On Doctor Who, Season 7, Episode 8 "The Rings of Akhaten" Part II

On Doctor Who, Season 7, Episode 8 "The Rings of Akhaten" Part II

The Queen of Ages

So, I just threw the images above just randomly as food for thought, and as a little glimpse of things to come on this blog.

Back to Doctor Who "Rings of Akhaten" then. Recall, in part one of this series, I laid a very basic foundation for what is the occult, why we consider some of the Western divination arts "occult" or "hidden." We looked at the worldview and history of specifically The Solar Hero, Saturn worship,  and Freemasonry, tying it right to the present day. Screenwriters are many things, but one thing are not (most of them) is stupid. They know what works and what doesn't, who their audience is and what the subtext is. I think many of the symbols in television are their maybe sometimes by coincidence, but as McKenna said, "coincidence is what you have at the end of a bad theory."

Again, please see my friend and colleague Kat's blog and read her review of "The Rings of Akhaten" first HERE. If your are looking for a very lucidly writ prose review of this episode and the layers contained within the episode you need go no further. Kat does a Doctor Who podcast (click here to follow along). I can only offer a perspective of my point of view, which will focus on the symbols and perhaps subtler, motifs and symbolism contained within Doctor Who.

Doctor Who versus the "Old God"

Doctor Who is almost as close to a god incarnate. In his confrontation with the almost Hallowenish face of Akhaten, he says ironically: "Oh you like to think that you are a god. But you're not a god. You're just a parasite eaten out with jealousy and envy and longing for the lives of others. You feed on them. On the memory of love and loss and birth and death and joy and sorrow!"

Now, I find this interesting and ironic because similar charges could be levied against The Doctor himself. This is why even when Doctor Who does not have a companion he somehow finds one, and one could say he plays with time, space and people for his own benefit, largely at the cost of others. There are some serious moral questions about the Doctor's actions throughout the series that I find sort of creepy and more than questionable. The Doctor uses the stories of men and women just like the "Old God," saving the Earth is almost an after-thought. But for some reason, we buy it, fall in love with The Doctor, and for a world deprived of meaning he gives a sense of enchantment and wonder. Those are good things, but at the same time you must have (as Bertrand Russell put it) "a balance of reverence and contempt" when studying in any kind of Art, be it literature, philosophy, political manifestos (especially those), a Van Gogh or even a Bob Dylan. 

Today, I am informed is the one-year anniversary of the airing of this episode on the BBC, so it is quite fitting that I should post it today. The young Queen of Ages (who looks a heck of a lot like a Star Wars character, and indeed the whole show has a George Lucas feel to it) is really scared of taking part in what could easily be mistaken for a Church ceremony. The Doctor and Clara even try to sing along to words (at least Clara) does not know. That is reminiscent of what it is like to go from church to church, not knowing the words or the cadence of the song. It's comedic and every laugh has a profound truth behind it.  The Catholic Church, which many can argue indeed does take the stories and offerings of their congregation, could be just a parasite as this Akhaten, old solar god. It is interesting to listen to the words of the song which are difficult to make out, but it's about having the "old god" be kept asleep. According to some research, the concept of sleeping gods that require blood of a preferably young girl ("The fresher the better" says the Master Vampire in Buffy) to keep the "old ones" asleep. Without going into too much depth (having been threatened by someone who didn't want this article published) I will say that some people believe this is why blood is poured onto rocks at different ritual sites. I will leave it at that and hope the reader does his or her own homework into that. 

"No Evil can be done to a Good man in this life or the next." Socrates' Death

Socrates said in his Apologia (or Plato through Socrates) "no evil can be done to a good man in this life or the next." And that is my answer to the threats by the dark masons who do not want this secret "occulted" knowledge revealed especially, who dare threaten me with what? God? "Do as I say, or I'm going to send you to God." As I wrote in the earlier post, I have not taken a secret oath to Freemasonry unlike many of my family here and across the pond. I am not afraid of any threats of black magic. I've dated (unknowingly) high-priestess witches and Eastern Stars. If I can survive that everything else is a feeble anonymous threat. Besides, there are many Light Witches and Light Masons who are on my side, so good luck!

