Post by blue_june_destroyer on May 26, 2007 22:16:30 GMT 7
Sometime in mid-June, 2001, some members on the official Smashing Pumpkins message boards (O-boards) were given a link to three videos: Transmission 1, Transmission 2, Transmission 3. They were told to download the three videos and to spread the word about them. The address www.blackwings.org is in the third video.
The blackwings site is blocked however, requiring a username (UN) and password (PW). Guided by clues from tigershorty, an O-board administrator, some dedicated O-boarders were able to discover the UN and PW which are "polydorus" and "keryx" respectively.
At first there was only one picture and one video available for download on this site, but others were added slowly and now all 7 yellow symbols contain a picture and all 7 green symbols contain a video. The filenames of the seven videos are videoZ1, videoE2, videoL3, videoA4, videoT5, videoO6, and videoR7. The filenames of the seven pictures are loveA, powerD, betrayalE, thevoiceP, revolutionT, onevoicetruthgodU, and mogS. The O-boarders discovered that this spells "zelator" and "adeptus". This is the UN/PW for www.paracellcorp.com, whose address can be found on the bottom of the blackwings page by zooming in.
Another web address, www.smashthesystem.org, was found on the blackwings.org site. When you click on the line between "Revolution Now!" and "Machines of God" in the revolutionT picture, it takes you to the site. It also requires a UN/PW. These were a bit trickier to discover, however. Tigershorty gave a clue, in response to a post, saying "good job, you've mentioned just about everything except MK Ultra and the Tibetan Book of the Dead." Tigershorty gave another clue in another post. The clue was "vision no.6". In the Tibetan Book of the Dead (the Bardo Thodol), vision no. 6 is "The Retinal Circus". "retinalcircus" is the password to www.smashthesystem.org. Another clue Tigershorty gave was "Cycles of Divine Order." This led to the discovery of the book "Master Numbers: Cycles of Divine Order" by Faith Javene. In this book, Javene says that the key number is 44 which is called the "Seed of God." Someone got the idea from a clue to use Essence Numerology. When this conversion method was applied to the phrase "Seed of God" it came out as 1554-66-764, which is the UN for smashthesystem.org. At some point, this page was updated so that www.machinesofgod.org appears in the top-left corner of the screen when you move your mouse there. This address also now appears in the top-center of blackwings.org. Therefore, it was the next site to be worked on.
Tigershorty gave the clues "Lemmy Caution" and "Alphaville" within a couple of his posts. These were referring to the movie Alphaville whose main character is Lemmy Caution. Alpha 60 is the name of a god-like machine in the film. Through clues it was discovered that "alpha60" is the password for www.machinesofgod.org. Tigershorty also gave the clues "inauguration of the pleasure dome" and "invocation of my demon brother" within another post. These are both films directed by Kenneth Anger. Anger also directed the movie "Lucifer Rising". "lucifer-rising" was then discovered to be the UN for www.machinesofgod.org.
At first, machinesofgod.org contained only 5 buttons on the bottom-right. It was later updated to 7. Boarders got the idea of manipulating these buttons in some sort of combo in order for something to happen on the site. They were right. Quiet gave the clue )O+ O-> O-> O+ which means Mercury, Mars, Mars, Venus. If you look in plate 12 of the Machina booklet, you will see a decoder ring. These 4 symbols correspond to 1-5-5-4 which is the button combo for the first M.O.G. video. The second M.O.G. video was discovered by looking in the site's source file once it was updated and contained the video's address. The combo to get this video was later discovered to be 1-3-7-7. The second video contains the address www.ioftheradio.com which meant it was the next site to be cracked.
Tiger then gave several clues about the Vedas, the ancient Hindu text. A lot of the clues pointed to Surya, the Hindu sun god. Another name for Surya is Loka-chakshuh. The username for ioftheradio is "loka" and the password is "chakshuh". It was soon after this when the news was revealed that there was going to be a Glass and the Machines of God anime series produced, available only online through the Screenblast network.
Other sites have been found that appear to be related to the mystery based on who they are registered to. These are chardsofglass.com, glassandthemachinesofgod.com, amodernfable.com, paracellcorporation.com. revolutionnow.net, syntheticarmy.org, paracellpsychic.com, and theghostchildern.com.
