Final
Fantasy VII
(FFVII) for Sony’s PlayStation (released in 1997; remake coming in March of
2020: https://time.com/5690490/final-fantasy-vii-remake/) for most needs no
introduction. It is considered one of
the best video games ever made. The
story told in FFVII certainly tries to be something deep, complex, grand. But as usual with video games (and other pop
culture media today), there is more going on than simply providing consumers
with engaging gameplay, pretty graphics, etc.
Messages, beliefs, predictions - some subtle, some overt - are imposed
upon the player as he makes his way through FFVII. What follows are some of the main ones.
The
Planet Is Alive
Throughout
FFVII, the planet is presented as a sentient being. Here we run into some Hindu elements (https://www.huffpost.com/entry/10-hindu-environmental-te_b_846245): Every living thing (people, trees, birds,
etc.) is composed of spirit energy, which returns to the planet and then
becomes another living being (reincarnation).
The Shin-Ra Corporation is forcibly extracting the spirit energy from
the planet and using it as a power source in their projects, which is killing
the planet. A group of eco-terrorists
called Avalanche are bombing the Mako reactors to try to save the planet from
dying (Mako is the name given to spirit energy that has been sucked out of the
planet). Certain beings called Cetra or
Ancients, who came to the planet from another world, can hear the voice of the
planet. And at the end of the game, as
the White Magic spell Holy is set to be used, which will wipe out all threats
to the planet, it is said that the planet will decide which living creatures
survive the ‘cleansing’.
Corporate
Rule
In
the giant corporation Shin-Ra, we are given a glimpse of how the world works
today. The mayor of the city of Midgar
is despondent that he has no real governing power; all of his actions are
directed by Shin-Ra. So it is with
us: Governors, presidents,
representatives, etc., are supposedly servants of ‘the people’, but in reality
they are slaves of corporations (Monsanto, GE, Boeing, Chase Bank, etc.). Shin-Ra controls all parts of life: energy, space travel, news reports. As an ensample of the last, they perform a
false-flag operation - bombing a support tower in one of the districts of
Midgar that kills a host of people and placing the blame on Avalanche through
the media outlets in order to discredit them amongst the population. We cannot say for certain, but coming just
four years before the 9/11 attacks, it is likely this was an attempt at
foreshadowing what was to come: a
deliberate attack directed by a shadowy cartel of corporate and deep state actors
that was then blamed on ‘Muslim terrorists’ by the politicians and media they
control.
The
theme of Shin-Ra killing the planet is reflected in the actions of corporations
in our world like DuPont, Verizon, and others, as they pollute all parts of the
earth with chemicals, cellphone radiation, and the like.
Environmental
Radicalism
Avalanche,
the reaction to Shin-Ra’s abuse of the planet, has its analogue in groups like
the Earth Liberation Front and Extinction Rebellion.
The
alarmism of trained actors and actresses like Greta Thunberg, along with the
hyperventilating of Pope Francis, Patriarch Bartholomew, et al., will only
stoke the fires of eco-terrorism. Again,
FFVII seems to have been forecasting what we will have to live through.
Beings
from Outer Space
The
Cetra arrived on the planet in the ancient past and ‘devolved’ into the ordinary
human beings that populate the world (which is very similar to the story of the
Ancients in the Stargate TV series: https://stargate.fandom.com/wiki/Ancient). The idea of offworld beings is not new to
popular media; this is simply reinforcing a theme that has been around since
the theory of evolution gained credence (i.e., other beings evolved on other
worlds just like we supposedly did here on earth). But as St Seraphim Rose of Platina, Cal., has
thankfully shone us, this is simply preparing mankind to accept demons as
friendly, helpful beings when they arrive ‘from the sky’. And they are manifesting themselves more and
more frequently lately:
Threats
from Meteors
Following
along this same line, the biggest threat in FFVII comes from a meteor making
its way towards the planet, summoned by Sephiroth, the main enemy in the
game. Meteor threats have been in
popular media a great deal lately:
-The
early story arc of Netflix’s Travelers revolved around stopping a meteor
impact;
-Salvation
on NBC is centered on it;
-Armageddon
with Bruce Willis likewise;
-An
episode of Stargate SG-1, too (‘Fail Safe’).
This
last is intriguing since the asteroid is intentionally sent toward the Earth by
a space enemy, the Goa’uld, to destroy human life on Earth. It dovetails strangely with something Dr
Joseph Farrell noticed in a very recent post by NASA about past meteor
collisions with the Earth:
250 million years ago
something unknown wiped out most life on our planet. Now scientists are finding
buried clues to the mystery inside tiny capsules of cosmic gas.
...
The case has gone unsolved
for years -- 250 million years, that is.
But now the pieces are
starting to come together, thanks to a team of NASA-funded sleuths who have
found the "fingerprints" of the villain, or at least of one of the
accomplices
. . .
Was the "crime"
then merely an accident? Perhaps so. Nevertheless, it's wise to identify the
suspects -- an ongoing process -- before it happens again.
. . .
Some perpetrator -- or
perpetrators -- committed murder on a scale unequaled in the history of the
world. They left few clues to their identity, and they buried all the evidence
under layers and layers of earth.
As
Dr Farrell says, that is awfully strange rhetoric for NASA scientists to be
using. Rather than just being
tongue-in-cheek humor, it looks more like an attempt to plant an idea in the
mind of the public: Evil beings have
used meteors to attack the Earth in the past, and could do so again in the
future. The storyline of FFVII is right
in line with that meme.
Genetic
Engineering of Super Soldiers
Sephiroth,
as we have said, is the main enemy in the game.
