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What happens when one door is closed, as happened with the end of the Ra contact? I think the source of such information tries many avenues, and during various periods of time, may work to transmit messages in many ways. If a more direct route is not available, then an indirect one, such as inspiring those who create fiction, may be used.

Some of the video games produced in the decade after the end of the Ra contact have interesting stories, in relation to channeled material. (I have the impression that the most interesting contents, with some exceptions, became more rare after the 16-bit era. As can perhaps be expected when it turns into big business.)

The four Phantasy Star video games, from 1987-1995, convey a science-fiction story which is interesting in relation to both Ra and the Cassiopaean material. (See the thread "Comparing Ra and the Cassiopaeans" for some recent discussion concerning the Cassiopaean material. Views on that material may differ among people here, though the approach of the Cassiopaean community is not in alignment with the approach of this community.)

The stories of Phantasy Star I, II, and IV take place in the fictional Algol solar system, located somewhere in the Andromeda Galaxy. These three form a sequence, with roughly a millennium separating one story setting from the next. The story of PS III is the odd one, taking place on a space ark on a long journey and with an uncertain future (the story branching out twice for four different endings).

The second of the four games has a story with striking parallels to part of the Cassiopaean story of our solar system. For those not familiar with the latter, it combines some of the contents from Ra with ideas of alien races and their doings, and some other contents, while changing names, time frames, and some other details compared to Ra. As found in the PS II game (from 1990), the main story elements in common with the C's are:
- Conquerors arrived on a space ark and decided to take over the solar system.
- They took over by secretly being the brains behind a new, high-technological civilization.
- Life is lived under the central control of a supercomputer ("Mother Brain"), the population not knowing its true origins.
- Genetic experimentation, and the use of cloning and mind-uploading to revive people. (This is a looser match.)
- One of the planets blow up and is reduced to an asteroid belt.
- There's a partial evacuation on a fleet of space arks just prior to the explosion.

The parallels with the Ra material are weaker. Though then, it is the Cassiopaeans who, in discussing the culture of a destroyed planet in our solar system, mysteriously mention "Japan" as a clue to the lost culture. (The games were made and originally released in Japan, work on the originals ending before the Cassiopaean contact began in 1994.)

The fictional solar system (originally) has three inhabited planets: Motavia, a desert planet; Palma, a temperate planet; and Dezolis, cold and snowy. The center of human civilization is Palma, though it moves to a terraformed Motavia after the destruction of Palma.

There is a main 1000 year historical cycle which marks the end of civilizations, along with an intense struggle with an otherworldly demonic force which influences people in order to bring about death and destruction.

(Sometime between the first and second stories, the orbits of Palma and Motavia flip, due to a freak gravitational alignment. Whatever happened in the short term, there's no further elaboration on this particular "Great Disaster". The idea looks like a watered-down echo of Velikovskian ideas of solar system events.)

Below, I'll mainly focus on the second story, with brief summaries of the other three to provide a quick look at the bigger picture. Whether I make further posts on the topic of these stories depends on whether there's interest.

I'll take into account some of the fan-detailing about how the Japanese originals differ from the English translations. The English translations change names inconsistently between games and sometimes alter other details. I'll remove inconsistencies and fill in some gaps.


Phantasy Star (1987)

The first story takes place at a time when Palman civilization has been exploring and established minor colonies on the other two planets. (The native Motavians, bird-like humanoids, and the green-skinned native Dezolisians, only play a very small part in the story.)

The civilization is headed by King Lassic. Once a benevolent and well-respected ruler, he has gone through a drastic transformation. Engaging in a metaphysical bid for power, he became the loyal servant of a demon. The people do not know this, but they do know that Lassic has turned into a totalitarian tyrant who violently suppresses all dissent with an army of robotcops.

(The English version changed Lassic's role from seeking out the force of darkness to the dark force seeking him out: Before Lassic's transformation, he joined a shadowy religion, rumored to come from another galaxy. Promising immortality to its adherents, Lassic became one of the first to join.)

The main protagonist is a young woman named Alis, who encounters her brother mortally wounded and left for dead by Lassic's thugs. After the attackers have left with the comment that what they have done will teach him not to "sniff around in Lassic's affairs", his dying words to her include directions for finding a resistance fighter.

The rest of the story is the story of Alis' journey across the solar system, and a group of four banding together to take down the tyrant, doing so, and then suddenly facing a demon in a struggle they are not prepared for - but making it, barely, nonetheless.

(The details are more oriented towards entertainment than anything deep or philosophical. For instance, one of the four is a "musk cat", a type of cat which talks.)


