As Above,
so Below.
As I think is already quite well-known, it is no big secret that Prince is way into Jesus Christ.
But he has never been a Christian, and never attended regular Christian Church services, even though Christian themes and theology and direct references to Bibical scripture have always been present in his lyrics right from his earliest songwriting efforts in the Minisappolis disco era, years even before Purple Rain, where they very much began pushing their way up front, transitioning from being mostly implicit to the explicit, main set of themes that set the tone for each new track - there is also a HEAVY emphasis given to the key tropes of Western Esotericism, cypher and codes, numerology in particular.
To be clear, and for the avoidance of any doubt, Prince was raised as Seventh Day Adventist (which is a non-Christian Crypto-Christian religion) and remained so until 2001, when he "realised" he was a Jehovahs Witness, rather that undergoing a conversion to Watchtower Society doctrine - and they are very similar teachings on several key areas, so everything he was taught by being raised as an Adventist which does not directly clash with Watchtower Society teachings and doctrine, it is safe to say he still believes, since so much of it is the same.
The reason why this is particularly important to understand is because of two crucial shared doctrines of "Christian Mortalism" (The Denial of the Immortal Human Soul) and "Annihilationism" (The Denial of Hell as a place of Everlasting Torment, and the rejection of a Heaven as a Non-Terrestrial Paradise)
Neither faith uses terms like "The Denial of the Human Soul", obviously, but the key codeword terms to be aware of are things such as "Everlasting Life on Earth", "Paradise Earth" (which is the AfterWorld))
Good Summary.
Self-Healing and Angel Magick
"Epileptic 'til the age of 7."
- The Sacrifice of Victor
"I've never spoken about this before, but I was born epileptic, I used to have seizures when I was young.
And my mother and father didn't know what to do or how to handle it but they did the best they could with what little they had.
My mother told me one day I walked in to her and said
'Mom, I'm not going to be sick anymore.'
And she said 'Why?' And I said
'Because an angel told me so.'
Now, I don't remember saying it, that's just what she told me."
The Jungian-Ericksonian version of this is say :
"What you believe to be true is true - that is what defines the nature of your reality"
This is the same as saying :
In the the biggining was The Word,
And The Word was with God,
And The Word was God.
The Word (or the Sigil) are one and the same, they define and describe exactly one and the other.
This is everything which the Post-Modern Structuralists and Deconstructionists explicitly deny and reject - words, signs and symbols have absolutely no inherent meaning, and have non direct connection to ideas or concepts other than via a sedimentary buildup of meaning, acquired via the action of their continual use : Words only mean things because we think they do.
This is complete rubbish, obviously.
The Indivisibility of the Body, Mind and Spirit - You soul is in your body, and remains there when you die, to await the Final Day of Judgement.
The Annihilation of the Body of Christ in the tomb following the Crucifiction.
The Body/Mind/Spirit of Christ was then physically recreated after Easter Monday (several times),
And so, before he can be properly buried, Jesus returns to visit with his friends and followers in disguise, which is why many people fail to recognise him.
And so, again, before he can be properly buried, hr returns to visit with his friends and followers in disguise, which is why many people fail to recognise him, to let them know he is alive.
The Inside of Prince's Kingdom Hall
Why Purple?
This one is difficult to pin down, and indeed there may not actually be one, definitive answer to this question, but since the purple thing is clearly so very basic and keeps on recurring so many times, again and again throughout all of the albums over several decades, it's probably quite worth tackling this one first and up-front, as it seems to act as a kind of thematic glue that holds together much of the underlying worldview created by the teachings he adheres to, so here goes :
On a purely surface, superficial level, in the Ancient World and by the time time of the Early Church and the earliest establishment of the End Times Prophecy, Apocalyptic tradition, Purple was solely and exclusively identified with Royalty, and only those most wealthy scions of the Great Familes of theGreek City States and the Roman Republic able to trace a royal lineage in their ancestry were permitted to wear purple robes or other garments in public.
Why is the sky Purple during/after The Apocalypse?
Why is the Rain Purple, and what is this metaphor intended to be?
Or is it literally Purple water falling from rainclouds in the sky?
The Red and the Blue.
Red and Blue blended together when they meet and clash obvious produces Purple, but Prince spoke on other occasions, more than once, of the relationship between The Red and The Blue and The Green (which is money).
The Red and The Blue (and The Green) means (at the very least) :
Capitalism and Communism
(and their relation to money)
Republicans and Democrats
(and their relation to money)
"When there’s blood in the sky - red and blue = purple.. purple rain pertains to the end of the world and being with the one you love and letting your faith/god"guide you through the purple rain"
"A CNN crew visits the Kingdom Hall of Prince the Sunday after he 'passed away'."
"We expect Brother Nelson to be resurrected here on Earth, just like the Bible says, when Jehovah cleanses this Earth of all it's evil,there'll be a resurrection and we will welcome him back - and he'll be right [here] like flesh and blood, like you and me are talking here right now.
It's a deep, deep belief that we have."
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