The Matrix Trilogy: an esoteric
analysis – Part 2
· Then there was a knock at the door … ቾይ (CHOI) የተባለ ጓደኛው (ደንበኛው) እና ትከሻዋ ላይ የጥንቸል ምስል የተነቀሰች የሴት ጓደኛው (DuJour) ነበሩ …
· THOMAS: Who is it?
· CHOI: It's Choi.
· THOMAS: You're two hours late.
· CHOI: I know.
It's her fault.
· THOMAS: You got
the money?
· CHOI: Two
grand.
· THOMAS: Hold on.
· CHOI:
Hallelujah! You're my savior, man! My own personal Jesus Christ!
· THOMAS: If you get
caught using that...
· CHOI: I know, I
know. This never happened. You don't
exist
Choi is a
French word for choice. And his partner/girlfriend’s name DuJour (in French) means ‘of the day’. So collectively these two stand for
‘choice of the day.’ Apparently the most important ‘choice of the day’ is
standing at the door of Neo. And strangely the door of Neo has the number 101 stamped on it. This number is a reference
to George Orwell’s book 1984 where a
room with the same number features. Hence the movie is informing us that Neo is
living in highly monitored big brother
type authoritarian society. It is also telling us that Neo is the one (101
being an anagram of one)…
· So choice of the day is late! - In fact two hours late. That’s the first thing
Neo says… following the Gnostic theme this makes great sense. The Gnostics
sought a hero (a Gnostic Christ/ an Antichrist) that would vanquish the enemy
(i.e. Christianity) right from the inception of Christianity during the time of
St. Paul. There is historical evidence which shows that they intended a certain
Appolynius of Tyrana, born in AD 16, to be this
Antichrist but failed. From then on several want-to-be (wannabe) Antichrists
have come down throughout history but failed to deliver. Among these the Merovingians (one time monarchs of
France and a significant part of Europe) were the most potent candidates.
However these also failed and the Roman Catholic Church deposed of these heretics
and instituted Charlemagne. Not surprisingly the Merovingians are represented
in the movie, The Matrix, and right on the room where the Merovingian
(an older fellow not unlike Neo with a distinctly French undertone reminding
the audience that the Merovingians were French) appears, there is the number
four 101 relating that the merovingain was somehow supposed to have been the
one but didn’t make it –some kind of a failed messiah. Persephone, the wife of
the Merovingian, even claims at one point that her husband was more like Neo at
one time but his love faded as years went by … she even demands a kiss from Neo
to hand the KEY MAKER (then held hostage by the Merovingian)…
· Persephone: If you want the Keymaker, follow me. [to man in
washroom] Get out! I'm so sick of his bullshit. On and on, pompous prick. A
long time ago, when we first came here, it was so different. He was so
different. He was like you. I'll give you what you want. But you have to
give me something.
· Neo: What?
· Persephone: A kiss.
· Trinity: Excuse
me?
· Persephone: I want you to kiss me as if you were kissing her.
· Neo: Why?
· Persephone: You love her. She loves you. It's all over you both.
A long time ago, I knew what that felt like. I want to remember it. I
want to sample it. That's all, just a sample.
· This could imply the Anti-Christ needs to get the kiss of approval from/or obtain a
hereditary linage from/ the hierarchy which claims blood linage form Mary
Magdalene in order to succeed in opening all the doors and ascend into his
throne. By the way Persephone represents Mary Magdalene/the great whore of
Babylon as well/ (it is no accident that Monica Belucci, who played the role of
Persephone in The Matrix soon played the role of Mary Magdalene in the movie
The Passion of The Christ) and she was portrayed as the wife of the
Merovingian because the Merovingians in actuality had portrayed themselves as the
descendants of the purported children of Lord Jesus Christ (ሎቱ ስብሐት) and
Mary Magdalene.
· Now where were we? Yes, the Gnostic Christ
potentials… By the way on every generation the Gnostics have sought this hero
and equip him to attain the powers sufficient enough to upset universal balance
and defeat the Heavenly powers. According to Gnostic tradition there are a lot
of potentials that could fill the vacancy of the Antichrist; but these
potentials have to undergo some type of cleansing through self awareness to
undertake the necessary transformation from being a potential to the finished
product… that is why the oracle tells Neo that he has the potential but is
waiting for something (i.e may turn out to be another failed messiah or may
succeed in becoming the one – she is not sure)…
· Oracle: Not too bright, though. You know why Morpheus
brought you to see me? So, what do you think? You think you’re the one?
· Neo: Honestly, I don’t know.
· Oracle: You know what that means? It’s Latin. Means ‘Know
Thyself’. … Being the one is just like being in love. No one can tell you you’re
in love, you just know it. Through and through. … say ahh.
· Neo: Ahhh.
