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The Occult Universe of David Bowie and the Meaning of “Blackstar”
In the wake of David Bowie’s death, his last album, “Blackstar”, is his swan song, an enigmatic conclusion to a career punctuated by otherworldly alter-egos and esoteric symbolism. We’ll look at the meaning of “Blackstar” in the context of David Bowie’s career.
Very few artists can boast the longevity of David Bowie in the music industry, as his career spanned over five decades and produced 28 albums. Throughout the decades, Bowie migrated from one musical genre to another, and even from one persona to another, but a constant remained: He was surrounded by an otherworldly aura.
Through his work, Bowie turned himself into a musical ‘ascended master’, a Gnostic Christ-like figure who achieved a high level of illumination and who sought to communicate a cryptic message to humanity. While many of Bowie’s eccentricities could be attributed to drugs and rock and roll, one cannot paint a complete picture of this artist without mentioning his most enduring obsession: Western occultism.
David Bowie, born as David Robert Jones in 1947, is seen by some as a sort of ‘Renaissance Man’ whose professed ‘universality’ is an attempt to show the apex of evolution by reassembling the fragmentary pieces of our society; thus, he resembles many occultists.
However unlike most occultists, Bowie has considerable wealth, critical acclaim, penetrating intelligence, and enduring good looks; he seems set to go on to even greater heights and achievements. What next, godhead? There is a Faustian/Mephistophelean element here. How else can one explain the absolute zenith of this man’s worldly trajectory? In fact, there are people who are convinced that his brobdingnagian success is not without some kind of otherworldly assistance. (…)
Nevertheless, it can not be ignored that Bowie has constructed his public persona from the various parts of the puzzle that are at the roots of modern occultism. He was summoning up some of these pieces at the early age of 16.
– Peter R. Koenig, The Laughing Gnostic – David Bowie and the Occult
Throughout his career, Bowie often turned himself into a mere vessel as he lent his body to various personas who spoke through him, often communicating messages of deep occult significance.
Bowie’s final album Blackstar is no exception. In fact, it is a “meticulously planned” final chapter of the “Book of Bowie”, one that confirms the true meaning of his work and the occult inspiration behind it. Therefore, in order to understand Blackstar, one must first understand some of his most iconic imagery.
Occult Bowie
If one had to select a quote that would aptly sum up the Occult David Bowie, it would probably be this one:
“I’m closer to the Golden Dawn
Immersed in Crowley’s uniform
I’m not a prophet or a stoneage man
Just a mortal with potential of a superman”
– Quicksand
In these four lines, Bowie reveals a source of his esoteric worldview: the secret society Golden Dawn.
“The Golden Dawn was a magical secret society, a crowning glory of the occult revival which flourished at the end of the 19th century and taught a unique blend of Jewish mysticism (called Cabbala or Kabbalah, also to be found in Bowie’s symbolism), astral travel, magic, yoga (also practiced by Bowie) and how to communicate with angels and demons. For this latter communion it was first necessary to empty the mind, to make room for the unknown to enter – something that bears a strong resemblance to Bowie’s ‘cut-up’ method of writing lyrics”.
– Ibid.
When Bowie states that he is “immersed in Crowley’s uniform”, he is referring to Aleister Crowley, the 20th Century British occultist who was a member of the Golden Dawn and a founder of the O.T.O (Ordo Templi Orientis). He was mostly known for his work in the realms of Sex Magick, Black Magick and his philosophy, the Thelema (read my full article about Crowley here).
Magick techniques have become popularised through the writings of Aleister Crowley who was once a member of the Golden Dawn, and later of the Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.), which was (and still is) deeply involved with sex–magic. The public perception of both the Golden Dawn and the Ordo Templi Orientis are pseudo–masonic organisations where the aspirant (or member) goes through stages of ceremonial initiation wearing semi–Egyptian costumes — similar to the one Bowie wore for a photo session with Brian Ward in 1971.
– Ibid.
Aleister Crowley (left) and David Bowie (right) in the inner-sleeve of the CD version of Space Oddity.
In 1976 Bowie stated:
“My overriding interest was in Kabbalah and Crowleyism. That whole dark and rather fearsome never–world of the wrong side of the brain.”
– David Bowie, from “Bowie on Bowie: Interviews and Encounters with David Bowie” by Sean Egan
In a 1983 interview, Bowie added:
“I had this more–than–passing interest in Egyptology, mysticism and the Kabbalah. At the time it seemed transparently obvious what the answer to life was. My whole life would be transformed into this bizarre nihilistic fantasy world of impending doom, mythological characters and imminent totalitarianism.”
– David Bowie, Musician, May 1983
Considering the importance of occultism in Bowie’s life, the most iconic personas of his career take on an added level of significance, a level that is reinforced in Blackstar.
Major Tom
In 1969, Bowie released Space Oddity, a single that was cleverly released only nine days before the moon-landing of Apollo II, making it the unofficial theme of this historic event. The song introduced Major Tom, an astronaut who was launched in space and whose ultimate fate remained uncertain. The song indeed finishes with the words:
“Here am I floating ’round my tin can
Far above the Moon
Planet Earth is blue
And there’s nothing I can do”
– Space Oddity
On an esoteric level, Major Tom represents the ascension of mortals towards divinity – an interpretation that is apparently confirmed in the 2015 video for the song Blackstar.
