Kenneth Anger: The Link Between Homosexuality and the Occult
I have long worked to expose
the link between Homosexuality and the Occult. Born Kenneth Wilbur
Anglemeyer, Ken Anger makes my job much easier. The Knights Templar, the
forerunners of the Masons, Rosicrucians and Illuminati, were an all male
religious order that actually permitted homosexual behavior among their
members. They were also exposed for worshipping the "Goat's head" (Baphomet)
and lovers of all things Plato (Lucifer). Through their alliance with
Illuminati Jews, they have come to dominate the world's finances and its
culture.
"(Ken Anger's) His short films, which he has been producing since 1937, have variously merged surrealism with homoerotica and the occult. Whilst he has produced almost forty short films in his lifetime, only six of these have received distribution, and have come to be referred to as the "Magick Lantern Cycle".[1] He has been described as "one of America's first openly gay filmmakers, and certainly the first whose work addressed homosexuality in an undisguised, self-implicating manner",[2] and some of his homoerotic works, such as Fireworks (1947) and Scorpio Rising (1964), were produced prior to the legalisation of homosexuality in the United States." (Source)
Not surprisingly, Anger's love affair with the Occult
manifested itself in High School:
"It was whilst at high school that he began to get interested in the occult, which he had first indirectly encountered through reading Frank L. Baum's Oz books as a child, with their accompanying Rosicrucian philosophies. Kenneth was very interested in the works of the French ceremonial magician Eliphas Levi, as well as Sir James Frazer's The Golden Bough, although his favourite was the writings of the British occultist Aleister Crowley Crowley had founded a religion known as Thelema based upon a religious experience that he had in 1904, in which a being known as Aiwass had contacted him and recited to him The Book of the Law. Kenneth subsequently became a great fan of Crowley's work and converted to Thelema." (Ibid)
"In Scorpio Rising, the montaged appropriation of signs and symbols (cross, swastika), icons (Jesus, Brando, Dean), characters (bike boys Scorpio, Taurus and Leo) and soundtracks is dominated by a viewpoint that unveils alternative meanings. These subversive statements are buried in coded metaphors and double entendres, where obvious meaning and signification are obscured. Questions and themes of repressed desire are literally fleshed out and exploded on screen in fast-cut sequences in which subliminal shots of a full-frontal pelvic thrusting or a boys' orgy are intercut with scenes from a black-and-white C-grade religious epic in which Jesus gives sight to the blind man." (Source)
"In 1966, Anger moved into the ground floor of a large 19th century house in San Francisco known as the Russian Embassy. Around this time he began planning for a new film, which he planned to title Lucifer Rising and which would echo his Thelemic beliefs about the ensuing Aeon of Horus. He had the name of Lucifer tattooed upon his chest and began searching for a young man who could symbolically become Lucifer, "the Crowned and Conquering Child" of the new Aeon, for Lucifer Rising. He met various young men who could fit the position, inviting each to live with him at the Russian Embassy, although eventually he settled upon a man named Bobby Beausoleil.Beausoleil also formed a band, the Magic Powerhouse of Oz, in order to record the music for the film. Then, in 1967, Anger claimed that the footage which he had been filming for Lucifer Rising had been stolen, and he placed the blame upon Beausoleil, who would deny the claims, later telling Anger's unofficial biographer Bill Landis that "what had happened was that Kenneth had spent all the money that was invested in Lucifer Rising" and that he therefore invented the story to satisfy the film's creditors.[ Beausoleil and Anger fell out, with the former getting involved with Charles Manson and his cult, the Family, eventually carrying out Manson's bidding by torturing and murdering Gary Hinman." (Source)
"The following year he travelled to London where he first met J. Paul Getty, who would subsequently become Anger's patron, and where he also met and befriended Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, members of The Rolling Stones, as well as Richards' drug addicted girlfriend Anita Pallenberg. Anger then decided to use much of the footage created for Lucifer Rising in a new film of his, Invocation of My Demon Brother, which starred Beausoleil, (Anton) LaVey, Jagger and Richards, as well as Anger himself, and the music for which had been composed by Jagger. It was released in 1969, and explored many of the Thelemic themes that Anger had originally intended for Lucifer Rising." (Ibid)