At any rate, the young Queen of Ages is scared because if she messes up the slumber song one little bit, then she will have to be sacrificed. And wouldn't you know it, such a thing happens. As the Queen of Ages is singing with the chorus of the congregation to appease the God to sleep, her male counterpart in this cosmic opera is the one who actually messes up the song if you're paying attention. Rewind it if you don't believe me. Who is the one who angers the god? The guy or the Queen? It's pretty clear it's the male.  It's very noticeable that his voice goes out of tune. And the "old God" gets angry and the young Queen of Ages is off to be sacrificed. Clara is irate, and it appears the Doctor is "walking away," but he tells her that the one thing "we don't do" is "walk away." 

They've taken the Doctor's role as Earth-protector to another level here. The Queen of Ages is a young humanoid creature, probably the exact demographic this show is aimed at. And The Doctor even though he's from a doomed planet and is another species altogether, he looks human. If this plot sounds familiar it should. In the Bible, God takes a human form, and that Divine Conception is exalted in the Catholic and other Churches. The word Church, by the way, comes from the Scottish (Country named for Pharaoh's daughter Scotia) Kirk (like the Captain), which comes from the Greek Circe. Mother Circe's religion was the religion of sacrifice, by the entertainment and, well, letting Men be the pigs that they are, except Ulysses of course, immune to her poisoned enchantment because he eats snowdrops ironically poisonous if eaten. Go figure.

As an aside, notice that the major institutions of this world, and the secular priests wear the color black. Why? Because black is the color of Saturn worship. You will notice that when you graduate you wear a black square and robe, Catholic and Jewish priests wear black and Muslims venerate a certain black cube which they walk about counter-clockwise, like Saturn's rotation. The Kabba as it is called, is probably the most sacred place in the Islamic faith. Wherever a Muslim goes, when he or she prays, they must face not just Mecca, but to this black stone, the Kabba. Also, one of the pillars of the Islamic faith is that every Muslim must make a pilgrimage to this very site once in their lives. Point it, black and Saturn worship is contained in all three of the Abrahamic religions.

The Kabba

In the Islamic faith, Mecca has a Masonic circle, and within the Masonic circle is a square. The square and compass are the two symbols of freemassonry, representing the "law of correspondence" or "as above, so below." You have Times Square, Red Square, Vatican Square, Trafalgar Square and on and on. The Gestapo of Nazi Germany wore black as well. This is because of the veneration of the black sun Saturn. When Wernher Von Braun (famous Nazi rocket scientist) went to NASA, he designed the Saturn V rocket which would take the astronauts to the Moon. People often mistake NASA's flag for the Earth or for the Moon, but some say that the ring around it is an homage to Saturn.

NASA's Logo

So, The Doctor goes off to save the child Queen of Ages, and offers his story for the Old God. Katherine Sas writes that this is "one of those classic Who moments." And I totally agree. It is an amazing performance by Matt Smith, who plays the Doctor. Interestingly he alludes to "Secrets that must never be told! Knowledge that must never be spoken!" (see image above). And very soon agents in a black come out. They look like a cross between Christopher Nolan's Bane and Master Vampire from the Buffy series.

Bane plus Master Vampire?

 
In the end, of course the day is saved. And Clara is a hero. What has happened is that the "old god" has been destroyed at the sacrifice of Doctor Who accompanied by a chorus of uplifting music, not as drone-like as the "Old God." Clearly now, with the old god destroyed, what's left? Well, Doctor Who is left and he is the new god. Kat points this out in her review of the episode and describes the irony pretty well. She seems to have figured out things "The Nerdist" review (click here) did not in its very superficial review.


