"Looper" and the New Aeon Part 1: The Kid-Messiah

Like other Messiahs in history, Cid from "Looper" has an absent father

Isis/Horus Mary/Jesus

I've been trying to "figure out" the movie "Looper" since I watched it two weeks ago. Even to discuss it would spoil some surprise elements of the film, because at some point it does a 180-degree turn and becomes a totally different movie than one would expect. So I leave that warning out there for those who haven't seen it but want to.

Now then, "Looper" is not really a film about time-travel, though certainly that is the "device" used to facilitate the narrative. On the surface, it's about trying to undo the mistakes of the past with hindsight -- but that's not really it, either.

"Looper" is about the coming of the new Aeon of Horus, and how we can either work with it or resist:

I. Cid Is Horus/New Messiah/"Anti-Christ"

(Please note that I'm using the term "Anti-Christ" here not as a religious judgement, but as he might be perceived by someone with an Evangelical Christian/Osirian reality tunnel)

Horus the child

I'm going to start with a dream I had in mid-October of 2004, as it reminds me very strongly of the subject matter:

I see the comic book, the last pages. After the "explosion," you found out that it was just Jesus "coming into his own" and finding out from God who he really is. He is confused and shocked. All the men around him are dead, from the blast caused by the revealing of God, but this killing was unintentional. 

To break this down:

After the "explosion":

...you found out that it was just Jesus "coming into his own" and finding out from God who he really is:

 He is confused and shocked:

All the men around him are dead:

 ...from the blast caused by the revealing of God:

 ...but this killing was unintentional:

 The dream went on to say:

The one who would be Jesus had to fill a certain height requirement--in order to fulfill the prophecy. Later, you read how the Anti-Christ was a thin little boy with a shaved head* & a Celtic tattoo around his arm, and that Jesus wanted/needed to torture him to death. Torture a little child?

But Jesus belongs to the previous Aeon, that of Osiris and organized religion; that of the story of the Dying God and his resurrection. I interpreted the creator of the "explosion" as Jesus at the time of the dream because he was presented as a messianic figure, which I assumed would be Jesus. However, the real messiah is the "little child" -- Horus. Cid, the super-powered, messiah-type "little child" in "Looper," is not Jesus; but since he seems to have these massive, Jesus-like powers, he must be the opposite number of Jesus: "Anti-Christ." (compare to similar tropes in the "Omen" movies).

Dueling Messiahs

Again: to a hardcore Christian (and I was pretty far along in Evangelical Christianity when I had this dream; which explains a lot of my confusion), the idea of this herald of a "new age" -- and the idea of a new age in general -- is considered blasphemous, and any such messiah would be the "Anti-Christ."

Old Joe, about to do something horrible

In "Looper," Old Joe (Bruce Willis) goes back in time to kill this messiah, who he says will grow up to be a destructive force of nature called "The Rainmaker." The story of the child-messiah with incredible super-powers being hunted down is pretty deeply ingrained in both our mythology and popular culture, but with the 2012 end-date looming, as well as ideas such as the Singularity and Indigo Children/Hybrids, it's become particularly relevant.

These Messiah Children -- so powerful and dangerous and persecuted and full of potential for good or evil -- can be found everywhere:

Andrew Detmer in "Chronicle":

Carrie White:

Renesmee Cullen from "Breaking Dawn Part 2":

Akira:

Anakin Skywalker:

The Children of the Damned:

Damien Thorne:



 Adrian Castevet:

Most of these children are portrayed as "monsters" -- but also the heralds (literally, in the case of "The Omen" and "Rosemary's Baby") of a New Era. This new era is the Aeon of Horus, referred-to by occultist/poet/philosopher/etc. Aleister Crowley as "the crowned and conquering child":

"The Aeon of Horus is here: and its first flower may well be this: that, freed of the obsession of the doom of the Ego in Death, and of the limitation of the Mind by Reason, the best men again set out with eager eyes upon the Path of the Wise, the mountain track of the goat, and then the untrodden Ridge, that leads to the ice-gleaming pinnacles of Mastery!"

New Aeon Awakening

It is, literally, a new stage in the Evolution of mankind, a stage where man and woman can become so much more -- these creepy movie children, "kid-messiahs" with their freaky powers, represents the fear our current Osirian society has over this Big Change. And the character of Cid in "Looper" is the latest "kid-messiah," Horus stand-in.

Old Joe, played by Bruce Willis, won't accept the New Aeon -- his "job" is to kill the Messiah, to stop him from ever becoming into his full-flower. Old Joe is basically trying to stop the so-called "Anti-Christ"/New Age, and, like Herod of old, he's not adverse to killing innocent children in his quest to do so.

Who does Old Joe represent?

And who does "Young Joe," played by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, supposed to represent?

The answer to these questions will plant us firmly not only in the Aeon of Osiris -- the Aeon that has passed/is soon to pass -- but in the Bible as well. Next post!

*The aspect of the thin child with a shaved head can point to those persecuted kid-messiahs who are also sickly/incarcerated/experimented on, such as:

Jimmy/Leech in "X-Men 3":

The "old" kids from "Akira":

"Powder":

And so many more: