The Rocketeer

Let all the dreamers wake the nation.

Well here it is September already again, time for another Twin Towers post!

I visited La Conner on Labor Day - a little seaside tourist trap north of Seattle. Wandering into a nautically themed gallery, I find two '30's vintage airship models hovering over the arched entryway - one being the Hindenburg (see The Hindenburg Stargate Ritual) and the other being a Gee Bee Model R, red and white, No. 11.

The Gee Bee (short for Granville Brothers Aircraft Co.) was a 1930's race plane, and the stubby (phallic?) style has always fascinated me. It was a notorious pilot killer, and a Gee Bee crash (painted hornet black and yellow) creates the opening scene of the 1991 Disney/Touchstone sci-fi adventure film The Rocketeer, starring Billy Campbell as the protagonist.

Bill Campbell has lots of gay cred, having played gay doctor Jon in the TV miniseries adaptation of Armistead Maupin's San Francisco opus: Tales of the City. Doctor Jon dies of complications from AIDS. He also played one of Steven Carrington's lovers in Dynasty, so he's a bit like Heath Ledger - a gay archetype.

Look close: on the hanger "Big Wow" is the DeLorean stargate symbol.

Howard Hughes (double H) makes a few appearances in The Rocketeer, one of the stranger American Icons. Hughes, founder of RKO Pictures and Hughes Aircraft, was truly a Golden Age 'Prince of the power of the air'. An industrialist tycoon, he reminds me of any number of Bond villains (Hugo Drax?). Most Bond villains seem to be channeling the Noah archetype. Hughes leveled several old growth forests in order to build HIS ark: the H-4 Hercules, AKA the Spruce Goose (see In the Shadow of Giants for more about Herc) . The Goose was the largest airplane ever built at the time, and made entirely of WOOD!

Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch. --Genesis 6:14

Hughes was born in HUMBLE, Texas (in HARRIS County), died in HOUSTON, so we have H's buzzing around like Hornets. Howard spent several years holed up in the DESERT INN Hotel in Las Vegas, entombed like a Pharaoh in the New World GIZA. Egyptian myth has Ra traversing the heavens in a solar BOAT, and the Spruce Goose was a FLYING BOAT.

Interestingly, leftover wood from the ARK project was used to build a 36' racing catamaran in 1962 - Toru. Catamarans signify the H and solar wind power, so yet another Chariot of the Gods. Strangely, this cat sat in mothballs for decades, in a Vancouver CA hanger, finally sold last year.

Vancouver is synchromystic Hollywood, with everything from the X-Files to Babylon 5 filmed there. Vancouver is the "twin city" of Seattle, and in movies it is frequently employed as Seattle's "double" - just swap the license plates.

Which brings me back around to the Rocketeer - Billy Campbell. Bill also played JORDAN Collier in The 4400, yet another apocalyptic vision of human evolution. The show was filmed in Vancouver, but set in mythical Seattle. Jordan is the self-proclaimed Savior of humanity, and his "vehicle of ascension" is a neurotransmitter called PROMICIN. Seattle is renamed Promise City - another moniker for Zion, and the home of the 44,000.

Then I looked, and there before me was the Lamb, standing on Mount Zion, and with him 144,000 who had his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads. --Revelations 14:1

By the second season, it is revealed that all 4400 have a neurotransmitter called promicin in their brains, which gives them their powers. The government, afraid of what this large group would do with such political power, secretly doses all 4400 with a promicin-inhibitor. The inhibitor causes a potentially fatal immune deficiency as a side effect in the returnees. --wikipedia

Hmmmm. A "potentially fatal immune deficiency".

Jordan is the River Jordan that flows due south to Jerusalem, the Promised Land. The Hudson River is the New World Jordan, flowing to New Jerusalem.

Let The River Run was the Carly Simon hit written for the film Working Girl, starring Grail Seeker Harrison Ford and Melanie Griffith. It was filmed in WT 7, and the Gee Bee shows a 7 along with the 11.

"Working Girl" is slang for prostitute, which syncs up with Mary Magdalene (MM) as well as the Sole Survivor from the Battle of Jericho. Jericho (the CBS dystopian drama) is threatened by the 'Hudson River Virus' - according to government propaganda.

Carly crosses the Hudson River in a boat - the Staten Island Ferry - heading for the Twin Towers. She anticipates my own pilgrimage to New Jerusalem (read Pilgrim's Progress). Like Carly, I was ferried across the Hudson/Jordan to New Jerusalem, the only difference being that for my crossing, the twin towers had become a twin-hulled commuter catamaran.

In The Rocketeer, Billy doesn't just FLY a plane, he BECOMES one. Looking at his Vehicle of Ascension (the rocket pack), we find it also resonating the twin motif: two rocket tubes joined by a circular hole - creating an H, and archetype of the HOLY GRAIL and her TWIN guardians. The Rocket Pack = Twin Towers = Catamaran = Notre Dame = H.

I suspect the River Jordan is allegory for the flow of Divine Energy - from the "headwaters" of the Pineal Gland on down, to pool in the "Twin Lakes" and finally rocket out - through the "River Delta".

The AIDS epidemic successfully halted the flow, dammed up by an army of Trojan engineers. But the River will not be denied. The dam is cracking...

We're coming to the edge, Running on the water, Coming through the fog, Your sons and daughters.

Let the river run, Let all the dreamers Wake the nation. Come, the New Jerusalem.