The Forbidden Zone....Home of The OrangeBox, keepers of Skully, an ancient, quartz crystal skull.

Stunning new images.

Joshua was good enough to share with me a new technique for producing complex images of the crystal skulls. In brief, this involves taking an image of a skull and making this 50% transparent. A copy of this is taken (also as a 50% transparency,) which is then reversed, to produce a mirror image. Finally, the two images are superimposed. Where they overlap the two transparencies join to form an opaque image. Joshua has already produced some stunning images using this technique and I thought it would be interesting to try it with images of Skully. I did, and the results were astonishing!

In the first image (right) the hard, angular features of a very hostile and angry looking entity stare coldly back at us. Its displeasure and menace sent a shiver down my spine when I first saw the image. As you may recall, Joshua said that Skully contained two different energies. It is easy to speculate that the form captured in this image is the 'male' energy Joshua spoke of. Its facial expression certainly correspond extremely well to Joshua's description and feelings.

The second image (left) shows an unmistakably female form, with a bob haircut, wearing a robe with a collar. Behind her are what appear to be a pair of folded wings. She is attended by two other females, seen in profile to her left and right. Closer examination of both images reveals many more strange images and pictures. Intrigued and fascinated by these I decided to take the technique a stage further.

Instead of using two, 50% transparencies (as above), I made four, each at 25%. The four images produced were rotated by 0deg, 90deg, 180deg and 270deg before being recombined into a single image. I had expected to obtain a blurred mess for my trouble since, in essence, all the technique involved was stacking rotated versions of the same image on top of each other. What I did get stunned me. In a split-second I understood precisely why the Secret Society went to so much time, trouble and expense in trying to regain Skully (via an ownership dispute detailed elsewhere on these pages.) I knew exactly what it was that so many of the Sensitives had seen and described as 'a dark and powerful force.'

In the center of the picture is the unmistakable and incontrovertible image of a symbol I am sure you are familiar with, if in a slightly different form. A symbol used to great effect by Hitler's Nazi party throughout W.W.II: The Swastika! In its original form (as seen in Skully) this symbol was known and widely-used from ancient times as a symbol of good luck. It has been found on Mongolian, Chinese and American Indian artifacts. It is used in connection with the hideous aspect of the Hindu goddess, Kali and is also known as the hammer of Thor.

The word 'swastika' stems from the Sanskrit 'Su asti,' which means, literally translated 'Good, he is.' The arms are trailing as if the whole pattern were spinning clockwise. It is a symbol of the Sun, of the powers of light. In the 1920s, when the National Socialist Party was in its infancy, Hitler asked for designs to be submitted that were akin to the hammer & Sickle of communist Russia. Hitler chose the swastika but insisted that its traditional form be reversed to form what the occult writer Francis King described as "An evocation of evil, spiritual devolution and black magic." It was this one symbol which, in an instant, enabled me to make the connection between the Egyptian mystery schools, Knights Templar, Freemasonry, Royal Arch Masonry, the German sex magick cults (including Aleister Crowley's own organization (O.T.O.) and the Golden Dawn.) It was as though a light had been switched on in my head. In the wrong hands Skully could unleash the hammer of Thor, conversely, he could be the light of the Sun.

Most people have slight differences between their left and right sides. It can yield quite surprising, and often amusing results to take an image of yourself (looking straight at the camera) and produce mirror images of your left and right sides. If one looks carefully at Skully, subtle differences can be seen between his left and right sides. This is not simply a case of careless carving, but rather an attempt to show Skully as a duel entity. It did surprise me that not a single one of the Sensitives who visited Skully noticed this rather strange feature. However, the visit of Joshua Shapiro and Desy did throw some dramatic light upon why Skully may possibly have been carved in this way.

The image to the left is a normal photograph of Skully. To create the two images shown below, this image was cut in half. A mirror image of the left side is created. This is then joined to the original left side to produce a composite image showing what Skully would look like if his right side were a mirror image of his left. The same process was undertaken on Skully's right side. Whilst it is possible to notice the differences just by looking at Skully. In the two photos shown below the two different faces of Skully are strikingly apparent. Why should a carver have done this?

It seemed to me a very curious thing for a carver to have done as it meant much more work for him (or her) without any increase in the worth or aesthetic value of the skull. It probably wouldn't have even have been noticed. As with so many of Skully's physical dimensions, I was left with the very strong feeling that there was some message, or riddle encoded within. All we had to do was to figure out how to read this elusive code.

The image to the left shows two left sides of Skully. The image to the right shows two right sides of Skully. When viewed in this way it can be seen quite clearly that Skully's face is a composite of two different faces. Why should a carver have done this?