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A Manifest Theory
by Usagi042
What The Callings Actually Are, and the Show’s True ENDGAME.
Is THE Answer Spiritual Or Scientific?
Ever heard of the saying “All is One”? Turns out this whole concept has a
name: Prisca Theologia (or "ancient theology").
“Prisca theologia is the doctrine that asserts that a single, true theology exists,
which threads through all religion and knowledge, and which was anciently
given by God to man.”
Now hearing “ancient theology” is particularly interesting to us. Because there
is one character in Manifest who openly follows this doctrine. Can you
remember who it is? I’m sure we saw the name Prisca Theologia at least once
in the show.
Yusuv Al-Zuras.
Since Al-Zuras is a fictional scholar, we’ll resort to his fictional Wikipedia page
the show gave us to snoop around.
This is from 2x06, Return Trip:
Showrunner Jeff Rake told us in his Happy 828 Day video that the episode
where Olive and Ben go to the Buddhist temple was put there because they
(the writers) didn’t want the concept of faith to be seen blindly through
Christian standpoints.
During one of his first Comic-Con interviews for season one, the creator was
asked if “science vs. faith” would be a recurrent theme on Manifest, to which
Rake responded something along the lines of: “Yes, not exactly science
versus faith, more like science equals faith.”
This is literally the creator telling us how we should approach the themes and
mysteries of the show.
The writers don’t want us to look at Manifest through a faith-lens or a science-
lens.
They want us to look through both lenses.
In short, Manifest is an esoteric show. Not only mythical, not only science-
fictional. Both of the genres should be taken into account if one wants to
understand the whole point and core of this story.
So let’s keep both of our eyes open and proceed on what the Callings truly are
through using the two halves of our brains.
PART 2: ALL THINGS WORK TOGETHER
And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been
called according to his purpose. Romans 8:28
Let’s speculate about the Callings for a bit. On what exactly they are.
And, no, I don’t mean what we think the Callings are or seem to be. It’s human
nature trying to understand a phenomenon through being biased.
Let’s analyze the situation as a “real scientist” would. What exactly is happening
here?
The passengers of Flight 828 are hearing voices, having visions, and having
acute intuitions of past as well as future occurrences (or tragedies as is in most
cases).
But if you were a real scientist, you would not stop analyzing at that. You would
notice the patterns, the further similarities between each individual event those
people are experiencing.
You would notice, for example, that are not any voices the 828ers hear—all of
the times (and I mean all of them) it’s their own voices, or the voice of the other
passengers themselves. When they hear sounds, it’s always things that they
could have heard before, or sounds that other passengers could have (or family
members connected to this respective passenger—family and bloodline also
seems to be a big deal for the mythology, remember the blood marker and the
Callings able of being genetically passed on? I’ll get into that later.). A good
example for this is what happened during the beginning of Season One (around
episodes 2 and 3), where Ben was hearing a violin song that was being played
at the exact same time by ANOTHER PASSENGER at the whole other side of
New York City.
Speaking of time, the visions. From a scientific point of view, time seems to be
the biggest player in the phenomena. And we can see that not only in the fact
that everybody who disappears in the show basically time travels, but in the
visions they have right after the time jump. In season one, episode 4, Unclaimed
Baggage, Saanvi sees Bethany (the 828 flight attendant) and Thomas (her
stowaway, a man who’s fleeing Africa because of the continent’s intolerance
against gay people). The Callings lead to the Bethesda Fountain in Central Park
(the one with the angel), the place where Thomas was hiding after fleeing the
hospital. Thomas knew this exact place in NY because he had been there with
his boyfriend before, and the way the Callings told Michaela and Saanvi about
this was through showing them something buried deep inside Thomas’s mind,
it showed them the statue.
In other words, the characters of Manifest who are being called are having
visions of memories of other called characters (be it a past memory, a future-
to-be memory, or even a present-forming memory). These memories are—of
course as all memories are—deeply tied to the characters’ emotional core and
social nature, some memories can be stronger than others, as it can represent
traumatic events (tragedies) or their most well-cherished moments in life
(tugging at the heart-strings, the soapy part of the drama).
