Let the Games Begin

The ceremony officially commences as American Airlines Flight 11 (AA11), ritually marked, consecrated with the number of magic itself, slams into the North Tower of the World Trade Center, declaring the initiation of a magical operation. President and Bonesman George W. Bush arrives at Booker Elementary School in Sarasota, Florida, the state which had given him the presidency in 2000 and where his brother Jeb is governor—and where the 9/11 ringleader and hijacker-pilot of AA11, Mohamed Atta, had received part of his flight training. The Commander-in-Chief as High Priest is in “Paradise,” presiding over a Black Mass, complete with little black children chanting out the words of “The Pet Goat” (about which Osama bin Laden will later crack jokes on Al Jazeera, saying that Bush was more occupied with “the goat and its butting” than “the planes and their butting of the skyscrapers”), invoking Baphomet, even as United Airlines Flight 175 slams into the South Tower, an act designed to invoke Aleister Crowley’s Liber 175, the “book of Uniting…to a particular Deity by devotion.” They are stating their intentions and declaring their devotion, not simply to Satan, but also to Crowley—as has been made evident, the entire day’s proceedings constitute no less than an “Ode to Aleister Crowley” (not to be confused with Ozzy Osbourne’s literal ode to Crowley). Thus, the two concrete and steel re-creations of the fabled Pillars of Hermes, the God of Commerce and Trade (and also of thieves and robbers), stand mortally wounded, as Hermes himself prepares to undertake his traditional role as psychopomp, escort of the souls of the dead to the Underworld. In the Tarot, the Tower card has been known as the House of the Damned, and the Twin Towers have become enormous sacrificial altars. Very soon, the doorway between the two pillars will be opened and the veil of Isis will be symbolically torn asunder as the towers come crashing to the ground and a gateway to hell esoterically created.