According to Elle.com[1], the dual, competing signs of Saturn and Jupiter indicate a Hegelian dialectical relationship[2], producing a synthesis of opposites.
According to astrologer Kelli Fox of Astrology.TV, the Great Conjunction of Saturn and Jupiter is highly connected to a significant shift in power.
“Traditionally, [the Great Conjunction] relates to the rise—or fall—of royalty and power. If power does fall at the end of 2020, we can bet that it will be down to people power having exposed dangerous and manipulative conspiracies and underhanded dealings,” she previously told ELLE.
In astrology, both Jupiter and Saturn are related to power and authority, however the two are very different leaders. While Jupiter is the ‘fun boss’ who’s all about health, prosperity and clocking off at four to grab team drinks, Saturn tends to place greater emphasis on limits, rules and deadlines. And when the two are forced to play co-leads, as they do in a Great Conjunction, it generally results in a power struggle. Think: Prince Harry and Meghan Markle (Jupiter energy) leaving the monarchy (Saturn energy). Coincidence? We think not.
Furthermore, the duality of these dueling energies tends to kick off huge cultural movements that see things change fundamentally, whether we are prepared for it or not. Politically, things tend to move away from “how they have always been done”, with an “out with the old, in with the new” philosophy set to permeate across policies, elections and sociopolitical movements for the next 20 years.
Considering the Reichstag Fire-like event that occurred on Epiphany Day on January 6, this would make sense. The Reichstag fire that occurred at the German parliament building, four weeks after Hitler was sworn into power, was used as a pretext to pass the Reichstag Fire Decree by the Nazi Party. The Nazi’s claimed that the communists were plotting against the German government, which made the fire pivotal in the establishment of Nazi Germany. Never let a good crisis go to waste![3] Coups and countercoups is the name of the revolution game for the communist takeover.[4] Over at the Secret Sun, Christopher Knowles highlighted the Roman and Assyrian aspects of Baal Hadad’s return on Capital Hill.[5]
Returning to what was discussed in Part 2, the child of the Woman Clothed with the Sun is often either equated with Jesus Christ, the Church, and even Lucifer. The Apocalypse of John foretells the end of one age and the birth of a new Aeon. This could also fit well with the Thelemic religion, as the child also represents the Crowned and Conquering Child, as we saw in the previous post. The new epoch began not in 1904 but in 1945, 40 years later. In the early morning before the dawn on July 16th, 1945, in the desert of the Jornada Del Muerto (Journey of the Dead Man), when Man first divided the indivisible. As an answer to this event, in December 1945, the Nag Hammadi library was unearthed. The atom bomb was unleashed to give man the power to turn night into day. This bomb would eventually lead to the fusion bomb, harnessing a transmutation process which until modern times only occurred within stars. This is the Age of the Star.
The Woman Clothed with the Sun is literally depicted in the Tarot as well, which is the Empress. The Empress is said to be the pregnant mother, as is the woman of chapter 12. Verse 12:1 is almost an exact description of many representations of the Empress (especially the BOTA card). “A great and wondrous sign appeared in heaven: a woman clothed with the sun, with the moon under her feet and a crown of twelve stars on her head.” This association with the Woman Clothed with the Sun combined with the planetary association with Venus to the Empress should be obvious. Venus is of course, the Morning Star, or Lucifer. Thus, directly below Kether onto the Tree of Life and above the Sun, as if attempting to rival it is the fallen angel! This might also suggest that Lucifer, the Light Bearer, is the “mother” of the Son, or bearer of the Sun (Tiphareth). In texts like Ascension of Isaiah tells us that Jesus was crucified by Satan and his demons in the lower heavens.
Interestingly, as noted in my book The Sun Lady Unveiled, the verse prior to verse 12:1 that mentions the Woman Clothed with the Sun references the Ark of the Covenant: “Then God’s temple in heaven was opened, and within his temple was seen the ark of the covenant. And there came flashes of lightning, rumblings, peals of thunder, an earthquake and a great hailstorm.” The Ark of the Covenant was represented on the Tree of Life by the High Priestess, path 13 that crosses through Da’ath. The Ark of the Covenant is the same as the Ark of the Throne of the Virgin (Isis was known as the Throne of the Pharaohs). The High Priestess is the presence of God (i.e., the Shekinah) that is said to rest upon the Ark. The two pillars represent the two cherubim that are placed on the lid of the Ark. The High Priestess is assigned to the letter Gimel, which means camel. This suggests the desert of Set. According to the Wikipedia entry for the Ark of the Covenant:
“…After its creation by Moses, the Ark was carried by the Israelites during their 40 years of wandering in the desert. Whenever the Israelites camped, the Ark was placed in a separate room in a sacred tent, called the Tabernacle.”
This leaves little doubt that this card symbolizes the Ark, and the Woman clothed with the Sun emerging from the Ark just as the Empress emerges from Key I the High Priestess. The path of the Empress also crosses through the path of the High Priestess as if symbolically emerging from it. The Virgin becomes the Mother with Child. In my book, I also connect Barbelo with its origination from the Queen of Heaven as envisioned in the Book of Revelation chapter 12, and El Shaddai (“God with Breasts”) in Genesis.[6] Interestingly, Saturn or even Aion is assigned to the World card, as if it were the Demiurge ruling over its creation. The card is assigned to path 32 on the Tree of Life, which is also assigned to the Hebrew letter Tav, the final letter of the alphabet, and thus equivalent in a sense with the Greek omega and the Latin Z.
The World Tarot card looks a lot like Aion, or female Mithras surrounded by the four living creatures of Ezekiel and Revelation.
Aion
In Brian Desborough’s They Cast No Shadows, the author suggests that the Book of Revelation was written by Julius Piso, like much of the New Testament as well being crafted by the Roman Piso family without furnishing proofs.[7] However, Desborough places Mithraism and Gnosticism as the foundation for Revelation as the author of Revelation seems well-versed in Gnostic terminology and writing formats. For Desborough, the Sun Lady “appears to represent the gnostics, with their knowledge of the zodiac, while the dragon’s diadem identifies the capture as the High Priesthood, the antithesis of Yahweh” (p. 204). The author also suggests that the seven church communities referred in the first chapter of Revelation were the last bastions of the Gnostic Church. There are many similarities which Desborough lists between Mithraism and Revelation. However, one that he does not list connects with the Hellenistic deity of Aion, the lion-headed hypercosmic demiurge of unbounded/ultimate time and space, alpha and omega. The number 777 is also associated with Aion, as it does connect with the seven stars of Pleiades and the Gnostic Church, as the YouTuber Ancient Mystery reveals.
The Moonchild is a product of Yesod[8], but also Daath through the path of the High Priestess (who is assigned to the Moon) that crosses through the Abyss. It is the camel that one rides through the Desert of Set or the “Black Pilgrimage.” Does this suggest a sex magick operation with the High Priestess? If we follow the details of Liber 49 and the Book of the Anti-Christ by Jack Parsons, that High Priestess is Babalon herself. Recall how Revelation describes Babalon as being dressed up in various jewelry and drinking from a golden cup filled with the human bodily fluids directly created from fornication, which would be sperm and vaginal fluids. Her cursed title is as follows: Mystery, Babylon The Great, The Mother Of Harlots And Abominations Of The Earth.
The Lust Card.
The Lust card of the Thoth Tarot deck symbolizes the Demiurge: The Child of Chaos. It is the lion headed serpent (Leto and Teth); the Gnostic Chnoubis, from the lust of the Leonine Beast which comes forth from the descent into matter of Tiamat. Genesis is the act of Lust. Babalon completes the cycle of the Demiurge. The Virgin Mary connects Virgo who gave birth to the Fisherman Pisces, so Babalon as Leo (via the Lust tarot associations) fulfils this role with Aquarius. Virgo is the opposite sign of Pisces and Leo the opposite of Aquarius. She is the hidden side of our Age of the Wormwood Star (key XVII being assigned to Aquarius).
The Fifth Pentacle of Mars from the Key of Solomon.
The Fifth Pentacle of Mars is also the Eucharist of the Gnostic Church of the Demiurge. In the Key of Solomon there is this comment concerning the fifth pentacle of Mars: Around the figure of the Scorpion is the word HVL. The versicle is from Psalm xci. 13: “Thou shalt go upon the lion and adder, the young lion and the dragon shalt thou tread under thy feet.” The above verse recalls the description of the Demiurge as the lion-headed serpent. These are also the two animals associated with the path of the Lust card on the Tree of Life; assigned to the Hebrew letter Teth, meaning serpent, and ruled by Leo. The scorpion was thought to sting itself to death if placed within a ring of fire. Therefore, it relates to the phoenix, who dies in a consuming flame, and is reborn from its ashes. Some of this symbolism relates to the pelican who was thought to stab its breast with its beak to feed its young. The association of Mars with the Scorpion also brings us back with the King of the Bottomless Pit, Apollyon/Abaddon.
This is a snapshot taken from the Greater Key of Solomon, and the figure of Shaddai the Almighty looks curiously like Dionysus or the Horned Moses as well. It also tells us that all angelic spirits are forced to bend the knee to the First Pentacle of the Sun. A practitioner of both Solomonic magick and Enochian magick—John Dee, was also thought of as a Demiurgical figure by Tracy Twyman. In the article “Is John Dee the Demiurge?”[10] Tracy Twyman writes how we are buried under an artificial universe constructed by sorcery:
Dean Martin once famously proclaimed that “It’s Frank Sinatra’s world, we just live in it.” I am currently thinking the same, literally, about one of the West’s most influential scientists, astronomers, religious philosophers, magicians and prophets: John Dee.
I have recently written about my theory that John Dee may have created the universe simulation we’re currently living in. I think he may have become the figure of “Ouranos” or “Oannes,” a.k.a. “Vishnu” to the Hindus. The name Oannes is recognized as the origin of the name “John.” The Babylonians remember Oannes as a wise god with a fish tail who came out of the sea to teach them the wisdom of civilization, most notably, astronomy.
John Dee, in fact, is largely responsible for our current view of astronomy in many ways. He was also an expert in manipulating light and the perception of light to render the appearance of a three-dimensional experience from something flat.
I think this depiction of Vishnu “crossing the universe in three steps” actually may show John Dee manifesting the three dimensions of our universe.
Later in the article, Tracy points out how John Dee discovered an alchemical formula to quite literally “Solve et. Coagula” the entire universe. Interestingly, John D. Rockefeller also has a similar name as his later descendants would write something called the “The Rockefeller Foundation. Annual Report 2010”[11] which is an outline of the coming global reset initiative of the World Economic Forum along with the communist/globalist wet dream called the “Green New Deal”.[12] The CERN facility’s campus in Geneva, Switzerland also features a statue of Shiva Nataraj, the chief Hindu deity that oversees the alchemical and infinite destruction and transformation/rebirth of creation.[13] Shiva, like Baphomet, also has the powers to “Solve et. Coagula” the universe into the “prima materia” and reconstituted into something else. Considering the Book of Revelation is purported to be written by John the Revelator, the idea of John being the herald of the “New Aeon” is a reoccurring theme.
First I came across information about how significant Belgium was in the life of John Dee, court astrologer and intelligence agent to Queen Elizabeth I. He invented the so-called “Enochian” ritual magic system—or rather, channeled it from self-identified “angels” using a divination technique called “scrying.” Alchemy was one of his primary studies, and when I did the séance you just saw, his alchemical treatise Monas Hieroglyphica was already a subject in the story of Genuflect, as well as Dee’s alleged interest in the London Stone artifact.
Monas Hieroglyphica is about a secret formula to recombine the elements of the universe into one thing—the Monad—thus uncreating the universe, with the power then to create a new one. Specifically, these elements are represented as metals, corresponding to the seven “classical planets” or heavenly lights recognized by the old world, which included the Sun, Moon, and five visible planets. Dee wrote it in Antwerp, Belgium, in an inspired frenzy, between January 25 and March 31 of the year 1564. Afterwards, he bragged to the Queen about having discovered some extremely powerful secret.
Other authors like Colin Low (as we saw earlier with his article) have recognized there was a strong Demiurgic element to John Dee and the spirits he interacted with.
Less easy to rationalise is what comes next. When I began to read Dee’s angelic transcripts I was struck by the thought that the God of Dee’s angels was the same demonic demiurgic God I was already familiar with in gnostic texts. It is difficult to give much substance to this feeling, other than to say that the original gnostics derived their demiurge by taking the worst qualities of the God of the Jews, transforming him into a demonic entity. The God of Dee’s angels is similarly demonic – a God of wrath and punishments and ‘righteousness’ who fully intends (like the God of Revelation) to turn the world into a charnel-house. In his book Tetragrammaton, Donald Tyson points out the phrase “God of Righteousness” quoted in the ninth Enochian key (quoted earlier) is given as IAD BALTOH in Enochian, a transparent anagram of IALDBAOTH. For either of Dee or Kelly to be this ingeniously erudite beggars belief.
Returning to the book The Secret Rituals of the Men in Black (pp. 55, 57, 58), Allen H. Greenfield also has this to say on Oannes and the two Johns of the New Testament.
The aquatic “god” Oannes or John seems to be the primal key to the earliest contact between the Ultraterrestrials and human adepts.
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If we examine the legend of John the Baptist, patron saint of Freemasonry, what do we find? A semi divine teacher, associated with the prophet Elijah (Matthew 11:14, 16:14, 17:12; Mark 6:15, 8:18; Luke 9:19) who ascended alive into heaven in a chariot of fire before many witnesses (2Kings 2:1-14), John stands half immersed in the water, baptizing others into Wisdom by immersing them. This apparently is an echo of that more remote John, Oannes, the Sumerian-Babylonian half-fish, half man who taught humanity by day, but returned to the waters by night. The only surviving cult of John the Baptist, the Mandeans, live in modern-day Iraq, the former Babylonian and Sumerian Empire.