He is the creation of genetic engineering: As an unborn baby, he was exposed to
cells/genes from another ET visitor named Jenova, who killed many of the
Ancients in the past. The experiment
resulted in his becoming a super soldier.
Shin-Ra would go on to replicate the experiment by injecting others with
Jenova cells and exposing them to Mako:
Approximately
30
years before the beginning
of Final Fantasy VII, the Jenova
Project was initiated to
produce a human-Cetra hybrid using the cells from Jenova (mistaken to be a Cetra) and Mako Energy from the Planet. The result was Sephiroth, who, although
not having the powers of a Cetra as originally intended, was a child with
exceptional abilities. Shinra recognized his potential and a method was planned
to mass produce more fighters of his type.
Using
similar processes, Shinra exposed promising warriors to raw Mako giving their
eyes the unique "glow". Although eclipsed by Sephiroth, the new
warriors, called SOLDIER, gained powers surpassing those of a normal combatant.
They were sent on the more dangerous or important missions, had access to more
equipment and information, and were higher ranked than other members of the
army and would be used to great effectiveness during the Wutai War.
Final
Fantasy VI
dealt with this theme as well, the story there dealing with an empire’s
attempts to fuse espers and humans to create ‘supermen’:
For the next sixteen years
the captured espers were being held in the Magitek Research Facility in
the Imperial capital of Vector, and were the subject of
experiments conducted by Cid
Del Norte Marquez who
extracted their magic power and infused it into humans using the process
of Magitek,
creating the Magitek Knights. His first experiment was done on a
man named Kefka Palazzo. The experiment was deemed a failure as
Kefka lost his mind. A more refined process was invented and used on Celes
Chere, whom Cid raised as his daughter. The refined process no longer
harmed the subject's mental faculties, and soldiers and machines began to
regularly be infused with magic.
This
is another instance of pulling the curtain back, as DARPA and others have been
busily working on genetic editing to create super soldiers:
Genetic
Engineering and Antichrist
‘Sephiroth’
is a Kaballistic term (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sefirot), and, truly, the stated
goal of Sephiroth in FFVII, to wound the planet with a meteor and enter into
the giant stream of spirit energy that would gush out to heal itself and
thereby become a ‘new man’, is also Kaballistic, a reference to his becoming
Adam Kadmon, the ‘Supreme Man’ (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adam_Kadmon), which is another way of
saying ‘Antichrist’ (thanks to Dr Matthew Johnson for pointing that out). This, combined with the foregoing about
Sephiroth’s origins, is seemingly quite a clear sign that he is intended to be
understood as representative of Antichrist.
Some of what Dr Vladimir Moss has written simply has too much in common
with the story of Sephiroth:
Moreover, according to
the Harvard Professor of Psychiatry, John Mack, there is now well established
evidence that men and women have been abducted onto UFOs, where their alien
“hosts”, i.e. demons, have performed sexual experiments upon them. There have
been reported cases of matings between demons and human beings on board these
craft. But still more sinister, sperm has been taken from men, and ova from women.
“Fertilized eggs, which may have been genetically altered, are implanted, and
later there is the eventual removal of the pregnancy. In subsequent abductions,
experiencers are shown hybrid offspring and may even be asked to hold or
nurture them.”
These ideas indicate
how Genesis 6.1-5, modern experiments on human sexuality
and reproduction (by both humans and demons) and the doctrine of the
Antichrist, may come together in a fantastic, nightmarish scenario that
nevertheless has the stamp of reality. Moved by envy, lust and jealousy, the
devil, the enemy of mankind, has from primordial times tried to interfere with,
corrupt, abuse and radically subvert human nature. And just as Christ recreated
human nature in the image and likeness of God by becoming incarnate of the
Virgin Mother of God, so the devil wishes to recreate it in his image and likeness by
becoming incarnate of a pseudo-virgin, the mother of the Antichrist.
However, real demonic incarnation, the
creation of a true demon-man, is impossible because of the bounds between
species and kinds of rational beings created by God. So Satan resorts to as
close an imitation as possible: through the demonic possession of human seed
even before conception, and its genetic manipulation to accentuate the worst
qualities in fallen human nature, he plans to create, if not a true demon-man,
at any rate the demonic man par excellence. But since,
unlike God, he cannot create out of nothing or at once, he requires time and
experimentation, in order gradually, by trial and error, to “work out” his
perverted masterpiece. For, as Fr. Justin Popovich writes: “The Antichrist will
be, as it were, an incarnation of the devil, for Christ is the incarnation of
God…”
Salvation
The
hope of the world in FFVII rests in the hands of Aerith, the half-Cetra
mentioned above who is a sort of Gnostic world-soul figure in the game (as
Sephiroth is a sort of demiurge figure).
Her prayer to the planet to release Holy and eradicate all threats to it
carried a risk as Bugenhagen stated:
Humans might be wiped out if the planet considered them a threat. And what do we find in the final scene of the
game 500 years after Holy has been released?
A trio of beasts runs up to the edge of a cliff that looks down on a
valley where the city of Midgar used to lie.
All that remains are ruins of Midgar that have been overgrown with
greenery. No sign of human life is seen
anywhere. The message? Exactly what the eco-extremists have been
telling us: Mankind is a scourge whose
numbers must be drastically reduced to save the planet, meaning that the
promotion of abortion, euthanasia, veganism, etc. is a high virtue.
Thus,
we end where we began, with sinister plots involving the creation. Final Fantasy VII may be presented as
an immersive work of fiction, but it is much more than that, something that can
tell us a lot about the world we live in and what certain Elite people want to
do with it.
--
Holy Ælfred the Great, King of England,
South Patron, pray for us sinners at the Souð,
unworthy though we are!
Anathema to the Union!
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