In 1972, Bowie introduces a new alter ego who instead descends to Earth from the heavens.
Ziggy Stardust
The two forms of Ziggy Stardust. Left emphasizes the one-eye sign (from the album Alladin Sane) and the other emphasizes the pineal gland, aka the third eye (from The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars).
For his fifth album, Bowie introduced the alter-ego Ziggy Stardust, an androgynous alien rock star who was sent by the “Infinites” to announce the coming of Starmen to Earth.
In Bowie’s visionary performance, civilization was going to collapse and the ‘Infinites’ would arrive. Ziggy Stardust was to announce the coming of these ‘starmen’ bringing hope. Ziggy is their prophet, the messiah who takes himself to incredible spiritual heights, and is kept alive by the devotion of his disciples. When the Starmen finally arrive, they take bits and pieces of Ziggy so they can manifest themselves as real physical beings. Eventually they tear him to pieces on stage during the performance of the song ‘Rock’n’Roll Suicide’. At the moment of Ziggy’s death, the Starmen take on his essence, and become visible.
– Ibid.
With Ziggy Stardust, Bowie embodied the archetype of the “dying god”, a savior sent from above who ends up sacrificing his life.
The androgynous nature of Ziggy Stardust occultly represents a state of a higher spiritual level. In occultism, the highest stage of illumination is achieved through the internalization of duality and the equilibrium between opposing forces – good and evil, active and passive, male and female. This concept is symbolically represented by the horned, hermaphrodite god Baphomet. It is also represented in alchemical symbolism such as the Alchemical Androgyne.
This symbol from the Turbæ Philosophorum (1750) represents a hermaphroditic figure as the accomplishment of the magnum opus. The active and passive principles of Nature were often depicted by male and female figures, and when these two principles were harmoniously conjoined in any one nature or body it was customary to symbolize this state of perfect equilibrium by the composite figure above shown.
Ziggy Stardust also embodies the opposite of the spiritual and the material worlds: While he represents a high level of spiritual illumination, he is also a bisexual, promiscuous rock star bent on heavy drug use.
Contrarily to Major Tom who ascended from Earth to the skies, Ziggy Stardust descends from the “heavens”. He is a “higher being” who takes the form of a human in order to communicate a message, not unlike Jesus Christ.
Station to Station
In 1976, Bowie released Station to Station, an album he claimed to barely remember recording, mainly due to heavy cocaine use. He even added that it was the work of “an entirely different person,”.
“Bowie himself remembers almost nothing of the album’s production, not even the studio, later admitting, “I know it was in LA because I’ve read it was”.
Despite this fact, the album dealt with heavy occult symbolism. The song Station to Station, referred to travel through the Kabbalistic Tree of Life.
“Here are we
One magical movement
from Kether to Malkuth”
– Station to Station
“Kether” and “Malkuth” are two of the 10 elements of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life — the highest and lowest parts, respectively.
If you follow the path described by Bowie above, Keter to Malkhut describes the descent from Godhead to the physical realm. The theme of “descent from the heavens” has always been at the core of Bowie’s work.
In a 1997 interview, Bowie expands on the “magickal” meaning of the song and how no mainstream sources ever addressed it.
“The “Station to Station” track itself is very much concerned with the stations of the cross. All the references within the piece are to do with the Kabbala. It’s the nearest album to a magick treatise that I’ve written. I’ve never read a review that really sussed it. It’s an extremely dark album. Miserable time to live through, I must say.”
– Q Magazine, ChangesFiftyBowie”, 1997
On the cover art of the album we find Bowie drawing the Kabbalistic Tree of Life:
Bowie drawing the Kabbalistic tree of life.
Several decades later, in 2015, Bowie is confronted with his own mortality and feels the need to offer his fans one final offering. Blackstar takes all of the elements mentioned above (and more) to create one final, enigmatic, ritualistic drama.
Blackstar
Released two days before his death, Blackstar is David Bowie’s swan song in which he wraps up the mythology he has cultivated for five decades. The video of the same name is a tapestry of dark images. At the center of it all: A human being becoming a god.
The video begins with a dead astronaut on a remote planet.
Is this Major Tom? Are we seeing his final resting place? A young girl opens the astronaut’s helmet and finds an ornate skull.
The jewel-encrusted skull represents the astronaut’s ascension into godhood.
The skull is then revered as some kind of artifact from the gods.
A “grand priestess” holds the skull between two rows of women who cannot help trembling in its presence.
Sung in the matter of an incantation, the lyrics of the first verse allude to an occult ritual:
In the villa of Ormen, in the villa of Ormen
Stands a solitary candle, ah-ah, ah-ah
In the centre of it all, in the centre of it all
Your eyes
In the video, the men and women are separated, which conveys the idea of two opposing energies (male and female). Both groups end up making us witness an indirect sex magick ritual.
On one hand, the women “assume the position”.