His legend is often confused with that of Jesus, the dying and rising god first illuminated by John (their followers were in contention with one another for some time after John’s martyrdom). Crowley rightly associates the martyred Jesus with the martyred John, and, in his 777, gives the Tarot Trump associated with both as “The figure of a hanged or crucified man” with the title “The Spirit of the Mighty Waters”. The customary image of this Tarot Trump is of a man Hanging in an inverted position. This is similar to a relief on the main gate of the Temple Precincts of the late Mayan City Tulum in the Yucatan. The relief is often called “The Diving God” because of the inverted image of a celestial being, and because of the unique coastal location of “The Temple of the Diving God” at Tulum (the Mayans usually built their cities inland), but seems more like a “divine being descending from Heaven” rather than “diving”. Crowley notes that in the Aeon before that of Osiris, that of Isis or Water, this ‘hanged man’ is instead “The Drowned Man” which takes us back to the approximate time of the visit of the Oannes.
The Hebrew name for Jesus, Yehesua, is identical to that of the Old Testament wonder-working prophet, known in English as JOSHUA. JOSHUA = 50 = ODIN and FISH. Joshua was the Son of Nun (that is, son of the fish) and this also refers to a crucified sky god who brings knowledge (as in Odin; see 34° Rite of Memphis, “Knight of Scandinavia”). This is one of those eerie rare exact parallels; JOSHUA and FISH having the same value points to this ancient cryptomasonic tradition of the tutelary (that is, teaching) amphibious star gods.
In Masonic lore, the “two Johns” of the New Testament get interchanged in the Eighteenth Century. John the Evangelist is substituted for John the Baptist, but the latter is, in magical lore, associated with the Astrological Sign Cancer and late in the month of June, thus revealing, once again, the same origin in Oannes.
Odin was known as the mercurial god of wisdom, poetry, war, and even the seeker after his own death. The same cannot be said for the “Seeker After Smooth Things.” One website[14] tells us about this group of Pharisees:
SEEKERS AFTER SMOOTH THINGS, or “Givers of Smooth Interpretations” (Heb. דּוֹרְשֵׁי חֲלָקוֹת, doreshei ḥalakot),a designation given in the *Qumran texts to certain people who followed a different (and presumably less exacting) application of the law than that favored by the Qumran community. At the beginning of the Zadokite Admonition (cd 1:18) those who paid heed to the “man of scoffing,” the “spouter of lies,” are said to have “given smooth interpretations” (a phrase probably derived from Isa. 30:10, where the rebellious people say to the prophets, “speak unto us smooth things, prophesy delusions” – i.e., tell us what we like to hear). From samples of these “smooth interpretations” given later in the same work (cd 4:19ff.), with special reference to the marriage laws and the rules of purity, it seems most probable that the people referred to are the Pharisees.
In the *Thanksgiving Psalms the tension between the community and the “seekers after smooth things” finds repeated expression: the psalmist has become “a man of dispute for the interpreters of error… a spirit of jealousy to all who seek after smooth things,” (1qh 2:14ff.) and he praises God for having “redeemed the soul of the poor man (evyon) from the seekers after smooth things” (1qh 2:32). Those who were formerly his friends and companions have become “interpreters of falsehood and seers of deceit,” who (he says) “have devised plans of Belial against me, to make me exchange Thy law, which Thou hast engraved on my heart, for ‘smooth things’ to be given to Thy people” (1qh 4:10ff.).
Isaiah 30:9-11 tells us more in full about these “seekers”:
9 That athis is a brebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of the Lord:
10 Which say to the aseers, See not; and to the prophets, Prophesy not unto us right things, speak unto us bsmooth things, prophesy cdeceits:
11 Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.
In a Wikipedia article about the Seekers After Smooth Things[15], it tells us how they will eventually be hung on trees, much like Judas, Odin, and even Jesus (as discussed in Galatians). In the end, they lose.
The context within the Pesher Nahum describes the seekers as an organized violent group and claims they can be responsible for numerous deaths. They are also blamed for their impression of others by misleading kings, princes, priests, and ordinary members of the nation. The seekers are also seen as traitors who act opposite of the divine plan. The view is that at the end of days the seekers after smooth things will be unmasked and despised, their misleading will be over and they will face punishment. One punishment suggested in the Temple Scroll for those who oppose god is to be hanged on a tree until death.
In a few texts in the New Testament, it speaks of both revelations of Christ and the Antichrist. According to Clock Shavings and Tracy Twyman’s seances with Baphomet, the Anti-Christ would rise in America (Babylon as described by Revelation, Jeremiah, and Ezekiel) and become essentially the “King of Babylon” as prophesied in Ezekiel. According to the book Guardians of the Grail, written by a Christian evangelist called J.R. Church, it tells us that the Anti-Christ would descend from the chosen “bloodline of the Holy Grail.” In an article called “Return of the Once and Future King: A Revelation of Antichrist,” by Clinton Ortiz,[16]he writes about something similar with the Return of the Once and Future King—a fantasy novel about King Arthur, Prince William, and the Antichrist; he also connects the Cathar Rex Mundi—something of which I’ve also spoken about in past articles. Ortiz has a less than positive opinion on Freemasonry, but what he reveals is worth researching.
There are some who have much different take about the Grail bloodline. Ortiz would condemn this view as he does in the above article but does it by dismissing the idea that the Grail has lesser to do with Jesus and Mary Magdalene’s descendants and more to do with Joseph of Arimathea’s daughter (and the Virgin Mary’s cousin) Anna and Beli Mawr and his Celtic god equivalent—Benenos, the sun god or “Lord of Light” celebrated on Beltane, who exists his opposite of chthonic underworld forces—similar to that of St. Michael fighting off the Dragon. And yet, Beli Mawr’s symbol is known to be associated with the Dragon—a beast who prefers to eat rotting flesh as opposed to living flesh.[17] This is the marriage between Christianity and Celtic/Irish paganism. The earliest British royalty can also trace their lineage to these two figures as well.[18] Interestingly, the Tribe of Dan and even Dan himself (more on this later), the son of Jacob, is based on the Irish pagan goddess, Danu.[19]
According to the Satanic article “Ordo Antichristianus Illuminati: Number of the Beast”[20] by Joshua Jacob Seraphim, he tells us more about the magical and solar nature of the number of the Beast, in which I decode in my book, The Sun Lady Unveiled, as Saturn, the hyper cosmic Demiurge.
Considering what David Icke said in his lecture on Saturn, and the statement that the ancient sun gods as simply different manifestations of Saturn/Chronos, the 666 cabalistic connection takes on a whole new meaning.[21] In his Against Heresies, Irenaeus argues that 666 is a particularly “fitting” number for the name of the beast in Rev. 13:18:
Since he sums up in his own person all the commixture of wickedness which took place previous to the deluge, due to the apostasy of the angels. For Noah was six hundred years old when the deluge came upon the earth, sweeping away the rebellious world, for the sake of that most infamous generation which lived in the times of Noah. And [Antichrist] also sums up every error of devised idols since the flood, together with the slaying of the prophets and the cutting off of the just {cf. Matt 24:37–38/Luke 17:26–27}. For that image which was set up by Nebuchadnezzar had indeed a height of sixty cubits, while the breadth was six cubits; on account of which Ananias, Azarias, and Misaël, when they did not worship it, were cast into a furnace of fire, pointing out prophetically, by what happened to them, the wrath against the righteous which shall arise towards the [time of the] end {cf. Matt 24:15/Mark 13:14}.
For that image, taken as a whole, was a prefiguring of this man’s coming, decreeing that he should undoubtedly himself alone be worshipped by all men {cf. Rev 13:15}. Thus, then, the six hundred years of Noah, in whose time the deluge occurred because of the apostasy, and the number of the cubits of the image for which these just men were sent into the fiery furnace, do indicate the number of the name of that man in whom is concentrated the whole apostasy of six thousand years, and unrighteousness, and wickedness, and false prophecy, and deception; for which things’ sake a cataclysm of fire shall also come [upon the earth]. (Irenaeus, Against Heresies, 5.29.2 [ANF 1:558]; square brackets original; curled brackets added).
666 is also a magically charged number as well. We must consult Brian Desborough once again in They Cast No Shadows (p. 209), who discusses 666 as a hammer-like force.
…it should be noted that the 666 solar force represents the masculine, generative force, the initiator of materialistic, instead of spiritual activity. Nations are animated by the power and justice of their leaders; when unrestrained, the 666 force is a director of tyrannical governments and the procreator of a society obsessed with violence, world power, and material gain, as is presently exemplified by the United States. When correctly fused with the earth force, the 666 energy assists in building a society possessing balance, vigor, and spirituality.
Looks like the elites' new slogan of "Build Back Better" translates to 666. The WEF logo also has a cleverly hidden 666. Also, O in reduced gematria equals 6, so OOO is literally 666. pic.twitter.com/ldreAFwy6o
In the book COVID-19: The Great Reset by Klaus Schwab and Thierry Malleret (p. 12), the authors surprisingly use alchemical language to describe the breakdown and purge of the current world epoch and into a new world system.
Many of us are pondering when things will return to normal. The short response is: never. Nothing will ever return to the “broken” sense of normalcy that prevailed prior to the crisis because the coronavirus pandemic marks a fundamental inflection point in our global trajectory. Some analysts call it a major bifurcation, others refer to a deep crisis of “biblical” proportions, but the essence remains the same: the world as we knew it in the early months of 2020 is no more, dissolved in the context of the pandemic.
Just as we saw earlier with Tracy Twyman’s article about Tech-Billionaire’s Satanic plots to not only bust out of the Matrix and destroy the universe, other authors like Benjamin Fulford have made similar sentiments as well.[23]
Sometimes fact-based reporting leads into very strange territory. In my case, a forensic investigation into who controlled the financial system turned into a very deep rabbit hole indeed. It led me to meet with very senior intelligence agency and secret society sources who explained the concept of humanity being stuck in a matrix, created by an advanced artificial intelligence of unknown origin. Furthermore, they say this AI may well be evil or possibly insane. Now, with the global situation seeming increasingly bizarre and irrational, and with the financial system imploding, it is time to look at the evidence for this proposition. That is because, if it is true, then the only way to liberate humanity will be to defeat this rogue AI.
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The next person to talk about a rogue artificial intelligence being in charge of the planet was a man by the name of Paul Laine, who was from the Pentagon’s “men who stare at goats” psychic warfare division. Laine, together with a very senior silicon valley oligarch (whose identity I will keep secret in order to protect him) say the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence agency had also come to the conclusion we were dealing with some sort of AI. They noted that something was preventing humanity from leaving the Earth and that all space exploration had been stopped since the 1970s. Laine said NASA stood for “Not A Space Agency.”
Yet another source to confirm this conclusion was one of the last surviving members of the Majestic 12 group set up by former President Harry Truman to study UFOs and other unexplained phenomena. This source also said MJ12 had concluded that all UFO-related incidents ultimately traced themselves to an AI.
The reason for bringing this up now is that NASA officials also contacted us to say that recently some sort of anomaly has been changing, in their words “the very fabric of reality.” This has something to do with the continuing but ultra-top secret activities going on in Antarctica.
What Benjamin Fulford is describing sounds not too far from what I have written in the article, “The Sun Lady Tales.” Here, I describe how other fortean/paranormal authors like John Keel have also described the “Eighth Tower”—sounds remarkably like what Fulford wrote—despite what people may think of Fulford. Tracy Twyman has also theorized that Saturn may also be some sort of alien, quantum A.I. as well, called the “terminal” responsible for generating the simulation/hyperdimensional prison-like interface called “the Test.”[24]
In his lecture, Icke suggests that the hexagram on Saturn is an example of cymatics: the geometric distribution of particles caused by sound waves. He also suggests that Saturn’s rings are a result of this, and that the whole “planet” is a structure sending out sound waves that are somehow affecting our perception of reality. This, he says, causes us to hallucinate the “hyperdimensional prison” that he believes we are being kept in by extradimensional aliens that appear to us sometimes as humans, sometimes as reptiles. His description of these hidden controllers greatly resembles the “Archons” of Gnostic myth.
Part of what keeps us in this prison allegedly is our perception of time, which he says is being generated by Saturn as well, which is fitting since Saturn has always been the god of time in mythology.
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It is interesting to think of Saturn as the master controller of our universe. In Hermeticism and Gnosticism, Saturn was considered the highest “aeon.” In fact, the prophet Hermes Trismegistus was thought to have achieved his wisdom when he was brought to the sphere of Saturn, where from that perspective he was able to “look down” and see the pattern of the entire creation. This was how he obtained his knowledge of astronomical matters, and many other things. From the encyclopedia compiled by the group known as the Brethren of Purity in eighth-century Iraq, we read:
It is related about Hermes the Triplicate in Wisdom, who is Idris the prophet—peace be upon him—that he rose to the sphere of Saturn and turned together with it for thirty years until he witnessed all the states of the heavenly sphere.
To many Gnostics and Hermetists, each planet was considered to be an intelligence who ruled over a particular domain of creation. But these domains were thought of as spheres wrapped concentrically around one another, with Earth in the middle. These were the powers that keep us imprisoned in a false reality, according to the Gnostics, and who control our fate (as everyone thought the planets did back then). In order to escape the prison, one has to (either in one’s mind while alive, or in spirit after death) rise through each successive layer or sphere, challenged by gatekeepers at each stage. So in this view, Saturn was the sphere inside of which all the other aeons were encased. Considering that the central myth of Saturn (the Greek Chronos) is that he swallowed his own children into his stomach, where they continued to live and eventually escaped, and considering that these children were to be the gods associated with the planets, it may be that this conception of the universe is what those myths were hinting at.
Beyond this prison, however, the Gnostics claimed that there was our original, true, and pure reality, the Pleroma, which all of this false reality had come from, populated by beings of pure light. What could possibly be “beyond” everything we know? These are mysteries we shall continue to probe.
