The film Dune, directed by David Lynch begins with these lines spoken by one of the characters:
“A BEGINNING IS A VERY DELICATE TIME… KNOW THEN THAT IT IS THE YEAR 10,191…THE KNOWN UNIVERSE IS RULED BY THE PADISHAH EMPEROR SHADDAM THE FOURTH, MY FATHER … IN THIS TIME, THE MOST PRECIOUS SUBSTANCE IN THE UNIVERSE IS THE SPICE, MELANGE… THE SPICE EXTENDS LIFE…THE SPICE EXPANDS CONSCIOUSNESS… THE SPICE IS VITAL TO SPACE TRAVEL… THE SPACING GUILD AND ITS NAVIGATORS, WHO THE SPICE HAS MUTATED OVER 4,000 YEARS USE THE ORANGE SPICE GAS WHICH GIVES THEM THE ABILITY TO FOLD SPACE… THAT IS TRAVEL TO ANY PART OF THE UNIVERSE WITHOUT MOVING… OH YES, I FORGOT TO TELL YOU… THE SPICE EXISTS ON ONLY ONE PLANET IN THE ENTIRE UNIVERSE…A DESOLATE, DRY PLANET WITH VAST DESERTS…HIDDEN AWAY IN THE ROCKS OF THESE DESERTS ARE A PEOPLE KNOWN AS THE FREMEN, WHO HAVE LONG HELD A PROPHECY, THAT A MAN WOULD COME, A MESSIAH, WHO WOULD LEAD THEM TO TRUE FREEDOM… THE PLANET IS ARRAKIS…ALSO KNOWN AS DUNE.”
In another scene, we get to hear this:
“The powerful Bene Gesserit sisterhood for 90 generations has been manipulating bloodlines to produce the Kwisatz Haderach, a super being.
On Caladan, Jessica, a member of the sisterhood, and the bound concubine of the Duke Leto Atreides, had been ordered to bear only daughters.
Because of her love for the Duke, she disobeyed, and gave birth to a son…Paul… Paul Atreides.”
These are dialogs from a screenplay which, apparently, didn’t make it into the final film:
REVEREND MOTHER RAMALLO
We are the secret of the Universe.
RESPONSE OF TWENTY THOUSAND VOICES
Bi-la kaifa.
REVEREND MOTHER RAMALLO
We are the secret.
We know of CHOAM in this Universe… Carbine Honnete Ober Advancer Mercantiles… controlled by the Emperor Shaddam IV and all the Great Houses of the Landsraad.
We know of CHOAM. Yet we are the secret sisterhood …
We know of the Bene Gesserit … the ancient training school of mental and physical training … the ones they call the witches…
yet we are the secret …
We know of the Guild and the Navigators’ power to fold space … their control over all interplanetary travel…
We know they have the seeing eye.
Yet we are the secret…
The Bakka shall weep no more for now there is at work a higher power…
RESPONSE OF TWENTY THOUSAND VOICES
Bi-la kaifa.
REVEREND MOTHER RAMALLO
And now the prophecy
Silence …then a full low organ note resounding in the cavernous space.
REVEREND MOTHER RAMALLO (CONTD.)
One will come … the voice from the outer world … bringing the Holy War, the Jihad, which will cleanse the Universe and bring us out of darkness … He will have been born …
This last passage is used in the 1984 film made by David Lynch.
The “Kwisatz Haderach” is supposed to be the Messiah – the “Mahdi”.
It’s the same idea repeated over & over again, in various forms, with slight alterations, everywhere.
GENERALLY, though, one can say that Hollywood REJECTS this sort of thinking.
Are Liberals against the “Moshiach”?
Not necessarily.
It’s not easy to say; I do have my doubts.
There is a Liberal Messiah.
We are inclined to think that Right & Left are two hands of the same body.
But is it possible, that Liberals who are homosexualizing Men – who are creating more & more “childless Cat Ladies” – who are doing everything to do, to break down the family & divide society – and are now pushing the Transsexual agenda – could be working for “Moshiach”?