Phantasy Star II (1989, 1990)

Roughly a thousand years have passed since the fall of Lassic. People live in a very different civilization of misty origins, but the development of which has been fairly recent and sudden.

All the institutions of society are centrally directed by the "Mother Brain" computer, and government officials merely have the task of smoothly implementing and maintaining its policies.

People consider the unknown builders of Mother Brain to be the greatest benefactors humanity has ever known. All basic needs are provided for, and most do not need to work. Further human progress is, in part, a project taking place in facilities for genetic experimentation run by Mother Brain.

Central to the story is a terraformed Motavia. Climate, and other aspects of the environment surrounding the cities, are regulated by systems under the control of Mother Brain. (Palmans have largely displaced the native Motavians, who are reduced to dumpster-diving as a means of sustaining themselves.)

Among government agents, premature death can be defied using a cloning and mind-uploading process, provided that remains sufficient for the cloning process are available.

The protagonist is a Motavian government agent (of the Palman human type, as are all the significant characters in the story). Rolf, a young man, has been suffering recurring nightmares in which a young woman is in a desperate battle with a demon (a reference to the first story). A day after he has one of those dreams, he is given a very unusual task, the danger of which his superior warns him.

Recently, due to a malfunction in a bio-engineering facility, dangerous mutated creatures have begun to rampage the areas outside the cities. In order to get rid of these "biomonsters", Rolf is given the task of finding, and if possible, fixing the problem.

One thing quickly leads to the next, and a small group begins to gather around Rolf, more people joining him as his work proceeds. The first to come along is Nei, an experimentally bio-engineered woman who has stayed with Rolf since the time he saved her from an unruly crowd which denounced her as a monster.

Once they make it to the Biosystems facility, they are able to reach its main computer. Rolf extracts a recording, in which people at his workplace find evidence of unusual energy consumption and the re-routing of energy from the Climatrol system that is meant to keep the planet temperate.

The next step becomes finding out what happened at Climatrol. There, they meet a woman with the same appearance and origins as Nei. Having escaped death at the hands of researchers who labeled her a failed experiment, she became an embittered outcast, sabotaging the Biosystems to exact revenge. The two, Nei and her look-alike, turn out to have a shared past, and to be linked in such a way that the death of one means the death of the other. Nevertheless, opposed to one another to the core, they fight. When Nei dies, the others kill her attacker.

In the meantime, energy has built up dangerously in the weather control system. By the time Rolf and his remaining companions notice what's happening, the best they can do is to escape the building before explosions erupt.

Returning to work, Rolf hears of the consequences. The rain supply is being dumped into the lake surrounding Climatrol all at once, and a flooding disaster must now be averted. Malfunctioning controls mean that dams have to be opened manually. Furthermore, Rolf is warned that the Palma-directed security system has taken an unhealthy interest in him. Keeping a low profile is his best option for avoiding the security robots.

Rolf soon hears word spreading that he and his group are going to be hunted down for sabotage. Nevertheless, he sees it as his responsibility to open the dams and save people. They find and take the control cards for the dams, then visit and open them one by one. But just as they leave the final dam after opening it, they are surrounded by robots that zap them unconscious.

It turns out to be costly to act against the will of Mother Brain. Rolf and his team wake up aboard a prison satellite where people are sent upon receiving death sentences. In order to ensure inmates do not escape, they wear devices which inflict electric shocks in response to movement. Rolf and his friends feebly move around when they hear an enormous explosion. Soon, it is clear the satellite has gone off course. Desperately walking around to try to find out what's happening, they realize it's going to crash into Palma, just before losing consciousness.

They wake up on the ship of a space pirate who has rescued them. (The Japanese original adds a detail: They actually did die aboard the satellite. What the rescuer did was to recover their remains and bring them back to life through cloning and mind-uploading.) And shocking news are in store.

The planet Palma has blown up - and just before it did, the prison satellite was crashed into the planet. After telling them the news, the space pirate agrees to teleport them back to Rolf's old city, where people at the local branch of the government still hold Rolf in high regard.

Rolf's old commander is relieved to find Rolf safe, and convinced of Rolf's innocence, offers the use of an old space shuttle. With it, they have the means to visit the other remaining planet, Dezolis, in search for answers. (Under the reign of Mother Brain, space travel became strictly regulated, generally ending the earlier interplanetary travel within the solar system.)

They land at a large mining facility, long abandoned after a gas leak killed the Palman settlers who lived and worked there. From there, they venture through a landscape of snow and ice, as well as a few native Dezolisian towns. (The Dezolisians are largely uninterested in Palmans and their doings and technology, though they build in stone and religiously venerate fire.)

