Twin Peaks - Under The Sycamore Tree - Redux

Briggs being depicted as King Arthur/Osiris
Hence Briggs exclaiming...“which way to the castle!?”(Camelot)

The bones of "Arthur" (Merlin being his magician/wizard) were said to be extremely large in size and the skull they found had, among many wounds, a large "gash," suggesting death by a blow to the head. (hence Briggs' wounded head).

Note, this above quote was from the first series. The 'convenience store scene' was from the movie FWWM.
Living 'above it' (above, below) perhaps meaning both physical world and the ether, but who knows?

See the full "Convenience Store" scene here...

Missing Pieces - the above scene takes place exactly one year after Teresa Banks was killed.


 I do like how Lynch used Bowie in this particular scene, his persona being charged with the ideas of 'fallen star gods'.
The Man Who Fell to Earth, Ziggy Stardust from Mars etc. I don't think this was just a random choice of actor.
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The Convenience Store Scene - 7-11 or Circle K? Bowie : "I've been to one of their meetings."
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"This is a Formica table, green is its color" - said by MFAP (dwarf).
This is a for-mica (rock/stone) table(t). A green rock based table/tablet.

So maybe the table(t) is referring to the 'green rock' of the Emerald Tablet.

But it's a table, not a tablet - you decry...
The Emerald Tablet is frequently referred to as the Emerald Table...by the likes of Manly P Hall etc.
"Among the fragmentary writings believed to have come from the stylus of Hermes are two famous works. The first is the Emerald Table, and the second is the Divine Pymander, or, as it is more commonly called, The Shepherd of Men."
Manly P Hall, The Secret Teaching of All Ages

"Emerald is it's color" - and there is a small circular section of table top - which is cut out.
 "With this (magickal) ring I thee wed" (a binding contract between Bob and MFAP)
The 'ring' that likely denotes a life due to be sacrificed (a victim felled, Laura/Teresa). Felled - like dead timber or a tree. A 'ring' that ensures that the 'garmonbozia' (the victim's 'psychic' pain & suffering in food form) will be collected, and then delivered to the appropriate 'magickian/entity' for consumption in a psychic manner. The bowls and pans on the table in the first pic above contain garmonbozia (like creamed corn).
This is why 'Mike/one-armed man' throws 'the ring' into the train carriage moments before Laura's killing (at the hands of Bob/Leland - FWWM).
She puts the ring on her finger - which actually prevents Bob from possessing her, and it also ensures that 'Mike/one-armed man' gets his garmonbozia, after her death (at Bob's hands). It's the same ring that was seen on Teresa Banks, but she died without it - 'corn stealing' Bob, stole her garmonbozia (hence the missing ring). The ring also seems to function as a transportation device too, but we only see that in respect of males - see Bowie (Jeffries) and Isaak (Desmond). It's implied that the ring transports them both, and in Bowie's case - to Black Lodge.

The "O" sound - just like the "whooping" (O) type noise that we hear MFAP (red dwarf). make on occasion.

"The name Hermes (he of the emerald table) is derived from "Herm," a form of CHiRaM (CRM), the Personified Universal Life Principle, generally represented by fire ("fire walk with me"). The Scandinavians (note, Twin Peaks' Norwegians) worshiped Hermes under the name of Odin; the Teutons as Wotan, and certain of the Oriental peoples as Buddha, or Fo.

The Emerald Stone Table(t)/Ring. Hence... 
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This shot with the car is seen when Cooper visits the trailer park to investigate what happened to Agent Desmond (Chris Isaac). He was seemingly transported to another place (which also happens with Jeffries/Bowie) after picking up the magickal ring there. He then goes on the missing list. Well, they find his car left like this (after he vanishes into the ether) and with the 'Let's Rock' tag written on it.

This connects the ring and the car (with tag) together.
The 'rock ring' made from the missing chunk of the formica table(t)/emerald tablet.

Rock as in (For)Mica...Rock.
Just the sheer 'nerdy-ness' of stating that it's made of Formica, perhaps suggests that mind should be paid to it.
The mineral mica was commonly used at that time for electrical insulation.
Because the new product acted as a substitute “for mica”, Faber coined the name “Formica”.

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The Emerald Table(t) of Twin Peaks.

Corn stealing - Bob/Leland. FWWM car scene.
The One-armed Man (aka Mike) wants Laura's accumulated pain and suffering (represented by the garmonbozia/creamed corn) - he receives this upon her death. Mike is superior to Bob in the lodge hierarchy. Bob, however, has been "stealing" this garmonbozia (corn) from Mike - that is why there is a dispute between them. Bob, stealing Mike's garmonbozia from "above/over the store". Bob likely stole the garmonbozia from Teresa Banks' killing. The One-armed Man is telling Bob/Leland that he's on to him, he's warning him. (Bob doesn't want the garmonbozia this time though, he wants to possess her). One-armed Man even tells Laura/Leland what is going to happen to her - he likely waves the ring (on his pinky/little finger) to remind Bob of his obligation. This is the ring that is thrown to Laura in the train car.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formica_(plastic)
"Wrapped in plastic" (like formica table plastic). The word "mica" is derived from the Latin word mica, meaning "a crumb", and probably influenced by micare, "to glitter". (Rocky/stoney-like crumbs on her face, almost like face glitter).
Mica (a rock-forming mineral). The mica group of sheet silicate (phyllosilicate) minerals includes several closely related materials having close to perfect basal cleavage. All are monoclinic, with a tendency towards pseudohexagonal crystals, and are similar in chemical composition. The nearly perfect cleavage, which is the most prominent characteristic of mica, is explained by the hexagonal sheet-like arrangement of its atoms. The highest quality mica film is used to manufacture capacitors for calibration standards. The next lower grade is used in transmitting capacitors. Receiving capacitors use a slightly lower grade of high-quality muscovite. Muscovite, the principal mica used by the electrical industry, is used in capacitors that are ideal for high frequency and radio frequency...you get the idea, I'm sure.

