Monday, February 2, 2026

The power of the Sun in the palm of my hand

Another photo from yesterday, which I forgot to post:


Yesterday's post "Same aloo gobi (actually different aloo gobi every time)" began with aloo gobi syncs, and then I tacked on a lot of other syncs (several related to the spectacles theme) that I said weren't directly related. But there's a pair of spectacles marked with the initials of Aloo Gobi.

We've associated with two lenses of the spectacles with the masonic square (red right lens) and compass (blue left lens). The letter A resembles a compass, and G is Γ, which is the square. The association of the letter G with a single eye is also a Masonic thing (see "G-Eye Joe?"):


Most of our images of the specs have the red/square lens on our left (over the right eye of the person wearing them). The Optical Studios logo reverses that, but that's fine since no one is wearing the specs. We could be seeing them from the inside, as in Don Bradley's diagram (posted in "More Urim and Thummin syncs"):


This afternoon I went to YouTube, and for some reason one of the recommended videos was called "The moment you realize it's 2004 and that ain't cgi," with a thumbnail that looked like it was from one of those Spider-Man movies. I had no intention of watching it, but I happened to move my mouse over it, making it play a split-second preview. The very first frame in the video is this:


That's definitely backwards -- the bright Urim lens should be over the right eye -- but it still counts as a sync. I played the first few seconds of the video to get the context. It's Doctor Octopus saying "The power of the Sun in the palm of my hand."

In a comment on my aloo gobi post, Bill wrote;

Starting first with Gob-hi. Gob means "hollow of hand". A hand hollow is the the curved part of the palm when one forms their hand into the shape of a cup A cup can contain something, which gets to "hi". One meaning of that word is "juice, sap", which brings back an old post I wrote a long time ago that was one of the first things that caught your attention enough to write about it (I think that is where you first called me "eccentric"). I had written about my guess that not only a Stone but some Juice would be involved with someone ascending to Aman, or the Celestial Kingdom in Endowment/ LDS terminology.

Anyway, the temple drama has patrons fall along with Adam into the Telestial world (our current Earth). After receiving the first and second signs/ tokens of the Aaronic Priesthood, patrons are then able to leave the Telestial world and enter the Terrestrial. That second sign, as you know, involves forming a cup with one's hand, or a hollow.

There's another temple sign that involves a cupped hand, and the name associated with that sign is a direct match with what Doctor Octopus is saying. In that sign, it is the left hand that is cupped, just as it is Doc Ock's left lens that reflects the Sun.

A cupped left hand is also seen on the Rider-Waite Emperor card, where the emperor holds an orb in that hand.


In my 2021 post "The Emperor's orb," I discuss this orb in connection with the Liahona, and Bill identifies the Liahona with the Anor Stone, or Sun Stone. The power of the Sun in the palm of my hand.

That video also mentions that Alfred Molina, the actor who played Doc Ock, gave names to each of his four mechanical octopus arms -- calling them Larry, Harry, Moe, and Flo. This is in a general way a link to the Mormon temple ceremony, in which there are four different hand grips, each of which is given a name (a fact that is emphasized with the repeated formula "Has it a name?" "It has").

1 comment:

Ra1119bee said...


William,
And speaking of an octopus and orbs and ring-go's
and Goo goo g'joob's
and red and blue and a little green too,
Oh My!
Check this out:


Ringo Starr - Octopus's Garden
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-BdGchS0yk

I am the Walrus--Goo goo g'joob's
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t1Jm5epJr10



The power of the Sun in the palm of my hand

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