We can see examples of this being reinserted and reinvented throughout every
single Calling that as happened on the show. Even in the most recent episodes.
One thing that caught my attention as I watched the arc of the meth heads and
their trial. Every single Calling they had was either about some trauma in their
past, or about something that was happening to one of the 828 characters.
Remember, in 3x06 (Graveyard Spiral), Jace was having Callings of Cal playing
basket, the booming of the ball on the concrete avoided him from murdering
Michaela. In 3x03 all three men had a mutual Calling of Cal singing the treasure
hunt lullaby, which foreshadowed to them and to us the bloodbath about to strike
the mid-season finale.
There are two things interesting about this info.
ONE: The Callings are selective towards what memories they send out to their
people. The Callings are scavenging inside each Called psyche for memories
which could be used as alert messages of future events to come that should be
avoided or followed, upcoming tragedies to stop or heart-string lessons,
promoting values of universal brotherhood and social improvement just like the
ancient theology preaches. Michaela herself couldn’t have said better in 3x08,
“Justice wins.” The Callings are basically a powered-up intuition.
TWO: Since the Callings are picky, someone or something at least intelligent-
esque is in charge of sending them. But to get to that question we should ask
ourselves first, why does it affect only this specific groups of people who
disappeared and returned? And what is its Endgame? What is it trying to avoid
or create so hard anyway? What’s its point?
Keep in mind that the phenomena not only happened with the ones on the plane,
but with the meth heads, Griffin, Zeke, Al-Zuras, and Grace (through genetic
passing). At least, those are the only victims we know of at time of writing (I
might have more than one speculation about who the other victims could be,
historically speaking. I’ll get to that soon.).
Now, to the reason for the Callings and how its system of functionality logically
could work.
It comes as simple as two words: Dark Lightning.
PART 3: ON LIGHTNINGS THAT STRIKE MORE THAN TWICE,
AND BIRDS WITH GOD’S EYES.
Dark lightning is a rare occurrence. Imagine it like Halley’s Comet, but with no
discoverable date to strike.
In the show’s universe, as my theory puts, it has struck multiple times, in many
different spots over the world… and many different living beings.
As right now, the one thing, the closer we could get to an accusatory pattern,
the single lead to what caused the time jump and the calling effect is the
preconceived notion that every single called character was struck by the same
meteorological anomaly to an extent.
Canonically, it struck the cave Zeke was trapped in. It struck the 828 aircraft. It
struck the lake where the meth heads drowned. Al-Zuras’ journal had
documented (in text and drawing) a lightning striking close to his sailing boat.
It appeared so many times over the course of the show it wouldn’t be hard to
convince us the lake Griffin was in was struck by it too.
But what is dark lightning exactly?
According to science, “Is a release of high-energy gamma radiation—sources
include supernovae and supermassive black holes—that is completely invisible
to the human eye.” (futurism.com)
According to esoteric symbology, Gamma is usually associated with the
everlasting, all-continuous force that weaves through all living and unliving
things together. It’s the uniqueness, unmeasurable and untouchable power of
our thoughts (the untouchable bit won’t exactly apply to our characters as we’ll
see). It can even be said it serves as a representation of our hypothetical soul.
And according to Manifest, it’s not only both of these things, as it seems to be
also the driving wheel of Time and Reality itself.
The Gnostics even gave it a snobby name: Divine Spark, “the portion of God
that resides within each human being.” Christianity readapted it through painting
a white dove and calling it the Holy Spirit. But generally speaking, it can be
merely represented as a bright, warm light.
Lights like this are everywhere in Manifest. Cal saw a blinding light while inside
828. Al-Zuras described a flash of light in the sky as the “silver dragon” passed.
When Zeke was resurrected after beating his Death Date, a shimmer of light
echoed from inside him right before he came back to life. Ben saw a light during
the season 2 mid-season finale when he was rescuing Olive from the club on
fire.
Now look at this, two different people, from two different timelines saw the
lightning event and its supposedly invisible light at the same time. And was that
light which inspired Cal, as if infatuated by its magnitude, to unconsciously
whisper “Is all connected.” Because if there was one thing that had enough
energy to connect those two distinctive events at the same place in time, it would
have been the explosion and subsequent shock of gamma radiation.