(perhaps a transmitter & a receiver!) 

Here come "radio rock stars" Isaak and Bowie...Let's Rock.
Electric 7 - same type of number tile and colour background. Left, the utility pole has a transformer-like box attached to it.
Note, the Tremond-Chalfont trailer (linked to the ring/ether transportation) behind Desmond (Isaak) and Rodd (Stanton).

Formica - invented at the Westinghouse Electric Corp., it was originally used to replace mica in electrical applications.
"Electricity"....and an 'opening of the mouth' moment. The (black) electrician from the convenience store.

There is an aspect where these (astral/ether) 'lodge inhabitants' travel via electricity.
Pyramid of the Sun (Mexico City)
The pyramid contained considerable amounts of mica in layers up to 30 cm (12 in) thick.
Recall, that it's the (Egyptian/Greek) "Phila(e)-delphi(a)" office - where the 'convenience store' tale is told.
Philae, Egypt - the Temple of Isis. Delphi, the oracle, dreams and future-telling.

The Electrician (again)
Black Lodge Bob is able to incarnate into/spirit possess 'animal familiars' (the owl etc).
Twin Peaks, Lyedecker's Vet Clinic. The beast, the rock and the (actual) store. Situated on Mulholland H-way.
Cooper and the beast incarnate - 'foreshadowing' - beastly Bob will incarnate into/possess him at the show's finale.

"We lived among the people - I think you say convenience store?
We lived above it. I mean it like it is, as it sounds. My name is Mike. His name is BOB."
They are certainly linked characters. The long-nosed mask/face and (sycamore?) wood object (like a slingshot) are seen together. The Convenience Store based "jumping man" (in similar attire to MFAP) is very tricky to decipher.
 He's clearly another spirit, it could be that Jumping Man is the spirit entity, and the (jumping) boy is his (magickal) familiar. Linked to Leland/Bob (above), probably a black lodge warning, keeping an eye on Bob. The scene with Laura, Ronette, and Teresa. Leland's 'group sex liaison' - the one that he backed-out of.
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Red Diamond Motel (diamond, a rock). Above, right - could that be the Chalfont/Tremond trailer/caravan, or a representation of it? We know one disappeared from the Fat Trout, it was used by the old woman and boy/magician (seen above). A utility pole (electrical) nearby too.
It's even possible that (red) Jumping Man represents the 'ultimate evil', as in an avatar for the devil.
In the Convenience Store clip - Bob seemingly interacts and is linked with the Jumping Man.
The formal outfit worn by 'the boy/Jumping Man' are very similar (boy's is identical) to what Cooper actually wears.
Bowie is sucked in to this scene by being transported from Buenos Aires, likely under the agency of the black lodge.
The possession of Cooper (by Bob) is potentially the ultimate goal of the black lodge dwellers.
It is after all, what we see happen to him at the end of series 2 - after failing in the black lodge (How's Annie? etc).
The black lodge's catalyst for Cooper's possession, is therefore, the bringing of Cooper to Twin Peaks to solve Laura's murder (this is how he is ultimately drawn in).
(Above) Note, 'Cooper/Jumping Man' are superimposed, and at the point where Jeffries questions his identity.
Jumping man's arm movement mimics that of Jeffries - black lodge spirits that have pulled Jeffries into this Philly scene.
During this recollection he points to Cooper and states - "Who do you think this is there?"
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Jumping Man could be Cooper's master controlling entity - the boy could represent (the to be possessed) Cooper.
Head (noggin) bumping/bashing is also referenced by Agent Rosenfield (right) in the Philly scene.
Is FBI Jeffries (Bowie) trying to indicate that Cooper is not what he seems, or that he might become not what he seems (as in possessed)? This would be precognition of the future, FWWM being the last seven days of Laura, the TV series starting with the discovery of her body. The Bowie scene takes place in Phila-DELPHI-a, Delphi, the oracle - dreams, future telling etc. Cooper begins the scene mentioning his dream to Gordon. We also know he has had prior dream/vision contact with Laura because it's shown via the film's Tremond/Chalfont picture frame dream - advising her not to take the ring.
The dream/vision (below) also precognitively indicates Annie's fate at the end of the TV series.
You can see red room type curtains at 3.45secs behind Laura - this picture is a portal to the black lodge.

 Is it future or is it past? Time is seemingly non-linear in the red room. Related Saturn (Cronos) is linked to time.
 Perhaps, the Convenience Store meeting scene is ultimately about getting to and possessing Cooper (which occurs via Laura), he being the final prize. The clip also shows Cooper having contact with the lodges (likely black) and MFAP - before Cooper has even set foot in Twin Peaks. All something to consider at least, Lynch's work is impenetrable to many people, so complete answers are very hard to come by.


An episode in season 2 (Coma) - directly related to the above 'convenience store' scene, and a few of the same protagonists (Mrs Tremond/Chalfont, and young boy aka Pierre) also feature, as do references to 'magick' and 'the garmonbozia'.
COMA -Season 2 Episode 2 (directed by David Lynch)
David Lynch's own son plays the 'magickian'!
Mmmm - yum, yum Garmonbozia (creamed corn), psychic 'pain & suffering' to be consumed.
 Note, this 'magickian'role is played by someone else in the film's 'convenience store' scene. (shown above).

Gordon Cole: "WHAT THE HELL DID HE SAY? (pointing at Cooper) THAT'S SPECIAL AGENT DALE COOPER.
(focusing on Jeffries) ARE YOU OKAY, JEFFRIES?  WHERE THE HELL HAVE YOU BEEN?"

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The (tarot) Devil, fire and Baphomet - adopting the sign/gesture of "as above, so below" (as per the tablet).
Jumping Man - as a type of 'master of ceremonies' and (red) fiery devil. (see his flaming torch)
The series does actually reference'666' and in respect of the woods/lodges. You'll see this later.
Log Lady's (deceased) husband is present in the Convenience Store - the 'woodsman' (far right & flipped below).

