Lions guarding a secret, a pyramid with a blazing light / eye at its apex... and of course the dichotomy of red (pill) and blue (pill)...
According to ancient practice and rite, if you are TOLD what is to be done to you, whether you UNDERSTAND or NOT, the "jest", the cruelty, the killing, the enslavement, is LEGAL to GOD. Because you have been told, mystically you have a CHOICE, and that means of your own FREE WILL you are consenting to be the victim.
Harsh but it is the rule here and above.