Time travel, as an actual scientific theory, is said to be only possible if somehow
us, as inventors, were able to create a device capable of capturing and
manipulating light itself. Because light is the only matter which stays the same
during any period. If time travel will ever be possible or not, one thing’s for sure:
light would be the conduit.
Now hear me out:
Knowing all victims of the time jumps and Callings were living and unliving things
that were struck by dark lighting (and its history as a time constant and inner-
thought guidance), what if the event somehow made the minds of all of these
subjects conjoin into a single consciousness? And the visions, sounds and
feelings the characters are having are a metaphysical collateral damage from
sharing the same mind? The Callings are scattered impressions and
manifestations from memories of the lives of everyone affected, off the
responsibility of adapting to chronological order.
Just stay with me.
Introducing the strongest evidence of this theory yet.
I call in Exhibit A… The Peacock.
“This whole Ancient Symbolism thing is kind of my jam,” said Olive, me, Jeff Rake, Dan Brown
and no one else ever, really.
It should be obvious by now that the peacock is an integral piece of the puzzle.
If it was just a random subplot, it would have been completely dropped at this
point as many others already have.
We saw it the first time during the season one mid-season and we’ve been
spotting it ever since. 1x09 was a physical manifestation of the bird. In season
two it was in one of the passenger’s compass, and in Al-Zuras tarot card of The
Star (more on this soon). And in 3x03 it was brought all over again with Maat’s
peacock feather all the way up to its magnificent physical return. Damn, if we
count the NBC logo as a meta-wink-wink then we’ve been staring at it during
the whole run of the series!
However, it was the 3x08 mention of a peacock that changed everything.
The Eureka team discovered that, on the driftwood piece the Vatican has of the
Noah’s Ark, was found traces of gamma radiation intertwined with the DNA of a
peacock.
As soon as I heard this, it all clicked.
They’re implying the peacock (and I mean THE peacock, it was a single one all
along) was also one of the victims of the time jump. The hypothetical Noah’s
Ark’s peacock was struck by the same exact lightning that connected the
828ers’, Al-Zuras’, Zeke’s, Griffin’s and the meth heads’ lives in one
metaphysical knot.
The dark lightning and peacock are our biggest constant.
Peacocks, in iconography, are seen as symbols of eternal life, divine
providence, and royal blood lineage. The reason for it to be a motif of the divine
are many, but the most interesting one is the fact that their biology literally
cheats death. Most peacocks won’t die from snake venom, quite on the contrary,
they can use the properties of the poison to make the colors of their exuberant
feathers glow even brighter [showy motherf*****].
During ancient cultures, the iridescent dots on their tails were labeled as “the
watching eyes of god.” And as it was a rare bird to find, it would be common for
royal families (or as the medieval times would call, “the lineages chosen by God
to rule”) to display many peacocks on their gardens, and if they couldn’t get their
hands on one, they would at least paint themselves alongside one of these
luxurious birds.
On left, a royal depicted with a peacock. On right, the peacock depicted as the alchemical
concept of the Philosopher’s Stone (Alchemy was an old pseudo-scientific practice, and the
Stone was the goal of the alchemists, it could represent immortality or clearance of mind, the
full understanding of the godly laws through practical, mundane tools—see how it is trapped
inside a test tube? Spirituality and Science conjoined).
Taking into consideration that once one particular peacock was struck by dark
lightning, as well as the other called characters did, I think it’s safe to assume
that their bodies absorbed a huge amount of Gamma radiation. And if we choose
to see it through not only sci-fi/supernatural lens, but through both of these
lenses, we can reach the conclusion that gamma rays are rudimentary what
we’re calling “God’s fingerprint.”
“God” = LIGHT (divine spark, gamma ray) which controls and = TIME
(and the great part of time which leaves within us, humans, is our
memories, our intellect)
Not every light ray is visible to us. Look at how far Gamma is on the charts. How much stuff
are we not seeing happening around us every day?