"We live inside a dream..."
Margaret/Log Lady's woodsman husband (Prochnow) "met the devil" (fire and the Black Lodge) and likely strayed into the Glastonbury portal which could have led him to contact with Black Lodge, and its inhabitants. Fire IS the devil - fire is also linked to possession, and is the cause of his death (but not a "kind" fire, as Margaret makes clear). "Fire Walk With Me" is also an operative phrase (magickal/vibrational chant) that is seemingly linked to actual possession (see what happens to Laura when she utters it). The woodsman's earlier gathering of oil (on the night before his death) from this area also supports the idea of straying via this location. This all happened just before, and on the night of their wedding (love, "fear and love open the doors"). The woods are called GHOSTWOOD - many times we're informed of the spirits held within these woods (in a literal sense).
Log Lady's husband (a woodsman/lumberjack) is another that was likely/possibly possessed by these Black Lodge inhabitants, just as I believe that "saw mill/logging" Josie was too, hence her spirit being embedded into the drawer knob (by Black Lodge Bob/Mike). The woodsman entity (seen at the convenience store) might be his doppelganger. It's also possible that an aspect of the woodman's spirit is embedded in her "log" - hence why she communicates with it etc, and is aware of some of the "lodge" activities etc. Margaret also has aspects of the (Owl cave tattoo). It's also a bit unusual to use an established actor like Prochnow, for such a small cameo (non-speaking) role, they could've used anyone, but they used Jurgen. Accidental access to the black lodge and its entities is shown via Bowie (Jeffries), Isaak (Desmond) both via the ring, and possibly Carl "I've gone places" Rodd (Fat Trout, Stanton). Banks (murdered by Bob/Leland at Fat Trout), had the ring when she was staying at Carl's Fat Trout trailer park.

Dune - "The sleeper must awaken" (Jurgen "FWWM - Convenience Store" Prochnow)
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Albert Rosenfeld (Miguel Ferrer). His real father (Jose) played Emperor Shaddam IV in Dune.
I know this is all hard to follow, and a total mind fuck, but that's Lynch in a nutshell. Half of the fun is deciphering him and his work! Don't get too bogged-down in the detail, just appreciate the flavours/overlaps being used.

Jumping Man perches on a plastic type of 'black smoke box'. The Devil (tarot) perches on a black box.

Black Lodge, Windom: 'These evil sorcerers, dugpas they're called, they cultivate evil for the sake of evil and nothing else. They express themselves in darkness - for darkness, without leavening motive. This ardent purity allows them to access a secret place, where the cultivation of evil proceeds in exponential fashion. And with it, the furtherance of evil's resulting power.'

The senior 'black lodge' entity missing from the conv. store is Mike/one-armed man, an entity who inhabits Gerard.
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At the close of FWWM he is bodily shown as one-armed man/Gerard (linking with red dwarf/MFAP).
MFAP (man from another place) is literally the "arm" of the complete lodge entity that is Mike.
It's one-armed Mike that makes the quote about the convenience store, so he is a key proponent of the whole arrangement.
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Mike is also superior to Bob in the lodge hierarchy, as his garmonbozia demands (made at the film's close) demonstrate.
MFAP (Mike's arm) consumes the 'garmonbozia' (Laura's psychic pain) at the end - you use an actual arm to eat etc.
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Considering all this, it's possible that Jumping 'convenience store' Man could be a representation of Mike, but in his "etheric/spirit entity" state, not as the human form one-armed Gerard. I'm just covering all the bases.
Finally, Jumping Man can be linked to the concept of Heyoka - a type of jester/fool (tarot), North American medicine man. The Heyókȟa is thought of as being backwards-forwards, upside-down, or contrary in nature. This manifests by their doing things backwards or unconventionally — riding a horse backwards, wearing clothes inside-out, or speaking in a backwards language.
Lakota mythology, Heyókȟa is a spirit of thunder and lightning - said to use the wind as sticks to beat the drum of thunder.
These conditions are reflected in the convenience store - windy/stormy, a room with plastic storm windows etc.
In art, he is depicted as having two horns, which marks him as a hunting spirit.
Note - how old heyoka depictions feature a 'horned' entity (see devil/baphomet).

Before the Coma episode begins proper...we get the following:
Check out this 'log lady' intro from this episode...I can't say I was surprised to find it!
Relevant, due to the fact that it heavily relates to the mysterious 'convenience store' scene we just mentioned.
 Log Lady(intro):
"As above, so below."The human being finds himself, or herself, in the middle. There is as much space outside the human, proportionately, as inside. Stars, moons and planets remind us of protons, neutrons and electrons. Is there a bigger being walking with all the stars within? Does our thinking affect what goes on outside us and what goes on inside us? I think it does. Where does creamed corn figure into the workings of the universe? 
What really is creamed corn? Is it a symbol for something else?

The first maxim on the Emerald Tablet of Thoth/Hermes...As above, so below.
Microcosm & Macrocosm, as explained in the intro above.

It cannot get anymore BLATANT than that.

The Dialogue from the Convenience Store...TP:FWWM.

Deputy Tommy 'Hawk' Hill: My people believe that the White Lodge is a place where the spirits that rule man and nature reside. There is also a legend of a place called the Black Lodge. The shadow self of the White Lodge. Legend says that every spirit must pass through there on the way to perfection. There, you will meet your own shadow self.
My people call it The Dweller on the Threshold.

Special Agent Dale Cooper: Dweller on the Threshold.

'Hawk' Hill: But it is said that if you confront the Black Lodge with imperfect courage, it will utterly annihilate your soul.