Elon Musk’s recent transhumanist revelation of “Neuralink” (with the backing of the World Economic Forum of the Great World Reset) sounds something straight out of Revelation as well.[25] Considering Elon Musk’s ownership over Tesla, it is also interesting to consider that former President Donald J. Trump’s uncle John G. Trump, a professor of Electrical Engineering at MIT was asked by the FBI to review Nikola Tesla’s research involving zero-point energy, Space Force, Q-Anon, divination rings[26], and flying disc-shaped hovercraft similar to that of UFO’s.[27] Al Bielek, Montauk, and the Philadelphia Experiments survivor claimed that he too traveled to the future multiple times to the year 2749, where humanity was reduced to less than 300,000,000, a number far below what the Georgia Guidestones prescribes to be as 500,000,00 for humanity to be in “perpetual with nature.” In the far future, humanity has long-established teleportation, interstellar travel, and communication with alien life, and live out their lives on floating smart cities controlled by quantum A.I., that hover over the world.[28] In another article, over at Gnostic.info, titled “Prisoners of Earth Come Out,”[29] it tells us basically the same thing, only in Gnostic verbiage.
The Adversary through various intrigues led astray a number of the divine extra-terrestrials, trapping them in human bodies. Some of the Pilgrims engaged in sexual intercourse with Earth-women. Frequencies were changed. They became trapped on Earth, unable to ascend the vibrational scale and re-enter their etheric world. Spiritual beings found themselves in dense bodies, bound on this miserable planet controlled by their Adversary. The Dark Lord’s rebel bands became their Prison Warders!
These Prison Warders (Archons) cast a spell of sleep over their captives. The Dark Lord and his Prison Warders see people as their property and view men and women as slaves bred to worship them. But the Prison Warder’s spell of ignorance is broken once you realise that you are a spiritual being in a human body exiled on this planet. This explains why the forces of Darkness are actively engaged in keeping humanity in mental, spiritual and physical bondage to the Earth.
The story of Adam and Eve is an expurgated allegory of the seduction of divine extra-terrestrials by malevolent entities. Adam, the sacred texts tell us, was originally the issue and offspring of the Heavenly Father of Light, an androgynous figure with a bright shining form resplendent in his beauty. Seduced by the Adversary, Adam and Eve lost their radiant glory. Exiled from the Garden of Eden they had to survive in a hostile environment. They were able to have children through the physical process of birth. They and their children could experience sickness, pain and physical death.
Interestingly, in John, chapter 6 is telling us that in verse 66, it says that the various disciples of Jesus fell away from his discipleship.
52 The Jews therefore strove among themselves, saying, How can this man give us his flesh to eat? 53 Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you.
54 Whoso eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life; and I will raise him up at the last day. 55 For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.
56 He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him. 57 As the living Father hath sent me, and I live by the Father: so he that eateth me, even he shall live by me.
58 This is that bread which came down from heaven: not as your fathers did eat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread shall live for ever. 59 These things said he in the synagogue, as he taught in Capernaum.
60 Many therefore of his disciples, when they had heard this, said, This is an hard saying; who can hear it? 61 When Jesus knew in himself that his disciples murmured at it, he said unto them, Doth this offend you?
62 What and if ye shall see the Son of man ascend up where he was before? 63 It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life.
64 But there are some of you that believe not. For Jesus knew from the beginning who they were that believed not, and who should betray him. 65 And he said, Therefore, said I unto you, that no man can come unto me, except it were given unto him of my Father. 66 From that time many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.
In the book and TV adaptation, Childhood’s End by Arthur C. Clarke, it depicts a race of “Overlords” that have arrived on Earth during apocalyptic times of chaos, tribulation and uncertainty. The leader of these Overlords, Karellen, first manifests through the dead relatives of people all over the world, establishing trust through miracles, much like how Benjamin Crème—an avid Theosophist—would herald the sudden appearance of the Maitreya, according to his Wikipedia entry[30]:
In 1997 Creme made similar announcements that there would be imminent global TV broadcasts from Christ/Maitreya, though with far less media interest.[17] Creme stated that when the “Day of Declaration” occurred “The Christ will come on the world’s television channels, linked together by satellite. All those with access to television will see … [his face]. He will establish a telepathic rapport with all humanity simultaneously. While the Christ is speaking… [everyone will feel far more love than they’ve ever felt before, that massive outpouring of love will cause] hundreds of thousands of ‘miracle’ cures [to] take place simultaneously.” [18]
After decades of peace, prosperity and technological advancement has been established when these “Overlords” arrived—they finally decide to reveal themselves to the world—only to appear to mimic all the characteristics of your typical red-skinned, horned, winged Devil. These “Overlords” also reveal themselves to be heralds or servant drones for something called the “Over-Mind” who describes itself as the “collective unconscious” of the entire universe—which is a New Age code word for Lucifer, since at the end of the TV series (at least) the figure is depicted as a blurry yellow “shadow” which eventually shapeshifts into Milo’s (the main character) long-deceased girlfriend. Mankind along with the world are eventually annihilated right after the Overlords “rapture” their children out from their parents’ grasp as they “ascend” since they all display some level of psychic abilities as generation that achieved the next level of “consciousness” or “godhood” status.
It is made clear that these demonic helpers are there to harvest and feed this “Over Mind” since even their home planet is depicted as hellish since there is an odd mix of lava and high technology everywhere. The television show, while it is quite nihilistic and anti-climactic, is also obviously fallen angel propaganda meant to “initiate” its audience in their “mystery of iniquity.” I personally hated the ending and thought what really should have occurred was some sort of “War in Heaven” climax since the Overlords are clearly the bad guys. One blog tells us that Childhood’s End is a fable for our current zeitgeist.[31]
Arthur C. Clarke’s Childhood’s End is a fable for our time, an allegory that aligns and comingles our secular and religious traditions and deceptions, our hopes and fears, our illusive dream of utopia and peace, and the darker truths that such peace always comes with a price. The price of utopia is total control, a peace without freedom; a world governed by total awareness and transparency. No where to hide, only total acceptance of superior strength and technology. In this fable alien peace comes at the price of human enslavement without power or change, a sterile peace without honor or dignity only the neoliberal vision of a surveillance world where the masters hold all the keys to the future.
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We learn that the Overlords are carrying out the plan of what they call the Overmind, and that they have done this over and over on many planets before earth. The Overlords who look like devils are both impersonal and without unique personalities, as if they represented the ancient Archons – or star powers of the ancient Gnostics. And the Overmind reminds one not so much of God as it does the demiurge, a blind and almost artificial intelligence that seems to carry out its initiatives in an impersonal and inhuman form that lacks all meaning and context. One of the side character, the “boy genius” Milo Rodricks, who throughout the series represents scientific and creative curiosity finds a way through his girlfriend to go to the aliens homeworld and is offered a linkage to the Overmind. He seems to realize that the Overmind is more a machine than some God out of mythology. Even the alien archons tell him that they are mere servants of this impersonal power, that they long ago had run the gamut of their own evolution and come to the end of their own abilities to advance further on the evolutionary scale. They know they are but minor servants and bit players in a cosmic scheme they neither control nor even benefit from in any significant manner. In fact they envy the children that are our successors. For it is the children of these last humans that will evolve into something greater than anything the universe has ever known or might they tell Milo. This plays into the whole transcendence theme that has been with us for millennia, so that the Platonic tradition with its roots in Shamanism; along with the Jewish Christian motif of end times and human transformation play out in our posthuman ideologies and mythologies of gnostic metamorphosis.
In another blog entry by Daniel Moler[32], he connects the occult concept of the Abyss with Childhood’s End.
In occult initiation, the Abyss is not Hell. It is a gulf which separates what humankind has known from what is unknown. It is a gap which separates the unattainable knowledge of the Supernal from the rest of manifestation. In Childhood’s End, as humankind evolves to the point where the Overlords are ready to relinquish their responsibility of guidance and allow humanity to take its next evolutionary leap into a new type if super-species, the Overlord Karellen states: “the human races was drawing slowly nearer to the abyss–never even suspecting its existence. Across that abyss, there is only one bridge?”
This is obviously a metaphor for the Overlord’s direction in which they took to put humanity on a specific path for the 100 years of their reign. At the same time, this terminology and its usage cannot be ignored as an esoteric allusion to the Abyss of the Western Mystery Traditions which all initiates must cross in order to ascend the higher order of Sephiroth on the Tree of Life.
The idea of an apocalyptic war in heaven is not just a Christian one but also exists in various other religious traditions. What is this War in Heaven, exactly? Why, it is the alchemical recreation of the universe! Could it be the time that Michael stands up, just before a time of trouble? Here is what Daniel 12:1 (KJV) says:
And at that time shall Michael stand up, the great prince which standeth for the children of thy people: and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book.
This “Over-Mind” sounds a lot like VALIS also known as “Vast Active Living Intelligence.” The semi-autobiographical novel VALIS was written by Philip K. Dick, who claimed he had a spiritual experience where he saw a beam of light penetrate his brain and learned about a life-threatening condition affecting his son that his doctors later confirmed. There was no way he could have known about his son’s health, so that was his confirmation.[33]
The light told him that the Empire Never Ended and that we are living in a time-loop of the ancient Roman Empire and its various illusions. According to the “Tractates Cryptica Scriptura,”[34] it tells us that “Real time ceased in 70 C.E. with the fall of the temple at Jerusalem,” and that:
“The great secret known to Apollonius of Tyana, Paul of Tarsus, Simon Magus, Asklepios, Paracelsus, Boehme and Bruno is that: we are moving backward in time. The universe in fact is contracting into a unitary entity which is completing itself. Decay and disorder are seen by us in reverse, as increasing. These healers learned to move forward in time, which is retrograde to us.”
Accordingly, we are quite literally “stuck” as a frozen, darkened glitch in the Matrix as time has not passed since the late Roman Empire. Some ancient Gnostic Christians devised a way out and were working to free the prisoners of the Black Iron Prison and ultimately destroy it. Perhaps the rituals and prayers set in various Gnostic texts like the Pistis Sophia and the Books of Jeu, were to jump start this process. Allen Greenfield in Secret Ciphers of the UFOnauts tells us more about VALIS:
Phil Dick’s V.A.L.I.S. (“Vast Active Living Intelligence System”) seemed a suitable point of departure. The phrase value of the complete term VAST ACTIVE LIVING INTELLIGENCE SYSTEM = 515 = I AM LIFE AND THE GIVER OF LIFE OF EVERY STAR, a most suggestive phrase considering that VALIS is supposed to be a kind of god-computer capable of transmitting meaningful transformative messages to Earth. The acronym VALIS = 41 = HER (repeated many times), but also = WHOLE. In the VALIS story, a magical child is created as a messiah. The child is female. Phil Dick died at age 54 during the filming of Blade Runner based (very loosely) on his antima- chine novel Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? In his last year he became a follower of British contactee Benjamin Creme and maintained that his earlier works of fiction—allegory, really—contained a sort of cipher. The last of his novels published in his lifetime, The Divine Invasion, dealt with this theme from a Gnostic religious vantage point He maintained that the phrase “King Felix” was a cipher for the coming of a New Being, who would deliver humanity from the “black iron prison.” KING FELIX = 147 = RESISTANCE.
This VALIS entity functions much like the Logos can change its shape according to our perceptions as Carl Jung claims[35]:
..I cannot experience the miracle of the Mass; I know too much about it. I know it is the truth, but it is the truth in a form in which I cannot accept it anymore. I cannot say “This is the sacrifice of Christ,” and see him any more. It is no more true to me; it does not express my psychological condition….I need a new form (1977a, p. 276).
This is not to say that Christianity is finished. I am, on the contrary, convinced that it is not Christianity, but our conception and interpretation of it, that has become antiquated in face of the present world situation. The Christian symbol is a living thing that carries in itself the seeds of further development. It can go on developing; it depends only on us, whether we can make up our minds to meditate again, and more thoroughly, on the Christian premises (2010b, p. 44).
The War in Heaven motif also occurs in Norse mythology. In the story of Vafthruthnismal of the Codex Regius, it recounts the dialogue between Odin, the half-trickster god of wisdom and Riddle-Weaver, the giant. In their dialogue, they reveal their working knowledge of the origins of the cosmos, and the world, along with how the end of the world will come about through the catastrophe known as Ragnarök meaning “Twilight of the Gods” and even the “darkness of the gods.”
At one point, Odin asks the Riddle Weaver about how the earth and the heavens were formed. Riddle-Weaver responds by saying “The earth was made from Ymir’s flesh; the rocks were made from his bones. The sky was made from the skull of that ice-cold giant, and the sea was made from his blood.” Later in the same dialogue, the Riddle-Weaver also reveals that at the end of Ragnarök, Odin, along with many of his fellow pantheons, will die by the powers of the Titans. Valkyries in Norse mythology are also depicted as angelic helper spirits who assist those slain in battle and assist in transporting their souls into Valhalla. Daniel Mccoy, in his explanation of Ragnarök[36], tells us more about the Norse version of the End of Days.
In the book Revelations: Visions, Prophecy & Politics by Elaine Pagels, she compares Revelation 12 and 13 with Babylonian myths—pointing out that Marduk splits open the dead carcass of Tiamat to form the heavens and the earth, as well as Job’s tale of Yahweh battling Leviathan, the dragon of the abyss.
Horrified and fascinated, John watches to see how this heavenly battle will play out on earth. Furious at having been thrown out of heaven, the dragon determines to destroy the woman. He pursues her.
She escapes, having been given the wings of a great eagle, and flies into the wilderness to hide. When the dragon discovers her, he pours water from his mouth to sweep her away in a thundering flood, but she eludes him again as “the earth came to the help of the woman” and swallowed the threatening waters. Raging with frustration, “the dragon was angry with the woman, and went off to make war on the rest of her children.”
Now the dragon stands on the seashore and calls forth two monsters as allies: And I saw a beast rising out of the sea, having ten horns and seven heads; and on its horns were ten crowns, and on its heads were blasphemous names. And the beast that I saw was like a leopard, its feet were like a bear’s, and its mouth was like a lion’s mouth. And the dragon gave it his power and his throne and great authority … In amazement the whole earth … worshipped the dragon, for he had given his authority to the beast, and they worshipped the beast, saying, “Who is like the beast; who can fight against it?”
Arrogant, huge, spewing out blasphemies, the beast from the sea “was given authority over every tribe and people and language and nation, and all the inhabitants of the earth will worship it.” A second monster emerges from the land, a beast with power to force everyone on earth “to be marked on the right hand or the forehead” with “the mark, that is, the name of the beast”—apparently a number with secret meaning, “for it is the number of a human being: his number is six hundred sixty-six.” Only the children of the woman whom John saw in his vision dare resist—and for this the beast is determined to kill them.