Further, as noted by Kat in her review: 

"The most troubling and amazing part of that speech is how The Doctor seems, at times, to be talking about himself. Here we have an ancient character who is often called a god, speaking to the Old God. Both are called Grandfather within the episode. In his description of the Old God, we see a mirror image of The Doctor’s darkest characteristics:

 All these people who’s ancestors devoted themselves, sacrificed themselves to you. Can you hear them singing? Oh, you like to think you’re a god. You’re not a god, you’re just a parasite, eaten out with jealousy and envy and longing for the lives of others. You feed on them, on the memory of love and loss and birth and death and joy and sorrow!

The Doctor has certainly found many loyal companions who have and would willingly sacrifice themselves for him. Are we to interpret his need for companions as similarly selfish, even “parasitic,” as he calls it. Lest we start to see The Doctor in a villainous light, this vampire-like image is followed up by one of a self-sacrificial and tragic hero:

I’ve lived a long life and I’ve seen a few things. I walked away from the Last Great Time War. I marked the passing of the Time Lords. I saw the birth of the universe and I watched as time ran out, moment by moment, until nothing remained. No time. No space. Just me. I walked in universes where the laws of physics were devised by the mind of a madman. I’ve watched universes freeze and creations burn. I have seen things you wouldn’t believe. I have lost things you will never understand.

Both portraits are equally true. I’m constantly astonished by the complexity of this silly little show, and never more so than when we are given a glimpse of The Doctor’s psyche. He is surely one of the most complex characters ever created."

I agree with Kat. This is a complex issue here. What is the Doctor doing here? Is it not a little ironic that companions and many others seem to sacrifice themselves for Doctor Who many, many times, and speak about him as if he were a God? Even "Donna" (Dawn-Ah) when making it clear she doesn't want a mate (her eyes tell us more). She's an adult who has spent her life looking for Doctor Who, and leads a life almost parallel to his. There are moments in "Partners In Crime" where she is looking at Venus (Aphrodite in the Greek--Goddess of Beauty, Love and other things) where she has a twinkle in her eye looking up to the heavens as she praises Doctor Who.

But he is not the "Old God" which is associated with going to Church, and with ugliness. And it strikes me as amusing that the Doctor is making his great speech while the people are singing in tune. It's a different song altogether, but they are singing much more powerfully, much more forcefully. Now that they are singing for Doctor Who, well then, it's fine. But sing for the "Old God" and that's just pomposity and a symbol of decadence and parasitism. 

What really is going on here is that the Doctor is stepping in as the God for people who (according to the numbers) have lost their faith, do not attend any Church, see religion as some kind of ancient barbarism. This very wide segment of the population is the target audience for Doctor Who. The message here seems clear: "Follow me, Doctor Who instead of your Old God. Your Old God is a parasite that uses sacrifices and preys on little children. I do the same thing, but I take the form of a handsome "scientific" well-dressed Englishman." And so it is. Doctor Who is probably, as John Lennon said of The Beatles "more popular than Jesus." Simply ignoring this fact will not do any good. By going inside each episode to see the morals of this new god, Doctor Who, you'll see (and I hope to show in future posts) how the writers and creators of Doctor Who are constantly playing off this theme with Christmas specials and with plots and so on. Especially with the Doctor's fondness for young sexy women he watches since infancy. In this way, Doctor Who makes Lolita dry and boring. 