And just like time/light is the matter which hypothetically stays the same
throughout all ages and controls and dictates the lives of every single living thing
on Earth, it would be safe to assume an energy like this would be god itself. And
as one unchanging matter, it made the minds and bodies of its victims mangled
into a metaphysical collective cat’s cradle of memories of the lives of said
victims.
When they say it’s all connected, is because everything is literally connected
by the same driving force.
The Annunciation, by Carlo Crivelli, 1486. Pay attention at how the light emerges from the
sky and directly selects Virgin Mary as the carrier of Jesus, the carrier of The Light. And there
is the peacock again, and white doves, and archangel Michael. It’s a party, the whole Calling
crew is here!
Alchemical engraving.
Also shows an androgynous figure stepping on a snake-like being over the globe.
The Masonic sigil. Bird kills Snake over the Globe.
Call it whatever, “destiny”, “god’s plan”, if you want to be nerdy and still act as if
this is a 100% sci-fi story then call it Synergy.
The principle of Synergy states that some ends can only be achieved through
the collective mental effort of a task. In the esoteric we also have something
similar—it’s called Synchronicity (term created by the psychiatrist and
anthropologist Carl Gustav Jung). Know the saying “everything happens for a
reason”? It comes from the belief that every coincidence in our reality it’s not
there by mere chance, but is part of a complex, interconnected chain of events
that lead to a result directly connected to the Universe’s will, the Cosmos. A
cuter way of saying fate.
Romans 8:28, or the literal definition of Cosmic Synergy.
“We were called to be agents of the apocalypse,” and he couldn’t have said it better. The
828ers are part of Father Time’s staff of helping elves.
But how can we be sure this is the Callings’ masterplan? What exactly those
people are getting when they decide to following the trials? What does the
Universe get? Could there still be other relevant historical figures who were
called to be agents in the show’s universe? Let’s revive the episodes once more.
Synchronicity is also said to be the pseudo-scientific explanation for the answers
given through a Tarot card reading. The most chilling evidence of the Callings
being a shared state of mind in the thread of time and memory came from the
season 2 Al-Zuras Tarot subplot. More precisely at 3x07 (Emergency Exit) and
in 3x09 (Airplane Bottles).
Right after saving Olive from the burning club, Ben comes across the Al-Zuras’
manuscript, with the shocking depiction of himself carrying his daughter drawn
on the very first pages. It happened at the same moment Ben saw the Light.
(Mental note on the star drawn above Ben’s head)
What this means for us, as observers? It means not only that Al-Zuras and Ben
both saw the same glow, but that both of them saw the same time, they shared
one same state of mindfulness in memory-form. The Light is what’s tying all of
the characters together, as it is the fabric of reality itself!
Cal looks at the
Gamma Light
through the window
at the same time it
strikes the aircraft
and Al-Zuras’ ship
in the 16th Centrury.
And witness the previous hosts they’re being connected to in the past.
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Symbolically and geographically, stars represent our main compass on Earth.
Our main method of guidance. In a Tarot reading, it rudimentary says to a client
“keep calm, it’s all going according to plan.” The Star card also represents “the
feeling of calm before the storm.”
(1x09 and 3x03) Don’t tell me this isn’t the same bird. Look at his feathers, they’re a unique
pattern. Peacock tails don’t normally look like this, you know?
The Peacock pattern is used to trace “mandalas,” a native representation of
the Universe, the dots are the stars in the blue of the sky—the eyes on the
endless face of god. Kinda relates to early examples of Astrology/Astronomy,
too.
Cal, who’s finally getting to fully comprehend what the Callings are telling,
finds the peacock feather in Tarik’s basement and deducts, “It’ll be okay [the
Star told me so].” God’s watching over him, the Laws of the Universe are in
charge and the problem is being taken care of, just hold on tight while they’re
at it, and help it too when needed.
We, the audience, as an observant receptor, are also receiving Callings from
our gods (the showrunners). The Opening sequence in Graveyard Spiral is a
reference to a famous alchemical engraving, the Flammarion Engraving, which
depicts a man crossing over god’s dome of stars and receiving the blessing of
seeing the planet’s working gears.