Dwellers and Doppelgangers. Earle & Hawk both mention 'the lodges' - as does Briggs.
The Dweller on the Threshold - a term first coined by [Rosicrucian linked] Bulwer-Lytton, see Zanoni).
Lynch and Rosicrucianism...Blue"rose cross"Velvet
"Dweller" resonant Bulwer-Lytton was a Rosicrucian (rose cross) godfather - of sorts. Angels and roses.
Ancient and Mystical Order Rosæ Crucis(Rose Cross), also called the Rosicrucian Order (AMORC).
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The Blue Rose on Red - Twin Peaks (FWWM)
FWWM - Red Roses (Laura's room), the painting 'red room' portal/doorways and bed clothing.
Angels and Roses - the "portal painting" is placed alongside the "angel picture".

Below is a brief description of what Rosi-crucian students will learn during their future years of affiliation with AMORC.
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These teachings are part of the Rosicrucian Monographs.
Imo...this evokes many aspects of the Twin Peaks universe, particularly those highlighted in red.
Mystery Schools via the Isis Egyptian Sycamore, Tibet/telepathy via Cooper, astrology etc etc.
Tibetan Buddhism is sometimes referred to as the vajrayana, which can be translated as the "lightning way".
Cooper's fingers on the star map (discussing the opening of the doors) Orion/Osiris between them.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosicrucian_Monographs
The Dark Night of the Soul...and David Lynch.
Twin Peaks' Ben experiences his own 'the long dark night of the soul' (inferring a type of ego death) via his jailing - s2 ep9.
The 'invisible masters' an aspect of the Dugpas etc.

 Windom Earle: These evil sorcerers, dugpas they're called, they cultivate evil for the sake of evil and nothing else. They express themselves in darkness -- for darkness, without leavening motive. This ardent purity allows them to access a secret place, where the cultivation of evil proceeds in exponential fashion. And with it, the furtherance of evil's resulting power. This place of power is tangible, and as such, it can be found, entered, and perhaps, utilised in some fashion. The dugpas have many names for it, but chief among them - [cough] - is the Black Lodge. But you don't believe me, do you?
You think I'm mad. Overworked. Go away.

 Windom Earle: The planets (Jupiter & Saturn) our babbling major spoke of are more than distant orbs. They are, in fact, a clock (chronos/saturn - chronology/time). A clock that tells the time. And the time...time draws nearer with each ticking tock! Dale wasn't far wrong. The cave painting is an invitation of sorts, telling us when the revels begin. But what Dale doesn't know is where to find it. For you see, the cave painting is not only an invitation, it is also a map -- a map to the Black Lodge!


Chronos/Cronos/Saturn - was depicted in Greco-Roman mosaics as a man turning the Zodiac Wheel.

 Earle ahas a fascination with the Black Lodge, whose secrets he is trying to unlock, as well as black magic.
Major Garland Briggs states that Earle was involved in Project Blue Book, as was Briggs; however, their investigation in which Earle was involved was directly related to Twin Peaks and not the usual UFO investigations.

Earle mentions the 'black lodge' in this episode and says...
 [Windom Earle has Major Briggs tide up to a target mat with a crossbow aimed at him]
The arrow of Windom (Apollo) attempting to slay the cyclops (bulls-eye).

Windom Earle: When did you first see the symbol in Owl Cave?
Major Briggs: I'm not at liberty to divulge that information.
Windom Earle: Cheater!
[Windom fires an arrow at Briggs, missing his head by inches]
Windom Earle: What does the cave painting mean?
Major Briggs: [more firm tone] I'm not at liberty to divulge that information.
Windom Earle: Damn, but I love the military mind.

The sephiroth/qliphoth does seem comparable to the dual white/black lodge concept (in the spiritual sense).
The 'entropic' nature of the 'qliphoth' lending itself quite nicely to the domain of Bob & friends...their purpose seemingly being to feed off the cultivation of suffering.

Briggs and his disappearance in the woods...
Briggs: "I was night fishing with...Agent Cooper. There was a light...a guardian beyond it.
I was taken...but my mind...still I recognised the signs."
 Briggs disappears and/or is abducted.

This sudden abduction is highly reminiscent of the reports of alien abductions throughout recent history. That resemblance might help to explain why it is that the Major studies deep space communications, as a part of his classified Intelligence work.

Major Garland (Judy) Briggs, after he gets seemingly abducted or goes through a portal...he finally comes back a few days later, and is left totally bewildered etc. It's here that this tattoo is then discovered on his neck, but with no explanation.
Briggs Neck Tattoo...Mark of Choronzon. He reacts to the symbol after touching a tree.
From the (space) abyss

I have yet to see anyone reference the 3 triangle symbol on Briggs' neck as the symbol of the 'Demon/Guardian of the Abyss'/'Dweller on the Threshold'...generally known as Choronzon.
  Briggs' tattoo is identical to the symbol of Choronzon.  Choronzon is mentioned in the workings of Elizabethan John Dee (007) & Kelley with respect to Enochian magick.

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On the 'tree of life' (below), Choronzon represents the Guardian of the the 2nd veil, who resides in the sphere of Daath.
I think comparisons can be made with 'the tree of life'/'tree of death' and the 'White Lodge'/'Black Lodge' idea.
 The apex of the tree of life is the "crown" (kether) - Annie is the "crowned" tree queen.
Sphere 3 also represents Saturn, and sphere 4 represents Jupiter.
They both straddle the (dweller on the threshold of) da'ath wormhole. See "planets" on the tree of life.
"Where Jupiter (lightning) and Saturn (rings) meet."
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Crowley states:

We have Hawk, waxing lyrical about 'TDOTT' and meeting your shadow self (arguably Choronzon could be the shadow self) which bears many similarities to the Qabalistic apsects of 'crossing the abyss'...something that can be thought of as akin to a form of 'ego death'.

 A brief aside and an example for understanding. Lynch, was once approached to direct Return of the Jedi.

 Darth Vader = Da'ath Evader (a play on words)

 A 'Black Brother' (literally) and 'Brother of the Left-Hand path'.

  In some definitions, the 'Left-Hand Path' is equated with malicious Black Magic.