And if you haven't noticed, there is a giant child audience for Doctor Who. He may as well be god for them. He does not seem to have any problem meddling in the affairs of young children, and of other planets which by any logic of Space-Time, which disrupt the whole thing. Time is non-linear and the flap of a butterfly's wings can cause a Tsunami in Japan. The Doctor aheres to "Cosmic Laws of the Whoniverse" only when it is convenient takes this stance. He is otherwise totally fine with this meddling in the affairs of people. In fact, again as Kat Sas points out:

"No longer does he try to even pretend that he won’t get involved. In a nice reverse echo of “The Beast Below,” The Doctor defies Clara’s (and the audience’s) expectation of his actions. In the former episode, The Doctor tells Amy a bold-faced lie, explaining that they “never get involved” in the affairs of other planets, only to immediately contradict himself by running out of the TARDIS to comfort a crying child. Amy quickly catches on to the fact that this is The Doctor’s modus operandi. This time, Clara expects The Doctor to walk away, and challenges him for doing so. The Doctor whirls on her, explaining instead that the one thing she should know about traveling with him is that, “We never just walk away.” This new Eleventh Doctor seems to care, and feel, more deeply than he ever has before. He seems to have accepted his purpose: To help others. Not as a meddlesome demi-god, but as a wise and benevolent intergalactic custodian. He is quick to rush to the rescue, ready and willing to sacrifice himself, alarmingly open and vulnerable with his memories and emotions."

Like I said earlier, I could not have put it better myself. And of course this is all well and good with the younger children demographic which every corporation covets. I worry about the messages Doctor Who sends to these children and adults. Especially with the first one being "forget your God, I am your God" and the very sexual nature of the characters. These elements of course are on the conscious level to discerning adults, but not to kids. I worry about how the Doctor treats his companions, his morality, his playfulness with the lives of human beings in an all-too-seductive way. Would you like Doctor Who to be the type of guy your daughter wants to date? Will no man ever live up to the fictional expectations? What then is the subtext of Doctor Who and what kind of programming is this? 

All I know is that I can try to do my part in seriously studying Doctor Who and its evolution from the beginning until now and see where it leads me. It is important to note that England and the BBC have always been at the forefront of what is called propaganda. We must rid ourselves of the silly notion that these people have our best interests at heart. From the Creel Commission and the Orwellian Ministry of Truth to today, England has lead with the United States as the greatest producers of what Kennedy School of Government Dead Joe Nye calls "soft power." Soft power is the power wielded by cultural institutions such as media, television, movies, magazines, in sort, imagination. They define the cultural values with their content, we only react to it. And even then we are bound to have some subconscious elements that are so deeply ingrained that we barely see it.We react how the characters on screen (or page) react, and some of us may even go so far as to even brand ourselves with tattoos. But don't worry, that identity is waiting for your consumption already. You cannot fake real cool, real originality.

Keeping this in mind, let me finish "Rings of Akhaten" with a promise that this episode of Doctor Who is not the only episode to have rich symbolism and subtext with giant implications as to worship, there are many more. Doctor Who itself is not the only television show to do this sort of predictive programming (see Star Trek). For those of you who do not know what predictive programming is, it is the art of so subtly placing characters which you will identify with in situations which you yourself will someday be faced with, and when this happens you will most likely make your decision/reaction based on the character's reaction in the movie, or TV show, or book.

Halloween Face Old Solar God with Pyramid

  

I leave you with this and the promise of more to come Dear Reader.

"The series has generally tended to be quite antagonistic toward religion—particularly organized religion. Here, though, the Doctor espouses a "live and let live" approach: When he tells Clara about the belief of the people of this system that all life in the universe originated on Akhaten, she asks if it's true, and he simply replies: "Well, it's what they believe...It's a nice story." Later, he expounds on the notion of "soul" as a term for the sum total of memories, experiences, and circumstances that make up a person with a speech (beautifully delivered by Smith) that sounds like it could have been inspired by Carl Sagan, with an Alice in Wonderland reference thrown in for good measure:

"Hey, do you mind if I tell you a story, one you might not have heard? All the elements in your body were forged many, many millions of years ago, in the heart of a faraway star that exploded and died. That explosion scattered those elements across the desolations of deep space. After so many millions of years those elements came together to form new stars and new planets. And on and on it went—the elements came together and burst apart, forming shoes and ships and sealing wax, and cabbages and kings. Until, eventually, they came together to make you. You are unique in the universe. There is only one Merry Gallel, and there will never be another. Getting rid of that existence isn't a sacrifice—it is a waste."