· Oracle: Okey. Now I’m supposed to say …
· Neo: But what?
· Oracle: But you already know what I’m going to tell you.
· Neo:I’m not the One.
· Oracle: Sorry kid. You got the gift, but it looks like you’re
waiting for something.
· Neo: What?
· Oracle: Your next life maybe, who knows?
· And they have to do it at the right age. That is
why Neo sees a lot of kids with psychic powers at the oracles place. (by the
way strangely all these potentials were kids and more strikingly Morpheus tells
Neo somewhere that he was too old for being initiated and that initiation has
to occur at a certain age limit (childhood); once a mind passes that age limit
they won’t awaken/initiate him… No wonder except Neo in almost all the other
movies the position of the Anti-Christ is filled by children and
semi-adolescents… Harry Potter, Alice in
Wonderland, Wizard of Oz, Terminator, Transformers. Add to that the fact
that Aleister Crawley became initiated/possessed at the age of 11 – the age of
Harry Potter. Remember Crawley viewed/expected himself to be the
Beast/Anti-Christ. Hence they must be seeking to initiate the right potential
at this particular age…
· So the whole point is although the Gnostics have
been expecting the Anti-Christ for two millennia he didn’t turn up or rather
fate (symbolized by choice of the day) didn’t anoint him till now. So fate is
late. How late? 2000 years late. And
how long did neo claim Choi and duJour were late? 2 hours. Could the 2 hours he
mentioned be a veiled allegory to the fact that the emergence of the Antichrist
is 2000+ years late (after all 2 hours could mean 2000 years)? This suspicion
is soon to be confirmed.
· What does CHOI respond? It’s her fault. Whose fault? DeJour’s fault. DeJour
(of the day) represents time. So CHOI is saying I wasn’t able to come because
the time wasn’t comfortable/appropriate- meaning there were obstacles during
the other days he tried. Again if you consider the Gnostic-Christian battle
that has been going on for the past 2 thousand years this makes a lot of sense.
The Roman Catholic Church has especially been hunting down heretics and Satanists
for the majority of the last two thousand years so it was very difficult for
the Gnostics/Satanists to resurface let alone defeat Christianity. They have
only managed to gain a foothold and take the upper hand after they succeeded in
weakening The Roman Church through infiltration and subversion and deposing all
the kings who were in allegiance with the Roman Pope. So the day wasn’t right
until… the year 2000. How do we know it is the year 2000? Because when Neo asks
for the money CHOI gives him 2 grand (2 thousand)!!! So Choice/Fate is handing
the AntiChirst the year 2 thousand-and-after saying this is your time to reign.
And as one dips himself more into the myth surrounding the Gnostic tradition of
the age two thousand, things start to get even weirder…
· According to occult/Gnostic tradition the past
two thousand years are astrologically associated with the age of Pisces. And
Pisces (fish), they claim, is the symbol of Christianity. (Apparently the fact
of Christianity being associated with fish has some degree of truth since
during the early times Christians used the symbol of fish to describe their
faith). Moreover they claim that the year two thousand signals the passing of the age of Pisces and the beginning of the age of Aquarius (water) representing
new age religion. Thus they are implying that after the year two thousand the
Christian religion will fall out of favor/disappear and in its place the New
Age religion – the religion of the Anti-Christ (which is nothing but the
revival of the ancient pagan/Gnostic religion) will begin. Hence, taking this
into consideration the handing of CHOI two thousand dollars to Neo (the messiah
of the Matrix) is highly meaningful.
· Then CHOI
follows this dialogue up with two informative phrases that reveal the person
whom we are dealing with.
CHOI:
Hallelujah! You're my savior, man! My own personal Jesus Christ!... I know, I
know. This never happened. You don't exist
He is saying Neo is his savior… not exactly Jesus Christ but
somehow like Him… a kind of personal favorite… so who is the messiah who is not
Jesus Christ himself but who resembles Him and fool humanity into believing he
is the one?... the Anti-Christ!!! Then CHOI adds another clue (as if this was
not enough) by saying … ‘You don’t exist’ (meaning 'we will keep this meeting a secret'). This implies unlike our Lord Jesus
Christ who preached in broad daylight in front of the Pharisees who sought to
crucify Him, Neo (the image of the Anti-Christ) sells/disseminates his venomous
heresies hidden from public view… in the dark… mainly through books… what kind
of books? Books preaching Nihilism
(Baudrillard's Simulacra and Simulations) – a
philosophy which preaches the rejection of religious and moral principles in
the belief that life is meaningless - isn’t this a chilling description of how
today’s generation largely feels?… does this mean the devil/Anti-Christ has
succeeded in injecting his venom into the heart of humanity and is almost ready
to show himself up in public to demand worship? Seems the hour is really close…
· In the middle of his conversation with CHOI, Neo
starts to feel uncertain whether he is still dreaming or awake – which is the
whole theme of the first movie – The Matrix. Let’s go through their
conversations…
· CHOI: Something wrong, man? You look
a little whiter than usual.