They were not shown a peacock because God felt like sending a cryptic,
metaphysical gag. But because the peacock (who was also one of the carriers
of the divine glow/lightning) was the only possible vessel for this divine force to
interact directly into the situation.
It must have thought, “Oh, Ben Stone has this daughter who knows about
ancient symbolism. If I show Ben Stone this random peacock I happen to be
able to summon into reality, he’ll probably talk about it with Olive later and
discover it means resurrection and immortality and that June is a relevant date
for his matter.”
It is trying to make direct contact to its receptors, but it is at the same time limited
by a select number of victims, therefore a limited number of memories and
psychical sensations to talk through. So it would need to get creative from time
to time. That’s why the show values symbolism so much, cause it can say a lot
about stuff just by showcasing a single object or imagery. And choosing Prisca
Theologia is the perfect way to do it, since it is one of the most rooted sums of
human knowledge, the same in every time, every culture, every part of the
world, and speaks to every people. Perfect for speaking with a 16th century
Egyptian merchant and a 21st century New Yorker Christian at the same time.
It’s the common linguistic denominator shared by them all.
In short:
The Laws of the Universe are trying to avoid the imminent end of humanity
through manifesting the lightning-struckers memories to warn them about the
apocalypse, and manipulate them into saving the world. Everyone who was
called is the carrier of the esoterically called Divine Spark (the unseen,
undiscoverable force that powers time and, consequently, feeds the mind and
memory of men) brought by a rare and random scientific event, which, as a final
result, interconnected all of these living beings’ minds and lives (in different
times and spaces) into a single, powered-up collective consciousness state
labeled by some of them as Callings, but worldly as “intuition”. The great
constant behind it is Synergy—in tangible reality represented through the
sapphire compounds—, the interaction which gives rise to a whole that is greater
than the simple sum of its parts… or “God’s promise of eternal life/time” for the
laymen.
The fact the Callings show past, present and future in order to strengthen the
characters’ intuition reminds me a lot of Tarot reading and its most popular
spread. The Three-card Spread, supposed to show the consultant their past
actions (1st card), which determined their occurring present (2nd card) and send
signals of upcoming events and best course of action to take (3 rd card).
This spread even was incorporated in the show’s writing when Olive drawn
cards for TJ in 2x06. Only they didn’t know that by reading TJ’s fortune (as a
passenger) they were obliviously revealing the whole Destiny of the ones
touched by gamma energy.
Olive’s tarot reading dictates the passengers’ destinies.
Check how similar the heart on Empress is to the religious representations of the Divine Spark.
NBC’s promotional material for Manifest also shows the depiction of the Divine Spark.
How much exactly God is inserted in our lives again? How much LIGHT is around us? It’s all
there is. Everywhere. That same light is literally on every single screen, inside every single home
of every single person on the globe! Media can act as God in nature. Meta-nudges! Yay!
This is how our planet should look like when we trace the lines of media devices. We are all
linked by threads of this same, often unseen, light of knowledge and the exchange of human
information.
Quick trivia: Did you know the most important prayer for Mary in Roman
Christianity is called Mary, Mother of Grace? No, I’m not joking.
The assumption that chronology of time is irrelevant for the Callings to warn
about tragedies, this scene right up here makes me think they weren’t having
glimpses of the death they were resurrected from, but that this is a vision of what
their future could be if they don’t follow the trials correctly. The timeline would
resort to a simpler solution to course correct the time-knot, which would be by
killing the agents that were supposed to die at first.
Let’s resume to Ancient Egypt, the belief system the show seems to be giving
special attention right now.
Etymologically, the word “tarot” came from the name “Thoth”. Thoth is the
Egyptian god of magic, knowledge and writing, and he’s also depicted as bird.
According to myth he’s a being which learned who to absorb God’s light and
translate it into words, so the all humans can understand it easier.
Thoth was Maat’s husband. And we’ve seen her mentioned in Manifest.