What could these nightmare visions mean? And where is Rome—and the aftermath of war—to be seen in them? A close reader of the Hebrew Scriptures would see that John was invoking prophetic images to interpret the conflicts of his own time, just as the prophets Isaiah and Jeremiah had interpreted the Babylonian War around six hundred years earlier. These ancient prophets had drawn upon what is perhaps the oldest story in the Bible, one that can be traced to ancient Babylonia, where priests inscribed it in cuneiform on clay tablets more than 2,500 years ago—a story probably told for hundreds, perhaps even thousands, of years before that. The story tells how, “in the beginning,” or even before the beginning of time, God fought against a great sea monster, the dragon of chaos, to bring forth the world. The Babylonian version tells how the sun god Marduk fought his mother, the great female dragon Tiamat, and her army of monsters, who embodied the ocean depths, the dangerous power of chaos. When Tiamat opened her huge jaws to devour him, Marduk drove the four winds into her mouth, distending her body, then split her in two “like a shrimp” to create from her the earth and sky, and placed them under his own dominion.
Nearly three thousand years ago, Israel’s poets and storytellers, familiar with such ancient stories, began to tell how Israel’s God, like Marduk, fought against a many-headed dragon, a sea monster whom they called by such names as Leviathan and Rahab. Some said that only after crushing and killing such monsters could God, like Marduk, establish the world and deliver it from the powers of chaos. Thus the author of Psalm 74 praises God for having vanquished Leviathan:
God, my king, is from old, working salvation in the earth. You divided the sea by your might; you broke the heads of the dragons in the waters; you crushed the heads of Leviathan; you gave him as food for the creatures of the wilderness.
John’s visions of such monsters, then, are modeled on creation stories even older than those in Genesis. Many scholars have pointed out that the opening chapters of Genesis were written considerably later than many other biblical writings—probably about four hundred years later than the chapters that follow—and later than some of the psalms. Yet whoever wrote the opening of Genesis probably knew the ancient dragon story, for Genesis says that even before God created the world, he began not with nothing, as Jewish and Christian theologians and philosophers later claimed, but with a formless void, chaos, wind, and “deep waters”:
“In the beginning, when God created the heavens and the earth, the earth was a formless void [or chaos] and darkness covered the surface of the deep waters, while a wind from God swept over the waters.”
Some people thought that this ancient story implied that God’s power is limited, since it suggests that God, like Marduk, had to contend with a supernatural antagonist before he could create the world. Israel’s storytellers, perhaps to reassure their hearers that God’s power is uncontested, morphed the sea monster Tiamat into tehom, the Hebrew term for “the depths,” the primordial sea over which they say that “wind from God” moved “in the beginning.” Then, to show that no sea monsters lurked in those primordial waters, the Genesis account says that Israel’s God actually “created the great sea monsters”—and did so only after he created all the other sea creatures, on the fifth day of creation.
While the Babylonian story pictures the great sea monster as a female, the “mother of all monsters” and of all gods, Hebrew storytellers often speak of Leviathan as male. Others suggest that when God created these sea monsters on the fifth day of creation, he made them, like all the other animals, in pairs: Leviathan, a female monster from the sea, and Behemoth, a male monster from the land—apparently a version of the story that John of Patmos adapted to tell, in his Revelation, how the dragon’s two allies emerged, first the “beast from the sea” and then the “beast from the land.”
While we think of dragons as creatures of folktales and children’s stories, Israel’s writers conjured them as images of the forces of disintegration and death that lurk in the background of our world and threaten its stability. Poets and prophets took these images seriously—although not literally—to characterize Israel’s enemies in war. When, for example, Psalm 74 praises God for having “crushed the heads of Leviathan” and calls on him to “rise up” again and deliver his people from evil, the anonymous psalmist has in mind the Babylonian soldiers who smashed God’s temple and burned it to the ground in the year 586:
The enemy has destroyed everything in the sanctuary. Your enemies have roared within your holy place. … At the upper entrance, they hacked the wooden trellises with axes, and smashed all the carvings with hatchets and hammers; they set Your sanctuary on fire, and desecrated the dwelling of Your holy name.
The prophet Jeremiah, too, grieved and angered by the same war, speaks for Israel as he pictures the king of Babylon as a beast who devours God’s people:
King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon has devoured me; he has crushed me … he has swallowed me like a monster … he has spit me out. May my torn flesh be avenged on Babylon!
The prophet Ezekiel, a refugee from that same war, mocks Israel’s ancient enemy, the king of Egypt—here a stand in for the Babylonian king who was the prophet’s contemporary—as if he were only a sea monster whom Israel’s God will haul up and kill like a fish…
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Yet calling on God to “wake up” and fight the forces of evil acknowledges that destruction and death still wield enormous power. So Isaiah revises the ancient story to suggest that “in the beginning,” when God fought the primordial dragon, he failed to actually kill it. Thus Israel’s prophets began to project God’s battle with Leviathan from the beginning of time to its end, anticipating that, as Isaiah says, “on that day”—the great day at the end of time—finally God will “kill the dragon that is in the sea”:
On that day the Lord with his cruel and great and strong sword will punish Leviathan, the fleeing serpent, Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will kill the dragon that is in the sea. How shall this victory be won? Since Isaiah, like other prophets, sees the forces of evil embodied in foreign oppressors, he clings to the hope that God will send a messiah—a king divinely chosen to lead his people to victory. But in his own time, the prophet envisions God’s beloved, Israel, as a pregnant woman, crying out in anguish before she gives birth to the promised messiah: “O Lord, we sought you in distress, like a woman who writhes and cries out in labor pains when she is near her time.”
John of Patmos was immersed in the prophetic writings, and here he draws upon their images of Israel as a woman and “the nations” as monsters who threaten her, picturing Rome as Isaiah and Ezekiel had envisioned Israel’s enemies six hundred years earlier. John reshapes Isaiah’s vision of Israel as a woman laboring in childbirth to make it the central drama of his prophecy as he seeks to interpret the struggle that he and other followers of Jesus now face. Convinced that what he believes Isaiah foresaw has now happened—that is, Israel has given birth to the messiah, Jesus of Nazareth!—John envisions her as the “woman clothed with the sun,” being menaced by a “great red dragon with seven heads and ten horns” that furiously stalks her in order to devour her child the moment he is born.
To finish things off with all things related to the Antichrist, we must now turn our attention to the article “Antichrist from the Tribe of Dan” by C.E. Hill. In it, Hill connects the Jewish Messiah with the Antichrist along with Christian dualistic heresy for good measure:
It may not be significant, in this regard, that Marcion began his heresy in the immediate aftermath of the failed Bar Cochba revolt. R.M. Grant posits a connection between the famous war and rise of Marcion’s views about the Old Testament and its supposedly war-loving God. It is clear at any rate that Marcion’s views presuppose the existence of a virile Jewish Messianism in the second century.
And it may not be mere coincidence that our first explicit and unmistakable evidence for the Jewish Antichrist, wrought into a definite shape, does not appear until after Marcion. It is often forgotten that Marcion not only posited the existence of two gods—the just creator god of the Old Testament and the supreme gods—the just creator god of the Old Testament and the supreme and wholly good god—he also taught that each of these two gods had, or would have, a Messiah. The Messiah or the good god had already come once, but the Messiah of the just god was yet to come.
Marcion allowed the prophetic utterances of the Old Testament god would have a more or less literal fulfillment—the Jews’ Christ would come, and he would do precisely those things which the Jews hoped he would (Adv. Marc. 3.40.) That is, he would bring the Jews back into the land and would restore their nation and kingdom (adv. Marc. 3. 21; 4. 6, etc., and he would not die by crucifixion, 3. 18). But there was more. In Marcion’s scheme, according to Tertullian, the Jewish Messiah’s kingdom would not be final and enduring. Marcion also taught, somewhat surprisingly, given his distaste for judgement, that after the Creator’s Christ had appeared, the heavenly Christ (Jesus) would come once more and would destroy the earthly Christ’s earthly kingdom (Adv. Marc 3.4). Marcion’s idea of a battle between the son of the Creator and the son of the supreme God was well enough publicized in the second century to have become the target of Celsus’ sarcasm (Cels. 6. 74).
The correspondence between Marcion’s Jewish Christ and the Jewish Antichrist of orthodox authors is even noted at one point by Tertullian, commenting on Paul’s ‘man of lawlessness’ (2 Thess. 2) in Adv. Marc. 5. 16.
In other words, the Antichrist was the devilish son of the Demiurge! In the Wikipedia entry for the Tribe of Dan[37], Simon Magus, the font of all Gnostic heresy and black magician/proto antichrist is invoked as well.
Simon Magus, also known as Simon the Sorcerer and Simon the Magician, came from the village of Gitta (also spelled Getta) in Samaria, according to Justin Martyr;[12] a site settled by the tribe of Dan according to Josephus.[13][14] Justin, who was himself a 2nd-century native of Samaria, wrote that nearly all the Samaritans in his time were adherents of Simon. Surviving orthodox texts, such as those of Irenaeus, Justin Martyr, Hippolytus, and Epiphanius, regarded Simon as the source of all heresies, including Gnosticism.
Ethiopian Jews, also known as Beta Israel, claim descent from the Tribe of Dan, whose members migrated south along with members of the tribes of Gad, Asher, and Naphtali, into the Kingdom of Kush, now Ethiopia and Sudan,[15] during the destruction of the First Temple. This position is supported by former Sephardic Chief Rabbi Ovadia Yosef.[16] They are said to have fought with the natives.[17] Charles Upton relates the serpent voodoo God Danbhala as derived in part from a heterodox form of Ethiopian Judaism.[18]
1640-1645 painting of the biblical patriarch Dan by Francisco de Zurbarán. Note that he also looks a lot like a Jester and holds a Nehushtan like rod.
Could this earthly Messiah be the same as the demon that theosophists like Benjamin Crème claim to be the long-awaited avatar or Ascended Master of the Aquarian Age—Maitreya or Sanat Kumara of the Great White Brotherhood? Interestingly, Allen Greenfield in his book The Secret Rituals of the Men in Black (p. 73), claims that Philip K. Dick eventually became an avid follower of Benjamin Crème! According to Wikipedia[38], Sanat Kumara hails from the much more “spiritually evolved” etheric plane of planet Venus but now dwells in Shamballa—an ethereal floating city above the Gobi Desert, also equated with the City of Enoch. This Venusian colonization was assisted by the “Lords of the Flame” along with his consort “Lady Venus” (Ishtar/Ashtar/Ashtaroth?). The same Wikipedia entry tells us that Sanat Kumara will eventually possess an unaging body of a 16-year-old boy not born of a human mother, reminding me of Tracy Twyman’s investigations of the “anal homunculus” as an alchemical avatar of the Thelemic Antichrist. In one revealing article about the “Seven Rays”[39], it goes into Sanat Kumara and the Seven-Rayed deity. One part is worth quoting about the Demiuge and the Second Beast of Revelation:
Syncretistic interpretations and The Seven Rays:
Egyptologist Gerald Massey wrote in 1881 of what he described as connections between Vedic scripture, ancient Egyptian mythology and the Gospel stories. He theorized that IAO, the “Seven-rayed Sun-God of the Gnostic-stones” was also the “Serpent Chnubis”, and “the Second Beast in the Book of Revelation.” In 1900, he elaborated further, describing the unity of “the seven souls of the Pharaoh”, the seven arms of the Hindu god Agni, “the seven stars in the hand of the Christ in Revelation”, and “the seven rays of the Chaldean god Heptaktis, or Iao, on the Gnostic stones.
In the late 1940s, art historian and writer Ananda Coomaraswamy was curator in the department of Asiatic Art at the Museum of Fine Arts and built the first large collection of Indian art in the United States. His writings in the field of perennial philosophy and the Traditionalist School included complex essays collating symbols of ancient wisdom and metaphysics from widely diverse cultures including Indian, Islamic, Chinese, Hellenic, and Christian. He wrote that the seven rays of the sun appear in both Hindu and Christian symbolism, representing similar concepts; and in particular the symbolism of the seventh ray that “corresponds to the distinction of transcendent from immanent and of infinite from finite”, and that “our Axis of the Universe (skambha, divo dharuna, etc.), Islamic qutb, and Gnostic ….. The seventh ray alone passes through the Sun to the suprasolar Brahma worlds, “where no sun shines” (all that is under the Sun being in the power of Death, and all beyond immortal’).”
According to Gerald Massey in The Hebrew and Other Creations[40], the Serpent was originally a guardian spirit as opposed to its corruption and degradation with the identification with the spirit of evil.
The Serpent itself in the Hebrew Genesis is neither an original nor a true type. Two opposite characters have been fused and confused in it for the sake of a false moral. Serpent and Dragon were primarily identical as emblems of evil in physical phenomena; each was the representative of Darkness, and as such the Deluder of Men. Afterwards the Serpent was made a type of Time, of Renewal, and, therefore, of Life; the Dragon-Crocodile a zoötype of intelligence. Both Crocodile and Serpent were combined in Sevekh-Ra. Both were combined in the Polar Dragon; and in the Book of Revelation the Dragon remains that old Serpent, considered to be the Deluder of Mankind. Both were combined in the Chnubis Serpent-Dragon of the Gnostics, which was a survival of Kneph as the Agatho-Demon or Good Serpent of Egypt. The Akkadian type as Ea, is the Good Serpent, the Serpent of Life, the God of Wisdom.
Now it was the Serpent of Wisdom that first offered the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge for the Enlightenment of Mankind; whether this be Egyptian, Akkadian, or Gnostic, it is the Good Serpent. And as Guardian of the Tree set in Heaven it was the Good Serpent, or intelligent Dragon, as keeper of the treasures of Astral knowledge. It was the later Theology, Persian and Hebrew, that gave the character of the Evil One to the Serpent of Wisdom, and perverted the original meaning, both of the temptation and the Tempter who protected the Tree; which has been supplemented by the theology of the Vitriol-throwers who have scarified and blasted the face of nature on earth, and defiled and degraded the starry Intelligencers in heaven.