  .

On Doctor Who Season 7, Episode 8 "The Rings of Akhaten" Part One

 

 

On Doctor Who Season 7, Episode 8 "Rings of Akhaten" 

It may just be coincidence--given Steven Moffat's fondness for building in connections and references between episodes, I wouldn't bet on it-- but the story of the Eleventh Doctor's  new companion, Clara (Jenna-Louise Coleman), is following a very similar trajectory as those of two of his previous fellow travelers. Just as happened with Rose in 2005 and Amy in 2010, when Clara tells the Doctor that for her first trip into time and space, she wants to see "something awesome," she finds herself being whisked away from present-day Earth to a fantastical adventure in a weird alien environment; namely, on The Rings of Akhaten.

"The Rings of Akhaten" has been thoroughly reviewed masterfully and powerfully by my friend and colleague Katherine Sas. I urge everyone to first read her review of the episode here. In addition to being a great writer, she also co-hosts a podcast with partner-in-crime Curtis Weyant called "Kat & Curt's TV Re-View," an excellent podcast where an episode of "Doctor Who" and "Buffy" are analyzed from a variety of angels and perspectives. Click here to start following along. I'll be using specifically Kat's review of this episode as a launch-pad (puns are always intended) for my blog post. 

This post contains huge spoilers, so if you have not seen this episode and do not want it ruined you have been warned. I will perfectly honest here. I do not watch much television. I tend to read a lot. A real lot. Possibly too much, if such a thing exists. However, thanks to a few nudges in the right direction you might say, I turned my gaze to "Doctor Who" on BBC. Long a  fan of British humor and intellectual history, I gave The Doctor a shot.

For all intents and purposes, Doctor Who is a God for it is clear that he is not the "all-father" of many mythologies, but rather one species of a many varied universe and just happens to have traversed all of time and space for one girl he's watched since infancy and they have very intimate relations. No self-respecting man (supposedly represented by "Rory") would have some eccentric alien preying on his wife. But the stories of course make her so dispensable to the Doctor. His willing to make her wait for time immemorial if he wants. He can play with her thoughts, her dreams, her consciousness, and in turn she is Alice in Wonderland, shedding off her inhibitions with the Doctor, her gateway to another world and another personality incongruous to her everyday life.

Just as Clara is being "initiated" much like earlier Doctor's companions, the audience is also being initiated into the mysteries of the universe through Doctor Who's eyes. In the beginning Clara and The Doctor arrive just in time on The Rings of Akhaten to witness a alignment that which illuminates both a monolith obelisk pyramid and eyes of Clara. Wow, how beautiful. The Tardis and the duo land and we are told a "festival of offerings" is in full-swing. People from all over the galaxy come to bring precious items to offer the "Old God" for it is said it is on the Rings where "all life originated."

Let me stop right there. I find it extremely interesting already. First, the name "Akhaten" immediately makes me think of the first "Renegade" of Egypt, Akhenaten who has been studied and worshiped through the ages by historians, archeologists, and even prominent influential psychologists. Sigmund Freud's "Moses and Monotheism" compared the two personalities and Freud's conclusion after years of study was that the dramatis personae in The Bible are actually Egyptian, and specifically Akhenaten. Akhenaten was the first pharaoh to turn Egypt upside-down in devotion  from a multi-stellar worship, to a Sun or Solar Ego worship. So strong was Akhenaten's sun-worship, that according to stories he was kicked out of Egypt. The story goes on to say that Akhenaten and his tribe were so upset that they had lost paradisaical Egypt that to even conquer the rest of he world would not be enough.