DO NOT discount any of this (kabbalistic magick) stuff in respect of its relationship to Twin Peaks. The recently penned book "The Secret History of Twin Peaks" (Mark Frost) has listed Aleister "OTO/Thelema/Tree of Life" Crowley, and (the related) Jack Whiteside Parson (OTO/Thelema/JPL rocketry) Parsons, as WEARERS of the Owl Cave Ring! 

I was writing and linking some of these weird kabbalistic aspects (see my work on 777) to the Twin Peaks universe long before that book and the 3rd series were even considered, let alone written and produced!

Other individuals who were documented as owning the ring included Jack Parsons. [2]

I've already written a little about Crowley, Parsons and Bowie (linked via 1947) in previous blog work. 

Crowley, Parsons and Hubbard. See this 2008 written post (nearly 10 years ago) that I wrote concerning OTO Parsons (linked to Hubbard) and his dabbling in respect of magick and the nuclear tests etc.

1947
All three are also linked to the Owl Cave RING. I've mentioned Bowie's 'Crowley' interest in earlier posts.
It was Crowley who penned the kabbalistic book "777" - linked to the "lightning tree of life."
David "777 kether to malkuth" Bowie - as Jeffries.

This is important due to the nature of the story at this point, and the obvious allusion that Briggs went on some sort of metaphysical journey - perhaps 'The White Lodge' but who knows?
Maybe Briggs met his shadow self and defeated it, because he has to travel through the black lodge to get to the white lodge, in order attain perfection (as outlined by Hawk). This is unlike what happens with Cooper who fails. If the 3rd series had been made back in the 90s, I would expect that Cooper would've been possessed by Bob (as shown a the end of series 2), and that the series would've continued in that vein. I do like to think that Briggs passed his test and defeated the black lodge., and he may have even gone on to rescue Cooper from the black lodge. Windom does inform Briggs (final episode) that he is waiting for him in the black lodge - which helps support this idea. Briggs greatest fear in the world was the 'possibility that love wasn't enough' - which imo singled him out as a particularly special character, at least to me anyway. When considering Choronzon - we are in the realm of Qabala and its various alternative spellings, no pun intended.

Cooper: "Two 'symbols' combined into a larger whole." 
The other mysterious symbol/glyph...also seen inside 'Owl Cave' and Cooper's drawing, made up of Tattoo's from Briggs (although it also relates to the abyss, as seen earlier) & The Log Lady.

 This is also part referenced in 'the emerald ring'...as you can see and also inside 'owl cave'

All this Qabala, brings me nicely...to a familiar & seemingly potent 'qabalistic number' and 'magick number of the sun'.

We're still in the same episode...Coma.

666
We also learn that the messages that the Major shared with Cooper (“The owls are not what they seem” and “CooperCooperCooper” written over and over) originated from the woods around Twin Peaks – the very location that’s been the focal point of the figurative and literal 'heart of darkness' in this town. The suggestion is that these signals came from earth and were sent up into space – a reversal of the sorts of “extraterrestrial transmission” into earth that we typically see in films and TV.

(The 3 Cooper's could be 'The Typical Dale', 'The Doppelganger Dale' and finally the 'Bob, Possessed Dale'.)
Three incarnations of Dale...Cooper/Cooper/Cooper, the message probably came from the Black Lodge in the woods (as Briggs states, from the wood and into space) and possibly a 'message' from the 'lodge inhabitants' to their masters/helpers in the ether. The main prize being the possession of FBI Agent Dale Cooper - a plan being designed all along etc.

 666

 After his 'abduction/portal crossing' return and Windom interrogation....Cooper and Truman (Sheriff) try to communicate with the Major, even calling him by his first name, Garland, though Briggs mistakes that as a reference to Judy Garland. A tie-in to The Wizard of Oz. The Oz theme is 'done to death' in Lynch's Wild at Heart, and I'm sure you're aware of the 'emerald' elements involved with the Oz mythos.
 In his navajo/The Shining inspired wrap..."Judy Garland?"

Briggs mumbles...."Protect the queen" and "Fear and love open the doors." 
Cooper figures it out: Two lodges, two doors. Fear opens the Black Lodge, love opens the White Lodge.
He also realises that protect the queen means Windom Earle probably is planning to abduct whoever wins the pageant.

 The 'Real' Project Blue Book and William Garland: 
"Another important change came when General William Garland joined Cabell's staff; Garland thought the UFO question deserved serious scrutiny because he had witnessed a UFO."  Perhaps this is one of the reasons that Lynch (or whoever) chose that name...the other being the 'Oz' connection.

Where Jupiter/Zeus and Saturn/Cronos meet...
Zeus threw his lightning/thunder bolts from Mount Olympus - which had two (Twin) peaks.
The zig-zag (lightning bolt) is one of Lynch's most utilised motifs. It's key in Twin Peaks and Erase-rhea-d.
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UFO - an Unidentified Flying Owl
 Zeus - repeatedly transformed (like shape-shifting Bob) to approach mortals (usually females) as a means of gaining access.
Owl resonant Athena (wisdom) - who was born from the cleft of (Greek lightning/shape shifting god) Zeus's axed head.
In Clash of the Titans - the gods oversee and influence the activity and development of men.
Twin 'Olympus' Peaks featured Billy "Titan-ic" Zane - who also connects to the 'lightning bolt' via 'enchantment under the sea' - Back to the Future. Neptune (Poseidon) is seen at the under the sea dance. Zane played Neptune in Going Overboard (1989).
We've just previously mentioned '666'. Zane (Cal Hockley) would feature with "The '666' Omen" actor - David 'Twin Peaks' Warner (Spicer Lovejoy) in Titan-ic. Warner also starred in "S.O.S Titanic" (1979).
As I've stated before, the tale of the Titanic, in itself, encapsulates the war between the Olympian Gods and the Titans.
The Titans, of course (like the Titanic vessel, who had an Olympic sister ship), were ultimately vanquished.
Zane's breakthrough was opposite "Omen 3" star Sam 'Damien' Neill, in nautical based "Dead Calm". Major '666' Briggs (Davis), also briefly featured in "Omen IV". Scully's father, William (X-Files - played by Briggs/Davis) connects to aspects of (666 resonant) biblical Revelation (and antichrist birthing) in X-Files. Briggs reads aloud from biblical Revelation (quoting the beast and the bottomless pit) in FWWM (missing pieces), when Laura visits Bobby for the final time.
Twin Titanic Peaks

The 'earth to space' message (dialogue) between Cooper & Briggs...
which is suggestive of communication between the 'earth plane' and a type of 'etheric plane'.