Finally, the group reaches a place that has answers: the secluded home of the Espers, Palmans whose genetically endowed telemental abilities set them apart, and who have isolated themselves from the larger Palman civilization. Their leader, Lutz, is very old. Kept in cryogenic hibernation most of the time, he usually spends time awake only once every ten years, unless there is an emergency that requires his attention.

(Lutz is the name of one of the four protagonists in the first story, and presumably the same person. However, the English translators changed his name to Noah in the first game, but not in the rest.)

The fate of the solar system is certainly important, and Lutz emerges from his sleep to discuss matters. It turns out Rolf and Lutz have met once before, and that Lutz saved Rolf from a deadly accident in childhood. Lutz is convinced that Rolf is a descendant of Alis.

Mother Brain turns out to be located on a space ark named "Noah". To take down the system, equipment is needed, and Lutz gives the group the preparatory task of gathering it. Rolf and his team journey extensively, until they have obtained what they need. Thereafter, Lutz uses his powers to teleport the group to the space ark Noah.

They move through a series of corridors until Rolf encounters a box. Upon opening, he and the others suddenly face the demon of Rolf's nightmares. Perhaps this "hidden treasure" is the invisible brains behind Mother Brain.

Following a difficult battle with a vile and bombastic enemy, they make it further through the space ark and reach the room in which Mother Brain is located. Projecting an image of a great and benevolent mother-goddess figure, the computer declares its indispensability, describing the weakness of the people and their complete dependence on it. Without it, there would only be panic and chaos.

Overcoming the defenses of the machine and destroying it, something more still remains. Lutz telepathically informs Rolf that there are other people on the ship. Walking on, the group enters a large hall.

Here, they meet the Earthmen. Facing them is line after line of armed, uniformed people, whose leader soon speaks. The leader of the Earthmen tells them, briefly, of how they came to the solar system on a journey for a new home after destroying their own planet. Finding the people of Algol "living in simple happiness", the Earthmen decided that they wanted it all. Taking credit for the destruction of the planet Palma, the leader asks Rolf and his vastly outnumbered companions if they really think they can stop the Earthmen.

Sensing that Rolf needs help, Lutz has used his powers to gather more of Rolf's friends, and suddenly teleports them into the room to provide a little reinforcement. But the group is still greatly outnumbered.

And then the battle begins. But its end is newer shown.

The final scene shows a hexagonal object flying through the solar system. This is a reference to the sequel, with its backstory of a Palman evacuation on a fleet of newly built, hexagonally-shaped space arks just before the planetary explosion.


Phantasy Star III (1990, 1991)

The original title translated into "Successors of Time: Phantasy Star III", but the English translators found that too weird and changed it to Phantasy Star III: Generations of Doom.

The story follows the inhabitants of a space ark during a crucial part of its multi-millennial journey through space. The space ark consists of seven world domes interconnected in a hexagonal shape, and has two satellites in orbit.

A thousand years have passed since a terrible war destroyed civilization, leaving the survivors in "a world of mutated creatures and warring pockets of men". Following the destruction, knowledge was rapidly lost, and most of the inhabitants are without any understanding of the nature of their world.

During the ancient war, the leaders of the two sides suddenly ordered their followers to no longer kill, before disappearing at the same time. The Orakians - followers of Orakio - worked around it by building robots to kill for them. The Layans - followers of Laya - instead created biological monstrosities for an army.

The descendants of the two warring factions remain culturally divided, each elevating its ancient leader to the status of a mythical deity and demonizing the counterpart on the other side.

Most live in monarchical city-states and smaller towns strewn across the world domes, with little travel between the worlds. But a series of events leads a young prince to begin a journey of exploration and rediscovery carried on by his son and grandson. As history unfolds, the journey transforms into a quest to avert ultimate disaster for the space ark.

There are four possible endings, as the story branches out at each change of generation with the choice of whom the old protagonist will marry. The second generation comes in two distinctly different versions, while the variations for the third generation converge, even as the endings diverge.

One other ship of the same type also exists. One main branch of the story leads to its destruction, and towards a black hole and the question of whether or not it is avoided. The other branch may lead either to nearly flying into a star, and finding that its solar system has a suitable home, or to journeying on in the company of the other ship.

There's far more in terms of structured details to the story and symbolism than there is elaborate development connected to it. I think the story writer had much more in mind, but ran out of time and budget. (The planner was a junior staff member for the second game who developed ideas for another one.)

I could do a fuller write-up for the quirky and neatly structured story of this game, which I have found interesting since I played it in my teens.

