Codebreaking Hollywood's Headless Rites
A Synchromystic Master Class
NOTE: This is a companion piece to the previous codebreak on the Masonic symbolism of Hiram Abif. It’s also worth keeping in mind as the space exploration boondoggle machine revs back up.
Space is an altar, and esoteric symbolism in the "space program" isn't limited to launch dates and rocket names.
One of the less-noticed symbols you'll see in NASA iconography is John the Baptist or decapitation-idolatry symbolism, a meme you'll see quite a lot in classic (and not-so-classic) science-fiction film. Which makes sense given NASA and Hollywood are two heads of the same natsec-secret society network.
So while beheading symbolism is pretty common in a lot of movies (especially horror movies) the idolization of the Headless One -- their severed head, specifically -- is a major thruline in narratives or events imbued with esoteric or occult significance.
The head of John the Baptist - by far the most important and popular Jewish figure of his time - was given to appease Salome, the step-daughter of King Herod. Scholars are divided as too whether this is the same Salome who was a follower of Jesus.
Either way, the Johannite tradition has been a major faction of the esoteric underground ever since. It was of such concern to the Vatican that as late as the mid-19th Century the Pope saw fit to condemn it in an encyclical condemning Freemasonry.
"The Templars, like all other Secret Orders and Associations, had two doctrines, one concealed and reserved for the Masters, which was Johannism; the other public, which was the Roman Catholic. Thus they deceived the adversaries whom the sought to supplant.
Hence Free-Masonry, vulgarly imagined to have begun with the Dionysian Architects or the German Stone-workers, adopted Saint John the Evangelist as one of its patrons, associating with him, in order not to arouse the suspicions of Rome, Saint John the Baptist, and thus covertly proclaiming itself the child of the Kabalah and Essenism together." - Pope Pius IX