On the other, three crucified scarecrows (who appear to be animated by an unholy force), move their hips in a suggestive manner.
The combination of sex magick with the twisting of Christ’s crucifixion gives the video a strong “Crowleyian” direction.
In an interview, the director of the video, Johan Renck, discusses Crowley.
“Well, I’m a huge Crowley fan, I’ve always been. I tried to make a movie on his life a few years ago but we didn’t manage to put it together. I love Crowley for being an audacious man at certain point in time. I think he’s greatly misunderstood. He was a good guy, but he was portrayed as an evil man and he wasn’t.”
– Vice News, Behind “Blackstar”: An Interview with Johan Renck, the Director of David Bowie’s Ten-Minute Short Film
The name of the album itself, Blackstar, refers to an important occult concept: the Midnight Sun.
“Apuleius said when describing his initiation (vide ante): “At midnight I saw the sun shining with a splendid light.” The midnight sun was also part of the mystery of alchemy. It symbolized the spirit in man shining through the darkness of his human organisms. It also referred to the spiritual sun in the solar system, which the mystic could see as well at midnight as at high noon, the material earth being powerless to obstruct the rays of this Divine orb. The mysterious lights which illuminated the temples of the Egyptian Mysteries during the nocturnal hours were said by some to be reflections of the spiritual sun gathered by the magical powers of the priests. The weird light seen ten miles below the surface of the earth by I-AM-THE-MAN in that remarkable Masonic allegory Etidorhpa (Aphrodite spelt backward) may well refer to the mysterious midnight sun of the ancient rites.”
– Manly P. Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages
Bearing in mind Bowie’s impending death, the lyrics of the song take on a very personal meaning:
“Something happened on the day he died
Spirit rose a metre and stepped aside
Somebody else took his place, and bravely cried
(I’m a blackstar, I’m a blackstar)”
– Blackstar
Is Bowie referring to his own death? Is he referring to his spirit-less body being taken over by a Blackstar? This is yet another allusion to Bowie being “taken over” by a mysterious being who states:
I’m the Great I Am (I’m a blackstar)
“I Am that I Am” is the response God used in the Hebrew Bible when Moses asked for his name.
In the video, Bowie plays the role of three separate characters.
The “blind follower” with buttons instead of eyes. This character represents the simple, ignorant man.
The preacher propagating the “Book of Blackstar” – with dumbfounded followers behind him.
The “flamboyant trickster” who appears to have taken over Bowie’s aging body with eccentric mannerisms.
The video, therefore, depicts the several layers associated with occult knowledge. There are those who are in direct contact with its “true source” while the blind masses are fascinated by a bastardized version of it, sold by charismatic figures. David Bowie indicates that he is, simultaneously, a blind simple man and an occult initiate – a Blackstar.
Lazarus
Bowie’s final video bears the name of a significant Biblical figure: Lazarus.
“The Raising of Lazarus” by Rembrandt
In the New Testament, Lazarus died of an illness and was resurrected four days later by Jesus Christ. In the context of Bowie’s terminal illness, the title Lazarus conveys the idea of immortality, while playing with the constant idea of him being from “another world”.
In the video, Bowie plays the role of the same characters as in Blackstar.
In the role of the “blind man”, Bowie is an aging human who is physically weak, laying on his deathbed and scared of things to come.
Look up here, I’m in heaven
I’ve got scars that can’t be seen
I’ve got drama, can’t be stolen
Everybody knows me now
– Lazarus
From a dresser in the corner of the room (possibly symbolizing a portal to another dimension), emerges another Bowie, the flamboyant, eternally-young Bowie.
This Bowie is not dying – he even treats himself to few dance moves.
The costume worn by this Bowie refers to a specific relic from his past.
Bowie wears the same outfit as seen on the cover of “Station to Station” in which he is drawing the Kabbalistic Tree of Life.
As stated above, according to Bowie, this 1976 album was written “by an entirely different person”.
In Lazarus, we witness the return of this immortal being.
With theatrical mannerisms, this Bowie writes feverishly, as if animated by a higher force. Is this the source of Bowie’s inspiration throughout the years?
At one point we see the skull from Blackstar, implying that this Bowie possesses that secret occult knowledge.
Although Bowie’s mortal body succumbed to physical illness (which is the ultimate fate of all humans), another part of him lives on, that otherworldly being who took over his body throughout his career.
The video ends with occult Bowie retreating back to the dresser and closing the door.
In Lazarus, Bowie bids farewell to the physical world but reminds us that a part of him lives on … that same part of him that ascended into space as Major Tom and descended to Earth as Ziggy Stardust. This Bowie travels from the physical to the spiritual world with the same ease as he travels from “Station to Station” through the Kabbalistic Tree of Life.
In Conclusion
Although David Bowie’s career spanned several decades, produced 28 albums, and exploited all kinds of enigmatic concepts, one aspect remained constant: He projected the aura of an otherworldly being, one that did not really belong on Earth, that sometimes appeared to be either spiritually illuminated or demonically possessed.
