Fire is The Devil Hiding Like A Coward in The Smoke.

ACT THREE

 

FADE IN:

 

22. INT. DR. JACOBY'S OFFICE - DAY

 

We don't immediately realize where we are. 

Seated in a half circle of chairs are MAJOR BRIGGS, MRS. BRIGGS and Bobby, who can't believe what he's hearing.

 

MRS. BRIGGS

He's been spending more and more of his time alone in

his room.

 

MAJOR BRIGGS

It's become much more difficult to engage him in

conversation.

 

MRS. BRIGGS

Terrible mood swings.

 

MAJOR BRIGGS

We've been told by the school that his attendance has

become erratic at best.

 

MRS. BRIGGS

And of course the recent trouble with public fighting.

Both at the Roadhouse and the funeral.

 

And now we see who they're talking to, sitting in a leather chair, nodding sagely ...

 

DR. JACOBY

Are you using drugs, Bobby?

 

BOBBY

No I'm not.

 

MAJOR BRIGGS

Alcohol.

 

MRS. BRIGGS

Alcohol's a drug.

 

BOBBY

That's not what he meant.

 

MRS. BRIGGS

Alcohol doesn't count?

 

BOBBY

Everybody uses alcohol.

 

DR. JACOBY

Are you unhappy, Bobby?

 

BOBBY

Shouldn't I be?

 

DR. JACOBY

That's not for me to say.

 

Pause.

 

BOBBY

Have you ever killed anybody?

 

DR. JACOBY

Have you?

 

BOBBY

My Father has.

 

MAJOR BRIGGS

During wartime.

 

MRS. BRIGGS

That's different.

 

BOBBY

Different from what?

 

DR. JACOBY

Perhaps I should spend a few minutes with Robert alone.

 

MAJOR BRIGGS

This is supposed to be family counseling.

 

DR. JACOBY

And I'll need to spend some time alone with every member of the family. 

Bobby first.

 

MAJOR BRIGGS

Fair enough.

 

MRS. BRIGGS

Whatever you think best, Doctor.

 

The Major and the Missus get up and leave the room.

 

DR. JACOBY

Bobby, let's cut the crap.

(Bobby looks at him)

Do you feel that your parents don't understand what

you're going through?

 

BOBBY

That's a good one.

 

DR. JACOBY

Let's talk about Laura.

 

BOBBY

Okay. Let's talk about Laura.

 

DR. JACOBY

(knows some secrets here)

What happened the first time you and Laura made love?

 

BOBBY

What the hell kind of question is that?

 

DR. JACOBY

Bobby ... did you cry?

 

BOBBY

(stunned; This is True)

Did I what?

 

DR. JACOBY

(also true)

What did Laura do then? 

Did she laugh at you?

 

Bobby's completely throw off his guard. Jacoby moves in.

 

DR. JACOBY

Were you sad when Laura died?

 

BOBBY

Laura wanted to die.

 

DR. JACOBY

How do you know that?

 

BOBBY

(rising emotion)

Because she told me.

DR. JACOBY

What else did she tell you?

(silence)

Did she tell you there was no goodness in the world?

 

BOBBY

She said people tried to be good but they were really

sick and rotten, her most of all, and the harder she tried to be good the more rotten she felt because it didn't mean anything, because every time she tried to help the world be a better place something terrible came up inside her and pulled her back down into hell, it took her deeper and deeper into the blackest nightmare and every time it got harder to go back up to the light.

 

Pause.

 

DR. JACOBY

(on the case)

Did you sometimes have the feeling that Laura was

harboring some awful secret?

 

BOBBY

Yes.

 

DR. JACOBY

Bad enough that she wanted to die because of it?

 

BOBBY

Yes.

 

DR. JACOBY

Bad enough that it drove her to consciously try to find

people's weaknesses and prey on them, tempt them,

break them down, make them do terrible, degrading

things?

 

BOBBY

(shocked and frightened)

Yes.

