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Jay-Zâ??s latest video called â??Run This Townâ? (featuring Rihanna and Kanye West) contains occult symbolism relating to secret societies. It has been long rumored that Jay-Z is part of some sort of occult order (probably Freemasonry) due to the hints slipped in his songs and his imagery. â?Run This Townâ? certainly adds fuel to the fire. Weâ??ll look at the symbolism in this song and in his clothing line, Rocawear.

Iâ??m pretty sure Jay-Z does it on purpose and that he appreciates the attention it gets him. He has been steadily displaying occult symbolism in his songs, videos and in the designs of his Rocawear clothing line. The Brooklyn rapper has lately been associating himself through telling hints to Freemasonry, Illuminati and other orders. Is he now initiated in one of those Brotherhoods and eager to show it off? Why does he appear in other videos containing occult meanings (see Rihannaâ??s â??Umbrellaâ? or Beyonceâ??s â??Crazy in Loveâ?)?

The video to â??Run This Townâ? was directed by Anthony Mandler, who also did  Rihannaâ??s â??Disturbiaâ? video. In another of my articles, I explain how this video is a metaphor for evil possession. The least we can say is that Mandler certainly knows how to insert dark symbolism into a video.

â??Do What Thou Wiltâ?

Before we get into the video, a couple of things need to be explained in order to understand Jay-Zâ??s mindset and where he gets his ideas from. The symbols that will be discussed in this article canâ??t be coincidences or a collection of random items. Jay-Z draws his inspiration from specific sources and associates with like-minded people (director Anthony Mandler) to integrate those ideas. A telling example can be found in the second trailer video for â??Run This Townâ?. We see Jay-Z explaining the concept of the video while wearing a black hoodie bearing the saying â??Do What Thou Wiltâ?.

Aleister Crowley: Reformer of the O.T.O. whose motto was â??Do what Thou Wiltâ?. He also enjoyed being called â?The wickedest man in the worldâ?.

â??Do What Thou Wiltâ? is the official dictum of the Ordo Templi Orientis (O.T.O.) and of its reformer, occultist Aleister Crowley. The O.T.O. is a hermetic order modeled after Freemasonry and German Illuminism and teaches its initiates the secrets of the Mysteries, gnosticism, sex magick, Kaballah and other occult sciences. Contrarily to Freemasonry, the O.T.O. is however based on the â??Law of Thelemaâ? which main precept is â??Do What Thou Wilt be the whole of the Lawâ??. Although this saying was interpreted in different ways, most agree that it refers to the dismissal of conventional moral and ethical rules in order to find oneâ??s â??True Willâ?. In other words, the usual guidelines by which good and evil are determined have to be blurred and forgotten to obtain the true path to illumination. Crowley explains this notion rather clearly here:

â??There are no â??standards of Rightâ?. Ethics is balderdash. Each Star must go on its own orbit. To hell with â??moral principleâ?; there is no such thingâ?
–Crowley, Aleister. The Old and New Commentaries to Liber AL, II,28.

Although not officially considered â??satanicâ?, the O.T.O. does fully embrace the Luciferian doctrine (see Crowleyâ??s poem â??Hymn to Lucifer) and its high level members are referred to as â??Most Illuminated and Most Puissant Baphometâ?. Baphomet is of course the horned androgynous idol of Western Occultism.

Poster in honor of Crowley. Notice â??Do What Thou Wiltâ? and Baphomet

Is Jay-Z part of the O.T.O. or does he just like that shirt? Donâ??t know. We will however see that he is  very educated in the field of occult symbolism and that he enjoys hinting people that he associates with the Brotherhood. Hereâ??s the video.

â??Run This Townâ? Analysis

So this is the video at face value: Jay-Z, Rihanna and Kanye West are performing in front of an angry mob, which is apparently out to overthrow the current order of things and thus â??Run This Townâ?. The aesthetics of the video are reminiscent of movements led by rebel factions in third world African or Latino countries . When one listens closely to the lyrics however, something seems to be â?offâ?. Jay-Z and Kanye are mainly rapping about how rich and famous they are and are describing bourgeoisie luxuries such as Maison Martin Margiela clothes, bottles of Riesling  and Maybach cars. This isnâ??t exactly the type of speech Che Guevara would give. Despite the looks, the artists arenâ??t quite revolutionary, they can even be considered pro-establishment. Is this a political rebellion or could it be philosophical/spiritual? The visuals of the video hint a second, occult meaning to the song.

At the beginning of the video, a man hands a lit torch to Rihanna who holds it up in the air. This symbolic gesture sums up perfectly the concept of the video.

