OCCULT SYMBOLISM in ANTIQUE FURNITURE

 by Marian Lochrie

This is the story of how I came to realize that a family heirloom was full of occult symbolism –  though I didn’t recognize it for nearly forty years! Here’s me in front of The China Cabinet in 1973:

Thirty-seven years later, my dad passed away, and I inherited, from among his many treasures, The China Cabinet. I was watching some TV show with Alex Jones explaining the prevalence of owl imagery, hidden in plain sight throughout America when the owls began to appear.

I saw a baby owl peering down: it's cheeks, eyes, beak, and wings reflected in the bevelled glass.

I noticed that when you knelt before the mirror, the owl imagery intensified.

 

And, the lower you knelt, the more intense the owl became.





 



A couple of days later, the mirrors themselves became the owl. (Note: I edited out the three mirrors' reflections in order to make the large owl apparent. You can find it by using the real owl's ears as a guide as you trace the wings-outstreched owl that spans all three mirrors.) A gigantic overarching “ Moloch”, an owl god of child sacrifice!?! Maybe you have seen the infamous image from Bohemian Grove.

Perhaps, the owl that this cabinet most accurately depicts is the one in the US dollar bill. The curvature of the lattice work detailing is remarkably similar. In the China Cabinet, notice the triangle or "pyramid" formed by the three webbed orbs.

Baphomet is another classic, occult symbol that began to emerge after we put the top-piece on for the  first time in forty years.







 Even details such as breasts and stomach are not overlooked. This door opens to the belly of the Cabinet!

  




As you take a closer look at the top-piece, the Baphomet imagery merges with Taurus the Bull. In the Cabinet, the head is supported by two beefy shoulders. This creature’s nostrils are at the base of its circular head. Two eyes sit wide on its head, and its horns follow slightly above, bull-like. It's as if the horns on the symbol above were converged into one image for the Cabinet's headpiece.











Tolkien used the Baphomet archetype for the Balrog, but even more remarkable is the headpiece's parallel with the lead orc in Peter Jackson’s  Hobbit trilogy.

Here is the top of the creature that over arches the entire China Cabinet. Following the neck down, what would appear as shoulders are topped with feathery tufts, indicating wings. The "bone structure" creates a winged effect too. But, the wings can also be seen as muscular arms, especially when you trace an outline from the head down. Then, the bottoms curve into symbolic hooves.






The mirror's reflections create two hind legs and two forelegs, giving a sense of kinetic energy to the China Cabinet.

Further, the entire cabinet resonates as a kind of vortex.
Its two pillars reflect a kind of portal, pathway or door. Note the similarities with the Manley P Hall's The Lost Keys of Freemasonry.

Other classic Masonic symbols are built into the cabinet such as two pillars topped with orbs, an arch, and a sphere above.

It resembles The Hierophant from Tarot cards too. Notice the triangle image as you trace the headpiece of the Cabinet and the two circular webs on the two towers. Then trace the triangle formed by the three heads on the Taroh card.
 
Moloch with raised wings looks like the High Priest with raised arms. There are shelves above Moloch's wings, allowing him to hold symbols too! Both figures also have ornate headpieces.







Consider the shape of the mirror and the shape of the throne. Both even have two little eyes hidden in the same placement. The two columns, and the vertical lines match. The criss-crossing of the keys at the bottom of the Taroh card show at the Cabinet's base; and, amazingly, at the top, the Roman Numeral V is shown in the Cabinet's headpiece.


The occult connections continue. In case you missed the alligator print wallpaper in the Cabinet's pillar's. Here's a close up.

In the picture below, I've Photoshopped out the reflection of the owl mirror with orange. Can you see eyes and a nose in the panel above the orange owl head? If viewed the right way, you can see horizontally stretched eyes and a conical nose.


 When you can see the eyes and nose, the mouth appears. The orange owl head turns into the maw from the factory beast in Metropolis: MOLOCH!

Or maybe you can see shapes representing plumes and the pineal gland. Baphomet’s head could, itself, be a circular plume with a special glandular peak; this compliments large face: the eyes, nose and maw. Perhaps the smooth, conical shape above the orange, owl head is meant to be a pineal gland.

Whatever you've seen in my Cabinet, I hope you have enjoyed the journey through the symbols I finally came to identify. Also, happy hunting for symbols yourself. I'll bet they're all around you, and you don't even know it. As Alex Jones says, "They're hiding in plain view."