His final album, Blackstar is a direct continuation of the “Bowie mythos”. Meticulously planned to turn his death into a work of art, the imagery of Blackstar ties together several iconic moments of Bowie’s career into one final narrative, one that confirms the extreme importance of occultism in his work.
Lazarus, Bowie’s final parting gift, conveys one important message: Bowie was a vessel to something greater, something deeper, something darker, and something more profound than most ever realized. Claiming “I am the Great I Am”, this Being gave Bowie the inspiration to become an immortal icon and lead his fans to rally behind the declaration that “Bowie is God”.
Was Bowie truly influenced by unseen occult forces or was he simply a brilliant entertainer with a penchant for dramatics? Bowie answered this question a long time ago:
“I’m closer to the Golden Dawn
Immersed in Crowley’s uniform
I’m not a prophet or a stoneage man
Just a mortal with potential of a superman”
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I tried to watch the Blackstar video. I had to mute it after a few seconds because of the dissonece of the voices. It’s very dualistic.
Also, I found the dancing of the two men and the people on the cross very other-worldly. I couldn’t watch the whole thing. Too much evil. I feel nausceous just remembering it.
Only someone who is completely spiritually blind would think this is artistic and innocent.
Pussy…..
Lara I could echo your statement word for word! Unlike you, however, I unfortunately watched the whole video. The drumbeat was unnerving as well. My stomach is in knots.
Amen I totally agree. Next time you watch a video like that you can pray after watching it and ask GOD to remove any of those spirits from that video off of you in JESUS’ Name!
What rot. Demons can’t just possess someone through listening to evil music. Stop getting your doctrine from neo-Pentecostal snake oil sellers / anecdotes from false teachers and get it instead from the Bible.
”They travel the earth, through the air an water, looking for a host to posses.”
The bible does say that possesion without His protection is imminent, even through the AIRwaves.
Jesus is a demonic parasite infecting our species. You are just as bad as the crowley followers by pushing such filth onto the masses. Christianity only exists because it ruthlessly slaughtered and gleefully tortured and brainwashed people who refused to believe such nonsense. Christians should be put to the stake (as they did the pagans) for their crimes against the species.
They preach forgiveness while cutting off your arms. All crimes will be paid back, nothing will be forgiven of the wicked and their acts will be paid for in blood and pain.
Read Acts of the Apostles, and you’ll see how the very first christians lived, interpreted their scriptures and spread the gospel. And compare it to islam, how the first muslims lived, interpreted their scriptures and spread the quran. There’s a huge difference.
Are you a sadist or something?
You are confusing Christianity with Catholicism.
you are confusing Catholicism with your hatred. Catholics are christains and they did not mass slaughter anybody. Just christians. Burned by Pagans.
Driscol~how much persecution have YOU suffered as a result of Christianity?? Yeah. That’s what I thought. I’ll agree that unspeakable things have been done in the name of “Christianity,” however, they were not true representations of Christ any more than the phony t.v. evangelists are. Anyone declaring such a murderous contempt for a percentage of humanity declares themselves a true PSYCHOPATH. Get help for your anger issues before they further manifest.
Also wanted to add that it was the *pagan* emperor Constantine that ordered the assembly & creation of The Bible, it was Constantine that conflated Christianity w/Paganism, it was Constantine that ordered the pagan construction of churches and ordered everyone to worship on a SUNday. Esther/Ishtar became Easter, Saturnalia became Christmas & Samhain became the friendlier ‘Christianized’ All Saint’s Day. Religion is corrupt & used as means of control. But, Jesus didn’t kill anyone. He was an anarchist, in that He taught principals based on Natural Law. He opposed the usurers/money changers. He challenged the established religious orders (Sadducees & Pharisees)and was killed for it. He openly associated with the outcasts of society, fed the hungry & healed people. Even if you refuse to accept Him as Christ, you declaring him a demonic parasite isn’t just obscene..it illustrates your level of comprehension or rather, lack thereof. People should be free to live as they choose, so long as they’re not harming another. I didn’t comment with the intention of proselytizing, only to address how far in error your comment was. Now, because Constantine was a pagan & used Christianity as a political move does that mean that all pagans are… Read more »
Wrong. The Jesus story has been repeated over and over since Sumeria. It is called astrotheology and is a real energy and relevant parable about the universe, ascension and apotheosis. Just because it was hijacked by Christians doesn’t negate it. In much the same way that the Third Reich didn’t invent the symbols they used, they just borrowed them for their own purposes.
https://remnanthouse.org/the-council-of-nicea-created-christianity-churchianity-and-the-name-jesus-christ/ Better late than never!! Just doing a web search & came across your reply. The truth is, Christianity was created by Constantine as a political ploy! He did the unthinkable by removing the holy, set apart name of the Most High as well as the true name of the Messiah & Christians have unknowingly been praying, praising and honoring the Usurper! What you commented about pertaining to astrotheology is true, but that’s only because Constantine merged all pagan cults with the holy Scriptures! Messiah, Yahusha is indeed very *real* and his life, fulfillment of Scripture and sacrifice has ZERO to do with Astrotheology!! For those possibly reading this comment, you really need to read the linked article & not allow the title to deter you from real truth(!) Then, go and research it further(!) English version Bibles are corrupt and you should look for a YAHUAH BIBLE (Restored Names) or search out Paleo-Hebrew Scripture. As for you, Joeb, I truly hope the article helps to clarify ‘what’ happened. Syncretism is the means by which Constantine merged all pre-existing cults together under the umbrella of Christianity. Replacing the Sabbath for SUNday worship & the holy feasts for pagan holidays! ‘Lord,’… Read more »
When you think about it, Christianity is just a Middle Eastern doomsday cult filled with blood magic rituals…
Calling on powers of the blood of their god to wash away the sins that their god created. Truly fascinating.
