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account is true, it would fit very well with the ancient association of Saturn with Satan/Lucifer. After
the moon encounter, a scene appears showing a manned spaceship heading to Jupiter. We are
informed that it is now 18 months later, 18 being 6+6+6. Upon arrival at the planet Jupiter man has
his third encounter with the black obelisk. This time, it is a massive black slab floating in space.
When the main character of the movie, Dr. David Bowman, encounters the monolith he has a
spiritual experience that overwhelms his mind. In the final scenes we see Dr. David Bowman in
various advancing ages of his life, until while on his death bed he encounters the monolith one final
time.
Final Encounter with Philosopher’s Stone
At this point, Dr. Bowman is transformed. In place of his aged, dying body appears the image of an
embryonic starchild surrounded with light. In the final scene we see this starchild approaching the
earth. This completes the transmutation of man from an ape to a god, all accomplished through
human encounters with Satan. Dr. Bowman has received gnosis from the black monolith, and like
the mystical Phoenix, he is reborn on his death bed as a new creature.
2001 - Starchild and Earth
When we understand that the black monolith is the prima materia of Alchemy, aka the Philosopher’s
Stone, which is a symbolic image of Lucifer as the one who brings the light of knowledge to
mankind, the deceit of Satan becomes evident. The Lucis Trust website describes Lucifer “as one
of the solar Angels, those advanced Beings Who Theosophy says descended... to our planet eons ago
to bring the principle of mind to what was then animal-man.” It is to animal-man that the monolith
first appears in 2001, A Space Odyssey. The Theosophical magazine Lucifer bears the tagline,
“Designed ‘to bring to light the hidden things of darkness.’” It is indeed darkness that is being