Rihanna handed a lit torch

Anybody vaguely familiar with occultism can easily associate the symbol of the lit torch held high to Lucifer a.k.a. the Light Bearer. Most occult orders secretly acknowledge Lucifer as being the savior of humanity, the fallen angel who liberated men from the oppression of the biblical God (Jehovah, Yahweh). These orders (the main one being Freemasonry) have been working for centuries towards the overthrow of the rule of organized religions to usher in a new age or a â??New Orderâ?.  At the philosophical center of this order:  the Luciferian Doctrine, where men are free to become gods by their own means. The Torch of Illumination is the ultimate symbol of this philosophy and can be found in  many instances (see Statue of Liberty, a gift from French Freemasons). The goal of the Illuminist has been put in plain in simple words: they are dedicated to the â??coming forth of the conquering lightâ??. â??Run This Townâ? visually represents this aim in a clear way for the initiates yet concealed for the profane.

Consequently, the video contains a second level of interpretation: â??Run This Townâ? is an announcement of the coming of a New World Order, lead by secret (Luciferian) societies. Rihannaâ??s ominous intro explains how it is going down.

Feeling it coming in the air,
hear the screams from everywhere,
Iâ??m addicted to thrill,
Its a dangerous love affair,
Canâ??t be scared when it goes down,
got a problem tell me now,
Only thing thatâ??s on my mind is who gon run this town tonight,
who gon run this town tonite

Guess Rihanna canâ??t make this clearer for you

Rihannaâ??s lyrics are announcing an imminent change that might terrify or enrage some people (â??hear the screams from everywhereâ??). The torches hint to a new spiritual and philosophical era where Lucifer is king. She is â??addicted to the thrillâ? of being on the dark side and she knows that dealing with it is a â??dangerous love affairâ??. But regardless of all of this, it all comes down to control, hence â??Only thing thatâ??s on my mind is who gon run this town tonightâ??.

Then Jay-Z comes along and announces the coming of â??Roc Nationâ? (Roc being a diminutive of Rocafella, the name of his record label, which is based on the elite family Rockefeller).

We are, yeah, I said it, we are
This is Roc Nation, pledge your allegiance
Get yâ??all fatigues on, all black everything
Black cards, black cars, all black everything
And our girls are blackbirds, riding with they Dillingers
I get more in-depth if you boys really real enough
This is La Familia, Iâ??ll explain later
But for now, let me get back to this paper
Iâ??m a couple bands down and Iâ??m tryna get back
I gave Doug a grip, I lost a flip for five stacks
Yeah, Iâ??m talking five comma six zeroes dot zero ?
Back to running circles â??round niggas, now we squared up

Jay-Z is asking you to â??Pledge your allegianceâ? to the new ruler and to wear black everything to honor him. Jayâ??s lyrics contain hints to Freemasonry who are hidden in the double meaning of some lines. â??I gave Doug a gripâ? means he gave Doug a stack of money but the double meaning to that line would refer to the Masonsâ?? secret handshakes which are called â??gripsâ?. And who is Doug? Might be Doug Morris. The last line of his first verse is â??Back to running circlesâ?? round niggas, now we squared upâ??. Aside from its obvious meaning, it also refers to the important Masonic concept of â??squaring the circleâ?, which is way too deep to explain here (â??I get more in-depth if you boys really real enoughâ??). In the second verse, Jay-Z says â?Itâ??s the return of thee godâ??, which refers to the Luciferian belief of men being gods. This term is often used in NY slang and originates from the fact that many rappers were Five-Percenters,  a philosophy based on the belief that all men are gods.   Further in the song Jay-Z says: â??Iâ??m in Maison, ugh, Martin Margielaâ? which is a upper-end fashion store. English speaking people usually pronounce the french word â?maisonâ?Â to sound like â?mayzaunâ?. Jay-Z however says it to sound like â??masonâ? as in â??Freemasonâ?. There is an obvious double-meaning here meant to catch the ear of the listener. He basically says â??Iâ??m in Masonâ? to make people say â??huh did he really say that?â? as â??Iâ??m a Freemasonâ? but he then continues by saying â??ugh, Martin Margielaâ??. The little pause after he says those words accentuate the effect. Then Rihanna comes back with the chorus.

Lifeâ??s a game but itâ??s not fair
I break the rules so I donâ??t care
So I keep doing my own thing
Walking tall against the rain
Victoryâ??s within the mile
Almost there, donâ??t give up now
Only thing thatâ??s on my mind
Is who gonâ?? run this town tonight

She says that the game of life is corrupted but she still succeeds because she â??breaks the rulesâ?. In other words, she ignores the boundaries between good and evil to achieve her goals. This might remind you of the saying â??Do What Thou Wiltâ? of the Ordo Templi Orientis described above. Those lines refer to her as a person and also to the Order as a whole, who is prepared to commit the most horrible acts to reach its goals. â??Victoryâ??s within the mileâ? means that the realization of the New World Order is at its final stages and that the Illuminati-sponsored revolution is about to happen.

Rihanna throwing Rocafella sign which is the left eye inside a triangle

So â??Run This Townâ? contains obvious hints leading towards Luciferian philosophy and occult orders. The fire of Luciferâ??s torch esoterically represents divine knowledge and wisdom brought to men. Fire in this video is however a destructive force. What type of knowledge are we giving these rebellious people, who represent the masses of fans?

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