A final detail for a short summary is that on the space ark, four worlds are the main homes of ancient knowledge. One houses the secluded home of the pilots, one the secluded home of the engineers, and two others each contain a floating city. One of the sky-cities is the home of a few humble wise men, while the other, the "Holy City of Lashute", turns out to be the home of the ultimate evil. (Naming associations link the "Holy City" to Jerusalem. Symbolically, perhaps the "heavenly" Jerusalem of Revelations. This interpretation may however be disliked by those who trust the Bible.)


Phantasy Star IV (1993, 1995)

A thousand years after the fall of Mother Brain, people live in simpler times. And a great and decisive battle between good and evil approaches.

The story first unfolds towards a confrontation with Zio the Black Magician, a cult leader and all-around scary character who has been issuing threats and turned a leading researcher into stone in order to halt the exploration of the ruins of an ancient and advanced civilization.

A few people from Motavia (which has partly returned to being a desert world) - including an actual Motavian - and two ancient androids, and an old Dezolisian priest, among others, end up on a very strange journey through the solar system.

The solar system turns out to have a fourth planet with a highly eccentric orbit, home to non-physical beings who instruct and prepare the heroes for the great battle which awaits them.

The nature of the ultimate evil is explained, but the English version censors the explanation and replaces it with a dualistic creation story (the good is the creator and the evil is the antithesis of the creator). The creator banished its nihilistic dark counterpart to a realm outside the Universe.

The Japanese version instead tells a story of an ancient interplanetary war in a divided civilization of non-physical beings. The victorious side seals the defeated side away. The souls of the defeated side then meld together into a single, malevolent entity, pure in its hatred and destructiveness. Much later, the race of victors die out.

The "Profound Darkness" seeks to break free and re-enter the Universe in order to annihilate. The solar system is described as being part of the sealing structure, by an ancient design, explaining why the source of each millennium's demon has worked hard to blow up planets.

The demon-battling heroes across the millennia all turn out to be connected at the soul level. These "Protectors" are what remains to stand against the ultimate evil threatening the solar system.

There's some interesting ideas in the story, but I have the sense that the weight had shifted towards wrapping it all up in an entertaining package by the time this game was made. For a fuller write-up, perhaps skipping the less essential parts and instead focusing on themes would be more interesting.
Three old fan-fic stories by "Michael Hahn" may be generally thought-worthy for people interested in the stories of the games. Two are short, one much longer.

(Added: The ancient Web 1.0 site phantasy-star.net is now down, so I added web.archive.org links for the stories, through which they can still be read.)

Madness And The Machine [web archive link], in the form of the last journal entry of the lead designer of Mother Brain, gives a more sympathetic look at the Earthmen. Written in a "rare moment of lucidity", their past is described, including evidence from the new solar system that they are trapped in a diabolical time loop, stretching back to when the Earthmen first gained advanced space travel technology. Fleeting impressions and symbolic clues hint at the unseen demon which has corrupted their hearts and minds and turned them into tools of large-scale destruction. The lead designer prays that they will all die so that they can do no more harm.

Alis In Darkness [web archive link] describes the role of chance and small events, in exploring what would have happened if Alis hadn't heard her brother's dying words, which galvanized her to bring an end to Lassic's tyrannical reign. Her life unfolds very differently, and thousands of years later, the fate of the solar system turns out to be one of ultimate doom rather than one of ultimate hope.

The long story is In The Name Of The Mother [web archive link], which provides an alternative backstory to PS III in an attempt to more logically unify the stories of the four games.

A long time has passed since the fall of Mother Brain. Each of the two remaining planets has its AI head of operations, largely unknown to the people. The smaller systems under their care maintain climate and some other aspects of the planetary environment. But the androids in charge can be fooled by an intelligence of a different order, subject to laws they do not understand.

A mild-mannered man named Bran is swept deep into the developing conflict between the two worlds, after being sought out by the android running his. When a near-death experience breaks the boundaries of his perception, he suddenly wakes up to the task of outsmarting a demon before machinations put in motion literally rip the planet apart. At the same time, the war has escalated to the point where the next measure being prepared would end not the lives of one side, but of all.

As the story nears its end, the demon states a poignant half-truth: "All I did was ask for a wall. The rest you did yourselves." (Hints and clues throughout the story, patterned after descriptions in Madness And The Machine, subtly indicate the demon's influence.)
Returning to the question of the Cassiopaean material (more generally discussed here) in relation to Phantasy Star, below is a passage from a session with strong parallels to PS II. While there's no evidence that the channeler planned the similarity, I think it was deliberate on the part of that which was channeled.

The biggest difference is the role-reversal: The 1989 story of PS II takes place in a different solar system, and the conquerors are future Earthmen. The Cassiopaeans describe Orion STS coming to Earth, and 4D matters.

