William Blake (28 November 1757 – 12 August 1827) was an English painter, poet and printmaker. Largely unrecognised during his lifetime, Blake is now considered a seminal figure in the history of the poetry and visual arts of the Romantic Age. Considered mad by contemporaries for his idiosyncratic views, Blake is held in high regard by later critics for his expressiveness and creativity, and for the philosophical and mystical undercurrents within his work. In 2002, Blake was placed at number 38 in the BBC's poll of the 100 Greatest Britons.[a]
The Egyptian Ogdoad (Greek "ογδοάς", the eightfold) was a set of four male-female pairs of deities worshiped in ancient Egypt. As discussed in part 37 of the 2001: A Space Odyssey analysis on this blog, Stanley Kubrick suggested the idea of of a '5 + 3' ogdoadal system. Also, in part 2 of the analysis (on this blog) of Kubrick's 1999 film, Eyes Wide Shut, it is shown that Kubrick indicates a correspondence between the four male deities of the Egyptian Ogdoad, and William Blake's four Zoas (from The Four Zoas). Blake, in his later mythology, developed an ogdoad consisting of the four Zoas and their four feminine emanations. Blake called them the Eight Immortal Starry-Ones. Kubrick takes Blake's ogdoad to be an evil one based on the idea of 'hermaphroditic' (i.e., male-female combined) evil, and Kubrick is indicating some correspondence between this ogdoad and the '5 + 3' system.
Furthermore, Kubrick believed that certain evil parties we have already mentioned (elite evil hermaphroditic Jews, etc.), desire to 'form' the '3' portion of this evil '5 + 3' ogdoad, in part by creating both the personal and the societal conditions under which dysfunctional families are generated, as symbolized by the dysfunctional family in The Shining. By virtue of the fact that Wendy wants to conceive a child with Danny, a certain evil triad is to be generated, one consisting of Wendy, Danny, and their child (the latter being called rebis, the hermaphroditic 'double thing'). Mother-son-rebis are to comprise the '3' of the eight entities in the '5 + 3' system.
The conditions under which dysfunctional families are generated are no doubt bound up with certain undesirable behavior of individuals within certain ancestral lineages, for example, histories of physical and sexual abuse across multiple generations. The evil parties have, over time, induced this kind of behavior in members of many families, via manipulation of the psyches of individual members of the public. What must also be the case is that the evil parties have manipulated our psyches such that we, the individual members of the general public, have come to see (at an unconscious level) the need to achieve psychological and spiritual completeness via the formation, within society, of an evil ogdoad. Of course, related to this would be the idea of each individual person achieving his or her own completeness via such an ogdoad within the individual psyche; for group psychology is, ultimately, the outcome of individual psychology.
a. Wikipedia, 'William Blake'. Web, n.d. URL = http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_blake.