Akhenaten (or Moses) and Family Venerating Aten, Solar Worship

For whatever reason, it is true that right around what the scholar Karl Jasper's all 'The Axial Age" (500BC-500AD) much of the world's myths which were agrarian, matriarchal societies worshiping a pantheon of Gods began to introduce what Joseph Campbell and others call "The Solar Hero" or "The Hero With A Thousand Faces." For example, Heracles slaying of Medusa was interpreted as the Sun rising slaying the night sky, and so on. I wont get too much into it, but for more on this check out Ken Wilber's "Up From Eden" and "The Atman Project." 

I promised to get into "the occult" in this story. Occult simply means that which is hidden. Issac Newton called gravity an "occult force" and indeed The Royal Society severely criticized Newton for regressing back to Medieval barbarism until the anomalies became the paradigm. Knowledge in the Ancient World, as it is today, was hidden out of fear. The Nag Hammadi Library, otherwise known as the "Gnostic Gospels" were found hidden in a vase. These texts (The Book of Thomas, The Book of Enoch, etc.) were hidden out of fear that if these texts were found, the early Church (contends expert Elaine Pagels) would have punished the possessor of the apocrypha. Another example are the ancient maps with land-masses to the West of Europe with the promise and whisperings of Gold.

Typical Lodge. Notice the Checkerboard Floor

For the sake of time and space which are finite, I am going to refer to the people and societies that preserved this ancient knowledge, as the Occult Mystery Schools. Perhaps most well-known today Occult Mystery Schools are the Freemasons. Freemasonry is divided into the York Rite and Scottish Rite of Freemasonry Scotland and Scottish Rite Freemasonry, like Great Britain and many other nations, derives its name from the daughter of Akhenaten, Scotia. Freemasons are known all over the world, and wherever a Mason goes, he is bound to his (or her--see the Order of The Eastern Star) oath throughout the world. Many us our familiar with secret societies (like Opus Dei Catholicism and the Order of The Rose Cross, and The Illuminati) through Dan Brown novels and Tom Hanks movies. We might not think of Harry Potter series being about a school of the occult, but that is exactly what Hogwarts is. 

Order of The Eastern Star: Freemasonry For Women. Take Note of the Colors and the Four Alchemical Elements

Coming back to Doctor Who, we notice that there is a relationship to the Fez. The Fez has an interesting history as to why it is Red. According to speculative Freemasons (Freemasons which write about their orders to other Freemasons like Manly P. Hall, Albert Pike, Albert Mackey), the Fez is red because it was soaked with the blood of Christians. I will take on the Fez in a future blog posts and the interesting way in which it seems to be a wink to The Shriners of Freemasonry throughout Doctor Who. More on that later.

President Harry S. Truman Wearing Masonic Fez

The other word I wish to expound upon here is 'Rings." I am not going to write here about Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, however that might fit in. Here I am going to the our own solar system which has a planet, much like Doctor Who's "Akhaten" which is known for its rings. And that planet is Saturn.

In ancient legend Saturn or Kronos is known and depicted in a variety of ways. Indeed, it is speculated that our ancient sky, before the axis of the world was slanted, the planets were perfectly aligned and Saturn was much closer to Earth in this "Golden Age." Some think it would have been directly North above the Earth and was worshiped as the "Second Sun" until some Cosmic catastrophe bent the axis of Earth. Since, Saturn was at the top of these, the great celestial body was deified, made into a God. Today, Kings are given a Corona, a crown in homage of Saturn, a woman would wear ear rings to Saturn, and men would be wedded with a Ring before their God, Saturn.

Saturn however demanded sacrifice, offerings. He is an old man, but can appear young. How can we understand this? As Kat points out the name "grandfather" is used twice for the Doctor and the "Old God," or rather, a mummy parasite.

Over time, like in many myths, Saturn took on various forms and became known as "Father Time" and depicted as both an old man and a newly born son and a reaper. Saturnalia was an ancient Roman festival of offerings that coincided with what we call Christmas. Christmas, as I will show in later pieces, has nothing to do with the birth of Jesus Christ. It has to do with the old pagan calendar and the eight holy days of sacrifice. In fact even the Bible tells us to do not as the heathens do by cutting down a tree and decorating it in Silver and Gold. But who reads the Bible?