The story of PS II points, symbolically, away from the C's representing anything good. The channeled source, in presenting something with strong parallels (and including e.g. the "Japan" reference elsewhere), is bringing a symbolic clash to a climax:
- Noah is the name of the ship used by the conquerors in PS II. Cassiopaean main channel Laura identifies with Noah and his archetypal role, and has written extensively on such themes.
- Mother Brain, the pinnacle of destructive technology, vs. "Mother Cassiopaea" and the brainy mother figure of Laura, and ideas of a 4D future brought by the Cassiopaean group.
- The "army" of conquerors in PS II, and in Laura's personal symbology (early experience, and later, dreams reported by members of the Cassiopaea forum), an army appearing and blasting away people who gather around Laura or who she tries to help. The symbolism of PS II places the two covertly on the same side.

From the 1997-08-09 C's session.
Quote:A: [...] Here is something for you to digest: Why is it that your
scientists have overlooked the obvious when they insist that alien
beings cannot travel to earth from a distant system???
Q: And what is this obvious thing?
A: Even if speed of light travel, or "faster," were not possible, and it
is, of course, there is no reason why an alien race could not
construct a space "ark," living for many generations on it. They could
travel great distances through time and space, looking for a suitable
world for conquest. Upon finding such, they could then install this
ark in a distant orbit, build bases upon various solid planes in that
solar system, and proceed to patiently manipulate the chosen
civilizations to develop a suitable technological infrastructure. And
then, after the instituting of a long, slow, and grand mind
programming project, simply step in and take it over once the
situation was suitable.
Q: Is this, in fact, what has happened, or is happening?
A: It could well be, and maybe now it is the time for you to learn
about the details.
Q: Well, would such a race be 3rd or 4th density in orientation?
A: Why not elements of both?
Q: What is the most likely place that such a race would have
originated from?
A: Oh, maybe Orion, for example?
Q: Okay. If such a race did, in fact, travel to this location in
space/time, how many generations have come and gone on their
space ark during this period of travel, assuming, of course, that such
a thing has happened?
A: Maybe 12.
Q: Okay, that implies that they have rather extended life spans...
A: Yes...
Q: Assuming this to be the case, what are their life spans?
A: 2,000 of your years.
Q: Okay, assuming such a bunch have traveled...
A: When in space, that is...
Q: And what is the span when on terra firma?
A: 800 years.
Q: Well, has it not occurred to them that staying in space might not
be better?
A: No. Planets are much more "comfortable."
Q: Okay... imagining that such a group has traveled here...
A: We told you of upcoming conflicts... Maybe we meant the same
as your Bible, and other references. Speak of... The "final" battle
between "good and evil..." Sounds a bit cosmic, when you think of it,
does it not?
Q: Does this mean that there is more than one group that has
traveled here in their space arks?
A: Could well be another approaching, as well as "reinforcements"
for either/or, as well as non-involved, but interested observers of
various types who appreciate history from the sidelines.
Q: Well, SWELL! There goes my peaceful life!
A: You never had one!

It's also interesting to note a little detail, in relation to the sequel, Phantasy Star III. 2000 years is the time between the start of the journey of the great space ark and when the story takes place, in the Japanese version. (The English translators dropped a sentence fragment, erasing 1000 years from the backstory.)
These are interesting parallels between the C's and the Phantasy Star games. Awesome work!
(03-28-2020, 01:50 PM)Luigi Wrote: [ -> ]These are interesting parallels between the C's and the Phantasy Star games. Awesome work!

Glad to hear that there's more who find it interesting.

I've been thinking about writing on Phantasy Star III for some time, though that's a bigger undertaking. The story is long, and the structured details intricate even though thinly developed in a one-year-in-development game. It makes for a curious archetypal exploration of sorts, but further parallels with the C's and related things are mostly elsewhere (where more comparison of texts and themes could be made).


I first played Phantasy Star III in childhood, before I could really understand the plot (Swedish being my first language). I've found the plot interesting since replaying it later, and in my teens, I had a curious dream which I associated with PS III immediately upon waking, though there's no obvious correspondence.

In the dream, I was looking up at a night sky, with twinkling stars. Then the stars all began to twinkle in sync, to the sound of something like simple electronic music. Then the sky went blank. Finally, the stars re-appeared, as widely spaced pixels, writing out a short text in a monospace font. I don't remember the words, but I do remember that an arrow was also drawn.

