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THE THIRD & FINAL BEAST | And I saw a beast coming out of the sea..." Marilyn Manson: His various and multifaceted personifications as the Antichrist of Revelation, The Book of Daniel and Islam. The Holy Bible's emergence throughout Manson's performance and art, the weapon of the enemy used against them.
"..before me was a fourth beast, terrifying and frightening and very powerful. It had large iron teeth; it crushed and devoured its victims and trampled underfoot whatever was left..." Daniel 7:7
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HOLY WOOD - PSALM 23 | "Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me. Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies: thou anointest my head with oil; my cup runneth over." Psalm 23:4-5.
The Biblical verse which Manson enacted onstage during the Holy Wood era and where the original title of the album, 'In The Shadow of the Valley of Death', was inspired from.
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: MANSON AS NERO CAESAR | "I'm looking to bring back feeding
Christians to the lions as a new reality TV program," he says. "Called
'Christian Survivor, by Marilyn Manson'. I'm the new Julius Caesar. The
networks would probably love it, because it involves religion, politics,
and violence, and that's really what makes the world go around these days,
unfortunately."
Marilyn Manson's "Guns, God & Government Tour" performance entrance; led onstage in the outfit of a Roman emperor, drawn by a chariot pulled by two naked women wearing horse's heads. An evocation of Nero Caesar, the grand and most notorious persecutor of the Christians.
THE
TAU CROSS | "Then the Lord called to the man clothed in
linen who had the writing kit at his side and said to him, "Go throughout
the city of Jerusalem and put a mark on the foreheads of those who grieve
and lament over all the detestable things that are done in it." Ezekiel
9:3-4
Manson's Holy Wood era vindicating symbol of the blame scapegoated upon him for the Columbine murders.
AMPUTATION OF SIN | "And if your
hand or your foot causes you to sin, cut it off and throw it away. It
is better for you to enter life crippled or lame than with two hands or
two feet to be thrown into the eternal fire." Matthew
18:8
This Biblical verse acted out in literal fashion in the video for, 'I Don't Like The Drugs (But The Drugs Like Me)'.
THE MECHANICAL CHRIST | "And in the midst of the seven candlesticks
one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot,
and a girt about the paps with a golden girdle. His head and hairs were
white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire..."
Revelation 1:13-14
Manson during the Mechanical Animals era. The opening song of each performance of the subsequent tour being named 'Inauguration of the Mechanical Christ'.
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BIBLICAL PASSAGES WITHIN MANSON'S ARTWORK | 'The God Bandaid' & 'Tim Skold / Biblical Swastika'. Passages, and literally pages, from the Holy Bible within Marilyn Manson's artwork. All deciphered by NACHTKABARETT contributing partner, Brad Jaeger, the unifying theme presented by the King James Bible's juxtaposition within these two paintings are deception (assisted by God himself), premonitions of burning strongholds, dashed children, and mass murder by the sword, the necessity of Jesus' death for mankind's salvation, cannibalism, polygamy, the total destruction of the earth, as orchestrated by God himself. All as Manson's continued presentation of the morbid foundations and hypocrisy within the teachings that self righteous Christianity invokes for personal gain.
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THE DEVIL IN LOVE | Manson on the 'Against All Gods Tour' in 2004. The demonic stage outfit which finds it's origins of inspiration in age old artistic depictions of the Devil.
THE BLACK MASS | Manson's stage entrance on the 'Against
All Gods Tour' in which he emergence from the smoky darkness swinging
a incense bearing censer as to sanctify the ground which he is to perform
his black mass upon.