In addition to being a 'year of Mars', 2003 was also the 'year of Mary Magdalene', thanks to the monstrous success of the novel The Da Vince Code which became a cultural phenomenon. By early 2002, actually, I had been fully anticipating this interest spike and the parallel development between Mars and Gnostic secrets (truth represented by Mary Magdalene, John the Baptist, etc.), as I proclaimed in Endgame III (Nov. '02):

I'm sure this is the first time that all the different subject matters, especially Cydonia [or Mars] and the underground Gnostic tradition, have been put together and viewed as aspects of the same 'game'. Strange stuff, yes, but this is where the 'game' is going, so people should get used to it.

The Da Vinci Code, which is largely based on Holy Blood, Holy Grail (nonfiction), talks a lot about a secret society named the Priory of Sion. This semi-mythical group historically based in France venerates Mary Magdalene (as well as John the Baptist), who is also called the 'Black Madonna', and claims to possess or guard (a la the Knights Templar) the messianic bloodline/secrets stemming from the union of Jesus and Mary Magdalene. (Tradition has it that Mary Magdalene, along with the 'seed' of Jesus, moved to southern France some time after the Crucifixion.)

It is known that the Priory of Sion is closely associated with the number '58' (See for instance The Templar Revelation, p.52.) This is probably related to the fact that the apparent orbital path of the 'Magdalene planet', Venus, produces a pentagonal form (i.e. '5') over a period of eight years. So with or without the Priory Sion, Venus-Magdalene is associated with the numbers 8 and particularly 5. (This association was also expressed on 9/11 as one of the planes hit the Pentagon, the five-sided building of the Defense Department.) This is significant because:

• The number '58' is prominently attached to the key Isis-Magdalene-Venus date, August 6, 2003 - the day of the 'rise of the Schwarzenegger'. It was the 58th anniversary of the Hiroshima atomic bombing.

• The same number would pop up again when Bush visited the UN 'monolith'/Babel building, September 23, '03 - an event similarly associated with nukes via the attached Galileo/'2010' symbolism. The event happened to be the 'UN General Assembly 58th Session'.

• The 'signal' becomes unmistakable when it is added that the Sirian 'Axis of Paris' (Champs Elysees), pinpointing August 6 (the Hiroshima date) through its solar/Sirius alignment, has been noted to pinpoint one other day - May 8, or 5/8! (Technically the precise timing of the alignment might be slightly earlier than 5/8, but at least calendrically the pinpointed date would be May 8 in 2004.)

There is another 'Venus number' that is equally compelling as '58'. This is '225' - the orbital period of Venus in Earth-days. We find that:

• The fateful year 2001 was the 225th year since the birth of the United States (1776). Lady Liberty, a prominent US symbol, is a version of Isis/Mary the Magdalene/Virgin (thus also Venus).

• The historic US east-coast 'Total Blackout' on August 14, 2003 coming just days after the 'rise of Schwarzenegger' was precisely the 225th day of the year. The significance of the date is underscored by the fact that August 27, when Mars was at its closest point to Earth in 60,000 years, was the 'August 14' of the Julian calendar.

• Adding 225 days to the '2010 monolith' day of the 2003 autumnal equinox (Sept. 23) brings us to May 5, 2004. It does not exactly match the key Venus/Paris-axis date of 'May 8', but very close.

• Mel Gibson's controversial film released earlier this year, The Passion of the Christ, which like The Da Vinci Code became a cultural phenomenon, depicts the final 12 hours of Jesus' life - i.e. the period corresponding to the Osirian death/resurrection, or Isis-Mary receiving and perpetuating the seed of Christ-Horus. The film was released on February 25 - that is, 2/25 (225).

• The 225th day of 2004, August 13, is the exact day the Athens Olympic Games will begin! Historically the Olympics Games are held to honor the supreme Greco-Roman god Zeus/Jupiter. And as we saw Jupiter is to be associated with '2001'/'2010', 'monolith', 'Lucifer' (= Venus), and nuclear detonation. What's more, one of Schwarzenegger's nicknames happens to be 'The Olympian' (he won the 'Mr. Olympia' bodybuilding competition six times)...

Clearly the emerging picture here is that around May 8, 2004, along with August 13/the Olympics, is a symbolically momentous period that carries a lot of ominous themes such as 9/11, Iraq, Osirian resurrection, Schwarzenegger/Horus, 'Antichrist', nuclear, blackout, Lucifer, Isis-Magdalene, Mars, and such.

The final nail in the coffin, so to speak, comes from the position of Mars on/around May 8, 2004.

• Mars will be at one of the 'stargate' points where the Milky Way (galactic equator) and the ecliptic cross just as was the case on the days of 9/11 and the beginning of the Iraq war (3/20/03). Only this time Mars is to be at the other 'stargate' point, 180 degrees away from the '9/11' position. Indeed, it will be marking the summer-solstice point - none other than the 'Sirian point' calendrically associated with the key dates August 6, September 11, etc.! (Note: Mars comes to one of these 'stargate' points every 9 months.)

• On September 11, 2001, the above spot was marked by the Moon. This time, on May 7/8, the Moon is to be at the other 'stargate point' (winter-solstice point). In other words, an exact reversal of the 9/11-'stargate' configuration!

Venus doesn't miss a beat here either:

• The 'Isis-Magdalene planet' Venus is to be very close to Mars and the summer-solstice 'stargate' point. But while Mars is crossing the galactic equator, Venus will be crossing the galactic meridian, i.e. the 'longitude zero' of the galactic grid!

The notion of 'reversal' or 'opposition' embedded in the above celestial configuration is now a recurrent theme and hints at the nature of the events that may come in May...

The Force of Opposition

In terms of the Sun's position relative to Earth, it take 6 months for the Sun to reach the other side, exactly 180 degrees away from the original relative placement, which corresponds to the position of 'opposition'. This gets interesting when we realize that:

• The US 'Shock & Awe' bombing campaign against Iraq began on March 22/23, exactly 6 months before the '2010 monolith' autumnal equinox (Sept. 23, '03).

• The deadly train bombings in Madrid, widely perceived as 'Spain's 9/11', came on March 11, '04 - exactly 6 months after September 11 ('03) when the Sun was on the opposite side, so to speak. The 9/11 reference was also underscored by the fact that there were exactly 911 days in between 9/11/01 and 3/11/04!

The Madrid bombings also have a connection to Lucifer (thus also Venus). Very near the Atocha train station where a total of seven bombs exploded and killed about 100 people is a park called the 'Retiro' that has a statue called 'El Angel Caido', claimed to be the world's only sculpture dedicated solely to Lucifer.

The involvement of Lucifer here is intriguing as 'he' is popularly interpreted to have been an angel who challenged 'God' and fell. As written in the Bible:

How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning! how art thou cut down to the ground, which didst weaken the nations! For thou hast said in thine heart, I will ascend into heaven, I will exalt my throne above the stars of God: I will sit also upon the mount of the congregation, in the sides of the north: I will ascend above the heights of the clouds; I will be like the most High.

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