43:03 Wow, man. I had no idea that these simple seeming spy movies were just so deep beneath the surface and...I love the stories of Crowley and those references and his connection to Ian Fleming is super interesting Some of my favorite Crowley stories are these rituals to contact higher entities It's pretty far out there And i'm curious have you ever participated in a type of contact ritual being a 32nd degree mason does this ever come up? No, I've been asked this before. Have I ever done any sort of evocation or anything like that? No no, I never have! I've never participated in it but i am sort of of the belief that...I do believe there is something to this material. I do not believe that these rituals and these Enochian and you know evocations and Goetia style rituals should be taken lightly
43:53 I do believe there is something to it, so I have always urged people not to participate in this unless they really know what they're doing or they really know what they're getting into. But I know, to answer your question, I've never participated in any sort of John D-like scrying ritual or evocation, Galatian magic... anything like that but I'm not one to take it lightly. I do believe there is something to this material and i've never participated in it, but um... I am very wary of it and would kind of a demolish a person not not to do it unless they really knew what they were doing but know Greg I have never participated on in anything like that
44:29 I'm very curious and i'm kind of like you, I feel like I should be pretty prepared if I was going to do something because I just like to get that personal validation that there is something intelligent out there in a non-physical form that can communicate with you but uh... You gotta be careful because a lot of times people who have made this contact talk about these entities' desire to deceive And it gets pretty hairy, but I'd like to know there was something there. So someday maybe I'll put in the effort to get it all right and get all my ducks in a row and try to contact something." Yeah, I've heard horror stories on this and coming from people who you know are not just people who are just making up stuff. I've heard stories of people who have tried to combine yoga with royal archmasonry and wound up invoking a demon. I've heard people who get drunk on a Friday night go around with this material then the next thing you know you got some sort of Enochian demon hanging around
45:27 Yeah, yeah. Not good basically and it's the sort of thing where I've never participated in anything like this so I don't think I really want to but I generally admonish people not to try this stuff not to take it lightly if you are going to do it my advice is make sure you damn well know what the hell it is you're doing because on this this stuff can turn very dangerous very quickly I'm told Wow, yeah. That's interesting that you've talked to some people that have had those negative experiences Do you think there is anything positive to be gained from trying this kind of stuff? Because generally the attitude is almost always Be careful something bad can happen do you think anything good can happen well the idea behind this all is and this goes back to like Renaissance Kabbalists
46:12 and magicians who were invoking these entities the idea behind it whether whether you believe it's good or bad is that if you're invoking these demons for wisdom and even if your invoking a demonic entity and your invoking it to gain wisdom and insight and you know you know thats ok theres really no harm in that The problem with this is some of these entities, you know they're very mercurial. You have to know what it is you're doing that like you said they can trick you and you have to give these things a license to depart otherwise they may want to stick around and then of course you get the idea that on the missile courses the whole john d doctor faust a story that these guys are seeking wisdom for personal gain which is a no-no again this is the doctor foust is john you know do who's john b basically is trying to gain sight you're trying to get inside all the mysteries of the universe
47:00 The idea is that by invoking these demonic and angelic entities, people think oh well you know it's an angel so that's a good thing. If you read the works of these guys the angelic beings can actually be more harmful than the demonic beings. Yeah, if you're gonna invoke an angel and especially one of the archangels these things are more deadly than the demons. The demons don't really mind talking to you because they kind of like the interaction but I mean if you're invoking one of these godlike archangels basically things have better things to do with their time and frown upon humanity These things don't like humanity
47:37 creation that these things can become very jealous of, so the demonic entity can actually be more beneficial than the archangel who can be very vicious. So you know, you read stories about this... I guess there can be some benefits to it but yeah, if you read all the accounts they always seem to wind up with bad effects and negative happenings. That always seems to be the case at any rate. So yeah, I kind of always admonish people not to do it! Man, it's so interesting to me. I'm very very curious Getting back to the symbolism a little bit What do you think the main reason reasons are for putting this in movies? Are these filmmakers just trying to pay tribute to The Lodge or are they trying to appeal to something in our subconscious like a type of visual nicotine maybe a little bit of both