Much later, I've identified what looks like such a simple, stylized arrowhead on the real night sky. Easy to spot, but not a constellation in itself, it turns out to be Orion's belt, with the "sword" hanging down beneath it.
I love the Phantasy Star games. As all things, especially creative, there is a microcosm of the Creator flowing through.
For a start with Phantasy Star III, I made a map of the world - or ship, with its 7 worlds and 2 satellites. Each moon is reached from the world closest to it. The descriptions of the worlds may leave out a bit too much, but will do for such a simple graphic.

I find it interesting that the neatest numbering of the 7 worlds seem to symbolically match the descriptions of the 7 rays, when taking the details of the story into account.

Note that the numbering does not correspond to the winding path of the journeys; e.g. the first generation journey is from world 1, to 3, to 4, and back to 3; the second generation either beginning at world 1 and exploring further below, for the left main branch in which the Azure moon is never visited, or at world 3 and exploring further below, for the right main branch in which both moons are ultimately visited.

The basic pattern is that the left branch brings it all together more quickly, but something is missing, leading to the destruction of a better future and the threat of a black hole. Central to the plot is that a dark usurper has slipped onboard in the distant past, and perhaps in a sense, a lasting disempowerment leaves the third-generation protagonists of the left branch facing an impossible task, even though they do all that they can.
Phantasy Star III has the ugliest boss in video game history, baby! Phantasy Star II is in my personal favorite console RPG.

The Algol star system is not fictional. It is the eye of Medusa in Perseus. I was born under this star system. The word 'ghoul' comes from Arabic. In Hebrew Semitic the star system is known as 'Satan's head'. It is known in the Far East as a star of death. It appears to be one star that is always blinking from the Earth.

I am a son of this star system, hence my name. I will go over your post in detail, now, and see what I can give.
Ok, I have just read over everything. The power of Megiddo was not included. This is a very important part of the Phantasy Star series.

I will explain my name now. I did not think I would find the opportunity.

I learned about Algol because of a college course I attended. I did not know anything about the stars, then, nor the esoteric. I just knew of beauty and ugliness, and that beauty is beyond the grave, somewhere not here. Beauty was and IS, ugliness just static.

I learned about Algol through synchronicity and symbol, not directly from the college course. The course centered on Joan of Arc. Joan of Arc is the only 'saintly' being we have modern human recordings of. Of course there are many more, but none of them have been so closely documented.

The professor used film and book to demonstrate interpretations of Joan of Arc. One positive, one satirical, one insane, and one trusting. I didn't like the course much until I saw Carl Dreyer's Joan of Arc. It is the most amazing movie I've ever seen.

Shortly after, working with my roommate through accidents, I discovered I was born under Algol. Many things happened. Years later I researched Joan of Arc, myself. She was not only born under Algol but also died under it.

There is too much to mention and much I have forgotten because Synchronicities are daily for me. I do not remember what is not important. But Algol is central to my life. When it is above me I become erratic. Let me write more in a minute. I have to take a break. Know that Algol is well documented by humans.
Ah, I wanted to say much more, but as Ra says, it would "infringe on your free will not to know."

I feel it should not be said. I learned what I have through the Creator's guidance and it is for me to know. I am very happy you have mentioned my favorite video game and I could say these things. I am grateful!

My favorite presentation of Algol is in 'Fist of the North Star', or in Japan, 'Hokuto no Ken'. My favorite anime! Toki versus Raoh!

The Japanese have the greatest 'occult umde
Even in Japanese Jazz, there are the most intriguing album covers. The great American albums are highly subjective. The Japanese covers are perfectly explanatory.
(04-09-2020, 04:44 PM)AlgolSon Wrote: [ -> ]The Algol star system is not fictional. It is the eye of Medusa in Perseus. I was born under this star system. The word 'ghoul' comes from Arabic. In Hebrew Semitic the star system is known as 'Satan's head'. It is known in the Far East as a star of death. It appears to be one star that is always blinking from the Earth.

There's the real Algol system, and the Phantasy Star version, where perhaps later, the detail about it being in Andromeda rather than the Milky Way was added because the stars don't look the same. (PS Algol is too much like our Sun.)

But at the level of personal symbolism, such details are less relevant. Personally, I mostly have a personal PS III "theme" going on.

(04-09-2020, 05:22 PM)AlgolSon Wrote: [ -> ]Ok, I have just read over everything. The power of Megiddo was not included. This is a very important part of the Phantasy Star series.

The original post left PS III and IV only shortly summarized, but that ties into writing more fully about them.

Star Wars was part of the inspiration behind Phantasy Star, but the philosophy diverges on the point of anger. The heart of darkness is nihilistic hatred, in Phantasy Star, while anger can also manifest positively.

The name Megiddo comes from the Bible, and relates both to Armageddon (which is a variation of the name), and to an Old Testament battle preceding the fall of Jerusalem to the Egyptians.

