"Childhood's End" and the NWO

Karellen from Childhood's End miniseries

I read Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke when I was a wee lad. I was probably only in middle school, maybe 7th grade, so after a few decades, all I remembered about the story was the creepy transformation of the children and their ascent into space, so I am not sure how faithfully the SyFy miniseries tracks the themes of the book.

Childhood's End relies on the themes in the book Hamlet's Mill: the end of an age and the metaphorical destruction of the prior era. The series Under the Dome and the SyFy series Battlestar Galactica, which is referenced in the opening sequence of Childhood's End,  follow the same theme. Some of the actors in Childhood's End play a parallel character in other series. Karellen is played by Charles Dance, who played Tywin Lannister in The Game of Thrones. Mike Vogel plays Barbie in Under the Dome and Ricky Stormgren in Childhood's End.

Childhood's End might provide some insight into the myths and religious ideas underlying the "New World Order" and provides some insight into how world "leaders" imagine themselves, that is as agents of evolution of human consciousness, rather than destructive parasites. As agents of this evolution, they possibly believe they have license to destroy the prior order.

I think it's really a feasible theory that Communism is a religion with roots in equinox precession mythology. The slaughter of Russians by the Bolsheviks and the atrocities of the Cheka were not just the action of a vicious pack of atheistic killers, but actually had a religious motive. Their religion, though wasn't Christian, or Jewish. It was, perhaps, an extremist, literal interpretation of the mystery religion component of Masonry. (See: In the Shadow of Hermes for this interpretation of Masonry) Perhaps the commies are actually millenarians or maybe Great Age-arians. Marx wrote: "It must not only conquer a new world, it must also perish in order to make a room for the people who are fit for a new world"

In Childhood's End the movie's equivalent of the NWO is depicted as unwitting agents of this cosmic transformation. They are the idle, effete wealthy, lizard-like wine tasting aristocrats. With the help of the demon goat Karellen, maybe a Capricorn/Saturn/Devil fusion, they usher in a Golden Age, that is, the age of Saturn, which the real-world NWO seems to interpret politically as a communist utopia. In the utopia, people are strictly supervised and live like children in a garden of plenty. The opposite world is depicted in "New Athens" where people live as adults and art and culture still thrive, but society still has problems, politics, and crime.

In Childhood's End, the prior age ends with the pre-scheduled destruction of the Earth and the extinction of the human race. In Under the Dome the destruction of the Earth is a fraud and the agents of change are actually insect-like beings that attempt to usher in an insect-like hive colony world. (cf the Borg from Star Trek)

The equinox precession mythology might be the basis of the real religion of the people in the western world who attempt to shape political and economic events. They, perhaps, believe the apparent rotation of the constellations relative to the March Equinox is very significant and that new modes and orders are required when the Great-Age calendar page flips. They try to divine this order by listening to the stars.

Celestrial Geography

I'm just now getting my mind wrapped around the rather slippery concepts of astro-mythology. The book Hamlet's Mill has been a valuable resource to explore this topic. David Mathisen's blog and his books are another valuable resource.

The basic kernel of astro-mythology is that celestial events have corresponding representations as characters and (fictional) geographical places. More importantly, there's a systematic logic to the poetical language that's used in their description. In theory, the poetic language could be translated to dreary scientific language, or even numbers--like dates and times and star positions.

Hamlet's Mill points out that the poetic language of the classical mythology renders dates, that is time, as geography, that is, space. This is one of the more confusing aspects of the subject. However, the following picture, I think (from this excellent website) helps to clarify.

The apparent journey of the sun and the apparent journey of the constellations through the sky over the years can be described with a handful of concepts: The ecliptic, the celestial equator, the solstices and the equinoxes, and precession of the equinoxes.

The symbolic furnishings of a Masonic lodge seem to allude to these points. The pillars are, perhaps the winter and summer solstices. The floor is often black and white checkerboard pattern, and could symbolize the equinoxes (equal parts night and day). Alternative, the pillars and floor can be thought of as a measuring device.

Another major symbol all over the world is the cross. The cross in the context of celestial geography is the crossing of the Sun above or below the celestial equator. I believe this is symbolized in Under the Dome by the chasm into the underworld of the confusingly named town of Zenith--perhaps similar to the Egyptian underworld duat.

Barbie prepares to Descend

It's also symbolized by the return to Chester's Mill through a Red Door... I think. Perhaps the fall and spring equinoxes? Giant shrug. 

The Red Door --- Open It

When the characters return to Chester's Mill, the end up in the water. (Think of the opening scene of The Bourne Identity) Interestingly, the subject of "Under the Dome" seems to be the precession of the equinoxes, which is the subject of Hamlet's Mill. 

I'm currently trying to decide the direction of the symbolism. Being "under the water", I think means being beneath the celestial equator, that is, fall through spring, the winter. (Think of Jon Snow) The converse, being in the air (or being on fire) would seem to be the spring equinox through the summer and fall.

I'm also puzzled at the violent symbolism of the spring crossing. The crucifixion of the Jesus character in the Bible is violent to say the least.

One of the more famous esoteric symbols in the conspiracy theory world has an easy explanation when decoded with the celestial metaphors.

The cross, is the crossing of the sun (I guess the skull) on the March (3rd Month) equinox, i.e. 3/22. Although, actually the official date of the equinox is 3/20 or 21 most years... so maybe the mystery is not solved.