They are merely dividing society as it was – but they are creating their own unity.
The Anarcho-Communist forces are generating a force which has been gathering momentum relentlessly.
Assuming that a “Mashiach” does arrive (one Rabbi said, a few weeks back, that the Mashiach lives in New York, right now) – the one awaited by the Conservative Monotheists – of whichever stamp … he represents the opposite set of values, the exact opposite lifestyle, a diametrically opposite way of thinking & feeling – as against this Anarcho-Communist force.
The more Liberalism grows, the greater the resistance to the values represented by “Moshiach”.
Will 25 million gay men just sit back & allow a Moshiach to take away their Right to Live & Love?
The more their number grows, the more difficult it will be, for a Moshiach to eliminate or control them.
So while Liberals do seem to perform the function of fragmenting and weakening “Gentile/Goy” societies, making them decadent & slide into psychological confusion & debilitation – it’s not necessarily that simple.
Liberals are not exactly weak people.
Their leaders – their exponents – their spokesmen – have tremendous resources at their beck & call.
These people own tremendous properties – they are rich!
They tend to be way more articulate, suave and glamorous, than their sour Conservative counterparts.
One simply has to compare the robust, sparkly energy of a rather old man like Tim Walz vis-à-vis the dullness of a very young J.D. Vance.
Conservatives everywhere come off as bland, insipid, boring ... lacking in charm.
Either cantankerous & spiteful, or grim & judgmental.
Perhaps Conservatism itself lacks charm?
Which is why it isn’t so popular after all.
Liberals bring the whole deal of music, dance, frivolity, humour, colour and spectacle to make their point, or rather, to influence their target audience, of which Conservatives have little or nothing to offer.
They do not bring the joy & positivity which the Liberal brigade does.
(17th Sept. ’24:
It is most pathetic that Vivek Ramaswamy used Eminem’s music during a campaigning event (I think Vivek himself was “rapping”), and Trump’s campaign used the music of Celine Dion & even Beyonce (!), all unauthorized.
They were both then forbidden to use the music of these folks.
How embarrassing.
So now hardline Conservatives need to use the achievements of hardline Liberals, to make themselves appealing?
There is no enduring, harrowing, riveting expression of any sentiment or emotion – no creative manifestation of any deep, universal thoughts & feelings – from the Conservative side.
They need “My Heart Will Go On” from the most Communistic film of all, Titanic!
Who was the last great Conservative poet, and what did he/she express?
And Vivek has been sidetracked by Trump (at least so far) because he is ten times more intelligent and articulate than Trump, and would trump both burst-balloon, gutted-gasbag Trump and the lustreless, insipid Shady Vance any day.
Whatever his views & his choices, Vivek is full of the bright energy & charisma which nobody on the Conservative side possesses.
The Christian Fundamentalists and White Supremacists are psychologically incapable of accepting a brown-skinned, Indian-origin, Hindu-born leader of “Western Civilization”.
I don’t really blame them beyond a certain point – but it does reveal a certain pettiness within them –disgustingly mingled with fear & guilt.)
The opposition to Donald Trump has been fierce – and if Kamala Harris wins (5th of November in the 2022 Batman film too!), it will get even more fierce, even more difficult to fight.
The common Liberal on the street may not be exactly cerebral – but there is no dearth of highly intelligent, intellectual, creative, talented and brilliant people amongst them.
Whom would you rather have a conversation with, at a party: Andrew Tate or Pete Buttigieg?
One seems perpetually on the verge of punching your face, the other urbane, cool, calm & confident?
How many people like Oprah can you find, on the Conservative side?
How many, like Beyonce and Taylor Swift?
If one simply looks at the music, film, TV & fashion industry – and tries to gauge their almost limitless influence over the masses – one can see these people combine stunning beauty, talent, creative genius, hard work, glamour and intellect – not to mention the money – which is exactly what makes them so irresistible, so irrepressible, so unassailable.
