List of Illustrations Preface Introduction Chapter I: Solar Superstars -Astrotheology in Christian Cinema: The Passion of the Christ, Christmas Movies, and the Vernal Equinox -Moses, the Ten Commandments, and the Precession of the Equinoxes Chapter II: Alan Moore Presents -Chaos Magick and Alchemical Freemasonry in From Hell -Alchemical Gnosis and Melancholy in V for Vendetta -Watchmen: A Conspiracy Smörgåsbord Chapter III: The Arcane Noir of David Lynch -A Severed Ear, Blue Velvet, and a Candy-Colored Clown they call the Sandman -The Spice is Vital to Space Travel: Dune’s Monomyth -Enter the Mystery Man: Lost Highway’s Paradoxical Illuminations -Mulholland Drive: The Dreamscape, the Real World, and the Hollywood Illuminati Chapter IV: The Wonderful Occult World of Walt Disney -Love’s Darkness: Sleeping Beauty and Maleficent -Counter-Reformation Heroines: Snow White and Cinderella -Mickey and the Beanstalk: A Gnostic Fable -The Satanic Majesty of Fantasia -Witch Mountain, the Occult, and Mind Control -The Lion King: The Osirian Cycle and Hamlet Retold Chapter V: Black Phillip Says You Are Wicked: Esoteric Imagery in Horror Movies -Suspiria: Dancing Queen meets Witchcraft -REDRUM: Transcendental Repetition and the Overlook Hotel -Easter Eggs in Halloween III: Season of the Witch -Angel Heart: The Pure Doctrines of Lucifer -Climbing Jacob’s Ladder -Murder: The Overlook Hotel transcends Crimson Peak Chapter VI: Freemasonry in Popular Culture -Kabbalah, the Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, Dante’s Inferno and The Ninth Gate -Freemasonry on the Small Screen: Sleepy Hollow -Comparative Cinema: The Man Who Would Be King and Stargate Chapter VII: The Illuminati in Film -Lara Croft: Tomb Raider -Kubrick’s Illuministic Impulse: Eyes Wide Shut -They Live, The X-Files: Fight the Future, and Angels and Demons Chapter VIII: Slytherin, Ravenclaw, Hufflepuff, and Gryffindor: The Harry Potter Universe -Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone -Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets -Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban -Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire -Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix -Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince -Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Parts 1 and 2 Chapter IX: Mystical Archetypes of the Old West -The Red River Template: Masculine Archetypes in Action -The Magnificent Seven -A Fistful of Dollars -For a Few Dollars More -The Good, the Bad and the Ugly Chapter X: It’s the Chronic(What?)cles of Narnia -The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe -Prince Caspian -The Voyage of the Dawn Treader Chapter XI: White and Black Swans: Autoerotica, Artistic Kink, Sex, Fetishes, Metamorphosis, and Discordianism in Film -Black Stockings, Black Feathers, and Medusa: Alchemical Transitions in 9 ½ Weeks, Black Swan, and Passion -India Stoker’s Saddle Shoes: Festishism, Masturbation, Self-Loathing, and Psychosis -Discordia in Film: Basic Instinct, Fatal Attraction, and Repulsion Chapter XII: The Adventures of Robin Hood: Kabbalistic Archetypes and the Tarot Chapter XIII: Lost History and the Gangs of New York Conclusion Filmography Bibliography Index About the Author
