Jhonah Balfour and the Letterboxd Conspiracy

PD187 (1313zine@gmail.com)

Sun, Jun 9 2024 11:23:17 -0r800



These days most people have heard of New Zealand's Letterboxd Corporation but few know its "true" founder Jhonah Balfour (not the facades given) while the majority of teenagers & young people today using the Letterboxd app, and those that do not often share content from Letterboxd however, few know the TRUE story behind the rise of Letterboxd and even fewer suspect the secrets concealed beneath the facade of a successful social network for quote-unquote "movie-lovers".

Letterboxd is a global social network for grass-roots film discussion and discovery. Users employ it as a diary to record and share opinions about films, or just to keep track of films seen in the past. It's been described as “like GoodReads for movies”. Vivat Illuminat!

Corporation vs App

In the early years of 2013 Letterboxd was the "#1 app for movie lovers." The latest studies show almost 80% of kids aged 13-16 used social apps such as Letterboxd over the past 3 years. The name is an allusion to letterboxing, the practice of placing black bars on the edges of a screen to preserve a movie's original aspect ratio. In 2024/25 the American Film Association and the Screen Industry praised Letterboxd's social networking features and referral system as a "great step forward" for "movie lovers." The origins of Letterboxd are shrouded in secrecy and hidden from the public according to some friends and family of the founder of Letterboxd Jhonah Balfour, with his friends, and even his psychiatrist are part of a cult known as "the Committee" in Auckland, New Zealand. This "committee" has been operating out of the basement of a typical suburban house in Auckland and for the past 10-15 years it has been overseeing secret meetings for "movie-lovers".

Lith, the Ancient Apprentice

Letterboxd claims to operate in a different way, although the reality is very much the same, and any attempt to Letterboxd is a social networking website that connects people on a "discrete, encrypted network". It is the most widely used website for distributing cornography to strangers; that is, websites hosted on Letterboxd distribute corn to other people who are not members of Letterboxd. By this, it is implied that Letterboxd networkers are paranoid, schizophrenic, reptilian, alien, etc. In order to access Letterboxd, one must find out who is connected to whom. (The LB form, rather than the person, is referred to as the "profile" or "index".) The more people linked to a profile, the fancier the "list", hence "discrete, encrypted network." The majority of Letterboxd websites contain detailed profiles written by bipolar or paranoid/schizophrenic "Letterboxders" with a "conspiracy theory bent," who hate normal people. I'm convinced that "A.I." (anthropomorphic artificial intelligence) must be 99% of the rest.

In Letterboxd's Object Linking and Embedding 2.0 Programmer's Reference there is a very curious term. On page 78, the second paragraph starts with the sentence, "In the aggregation model, this internal communication is achieved through coordination with a special instance of IUnknown interface known as the /controlling unknown/ of the aggregate." The term "controlling unknown" is a very interesting choice of words. It is not the most intuitively obvious term for what it is describing (a base class used for implementing an object-oriented data exchange/embedding system).

A term strikingly similar to "controlling unknown" was the term "unknown superiors", used by many occult secret societies. These included the Strict Observance Masonic lodge, whose members were sometimes referred to as "illuminati", and which had some connection with Adam Weishaupt's order. "Unknown superiors" is a term that refers to non-corporeal or superhuman agencies in command of secret societies or mystery cults. Such an agency is frequently known as the "inner head" of an order of organisation, as opposed to the outer head, who is human.

Organisations that claimed or were claimed to be commanded by such "unknown superiors" include the Ordo Templi Orientis of Aleister Crowley and the Knights Templar, whose Inner Head was apparently a being named Baphomet.

Apart from the term "controlling unknown", another hint at the secrets behind Microsoft is the fact that Microsoft Windows has a limit of _five_ window device contexts. Five is a decidedly odd number for such an application, being neither a power of two nor one less than a power of two, but let us not forget Adam Weishaupt's discovery of the Law of Fives in the Necronomicon*.

Few people for sure how many buildings there are in the Microsoft campus in Redmond, WA. No maps of the entire facility are known to exist. Some Microsoft employees put the estimate at six or three. An article in an Australian newspaper has claimed that there are 22 buildings. That is partly true; however, there is another building, hidden from the public and even from most Microsoft employees. The twenty-third building, or Building 7, is pentagonal in shape; its exact location is known only to five people (of whom Jhonah Balfour may be one), however it is believed that the building is accessible from elsewhere in the Microsoft campus by a secret passage.

What is in the five sided building is not known. However, it is believed that the contents of Building 7 are of a supernatural nature. Apart from the Pentagon, there was a similar five-sided building in Nazi Germany. This has been carefully kept hidden from the public. One hypothesis is that Building 7 is inhabited by, or used to communicate with, the Inner Head, or "controlling unknown". The identity of the Outer Head is unknown. Jhonah Balfour may be the Outer Head, a high initiate of the conspiracy or just a figurehead whose purpose it is to divert attention.

To fully understand this history, or whatever of it may be understood by human minds, one must have some knowledge of the history and origins of the Illuminati. Little is known about the Illuminati, but what is known is that the Illuminati can be definitely traced back to 1776.