While Sanat Kumara is also considered a “deva” (meaning “Shining One”) in Hinduism, he is also called the “Regent Lord of the Earth”—a title ascribed to both the Demiurge, and the Cosmocrator, Satan/the Antichrist. Sanat is also called the chief avatar of the Theosophist idea of the Solar Logos, which sounds exactly like what Joshua Jacob Seraphim is describing in his article as we saw earlier.[41] Alice Bailey calls Sanat Kumara as the “One Initiator” according to her book, The Externalization of the Hierarchy.
May the blessing of the Masters rest upon you as a group and as individuals, and may the Holy Ones Whose pupils you seek to become show you the light you seek, give you the strong aid of Their compassion and Their wisdom until you stand where the One Initiator is invoked, until you see His star shine forth.
The distinction between the Demiurge and Cosmocrator is made in my book The Sun Lady Unveiled, but essentially, church fathers like Irenaeus claimed that the Cosmocrator was the “creature” of the Demiurge. Incidentally, Irenaeus in Against Heresies (V.30.2) also would claim that the Antichrist would descend from the Tribe of Dan, as well, pointing to Jeremiah 8:16 as proof.[42]
The author Tim Claasan compares this relationship with that of the Dragon who gives authority over to the Beast that arises out of the sea in Revelation 13.[43] According to the author Jose M. Herrou Aragon, the author of the book “Primordial Gnosis: The Forbidden Religion,”[44] he reveals the true nature of the “Great White Brotherhood.”
In the last hundred and fifty years, these members of the white lodge have started to be described, each time with more clarity. Their names, appearances and characteristics can be found in books by Helena Blavatsky and in books by those who followed her, Alice Bailey being the one who stands out. We have spoken about one of the members of the white lodge: Satan Kumara. What a name! It was just too much and had to be disguised later on, changing it to Sanat Kumara. Each one of them, like the demiurge, has many names, many disguises to better deceive. Some of them have the real names of demons, like Maitreya, who is said to be “the real Christ”, or the “masters” Morya and Dwall Khul. Others have noble titles such as “Prince” Rakotzy, a true “Prince” of the darkness. There are many more, all similar. All these demons, empty eggshells of the demiurge, will be disintegrated in the pralaya along with everything created.
Herrou Aragon’s words sound something like what Tracy Twyman would have written regarding John Dee’s magical formula for alchemically destroying and recreating the universe. However, one can glean a certain sense of hatred of God or what Aragon considers to be the “Demiurge,” which certainly contains a Satanic bent. Once again, we must consult Titus Groan over at Over Lords of Chaos who goes into further depth about Sanat Kumara and his connection with the coming Aquarian World Society as his research is far too lengthy to fully quote here but worth researching.[45] However, one portion of the article called “The Occult Hierarchy’s Plan”[46] lays out the “Externalization of the Hierarchy” viz. their alchemical “Solve Et. Coagula.”
The true meanings are this: the “Great Work” is the spiritistic illumination of a minority of the world’s people operating in conjunction with “The Plan” for world domination by these illumined people and their Secret Masters often referred to as the “Hierarchy,” “Ascended Masters,” “Unknown Nine”, “Avatars,” the “Great White Brotherhood,” the “Secret Chiefs” and other such euphemisms.
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In short, what “The Plan”, the “Great Work”, the “Ancient Hope” allude to is the Dark Empire of Secret Societies’ ancient agenda for the “new civilisation in Aquarius,” the “Age of Aquarius,” for Global Empire, for Global Governance.
A World Empire ruled over by the “externalised Hierarchy” recently emerged from the Dark Empire of Secret Societies’ shadows that will “take outer and recognisable physical control of world affairs” and will rule the world with “love” and “compassion”.
A future necessitating the eradication of the majority of humans – the 90% – those who are not illumined enough, who refuse to be illumined, those who cannot be illumined and those who it would be “compassionate” and “loving” to liquidate thereby releasing them from their suffering: free them from a “life not worth living.”
That is why the culling of the human population to “sustainable levels” is integral to the New Age Movement and to the Environmental Movement, which is under its sway.
Foster Bailey, Alice’s spouse, hinted at this in his book, Things to Come (1974)
“The new civilization in Aquarius will inevitably develop a quality appropriate to what we consider most valuable … Our children, and men … will have to live with the New Age standards. Those who do not will end up as irreconcilable outcasts.”
Foster’s “irreconcilable outcasts” are Barbara Marx Hubbard’s’ “destructive one-fourth [that] must be eliminated from the social body”… they are not members of the “500,000,000 in perpetual balance with nature” they are the 90% of the world’s population destined for destruction ….
“The Plan” and the “Great Work” are two manifestations of the conspiracy to inaugurate World Empire under overt esoteric rulership, which is the ancient dream of the Dark Empire of Secret Societies through the ages.
The “Great Work” in a theurgical sense is really aimed towards the Adept, as Karl Stone tells us in The Moonchild of Yesod (p.181):
To the eyes of the uninitiated, the Magical Will seems hidden and immersed within a labyrinth, veiled in darkness. The unveiling process is synonymous with the work of the alchemists, transforming the V.I.T.R.I.O.L. (Vista Interiora Terrae Rectificando Invenies Occultum Lapidem) into the Philosopher’s Stone. This is similar to gaining penetrative insight (prajna) into the nature of dependent origination and the understanding of emptiness, whereby the three klasas (greed, hatred and ignorance) of Buddhism which fetter and hold black ‘enlightenment’ within the aspiring chela are overcome. Thus, concealed within this realm of illusion or glamour, lies the formula of the GREAT WORK.
In another article by the same author, “The New World Order’s Demonization of Mankind,”[47] Titus Groan writes about where this worldwide conspiracy ultimately originates from:
There has been a conspiracy to subvert Creation since the time Lucifer raised his hand to strike the Father who created him. A conspiracy that came to Earth when Archangel Michael vanquished Lucifer and his followers from Heaven. A conspiracy Yahweh – the Old Testament God, and His prophets told us repeatedly about. A conspiracy those behind it, are involved in it, and who seek to greatly benefit from it, wish to be concealed.
To understand this, means to accept History’s true nature. History does not exist in any other kingdom other than the human. Minerals, plants and animals do not have History. History is mankind’s biography. Man’s enemies wish to keep him ignorant of his true biography, of his true spiritual nature, of his true destiny. This is why man’s enemies have expended enormous energy in falsifying his biography …. Falsifying History.
Man’s enemies know that the falsification of history results in not only a society without history but also mankind without its true biography. Hence, the Jew calling himself “Karl Marx”, a Judaeo-Freemasonry agentur, could described it thus: “If you can cut people off from their history, they can be easily persuaded”.
History’s falsification, the corruption of Objective History, is an enormous endeavour spanning the millennia. Concealing fact, truth by our so-called leaders and wars’ winners, is only part of the agenda.
The true purpose of History’s falsification is keep man in the dark about the Great Conspiracy. To paraphrase George Orwell, they who control the past also control the future. They who control the present also control the past.
The movie Dark City was all about a parasitic, demonic intelligence inhabiting dead bodies who recycle human memories in other cloned bodies in a “reset” that happens every night. They are doing this in an effort to plunge the depths of the human soul or divine spark because like the “crypto terrestrials” are dying and need new host bodies. This is likely the root cause of their interest in mankind and this vast angelic rebellion that will eventually be settled on planet Earth. Many mystery schools throughout the ages have claimed that there is a mysterious group of elites or “masters of wisdom” that are secretly guiding humanity along towards their ultimate enlightenment or spiritual evolution. They are often called the “Ascended Masters,” the “Secret Chiefs,” or the “Great White Brotherhood” that act as “overlords” of various magical orders such as the Rosicrucians, the Caliphate Ordo Templi Orientis, the A∴A∴/Argentium Astrum (also known as the Order of the Silver Star and not Alcoholics Anonymous).
John G. Bennett wrote a book called The Masters of Wisdom, explaining a “Demiurgic intelligence” manifested as this group. Ultimately, for Gnostic authors like Jose Aragon, the white lodge are simply devils sent by the Demiurge to ignite mankind’s “ascension” and merge with the Demiurge himself as opposed to those divine envoys or angels sent by Unknowable Father but appear to us as nightmarish creatures of hell because they are marred by the inferno of matter which we are enchained too.
Firstly, what appearance could a divine being, a Being of Light who enters this hell, have? Certainly not a happy face but one full of pain, disfigured by all the suffering. The sacrifice of Beings of Light, who invade the world of the demiurge to help men who have lost their way, involves the worst suffering imaginable.
Secondly, what colour did we say a sleeping man perceives the Uncreated Light? The darkest black of course, because True Light blinds the impure man. To be represented in black is an honour for a Warrior of the Spirit, because black signifies pure Light, blinding Light, True Light.
Thirdly, how do these Beings of Light behave when they burst into the demiurge’s universe? When the warriors of the black lodge infiltrate this created hell, they do so for a limited time, to carry out a precise mission and then to get out as quickly as possible. They have no time to waste, since this impure world is an inconceivable torment for them. On reaching the great demented monstrosity of the demiurge, the right thing to do is to hit the exact spot where it hurts and escape. For those coming from the unknowable world, the war against the created is a Total War. For them, nothing created deserves to be saved.
If a common man could see these beings, he would be scared by their aggressiveness and destructiveness. He would perceive them as dangerous enemies, like the beings imagined by Lovecraft, or those in films such as “Hellraiser” or “Predator”. Viewing reality through his body and soul, the common man sees the pure as impure and his saviours as enemies.
Warriors of the Spirit loathe matter. They are indeed destroyers, but destroyers of the impure.
Who exactly are these “Secret Chiefs”? The following article explains this in connection with the Illuminati who contracted the “unknown superiors”.[48]
Satanists believe numbers contain inherent power: great spiritual and temporal power. They literally believe that, if they attempt to launch a great and perfect plan, but do so without arranging the plan according to the correct occult power numbers, the plan could fail! In fact, when you see an event constructed according to the correct occult numbers, you may know that the event is occultic, no matter what rhetoric is filling your ears!
Members of secret societies, such as Masonic Lodges of the Grand Orient, in their highest levels use the words “unknown superiors” to describe the force that guides them and their efforts. When the Illuminati was formed on Walpurgisnacht (eve of May 1st), 1776, five men gathered in a cavern deep beneath Ingolstadt in Bavaria and made contact with what they said were “unknown superiors.” One of these five men was Dr. Adam Weishaupt. The name Adam Weishaupt is profound in the sense that his name means “first man to know the superiors.” Here let it be noted that the five founders of the Illuminati used witchcraft rituals known as “The greater and lesser keys of Solomon”, which involved the “Pentacle of Invocation.” The pentacle is a three-dimensional, five-pointed star, and the number five became sacred to the Illuminati. We must also note that the Rothschild family consisted of five sons of one Moses Amschel Bauer, who took the name Rothschild, because it means “Red Shield.” Much later, a man named John D. Rockefeller also had five sons to control the American branch of Illuminism. The Illuminati and all of witchcraft is obsessed with the Pentacle of Invocation, and is it any wonder that the Washington Monument in Washington D.C. is exactly 555 feet high? Is it any wonder that we have a five-sided death house, known as the Pentagon?
Could John D. Rockefeller be a direct descendant of John Dee, the premier royal court magician, and alchemist of the Renaissance? Who knows, but what we do know is that the Fimbulvetr has arrived.
What I am about to detail here is not a condoning of occult magic. But I do think it’s worth pointing out this material to educate the general public on this esoteric, hidden knowledge. I would like to think of this as a continuation of Tracy Twyman’s (RIP) research into the Grail mysteries for the public in some form because I think ultimately that is what she wanted—for others to also make contributions to this well-spring of knowledge.
Part 1.
Trees of Life
The connection between Jesus Christ’s sacrifice and the Tree of Life is also made evident throughout scripture. This is also because Jesus said that his body and blood were the fruits of this tree and that consuming them would bring eternal life to mortals. He also noted that by shedding his blood on the cross, the “Tree of Life,” he was paying the price for the Original Sin that resulted from Adam eating from the Tree of Knowledge, given by Eve via the serpent’s “cunning” and “beguilement” (2 Corinthians 11:3). Interestingly, the author of the Gospel of Philip connects the Tree of Knowledge with the law.
In the place where I will eat all things is the Tree of Knowledge. That one killed Adam, but here the Tree of Knowledge made men alive. The law was the tree. It has power to give the knowledge of good and evil. It neither removed him from evil, nor did it set him in the good, but it created death for those who ate of it. For when he said, “Eat this, do not eat that”, it became the beginning of death.
The Tree of Life bearing twelve manner of fruits featured image is taken from a medieval prayer book, The Book of Hours, published around 1455.
After all, it was St. Paul who wrote that Christ was the “first fruits” (1 Corinthians 15:23), and that Jesus Christ, “has redeemed us from the curse of the law, having become a curse for us (for it is written, “Cursed is everyone who hangs on a tree”)…” (Galatians 3:13). Acts 5:30, also tells us, “The God of our fathers raised up Jesus, whom ye slew and hanged on a tree.” Acts 5:30 doesn’t stand alone: “We are witnesses of all those things he did, both in the land of the Jews and in Jerusalem, he whom they slew and hung on a tree” (Acts 10:39). “And when they had fulfilled all that was written of him, they took him down from the tree and laid him in a sepulcher” (Acts 13:29). Why did the authors of the New Testament use the word tree instead of cross or beams? It’s also odd that Jesus was killed first and then hung on a tree, he wasn’t nailed either. Well, one could say he was hung on nails. Something is still strange about these verses. Again, in Revelation 22:2, we see that the tree of life is in the New Jerusalem:
“Through the middle of the city’s main street. On each side of the river was the Tree of Life producing twelve kinds of fruit, yielding its fruit every month. And its leaves served the healing of the nations.”
“Blessed are those who wash their robes, so they will have the right on the Tree of Life and may enter the city through its [twelve] gates” Revelation 22:14.