That presumes that they EXIST. “They” do not exist. It’s all nonsense. We are living on a moderately sized planet circling a nondescript star in its green zone. That star itself resides in the outer spiral arm of a rather modest galaxy among the billions and hundreds of billions of galaxies in the observable universe.
That is NOT to say that there are no spiritual beings, energy/etheric beings actually make sense as a part of a quantum reality. BUT those beings have nothing to do with the bible (sic) – as it, along with all other period religious texts are factually wrong and in constant conflict with themselves and each other. They are not going to be compelled by shouting the names of beings you worship at them and they are not going to be “cast out” if they have a method of getting “in” and want to be there. If they don’t, which I think rather likely, then they don’t.
But the myth set? It’s almost entirely false and the Bible is just sad as a supposedly verbally inspired book from a superbeing who created all of this – so please, grow up and stop.
so you have tried occultism have you??
Eternity is a long time to be wrong!
We are spiritual beings in a temporary physical state.
When this temporary state ends the simple logic engendered by your apparently limited ability to understand anything beyond your flesh will determine your eternal destination.
Spiritually is a side effect of self consciousness, and a pretty pretentious one it is indeed, if it is used to define us as supreme – non wordly – beings in a temporary – human – state. The idea stems of escapism resulting from the fear of being. The fear of the realisation that life is temporary and not endless. It is a mechanism to soothe the mind’s realisation of the complexity of life as a self-aware being. Spirituality wants to seek answers to questions, and those answers can unfortunately be debated, hence the horrors humans inflict to ine another, since we cannot agree on those answers. By focusing and entering a spiritual state of mind, one transcends away into a distance from reality, to enter an observational state of one’s own being and that of the others. That distance is created by putting to rest the daily worries that are necessary to sustain the living state, in order to seek meaning. The ability to do so is a luxury: if we as himans were to survive as animals, the mind wouldn’t let us 1) be self aware 2) seek meaning of life. We’re blessed and cursed by the fact… Read more »
Just hope you never wonder into a museum……No wonder what one might encounter there! Please go back and watch some Mr. Rodgers and real House wives of where ever, eat some hamburger helper and read your Christian Bible. It will all be OK…… just don’t think…….drink the kool-aid.
@Leigh I’m kinda thirsty here wish you had saved me some koolaid but you drank it ALL. Sheeple you!
I’ve WANDERed into plenty of museums, everything from art to natural history to modern science and tech. In fact, I used to volunteer at the McKinley Museum at the McKinley National Monument, before I moved away. You can still find my name on a volunteer of the year award plaque there though. God gave us brains. I tend to use mine. I grew up on Mr. Rogers. He taught some valuable lessons, some of which you could still stand to learn. I don’t watch the “real” housewives, as I am a housewife, and there is nothing real about them. I also don’t serve hamburger helper to my family either. Isn’t there MSG in that, along with a laundry list of other preservatives? The Bible isn’t required reading, so I don’t know what you have against it, but I am plenty cultured, so thanks for asking.
Right on Deborah!
Mischaracterization is an easy way of dismissing a point of view. The scriptures are constantly exhorting us to think about our actions and consequences. Some of the great scientific minds in history believed in the Christian God; Nicholas Copernicus, Sir Francis Bacon, Johannes Kepler, Galileo Galilei, Blaise Pascal, Isaac Newton, Robert Boyle, Michael Faraday, William Thomson Kelvin, Max Planck.
The beauty of Bowie’s music is that it’s never been innocent.You obviously don’t get it…
He ‘got it’ exactly right; Bowie chose to give his life to the dark lord and was richly rewarded for it, for a life’s work of deceiving the masses into the secret society type influence of hidden darkness; is art brilliant when it is ‘programmed’ into you from the ‘channel’ you live by
There is no “dark lord” — of all the things in the Abrahamic religions, nothing is more nonsense in the latter versions (Christianity, Islam and Mormonism) than the idea of a “dark lord” — In the myth set that birthed all of these things, Satan was, at most, a lawyer whose JOB It was to advocate against G_d. Go ahead, ask a Jewish rabbi if I’m not right.
With all due respect, everything that you wrote Tommy is utter nonsense.
Read the Od Testament. It is sicker than this video.
The story would be much sicker for everyone if there was no Israel and Christ.
You do not know that, neither do I.
Hermers
The movements of the people are based on the original Popeye cartoons. Yeah, its that innocent.