 

DR. JACOBY

Laura wanted to corrupt people, because that's how she

felt about herself -

 

BOBBY

(near tears)

Yes.

Pause.

 

DR. JACOBY

Is that what happened to you, Bobby?

 

Bobby dissolves into tears.

 

DR. JACOBY (CONTINUED)

(gently)

Is that what Laura did to you?

 

BOBBY

Yes. She made me ... she wanted ... so much ... she made

me sell drugs so she could have them ... she made me ...

 

Bobby can't continue, buries his face in his hands. Jacoby has had something essential confirmed. He rises, pats Bobby sympathetically on the shoulder, offers him the bowl of ...

 

DR. JACOBY (CONTINUED)

Malted milk ball?

 

Bobby shakes his head. 

Jacoby pops one in his mouth and chews, thinking.

 

CUT TO:

23. EXT. WOODS - DAY

 

A dense, dark forest.

CUT TO:

24. EXT. WOODS - DAY

 

A number of police cars parked in a clearing, the jumping off place for a search party.

Cooper, Truman, Hawk and Doc Hayward. They're preparing to go off into the woods, when

Andy speeds up in his patrol car and gets out.

 

ANDY

(excited)

Sheriff, Leo Johnson's been gone two days, his wife

hasn't seen him -

 

TRUMAN

Okay, Andy --

 

ANDY

But the thing is, I looked into the kitchen? She was

having breakfast and the table was set for two.

COOPER

Good work, Andy. You keep those eyes peeled.

 

Andy beams with pride.

 

TRUMAN

Andy, I want you to stay with the cars.

(Andy's disappointed)

I need someone to stay near the radio. We'll keep in

touch on the walkies.

 

Andy nods and starts back to the cars.

 

TRUMAN

Hawk, lead the way.

 

Hawk tunes up his sensory apparatus, nods, starts into the woods. Cooper and Truman look at

each other. Cooper nods.

 

TRUMAN (CONTINUED)

Doc, you sure you're up for this?

 

HAYWARD

In for a penny, in for a pound, Harry.

 

TRUMAN

That's the spirit.

 

They follow Hawk into the woods.

DISSOLVE TO:

25. EXT. WOODS - DAY

 

A dark, dark grove. The air still and moist. 

A solitary mournful bird call. Hawk stops, listens, examines the ground, finds something that leads him on. Cooper, Truman and Hayward follow.

CUT TO:

26. EXT. LOG LADYS CABIN - DAY

 

Hawk turns a corner and comes upon a simple, solidly constructed log cabin in a clearing. 

It is not the cabin we saw in the photograph in Jacques' apartment. 

Smoke rises from the chimney.

The others join Hawk in the clearing.

 

COOPER

Not the one we're looking for.

 

HAWK

Maybe, maybe not.

 

TRUMAN

You might want to hang back a step, Doc.

 

HAYWARD

(winded) 

Might want to anyway.

As a precaution, Hawk and Truman draw weapons and along with Cooper start to advance. 

As they round the corner of the cabin, they come face to face with the LOG LADY, carrying a log.

TRUMAN

Hello.

LOG LADY

About time you got here.

(to herself)

They move so slowly when they're not afraid.

 

She goes right inside the cabin. Pause. They look at each other. The Log Lady appears in the doorway again.

 

LOG LADY (CONTINUED)

Come on then. 

My log does not judge, 

it only records.

 

She disappears again. They look at each other. Cooper nods. Truman calls back.

 

TRUMAN

Doc?

CUT TO:

27. INT. LOG LADY'S CABIN - DAY

Truman, Cooper, Hawk and then Doc enter. 

One large room. Simple kitchen, a bed in the corner. 

Table with six chairs, six places with a log-motif tea setting. A boarded up fireplace.

Fire extinguishers and a bucket of water in each corner. 

An axe, a saw and other woodcutting tools. Framed picture of a lumberjack, on the mantle, beside a funereal urn, with ashes. 

