Dark Mirror of Magick, 2nd Edition
by Wayne Darwen
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Actor: Frater Solomon Poke RunyonDirector: Wayne Darwen
DVD: Region Code 1
Format: Color, NTSC, Special Edition
Running Time: 72 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-10-15
Studio: The Church of the Hermetic Sciences, Inc.
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DVD Review: What starts as an excellent example of the art of prophesy and evocation is ultimately tarnished by hubris
Summary: 2 Stars
This video is a remastered version of that issued in September 2001, just before the September 11th bombing of the World Trade Center. In it, Wayne Darwen, a professional maker of documentaries, visits "Poke" Runyon/Frater Thabion at the OTA temple in Southern California for an example of Goetic evocation. The gist of this documentary, unlike "Poke"'s very worthy "Magick of Solomon", isn't to walk one through a Goetic evocation step-by-step, but rather to illustrate the prophetic potential of the Goetic spirits. Thabion decides to evoke Vassago, the third of the Goetic spirits, and a Prince assigned to the sphere of Jupiter, who "declares all things past, present and future, discovers things lost or hidden". The ritual ensues, with Brother Michael/Frater Solomon, described as Thabion's "apprentice", serving as scryer and channeling the words of the Goetic spirit. As is typical of prophecy, Vassago's words are cryptic:
"War upon an Eastern star
The King of Oils joins the Union
36 items of note
A house divided
God against Mammon
Mammon claims to be God
God is called Mammon
Fiery scandals are covered by a deluge
3 ½ years of strife
A presiding one shows his genius
But it is not what you think
The slaying of a son of Africa undoes a man
The son of the South is truly the son of the North
Vidar sits in silence
Satan fights with violence
What is hanging by a thread is saved when the snake is shed"
Clear, right? Anyway, 10 days later, on January 13, 2001, Laurent Kabila, President of the Democratic Republic of Congo, was assassinated by a bodyguard. Darwen, who probably thought the whole OTA prophesy nothing worthy of note, suddenly had an event strikingly similar to part of the prophecy as well contemporaneous with the revelation itself. The documentary was broadcast on TV in February, 2001, thrusting Thabion and the OTA a bit out of the shadows of "that weird group of people" and into celebrity.
All would have been well and good had they chosen to stop there. "Poke" chooses to describe himself as "the Angel Magus" who is "friendly and reserved, with a certain distance in his eyes that seemed to say `I have seen strange things'". Had they left the obvious success of the Goetic operation to speak for itself, this would have been a vastly more successful work. However, "Poke", presumably an experienced magician, seems to fall prey to the limelight and overlooks or ignores the basic premise of prophesy (that all prophesies are understood only upon the cusp of the event, or after the fact), and elects to interpret, with Brother Solomon, the cryptic revelations of the demon. Ignoring the fact that the revelation which already seemed to come to pass dealt with the DRC - treating it as a side note from Vassago to simply get their attention, or enhance their celebrity - they proceed to "expose" the true meaning of the prophesy - all of which dealt with events in or around the USA and its allies. Anyone who has cracked open any attempts at interpretation of Nostradamas' prophesies knows that interpretations of all outstanding prophesies are made to focus entirely on events to come in the USA, or on events directly affecting it. Having been given a key as to the possible true subject of the prophesy, Thabion and Solomon instead go about fitting the pegs into odd shaped holes - anything as long as the USA is the subject of Vassago's words. "Stars" and "oil" and "sons of the south/north" and "presiding ones" all become references to America and Israel, reflecting the apparent preoccupation with the "Land of the Free and Home of the Brave" and its allies in the spirit world. Hint, hint, fellas - have a look at the DRC and its history and politics of the time the prophecy was made.
Anyway, shortly after the video was released, we have the WTC attack. Thabion and Solomon, quoting "this information just had to come out" repeatedly like a mantra, create an addendum to the original, again re-interpreting what was previously so very clear, and again attempting to focus Vassago's words on the USA. This addendum was prepared in 2003, and tacked to the end of the re-mastered DVD for its issue later that year, along with a booklet thoroughly detailing Solomon's visions accompanying each of the elements of the prophesy. One would think hindsight would make the whole process more accurate, but one would be wrong.
This is all very sad, since the documented issuance of the prophecy itself on film, and the subsequent events of January 2001, make a compelling case for the potency of the operations undertaken. "Poke" has always struck me as a very modest man, often in the face of derision from both mundane observers and his magical peers. He's also quite the insightful fellow, as can be seen from the current practice of using dark mirrors in Goetic operations (he re-discovered the technique) - though his habit of re-organizing the angels of the Shemhamphorash is undeniably arrogant. Why he elects to abandon this at this point is a mystery, but he and Solomon manage to erode in the process much of the credibility they otherwise would have achieved.
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Description of Dark Mirror of Magick, 2nd Edition
On January 3rd, 2001, documentary writer/producer Wayne Darwen brought a professional T.V. news crew into the inner sanctum of The Order of the Temple of Astarte to record a remarkable phenomenon: the summoning of the ancient spirit Vassago. Early in February an edited version of Vassago's mysterious Prophecy was broadcast by the Los Angeles affiliate of a National T.V. Network, confirming that the spirit had predicted a major news event: only 13 days after the ritual had been audio-visually recorded, President Laurent Kabila of the Congo was assassinated!In this video version we show you the entire operation in sequence, exactly as it happened with no rehearsals and no retakes. Wayne Darwen also interviews the Magister Thabion (Poke Runyon) and the mystic seer Frater Solomon. Their unrehearsed answers to his probing questions leave no doubt as to the philosophical depth and spiritual power of Solomon's ancient Magick even in this modern age.
This is an entirely new and original production. In "The Magick of Solomon" video (also available from amazon) we dramatically reenacted magical rituals for instructive purposes, whereas "Dark Mirror of Magick" is the record of an actual magical operation of historical significance. We believe that this remarkable documentary will be studied and commented on for years to come.
As an additional bonus, this one hour VHS video includes a ten page booklet, "The Vassago Millennium Prophecy", in which the seer and the magician give their impressions of the meaning behind the spirit's cryptic Oracle.
This 2nd Edition of DARK MIRROR OF MAGICK (DVD version) has ten more minutes of new footage added with commentary on the Vassago Prophecy, as subsequently revealed in the following two years, plus a new prophecy from Vassago himself.
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