They present the image of the Nietzschean super-elite: self-created to dominate through beauty, strength, talent and intellect.
30 years back, one did not associate intellect with sex-appeal: the Liberals have actually made it so.
They dictate everything – what you wear – from beanie to sneakers – from cufflinks & toe-rings – how you wear it – how you walk – how you talk – your language – your jargon – even how you click photos, in what posture – how you think & feel.
They dictate your emotions: attraction, love, longing, heartbreak, loneliness, rejection, acceptance.
Above all, they dictate your enjoyment, your smiles, your laughter.
The Joker.
The Man Who Laughs.
There is no Conservative Pleasure.
Not any more.
It is all whining & moping & moaning; abuse & judgment & irritation.
Donald Trump might have been selected precisely to inject some charisma, some energy, some bubbly charm, into the whole sullen, sulky Conservative spirit, but he has become obscene, offensive and whiny beyond tolerance.
He has lost the very qualities which were meant to make him win.
He’s still trying, but I doubt if it’s working.
It’s not so easy to say that the Liberals are preparing the way for the Messianic-Rabbinical “Moshiach” – and the hatred for the Messianic Rabbis for the “Sabbateans” (to use the term figuratively) might infact be genuine.
But I don’t have any hopes – let alone high hopes – in this matter.
As I wrote earlier, the idea of a “Messiah” is predominantly Monotheistic, but not originally so.
It is found in Hinduism too – but it’s an idea forgotten & ignored, without any inner power or spiritual relevance for Indians.
But has been suddenly pushed into view, by Bollywood.
I haven’t read the Dune series – but I take it that the author does NOT approve of the Jihad.
This is indicated in the 2021 film in the vision which Paul Atreides has, after he has fled into the desert after the attack on Arrakeen.
In this film, very atmospheric & intense, the term “Lisan Al-Gaib” – “Voice from the outer world” – is used for the character of Paul Atreides, by some of the people on the desert planet Arrakis – people who think he is the Messiah or Mahdi.
The film is good, though there should have been more exposition.
The director emphasizes too much on sound & image.
He is brilliant, but, I felt, insufficient.
The pacing of the film tends to suffer after a certain point, and one feels it was stretched.
I’d seen the 1984 film earlier, so I didn’t find it difficult to follow, but for someone who’s seeing this for the first time, it would be too vague.
While Timothée Chalamet is an excellent actor, he somehow doesn’t convince, as a fighter, a fierce warrior.
He fits the role of Elio so well, it’s difficult to see him as the Mahdi!
His eyes are too big & feminine & soft & emotional – his voice too chocolatey & romantic.
He can look arrogant – but in a very different way – a rather petulant, uppity, college-youngster way – not like a formidable World Saviour who may be expected to look gruff & haughty.
He was absolutely perfect, for Call Me By Your Name.
He certainly fits the role of a Male Witch 
, but not someone who’s dangerous, who radiates an unconquerable power & charisma, and could lead millions into war.
Well, I haven’t seen the 2nd installment of Dune – so I can’t say what’s his performance like.
I can only hope he looks his age.
His whole personality has nothing of the fighter or soldier (unlike Josh Brolin), let alone a mass-murdering “En Saba Noor” “Apocalypse” type of Messiah.
Neither did that cute puppy from the 1984 film 
, far more suited to his silly role in Sex & The City, than that of a Mahdi!
Zendaya may blossom into a very talented actress – but as of now, she’s landed a role beyond her teeny-bopper personality.
She lacks gravitas – rather, it maybe correct to say she’s too young to have the gravitas necessary for such an intense role.
I couldn’t help noticing that the whole architecture on Arrakeen is Sumerian-Egyptian.
The Star of David is used – somewhat cryptically – for the House of Atreides – which makes it akin to the House of David.