Log Lady goes to the kitchen, where she's preparing tea.

LOG LADY

I've got tea. I've got cookies. No cake.

COOPER

That's very kind of you, but I don't know if we have

time to --

 

Hawk signals him to accept the invitation, then takes the lead and sits at the table.

 

HAWK

What kind of cookies?

 

LOG LADY

Sugar. The owls won't see us in here.

 

Hayward sits at the table beside Hawk.

HAYWARD

Some tea would be very nice.

LOG LADY

(to Truman and Cooper, annoyed)

Shut your eyes and you will burst into flames.

 

TRUMAN

Thank you.

 

COOPER

Thank you very much.

 

Truman and Cooper sit. The Log Lady sets down a plate of cookies on the table, along with a log-motif tea pot, then she takes a seat.

 

LOG LADY

We'll let it steep.

 

Pause. Cooper reaches for a cookie. 

Log Lady lightly slaps his hand.

 

LOG LADY (CONTINUED)

Wait for the tea. 

The fish aren't running.

Cooper. looks around, noticing all the firefighting equipment. She looks at him, as if to say,

"Don't laugh. I see everything and it takes it's toll." 

Pause.

 

COOPER

Do you use fire for cooking then?

 

LOG LADY

I go to great lengths to keep it under control.

 

TRUMAN

M'am, were you expecting us?

 

LOG LADY

You're two days late. 

Clues may be as cold as the tea

but that's your concern.

(pause)

My log saw something, something significant. 

There's no closer relationship than the logger with the tree.

 

Pause. Cooper looks at Truman

TRUMAN

M'am, what did your log see?

 

LOG LADY

(shakes her head)

Drink first and be ready for The Truth..

She checks the pot, decides it's ready and starts to pour. 

Six cups. Formal manners.

COOPER

(passing the plate around)

Lime, Harry?

 

LOG LADY

My husband was a logging man.

 

COOPER

Oh?

 

LOG LADY

He met The Devil. 

The Devil took the form of Fire. 

Fire is The Devil hiding like A Coward in The Smoke.

HAYWARD

(he knows her)

The day after the wedding, wasn't it Margaret?

 

She looks away. 

HAWK

(to the Log Lady, comforting)

The Wood holds many spirits, doesn't it Margaret?

 

She nods. Pause. They nibble on cookies and drink their tea. The Log Lady turns to Cooper.

 

LOG LADY

You can ask it now.

 

COOPER

(to the log; solemnly, respectfully)

What did you see that night? 

The night Laura Palmer, was killed?

 

LOG LADY

(pause to the log)

Shhhh. Let me do the talking.

(she doses her eyes; this is hard for her)

Dark. Laughing. The Owls were flying. 

Many things were blocked. Laughing. 

Two men. Two girls.

Flashlights, in the woods, pass by, over the ridge. 

The owls were near. The Dark was pressing in on her ...

(calmer)

Quiet then. A gentle wind. 

Footsteps, later, one man pass by. 

All quiet. Screams, far away. Terrible.

Terrible. One voice ...

COOPER

(quietly)

Man or girl?

 

LOG LADY

Girl.... Further up. Over the ridge 

The owls were silent.

She opens her eyes, blinks. Takes a sip of tea. Hayward dries the tears in his eyes.

 

CUT TO:

28. EXT. WOODS DAY

 

A light mist falls. Hawk, Truman, Cooper and Hayward make their way up the ridge through thick woods.

 

COOPER

The two girls are Laura and Ronette.

 

TRUMAN

The two men Jacques, maybe Leo?

 

COOPER

Maybe.

 

TRUMAN

Who's The Third Man?

A. : Harry Lime.

 

Hawk stops suddenly, gestures them to be quiet. He listens.

 

HAWK

Do you hear it?

 

They listen.. Far away ... music. An angelic voice, soft chords.

 

HAWK (CONTINUED)

This way.

 

They continue on.