Hmmm. I wonder if its a coincidence that demonically possessed people also feel nauseous when confronted with the word of God or any other Truth or goodness. I cant imagine that a mere music video could make any spiritually strong person physically sick. Maybe it was your demons being cast out by great music?
Hmmm. It seems that you have never heard of great music.
‘demons blind and deaf’ – true.
No ‘demonically possessed people” come from cultures that teach them that “demonic possession” happens. Therefore when they are psychologically damaged and it is blamed on demons, they react to the things that the mental construct that they have learned says they should. It’s that simple really. Yes, I’ve been on treatment teams. You’d be amazed what treatment rather than witchdoctory (disguised as something else because… modern religion, right?) does for those who are sadly, ill mentally.
Reyn,
Try visiting an established paranormal hot-spot & perhaps you get the opportunity to experience ‘psychological manifestations’ you’ll have to explain away.. IF only life were that simple. You’re narrow-minded &/or well programmed.
totaly agree
Thank you, someone with common sense!!! Who doesn’t see real Satanic rituals on this video??? This isn’t just art, this is real.
No more than “Satan” is real – which is to say, not at all.
Reyn~Rosalyn meant Luciferian. Oh, but wait! All of these prolific writers, artists, occultists (that of course doesn’t include high level politicians and world figures that outwardly profess one religion, while secretly practicing another) all professing their dedication to a Being that doesn’t exist?! You’re hilarious!!
amazing article.
To me, he was just a mere mortal man. Man wastes time seeking approval of each other, but who they should really seek approval of is God’s.
amen sister
The “all knowing” Christian God knew Man would waste time before God even made man because God is “all knowing,” and yet God made Man anyway knowing this. If God really wanted Man to seek God, God would of “all knowingly” made Man do so. BTW the Bible was written by Man. Just in case you didn’t know that.
No, the purpose is for man to rise above his own imperfection. People who know little on the subject of Christianity seem to think that God is a puppeteer who makes our lives play out as if following a script. The biggest gift is the power of reason, which it is up to us to use wisely; to make the right decision. For God to plan things to the “T” and mankind to just follow the script faithfully defies the whole point. Very common misconception these days though.
Thank you for clarifying that God is NOT “All Knowing” which means he is also not ALL Powerful and Always Present either. Cheers
You’re lost and clearly confused. Just because God knows that you’re stupid, doesn’t mean He’ll interfere in the choices that you choose to make with your stupidity, because YOU made those choices. So when things go wrong, God is there waiting for you admit that you’re wrong and then help you correct it. He in fact IS all knowing. And ever present. Entire purpose of the free will that He gives you, is to give you the chance to seek and find HIM. So when you choose not to and instead do stupid things like try and disprove what His word says about His character, you push yourself deeper and deeper into that Godless abyss you’re sinking into. Where you come to conclusions like “God is not all knowing.”
Oh, but you are You know enough and have enough brain power up there in that vapid head of yours to confidently call the Creator of the Universe a farse.
That’s cute.
What did babies do wrong to be cursed under “Original Sin”? What did all the people who died in the Holocaust do wrong? Could you explain the greater good there? Would you say “God’s ways are not Man’s ways”?
If there’s something worth seeking there, i’m afraid you’ll have to provide an answer to the Argument from Evil. Otherwise i fear you may be preaching to the choir.
key, you can’t blame God for everything. Man has free will. You really think God is responsible for those tragedies? He would make people to have them suffer? You’re blaming the wrong one, here.
Does man have free will? No one can control were we are born, when we are born, who our parents are, and what tragedies and great luck we may have throughout life. I think free will is concept with no basis. We can make the best of the hand dealt. But for many the game is rigged.
In my many years of traversing the rabbit hole of truth, I have come to this, which resonates with my inner self/my heart and soul. What we think of as reality is nothing more than an illusion and quantum physics is proving this to be true more and more every day. Love is the only truth, everything else is illusion, so we choose to incarnate in this illusory simulation that we erroneously believe to be real in order to grow, learn and evolve spiritually. This experience on earth is more or less a dream, albeit a hyper realistic one, where when we die we simply wake up from said dream. When you study up on many ancient cultures, the native Americans, shamanism, they all are similar with regard to the fact that when we die we go home, or wake up from the dream. The pain and suffering you see on this planet is very real from our perspective as humans, and must be stopped, but it is still illusory. I could go on and on, but will stop here and let you find your own path to truth. Just remember, if atoms are 99.999% empty space, how is it… Read more »
You can’t believe in God and good while claiming their is no evil.
‘born into sin’ literally means—you r born into a Lucifer Matrix.
“What did babies do wrong to be cursed under “Original Sin”?”
That’s a false doctrine, which unfortunately crept into a particular faith which listened to the wrong source.
What bullshit you are the joke
I think you are just mad at God. You are blaming him for all the things that went completely wrong in your life.
Yes if there is a god ” he” is a blood thirsty, genocidal, maniac with no sense of fairness. The Bible is the bloody, testament to his sadistic soul.
Gravity is also not all powerful and always present either. I don’t know how much it knows though.
