Principles of Solomonic Governance

In the Testament of Solomon, the famous seals are used in a way often not understood by vulgar interpreters of the Solomonic tradition. Not as scepters or as talismans, the seals are utilized by being put upon those which they control. Solomon throws his ring upon the demon, forcing it to be bound by its wearing, where he then commands the demon to do the same, throwing the ring upon Beelzebub and thus granting Solomon control over the king of all demons and unclean things, in order to construct Jerusalem.

One leaking-out through the hole of the unclosed magic circle identified by McKinney is in Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields, a double exposure of the same image. Sgt. Pepper’s band took on the hippie escapism, an ultimately romanticist exercise in privilege, the same hippie retreat into literacy and culture available only through their class. Penny Lane provides a path and a way for the underclass, beneath the drugged out isolation of Sgt. Pepper’s, a life of mediocrity, wage-patterns and proletarian consumption. The hole was unfixed and things returned to normal. The underclass resumed the same dreams of contentment of the 1950s, the New Left faded and failed into the emptiness of the unclosed socialist totality, and the hippies continued in a modified form of the same aristocratic escapism they had been born into centuries back. David Bowie emerged in the late 1970s triumphant as the Thin White Duke, “fortune evasive and shy” firmly in his grasp, astride his horse over strawberry fields, proclaiming with icy confidence that “nothing is real”.

What rejects Pink and puts him on trial when he returns with New Left fury against bourgeois society in the Run Like Hell/Waiting for the Worms, attacking them for all their failed morality and promising a violent truth instated against their hedonism? The same engines of Obli-Di, Obli-Da, mediocrity’s patterns of existence, skipping Revolution 9 as the White Album plays in the background of afternoon tea.

Much has been made of Masonic ritual lurking in the background of American government and the WASP blue-bloods. The purpose of all this is seen in the original nature of Solomonic Magic. The seals are applied, like cattle brands, upon the “unclean beasts” in order to yoke their energies towards the higher end of building Jerusalem. The seals offer a text of sublimation of libidinal energies. This is the nature of “life goes on” in Penny Lane, Obli-Di, etc. The underclass is trapped within ritual-circles, where all their personhood is enslaved through the usage of signs and occult patterns, thus plugging all their energies into higher ends, those of the aristocratic upper class, who build peace and life out of the unclean and primitive savagery of nature.

So what lies behind the eye atop the pyramid? Jerusalem’s etymology “place of peace” reveals its inverse. Retiring from their governance, the ruling class returned to literature, to writing, to art. The leftist has a vendetta against art and sexuality in tacit recognition of this. Uncleanliness purged out, the Thin White Duke is able to exist in peace from uncleanliness and bestiality, a place of hallucination and philosophy, where nothing is real, tangerine trees and marmalade skies.