This ties into the little note I made about the "Holy City of Lashute". I'm not all that much into the Bible, and think that Revelations sounds like a pre-sci-fi version of an alien invasion story in which humanity is defeated. In Revelations, all is destroyed except for a few who submit to the new order imposed by the "heavenly" crusaders, and associated with their heavenly city.

In PS III, what unfolds at the end is symbolically the reverse of Revelations. The demon of destruction extends its influence, temporarily, and the nature of the situation - perhaps as in a strong clash of conflicting natures - unlocks the potential of Megiddo. After the battles in the "Holy City", after its true nature is revealed, and the defeat of its demon, the hero looks at the place and cries out, "This city is too evil to leave standing!" The great angry anguish of the moment is transformed into waves of destructive energy, which tear the city apart.

In PS IV, such power only plays a minor role, entering the story when the protagonists are tested and trained by the spiritual beings of the mysterious fourth planet which has appeared, in preparation for the final battle to save the solar system from destruction.

The guardian of one of the towers offers the main protagonist the chance to learn "the ultimate technique of destruction", but this is a test. If the hero-to-be wishes to embrace such a thing, he is deemed spiritually corrupt and destroyed. But if he values what is good the most, then he is taught how to use such a power without losing the goodness inside. But that power does not manifest in any dramatic way after being gained, as it does in PS III.
On a different note, I found what seems the definitive Phantasy Star II music remix, by Luke Jansen. YouTube version, with a higher-quality MP3 also made freely available by the author, in the description.

It sounds as 80's as the original PS II music, and captures the feel very well. Most of the 33-minute compilation sounds like the original music played on a better synthesizer, but it's all fit together seamlessly.
(04-10-2020, 05:11 AM)Asolsutsesvyl Wrote: [ -> ]
(04-09-2020, 04:44 PM)AlgolSon Wrote: [ -> ]The Algol star system is not fictional. It is the eye of Medusa in Perseus. I was born under this star system. The word 'ghoul' comes from Arabic. In Hebrew Semitic the star system is known as 'Satan's head'. It is known in the Far East as a star of death. It appears to be one star that is always blinking from the Earth.

There's the real Algol system, and the Phantasy Star version, where perhaps later, the detail about it being in Andromeda rather than the Milky Way was added because the stars don't look the same. (PS Algol is too much like our Sun.)

But at the level of personal symbolism, such details are less relevant. Personally, I mostly have a personal PS III "theme" going on.


(04-09-2020, 05:22 PM)AlgolSon Wrote: [ -> ]Ok, I have just read over everything. The power of Megiddo was not included. This is a very important part of the Phantasy Star series.

The original post left PS III and IV only shortly summarized, but that ties into writing more fully about them.

Star Wars was part of the inspiration behind Phantasy Star, but the philosophy diverges on the point of anger. The heart of darkness is nihilistic hatred, in Phantasy Star, while anger can also manifest positively.

The name Megiddo comes from the Bible, and relates both to Armageddon (which is a variation of the name), and to an Old Testament battle preceding the fall of Jerusalem to the Egyptians.

This ties into the little note I made about the "Holy City of Lashute". I'm not all that much into the Bible, and think that Revelations sounds like a pre-sci-fi version of an alien invasion story in which humanity is defeated. In Revelations, all is destroyed except for a few who submit to the new order imposed by the "heavenly" crusaders, and associated with their heavenly city.

In PS III, what unfolds at the end is symbolically the reverse of Revelations. The demon of destruction extends its influence, temporarily, and the nature of the situation - perhaps as in a strong clash of conflicting natures - unlocks the potential of Megiddo. After the battles in the "Holy City", after its true nature is revealed, and the defeat of its demon, the hero looks at the place and cries out, "This city is too evil to leave standing!" The great angry anguish of the moment is transformed into waves of destructive energy, which tear the city apart.

In PS IV, such power only plays a minor role, entering the story when the protagonists are tested and trained by the spiritual beings of the mysterious fourth planet which has appeared, in preparation for the final battle to save the solar system from destruction.

The guardian of one of the towers offers the main protagonist the chance to learn "the ultimate technique of destruction", but this is a test. If the hero-to-be wishes to embrace such a thing, he is deemed spiritually corrupt and destroyed. But if he values what is good the most, then he is taught how to use such a power without losing the goodness inside. But that power does not manifest in any dramatic way after being gained, as it does in PS III.

Homie. You are so close. Damn. Palma?
(04-16-2020, 04:00 AM)AlgolSon Wrote: [ -> ]Homie. You are so close. Damn. Palma?