 

Hawk, Truman, Cooper and Hayward emerge from a thick stand into a clearing; on a rocky point above them stands the log cabin seen in the photo at Jacques; apartment. 

Rundown, not well maintained. Red drapes are visible in a window. Cooper looks at the photo. 

It was shot from the angle they're viewing it from now.

 

The music issues from inside the cabin. The song ends. Pause. The same song begins again.

 

Truman draws his weapon and takes the lead. Hawk and Cooper draw their weapons and follow. 

Hayward sits on a rock and wipes his brow with a handkerchief.

 

CUT TO:

30. INT. SECOND CABIN - DAY

 

The door creaks open, throwing the only light into the dark room. 

Truman, Hawk and Cooper cautiously enter. The music is louder. Cooper draws aside a set of the heavy, dusty red

drapes, letting more light into the room.

 

On a simple record player, the tone arm pulled back over a 45 record, the song ends again, the stylus lifts, returns to the outside, then back onto the outside edge of the record. Scratches, pops, then the song starts again.

 

COOPER

(under his breath)

... and there's always music in the air..."

 

Cooper lifts the stylus off the record. All three men proceed with extreme care, trying not to move or disturb anything.

 

The single room is dusty, trashy, a low-rent version of a harem room: an overstuffed davenport, cheap oriental throw rugs, tasseled satin pillows, empty bottles and full ashtrays.

 

On a tripod, a 35 millimeter camera, facing a small photo bay created by the drapes and pillows. Hawk checks it out.

 

HAWK

There's film in here.

 

Hawk takes out an evidence bag, removes the film.

 

Cooper finds a spool of twine lying on the floor

 

Another tripod shaped object, covered with a cloth. Truman slowly draws the cloth off ... 

a mynah bird in the cage reacts drowsily, weak from hunger and thirst. 

A nameplate on the cage reads ... "O"

 

Hawk draws their attention to dark stains on the wood and one of the throw rugs. He examines it.

 

HAWK

Blood.

 

Cooper moves to look at it

 

Truman, backing up from the cage, hits a rocking chair which rocks forward and hits a table, knocking over a lamp ...

 

Hawk, looking past Cooper, sees The Lamp ...

 

HAWK

Watch out.

Cooper avoids the lamp as it crashes to the floor. Something skitters off the lamp and rolls under the davenport Hawk and Cooper look at each other. Cooper reaches in under the

davenport, feels around, finds something. He pulls it out

INTERCUT:

31. A POKER CHIP

 

A thousand dollar chip, with a small chunk missing. It reads: "ONE-EYED (J)ACK'S"

 

Cooper and Hawk look at each other.

 

Little MIKE

 

 Twin Peaks - Man from another Place teaches how to speak in the Red Room

LIBER Taw-Yod-Shin-Aleph-Resh-Bet (ThIShARB)
VIAE MEMORIAE
sub figura CMXIII

A.·. A.·.
Publication in Class B.
Imprimatur:
N. Fra A.·. A.·.

000. May be.

[00. It has not been possible to construct this book on a basis of pure Scepticism. This matters less, as the practice leads to Scepticism, and it may be through it.]

0. This book is not intended to lead to the supreme attainment. On the contrary, its results define the separate being of the Exempt Adept from the rest of the Universe, and discover his relation to that Universe.