So what does this all mean? It appears to be all part of the telling of the Machina story, along with the Machina albums, the story chapters, and the new anime series. Tiger has suggested that there are going to be even more mediums in the future that are going to help tell the story.
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source archived from 2001.
The blackwings site is blocked however, requiring a username (UN) and password (PW). Guided by clues from tigershorty, an O-board administrator, some dedicated O-boarders were able to discover the UN and PW which are "polydorus" and "keryx" respectively.
At first there was only one picture and one video available for download on this site, but others were added slowly and now all 7 yellow symbols contain a picture and all 7 green symbols contain a video. The filenames of the seven videos are videoZ1, videoE2, videoL3, videoA4, videoT5, videoO6, and videoR7. The filenames of the seven pictures are loveA, powerD, betrayalE, thevoiceP, revolutionT, onevoicetruthgodU, and mogS. The O-boarders discovered that this spells "zelator" and "adeptus". This is the UN/PW for www.paracellcorp.com, whose address can be found on the bottom of the blackwings page by zooming in.
Another web address, www.smashthesystem.org, was found on the blackwings.org site. When you click on the line between "Revolution Now!" and "Machines of God" in the revolutionT picture, it takes you to the site. It also requires a UN/PW. These were a bit trickier to discover, however. Tigershorty gave a clue, in response to a post, saying "good job, you've mentioned just about everything except MK Ultra and the Tibetan Book of the Dead." Tigershorty gave another clue in another post. The clue was "vision no.6". In the Tibetan Book of the Dead (the Bardo Thodol), vision no. 6 is "The Retinal Circus". "retinalcircus" is the password to www.smashthesystem.org. Another clue Tigershorty gave was "Cycles of Divine Order." This led to the discovery of the book "Master Numbers: Cycles of Divine Order" by Faith Javene. In this book, Javene says that the key number is 44 which is called the "Seed of God." Someone got the idea from a clue to use Essence Numerology. When this conversion method was applied to the phrase "Seed of God" it came out as 1554-66-764, which is the UN for smashthesystem.org. At some point, this page was updated so that www.machinesofgod.org appears in the top-left corner of the screen when you move your mouse there. This address also now appears in the top-center of blackwings.org. Therefore, it was the next site to be worked on.
Tigershorty gave the clues "Lemmy Caution" and "Alphaville" within a couple of his posts. These were referring to the movie Alphaville whose main character is Lemmy Caution. Alpha 60 is the name of a god-like machine in the film. Through clues it was discovered that "alpha60" is the password for www.machinesofgod.org. Tigershorty also gave the clues "inauguration of the pleasure dome" and "invocation of my demon brother" within another post. These are both films directed by Kenneth Anger. Anger also directed the movie "Lucifer Rising". "lucifer-rising" was then discovered to be the UN for www.machinesofgod.org.
At first, machinesofgod.org contained only 5 buttons on the bottom-right. It was later updated to 7. Boarders got the idea of manipulating these buttons in some sort of combo in order for something to happen on the site. They were right. Quiet gave the clue )O+ O-> O-> O+ which means Mercury, Mars, Mars, Venus. If you look in plate 12 of the Machina booklet, you will see a decoder ring. These 4 symbols correspond to 1-5-5-4 which is the button combo for the first M.O.G. video. The second M.O.G. video was discovered by looking in the site's source file once it was updated and contained the video's address. The combo to get this video was later discovered to be 1-3-7-7. The second video contains the address www.ioftheradio.com which meant it was the next site to be cracked.
Tiger then gave several clues about the Vedas, the ancient Hindu text. A lot of the clues pointed to Surya, the Hindu sun god. Another name for Surya is Loka-chakshuh. The username for ioftheradio is "loka" and the password is "chakshuh". It was soon after this when the news was revealed that there was going to be a Glass and the Machines of God anime series produced, available only online through the Screenblast network.
Other sites have been found that appear to be related to the mystery based on who they are registered to. These are chardsofglass.com, glassandthemachinesofgod.com, amodernfable.com, paracellcorporation.com. revolutionnow.net, syntheticarmy.org, paracellpsychic.com, and theghostchildern.com.
So what does this all mean? It appears to be all part of the telling of the Machina story, along with the Machina albums, the story chapters, and the new anime series. Tiger has suggested that there are going to be even more mediums in the future that are going to help tell the story.
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source archived from 2001.