DeadAgainst

https://www.lofficielusa.com/music/lana-del-rey-cover-story

Gone is the burden
Of the Crowley way of bein' That comes from energies combined Like my part was I Was not discernin' And you, as we found out Were not in your right mind   She directly namedrops Aleister Crowley in this song, which, somehow, nobody seems to have noticed!! Just gonna gloat about this for a while. 

Finally, I'm crossing the threshold From the ordinary world To the reveal of my heart Undoubtedly, that will for certain Take the dead out of the sea And the darkness from the arts   Some of her most revealing lyrics; cross-reference with everything said before: Crossing from the ordinary world below the Abyss to the heart's noetic world, the raising of the dead in the esoteric sense  
I can't remember which interview she said that the Love video represented space as ascending to a higher plane of being ... anyone know?
 
http://www.journaldesfemmes.com/loisirs/musique/1875230-lana-del-rey-interview/
 
Je suis mystique dans l'âme. L'histoire de l'ésotérisme et de la magie me parle. J'aime l'idée d'être sur la Lune pour Love ou dans une ambiance futuriste pour le clip de White Mustang, qui va bientôt sortir. C'était important de marquer symboliquement que je vais de l'avant. J'ai consciemment voulu orienter ma vie vers le futur. Ce renouveau devait aussi être allégorique. C'est amusant comme de nouvelles images vous apparaissent quand votre vision des choses évolue. Je me rends compte que j'étais bloquée dans le passé. Je n'aurais jamais pensé à ces univers il y a quelques années.
  "I am mystical at my core. The story of esotericism and magic speaks to me. I love the idea of being on the Moon for Love or in a futuristic atmosphere for the clip of White Mustang, which will soon be released. It was important to mark symbolically that I am moving forward. I consciously wanted to direct my life towards the future. This renewal must also have been allegorical. It's fun as new images appear to you when your vision of things evolves. I realize that I was stuck in the past. I would never have thought of these universes a few years ago. "

Love also shows a maturer perspective from Cruel World, where she as the bodhisattva Dakini no longer laments how far they are from Her but instead optimistically looks towards the ascent of humanity in the future, towards the Black Star that is the dark center of one's being   As I mentioned in another thread...
      LUST (FOR LIFE) = Babalon the Mother as Binah, who is also, of course, associated with the Hebrew letter H, Heh:   Lana of course had SOLVE ET COAGULA on her Instagram...depicting herself as the Queen of Alchemy and Magician hermetically creating the album Lust for Life in her Cup (depicted as the Cup of Babalon on the Thoth Tarot card of Lust)       https://books.google.com/books?id=Ksh4o6b63mMC&pg=PA181&lpg=PA181&dq=heh+binah+malkuth&source=bl&ots=lw1pQW-PCM&sig=6kGxWMJwSdpn-F6EuoI_vRQkP6s&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjG8d3L2bnTAhUkS2MKHfnWD0gQ6AEIJTAA#v=onepage&q=heh%20binah%20malkuth&f=false   https://books.google.com/books?id=tBeSDQAAQBAJ&pg=PA62&lpg=PA62&dq=heh+binah+malkuth&source=bl&ots=ZkzOujfGIO&sig=DSI556cGvalbYe3ZLNLBVFiwhk4&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjG8d3L2bnTAhUkS2MKHfnWD0gQ6AEILTAC#v=onepage&q=heh%20binah%20malkuth&f=false   Just sayin'   Peg Entwhistle is another glyph of the ancient Gnostic Fallen Goddess Scenario wherein the Mother descends into the world or "falls"... contemporary synchromysticism is a new movement that shows the eternal verities behind temporal phenomena as echoes of the original creation.   Starboy is another iteration of the Starman as Major Tom who hears the Calls from Sophia as the Gnostic-Kabbalistic feminine goddess who tells him to return to her, like the eternal play of Shiva and Shakti, or Adam and Eve... as said.

Reading http://www.amazon.com/Restoring-Paradise-Esotericism-Literature-Consciousness/dp/0791461394
 
 
When she wished to die, and spoke of Melancholia as Ultraviolent Initiation, I saw a kindred soul. When I see the pop starlet with immaculate hair on the red carpet, it does not speak of me. Yet even tracks like "Heavy Hitter," "TV in Black and White" and "She's Not Me" seem to reveal deep waters beneath their plastic forms.
 
The cabin is the world of the mundane, where "It's all been done before," the ennui of modernity becomes curiosity as one reaches down into an unknown darkness. The wish to be something more than human (per David Bowie) becomes an imitation of Sophia's original creative act.
 
"It's been an interesting journey. I feel like this year I'm only just starting to figure out the perspective I've written the last four records from" -- whose perspective?
 

 
"Burned into my brain are these stolen images"
 
Lizzy was a fresh-faced innocent opening strange doors that would never be closed again -- the blonde (Lizzy) meeting the brunette (Lana) in the waters and dying to that self. ("Deeper and deeper, looking for love in all the wrong places ...")
 
The "Cult Leader" is man as priest and mediator of a feminine Shekinah presence, he who enters the Holy of Holies and communes directly with God -- but in our modern world, the Church no longer fulfills this function; it has become an empty and murderous Manson Family disconnected from the Source (Family). Isis in the Aquarian Age:
 

 
"Something happened on the day he died
Spirit rose a metre and stepped aside Somebody else took his place, and bravely cried: (I'm a blackstar, I'm a blackstar)"   (Ground Control to Major Tom)  
"In the name of higher consciousness
... I'd rather know what God knows"   "Palm trees in black and white Was the last thing I saw before I died Right line, right man Right mixture of cocaine and heroin Do you wanna jump, jump, jump?"   To die before one dies, to jump into the Abyss and know what only God knows

Note this line from the recent NME interview: "I am surprisingly similar to the person in those songs"  
 
Lizzy says she is wholly this "Lana" archetype already illustrated in her imaginal crystallizations (not a 'persona' because 'Ms. Grant' was the name written on her wallet ID that was ceremonially sacrificed) -- "i am my only god"
 

 

 
"Dive in, dive deep and dive blue, my sweet
Rushing up from the water where the ice meets"   Your Cult Leader meets your Jazz Singer as Hierophant and High Priestess down through history in an Initiation into higher consciousness, ending the division of the two churches   The LSD tab becomes the PEYOTE shirt from Ultraviolence as noetic Pepsi-Cola   Sophia (the dove) seeing her reflection in the waters of Chaos (the Dead Pool) and running to meet it, becoming a "Freak" exiled from the mundane, drinking the cup of poison that Christ begged to be taken from him   "California" as the Western lands of Underworld as Paradise (Lost)

^^ Not sure about that ...
 
 
Brilliant, brilliant, brilliant all ... you may see how it ties into MTWBT
 
I see the "red dress" symbol as Objectified Other (i.e. the Tropico/Carmen pole dancer) in contrast to the White Dress
 
Cult of Isis: http://www.sacred-texts.com/eso/sta/sta10.htm 
 
 

 

 

 
(Ruth Hoberman)  
 
Below the Abyss in our outer world of the senses, beastly boys fight for girls on TV in black and white.   Above the Abyss in her inner world of pneumatic realities, blonde girls kissing brunette girls in color. The individual soul becomes one with the Universal Soul; Lizzy becomes one with Lana. Deeper and deeper.   The camera Subject perceiving the starlet as the Object. Pink flamingos are ironic and kitsch representations of Americana, of which she is fascinated. Which is to say, it is the Feminine Mystique.   Soul perceived as unknown Other vs. Soul as apprehended from the depths of one's own waters.    "Don't leave me now Don't say good bye Don't turn around Leave me high and dry"   "I'm finally happy now that you're gone. Put my little red party dress on, Everybody knows that I'm the best, I'm crazy."   "I, I see you're going So I play my music, watch you leave"   She as the Goddess sees her children falling away from her as they are lost in the external world of time and space. But out of her love for them, she will play her siren song for them, in hopes of remembrance.   Once again this maddening bitch has everything figured out already, and thus has nothing to do but wait for the rest of the Cruel World to return to her transtemporal Omega Point. Lolita in the Garden knowing what only the girls know, spinning Yé-yé tracks to pass the time.    La Belle Dame Sans Merci sent to destroy her acolytes: http://www.bartleby.com/126/55.html   The invitation in her smile is, 'Know me as I truly am, and not as I appear.'  

