I’m not certain if Jilliahsmen Trinity is a cult classic in the making, a cult in and of itself, or it’s cultivating a new conversation. What it is may not matter as much as how it gets you thinking—enough so you could possibly rub a bald spot or two into your own scalp without realizing it.
The characters, symbolism, and concepts are like a hybrid combination of The Matrix, only taking place in a world that reminds you of Asgard. At least it does me. I’ll also admit, when I read the first few lines of it, I thought: is this like an intergalactic Grease? The principal of Jilliahsmen Trinity, Bastine, sounded eerily similar to Principle McGee from Rydell High. All that was missing was the assistant with the xylophone and the forced sing-song voice of hope.
Quickly after that initial, very wrong impression, Bastine gets a bit more philosophical and the story grows more bizarre as Bastine says, “The Supreme Agenda of which no one really knows but her. Have the others know 1% of what she does and we get to Heaven.” The “her” referred to is Gabriella (Gabby) Rothschild, who seems to be the queen bee of goddesses because she has a thirst for knowledge, an apparently rare quality.
All these gods and goddesses at their Jilliahsmen Trinity school represent just about everything you can imagine in the world. Corporations, money, sex, music, books, ideas, and so on. And there’s a definite innuendo of the gods and goddesses being addicted to America. Is this place really in the stars or is it on earth? Wherever it is, it is slightly America obsessed. And who is Jilliah? I guess maybe the big kahuna, the “one,” the all knowing.
Fascination quickly takes hold in this story because there is practically zero probability you can guess where this thing is going. It appears all over the place but you sense it’s quite deliberate—that someone knows what you’re going to do before you actually do it sort of thing. It has me hooked and I’m curious, speaking of which—don’t be distracted when you watch this and have a good rest to help you keep pace. The clues are in the details.
After I think I’ve found an approach to absorbing all this, a naked guy appears, who is eventually known as Jack. It’s strange but not as strange as learning the fate of everyone seems to fall on Jack’s hands—make that his willy. It’s somehow a measuring stick for the entire universe existing or not. Girls and guys alike are obsessed with its size and why it matters so much. While it’s not uncommon for raging hormones to be obsessed with body parts shape and size, it’s hard to even imagine the angle here, it’s neither erect nor direct.
Gabby also plays a deeply intricate link to the cult philosophy woven into this story. She discusses a mass suicide as the way to save the world. She’s done the math, saying “the world is begging for her to do it.” I admit, that part really annoyed me because who needs another rider on the crazy train of self-destruction, however, the crazy train does exist in the real world, which is clearly embarked by all present leaders of the new world, which only further rings truth our and the universe’s need to correctly identify it’s supreme purpose and tackle it, all-be-it through the size of one man’s willie.
Another thing I was drawn to and see a great many parallels with in today’s mindful world is that most people of all perspectives and persuasions will sincerely feel Jilliahsmen Trinity, although at times, through means of satanic advocation, promote what’s right for life everywhere. And they somehow make it Romeo and Juliet-like poetic, as taken note when Gabby says: “Love has been studied to the core. If it did once belong to the Architect it does so no more. The song is sung, of the war it made, is true to the tune of JL2 {part of the love formula]. In a Universe where nothing is known, let this be known: Love will graduate my every man women and child and I into the arms of the war against the Architect, to culminate the Supreme Agenda of the only truth we care to render, Jilliah.” I can’t help but extract some Tina Turner, What’s Love Got to Do with It? Isn’t it supposed to be a second-hand emotion?
In the end, it comes down to Gabby and Jack feeling like the popular kids who are in an on-and-off-again relationship that keeps everyone fascinated. Under the parental guiding figure of Bastine, Gabby and Jack go back and forth, each trying to win their game, prized with the universe and everything it in. It’s sword play with galactic words and double meanings. In the end, it all comes down to the one thing we can all relate with—the concept of “do you trust me?” If you do, you’ll blindly follow. If you don’t, you might be screwed. I looked for a third option, but I couldn’t find one.
Then “poof” and a transmitted fax to the cosmos later…everyone scatters in their own directions. It’s either the end or the beginning, love or hate, heaven or hell, or maybe just, but not least, the truth, but either way, it’s just the start of some serious long contemplation of what it “truly” means. This could literally be a full-semester philosophy/psychology type course where those who love to debate dive in and grow consumed with all of it—Jilliahsmen Trinity are completely vested and subscribed no matter what else anyone says. Now I get it…isn’t that exactly like a cult?
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