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MYSTERY SCHOOL |

OF THE RED LETTERS

  • MYSTERY SCHOOLS are ancient, esoteric institutions that date back to antiquity and have been associated with spiritual and philosophical teachings. These schools were known for imparting secret knowledge, wisdom, and practices to their members, often with the goal of achieving spiritual enlightenment, self-realization, and personal transformation.

    Some well-known mystery schools from history include the Eleusinian Mysteries in ancient Greece, the Egyptian Mystery Schools of Thoth and Isis, and the Mithraic Mysteries in the Roman Empire.

    While the traditional mystery schools from antiquity have largely disappeared or evolved over time, there are contemporary organizations and groups that claim to be modern-day mystery schools. NOT THIS ONE THOUGH. We don't want to get in trouble with the superintendent of mystery schools. Who I suspect is Jeff Goldblum.

  • The sexual psychosis of America is uniquely bi-polar, being both hyper-sexual and hyper conservative. For example, in America, If you want to consider a narrative where Jesus had an erection when He saw a nipple, this could be seen as heretical igniting a "firestorm" of cancel culture against you, your children, and your children's children. Thus, you would need a MYSTERY SCHOOL to go down that nipple worm-hole. In Europe, that’s tea conversation on a Tuesday.

  • To heal from a sexual-religious trauma of my Judeo-Christian roots, my focus is primarily on ANCIENT CHRISTIANITY which includes Kabbalistic Judaism.

    • To the American Christian, the RED LETTERS represents the words of Christ from red-lettered Bibles first printed in 1901, favored by Protestant Christians in the United States.

    • To the marginalized woman, the RED LETTERS references Mary Magdalene who is symbolized by a red rose; the holy, sacred prostitute misrepresented in modern Christianity. The RED LETTERS also references "The Scarlet Letter" by Nathaniel Hawthorne, which is a book about a woman shamed with a painted red letter: A for "adultery".

    • But really, I've been using red letters all over my websites. I wrote it whimsically here. Made it red. Then laughed my ass off.

MYSTERY SCHOOL |

OF THE RED letters

“RIGHT-SIDE UP” teachings for a world turned upside-down by shame.” - N / O

THE COMIC | AN ARTIFACT OF SACRED EROTICISM

This comic serves as a visual testament to spiritual intimacy, created to process my encounter with the Ark of the Covenant—my explosive induction into Kabbalistic Judaism—while filming the carnal connection between two porn actresses in Just For One Day.

This visual testament is later analyzed for its esoteric significance as an artifact of sacred eroticism, forming the foundation of this self-guided lesson.

This gnosis herein has guided me to structure the Church of Holy Erotica as a modern-day Temple or Tabernacle. Let’s begin.

While I was BEHOLDING

FEMININE EROTIC INNOCENCE

filming my first docu-erotic short film, I had

— A SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE!

Filmmakers Log 041217 | A SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE

“My BODY was AWAKE. My CONSCIOUSNESS was AWAKE. I could SEE and FEEL EVERYTHING, including the vivid sensation of —

GOD PASSING BY.

WHAT I FELT was BURNING AND BRIGHT AND ALL-CONSUMING much like the EROTICISM I was filming.

What I felt was NOT OVERBEARING OR CONTROLLING. Nor did it feel like it needed to announce Itself. It simply IS.

Like a quiet constance. Like an ever-present, ABSOLUTE TRUTH.”

  • In the Hebrew Bible, after Moses frees the Israelites from Egypt and destroys the Ten Commandments, Moses asks to see God. In response, God says He will cover Moses with His hand and allow Moses to see His back only, otherwise Moses will die. God does this, and as a result, MOSES FACE SHONE. (Exodus 33:22)

    In the same way, after I filmed my first erotic short film, MY FACE ALSO SHOWN. It was impossible to be the same.

    It is my belief that the physiological reactions that we have toward sexuality mirror Scripture's descriptions of our reactions with God. Hence, I find Biblical references such as Exodus 33:22 as evidence that FEMININE EROTIC INNOCENCE is God.

I created this 5-PAGE COMIC from my footage to depict my SPIRITUAL EXPERIENCE.

It’s not A.I. generated. It’s Life-Generated. a glimpse OF MY SIDE of the filmmaking experience.

WHILE FILMING the TWO LESBIAN ANGELS, I FELT THE TWO CHERUBS ATOP THE ARK OF THE COVENANT. BETWEEN BOTH THE LESBIANS AND THE CHERUBS, I feEL the presence of

GOD.

     Wow.  That’s AMAZING! But what’s the ARK OF THE COVENANT?

  • Being reconnected with your body as an adult is extremely disorienting and overwhelming. It felt like going through puberty again while getting to know my adult super powers. I literally felt like Peter Parking getting to know his "Spider Senses" for the first time while enduring high school. This is what inspired me to do the comic. It would be fun visualizing the explosive force of sexuality and arousal as a SUPERPOWER. Because it IS a superpower!

  • This reference comes from Exodus 25:22. GOD SAYS HIS PRESENCE IS BETWEEN THE TWO CHERUBS ATOP THE ARK OF THE COVENANT, and that this is where God will meet Moses to give His commands to Israel.

