the condition which you have made within. You will come into a realization of your power to create ideals and these ideals will be projected into the world of effect. . . . It is thus that you may weave a garment of spirit and power into the web of your entire existence; it is thus that you may lead a charmed life and be for ever protected from all harm; it is thus that you may become a positive force whereby conditions of opulence and harmony may be attracted to you. (Charles F. Haanel) http://www.sacred-texts.com/nth/mks/mks11.htm Heaven is my baby, suicide’s her father, Opulence is the end.

If I get a little prettier can I be your baby? ... and I'm singing 'Fuck yeah give it to me this is heaven, what I truly want' Is "Lana Del Rey" the character really the antithesis of Lizzy Grant, singing "God's dead" to her adoring audience? There was a theory that one creates a doppelgänger and then imbues that with all your faults and guilts and fears and then eventually you destroy him, hopefully destroying all your guilt, fear and paranoia. And I often feel that I was doing that unwittingly, creating an alternative ego that would take on everything that I was insecure about. (David Bowie, Arena, 1993) She says, "You don't wanna be like me" . . . but Lana receives her redemption, rather than destruction. Black bra, red dress, makeup on I'm the new politician It ain't rock, but you done rolled Bye bye baby, loser, I won Lana Del Rey from the U.S. of A. A figment of your imagination Is this latest leak a piece of the puzzle?