The one thing the show didn’t tell us about Ma’at is that she’s responsible for
the cosmic balance. “Maat personified this concept, and regulated the stars,
seasons, and the actions of mortals and the deities who had brought order from
chaos at the moment of creation.” (Wikipedia)
In the Egyptian after-life, one’s souls would undergo a moral trial conducted by
Maat, who would use a plum from her husband to weight their hearts.
Learning from the past instead of letting it consume you is the key-part of the mythology.
If the heart was heavier than Thoth’s feather, the defendant would have their
heart (soul essence) thrown in emptiness of existence, represent by the demons
Apep or Ammit.
BLACK and WHITE pieces cross the bicolored path of life in Senet matches.
Let’s be real if there’s one thing Eagan is on this show is a player. Chess gamers
usually have a shaper mind for detail. Essentially, Eagan is a player of Senet.
He knows how to invoke and handle the Light. Just like Al-Zuras used to with
his Tarot deck (Thoth’s feather).
Now, when I say “this is Apep/Ammit,” I don’t mean “Egyptian Gods were real
and there are literal magic monsters running the world behind the curtains of the
sky.” What I mean is, creating myths and legend for us—as a society prone
to understand their own reality through some extent of logic—are early
examples and records of natural science.
The point is not that it is a snake, but that it looks like one.
For Al-Zuras, the Silver Dragon was just a technology his society couldn’t
understand then. (The show’s asking: what if “God” is just another technology
we can’t yet fully grasp?)
Manifest plays on the theoretical notion that the visions and encounters
with gods people say they’re having since the dawn of time were actually
some in-our-face natural phenomenon that has been misinterpreted and
reinvented throughout Humans’ entire historic culture. And all of that only
because it is easy for us, as flawed as we are, to ignore stuff, to refuse
thinking further about something, or getting time to interpret the voice of
others who may sound too different from ours (the “voice of God” as said
by Al-Zuras). It’s a story about the dangers of limiting understanding and
fighting against acceptance.
Thoth on Ra’s Solar Barque fighting Apep = The Word Carrier repelling Evil from getting on
their Lifeboat under The Light’s orders.
The Khufu Ship, the real-life counterpart of “Lifeboat” (archeologist found it buried deep under
Giza’s Pyramid)
Ever heard of the saying “There is only one God”? It means there is only one
Time for all of us. No matter who you are, where you lived, or when you lived,
Time will take you away at the end. This is so certain it could be said Time
already took you, as He owns you omnipresently. Like the lights of the Sun and
the Moon. Male and Female. White and Dark. Yin and Yang.
The forces of Good and Evil perfectly weighted, the main goal of Buddhism.
It’s all about: Don’t shut out the voice of your intuition. Or your voice of reason.
The Anhk and the Three Man on the Final Trial. The Calling says, “Look, what’s happening to
you is the same that has happened to those other three people in the past. Learn from their
mistakes!”
“X marks the spot. A circle with a dot. Spiders crawling up your back, blood gushing
down.” In the Alchemy, a circle with a dot was a symbol for gold (chemically saying),
the Sun (it was also the hieroglyph for Ra, God of the Sun and Maat’s FATHER), and
used to represent the final stage of purification the soul undergoes during a spiritual
journey, right before it reaches apotheosis (mythically saying).
Was Historical Jesus another one of those people who got randomly struck by
lightning containing the power of time, which trigged the same traces of the
same (previously dormant) matter/potential inside their organisms?
Was Jesus, Mary and other disciples having Callings?
Was every single religious leader ever?!
After all, after spending 33 years on Earth, Jesus finally learned that him as
every other being is the blood and flesh of God (all is one), that to live well is to
live having empathy and helping others, and after his last trial on Crucifixion Day
he was promoted to his ankh status.
Was Buda a Zeke? Was the Biblical Ezekiel the original Zeke? Moses? Gandhi?
Aleister Crowley? The Ancient Egyptian pharaohs? Philosophers? Important
artists like Da Vinci? Fortune tellers? The royal family???
According to science, a dark lightning can strike 1000 times per day without we
even knowing about it. So, with how many more 828ers are we dealing with
exactly?