The ARK OF THE COVENANT is the most sacred object to the Israelites — a gold-covered wooden chest with two angels on the top facing each other.

The Ark is said to have held the Ten Commandments, the Decalogue, the bedrock of Judeo-Christian ethics and throughout the West. THE LAW. This item is foundational Judeo-Christianity in Western thought and culture.

     The Ark of the Testimony is both GOD AND IDOL to the Israelites, a polarizing force capable of bringing VICTORY OR DEATH.

In Scripture, ENGAGING WITH THE ARK is no joke. The Ark requires PURITY OF HEART to approach it or even look at it, “lest ye die”.

This “God-Wrath” is depicted in one of my favorite films, specifically the special effects havoc in Raiders of the Lost Ark when the Nazi’s open up the Ark. KABOOM.

A SCENE |

FROM ONE OF MY FAVORITE FILMS, RAIDERS OF THE LOST ARK FEATURING THE POWER OF THE ARK OF THE COVENANT

…and INDUSTRIAL LIGHTS AND MAGIC visual effects company.

BETWEEN THE TWO ANGELS

I FELT GOD

JUST As the ARK OF THE COVENANT carrieS the TEN COMMANDMENTS, the law, PERHAPS FEMININE EROTIC INNOCENCE carries a “LAW” IN HER. 

To prepare for this presentation, I revisited the distinction between LAW and ETHIC.

ETHICS comes from the inside of our body. The LAW comes from the outside. The LAW comes AT US. Do you feel the difference?

As GOD has a LAW that draws us close to Him TO EVOLVE US; FEMININE EROTIC INNOCENCE HAS AN ETHIC that draws us close to Her.

FOLLOW the “LAWS OF HER BODY”.

Lest ye die.” Mic drop. TO BEHOLD Her IS TO BECOME MORE.

| N / O

  • Ethics and law are the different forms of rules by which humans are expected to behave themselves in the society. ETHICS REPRESENT INTERNAL SYSTEMS OF CONTROL, AND LAW REFERS TO AN EXTERNAL MECHANISM OF CONTROL.

  • You received esoteric theological teaching, a transmission of

    the MIND.

  • I shared my heart through the comic art, the same theological teaching through

    THE SOUL.

  • Now let’s listen to the EMOTIONS AND SENSATIONS of

    THE BODY.

LET’S PLAY! i WILL SHOW YOU THREE PANELS.

SLOWLY SCROLL BY EACH IMAGE. ALLOW any and all EMOTIONS AND SENSATIONS.

We will be using the KULESHOV EFFECT, a fundamental principle in film editing. It’s the principle that suggests a viewer derives NEW MEANING from juxtaposing different images together. When you have a pair of images and switch one of them, the remaining image can have a new context.

The Kuleshov Effect is also a foundational tool in the art of MANIPULATION. As a FILM-TV EDITOR for over 20 years, I’m familiar how the Kuleshov Effect CHANGES MEANING. Unless, we REVERSE-ENGINEER it.

Instead of starting with a pair of images and switching one, we will simply look at ONE PAIR of images only.

There is NO GOAL or NO AGENDA here. There is no desired end result that we are after. Only a CURIOSITY. We will ask ourselves —

what is COMING THROUGH?

Whatever you experience, whether is BLOCKAGE or AROUSAL or EMOTIONS or NUMBNESS — numbness is a feeling — these are ALL things we are LISTENING FOR. This is your BODY’s time — not your MIND or your HEART — to have it’s OWN EXPERIENCE.

We will be looking at a still of the Ark of the Covenant. Then a still of a kiss from my short film. Finally, a Bible verse. Exodus 25:22.

     Get your journals ready.

LET’S GROUND

THE NAME OF GOD IS BREATHING |

YAHWEH is the “nameless” name for God.

The name is written as four Hebrew consonants, YHWH, which is known as the Tetragrammaton, which is now TWO NAMES for something NAMELESS. SCHOLARS AND RABBIS — the ones with the two names for nameless things — say the letters “YHWH” represent breathing sounds or aspirated consonants..

When pronounced without vowels, it sounds like breathing: YAAAH (inhale), WEEH (exhale). WHICH CONCEPTUALLY MAKES SENSE! Because we’re not using letters or language even. It just . . . IS. 

As God simply IS, so are WE.

A RELATIONSHIP WITH GOD INCLUDES A RELATIONSHIP WITH THE BODY. AN

IS-ING.

WHATEVER COMES THROUGH, SIMPLY IS.

See you on the OTHER SIDE.

SUGGESTED TIME | 15 MINUTES

  • Breath prayers are a modern adaptation of the ancient prayer of the heart. We create them to express our deepest needs. They help us keep God in the foreground amidst our daily living and clarify our relationship with the holy.

    BREATHING IS PRAYER. So as we breathe, make each part of the breath a prayer. An EXHALE-OF-BLESSING. An INHALE-OF-RECEIVING. You can give names to things you are releasing and receiving too.