Calendar of Philocalus December, with Saturnalian dice on the table and a mask. Kubrick fans think "Eyes Wide Shut"

As a side note, I am a huge fan of who I consider to be the greatest director of all-time, Stanley Kubrick. Kubrick is known for many things but I still think his greatest legacy is in his collaborations with high Freemason and prolific science fiction writer Arthur C. Clarke in 2001: A Space Odyssey. In the book, the monolith that appears on Earth to "evolve" the human species is a black obelisk that appears when there is a very curious alignment of celestial bodies. It appears again on the Moon and then on Saturn's moon Iapetus. In the book and movie the monolith is a the philosopher's stone, a sort of intelligence unto itself, further perfecting the human being as it faces HAL, a representation of AI which sets on destroying human-kind. However in an act of heroism HAL is dismantled.

Saturn Alignment (note the crescent moon) in 2001: A Space Odyssey

One more thing to note about Kubrick and possible parallels with Doctor Who. Almost any time a science-fiction movie or TV show such as Doctor Who has an AI playing chess, one has to wonder if the great Stanley Kubrick, or Freemasonry is not being paid homage. Again, I am straying too far away from the topic at hand, but consider how the astronaut and moon themes of previous episodes of Doctor Who episodes might fit in, and if they do not, it is done with the wink of an eye. When the Matt Smith (Doctor Who No.11) points to the screen of the astronaut landing on the moon, one wonders if this is a hint. Just a side thought of future posts to come. NASA after all was in full-collaboration with Stanley Kubrick through Arthur C. Clarke, and was hanging out in England while German scientists like Werner Von Braun, (the Walt Disney of NASA and designer of the Saturn V rocket) that would take humanity to the Moon, were being prepped and Anglo-phied.  The James Joyce scholar Anthony Burgess wrote A Clockwork Orange at Stanley's request and was one member of this group of highly-skilled, highly-occult group who knew and practiced esoteric rituals.

Werner Von Braun: The Walt Disney of NASA at Marshall Space Flight Center. Marshall is my middle name.

But, again, I digress. Sure enough, this episode of Doctor Who is a story that was an apart  from the normal development I am used to in the usual seasonal build-up to a higher plot if you will. Don't worry, it only gets creepier and more disturbing. At the end of this short blog post, maybe you'll get a sense of what it's like to watch a movie with me. Though I won't say anything. Usually, I am very quiet about occult, esoteric knowledge and wisdom that has been told to me ever since I was a child. My family on both sides are filled with Freemasons and Rosicrucian Orders going back to at least Elizabeth I and the Dragon Court on my father's side and perhaps even older orders out of the noble families of Italy on my mum's side. Like many marriages, a Grandmaster Mason usually marries an Eastern Star. We can see these alchemical marriages between East and West in "Celtic" literature. Noble marriages are always arranged marriages. The husband and wife can have affairs, so long as the progeny is breed. This is one of the biggest themes in Freemasonry and we know it as progress or evolution.

But I digress. It is time for a child sacrifice, who is also a Queen. It is important to give a prefatory note to lay a foundation off to which to base my hypothesis. In summation of part one, we see a curious celestial alignment, the "horned god" of Saturn, (was and is) worshiped through sacrifice, present-giving and hedonism through Saturnalia (Christmas time), how the Fez and Freemasons are connected through The Shriners, and the Freemasons as one of these orders that arose from the Occult Mystery School tradition, namely the Solar Hero Worship going back to Egypt. In part two, I will show how Saturn worship has distilled down to us in the present day, how it also demands a tribute (child sacrifice; think Hunger Games) and how ultimately Doctor Who defeats the "Old God" which appears as a solar deity and how both the Doctor and the "Old God" uses song and story, in quite interesting ways.