"I’m not at liberty to reveal the nature of my work." 
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Major Briggs...Blue Book 'extraterrestrial/ufo' phenomena etc 

 'Stargater' Don S Davis/Major Briggs. He also played Scully's father in (UFO) X-Files.
X-Files (UFO) Duchovny played Denis/Denise Bryson in (UFO/Blue Book) Twin Peaks.
Gender-bending with cross-dressing Duchovny.
Star-gating across the (masonic) universe...

"All work and no play make Ben and Jerry dull boys."(Horne Brothers)
"All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy"  (The Shining)

talking of Horne's...
 "Here's Johnny."  

Talking of "here's Johnny"...here's Jack"

"All work and no play make Ben and Jerry dull boys."
They own One Eyed Jacks...the whore store, where plenty of 'one eyed Jacks' (penises) get serviced by the ladies. 
Even the Horne's horns get serviced.


Twin Pyramids
Twin Peaks regularly references the Native American. Mount Si (the actual mountain from Twin Peaks) is a remnant of an oceanic plate volcano. Mount Si figures prominently in a Prometheus story from the Snoqualmie Indian tribe. According to the story it is the dead body of Snoqualm, the moon. Snoqualm had ordered that a rope of cedar bark be stretched between the earth and the sky. (Sounds very similar to jacob's ladder imo). But Fox and Blue Jay went up the rope and stole the sun from Snoqualm. Snoqualm chased them down the cedar rope, but it broke and he fell to his death. Fox then let the sun free in the sky and gave fire to the people (exactly as prometheus had). A face like Snoqualm's is visible on the rocks near the summit.

Handbook of Native American Mythology - By Dawn Elaine Bastian, Judy K. Mitchell
We earlier connected the black lodge linked 'Jumping Man' to Native American myth (Heyoka).

Just to reference a little 'cross-pollenation' between Lynch & Kubrick.
Johnny 'Calumet' Horne...left with Navajo/Native American print wrap.
The Bed Masks - and hookers
More Masks
Chris Isaak
 Judy Garland + Navajo...'Over The Rainbow' (Song & Costume Store) and Leelee shares the same birthdate as Judy Garland...June 10th.
Zig & Zag
Twin Peaks and Lolita
 Painted Toes 
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The Hanged Men...Negroes.
Lobby Sets - Eraserhead & The Shining
Corridors
Spermo/Spinal Gnosis....2001 & Eraserhead

Space Food - Hospital Food
Rebirth Babies...2001 & Eraserhead
Chess
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The Hotels...The Overlook (The Shining) & The Great Northern(Twin Peaks)
Twinning
Twin Peaks & The Shining
Let's Rock(y) via Philly - he straddles the world of Twin Peaks/The Shining - Tony"Apollo's trainer/Rocky" Burton. 
Now come aspects that many may find unpleasant/offensive, but post it I must! Avoid next few paragraphs if easily offended.
The "creed" of Apollo. The sequence in Rocky that took the audience up the steps of the Philadelphia Art Museum for the triumphant moment at the top was first filmed during tests for the original Steadicam system (Garrett Brown). The system was used extensively on Stanley Kubrick's 1980 film The Shining, starring Jack Nicholson. Philadelphia - literally means "city of brotherly love" (cough, cough). Some might recall the "homosexual" resonant film Philadelphia, with Hanks/Washington. (Above) An Apollo (phallic ship) bound for a "moon" (ass/mooning, slang) and outside (molestation) room 237. I think this is (potentially) veiled sodomite propaganda! I include (masonic) NASA, and their activities within this same concept too.
The majority of homosexual myths involve Apollo.

Stephen "The Shining" King to Jonathan "Everyone's Gone to the Moon" King.
King actually claims that this track was on a tape and onboard Apollo 11.
BBC Paedophiles
Police found his (King's) 'seduction' kit bag that the kids described, at his home with the porn etc. He used to seduce the boys inside his car and boys told of being blindfolded and the perpetrator would then spit in their mouths, to condition them for oral sex. Before being sodomised they were told they were "going to the moon". Boys who tried to explain what happened to them then said "they were taken to the moon" to the disbelief of investigating police officers, - at the time no one understood Jonathan King's record "Everyones Gone to the Moon" - until this aspect was explained.
The UK B-side to this King track is "Summer's Coming" - image above is a German release.
The Shining - battering toilet/backdoors with a chopper (cock). Simon "X Factor/EMI" Cowell helped pay (paedo) King's bail in 2000. Cowell is another sodomite, he actually worked as a runner on Kubrick's The Shining (soon after leaving school). His main job was apparently "polishing choppers/axes" - a likely (blatant, imo) euphemism and in-joke for "shining cock" (fellatio). Shining Jack's axe/chopper/cock. Cowell was apparently known for his accomplished 'polishing' skills (nudge, nudge).
I suspect that he is also a paedophile, he's very likely been thru some of those boy bands!

King had his first hit record, Everyone’s Gone To The Moon, while still a Cambridge undergraduate in 1965 – the first of his 18 chart singles over the next 14 years. As soon as he graduated, he had his own Saturday night ITV show before being chosen as the right-hand man of Sir Edward Lewis, the head of Decca Records. King discovered and produced Genesis, the Bay City Rollers (see paedo Tam Paton, Walton Hop links etc) and 10cc, and was a key backer of The Rocky Horror Show. In the 1970s and 1980s, he was a regular on BBC TV and radio. At the time of his arrest, he was about to be made head of music giant EMI. Cowell's Jewish father was a record company executive for EMI, Simon would also work there. Cowell's former publicist Max Clifford (who was involved in the King case) is in prison for child abuse offences.

