Why You Shouldn't Get A Tattoo
The Mark of the Beast will likely find its ultimate expression in invisible (often vaccine-relivered) machine-readable digital records stored on living human skin.
tattoos [are] a permanent prayer to and identification with the heavenly powers, [and] a means of communication with them. Such is the most generalized meaning of tattooingโฆ the tattoo is the permanent mark of [social] initiation, the badge of the tribeโฆ.tattoos [are] symbols of identification, interfused with โฆ magic and mystic potency. Identification โฆ invests the individual with the properties and strength of the creature or thing to which that person is assimilated and, [immunizes him] against its powerโฆ This is why tattoos depict dangerous creatures โฆ symbols of fertility, etc. Identification also [connotes] surrender or consecration to what the tattoo depictsโฆa badge of fealty.โJean Chevalier, The Penguin Dictionary of Symbols, 1996, pp. 975-6