The Tree of Life is an ancient mystical Hebrew symbol rooted in even older myths as explained in my book—Babylonian and Assyrian myths to be precise—likely adapted when the Israelites compiled the Torah (Old Testament) during their exile in Babylon around 2,600 years ago. Today, the Tree of Life is known as a glyph made of ten spheres and twenty-two paths that we see in the Kabbalah, which is essentially Jewish occultism.
The Tree of Life isn’t any old tree and is a “supernal aeon” in Gnostic lingo. The wood of the Tree of Life is said to be miraculous. The Life Tree’s magical capabilities are revealed by the Hebrew of acacia, AQQYH (Rabbinical Hebrew). AQQYH counts 216 and shares its value with Geburah (the 4th Sephirah), lapis philosophorum (the Philosopher’s Stone), and Horeb, another name of Mount Sinai where Moses communed with YHWH. Spiritual traditions inform us that the burning bush where Moses encountered God was an acacia tree.[1]
Kabbalists readily associate the burning acacia with the Tree of Life in Atziluth, the spiritual world. This version of the Tree of Life can be traced back before the Hebrew Kabbalists—to Simon Magus, who is depicted by the church fathers, as the magical “father” of all Gnostic heresies. In Hippolytus’ Refutation of All Heresies (VI:4), he reports that Simon Magus taught two trees: one hidden and secret and one manifest and visible, according to Aristotle and Plato’s doctrine of the “potential,” “intelligible,” and the “sensible,” and “energetic.” The Pleroma, in Gnostic doctrines, is also depicted as a “tree” with multiple aeons illustrated as “vines” which form the pneumatic world beyond.
(Simon) employs the terms secret and manifest; it may, (I say, in general,) be affirmed that the fire, (I mean) the super-celestial (fire), is a treasure, as it were a large tree, just such a one as in a dream was seen by Nabuchodonosor, out of which all flesh is nourished. And the manifest portion of the fire he regards as the stem, the branches, the leaves, (and) the external rind which overlaps them. All these (appendages), he says, of the Great Tree being kindled, are made to disappear by reason of the blaze of the all-devouring fire. The fruit, however, of the tree, when it is fully grown, and has received its own form, is deposited in a granary, not (flung) into the fire. For, he says, the fruit has been produced for the purpose of being laid in the storehouse, whereas the chaff that it may be delivered over to the fire. (Now the chaff) is stem, (and is) generated not for its own sake, but for that of the fruit.
The great cosmic tree of Simon Magus is portrayed as an “all-devouring fire.” The fruit not cast into the fire represents the soul that has stood the test, the “pneumatic” man, and those who grow on the “true vine” of Christ. These are the witnesses that bear good fruit as a result of being “pruned” by the Vinedresser (John 15:1-8). In the Strong Concordance, “vineyard,” in the Greek (ἀμπελών, ampelón), counts 290 and connects to Isaiah 27:2-3, where it states: “In that day: “Sing about a fruitful vineyard. I, the LORD, am its keeper; I water it continually. I guard it night and day so no one can disturb it.” The Lord proclaims this right after he killed the sea-serpent Leviathan. Romans 11:16-24 also describes a tree of life in the form of an olive tree where the believers or the churches in Christ are either cut off or grafted in.
This is the value of Carmel, another prophetic mountain, as well as Miryam, the Hebrew for Maria. Miryam was a prophetess and the elder sister of Moses. Interestingly, when the cloud of the tabernacle lifted, Miryam became leprous, white as snow (a symbol of purification) in Numbers 12:10. In Hippolytus’s Refutation of All Heresies (VI.13), he tells us that Simon Magus also taught a similar epithet of Jesus Christ found in Revelation—the “Alpha and the Omega”—only this time, Simon describes the Hermaphroditic “Standing One” similar to the Cosmic Christ or the Perfect Logos.
For Simon expressly speaks of this in the Revelation after this manner: To you, then, I address the things which I speak, and (to you) I write what I write. The writing is this: there are two offshoots from all the Aeons, having neither beginning nor end, from one root. And this is a power, viz., Sige, (who is) invisible (and) incomprehensible. And one of these (offshoots) appears from above, which constitutes a great power, (the creative) Mind of the universe, which manages all things, (and is) a male. The other (offshoot), however, is from below, (and constitutes) a great Intelligence, and is a female which produces all things. From whence, ranged in pairs opposite each other, they undergo conjugal union, and manifest an intermediate interval, namely, an incomprehensible air, which has neither beginning nor end. But in this is a father who sustains all things, and nourishes things that have beginning and end. This is he who stood, stands, and will stand, being an hermaphrodite power according to the pre-existent indefinite power, which has neither beginning nor end.
In the Great Announcement (as quoted by Hippolytus), we read that it was Helena or her higher self as Ennoia (which means “thought”), who was produced or emanated by the “Universal Mind” which is the higher form of Simon. This idea springs from (no pun intended) Greek myth, which claims that Athena/Minerva leaped from the head of Zeus/Jupiter after Hephaestus held Zeus down and cleaved open his head with a labrys or Minoan ax after complaints of a killer migraine. According to Pindar in the Seventh Olympian Ode, Athena leaped from Zeus’ head, fully grown and armed, with a shout—“and pealed to the broad sky her clarion cry of war. And Ouranos trembled to hear, and Mother Gaia.”
From the universal aeons spring two shoots, which are without beginning or ending, stemming forth from a single root, which is the invisible Power, unknowable silence. Of the two shoots, one appears from above. This is the Great Power, the Universal Mind that sets all thing in order, being males. The other appears from below. It is the Great Thought, which is female and brings forth all things.
Simon Magus was a big believer in syncretism. His highest god is his own illumined mind but at the same time the Christian Father and Zeus with Athene ascending from his forehead at the blow of Hephaistos’ hammer. As a magician, he probably learned from the magic or mojo of Western Iran, Anatolia, and Alexandria, Egypt. Now, let’s have a look at how Jesus, the Wisdom of God, could be crucified on the Tree of Life. We get something like this:
Of course, this is just one of a few possible positions. For example, at the time of death, Jesus’ body sagged, meaning his arms’ positions would point more upwards, towards Binah and Chokmah. Could this have a deeper meaning, e.g., when it was fulfilled, Jesus reached out to universal understanding (Binah) and universal wisdom (Chokmah)? Also, noteworthy: when Jesus died, the veil of the Holy of Holies or adytum was ripped apart. This is said to happen to the aspirant who receives the divine revelation at the spiritual death as a living sacrifice.
A crucified body has the form of an upsilon. Upsilon is a symbol of Christ because it hints at Jesus Christ’s title as the Son. This goes back to the fish symbolism of early Christianity. In Greek, fish is written Ιχθυς. These five letters stand for Ιησους Χριστος Θεου Υιος Σωτηρ, Iesous christos theouyios soter, Jesus Christ, God’s Son, the Savior. The fourth words, Υιος, son, begins with Y. Now, if we turn the Y upside down, it symbolizes a balance or consolidation between two opposites and the reconciliation of the dualism of existence or even solve et. coagula. Isn’t that something Jesus Christ achieved with the resurrection?
Also, notice the position of Jesus’ hands being stretched towards Geburah (Severity or Action) and Chesed (Mercy). These represent the positive and negative cosmic forces (Yin and Yang). Tiphareth is the center of the Tree of Life, which balances the Sephiroth around it—from Chesed to Yesod. Tiphareth is the Sephirah of Christ, Adam, the Son of Man, or the Anthropos. Astrologically, Tiphareth is associated with the Sun. The Sun rules the heart, and Jesus’ heart is approximately in the same place as Tiphareth. His feet are nailed to Malkuth, the Kingdom, which designates physical life as well as the physical body. The invisible Sephirah Daath, the Sephirah of mystical knowledge, is above his head and is depicted as a halo. Yesod is at Jesus’s thighs, which isn’t a coincidence. Yesod is known as the phallus of the Adam Kadmon. The letter “Y” also is attached to the word “yoke,” as Jesus recommends to his followers in Matthew 11:29, as to “take his yoke upon them, and learn from him, for he is meek and lowly in heart.” In Matthew 11:3, Jesus also claims, “For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.”
It is Heavenly Adam, First Man, or Christ who descends from Kether, through the channels that connect the various nodes or Sephiroth, all condensed into the “fullness of the Godhead bodily” of Christ (Colossians 2:9). The Logos descends into the fallen matrix of Malkuth that is somehow the roof of the Qliphoth of the Shells of the Tree of Death to rescue the fallen light, spread across the shadowy spheres. In a way, it was Jesus who brought heaven down to earth and Hades. The Peratic gnostics saw Jesus as a three-fold power that descended from heaven without ever being born and contained within himself the fullness of all the potentialities of the cosmos.
…in the time of Herod a certain man called Christ, with a threefold nature, and a threefold body, and a threefold power, (and) having in himself all (species of) concretions and potentialities (derivable) from the three divisions of the world; and that this, says (the Peratic), is what is spoken: It pleased him that in him should dwell all fullness bodily, and in Him the entire Divinity resides of the triad as thus divided. For, he says, that from the two superjacent worlds — namely, from that (portion of the triad) which is unbegotten, and from that which is self-producing — there have been conveyed down into this world in which we are, seeds of all sorts of potentialities. What, however, the mode of the descent is, we shall afterwards declare. (The Peratic) then says that Christ descended from above from unorigination, that by His descent all things triply divided might be saved. Hippolytus. (The Refutation of All Heresies 5:7.)
Interestingly, Hippolytus in Refutation of All Heresies (10.11) also says that a Gnostic heretic Justinus, the author of the Book of Baruch, claims that the Tree of Life was named after the male angel Baruch. The tree of knowledge of good and evil is named after a female snake-angel Naas, as I discuss in greater detail in the Sun Lady Unveiled.
There is also the cabalistic idea of the Crooked or Slant Serpent that slithers down on the Tree of life. I think this connects with the idea that the cabalistic Tree of Life is really the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. After all, both the Tree of Life diagram and the Tree of Death look the same. This also connects back to the concept of Jesus being hung on a tree while redeeming mankind from the “curse of the law” on the cross, much like how the alchemical serpent is said to be crucified on a cross. In the Golden Dawn diagrams, the Flaming Sword of God that acted as a barrier between the true Tree of Life and Adam and Eve also serves as a barrier of the Supernal Eden from the created world, as we will see later.
All of these concepts are also reflected in Origen’s Contra Celsum (6, 33) in which he discusses the Ophite Diagram, stating that on the diameter of one of the circles a sword of fire was depicted, the same one that had driven Adam and Eve from the earthly Paradise. This flaming sword guarded the Tree of knowledge (gnosis) and of life (zoe). If the sword was above the black line of Tartarus, then the tree of knowledge and of life has a series of circles starting from Behemoth and Leviathan to Gnosis and Sophia and leading through the circle of life to the Father. This could be like the Kabbalistic number of 777 is the sum of the paths that the Lightening Path of Creation travels down through the Tree of Life. It is through this channel that the Promethean motif of bringing the light of heaven to the World of Action becomes apparent.
We can also find parallels to the Valentinian Horos, Stauros, or Limit that separates the highest deity Bythos (Depth or Abyss) from the other Aeons that derive from him. This limit also functions though a second barrier between the “hysterema” of the material cosmos and the realm of the Aeons. Sophia also functions as a veil in On the Origin of the World. According to Jeffery Bradshaw in The Tree of Knowledge as the Veil of the Sanctuary, as also quoted in the book, the Tree of Knowledge itself acted as a veil to the Holy of Holies in Eden, where God dwelled. It was Satan, who deceived both Adam and Eve, who not only presented himself as the seraphim serpent Jesus but also made the tree of knowledge look like the tree of life!
After describing how the Tree of Life was planted “precisely in the middle of the garden,”The Zohar goes on to assert that the tree of knowledge of good and evil was “not precisely in the middle.” Clarifying what this might mean, an interesting Jewish tradition about the placement of the two trees is the idea that the foliage of the tree of knowledge hid the tree of life from direct view and that “God did not specifically prohibit eating from the tree of life because the tree of knowledge formed a hedge around it; only after one had partaken of the latter and cleared a path for himself could one come close to the Tree of Life.”In other words, although both trees were located, relatively speaking, in the central portion of Eden, one had to “pass through” the tree of knowledge that was “not precisely in the middle” before one could see and gain access to the tree of life that was “precisely in the middle of the garden.
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At the moment of temptation, Satan deliberately tries to confuse Eve. The devil knows that there are two trees in the midst of the garden, but only the tree of knowledge is visible to Eve (see Moses 4:9) since, according to Ephrem, the tree of life is hidden behind it. To add to the confusion, Satan “made the two trees seem identical: the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil would open her eyes, and she would be like God, knowing both good and evil. Almost the same was true of the tree of life, for Wisdom opened the eyes of those who ate her fruit, and as they became wise, they became divine.”
Another theme of confusion stems from Satan’s efforts to mask his identity. The painting shown in figure 6 portrays the tempter in the dual guise of a serpent and a woman whose hair and facial features exactly mirror those of Eve. This common form of medieval portrayal was not intended to assert that the woman was devilish, but rather to depict the devil as trying to allay Eve’s fears, deceptively appealing to her by appearing in a form that resembled her own. Though Satan is not said in scripture to have appeared to Eve as a woman, he did try to deceive her when he represented himself as a serpent, as will be explained below.
Of great importance in understanding the story of the transgression of Adam and Eve is the fact that the serpent is a frequently used representation of the Messiah and his life-giving power, as shown, for example, in this depiction of Moses holding up the brazen serpent (fig. 7). Moreover, with specific relevance to the symbolism of the sacred location where he appeared to Eve in the Garden of Eden, evidence suggests that the form of the seraphim, whose function it was to guard the divine throne at the sacred center of the heavenly temple, was that of a fiery winged serpent. This idea gives new meaning to the statement of Nephi that the “being who beguiled our first parents . . . transformeth himself nigh unto an angel of light” (2 Nephi 9:9).
