The Cybersybils present Vol. IV, Chap. 8: OzOz

"It's Ozoz - Jimmy Mage's super-duper secret signet! What's it doing in here? Oh, I see...all about the Prima Materia of alchemy, check...pertaining to lead, check...of course, just as Pb stands for the same metal in chemistry. That makes perfect sense. Such a mystery - worthy of pages and pages of Internet speculation. Please. But wait a minute...wait a minute. Look at this drawing, supposedly done by Mage himself and compare it to...where is that buggering book, Kittiana? Oh, over here, under a pile of more books, naturally...see it? Ohmygods, it really does look like...him! The symbol could be a sketch of Crowley, smoking his pipe!"

Aleister Crowley Smoking

Could OzoZ = Crowley? OzOz by J. Mage

"The two eyes correspond with the circle and dot sign for gold, the nose in the middle, a small line for the mouth and there's the pipe. Seems Master James branded his mentor's very image on everything Pb Airship produced - from records to boxer shorts," Olivia declared, holding up a pair of briefs printed with her favorite band's logos. "How very clever. Decidedly wicked. No wonder he won't tell anyone what the mysterious monogram means - because he...can't. Not right now, anyway."

Although she did manage to stare at Crowley's "face" for quite some time after her discovery, the Cybersybil of Peyton Place soon realized work awaited and she needed to divert her attention elsewhere. As in, back to researching the concept of Divine Unions and how that related to what Dali was promoting in his opera, Etre Dieu.

Dali Signature

"A certain Dali illustration for a work by the French poet Apollinaire - Apollo again - is rather fascinating and complex," the Pumpernickel posted to ORB later that afternoon. "I won't even go into the Hebrew Gematria of the numbers dispersed in the image, but let's just say that the meanings relate to the words: red, lady or mistress, skull and the like. Pretty sneaky of San Salvador if you ask me, Fornarinas. Now look at the picture carefully. Eight is a circuit, it represents infinity. But when I sent this particular artwork to my language expert at Brown University, Sir Steven, the first thing he wrote back to me was this: The figure 8 is the astrological symbol for a conjunction. Really? As in what C.G. Jung terms the mysterium coniunctionis?"

"Could Dali be referring to the marriage between Jesus and Mary Magdalene?" R del C observed.

Dali Grail Scarf from the Olivia Peyton Collection

Dali Grail Scarf from the Olivia Peyton Collection

"I am beginning to doubt if Jesus and Mary Magdalene were married, but they were connected somehow and more than just Master and disciple," O typed back, remembering the photo of the Raphael copy hanging in Dali's study. "I'm thinking deeper roots...perhaps in a wisdom tradition we moderns have forgotten. The eight is kinda like a caduceus, an accessory belonging to Hermes-Mercury, as I recall. And that God was a messenger from Above...so, there's a morality tale in this madness, if you get my drift. Two snakes join and become one - in fact, in the Orson Welles documentary about Dali, the latter is shown sitting on his 'Gala Throne' holding a sceptre fashioned from two entwined glass tubes holding serpents! Not to mention that our San Salvador and his 'Gradiva' got married on August the eighth, or 8-8. So, I think it's pretty safe to assume that there's something goin' on here with the number eight. Let's check it out further."