· THOMAS: My computer...You ever have
the feeling that you're not sure if you're awake or still dreaming?
· CHOI: All the time. It's called
mescaline. It's the only way to fly. It sounds to me like you need to unplug,
man. A little R and R. What do you think, Dujour, should we take him with us?
· DUJOUR: Definitely
· THOMAS: I can't. I have to work
tomorrow.
· DUJOUR: Come on. It'll be fun. I
promise.
(He notices her
tattoo -- a small white rabbit.)
· THOMAS: Yeah. Sure, I'll go.
· So what does CHOI advise Neo – to unplug (withdraw from the present
reality) with the assistance of drugs/hallucinogens (Mescaline, R&R).
Neo responds that he can’t… because he has to work tomorrow!!! The moral issue involved in using drugs (and the fact that this scene encourages the audience – a significant majority
of whom are adolescents by the way – to consume drugs and hallucinogens) is entirely overlooked which reinforces the fact that
Neo is not a Christian Messiah but a Gnostic one… Wrong deeds/sin and its
consequences are taken as irrelevant and the malady of humanity is consistently
presented throughout the movie as ignorance. But more importantly, Neo notices
the tattoo on DuJour and decides to… follow the white rabbit. What are the
underlying philosophical issues here?
- As Alice did in Alice in Wonderland, Neo followed the rabbit (Dujour), which implies he went DOWN the rabbit hole. Christian mystics and saints also transcend reality and experience supernatural phenomena; but they do not tumble down through a hole… they ASCEND UPWARDS to the Heavens; there is a profound difference in the symbolic implications of going down a path… and moving up a path; in fact these choices are exact opposites. When we take into account the fact that in both western and eastern Christian traditions Hell is located down below the earth (at the center of the earth), then the true message of fairytales and Sci-Fi’s which present the road down a hole as a path to salvation start to become chillingly clear. They are celebrating darkness, hell, the left hand path and other similar themes because they are inherently initiating their audience to Satanism; presenting it as noble and correspondingly desecrating holiness and everything that represents it as evil. Now the true reason why Zion, in The Matrix, is located at the center of the earth will come rushing into our mind – It does not represent Heaven (the spiritual Zion of the bible) but it’s opposite … Where do you think is a place that’s near the center of the earth and where it’s still warm? እሳቱ የማይጠፋ ትሉ የማያንቀላፋ? Ring a bell? Of course it’s Hell! What else would it be? It’s Inverted Hermeneutics (the science of inverting evil for good and good for evil) all over!!!
- Tank: Me and my brother Dozer, we’re both 100% pure, old fashioned, home grown, human born free right here, in the real world, genuine child of Zion.Neo: Zion?Tank: If the war was over tomorrow, Zion is where the party will be.Neo: It’s a city...Tank: The last human city; the only place we have left;Neo: Where is it?Tank: Underground, near the Earth’s core, where it’s still warm
- In addition, please note that Zion is presented as the ultimate party place (“If the war was over tomorrow, Zion is where the party will be”); dark, and a place where pagan and primitive looking people (the supposedly freed ex-slaves) undertake mass orgies while the heroes (Trinity and Neo) engage in ritual sex in the back yard. Does it sound similar to the Zion mentioned in the bible? It is its exact opposite!
- Similarly, on the scene in Anderson’s (Neo’s) cubicle/office where Morpheus tries to guide Neo out of the hands of his pursuers – the Agents – and away to his liberty… he signals another reference to the path of Satanism. For those who have some understanding of the occult/witchcraft, the downward path to Hell, The Left hand path, symbols depicting goats instead of sheep all reveal a satanic teaching wherein it is taught that rejecting the path of righteousness and consciously choosing hell and everything associated with it (and in the meantime desecrating and defiling every Christian symbol – The cross, holy names, images of Saints, and the like) is considered highly meritorious and a path that will lead one to freedom and godhood. So how could Neo escape from the Agents and achieve his salvation? According to Morpheus, it is by CHOOSING HIS LEFT AND EXITING through a window (a window here signifies a place of escape from a perceived prison-like environment):
· Morpheus: We don’t have time, Neo. To your left there’s a window. Go to it. Open it. You can use the
scaffold to get to the roof.
· Neo: No way. No way. This is crazy.
· Morpheus: There are two ways out of this building. One is that
scaffold, the other is in their custody. You take a chance either way. I leave
it to you.
· Neo: This is insane. Why is this happening to me? What did I do? I’m gonna
die. Shit. I can’t do this.