50 States = 50 Gates of Binah at the Still Pole of the World-Axis between the Blue and Red of Mercy and Severity
 
Simone's Other Woman: http://www.oocities.org/writingryan/beauvoir.html
  Boy look at you, looking at me I know you don't understand You could be a bad motherfucker But that don't make you a man Now you're just another one of my problems Because you got out of hand We won't survive We're sinking into the sand  
  Religion.m4a = Salvatore as the "Savior"   The One as Shiva/Adam; the Other as Shakti/Eve, running and returning from each other down in Kali-fornia Dark Paradise.   To look for love by plumbing the depths of the unconscious, "deeper and deeper," is the mystic's path ...   Darling, dive deep and dark blue suede Rushing up from the water where the ice meets     The Blackest Dei: Kali means "beyond time"; Atlantic says: "Her career is all about music as a time warp, with her languorous croons over molasses-like arrangements meant to make clock hands seem to move so slowly that it feels possible, at times, they might go backwards."   The pole at the center of the spinning record, or Aurora's spinning wheel.

I am trying not to say too much until the album drops, but ...
 
 
Honestly the figure she always seemed most similar to is David Bowie -- while today he is canonized, back in the 70's he was often criticized as being a hollow, cynical manipulator of his own image, appropriating the styles of his avant-garde contemporaries to push a mainstream product (and still today; just read Scaruffi's writeup, and compare it to what he said about the Doors -- he liked Ultraviolence, ironically!). This was unfounded, I think, but his analytical approach to creativity was always in stark contrast to cohorts like Lou Reed and Iggy Pop, who seemed to be more like forces of nature than anything else -- and the same could be said for Jim Morrison.
 
 
So, what is true poetry? I must refer to this telling passage by Robert Graves -- http://www.dhushara.com/book/diana/diana.htm
 
  But Graves went further and said that for the female artist, she must BE the White Goddess -- http://magmapoetry.com/archive/magma-37-2/articles/the-female-poet-and-the-male-muse/    
By this definition, Lana is a true poet.

I immediately saw that Tennyson's poem is a retelling of the Gnostic Sophia-myth, as some others have divined:
 
http://www.sarastroblake.com/lady.htm
 
 
http://armageddonconspiracy.co.uk/The-Hero-Program(1685768).htm
 
 
The spiritual path of the individual mirrors the cosmic Gnostic creation mythos; in the first, "I'm in love with a dying man" as she plunges into "The Ocean" of the unconscious; in the second, Sophia (the Lady of Shalott) gazes down from the Pleroma into the reflected Kenoma below, and thus projects herself into it, a fate repeated in the career of the individual soul. The Ray being the individual who becomes Rey when she encounters her brunette alter-ego in the World-Soul. This is Eve with the apple in Tropico, the "creaturely Sophia" (Achamoth) who detaches herself from the heavenly Sophia (the red below and the white above) and falls into the land of Gods and Monsters.
  See Quispel (recommended reading): https://books.google.com/books?id=bqRGI6bugRcC&pg=PA50&dq=sophia+mirror+inauthor:quispel&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CCwQ6AEwAGoVChMIvri348nwxwIVSEeICh159gVf#v=onepage&q=sophia%20mirror%20inauthor%3Aquispel&f=false
 
Also Freke and Gandy (other recommended reading): https://books.google.com/books?id=swM_6ufZ2P4C&pg=PA159&dq=sophia+looks+pleroma+mirror&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0CEkQ6AEwBmoVChMIp6Hrv8jwxwIVESqICh0ncAl6#v=onepage&q=sophia%20looks%20pleroma%20mirror&f=false
 
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kenoma
 
Ultimate Soul = Pleroma
Ego = Kenoma
 
From the Still Point of the turning world , she watches the Boys who eternally run and return to her.
 