I've taken a more detached view to the curious inner symbolism I've experienced. But one part includes a very deep wound, emotionally having contracted into a deep knot of pain and grief, too large to be experienced at once.

The story of Maldek, Ra's version of the planet which blew up, includes the souls of the inhabitants contracting into a great "knot of fear" following the destruction, with a long time passing before they could go on to Earth to continue their lessons here.

Then there's the Cassiopaean version, which alters names and details related to our solar system. To add a bit more to that description, the picture of a high-technological civilization on Maldek, and destruction through technological warfare, is replaced by a picture of psychic warfare, groups of people working together in energetic co-ordination to blast their opponents with powerful black magic, the molecular structure of the planet deforming through collective negative polarization so that the planet explodes. The "knot of fear" is not mentioned.

(Everything tends to become more confusing when the sometimes strongly, sometimes subtly, contradictory presentations of Ra and the C's are both considered.)
- Genetic experimentation, and the use of cloning and mind-uploading to revive people. (This is a looser match.)

Given Atlantean genetic experimentation which led to their Fall (or the Council of Saturn stopping it), that seems one of the stronger matches.

As for cloning and mind uploading, that seems more like some Cabal testimonies. Certainly transhumanism.

One thing I would note about seeming contradictions, it may be that the high density contacts are using their search engine to look through various different akash and soul memories. If this is not part of their collective, then weird things can happen.

They may then be talking about the same event, but from different points of view. Meaning, if you read WW2 from the Japanese viewpoint, it contradict the USA version. Same war though.
I'll continue exploring themes in small pieces for the whole series, beginning with the theme of the "Dark Force" and those who serve it. Later, if I make that big write-up about the story of Phantasy Star III, it can go in another thread.


As mentioned in a previous post, nihilistic hatred is at the core of the heart of darkness in the "metaphysics" of Phantasy Star. The masses never directly serve the demon of destruction, and the few who do usually have a self-centered aim of their own beyond the ultimate looming annihilation. And those few, after seemingly having been willingly possessed, have their inner worlds twisted into extreme shapes of negativity, by something using them to maximize the chances of the largest-scale destruction and loss of life possible.

In the first Phantasy Star, it was a great king in an age of early space colonization, hungry for both knowledge and power, who was also a great student of ancient mysteries, who turned to Dark Force and then closed an iron fist around the people of his high-technological society. But the grim future which may have followed was averted, as a small group rose up and defeated him.

In the story of PS II, it isn't as clear how far the direct control of Dark Force reached. The far more technically sophisticated civilization of that story had its secret architects from elsewhere, conquerors who, after arriving in the Algol system, somehow changed and lost their former "weakness", apparently going mad and ending up using their technology to blow up a planet.

In the story of PS III, which takes place on an enormous artificial world on a journey through space for a new home, an ancient great age was brought to an end as the deceitful Dark Force fooled two leaders into waging an all-consuming war, at the end of which they both died. Following the ancient disaster, a collective amnesia reduced life to medieval conditions.

The brother of one of the two ancient leaders fell into a deep nihilistic despair at the loss of his family, wishing for all that exists to come to an end, and eventually turned to the demon. A thousand years later, rumor has it that he has somehow stayed alive through the force of his hatred. His followers covertly take various actions which shape the course of history, on the one hand leading the world towards ultimate doom, and on the other hand sparking a journey of rediscovery which ultimately eclipses the hidden dark plans and instead results in the defeat of evil. The truth about the past uncovered, the ancient divide heals and the two sides together confront that which deceived them in the ancient past.

In the story of PS IV, back in the Algol system during a later and simpler age, Dark Force takes shape in several ways. First, through Zio the Black Magician, a cult leader who hypnotizes his followers and promises them that he will lead them to a new world order in which the worthiest will rule and the unworthy will be eliminated. Directing his followers to burn little villages and kill their inhabitants like a senseless mob, his secret ideology is pure nihilism, and he doesn't care if the success of his demonic master in annihilating all life would mean the end of his own.

Dark Force has no further human servants of that age, but appears in several other guises. Ancient technical systems malfunction, organic matter takes the form of a grotesque structure from which a zombie plague spreads, and a seemingly normal person turns out to be an elaborate disguise. The barrier between realms is thinning and a portal into a pure radiance of a force of annihilation ultimately opens, and threatens to grow and end all life unless an interdimensional quest to deal with the root of all evil in the Algol system is successful.

The man who is not a man is worth a further look. Claiming to be an archaeologist on his way to explore some old ruins, Seth accompanies the protagonists for a while, until an opportune moment for an ambush presents itself. Suddenly, they are accompanied not by a man, but by a nightmarish monster.