1. It is of such importance to the Exempt Adept that We cannot overrate it. Let him in no wise adventure the plunge into the Abyss until he have accomplished this to his most perfectest satisfaction.
2. For in the Abyss no effort is anywise possible. The Abyss is passed by virtue of the mass of the Adept and his Karma. Two forces impel him: (1) the attraction of Binah, (2) the impulse of his Karma; and the ease and even the safety of his passage depend on the strength and direction of the latter.
3. Should one rashly dare the passage, and take the irrevocable Oath of the Abyss, he might be lost therein through AEons of incalculable agony; he might even be thrown back upon Chesed, with the terrible Karma of failure added to his original imperfection.
4. It is even said that in certain circumstances it is possible to fall altogether from the Tree of Life, and to attain the Towers of the Black Brothers. But We hold that this is not possible for any adept who has truly attained his grade, or even for any man who has really sought to help humanity even for a single second,<<Those in possession of Liber CLXXXV. will note that in every grade but one the aspirant is pledged to serve his inferiors in the Order.>> and that although his aspiration have been impure through vanity or any similar imperfection.
5. Let then the Adept who finds the result of these meditations unsatisfactory refuse the Oath of the Abyss, and live so that his Karma gains strength and direction suitable to the task at some future period.
6. Memory is essential to the individual consciousness; otherwise the mind were but a blank sheet on which shadows are cast. But we see that not only does the mind retain impressions, but that it is so constituted that its tendency is to retain some more excellently than others. Thus the great classical scholar, Sir Richard Jebb, was unable to learn even the schoolboy mathematics required for the preliminary examination at Cambridge University, and a special act of the authorities was required in order to admit him.{WEH NOTE: Normally this would be an exercise of Medieval privilege by a Royal or other nobility. Wars have been lost over such "Grace" being given in the qualification of officers!}
7. The first method to be described has been detailed in Bhikkhu Ananda Metteya's "Training of the Mind" (EQUINOX, I. 5, pp. 28-59, and especially pp. 48-56). We have little to alter or to add. Its most important result, as regards the Oath of the Abyss, is the freedom from all desire or clinging to anything which it gives. Its second result is to aid the adept in the second method, by supplying him with further data for his investigation.
8. The stimulation of memory useful in both practices is also achieved by simple meditation (Liber E), in a certain stage of which old memories arise unbidden. The adept may then practise this, stopping at that stage, and encouraging instead of suppressing the flashes of memory.
9. Zoroaster has said, "Explore the River of the Soul, whence or in what order you have come; so that although you have become a servant to the body, you may again rise to that Order (the A.·. A.·.) from which you descended, joining Works (Kamma) to the Sacred Reason (the Tao)."
10. The Result of the Second Method is to show the Adept to what end his powers are destined. When he has passed the Abyss and become NEMO, the return of the current causes him "to appear in the Heaven of Jupiter as a morning star or as an evening star."[The formula of the Great Work "Solve et Coagula" may be thus interpreted. Solve, the dissolution of the Self in the Infinite; Coagula, the presentation of the Infinite in a concrete form to the outer. Both are necessary to the Task of a Master of the Temple.] In other words, he should discover what may be the nature of his work. Thus Mohammed was a Brother reflected into Netzach, Buddha a Brother reflected into Hod, or, as some say, Daath. The present manifestation of Frater P. to the outer is in Tiphereth, to the inner in the path of Leo.
11. First Method. Let the Exempt Adept first train himself to think backwards by external means, as set forth here following.

    ("a") Let him learn to write backwards, with either hand.
    ("b") Let him learn to walk backwards.
    ("c") Let him constantly watch, if convenient, cinematograph films, and listen to phonograph records, reversed, and let him so accustom himself to these that they appear natural, and appreciable as a whole.
    ("d") Let him practise speaking backwards; thus for "I am He" let him say, "Eh ma I".
    ("e") Let him learn to read backwards. In this it is difficult to avoid cheating one's self, as an expert reader sees a sentence at a glance. Let his disciple read aloud to him backwards, slowly at first, then more quickly.
    ("f") Of his own ingenium, let him devise other methods.