Also http://lanaboards.com/index.php?/topic/6789-freak/
 
Your halo's full of fire I'm rising up, rising up My heart loves full of fire Loves full of fire   Baby if you wanna leave Come to California  Be a freak like me too   
(California being Paradise as the liberated place of the Great Sunshine and hippie freedom lands)
 
http://hermetic.com/stavish/essays/secret-fire.html
 
 

http://www.algonet.se/%7Ebassman/articles/96/hol.html
 
  http://www.parareligion.ch/2010/bowiegrail.htm   This track and "Without You" are one ("I lost myself when I lost you" = "I'm nothing without you") … "Can you hear me" being the transmission from soul to ego as he is lost in his tin can spaceship spinning around the Still Point

"People say your imagination is your greatest tool to success, and I think it’s because things manifest in reality from the visions you have in your mind’s eye. And so the most important thing is to really have a rich internal world, and live there, because reality will never meet your expectations."
 
The inner world is the archetypal world, and the outer is that which is visible to the senses … Within You and Without You.
 
 
Boy, look at you looking at me
I know you know how I feel Loving you is hard, being here is harder [cf. Ultraviolence's "loving you is really hard"] You take the wheel I don't wanna do this anymore It's so surreal I can't survive if this is all that's real [cf . "reality will never meet your expectations"] ... Boy, look at you looking at me I know you don't understand ... Anyone can start again Not through love but through revenge Through the fire we're born again Peace by vengeance brings the end    To be born again through the fire is another overt alchemical reference--"the inner marriage, where anima and animus alchemically merge in the crucible of human flesh." We see the same dynamic at work from previous tracks, namely, the boy is the Subject (Ego) and she is the Object (Soul as outpictured), but at this point she has now begun to fundamentally reverse the dynamic … it's "Music to Watch Boys To" rather than vice versa. She becomes the active agent, rather than the passive receptacle of violent male energies.   The beach would recall another Eliot poem … "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."

She sort of explained that when she said her songs were "personal" and she didn't want anyone to hear them. And really, I almost feel like my posting about them is a violation of privacy … but it's more interesting than talking about which dresses she's wearing. There is an esotericism beyond orthodox Christianity. 
 
  In order to dismiss all of this, you would have to blatantly ignore what she says … http://www.thefader.com/2014/06/17/love-death-and-jazz-seven-outtakes-from-our-lana-del-rey-intervie/  
 
Sometimes, people confuse their own intellectual apathy with others' … 

A Bible? Probably around this time http://biblehub.com/psalms/146-3.htm
 
http://lanaboards.com/index.php?/topic/5121-lana-del-rey-covers-rolling-stone-august-2014/page-2
 

 
http://www.livereal.com/spiritual_arena/perennial_philosophy_evidence.htm
 
 

 

 
http://www.npr.org/2014/06/21/323209791/lana-del-rey-i-dont-have-other-people-in-mind
 

Chokmah = CHOKE MA
 

 

 

 

 
"My pussy tastes like the blood of the saints"
 

 
Video Games = Nuit observed by Hadit as she falls away from him

"Ultraviolence" video = the Subject (holding the camera) and Object approaching a state of Blessed Union; the Bride of Christ waiting for an absent (dead?) husband
 
As Pitchfork asked of Born to Die ... "Is that all there is?"
 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JAXm2aCRE8
 
Black leather wedding dress http://books.google.com/books?id=fcXuV_U_-LgC&pg=PT127&dq=isis+black+veil&hl=en&sa=X&ei=Wp3eU7uYJ6OKjALql4DQDQ&ved=0CCgQ6AEwAg#v=onepage&q=isis%20black%20veil&f=false
 

 
("Finite and short-lived": Born to Die)
 

 
("The divine radiance": Life is beautiful, but you don't have a clue)
 

 

 
Binah (Isis) drawing and holding the fire of Chokmah
 
I note that Lana consistently inhabits Isiac archetypes http://lanasdaily.tumblr.com/post/86807175923/lana-del-rey-interviewed-for-intro-magazine-june-2014
 
 

 
The High Priestess = Isis http://books.google.com/books?id=ac8XpyUuTIUC&pg=PA22&dq=%22high+priestess%22+isis+tarot&hl=en&sa=X&ei=TJHeU5zYL5DwigL0sICYDw&ved=0CCIQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=%22high%20priestess%22%20isis%20tarot&f=false
 
The Rider waits ...
 