Depiction of the Biblical tale of Ezekiel’s Vision of God. OG Zeke apparently saw
a jumbled mass of beasts—hybrids of cows, lions, birds, and human beings all
connected to spinning wheels over a raging ocean. (Did Cal see something
crazy like this when he looked through the plane window? Was that what he
meant by “it’s all connected”?)
The same wheels also appear in the Father Time representations, and in the
Tarot card of the Wheel of Fortune—a golden wheel that keeps our earthly time
running unstoppably against our selfish will. It also has the same animals
Ezekiel saw drawn on it, they help by spinning the wheel alongside the angels.
The animals of the wheel also appear at the end of the journey, at the original World card.
Now, was Noah struck by dark lightning 6000 years ago and suddenly was able
to see the gamma radiation of moments shared by random animals, like the
Peacock, and a ship, as in Al-Zuras’, and assumed God was telling him to build
an ark and gather every animal?
Ezekiel, as many other biased, superstitious humans, bumped into the glimpse
of the undiscovered Law of Time itself and assumed it was some sort of
otherworldly experience/prophecy. But it was just the physical manifestation of
the cosmologic synergy making sure things are staying safe on this convoluted,
random and mysterious innerworkings of light.
Is the whole mystery just a big scientific phenomenon that was crazily
misinterpreted in History by hysteria? And just now, with the 828 happening in
a more scientific-wise world, we’re learning to learn about it correctly? (It kinda
speaks to the show’s audience reception too in a big meta-joke, taking into
account that we all can be misinterpreting it collectively).
Is this where Manifest is going? I don’t know, but it definitely seems like it.
Which brings us to our Epilogue.
PART 4: THE LAST TRIAL.
It was a blessing in disguise. Genesis 37:26
It all happened once close to the Great Flood; the force selected Noah in order
to save the DNA of every species in the world by giving him the idea for an Ark
(a technology method that would be available then and now), because the
world was soon to be destroyed.
It happened twice when Moses had to move the Egyptian population to the
“promised land” before the Plagues of Egypt attack. The Callings struck a tree
with dark lightning and made it catch fire in front of Moses. According to the
Bible, just by seeing the tree on flames, Moses acknowledged the presence of
a higher calling and his purpose in it.
Moses’s Calling
It happened later with Jesus. Joseph and Mary (most likely Mary) were called
and then had a baby together. This baby was a gamma radiation baby. This
means to them what it would also mean for Grace’s and Ben’s daughter, Eden
(The Garden of Eden, the first land, a new beginning, just like the Fool and
World cards made by Al-Zuras represented).
The intolerance and humiliation Cal and the other passengers suffer from the X-ers feels just
like the one Jesus underwent during his stay on Earth. History repeats itself, however the ones
who write it are unaware of History’s true nature.
Speaking of Al-Zuras, he was probably the one who was able to understand
the Callings the most out of all of them. He was the first and only one to notice
the Prisca Theologia connection and its roots in the occult philosophy. With the
technology he had available at the period, to closer he would get to study and
actually manipulate god’s/gamma energy was through messing with the laws
of synergy and synchronicity by playing with Tarot cards.
Through beating his own Death Date (Yes, I think he did it. Smart guy this one,
he actually listens), Al-Zuras’ word and knowledge was rewarded with “eternal
life,” which meant his work (the deck) becoming a famous retelling of the cards
that would be talked about throughout the subsequent times all the way up to
the 21st century—exactly like The Bible, the Torah and other creations made
through Calling-inspiration do.
And then comes the Stone Family.
Soon to be affected by the omnipresent consciousness of gamma rays through
Flight 828, they receive an important Tarot reading through the words of the
last relevant lightning-host before them. This would be important for the
Callings, as God would use the cards as a tool to help warn their new agents
about Earth’s next big tragedy from the standpoint of someone who had
understand and beat it successfully once.
One relevant example of the reason behind the time jumps: The Callings
needed Michaela to be kept far from Jared in order to fulfill the planned
outcome and leave the predetermined Cause and Effect intact. So they time-
jumped her five years later, enough time for Jared and others to move on from
their significant others.