Except that the Star of David has nothing to do with either Judaism or David – that is, there’s no specific reason to associate the hexagram with either Judaism or David.
It can be found in Indian temples, in sculptures of Viṣṇu and Durgā.
It can be found in Christian Cathedrals.
Lady Jessica is a combination of Virgin Mary & Mary Magdalene.
The name Jessica may be related to the Hebrew word Jesse – the father of David.
There is some prophecy of a “Mother & Child”.
This is all a hodgepodge of Judeo-Christian-Islamic notions.
Once the viewer notices that the architecture on Arrakeen is Sumerian-Egyptian, he/she will also note that it wasn’t made by the Atreideses.
Was it made by the Harkonnens?
Hollywood plays opposites all the time, but its hatred for Egypt is one of the most constant themes.
And the 2021 film showed a strange scene about the warriors known as the Sardaukars.
They seem to be in the midst of some horrid ritual of mass human sacrifice.
There are several bodies in a crucified pose, but inverted – laying head downwards – along the slope of something that looks vaguely like a pyramid – like the slope of an Aztec pyramid.
It looks like they are being bled – their blood flows down in channels carved along the slope, collecting in troughs which are part of the structure, and then mingles with water (it’s raining, with sunlight) which is then taken up in bowls.
This is probably used in making a bloody mark on the forehead – like the tilak of Hindus.
The scene is powerful in itself – grim & weird – but is also very vague, and probably has some cryptic insinuations & innuendos.
I’d like to read the novel series.
The Bene Gesserit is supposed to be reminiscent of the Jesuits.
Then there is the 1998 film Deep Impact.
In this film, a comet is supposed to be on its way to a “extinction-level-event” collision with the Earth.
The United States & Russia collaborate to send a satellite, named Messiah – with a team which has to try to alter the comet’s path with nuclear bombs.
The initial mission fails, two astronauts are lost, and the comet splits into two parts – one big, one small.
Finally, the remaining team decides to sacrifice itself to prevent the larger fragment from causing tremendous devastation on Earth.
This team is led by Captain Spurgeon Tanner, played by Robert Duvall, and who goes by the name “Fish”.
One character asks him why he is called “Fish” – and Tanner says that he got called “Fish” because “sturgeon” is so close to “spurgeon”, his surname.
Curious logic.
Spurgeon could also become Surgeon, and hence, Doctor.
Fact is, in this film (which was much better than Armageddon) “Fish” leads the “Messiah” which saves humanity from a global cataclysm.
One immediately thinks of the “Ichthys” – Jesus Christ as the Fish – who was palmed off as the Messiah of the Jews (but was rejected by them).
I was reminded of this passage from Isis Unveiled, by Madam Blavatsky:
“It is well known, that the earliest Christian emblems — before it was ever attempted to represent the bodily appearance of Jesus — were the Lamb, the Good Shepherd, and the Fish.
The origin of the latter emblem, which has so puzzled the archaeologists, thus becomes comprehensible.
The whole secret lies in the easily-ascertained fact that, while in the Kabala, the King Messiah is called “interpreter,” or Revealer of the mystery, and shown to be the fifth emanation, in the Talmud — for reasons we will now explain — the Messiah is very often designated as “Dag,” or the Fish.
This is an inheritance from the Chaldees, and relates — as the very name indicates — to the Babylonian Dagon, the man-fish, who was the instructor and interpreter of the people, to whom he appeared.
Abarbanel explains the name, by stating that the sign of his (Messiah’s) coming “is the conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter in the sign Pisces.”
Therefore, as the Christians were intent upon identifying their Christos with the Messiah of the Old Testament, they adopted it so readily as to forget that its true origin might be traced still farther back than the Babylonian Dagon.
How eagerly and closely the ideal of Jesus was united, by the early Christians, with every imaginable kabalistic and Pagan tenet, may be inferred from the language of Clemens, of Alexandria, addressed to his brother co-religionists.