In the context of the temptation of Eve, Richard D. Draper, S. Kent Brown, and Michael D. Rhodes conclude that Satan “has effectively come as the Messiah, offering a promise that only the Messiah can offer, for it is the Messiah who will control the powers of life and death and can promise life, not Satan.”Not only has the devil come in guise of the Holy One, he seems to have deliberately appeared, without authorization, at a particularly sacred place in the garden. If it is true, as Ephrem the Syrian believed, that the tree of knowledge was a figure for “the veil for the sanctuary,” then Satan positioned himself, in the extreme of sacrilegious effrontery, as the very “keeper of the gate” (2 Nephi 9:41). Thus, in the apt words of Catherine Thomas, Eve was induced to take the fruit “from the wrong hand, having listened to the wrong voice.”
This raises a question: since the knowledge imparted by the transgression of Adam and Eve was good, helping them become more like God (see Moses 4:28), why did Satan encourage—rather than prevent—their eating of the fruit of the tree of knowledge? Surprisingly, the scriptural story makes it evident that their transgression must have been as much an important part of the devil’s strategy as it was a central feature of the Father’s plan. In this one respect, the programs of God and Satan seem to have had something in common.
However, the difference in intention between God and Satan became apparent when it was time for Adam and Eve to take the next step. In this regard, the scriptures seem to suggest that the adversary wanted Adam and Eve to eat of the fruit of the tree of life directly after they partook of the tree of knowledge—a danger that moved God to take immediate preventive action by the placement of the cherubim and the flaming sword to guard “the way of the tree of life” (see Moses 4:28–31; Alma 12:23, 42:2–3). For had Adam and Eve eaten of the fruit of the tree of life at that time, “there would have been no death” and no “space granted unto man in which he might repent”—in other words, no “probationary state” to prepare for a final judgment and resurrection (see Alma 12:23–24).
The Father did intend—eventually—for Adam and Eve to partake of the tree of life, but not until they had learned through mortal experience to distinguish good from evil.
Giuliano Bugiardini, Adam, Eve (detail), ca. 1510.
This Crooked Serpent is also identified with the Leviathan dragon of Isaiah, as the author of Bitter Waters explains.[3]
The Bible declares that Leviathan dwells in the midst of the ocean. Leviathan flees from before God, who casts it into the sea as a bebased creature to be mocked in the midst of the waters. Leviathan and its companion Behemoth (which we shall see is her seed) are the ultimate examples of might and power upon the earth. God’s judgment and slaying of them are the supreme demonstration of his power to all the world. As such, Leviathan and its companion Behemoth play critical roles in the end times. They are the key features of the dinner supper of the damned at the final judgment. The damned shall feast upon their flesh. This is contrast to the marriage supper of the righteous who are saved. They spiritually partake of the flesh of Messiah, and they enter his kingdom as his bride.
The Peratic Gnostic threefold nature of Jesus also mirrors Jesus’s Parable of the Sower and Paul’s trichotomist theology as well. He believed that human beings consisted of three parts: body, soul, and spirit. Every human being had a body and soul by nature, but Jesus gives them spirit upon regeneration into a new being. At the eschaton, Paul believed that Jesus would then destroy and transmute the body and soul of humanity into beings of pure spirit. Then whisk us all away to heaven. And he believed that this was all going to happen very soon, presumably in his own lifetime. Obviously, it didn’t, but that’s what he believed. This is the “nice” interpretation of alchemy. In the Old Testament, we get alchemical allusions in Malachi (3:1-3) (KJV):
Behold, I will send my messenger, and he shall prepare the way before me: and the Lord, whom ye seek, shall suddenly come to his temple, even the messenger of the covenant, whom ye delight in: behold, he shall come, saith the Lord of hosts.
But who may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he is like a refiner’s fire, and like fullers’ soap:
And he shall sit as a refiner and purifier of silver: and he shall purify the sons of Levi, and purge them as gold and silver, that they may offer unto the Lord an offering in righteousness.
This relates to the idea that salvation is a harrowing process that can take place over the course of many years—journeying inwards and the everlasting search for God until the union is realized. There is, however, a darker subtext when it comes to alchemy, as we will see later. In the ancient mystery schools, initiatory and theurgical practices often involved the initiate in undergoing a rite of rebirth (renatio), which is made possible following a ritualized form of the second death (while alive in the flesh). This death is a spiritual one, where the soul undergoes a kind of night descent, and the nous (divine intellect or mind) is revealed in the resurrected (anastasis) spirit body into direct contact with the gods. If one ascends to the gods, one becomes deified or divinized. The Greek historian and mythologist Plutarch’s Fragment 178 relays a similar experience in a mystery school rite of initiation and spiritual alchemy:
Thus we say that the soul that has passed thither is dead (ololenai), having regard to its complete (eis to holon) change and conversion. In this world it is without knowledge, except when it is already at the point of death; but when that time comes, it has an experience like that of men who are undergoing initiation into great mysteries; and so the verbs teleutdn (die) and teleisthai (be initiated), and the actions they denote, have a similarity.
In the beginning there is straying and wandering, the weariness of running this way and that, and nervous journeys through darkness that reach no goal, and then immediately before the consummation every possible terror, shivering and trembling and sweating and amazement. But after this a marvellous light meets the wanderer, and open country and meadow lands welcome him and in that place there are voices and dancing and the solemn majesty of sacred music and holy visions. And amidst these, he walks at large in new freedom, now perfect and fully initiated, celebrating the sacred rites, a garland upon his head, and converses with pure and holy men; he surveys the uninitiated, unpurified mob here on earth, the mob of living men who, herded together in mirk and deep mire, trample one another down and in their fear of death cling to their ills, since they disbelieve in the blessings of the other world. For the soul’s entanglement with the body and confinement in it are against nature, as you may discern from this.
According to the Masonic author, John Yarker in The Arcane Schools, there were two “paths” of the mysteries that conformed to Jesus’ explanation of the “narrow gate” and the “broad way” of Matthew.
And now for something of the Mysteries of Egypt, as represented by this pyramid. The entrance and its passage conform to the letter Y, or ‘two paths’ of Pythagoras and the broad and narrow way of the Greek Mysteries.
Indeed, we find a Pythagorean origin for the “narrow gate” ascribed to Jesus. In what is called the Pythagorean Y ascribed to “Maximus” it states the following:
Y being the image of such a choice presents itself to the human soul that can be found in Hesiod as well as Xenophon’s “The Choice of Hercules” found in (2.1) Memorabilia. Xenophon narrates how Hercules, in his youth, had to choose between the two ways between the path of Virtue and the Path of Vice, mirroring the “narrow way” and “broadway” of Matthew 7. Hercules, as a demigod himself, seems to exhibit many qualities like that of Jesus as well. Such differentiation between these two paths also reflects a Stoic model of ethics, like those found in Epictetus. It is these ethics that stem from various Pythagorean maxims. The Apostle Paul himself also exhibits Stoic as well as Platonic and Pythagorean tendencies, as well.
The Great Pyramids of Egypt, according to some, were ancient monuments built by the line of Seth and Enoch, as Jason Colavito quotes from Flavius Josephus’ Antiquities of the Jews (1.2.3) and the Life of Adam and Eve (49.3-50.2) in his article The Prophecy of Adam and the Pillars or Tablets of Knowledge[5]:
They [the Children of Seth] also were the inventors of that peculiar sort of wisdom which is concerned with the heavenly bodies, and their order. And that their inventions might not be lost before they were sufficiently known, upon Adam’s prediction that the world was to be destroyed at one time by the force of fire, and at another time by the violence and quantity of water, they made two pillars, the one of brick, the other of stone: they inscribed their discoveries on them both, that in case the pillar of brick should be destroyed by the flood, the pillar of stone might remain, and exhibit those discoveries to mankind; and also inform them that there was another pillar of brick erected by them. Now this remains in the land of Siriad [i.e. Egypt] to this day. (trans. William Whiston)
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On account of your transgression, Our Lord will bring upon your race the anger of his judgement, first by water, the second time by fire; by these two, will the Lord judge the whole human race. But hearken unto me, my children. Make ye then tables of stone and others of clay, and write on them, all my life and your father’s (all) that ye have heard and seen from us. If by water the Lord judge our race, the tables of clay will be dissolved and the tables of stone will remain; but if by fire, the tables of stone will be broken up and the tables of clay will be baked (hard). (trans. R. H. Charles)
In Matthew 5 (the first chapter in the New Testament Sermon on the Mount), Jesus is speaking to disciples and invites them to continue upward: “Be ye therefore perfect, even as your Father which is in heaven is perfect” (Matthew 5:48, KJV). The word, therefore, marks a transition in the sermon. On the one hand, it looks back over the instruction is given thus far. On the other, it looks forward to what will be required if the people are to become “perfect.” The word perfect may refer to being ethical or religiously pious or being “undivided in obedience to God.” It also has another layer of meaning—indicating the perfected are those who are the most advanced. Those who undergo this advancement become “perfect,” “finished,” or “completed” in the initiate’s instruction. It also corresponds to the Old Testament sense of the wholeness of consecration to God, like how the chosen high priests perform their sacred duties in the First and Second Temples of YHVH. Several facts support this understanding.
All of this connects to Jesus’s mystical “narrow gate,” in which only “the few” can pass through. Mircea Eliade writes that the narrow gate represents “. . .the desire for transcendence. The threshold concentrates not only the boundary between outside and inside but also the possibility of passage from one zone to another (from the profane to the sacred. . .”[6] Even John Bunyon, the Christian minister, in the Strait Gate would agree:
The straitness of this gate is not to be understood carnally, but mystically. You are not to understand it, as if the entrance into heaven was some little pinching wicket; no, the straitness of this gate is quite another thing. This gate is wide enough for all them that are truly gracious and sincere lovers of Jesus Christ, but so strait, as that not one of the other can by any means enter. . .
The idea behind initiation also infers of one being “perfected,” which corresponds to the Greek word “teleios.” “Teleios” was also used as a technical term used for Initiates of these Mystery Schools. According to Strong’s definition, this is precisely the aim of the initiated, “τέλειος téleios, tel’-i-os; complete (in various applications of labor, growth, mental and moral character, etc.); neuter (as a noun) completeness:—of full age, man, perfect.” The perfected or “matured” initiate is one who is fully initiated in the rituals and esoteric understanding of religion. The word “mature” is used in Hebrews 5:14, which states: “But solid food is for the mature, the ones by constant use having trained the senses for distinguishing both good and evil.”
The Apostle Paul in 1 Corinthians 2:6 (NIV) writes something similar about having spiritual wisdom as opposed to the “rulers” or “archons” of this “aeon” (the original Greek terminology): “We do, however, speak a message of wisdom among the mature, but not the wisdom of this age or of the rulers of this age, who are coming to nothing.” Paul confirms this in the next chapter: “I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual [people], but as unto carnal [people], even as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able” (1 Corinthians 3:1–2).
Concerning this idea, according to Morton Smith in Clement of Alexandria and a Secret Gospel of Mark, the church father Clement of Alexandria discusses a second or “Secret Gospel of Mark,” which reports the Lord’s doing as recounted by Peter and goes beyond the public Gospel of Mark. This gospel contained things, according to Clement of Alexandria, “for the use of those who were being perfected [teleioumenon]. Nevertheless, he [Mark] did not divulge the things not to be uttered, nor did he write down the hierophantic [initiatory] teaching [hierophantiken didaskalian] of the Lord, but … brought in certain sayings of which he knew the interpretation would … lead the hearers into the innermost sanctuary of … truth.”[7] The copy of this text was read “only to those who are being initiated [tous muoumenous] into the great mysteries [ta megala mysteria].”[8]
Accordingly, in Matthew 5:48, it seems that Jesus may have had several things in mind as he invited the people to become perfect. Above all, this involves becoming like God (“even as I or your Father who is in heaven”) which is what the Orthodox notion of theosis is ultimately about. Those who do this will have the opportunity to see and know God and become like him as it states in 1 John 3:2 (which is life eternal), “Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it doth not yet appear what we shall be: but we know that, when he shall appear, we shall be like him; for we shall see him as he is.” The high priestly prayer in John’s Gospel also connects to theosis: “That they all may be one; as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee. . . . And the glory which thou gavest me, I have given them” (John 17:21–22). Andrew C. Skinner remarks on this passage in the article “Margaret Barker’s “The Lord Is One”— a Response.”[9]
Though Jesus Christ is the only natural heir of the Father—that is, the only heir by nature or physical birth—we, through the grace or empowerment extended to us by Christ, may inherit the glory he (Jesus) possesses. This idea was very much a part of the theology of the Greek Fathers of the Church, and also the Greek theologians who came after. In fact, the Greek Fathers and their successors regarded the whole Johannine corpus as “an especially rich witness to theosis”1 (see, for example, John 3:8; 14:21– 23; 15:4–8; 17:21–23; 1 Jn. 3:2; and 4:12). Having this in mind, theologian Peter of Damascus (who died in the eighth century) invoked the authority of Christ found in this and other passages to state that we become “gods by adoption through grace” (Philokalia 3:79).
While the “broad way” of Matthew 7 is said to lead to destruction, the Upper Aeons (or Heaven) are said to be wide in Gnostic sources: “After these things there is another place which is broad, having hidden within it a great wealth which supplies the All. This is the immeasurable deep” (Untitled Text in the Bruce Codex). Meanwhile, condemned souls will be cast down and “imprisoned” in the dark and narrow abyss. The Savior says in Book of Thomas the Contender 142:30:
. . . Truly I tell you that he will be handed over to the ruler above who rules over all the powers as their king, and he will turn that one around and cast him from heaven down to the abyss, and he will be imprisoned in a narrow dark place. Moreover, he can neither turn nor move on account of the great depth of Tartaros and the heavy bitterness of Hades. . .
Perhaps the “broad way” that is warned against by not only Jesus but also Xenophon and Pythagoras is simply a cruel mirror reflecting the superior upper aeons in the world of matter where all lost souls think they are in tune with universality but in reality are in utter rebellion against God and are in a constant state of delusion in a labyrinth full of smoke and mirrors. It is this path that leads to ruin and into the “narrow dark place.” Perhaps this is the true meaning behind Luke 13: “And indeed there are last who will be first, and there are first who will be last.” The “true” broad expanse exists in the “Kingdom of God.” The only way out of the sublunary, fallen world is through a narrow spiritual gateway that exists inside deep within the soul and into the inner court of the Temple, being the Holy of Holies. This is the true path to the broad realm of the Pleroma.