But this apparently wasn’t enough, since they needed to bring her a new lover
to compensate. And in comes baby-boy Zeke. Everything is made so her and
the others believe they are soul mates, destined by god, and the Callings grow
their influence even further by manipulating synergy and making divine-like
coincidences happen around them (like the repetition of 828 everywhere,
referring to the Bible verse her mom used to tell her, pulling their puppets’
heartstrings).
“Oh, I need to send Olive a message about Noah’s Ark but I’m not human and don’t know how
to vocally talk like them, so I’ll put on their path this Noah’s Ark-themed jigsaw puzzle which
has an olive branch on it and hope they get it,” said the Calling and Jeff Rake (03x04)
While Olive learns about the Death Date through analyzing ancient symbology, Ben discovers
it through mathematics. Every line of knowledge is valid, provided it reaches apotheosis. And
through cleaver film directing, the creators tell us that, whether out of science or faith, the final
picture should look the same.
If the Callings are people who got struck by lightning seeing random moments in history from
other people who got struck, then this cave painting might not even be the Gemini constellation
at all. Someone in pre-historical times could have had a future vision from this moment which
Michaela and Zeke held hands underneath the starry sky and decided to paint it. It’s not out of
embellishment the showrunners decided to put the ray striking the petrograph the second they
hold hands. God is using every card he has to convince Mick and Zeke they cosmically belong
together. And they do, in oder to mantain the reproductive cycle of life on Earth.
However, as we would see, this still wouldn’t be enough for them to grasp the
entire concept of Time’s course-correcting system. The passengers of 828 still
were unaware to the fact that they should be working together for the Synergy
Law to apply and the world be saved.
So in comes the trio of meth heads, to teach them that no, just following the
Callings isn’t enough. You all have to do is stop resisting and denying. Is either
that or having your heart thrown to Apep or Ammit, thrown into The Dark.
Look at both of these situations. Time is invoking on the characters the bodily sensation of
burning. The Callings urge, “This is what will happen to you if you don’t do as I say!”
The Ouroboros (the snakes of Evil bite their own tails, hurting themselves while making a
symbol for infinity and conclusion) at Moses’s bush, brunt by the discharge of pure energy.
It’s almost like God is saying, “You should have died on that plane. I brought
you back. Now you owe me one. Show me you and the others are worthy of
the manifesting power I gifted you with. Give me one good reason not to let
your world die this time. Prove me humanity still rings true to my message of
collectiveness to keep the system going. Companionship, family and love must
always prevail or all there will be is destruction.”
For cable TV, an earthly manifestation, proving our worth means having
numbers. For God and other types of artists, proving your worth and
maintaining the plug on gets trickier.
God says, everyone should do their part on the system or the system won't
work at all. We all should be working together for a better world. Every single
action we take should be morally weighted first, because everything and
everyone counts, because they're embroidered in the quilt of Time. Because
everything is connected! Taking one piece off a Jenga tower can sometimes
make the whole Tower fall down.
Reimagined version of The Falling Tower tarot card. An obelisk (Egyptian symbol for
connecting Earth to the Higher Powers of sky) gets destroyed by the raging waves of
ocean and bossy lightnings from god. It represents “death of Mind Clearing.”
Darkness sometimes wins over light, as they are equals in influence.
FINALWORD
So, yea, that’s mah ‘hole guess on what this show’s truly about!
It almost dips its toe close to the limit that separates it from being the inspired-
talk of a H. P. Lovecraft fanfic of Yog-Sothoth, but it is probably the best I can
come out with as in right now, the day before the airing of S03EP09 (“Bogey”).
I could talk about it for hours for anyone who also might be interested. But for
now, I’ll resort to keep the INTP-A gremlin that lives inside me sufficed.
Right?!
BIBLIOGRAPHY
1. www.letussarcasticallyenjoyManifestalone.com
2. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8cNBvzKdIE
3. Some Dan Brown book I don’t remember the name of
4. Taroooot, mah buddy, please come to Brazil!
5. #RenewManifest YO!
6. I swear, I wasn’t paid to do this.
TL;DR VERSION: it is all a blessing disguised as tragedy.
Actual depiction of Jeff Rake every time someone asks him a question.