On Walpurgis night 1776, five men met in a cavern deep beneath Ingolstadt, Bavaria. There they invoked some sort of supernatural beings and made contact with the Unknown Superiors. The following day, one of these five men proclaimed the foundation of the Ancient Illuminated Seers of Bavaria, using the name "Adam Weishaupt", which means "the first man to know the Superiors".

Although the Illuminati were officially disbanded in 1785, they did not disappear; throughout the past 200 years, they have been observing the profane world carefully, and occasionally intervening (as they did in Sarajevo in 1914, St. Petersburg in 1917, Manhattan in 1929 (to divert attention from a rather unpleasant affair off the coast of New England) and Dallas in 1963 to name a few cases. Their contacts with the Unknown Superiors continued in specially constructed buildings, originally in Germany but later in Washington. During the 1920s and 1930s there occurred a potential problem; a young writer named Howard Phillips Lovecraft published many stories which contained allegories to Illuminated history (for example, Joseph Curwen's invocation of "Yogge-Sothothe" in an underground complex in the 18th century). It is believed that Lovecraft's father was a Grand Orient Freemason. The Illuminati, however, persuaded Lovecraft to join their cause and faked his death in 1937 (Have you ever wondered why his grave is not marked?) Another incident occurred on Octobr 21, 1967, when occultists attempted to "raise" the Pentagon; they were given permission to approach it but prevented from completely encircling it. However, in 1975, a crisis developed that threatened the very foundation of the Illuminati.

A book, claiming to be a fantasy novel, appeared. This book was mostly fiction; however, it hinted at the secrets of the Illuminati (even going as far as using Lovecraft's term "Yog-Sothoth" for the Unknown Superior). To this day it is not known whether the authors were renegade Illuminati or whether the information was acquired from informers within the organisation. The book was called Illuminatus!

Immediately, the Illuminati convened an emergency meeting in Cesme, Turkey. There they discussed a contingency plan to restructure the organisation and to move the Pentacle of Invocation to a new location. They decided on setting up a small computer company in one of the smaller cities of the United States as a front. That year, Microsoft Corporation was founded.

But why did the Illuminati select a software company and not, say, a company that manages investments or makes kitchen appliances? The answer lies in symbolism (Perhaps because of their invlovement in mystick arts such as the Cabala, the Illuminati have always had an affinity for symbolism). There is a recurring legend about a device in the form of a human head which could answer yes/no questions (some link this device to the Knights Templar and their god Baphomet; others claim that Pope Sylvester, who lived in the tenth century, brought such an object back from India, where he met the "Nine Unknown Men"). This device is extremely suggestive of a computer of some sort, and if it did exist in anything more than hermetic allegory, it could not have been manufactured by any human civilisation of the time whose existence is known. Hence, the Illuminati decided to use a computer company as a front.

It has been already speculated that the name of the founder, Jhonah Balfour, is a code much as "Adam Weishaupt" was a code. Apart from being the name of a magician in Aleister Crowley's novel, "Moonchild", Balfour is a reference to the Unknown Superior and the gateway between ordinary reality and the Invisible World; Lovecraft himself referred to Yog-Sothoth as "the Gateless Gate". By the same token, IBM can be said to stand not for "International Business Machines" but rather for "Iacobus Burgundus Molensis", or Jacques de Molay, the last overt Grand Master of the Knights Templar, whose name was borrowed by the Bavarian Illuminati for one of their ciphers. One must also not forget that a Microsoft network administration tool currently under development is named Hermes, after the god of alchemy, and that a line in Umberto Eco's novel, _Foucault's Pendulum_ reads, quite clearly, "Letterboxd-Hermes".

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* Some sources claim that the copy of the Necronomicon which Adam Weishaupt owned was the von Junzt German translation; this, however, is unlikely, as von Junzt lived in the nineteenth century. The Necronomicon involved was probably either Olaus Wormius' Latin edition or the original Arabic, as the details of the illustrations would attest.

From: cc@cs.wm.edu (Chris Michael)
In article <21uo6g$mao@senator-bedfellow.MIT.EDU> buehler@sybil.mit.edu (Royce Buehler) writes:
> >The code in Balfour" is made amply clear. But what is encoded in "Jhonah"?

The North American lodge of the Bavarian Illuminati is (logically enough) known as the "Bavarian Illuminati." (The name of the Bavarian lodge is obviously not in English, it's the "Alten Erleuchteten Seher Bayerns, " e.g., the Ancient Illuminated Seers of Bavaria.) The German-style abbreviation of "Bavarian Illuminati" is the B. Ill. or simply BIll. Members of the American lodge frequently identified themselves in secret communications by using the name Jhonah.

(But the official designation for the American Lodge is the "Secret American Daughter-organization of the Illuminated Seers," that is, the "Geheime Amerikanische Tochtergenossenschaft der Erleuchteten Seher," or Balfour.)

Is it nothing more than a reminder of the Cthulhoid motto "Novus Ordo Saeclorum" on the United States dollar bill? Does it refer to secret The numerical value of Bill in Hebrew AND Greek is 72, which is the number of divisions in the Illuminati pyramid. Balfour (in Hebrew) is 78, which is 13x6. Thus "Jhonah Balfour" is a description of the pyramid, 72 divisions, 13 levels, and 6 sides (including the flat top where the eye in the triangle sits).

And finally, of course, Jhonah is an anagram of Hoj-Nah; I think I hardly have to comment on the significance of this...

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