12. In this his brain will at first be overwhelmed by a sense of utter confusion; secondly, it will endeavour to evade the difficulty by a trick. The brain will pretend to be working backwards when it is really normal. It is difficult to describe the nature of the trick, but it will be quite obvious to anyone who has done practices ("a") and ("b") for a day or two. They become quite easy, and he will think that he is making progress, an illusion which close analysis will dispel.
13. Having begun to train his brain in this manner, and obtained some little success, let the Exempt Adept, seated in his Asana, think first of his present attitude, next of the act of being seated, next of his entering the room, next of his robing, et cetera, exactly as it happened. And let him most strenuously endeavour to think each act as happening backwards. It is not enough to think: "I am seated here, and before that I was standing, and before that I entered the room," etc. That series is the trick detected in the preliminary practices. The series must not run "ghi-def-abc" but "ihgfedcba": not "horse a is this" but "esroh a si siht". To obtain this thoroughly well, practice ("c") is very useful. The brain will be found to struggle constantly to right itself, soon accustoming itself to accept "esroh" as merely another glyph for "horse." This tendency must be constantly combated.
14. In the early stages of this practice the endeavour should be to meticulous minuteness of detail in remembering actions; for the brain's habit of thinking forwards will at first be insuperable. Thinking of large and complex actions, then, will give a series which we may symbolically write "opqrstu-hijklmn-abcdefg." If these be split into detail, we shall have "stu-pqr-o---mn-kl-hij---fg-cde-ab," which is much nearer to the ideal "utsrqponmlkjihgfedcba."
15. Capacities differ widely, but the Exempt Adept need have no reason to be discouraged if after a month's continuous labour he find that now and again for a few seconds his brain really works backwards.
16. The Exempt Adept should concentrate his efforts upon obtaining a perfect picture of five minutes backwards rather than upon extending the time covered by his meditation. For this preliminary training of the brain is the Pons Asinorum of the whole process.
17. This five minutes' exercise being satisfactory, the Exempt Adept may extend the same at his discretion to cover an hour, a day, a week, and so on. Difficulties vanish before him as he advances; the extension from a day to the course of his whole life will not prove so difficult as the perfecting of the five minutes.
18. This practice should be repeated at least four times daily, and progress is shown firstly by the ever easier running of the brain, secondly by the added memories which arise.
19. It is useful to reflect during this practice, which in time becomes almost mechanical, upon the way in which effects spring from causes. This aids the mind to link its memories, and prepares the adept for the preliminary practice of the Second Method.
20. Having allowed the mind to return for some hundred times to the hour of birth, it should be encouraged to endeavour to penetrate beyond that period. If it be properly trained to run backwards, there will be little difficulty in doing this, although it is one of the distinct steps in the practice.
21. It may be then that the memory will persuade the adept of some previous existence. Where this is possible, let it be checked by an appeal to facts, as follows:
22. It often occurs to men that on visiting a place to which they have never been, it appears familiar. This may arise from a confusion of thought or a slipping of the memory, but it is conceivably a fact.
    If, then, the adept "remember" that he was in a previous life in some city, say Cracow, which he has in this life never visited, let him describe from memory the appearance of Cracow, and of its inhabitants, setting down their names. Let him further enter into details of the city and its customs. And having done this with great minuteness, let him confirm the same by consultation with historians and geographers, or by a personal visit, remembering (both to the credit of his memory and its discredit) that historians, geographers, and himself are alike fallible. But let him not trust his memory to assert its conclusions as fact, and act thereupon, without most adequate confirmation.
23. This process of checking his memory should be practised with the earlier memories of childhood and youth by reference to the memories and records of others, always reflecting upon the fallibility even of such safeguards.
24. All this being perfected, so that the memory reaches back into aeons incalculably distant, let the Exempt Adept meditate upon the fruitlessness of all those years, and upon the fruit thereof, severing that which is transitory and worthless from that which is eternal. And it may be that he being but an Exempt Adept may hold all to be savourless and full of sorrow.
25. This being so, without reluctance will he swear the Oath of the Abyss.
26. Second Method. Let the Exempt Adept, fortified by the practice of the First Method, enter the preliminary practice of the Second Method.