God knows everything (1 John 3:20). He knows not only the minutest details of our lives but those of everything around us, for He mentions even knowing when a sparrow falls or when we lose a single hair (Matthew 10:29-30). Not only does God know everything that will occur until the end of history itself (Isaiah 46:9-10), but He also knows our very thoughts, even before we speak forth (Psalm 139:4). He knows our hearts from afar; He even saw us in the womb (Psalm 139:1-3, 15-16). Solomon expresses this truth perfectly when he says, “For you, you only, know the hearts of all the children of mankind” (1 Kings 8:39).
The “all knowing” Christian God knew I’d write this before I typed it out.
Indeed he did.
So, we are basically just his little experiment in free will then? Is he just watching and waiting to see what happens? But, that can’t be the case because as ‘Hmmm’ pointed out above:
“Not only does God know everything that will occur until the end of history itself (Isaiah 46:9-10), but He also knows our very thoughts, even before we speak forth (Psalm 139:4”)
When I apply the biggest gift given to us (reason) to Christianity it just contradicts itself all ovr the place.
no, you’re not an experiment in free will, you are child of God in a probationary state to see if you can learn to exercise your own will righteously.
God exercises self restraint ; man indulges in egoic compulsions of control over others because he lacks self restraint.
AMEN to ALL that!
Why do married couples have children when they know they are going to be expensive, bratty, break things, time consuming, emotional, etc? Because it’s all worth it.
if God wanted robots to guarantee his worship, he would have made them.
It’s quite elementary.
Humans only need seek approval of their true inner selves – that is where God lives…
Humanism misleads as bad as religions who “think” they know it all. Like scientists don’t know the universe. We need to admit we don’t know “God.” Then perhaps we would fear and revere appropriately, and not treat the earth and all its creatures like a man made hell.
The Tao te Ching has a similar sentiment: He who says he knows, doesn’t know. He who says he doesn’t know, knows.
I don’t see Humanism as misleading, except if it assumes humanity is the “top” or “best” organism around. For all our progress, we still have war with others as well as with ourselves.
So did Tching know or or not?
That is not profound. That is confused.
You get what you focus on there is no other main rule.
No one will be able to share your perspective (Inner or otherwise) about reality. Therefor there are that many Earth’s. After you are done wrapping your head around that and moving through the struggle you will realize I AM has sent you.
The Way is coming back.
Blackstars are black sheep ! When you reveal (betray) Who is whom, they will throw the facts of life at you. Stone you with them.
For those who have the understanding with the eyes and ears, let them understand that the only sin is missing the mark.
The mark of not creating. Deliberately. The kind of creation that is built without hands.
You get what you focus on. Thoughts, beliefs, the magnet of emotions.
Mine mine mine! Say the three scarecrows upon the cross/burdens of the struggle with such weight. One that all must bare and bear.
I look forward to Christmas.
Absolutely beautifully spoken!
Be a Deist, then …like your Founding Fathers.
very few of whom were actually Deist, less than 1.5 percent actually professed any sort of Deism, theologically. The rest were members of various non-Deistic Christian faiths, John Jay was founder of the American Bible Society , for example.
Religion isn’t bad. Religious people teach love, serve others… Bowie was against religions, because he was a pedophile, and a murderer. The truth will come out soon!
David Bowie wore his father’s crucifix all the time, even on camera and on stage. He only took it off when he was acting in films. Bowie was a thinker and because he was a visual artist, he explored humanity and the thoughts of humanity, and expressed his inner arguments visually and in music. That’s what artists do. They present an argument, but rarely conclusions. Their whole point is to make you think, not give you answers.
BTW: all us young kids growing up in London dabbled in the esoteric. there was one esoteric shop and we read all the books, read Crowley, drew circles. All Bowie’s comments on this are in the past tense (as shown above). The esoteric was just something else to explore and think about. Bowie grew out of it, as I did.
Bowie’s preferred philosophy was buddhism which he carried with him throughout his life. He had a zen master in Tokyo where he visited regularly. He questioned religions, and as he faced death he questioned their veracity in the Blackstar video. He was commenting on humanity, not himself.
Most of what is written here is libel and slander.
Yes, Jesse… and that’s what David Bowie was about
Well said!!! Amen to that!
careful, those words can be twisted by a psychopath inferring good men do nothing … allowing evil to triumph.
“Not only does God know everything that will occur until the end of history itself (Isaiah 46:9-10), but He also knows our very thoughts, even before we speak forth (Psalm 139:4”
It would be in Gods plan if evil were to triumph. Considering God made evil along side good.
be careful now.
The psalms were written by mortal men who claim to know / be illuminated / of the mind of God?
Solomon used demons to build the temple mount stones?
The David Bowie’s and Crowley of their time? but it’s ok for them? wow! twist twist twist.
And You “know” the Bible God may plan for evil to triumph vs. the Koran or the Hindu or the Maya God? wow no wonder we have war with no end.
Your statement shows how little you know about world religion.
Enjoy the weather up on the mountain!!!
@Z-Truth: “And You “know” the Bible God may plan for evil to triumph vs. the Koran or the Hindu or the Maya God? wow no wonder we have war with no end.”
