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Well, you know, in the Freemason Bible, it says when a sacrifice is made, the sacrifice has to be made inside of a pentagon and a pentagon is the pentagram

so if you look at a lot of these uh maybe some of these public executions or some of these

sacrifices like you were talking about with Freddie Mercury

you could probably go back and there would be some kind of symbolism

surrounding that that's like a Pentagon

if you looked at it from above.

What's crazy about the Queen's story is I've researched this because I've done a live

presentation on it. I did it at Halloween last year actually. And part of that involves

breaking down the lyrical content of Bohemian Rhapsody, Queen's most famous song.

And it's another thing that was staring us all right there in plain sight, but so many

probably didn't see it. That song has been endlessly scrutinized by music critics for decades,

and they're like, oh, it's so ambiguous, nobody really knows what it means. But it's fairly clear when you look at it from this perspective that the song is talking about a Faustian bargain, a deal that's being made by the protagonist in the song in exchange for great fame and fortune. This goes back to the original German legend of Faust, who was this sort of accomplished,

wealthy individual who had gained great worldly pleasure and, you know, acquisition,

but felt like he was lacking knowledge, spiritual knowledge,

and holistic knowledge. And so he makes a deal metaphorically with the devil and sells his soul,

offers up his mortal soul in exchange for this great worldly knowledge. And a common trope that's run throughout

the music industry for decades, going all the way back to Robert Johnson, the blues musician

in the 1930s, who's said to have made a deal at the crossroads with the devil in exchange for

great musical proficiency, is this idea of musicians trading their souls

for engineered fame and fortune. And that, when you look at it, is what the Freddie Mercury

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