27. Second Method. Preliminary Practices. Let him, seated in his Asana, consider any event, and trace it to its immediate causes. And let this be done very fully and minutely. Here, for example, is a body erect and motionless. Let the adept consider the many forces which maintain it; firstly, the attraction of the earth, of the sun, of the planets, of the farthest stars, nay, of every mote of dust in the room, one of which (could it be annihilated) would cause that body to move, although so imperceptibly. Also the resistance of the floor, the pressure of the air, and all other external conditions. Secondly, the internal forces which sustain it, the vast and complex machinery of the skeleton, the muscles, the blood, the lymph, the marrow, all that makes up a man. Thirdly the moral and intellectual forces involved, the mind, the will, the consciousness. Let him continue this with unremitting ardour, searching Nature, leaving nothing out.
28. Next, let him take one of the immediate causes of his position, and trace out its equilibrium. For example, the will. What determines the will to aid in holding the body erect and motionless?
29. This being discovered, let him choose one of the forces which determined his will, and trace out that in similar fashion; and let this process be continued for many days until the interdependence of all things is a truth assimilated in his inmost being.
30. This being accomplished, let him trace his own history with special reference to the causes of each event. And in this practice he may neglect to some extent the universal forces which at all times act on all, as for example the attraction of masses, and let him concentrate his attention upon the principal and determining or effective causes.
    For instance, he is seated, perhaps, in a country place in Spain. Why? Because Spain is warm and suitable for meditation, and because cities are noisy and crowded. Why is Spain warm? and why does he wish to meditate? Why choose warm Spain rather than warm India? To the last question: Because Spain is nearer to his home. Then why is his home near Spain? Because his parents were Germans. And why did they go to Germany? And so during the whole meditation.
31. On another day, let him begin with a question of another kind, and every day devise new questions, not only concerning his present situation, but also abstract questions. Thus let him connect the prevalence of water upon the surface of the globe with its necessity to such life as we know, with the specific gravity and other physical properties of water, and let him perceive ultimately through all this the necessity and concord of things, not concord as the schoolmen of old believed, making all things for man's benefit or convenience, but the essential mechanical concord whose final law is "inertia." And in these meditations let him avoid as if it were the plague any speculation sentimental or fantastic.
32. Second Method. The Practice Proper. Having then perfected in his mind these conceptions, let him apply them to his own career, forging the links of memory into the chain of necessity.
    And let this be his final question: To what purpose am I fitted? Of what service can my being prove to the Brothers of the A.·. A.·. if I cross the Abyss, and am admitted to the City of the Pyramids?
33. Now that he may clearly understand the nature of this question, and the method of solution, let him study the reasoning of the anatomist who reconstructs an animal from a single bone. To take a simple example.
34. Suppose, having lived all my life among savages, a ship is cast upon the shore and wrecked. Undamaged among the cargo is a "Victoria." What is its use? The wheels speak of roads, their slimness of smooth roads, the brake of hilly roads. The shafts show that it was meant to be drawn by an animal, their height and length suggest an animal of the size of a horse. That the carriage is open suggests a climate tolerable at any rate for part of the year. The height of the box suggest crowded streets, or the spirited character of the animal employed to draw it. The cushions indicate its use to convey men rather than merchandise; its hood that rain sometimes falls, or that the sun is at times powerful. The springs would imply considerable skill in metals; the varnish much attainment in that craft.
35. Similarly, let the adept consider of his own case. Now that he is on the point of plunging into the Abyss a giant Why? confronts him with uplifted club.
36. There is no minutest atom of his composition which can be withdrawn without making him some other than he is; no useless moment in his past. Then what is his future? The "Victoria" is not a waggon; it is not intended for carting hay. It is not a sulky; it is useless in trotting races.
37. So the adept has military genius, or much knowledge of Greek; how do these attainments help his purpose, or the purpose of the Brothers? He was put to death by Calvin, or stoned by Hezekiah; as a snake he was killed by a villager, or as an elephant slain in battle under Hamilcar. How do such memories help him? Until he have thoroughly mastered the reason for every incident in his past, and found a purpose for every item of his present equipment, [A brother known to me was repeatedly baffled in this meditation. But one day being thrown with his horse over a sheer cliff of forty feet, and escaping without a scratch or a bruse, he was reminded of his many narrow escapes from death. These proved to be the last factors in his problem, which, thus completed, solved itself in a moment. O.M. {WEH NOTE ADDENDA: Here Crowley speaks of himself, the event being noted in his China walk account.}] he cannot truly answer even those Three Question what were first put to him, even the Three Questions of the Ritual of the Pyramid; he is not ready to swear the Oath of the Abyss.
38. But being thus enlightened, let him swear the Oath of the Abyss; yea, let him swear the Oath of the Abyss.