Don’t be a fool. From ancient times until to today, the majority of wars are fought over resources, territory, and/or politics. Even when I was still agnostic, I was WELL aware of this fact. Heck in WW1, around 35 MILLION people were killed and if you have even a modicum of knowledge of history, you know that that war had zero to do with any religion (compare to the Crusades that people love to mention, which only had 3 million casualties). So if you want to end wars, get rid of the avaricious people who steal other nations’ wealth, resources, and territory for (more) power/political gain.
If you want to get more perspective on this, then I highly suggest that you get “Encyclopedia of Wars” by Charles Phillips and Alan Axelrod. Expensive but worth it for the amount of incredibly detailed info you receive!
Pretty good post, why are all of these Evangelicals posting on a Bowie song I mean demons and all kind of shit might infect them as they expose themselves to actual “ideas”. Why the hell do they care what Bowie thought, since they have all the answers and know the “real truth”.
We care, because some of us were victims of his evil. There’s a lot people hide, but as it did with Jimmy Savile, the truth always comes out some day.
Energia~sorry to break the news to ya so late in your life, but ALL the wars for the past 150+ years have been manufactured by the Rothschilds! They create the conflicts, offer their solutions and finance all sides (w/avg individual being worth an est. $100,000). Stalin, Hitler and Mao were all bastard-offspring. I highly recommend you research Rothschild’s history and genealogy to obtain a more thorough understanding & more accurate depiction of world history.
Wow a good one, your God must love suffering and war, probably drinks blood for fun.
@Z-Truth:
“The psalms were written by mortal men who claim to know / be illuminated / of the mind of God?”
Where EXACTLY did you find that? Sounds like someone’s taking scriptures out of context.
“Solomon used demons to build the temple mount stones?”
No need to go any further. It REALLY shows your lack of knowledge and wisdom when you use pseudepigraphs as a source to discredit the Bible.
“The David Bowie’s and Crowley of their time? but it’s ok for them? wow! twist twist twist.
Refer to my comments above.
It reminds me of the Tachyon machine/projector in Future World. be careful what prophecy you believe.
The Judeo-Christian god Yahweh is also quoted in Isaiah as the creator of Evil.
Not trying to argue, just trying to express we must take the good with the bad or what’s good for the goose should be for the gander as well, etc etc..
man attempts to understand “God”. i think a supreme being would know we can’t know its mind, and be understanding and decent about judging our ineptitude, but can we survive ourselves? we should value each other’s welfare and act together in mutual accord, not defer to a supposedly predestined nihilistic fate. until proven otherwise.
I can’t even understand what my wife is thinking half of the time. How the hell am I supposed to understand what god is thinking?
True Christianity is not about attempting to know or understand God. Christianity is about faith and knowing their is a savior. This article is a great example of how a guy born in the 1940s (pre-internet, media, etc) was duped into believing occultic beliefs. These occultic beliefs are running rampant now where it seems more obvious. No self-fulfilling prophecy here.
Please share that scripture. I have never read that.
if monotheism is true, a single god HAS to be the creator of Good AND Evil … who else would be there, to do it. That’s why bible thumpers had to invent Satan, in true monotheism, this would be blasphemy.
keykrazy~that is incorrect. First, what you are referring to is a quote from KJV, which was written by Freemasons and intentionally mistranslated/corrupted to serve their purpose/agenda. Second, “Judeo-Christian” is an oxymoron/misnomer, as Judaism is directly opposed to Christianity!
Not attacking you or attempting to provoke an argument, only to inform you that ‘what’ you stated is patently FALSE. Please, don’t accept my word as fact~research it for yourself!
God did not “make evil”. God made creatures with free will who rebelled against him and from whom evil was born. “This is the message we have heard from him and declare to you: God is light; in him there is no darkness at all.” 1 John 1:5
God didn’t create man, evolution did.
God Designed evolution.
OK, how weak is that argument used to use it when I was a 20 something preacher. Do you really think Genesis is true?
Lol…I ignorant….sad soul….sad….
Isaiah 45:7 I form the light, and create darkness: I make peace, and create evil: I the LORD do all these things.
Darkness as night. God created night and day, not darkness as evil.
Deidre~you are quoting the KJV which was written by FREEMASONS. You’re being deceived. Please research it for yourself: King James was a Freemason, as was Francis Bacon & others that contributed to the Bible’s (intentional) mistranslations.
He did not make it! But he has used it and allowed it for his purposes! It is a testing process
Still a great artist and overall good person and it’s sad that he died. Cancer is a bitch.
A good person??????????????????????????????????????????????????? You obvisouly don’t know him
Where exactly does God live again? In the Kingdom of God? And where exactly is the Kingdom of God?
Why its within you.
Ye are as gods!
And saw that it was good. And not a moment sooner.
When what *you* see is good, when what *you* feel is good, you will change the world.
He was a mortal possessed by demons that sang through him. Hence he couldn’t remember recording the songs himself. End of story. Now those demons have left his body and live on, as he has died. Hence why bowie ‘lives on’ supposedly.