For All Time. Always. Kronos And The Tower Path of Kabbalah: Loki S1 Ep6 | Marvelous DeMystifiers 21
For the climactic conclusion of our analysis of Loki, Season 1, we explore the pathways of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life, the deepest esoteric understandings of The Tower card of the Major Arcana, the spheres of Hod and Netzach, the letter Pey, the mysteries of Kronos/Saturn, and much more. Who is the man behind the curtain, and where can we find the End of Time? Join us as we deep dive into this episode, For All Time, Always.
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In this episode
Core themes
Chronos, Kairos and the Real Self
Chance spent a long stretch on the tower as a tool for questioning the self. He described Kant's idea that the self was neither appearance nor thing in itself but a third status tied to time, and he separated chronos, the measured time of the zodiac and the sun, from kairos, the subjective time in which a soul changes. Chance said many people lived as slaves to chronos by repeating the same routine, while kairos was the movement of the real self. He added that expecting others to change or not to change was a choice, and tied it to biofield tuning.
The Tower Card, Pe and the Mouth
Chance named the tower as the theme card of the finale and said its Hebrew letter Pe meant mouth and carried the value 80. He said words he counted as 80, including one for a covering multitude and one for a heap or ruin, fit the overlapping voices of the opening montage and the ruined citadel. Gabe said he had long linked the tower to the constellation Pegasus and later tied it to the clock tower constellation Horologium. Gabe also said necromancy was originally ventriloquism and compared the seance of science to throwing a voice.
Hod, Netzach and the Tower Path
Chance placed the tower card on the Kabbalah tree of life path between Hod and Netzach and read the two Lokis through it. He described Hod as glory and linked it to Loki, whom he called an Enneagram individualist, and Netzach as endurance and victory and linked it to Sylvie. Chance also said the dove on the tower card stood for passive love and matched Loki, while the serpent stood for active love and matched Sylvie. He added that each of them seemed to see the other's path reflected in a mirror.
Rennes-le-Chateau and the Asmodeus Statue
Gabe said the castle on the skyline reminded him of Rennes-le-Chateau, pointing to a greenhouse beside the tower in the series and at the real castle. He and Chance matched the color of the blanket from the previous episode to the robe on the Asmodeus statue there. Chance said, citing George Faber, that king of the demons referred to Hermes as guide of the spirits of the dead, not to Satan ruling hell. Chance also passed along a find from Jen about a devil standing on an egg in the French cathedral shown in episode one.
Memory Palaces and the Offer They Already Had
Gabe said the hosts were building memory palaces, with the zodiac as his own, and that the work was remembering rather than learning. Chance said preparing the slides deepened what he already knew, and the long first half led the hosts to split the finale into two parts. The hosts read Miss Minutes' offer to the two Lokis as a temptation to gain something they already held, and Chance compared it to the temptation of Jesus and said the Ion Chronos statues suggested the tempter was inner. Later Chance brought up kintsugi as a picture of being more beautiful for having been broken.
Quotes
“I'm just now wrapping my head around how the word for necromancy, like controlling the dead, is ventriloquism. And that's what we do when we do the seance of science. We summon Einstein into the conversation. We evoke his magical formula, E equals mc squared.”
“But anyway, the other word the Greeks have for time is kairos. And this word is subjective time. This is the time of how you change over time. This is the progression or development of your soul.”
“But which time is it? Is it the chronos time, the cycle, the eternal return that nothing really changes? Or is it the inner intellectual action, our action upon the inner and outer forces that change us and change them? That's the real time. That's the real self.”
“You've heard me talk about biofield tuning a lot. You've heard me talk about how the reason tuning works is because the universe has this principle that a coherent energy or coherent vibration entrains dissonant energy or dissonant vibration.”
“As soon as I saw this castle on the skyline, my mind was drawn to Rennes-le-Chateau because of that prominent tower, somewhat iconic. And it's not an exact perfect fit. But what is a confirmation for me, if you look on this image, you can see that there's actually a greenhouse running along the wall to the left side of the tower.”
“Here, let me save you from drowning, said the monkey to the fish as he placed him in the tree. That little phrase could have saved a lot of people a lot of suffering during the lockdowns. You know, it was the best intentions that paved the way to hell right there.”
“To be aware of something is not quite the same as knowing it. There's always deeper levels that you can know a thing, and doing these preparations, presentations, I'm finding things that I'm aware of and connecting them to other things that I'm aware of and forging new connections, and those links are the chains upon which memory is accessed, controlled, brought up, summoned.”
“We've been building memory palaces. I think we've learned how to from the encyclopedists who put information in alphabetical order, which in and of itself is a tower. Our culture is a memory palace. And we're just filling in the blanks. It's about memory. It's not about learning. We're remembering.”
“I think this design of this tower looks a lot like how gold veins appear in iron. And this is the statement that Jen put me onto: gold rides an iron horse. It's a saying of gold prospectors.”
“Of all the holes on your face, the mouth is the only one that's a singular hole. There's two holes on your nose, two holes for the eyes, two holes for the ears. The mouth, which is Pe, if your head is the tower, the mouth is at the base of it.”
“It's actually yourself that is the tempter. It's your inner world affecting your outer world. It's the uncontrollable aspect of your unconscious coming to you to try to diverge you from your path.”
“There's this practice called kintsugi. It means to repair with gold. And it's the art of repairing pottery with gold or silver lacquer, and the philosophy or understanding that the piece is more beautiful for having been broken rather than just discarding the broken thing.”
“Horologium, I'm finding, is the clock tower. This is why I have always thought that Pegasus was the tower. I wasn't wrong. I just needed to blend these two essences. The Horologium of the winter time does correspond to the Pegasus.”
Gabriel, known on air as Slick Dissident, co-hosts InnerVerse's Vibe Rant show and is a longtime recurring guest on the podcast. He teaches occult symbolism and tarot on his YouTube channel, ranging across the Major Arcana, the esoteric Enneagram, mythology and archetype, mystic linguistics, and the symbolism hidden in popular film. He is best known for Tarot-tories, his own system mapping the 22 Major Arcana and zodiac archetypes onto the geography of the United States.
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