Garland

"Bobby, may I share something with you? 

A vision I had in my sleep last night—as distinguished from a dream, which is a mere sorting and cataloguing of the day’s events by the subconscious. 

This was a vision: fresh and clear as a mountain stream, the mind revealing itself to itself. 

In my vision I was on the veranda of a vast estate, 

a palazzo of some fantastic proportion. 

 
"The Porch is Neither Inside, 

Nor Outside  The House [The Lodge]"
- Tyler Durden



“The Blue Degrees are but the outer court or portico of the Temple. Part of the symbols are displayed there to the Initiate, but he is intentionally misled by false interpretations. It is not intended that he shall understand them; but it is intended that he shall imagine he understands them. - Albert Pike

"There seemed to emanate from it a Light, from within this gleaming, radiant marble. 

I had known this place. 

I had, in fact, been born and raised there, and this was my first return—a reunion with the deepest wellsprings of my being. 

Wandering about, I noticed happily that The House had been immaculately maintained. 

There had been added a number of additional rooms, but in a way that blended so seamlessly with the original construction, one would never detect any difference. 

Returning to The House’s grand foyer, there came a knock at the door. 

My son was standing there. 

He was happy and carefree, clearly living a life of deep harmony and joy. 

We embraced—a warm and loving embrace, nothing withheld. 

We were, in this moment, one. 

My vision ended. 

I awoke with a tremendous feeling of optimism and confidence in You and Your Future. 

That was My Vision. It was You."





If it is "Coming into you..." or "coming inside [of] you...", that makes sense given that Windom Earl is using the anti-psychotic Haliperidol to
a) Interrogate Briggs
b) Enslave Leo "The Lion"
c) Cut Briggs off from The Spirit(s) of The Lodges and any divine help.
 
A couple of years after this, an X-Files episode ('Revelations') appeared which speculated on the same theme, that anti-psychotics, and Haiperidol specifically could successfully be used to block or suppress genuine spiritual experiences, the Phenomenology of The Divine.



Garland Briggs is easily the coequal most Holy resident of Twin Peaks after Laura herself (who is In The Ground, as Hawk notes.), along with The Log Lady (who lives in The Woods anyway, not the town, and is generally considered crazy - she's John The Baptist (she baptises Laura with The Spirit), he is Our Lady (that's why he is all in Blue and Identifies with Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz (Judy Garland)






MIKE says of BOB's True Face "Few Can See it — The Gifted and The Damned "


Laura's Mother can see it — she's Gifted. 
That's why Leland has to drug her and she smokes so much (you see Spirits and Gods in Smoke.) 

And she begins talking backwards after this scene when she begins to channel EITHER Windom Earl OR (more likely) Annie from inside The Lodge


It therefore follows that Briggs should be able to see MIKE's True Face, as he is similar to BOB, but opposite — 
Maddie was Damned but Briggs is a SAINT

"And the angel thrust in his sickle into the earth,
and gathered the vine of the earth and cast it into the great winepress..."
And the winepress was trodden without the city..."

Bobby Briggs :

Night, Laura.

Laura, The One :

Bye.

"...even unto the horse bridles, by the space of a thousand
and six hundred furlongs.
And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvelous, and seven angels..."

Robert, put out the cigarette.
 
"And I saw as it were a sea of glass mingled with fire,
and them that had gotten the victory over the beast
and over his image and over his mark
and over the number of his name,
stand on the sea of glass,
having the harps of God."