This is my first contribution to the Formadine Rift discussions so forgive me if this has been covered already.
Adjust your tinfoil...
Now apparently Drew Wagar has hinted to recent a Galnet article that contains an easter egg.And this has been identified as the article:
See the date, 08 April 3302, that's what cracks this so called "easter egg" wide open. The eight of April just happens to be the day on which Holy Saturday (between Good Friday and Easter Sunday) falls in the year 3302. And of course we have a Salome in the Easter story: she is identified as the wife of Zebedee and often as the sister of the Virgin Mary. Salome is one of the women present at both at the Crucifixion (Mark 15:40) and who discovered Christ's empty tomb (Mark 16:1-8).
Salome together with Mary Magdalene and Mary mother of Jesus are often known as the Three Mary's. In the Galnet article are only two others, named as being present at Beagle Point, during Easter 3302: Dr Kaii and Commander Erimus. Could they be the other Marys and if so who is Magdalene and who is Our Lady? It would be interesting to know what the Three Marys were up to during Easter 3302 and match up their activities with the Easter chronology. For instance I believe the message was sent on the 7th of April, Good Friday, and the report delayed in order to include the response of the mysterious Karl Devene.
I scoured the news archives for other mentions of Karl Devene. Nothing, zip, nada! I even traveled down to Mars High. Again I came away with nothing. It's hard to tell the difference between jobs-worth Federal bureaucracy and deliberate obfuscation so I can't read two much into that. But as I head down a gloomy corridor back to my ship at bay 11 it suddenly hit me. Dark Eleven! Karl Devene is an anagram of Dark Eleven.
Now of course there are only 11 apostles left after the betrayal and suicide of Judas Iscariot. Mattias was only selected as the replacement twelfth apostle after the Ascension and before the Pentecost. Was Karl Devene some sort of apostle? Or, more likely, was his mention a message pointing to the existence of apostles somewhere out in the dark. If the Easter connection is correct then they should have been out there at Beagle Point. And who is the Christ figure in all this? Something was missing and something kept troubling me. A word...
Dark.
What researcher into the mysteries of our Galaxy cannot help but think of the Dark Wheel and the mystery of the Dark Systems. Eleven spokes on a Dark Wheel, eleven Dark Systems for eleven apostles? As an amateur my knowledge was faltering here. The "elite" lore of our galaxy is often harder to divine than the meanings of our sacred texts. Still, I couldn't quite see what the message was. What or who were the eleven?
Eleven words, eleven syllables. The credo of the Thelema religion developed by 19th/20th century occultist Aleister Crowley. The eleven is no mere coincidence. The number eleven was especially important to Crowley. The dark number, the number of magic! As William Wynn Wescott, of the Golden Dawn wrote in "Numbers: Their Occult Power and Mystic Virtue':
And Crowley himself wrote:
And with mention of the Book of the Law this brings us right back the clue that cracked this so called "easter egg" right open. Because the 8th of April 3302 is not just a significant Christian holiday but also a significant holiday in the Thelemic Religion celebrating as it does the day on which Crowley wrote the first chapter of the Book of the Law.
So it seems to me that the Karl Devene (Dark Eleven) is a response to the Three Mary's and the apostles at Beagle Point and message to be heard by those that can divine it that: "these explorers should not be under the impression that these areas can be considered even partially charted." And that maybe we need to consider other techniques such as those used by Crowley with his study of ancient symbolism, rights, myth and Magick!
The tinfoil is heavy gauge with this one ...
The Easter Egg has been identified. Its nothing deep, nothing sinister. Nothing to do with the Bible, the Book of the Law or any other holy book ... the fact that those of us who have been following this for a long, long time did not recognize it immediately is proof that we've got to step up our game. Beyond that though there is nothing in the Easter Egg that brings us any closer to unraveling the mystery.