 
The "National Anthem" video = Isis (Jackie in alchemical gold) mourning Osiris (JFK) slain by Set (Oswald)--this song is immediately followed by "Dark Paradise" on BTD--"I wish I was dead, dead like you"
 
http://www.fastcocreate.com/3023186/the-director-of-lana-del-reys-tropico-film-helps-us-make-sense-of-it-all
 
 
The Garden of Eden (Dark Paradise) of Tropico is the Egyptian First Time (Zep Tepi) where the eternal archetypes of the gods dwell (Elvis being the archetypal Sun King); it is here that Osiris-JFK is slain as part of the primordial creative act--please refer to Mircea Eliade's Cosmos and History where this is elucidated: https://archive.org/details/CosmosAndHistorytheMythOfEternalReturn
 
This is layered in macrocosmic and microcosmic dimensions; i.e. the creation of the universe is re-enacted in the psyche of the individual. There is an apple and a strawberry. In wishing to be "like the gods," the Gnostic Eve as Sophia plucks the forbidden fruit down on the West Coast and shatters the illusory Garden ruled by the Demiurge. (This is difficult to explain ...)
 
Cause I'm your jazz singer
And you're my cult leader
I love you forever,
I love you forever

With his ultraviolence
(lay me down tonight)
Ultraviolence
(in my linen and curls)
Ultraviolence
 

 
Elizabeth Wool-ridge is made an Isiac initiate through the actions of her Cult Leader-Hierophant, and thus embodies a Priestess of Isis in her linens and curls and flower crowns

Attaining the Pinnacles of Power on earth is the proper course of action for the Scarlet Woman; but we still see her as an externalized Object in this sense, if she is not also actualized within ourselves -- http://www.tarotforum.net/showthread.php?t=171564
 

Lizzy Grant has dyed her hair a darker shade of brown, as it suits the mood of her soul.
 
The encounter with the Shadow involves directly penetrating into the whole egoic nature in order to transform it from within. Therefore Lana must directly confront the very notion of what it means to be Real in an unreal world, and the very notion of Womanhood as an Object of men's affections. She enters into what is inherently False, i.e. the image of the manufactured pop singer, and thus seeks to transform it into its pre-existent archetype, which is the essential theurgic-alchemical path and the re-creation of the universe. She is tested and broken down and undergoes trials of a greater nature than those who never take this long road--most will never comprehend their own unreality, as it has never been questioned.

"The sun also rises,
On those who fail to call
My life, it comprises,
Of losses and wins and fails and falls"

The rising of the alchemical sun within the psyche involves the coming to the surface of undesirable traits that have been heretofore unacknowledged. We see that there are clearly two personae she dons in this respect: Mary and Eve are the redeemed and unredeemed aspects of the World-Soul; Eve as the girl in the red party dress has figuratively "failed the call" and remains prima materia that has not been brought to perfection.
 
Eve as the woman in red has an existence dependent on what others think about her; she is an externalized Object singing the Body Electric. We may watch her on the stage, as she is pretty when she cries, calling for us (the egos as Subjects) to return to her and grant her a reality.

The frequent comparisons made to David Bowie are not without validity -- http://www.algonet.se/~bassman/articles/93/a.html
 

"Lana Del Rey" is a doppelgaenger in one sense, but her truest Self in another, as she is an image of that which she is destined to be--"I believe in the person I want to become." The "Born to Die" Lana (being a false image) is already dead. Heaven is not birthed without numerous travails. Lana, being Nuit (Soul-Body-Object), should seek to attain the active manifestation of Hadit (Ego-Subject), rather than die and return to dissolution that is the passive state of a purely feminine nature.

http://lanaboards.com/index.php?/topic/1385-original-sin-an-interview-with-lana-del-rey-john-calvert-october-4th-2011-0707/?p=34637
 
"I could have died right there
Cause he was right beside me
Jim raised me up"

http://gnosticteachings.org/courses/alchemy/3076-transmutation.html
 
 
"Oh, boy you're starry eyed
Lay back, baby lay back
You've got heaven in your eyes
I like that, boy I like that"
 
Since her sex life keeps coming up, the song "Starry Eyed" seems to refer to the Tantric practice of Eye Gazing http://amuchbetterway.com/what-is-eye-gazing/
 
 
"Blessed is this, this union
Crying tears of gold, like lemonade"

"They say make lemonade out of lemons
But I try and I just can't understand it
All this trying for no good reason
Man makes plans and God laughs
Why do I even bother to ask?
Well, once you and I, we were the king and queen of this town"
 
Making lemonade out of lemons is making medicine out of poison
 
"I’m a chain-smoker."
 