- Moreover, throughout the movie there are consistent references to the use of drugs (Mescaline, blue pill, red pill, etc) to facilitate escapism from the present reality and down to the dark illusion they wrongly call true freedom. This, together with all the other mentioned clues, is sufficient evidence that recalls Satanic/Luciferian initiatory rituals where the use of drugs is vital. In these circles the term ‘the white rabbit’ or ‘white queen’ itself means heroin.
- And if you have noticed Neo is presented with two pills: red and blue. And the blue pill is cleverly presented as the path of oblivion/ignorance (thus a color to be shunned) while the red pill is favorably shown as a path if accepted (through the act of swallowing) would take the initiate down the path of salvation, freedom and godhood. Again taking into consideration the strong Gnostic overtones of the movie and the fact that such movies put special attention to details such as color, name, and numerical attributes, the use of red-blue symbolism is strikingly informative. Blue represents the heavens (the color of the sky; strongly used in Christian symbolism where Saints are pictured wearing blue garments signifying their heavenly attachment…), while Red represents Hell (the color of fire/inferno)… so blue is de-emphasized, belittled and compared to ignorance and the audience is manipulated in such a way that it would feel negative emotions towards the color blue and everything it stands for…
- Moving over from overt symbols observed in the movie, if we investigate the inherent theme it teaches to the audience, we discover its veiled effort to attack the foundations upon which Christianity is built. To a Christian it is undoubtedly evident that salvation is to be found through unconditional submission to the Will of God/embrace once Fate/. This central teaching in Christian doctrine of Salvation is highlighted in Jesus’ acts prior and during the Passion on the Cross wherein He manifests UNCONDITIONAL SUBMISSION and OBEDIENCE to the Will of His Father going as far as drinking the cup of misery and crucifixion saying: "አባት ሆይ የሚቻልስ ከሆነ ይህች ፅዋ ከኔ ትለፍ ነገር ግን ፈቃድህ ይሁን እንጅ የእኔ ፈቃድ አይደለም" ማቴ 26፦39 ... Notice this doctrine of salvation through obedience being trampled and violated in the dialogue between Neo and Morpheus:
· Morpheus: I can see it in your eyes … Do you believe in fate, Neo?
· Neo: No.
· Morpheus: Why not?
· Neo: Because I don’t like the idea
that I’m not in control of my life.
· Morpheus: I know exactly what you mean.
“አባት ሆይ የሚቻልስ ከሆነ ይህች ፅዋ ከኔ ትለፍ ነገር ግን ፈቃድህ
ይሁን እንጅ የእኔ ፈቃድ አይደለም” ማቴ 26፦39
· And after all, this is not at all surprising
considering where Neo resides… in a ship called … Nebuchadnezzar (ናቡከደነጾር)!!! (Who
is Nebuchadnezzar in the Book of Daniel? … the conqueror of Judah, destroyer of
Jerusalem (also called Zion); he who burned down God’s temple, and enslaved
descendants/people of Israel/Judah. Could anything possessing such a horrible
set of deeds on its Cv. possibly be a defender of liberty and the protector of
Zion? More importantly, could anybody residing in such an entity which stands
in direct contrast to the way of God be anything other than the Anti-Christ?
Definitely not! Neo’s last words in the first part of the movie serve to
dissolve our doubts and fully confirm our suspicions regarding the fact that he
is the Anti-Christ:
Neo: (on the phone) … I know you're out there. I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid. You're afraid of us. You're afraid of change. I don't know the future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to tell you how it's going to begin. I'm going to hang up this phone and then I'm going to show these people what you don't want them to see. I'm going to show them a world without you, a world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries, a world where anything is possible. Where we go from there, is a choice I leave to you...
· Now bear in mind that Neo is talking to the
Architect (the representation of Almighty God of the bible)… and read the
script again…
Neo: I
know you're out there. I can feel you now. I know that you're afraid [who is afraid? – the
Architect/God]. You're afraid of us [Afraid of whom – the
devil, the beast/the Anti-Chirst, the false prophet and the countless army
of men that they command]. You're afraid of change. I don't know the
future. I didn't come here to tell you how this is going to end. I came here to
tell you how it's going to begin [what is going to
begin? – the era of the Anti-Christ]. I'm going to hang
up this phone and then I'm going to show these people what you don't want them
to see [he is going to show
these people things which God doesn’t want them to see; what kind of things?]. I'm going to show them a world without you, a
world without rules and controls, without borders or boundaries, a world where
anything is possible. Where we go from there, is a choice I leave to you...
· In contrast to Lord Jesus Christ who came to
fulfill and perfect the law, this dude came here to teach the people to rebel
against God’s commandments, … and even more frighteningly, he informs us his
ultimate plans… a world without God! Needless to say, from his hair to his feet (literally) and everything he wears in
between, this guy (Neo) is the
representation of the Anti-Christ!
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