When they were debating upon the choice of the most appropriate symbol to remind them of Jesus, Clemens advised them in the following words: “Let the engraving upon the gem of your ring be either a dove, or a ship running before the wind (the argha), or a fish.””
We know that all this is one-third or one-fourth of the Truth.
But let’s not get into the Hindu angle of Viṣṇu assuming the Fish-Avatāra of Matsya to save Manu, the progenitor of mankind (he is way more than that) from a global deluge.
{“I have come to know you, O Keśava!
You are puzzling me in the form of a fish.
I bow down to You, O, Hṛṣīkeśa, Jagannātha, Jagaddhāma’.
Being thus addressed, Bhagavâna Janârdana, in the form of a fish, complimented (??) him, and said:
“O Spotless One (anagha – Sinless One), I have been truly known by you.
In a few days’ time, O King, the Universe shall be deluged with water, along with the mountains and forests.
(The original says Earth, Medinī, along with its mountains (śaila), groves (kānana) and forests (vana).)
The Devas have made this boat to rescue the creation from such a calamity, placing in it
svedajas, aṇḍajas, udbhijas and jarâyujas (the 4 fundamental forms of organic life, in Hindu thought – it would include the tiniest forms of life too).
(The original says: mahājīva-nikāya: for the protection of this collection/aggregate of great living beings.)
O King! you take charge of this boat and help the distressed at the lime of the impending danger.
When you find the boat in danger of being blown away by the strong gusts of wind, tie it to my horn.
By rescuing the afflicted from such an awful misfortune, you will be rendering a great paternal service to the creation.
And, O blessed sovereign! You shall reign for one Manvantara, from the beginning of the KṛtaYuga, and shall be venerated by the Devas”.”
– 1.27-35 Matsya Purāṇa (Basu’s inaccurate Eng. Translation)
There are important differences from the original – Viṣṇu clearly tells Manu that the latter shall become the Prajāpati of all Moving and Stationary Beings – something which the translator misses completely.
But the fundamental idea should be clear to the reader: the striking similarity to the legend of Noah.
I’ve already pointed out earlier, that the word Noah-Nuach is related to the Sanskrit word for boat-ship-ark, nau-naukā.
It is infact found in many Indo-European languages.
There are Egyptian connections too.}
Let us not get into the Sumerian-Egyptian-Zoroastrian versions of the same legend.
The fact is that the film – without the public knowing or realizing – weaves Kabbalistic-Messianic symbolism into its fabric.
The same has been done in the film The Da Vinci Code.
(17th Sept. ’24:
I just discovered that Timothee Chalamet & Zendaya are both 28 years old.
Good Lord.
So they were about 25 when Dune was released?
They don’t look it!
He looks about 19-ish – more like 18 – and she, about 17.
Too childish – though I don’t mean this in a bad way.
It’s just that they both look like kids.
I forgot that 4 years had passed between Call Me By Your Name and Dune, because Timmy looks just the same!
Rebecca Ferguson has done a great job as a Bene Gesserit – a lover, a mother, a sorceress, a woman combining mysteriousness, magic and maternity.
Conveying both strength and vulnerability.
I could never make up my mind about Oscar Isaac.
He somehow didn’t fit the role of En Sabah Noor very well.
A man who brings death upon millions and who wipes out civilization to create a new world – well, we’d expect him to be at least 6 feet 3, and have massive shoulders.
Somehow!
I mean it’s ridiculous, but the human mind spontaneously forms the image of a man concomitant with the magnitude of his deeds.
Josh Brolin as Thanos was the best choice ever.
Well, coming back to Dune, Zendaya looks like a school-kid, so she doesn’t possess the necessary intensity for such a serious role.
Somehow, the other girl, in the 1984 film – Sean Young – did.
She was not only stunningly beautiful, but had an air of softness, mystery & reticence, which Zendaya doesn’t.
Zendaya is a good actress though – she performed her role in Spider-Man No Way Home very well.)
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