The Girl on Fire enters fully into chaos in order to perfect it, becoming one with the Ground of Being and realizing herself in the field of space and time, knowing that it all could happen down on the West Coast ("I like a physical love") http://realitysandwich.com/219794/circumambulating-the-alchemical-mysterium/
 
 

 
Neil Krug says: "The allegorical smoking in the hydrangea image is a favorite of mine"
 
Her Fire is allegorical (of what?--he doesn't say)
 
Rilke's "Blue Hydrangea": http://www.thebeckoning.com/poetry/rilke/rilke6.html
 
 
Life lived in the world of beautiful but transient Reflektions transitions to a higher and more permanent life of renewal (the Spark liberated from the dark earth), when the Lonesome Queen comes back to him -- She comes when he calls
 
Upper half of the Pepsi-Cola logo = Noetic Upper Waters of Binah (peyote mind expansion)
 
http://www.awakeninthedream.com/wordpress/the-sacred-art-of-alchemy/
 
 
"I got that magical trance potion"
 
 

 
"I'm a dragon, you're a whore"

^ Ascending and descending poles of manifestation ... just Ride up or down ("everyone around here seems to be going down, down")
 
In the new audio commentary she reveals that "Ultraviolence" was originally titled "Melancholia" (she's still a "Sad Girl," isn't she) http://www.soul-guidance.com/houseofthesun/alchemy%202.htm
 
 

 
Number 13 on her Motorcycle Love Divine -- Deadly Nightshade
 
This is too long for me to quote directly, but Litewave posted this excerpt from Richard Tarnas, which discusses at length how the Subject-Object divide defines Western culture http://www.gaiamind.org/Tarnas.html
 

 
Her West Coast alchemy underscores that Bradley as Ego is the Subject perceiving the Woman in Red as the alluring Body, the Object -- the destruction of the space between them necessitates the Death of the old self (Kill Kill)
 
"I love the archetype of a girl in a red dress. There is something about the lure of the lady in red."
 
"O my body! I dare not desert the likes of you in other men and women,
     nor the likes of the parts of you,
I believe the likes of you are to stand or fall with the likes of the
     soul, (and that they are the soul,) ...
Womanhood, and all that is a woman, and the man that comes from woman,...
The thin red jellies within you or within me, the bones and the
     marrow in the bones,
The exquisite realization of health;
O I say these are not the parts and poems of the body only, but of
     the soul,
O I say now these are the soul!" (Whitman)
 

 
Litewave said: http://phoenixrise.awardspace.com/lana.htm
 
 
"I feel a strong relationship with God and I feel my ties are with him.... I feel a connection as real with that as I've ever had with anybody on this earth."
 
This would suggest, then, that (so she hints) the "Rock 'n' Roll guardians" and initiators of Soul (cult leaders and jazz singers, "keepers of the light") are charged with forging a connection to the Invisible and entering the Holy of Holies that the multitude does not wish to approach -- "Being a bad bitch on the side might not appeal to fools like you." The audience (you) as the collective Subject observes the collective Object (Miss America) on stage as she sets herself on fire before the multitude -- the red Rose has the look of a flower that is looked at. Such is the Mystery demonstrated for all, forever, until they can take full charge of the Soul for themselves.
 

 
 

 

 

 

 

 
"Vehicle" of the spirit in manifestation, Binah receiving Chokmah's light
 


 
--Gareth Knight
 
"Sometimes love is not enough and the road gets tough
I don’t know why
Keep making me laugh
Let’s go get high
The road is long, we carry on"
 
Compare with this interview http://lanaboards.com/index.php?/topic/4738-lana-del-rey-interview-xlsemanal/&do=findComment&comment=186095
 

ur not a gangsta
 
as said, i just want you kids to know you stan for a genuine fucking genius, and we don't have that many of them these days
 
 
The Eastern path speaks of an egoless dissolution ("I wish I was dead") ... the Western path speaks of a sort of active participation in the world (it all could happen down on the West Coast; "just do what you love, do it better than") -- yet these two are one
 
 
In other words ... "a Fire for every experience" (FB Dowd)
 

 
The Artist is suspended from a single cord from Above, rather than Below; Lana speaks of being a willing conduit of the invisible
 

 
Mary-Isis-Sophia (etc.) in White speaks to her children ("shared my body and my mind with you"), saying you can be her full-time baby
 
The Spark is divided into pieces in her Eucharist when her living body is broken and shared: "an unfortunate series of events saw those dreams dashed and divided like a million stars in the night sky that I wished on over and over again, sparkling and broken" -- "I know you, I walked with you, once upon a dream ..."
 