He (Jonathan King) had a secret 'fantasy room', a large rectangular suite in his Bayswater mansion bedecked in lush black leather sofas, large swastika flags hung ceremoniously from ceiling to floor, although Jewish he had commissioned elaborate faked photo blow-ups of himself in SS uniform, shaking hands with Hitler, he also screened 16mm projections of Nazi films which seemed to excite him.
Jewish Kubrick - who married into the Harlan family. A former top 'Nazi propaganda' filmmaking family.
Jan Harlan was Kubrick's "producer". Oh yes, this is ALL turning into very "fourth wall" type stuff!

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The majority of homosexual myths involve Apollo. Apollo was seen as the perfect man, and a god of knowledge, among other things. He was the archetypal teacher, and so was the archetypal erastes, involved in many myths as the lover of various young boys, thereby implying the importance of the relationship as educational. Thus, the pedastric aspect of Greek homosexuality (to go Greek) held an important place in their culture/education, and this is reflected strongly in their myths.
http://lucasjwjohnson.com/2009/12/18/homosexuality-defined-by-myth/

Jack chasing Dan with his chopper (slang). Labyrinth/maze - Greek, Minos/Minotaur, built on advice from oracle/Delphi.
Kubrick is no stranger to child sex - his Lolita (film) heavily featured it!
The Shining: "I'm coming, Dan...I'm right behind you." (potentially connected to sodomy, see incest Playgirl magazine, below)
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Adrian (Adri-anus) via Apollo! Adrian - it's a goddamn MAN's name. A punch in the "ring" with Rocky and Adrian (via Apollo).
Adrian: 'Pet Shop Girl Boy' - gay slang. The Soviet "Go West" (gay, Village People) - Pet Shop (Rent) Boys. 
Rocky fought Soviet Drago (Drag-o). It's actually alleged that Stallone started the Richard "gay" Gere/gerbil "pet shop" rumour.
Rocky picks up his dog 'Butkus' at Adrian's pet shop, named after linebacker DickBut(t)-cus. (Butt Kiss).
I wrote a recent piece: 'Hollywood - The Cinema of Sodomy'. Hollywood is seemingly gay/sodomite central.
Hollywood is definitely brainwashing wider society with 'gender bending' LGBT propaganda - which my post covers.
Homoeroticism: The opening picture (from the link below) is Kubrick's (gay) Spartacus - Olivier and Curtis.
We saw Olivier earlier as Greek Zeus in Clash of the Titans. Rocky's trainer Mickey (Meredith) featured in Clash of the Titans.
Cross-dressing (Some Like It Hot) Curtis - did voice work for Rosemary's Baby, as Baumgart - "hail Adrian" (spawn of satan). Polanski raped/sodomised a teen at Nicholson's Mulholland Drive home! Some may even recall that Twin Peaks' Donna (Flynn Boyle) was connected to Nicholson. The link/post body (below) features Sly Stallone, Kurt "cross-dressing Cash/Back Draft" Russell, Arnold "pumping iron" (iron, slang = homo) Schwarzenegger, Weathers (Apollo), Tom "Top Gay Gun"Cruise etc.
I mentioned the gay aspects of "muscle boys" and "body-building" in my 'Hollywood - Cinema of Sodomy' post.
http://www.denofgeek.com/movies/16167/the-greatest-homoerotic-action-movie-moments

Spartacus, homosexuality and man/boy sex/abuse. The publication was linked to the UK (paedo) Elm Guest House case.

Sex and children. Spartacus/Lolita Kubrick and Eyes Wide Shut - Illuminati sex slaves and orgies.
It's gay Cruise. The "sex" painting that hangs above Helena's bed, seen by Bill (Cruise) on his return from the orgy.

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The Shining: "Incest - Why Parents Sleep With Their Children." Playgirl (for women and homosexuals). 
Opening scenes - The Shining. Kubrick's "Spartacus" is linked to homosexuality, historically the Spartans always were. There's an infamous "gay" scene in The Shining, Derwent being fellated by the dog/bear (which is subliminally linked to Danny's abuse). Shining Jack will yell/mumble about getting back to (US gay capital) 'San Francisco' at the film's close.
A play on the song "California, Here I Come". The film opens and closes with a "chopper" (helicopter/axe).
Nicholson (himself) is believed to be a product of incest. He also happens to feature in an "incest revelation" scene in Polanski's Chinatown. Lesbianism and incest are aspects of Mulholland Drive. In MD incest is hinted at via the Beatrice Cenci painting (a victim) that hangs prominently in Betty's apt. Rita Hayworth (MD, Gilda poster) is also rumoured to have been a victim of incest. (see Mulholland Drive post).

Laura's Abuse
Of course Twin Peaks, in the main...is all about the 'systematic abuse cycle' of a young girl (since age of 12, I think?) Laura Palmer, via her father. A cycle that Leland also went through (See Leland's death scene). 
The abused becoming the abuser, the inter-generational cycle.

Leland (death scene)
 "I was just a boy. I saw him in my dreams. He said he wanted to play. He opened me and I invited him in and he came inside of me. When he was inside, I didn't know and when he was gone I couldn't remember. He made me do things, terrible things. He said he wanted lives, he wanted others. Others that they could use, like they used me."

I sure you'll appreciate the potential sexual abuse allusions being made in the dialogue.
Danny's Abuse
Of course The Shining, in the main (subliminally) is all about the systematic abuse of a young boy (since he started school) Danny Torrance, via his father. A cycle that Jack could also have gone through (although we don't know), and if so, it would be a similar inter-generational cycle, as above.
See The Shining & 2001 Endings post for more on Danny's abuse. 

