Cinema Symbolism 2 by Sullivan IV Robert W

Author:Sullivan IV, Robert W.
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Deadwood Publishing, LLC
Published: 2017-04-04T07:00:00+00:00

KABBALAH, THE SCOTTISH RITE OF FREEMASONRY, DANTE’S INFERNO AND THE NINTH GATE

Loosely based on the book The Club Dumas (1993) by Arturo Perez-Reverte, The Ninth Gate is a film this author first analyzed in The Royal Arch of Enoch and touched on again in Cinema Symbolism. For the benefit of those who have not read The Royal Arch of Enoch, this author feels compelled to re-investigate the occult symbolism of this movie. To those who have read The Royal Arch of Enoch this new analysis, while reiterating and highlighting this author’s earlier analysis, will present fresh material hitherto not contained in any of this author’s other books. Roman Polanski’s film, interestingly enough, mirrors another 1999 film that featured a demonic, sex magick cabal operating behind these scenes: Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut. The Ninth Gate was released worldwide on August 25, 1999 (March 10, 2000, in the United States) while Eyes Wide Shut was released July 16, 1999 (United States, see Chapter VII), a little over a month earlier. Is this evidence of a Hollywood occult conspiracy at work or is it Jungian synchronicity and the collective unconscious affecting popular, and thus material, culture? It is noteworthy that 1999 also saw the release of two decidedly Gnostic movies: The Matrix released on March 31, 1999 (United States) and Fight Club on October 15, 1999 (United States). One could argue that 1999 was a red-letter year for the debut of films that conceal, beneath the celluloid surface, esoteric iconography, demonism, the occult, Kabbalah, archetypes, Manichean and Valentinian Gnosticism, and Masonic-like secret societies. To the profane, The Ninth Gate follows this narrative.

Dean Corso, a New York City rare book dealer, makes his living conning people into selling him valuable antique books for a low price, and then selling them for profit; he does regular business with the equally unscrupulous Bernie Ornstein (James Russo) who owns Bernie’s Rare Books. Corso meets with wealthy book collector Boris Balkan (Frank Langella), who has recently acquired a copy of The Nine Gates to the Kingdom of Shadows by 17th-century occult author Aristide Torchia. According to legend, the book is Torchia’s adaptation of an older book, The Delomelanicon, written by the Devil himself, which purportedly contains the means to summon ritualistically the Devil qua Lucifer qua Mephistopheles to acquire invincibility, supernatural wisdom (cf. Marlowe and Goethe’s Dr. Faustus), and immortality. Torchia was burned at the stake in 1666 along with most of his works; only three copies of The Nine Gates are known to exist, but Balkan believes only one is genuine. He hires Corso to investigate all three copies and acquire the authentic copy by any means necessary.

Balkan’s copy of The Nine Gates previously belonged to Andrew Telfer (Willy Holt, 1921-2007), who committed suicide soon after selling the book to Balkan. Telfer’s death by hanging opens the movie, and as he writes a suicide note, an inkwell featuring two horns sits on his desk symbolizing, to the subconscious mind, the forthcoming devilry and demonism of the film.

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