The Golden Compass

Lately there has been a buzz about New Line Cinema’s latest film: The Golden Compass. From what I’ve read and heard about it, the main theme of the story goes along the lines of a small group of people trying fight against the authority of an entity known as “The Magisterium,” which is more of a twisted envisionment of the Catholic Church by author Philip Pullman. A scene from the trailer itself reminds me of the modern interpretation of Galileo’s questioning by the Church, when one character says: “I propose to discover a world, much like our own, in a parallel universe.” Then a bystander replies, “That is heresy.” And the first character replies: “That is the truth.” I would go into more detail about the Galileo controversy, but that is for another post. Back to the topic. The reason for the “Golden Compass” image using the Free-Masonic symbol is not simply an inside joke between friends about the film, but rather a deep reality. The film portrays questioning authority as the right motive, and that by doing so we’re fighting to free ourselves from the ‘enslaving blindness’ brought about by religion. Anyone who views the movie or reads a review will simply attribute this to a carefully crafted web of Atheism in the story. Atheism isn’t the only ideal behind the story. The whole idea behind the story reminds me of the of the 1700’s and the ‘Enlightenment,’ in which the Freemasons were actively partaking in the establishment of that all to familiar motive of undermining ‘the Authority,’ which turned out to be none other than the Teaching Magisterium of the Roman Catholic Church, and the Monarchies of Europe.

 

Here is the trailer to the film, note the scene concerning the ‘heresy and truth’ scenario.

Also note that New Line Cinema did advertisement for the movie using their ‘Lord of the Rings’ Film Trilogy. Grrrr….

P.S. Here is a note from the article on the book from Wikipedia:

• The superficial resemblance of protagonist Lyra Belacqua’s alethiometer (depicted on the book’s cover) to a large compass caused the North American publishers of Northern Lights to retitle the book The Golden Compass. The Golden Compasses was an early proposal for the name of the trilogy (instead of His Dark Materials), taken from Milton’s Paradise Lost, where it refers to the drawing instrument, rather than the navigation instrument.

I understand that the compass is used by architects and the like, but is it possible that the reference to the title was to the Masonic Symbol? Is it possible, that there are NO coincidences?