The girl in red, the girl in (alchemical) gold, the girl in white -- all these are her, interpenetrating a single soul
 
Inner indecisiveness as wide and wavering as the ocean reflecting the endless USA (Boehme's primordial ground of being)
 

 

 
The ego as Subject observes the Object on the stage, dancing circles around her (hey Orpheus)
 

 
Cut to: Subject and Object are now dancing with each other ("just want it like before, we were dancing all night") ... the Wall is the Law ("got your Bible")
 
By belonging to no-one, she belongs to everyone, and you, too, can be hers, she whispers to those who take a walk on the wild side ("don't be afraid of me, don't be ashamed, walk in the way of my soft resurrection") ... the Lonely Queen will keep waiting

"You can be my higher power baby
I can be your endless USA"
 
 
Agree completely
 
"We were two kids, just tryin' to get out,
Live on the dark side of the American dream"
 
There is, on one side, the spiritual interpretation of such things as the American dream, Pepsi-Cola, and Yayo; on the "dark side" are their inverted reflections as they appear in our exterior, materialist society
 
That Message of Aquaria book I mentioned has a lot of crazy in it, but this passage is interesting ("Talking about that newer nation") --
 
 
Lana has done something infinitely clever, which is to take the ideas about Yahweh and his Shekinah, as described in the Jewish Kabbalah, and then give them a uniquely American spin, wherein they become John and Eve-Mary; the soul of Israel is replaced by the soul of America
 
The 50 stars of the American flag = the 50 Gates of Binah--the red and white stripes are the red and white roses of the Shekinah as Malkuth and Binah, Eve and Mary, as said
 

 
In the Ride video she is distinctly pictured as the Daughter, Malkuth, making her way back to her home in Binah, represented by the 50 Gates on her pinball machine and the 50 stars on the flag in which she is draped
 
We will note how Life Imitates Art and that Lana was, for a period, "in exile" from her American homeland, just as the Shekinah is in exile from Israel, due to the weight of our sins and the hardness of our hearts
 
http://www.northernway.org/shekinah.html
 
 
We, of course, cannot see God directly, but can see His earthly avatar in the form of His appointed Jazz Singer
 
Note Father Yod's (i.e. Yahweh's) reference to the Song of Songs above
 
"I am black but beautiful, O ye daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Cedar, as the curtains of Solomon"
 
 
"We get down every Friday night ..." http://sisterhoodoftherose.homestead.com/Shekinah.html
 
"God has a wife" http://www.northernway.org/presentations/godwife/

The girls in the strip club dancing for Adam are "dark stars" filled with poison, until he is able to cross the Abyss and unite Subject and Object (Hadit and Nuit, Shiva and Shakti)
 
"Call me poison ivy 'cause I'm far from good
Pretty from afar, like a dark star ...

I spend my whole life driving in cars with boys
Riding around town, drinking in the white noise
Used to talk about where we be and where we go
Now we know, baby, now we know"
 
He hit me and it felt like a kiss http://yourgodisafraud.wordpress.com/2014/05/17/misogyny-in-crowleys-writings-and-the-occult/
 
 
The Aquarian liberated woman ("I'm free") of the new generation is no longer merely in the backseat Driving in Cars With Boys but attaining the driver's seat and her own adepthood, greater than that of the ossified patriarchal traditions
 

 
You’re my one Heaven King Daddy (Isis and Osiris the Dying God)
 

 
"Strangled up in ivy
I’m the garden of Eden"
 
"A garden inclosed is my sister, my spouse; a spring shut up, a fountain sealed."
 

 
(Is the woman holding a microphone?)