 Danny (about Tony/Jack)
"It's like I go to sleep and he shows me things, but when I wake up, I can't remember everything."  
(compare that with Leland's dialogue above!)

Jack (Maze chase)
"I'm coming (climax) Dan...I'm right behind you." (Jack's body position relative to Danny's during the sex act).

Twin Peaks Leland: "He said he wanted to play"
        Twins The Shining: "Come and play with us Danny"

A 'cycle of abuse'...the motorcycle (hog) in Laura's 'all seeing eye'.
A 'cycle' until she sacrifices herself at the hands of Leland/Bob. 
Danny's cycle of abuse and 'all seeing eye' - a 'forever cycle' until he stops it, by outwitting 'the source' in the maze, Jack/Tony.

Fire Walk With Me & The Shining - Scripted Hospital Endings (filmed , but deleted scenes)

FWWM
INT. HOSPITAL ROOM - NIGHT - A NURSE mops the sweat from Annie's forehead. Annie tries to get thru to her.
My name is Annie. I've been with Laura and Dale. The good Dale is in the lodge and he can't leave. Write it in your diary.
(The nurse pats Annie's forehead and takes her hand.)
(We see  TERESA/LAURA'S RING on Annie's ring finger. The nurse gently slides the ring off Annie's finger.)
IN ANOTHER ROOM The nurse enters. With an anticipatory smile, then a selfish laugh, she puts the ring on her finger.

THE SHINING
Removed scene...about 2 weeks after initial release.

 Shelley Duvall:

The manager visits her (Wendy), apologizes for what happened, and invites her to live with him. She doesn't say yes or no. Then he goes into the hallway of the hospital, passes in front of Danny, who is playing on the ground with some toys. When he gets near the exit, he stops and says, 'I almost forgot, I have something for you.' And he pulls from his pocket the yellow ball that the twins had thrown at Danny. It bounces twice (we spent a whole day filming so it would bounce the right way), Danny catches it, looks at it, then lifts his eyes towards the hotel manager, stupefied, realizing that throughout the story he was aware of the mystery of the hotel.

At that point...the film would've gone onto the lobby zoom shot and the pictures on the wall...fade out.

Phew...and for now, we'll leave it at that.
God help you if you've not seen Twin Peaks. (as none of this will make any sense)

Update 2016/2017

Twin Greaks/Greeks

Elysium aka The Elysian Fields lay on the western margin of the Earth, by the encircling stream of Oceanus (Odyssey), and there the mortal relatives of the king of the gods were transported, without tasting death, to enjoy an immortality of bliss (Odyssey book iv: 563). (Evoking Enoch, my emphasis.)

  In Greek mythology, Elysium (Greek: Ἠλύσια πεδία) was a section of the Underworld . The Elysian Fields, or the Elysian Plains, were the final resting places of the souls of the heroic and the virtuous. Elysium is an obscure name that evolved from a designation of a place or person struck by lightning, enelysion, enelysios.  This could be a reference to Zeus, the god of lightning/Jupiter, so "lightning-struck" could be saying that the person was blessed (struck) by Zeus (lightning/fortune).

 Zeus threw his lightning/thunder bolts from Mount Olympus..with 2 (Twin) Peaks

There is even a direct reference in Utah... see pics

However it is the central, almost vertical, rocky peaks, that impress the visitor, over Litochoro, where the relief of the mountain displays on the horizon an apparent V, between two peaks (twin peaks) of almost equal height. In the left limb is Mytikas (or Pantheon - 2,918 metres (9,573 ft), Greece's highest peak, and on the right one Stefani (or Thronos Dios, Throne of Zeus - 2,902 metres, 9,521 ft), that presents the most impressive and steep peak of Olympus. I wonder if the given population size (51,201) is related (in some way) to the height (9,521) of the 'relevant' Stefani/Zeus Olympus peak?

In most modern tarot decks, Temperance stands between Death and The Devil.

Both aspects (above) are very much 'on point' for Twin Peaks and its narrative scope/plot.

In some traditions, Temperance does the judging. In those schools, the cups in Temperance’s hands are the functional equivalent of scales, and Temperance. Similar to Maat, Egyptian goddess, who judges the soul’s worth before passing it on to the beasts of the underworld. (black lodge/sycamore)

(erm, she is already dead at this point, so clearly it's 'otherworldly'...what else can it be!?)

 Donna’s father, Dr. Will Hayward, tells Laura her fate, which is ultimately shown in the final moments of Fire Walk With Me. Hayward tells Laura that her prescription is actually a secret message:
“The angels will return, and when you see the one that’s meant to help you, you will weep with joy.” (Missing Pieces)

Anyway - Elysium, the abode of the blessed after death, is an obscure name that evolved from a designation of a place or person struck by lightning, enelysion, enelysios. Likely a reference to Zeus, the god of lightning/Jupiter. 

Donnie 'Jake Gyllenhaal' Darko...connects to Twin Peaks, via his father, who was involved with the series!
He directed eps #27 "The Path to the Black Lodge". Where Briggs gets interrogated to get access to the lodges.
Windom: "Garland, what do you FEAR most in the world?" Briggs: "The possibility that LOVE isn't enough"
In the subsequent and penultimate episode (#28, Miss Twin Peaks) - this is made much clearer.
Fear & Love (opens the doors, Twin Peaks), see "Fear & Love", Donnie Darko (below)
Jake 'Darko' Gyllenhaal also starred in Duncan Jones's (who is Bowie's son) "cyclical rebirth" film Source Code.

Cooper in the zodiac circle...'Rending The Veil' (Crowley's A.A.) of The Abyss/Da'ath...via the tree(s).
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Remember, the sycamore is also known as the 'plane tree' - which evokes the astral/etheric plane(s).
"The Dweller on the threshold" (see Bulwer-Lytton's - Zanoni) of Daa'th.  Beyond Life & D(e)ath.