In John, Jesus’s ascension connects to the mounted brass serpent Nehushtan (on a pole), which healed the Israelites after they were attacked by “fiery serpents” when the Israelites complained and spoke ill against God.[10] In alchemical terms, this corresponds with the crucified serpent as the chief element that is involved with “fixing the volatile.” The crucified serpent also connects to the element of Mercury. Generally speaking, “fixing the volatile” means stabilizing the active principle, something which can separate harmful and beneficial aspects from each other or even transform the harmful into the beneficial. The mercury that is being fixed may be equated with St. George piercing the dragon or St. Michael battling and casting out the Devil and his angels—thus exiling them to the earth for them for their “arrival.” This is when the worship of the “Beast” begins. This “Beast” hints at the Kabbalistic concept of the “Other God” being an androgynous, hermaphroditic union of Samael and Lilith serpents/worms.
However, if we interpret the crucified snake = Mercury = Logos = spirit, which is a common symbol chain, then the symbol can suggest that the final “rendering” of the spirit, by death or enlightenment, will produce the pure, perfected, incorruptible spirit that, in alchemical terms, tends to go along with an incorruptible body.[11] This is the secret of the incorruptible, resurrection body that the overcomers will inherit, that St. Paul discusses at length in 1 Corinthians 15. In this reading, the symbol clearly indicates immortality, the standard promise of the philosopher’s stone, which is represented as God’s New Jerusalem in Revelation 21-22. This is the spiritual medicine that Jesus implores his followers to consume his immortal living waters, to gain eternal life, and to become one of the “living creatures” or angels of Heaven since mortal humans on earth are considered spiritually “dead” or “asleep” to the Lord of Hosts.
Jesus said to the church at Ephesus that He would give the overcomer “to eat from the tree of life, which is in the midst of the Paradise of God” (Revelation 2:7). Here, Jesus alluded to the original placement of the tree of life in the Garden of Eden (Genesis 2:9) and indicated that the redeemed would once more have access to the tree in a future paradise—the eternal state which John now sees. Those who do His commandments (or wash their robes and enter the “strait gate” and “narrow way” of Luke 13 and Matthew 7) will have the authority to access the tree of life in the Holy Temple of the New Jerusalem (Revelation 22:14).
Those who take away from the words of the book of this prophecy will have their part taken away from the tree of life (Revelation 22:19). Evidently, access to the tree of life is one and the same as salvation and indicates that all who inhabit the eternal state will have access to the tree, equally as all is one in the Body of Christ. When man rebelled in the Garden of Eden, he was cut off from the tree of life (Genesis. 3:22-24). Since then, death has reigned over all people for all generations, even the people of God—with few exceptions like Enoch. Through the redemptive counsels of God, history is to be brought full circle to affect a full return to a Paradise without death which was previously lost. [12]
The Church Fathers compared the harmonious unity of Scripture to a ring, an unbroken circle, returning into itself. Between the events of Genesis and those at the close of Revelation, at least six thousand or seven thousand years intervene; and between Moses the first writer and John the last about one thousand five hundred years. How striking it is that, as in the beginning we found Adam and Eve, his bride, in innocence in Paradise, then tempted by the serpent, and driven from the tree of life, and from the pleasant waters of Eden, yet not without a promise of a Redeemer who should crush the serpent; so at the close, the old serpent cast out forever by the second Adam, the Lord from heaven, who appears with His Bride, the Church, in a better Paradise, and amidst immortal waters (Revelation 22:1): the tree of life also is there with all its healing properties, not guarded with a flaming sword, but open to all who overcome (Revelation 2:7), and there is no more curse, which is resolved all the way from the fall from Eden.
As mentioned above, Jesus is also called the “Last Adam” by St. Paul in 1 Corinthians 15:45, “And so it is written, The first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit.” This means that one must enter union with the living spirit of Christ to be saved, which is the image of God, being agape love or divine love, before it was lost in the fall. Without the living spirit of Christ, the soul is dead in its trespasses.
All worlds move in circles as the lower and higher aeons are also depicted as circular, and the grand march of God’s providence with man throughout time moves in one immense circle. It starts with Paradise, and thence moves out through strange and untried paths until it has fulfilled its grand revolution by coming back to the point from which it started; not indeed to repeat itself necessarily, but thenceforward to rest forever in the results of that wonderful experiment. Genesis is the Book of beginnings; the Revelation is the Book of the endings of what was then begun; and the last laps back upon the first and welds the two ends of the history into a golden ring of eternity. Or perhaps, if Nietzsche was right, mankind is eternally entrapped in the “eternal return,” where the beginning meets the end, symbolized as the Gnostic and alchemical Ouroboros. After all, the Gospel of Thomas Logion 18 says:
18. The disciples said to Jesus, “Tell us, how will our end come?”
Jesus said, “Have you found the beginning, then, that you are looking for the end? You see, the end will be where the beginning is.
Congratulations to the one who stands at the beginning: that one will know the end and will not taste death.”
The beginning is really the “new Genesis.” During this present age, where physical death has not yet been abolished, those who follow God are likened to a fruitful tree typified by the tree of life near the river of living water which John sees in the eternal state.
Blessed is the man who walks not in the counsel of the ungodly, nor stands in the path of sinners, nor sits in the seat of the scornful; but his delight is in the law of the LORD, and in His law he meditates day and night. He shall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that brings forth its fruit in its season, whose leaf also shall not wither; and whatever he does shall prosper. (Psalms. 1:1-3).
Between the Fall in the Garden of Eden (Genesis 3:22-24) and the creation of the new heavens and earth (Revelation. 21:1), the cross of Jesus Christ is the tree of life for all who trust in His redeeming work (Acts 5:30; Galatians. 3:13; 1 Peter. 2:24). And as pointed out earlier, it is the Cross of Christ that actually acts as an alchemical tool to “solve et. coagula” meaning to “dissolve and reconstitute” the descendants of Adam and Eve (being humanity) and change them into new creatures of a divine nature (theosis), similar to that of Christ as being “perfected” like we see in Hebrews 5:14 and Matthew 5:48.
Woodcut 20 of the Rosarium philosophorum (the Rosary of the Philosophers).[13]
On one website explaining the alchemical significance of Visions of Zosimos of Panopolis[14], the author explains the significance of the divine waters and its connection with the mercurial serpent and its dismemberment.
This anima was set free not only by means of the “cooking,” but also by the sword dividing the “egg,” or by the separatio, or by dissolution into the four “roots” or elements. The separatio was often represented as the dismemberment of a human body. Of the aqua permanens it was said that it dissolved the bodies into the four elements. Altogether, the divine water possessed the power of transformation. It transformed the nigredo into the albedo through the miraculous “washing” (ablutio); it animated inert matter, made the dead to rise again, and therefore possessed the virtue of the baptismal water in the ecclesiastical rite. Just as, in the benedictio fontis, the priest makes the sign of the cross over the water and so divides it into four parts, so the mercurial serpent, symbolizing the aqua permanens, undergoes dismemberment, another parallel to the division of the body.
Finally, the last quote here is taken from the Collected Works C.G. Jung Vol. 13 (Carl Jung), from a series of essays about the various aspects of the alchemical spirit of Mercury.[15]
The commonest alchemical symbol for this is the tree, the arbor philosophica, which derives from the paradisal tree of knowledge. Here, as in our fairytale, a daemonic serpent, an evil spirit, prods and persuades to knowledge. In view of the Biblical precedent, it is not surprising that the spirit Mercurius has, to say the least, a great many connections with the dark side. One of his aspects is the female serpent daemon, Lilith or Melusina, who lives in the philosophical tree. At the same time, he not only partakes of the Holy Spirit but, according to alchemy, is actually identical with it. We have no choice but to accept this shocking paradox after all we have learnt about the ambivalence of the spirit archetype. Our ambiguous Mercurius simply confirms the rule. In any case, the paradox is no worse than the Creator’s whimsical notion of enlivening his peaceful, innocent paradise with the presence of an obviously rather dangerous tree-snake, “accidentally” located on the very same tree as the forbidden apples.
It must be admitted that the fairytale and alchemy both show Mercurius in a predominantly unfavourable light, which is all the more striking because his positive aspect relates him not only to the Holy Spirit, but, in the form of the lapis, also to Christ and, as a triad, even to the Trinity. It looks as if it were precisely these relationships which led the alchemists to put particular stress on the dark and dubious quality of Mercurius, and this militates strongly against the assumption that by their lapis they really meant Christ. If this had been their meaning, why should they have renamed Christ the lapis philosophorum?
The lapis is at most a counterpart or analogy of Christ in the physical world. Its symbolism, like that of Mercurius who constitutes its substance, points, psychologically speaking, to the self, as also does the symbolic figure of Christ. In comparison with the purity and unity of the Christ symbol, Mercurius-lapis is ambiguous, dark, paradoxical, and thoroughly pagan. It therefore represents a part of the psyche which was certainly not moulded by Christianity and can on no account be expressed by the symbol “Christ.” On the contrary, as we have seen, in many ways it points to the devil, who is known at times to disguise himself as an angel of light.
The connections between Mercury and the Devil could not be more blatant, as Carl Jung, described above in the alchemical image of Python, the dragon spirit of Mercury.[16]
The spiritus mercurialis and his transformations represented as a monstrous dragon. It is a quaternity, in which the fourth is at the same time the unity of the three, the unity being symbolized by the mystagogue Hermes. The three (above) are (left to right): Luna, Sol. and coniunctio Solis et Lunae in Taurus, the House of Venus. Together they form = Mercurius. Illuminated drawing in a German alchemical ms., c. 1600.
Theodotus also says that the baptism of Christ releases the believer from the clutches of passions, Fate, destiny and demonic powers that infest the lower world in which mankind finds himself exiled in (76-78).
As, therefore, the birth of the Saviour released us from “becoming” and from Fate, so also his baptism rescued us from fire, and his Passion rescued us from passion in order that we might in all things follow him. For he who was baptised unto God advanced toward God and has received “power to walk upon scorpions and snakes,” the evil powers. And he commands the disciples “When ye go about, preach and them that believe baptise in the name of the Father, and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,” in whom we are born again, becoming higher than all the other powers.
Therefore baptism is called death and an end of the old life when we take leave of the evil principalities, but it is also called life according to Christ, of which he is sole Lord. But the power of the transformation of him who is baptised does not concern the body but the soul, for he who comes up [out of the water] is unchanged. From the moment when he comes up from baptism he is called a servant of God even by the unclean spirits and they now “tremble” at him whom shortly before they obsessed.
Until baptism, they say, Fate is real, but after it the astrologists are no longer right. But it is not only the washing that is liberating, but the knowledge of/who we were, and what we have become, where we were or where we were placed, whither we hasten, from what we are redeemed, what birth is and what rebirth.
Baptism, to the ancients, was considered a form of spiritual “illumination.” The Baptist investiture and anointing of the high priest became an epiphany of the primordial man nursing the tree of life surrounded by the sphere of Paradise. In Mandaean rituals, the baptismal candidate is reborn as the “secret Adam of glory,” Adakas Ziwa[17] as macr’anthropos. The early Christians are in baptism acc. to Paul regaining the imago dei and the Glory lost by Adam, Rom 5,12ff.; 1.Cor 15,45ff., and united with Christ as macr’anthropos, 1.Cor 12,12f.; Gal 3,27f.; Eph 1; Col 1,15-20. And according to the gospels after baptism, Jesus is like Adam before the fall living among the wild animals of the desert and tempted by the devil. Accordingly, Christian baptism is the beginning of the journey to theosis or completion.
While Adam and Eve wanted to be like God Jesus is constantly renouncing such divine powers such as his divine ability to turn stone into bread, to fly and to take power over the whole world. Jesus, of course, however, is resurrected after a gruesome and torturous death along with his descent into hell to do battle with Satan and his demons as recorded in the Acts of Pontius Pilate or the Gospel of Nicodemus. The baptistery was often shaped as an octagon; the unity of 4 (or 8) was not only for the Pythagoreans the great symbol of mystic unity and cosmic center. We must now turn our attention to Daniel Gleason over at Jesus8880[18] who summarizes the history of the Priest-Kings in relation with the Christ and baptism:
The title “Christ” comes from the Greek word Christos which is a translation of the Hebrew word Messiah meaning “The Anointed One.” During the time of the Old Testament, the term “messiah” (the anointed-one) was meant to apply to Kings and High Priests who were “christened” with oil at the time of their inauguration ceremony or when they were given their “powers” of office. During this time, the word “Messiah” never meant or even implied that a person was actually divine. The famous seventy-sevens (weeks) riddle in the Book of Daniel (Dan 9:24-27) mentions three different anointed-ones, the Jewish Temple (Dan 9:24), King Cyrus, the King of Babylon (Dan 9:25, Is 45:1), and the Hebrew High Priest Onias III (Dan 9:26).
During the time the Hebrew nation was occupied by the Greeks and then the Romans, the title “Christ” gradually took on the added meaning of a deliverer or a savior. The famous seventy-sevens (weeks) riddle in the Book of Daniel (Dan 9:24-27) mentions three different anointed-ones, the Jewish Temple (Dan 9:24), Cyrus the Great, the King of Babylon (Dan 9:25, Is 45:1), and the Hebrew High Priest Onias III (Dan 9:26). It was at this time that the Jews fervently began to pray that God would metaphorically “anoint” a future king to free them from their pagan lords.
At the time the first Christian literature appeared in the early 1st century AD, the definition of the word “Christ” changed again and took on a religious meaning. The epistles of Paul (50-60 AD) turned the name “Christ” into a proper name and cosmic title. By the time of the gospels (80-130AD) Jesus was seen as a real man who lived on earth. In the gospels, the earthly “Christ” fled from crowds who wanted to make him an earthly “king” because it was a secular position that was beneath him. The gospel’s thinly veiled message of calling Jesus “Christ” was to imply that he was a heavenly king “anointed” by God to save mankind. Jesus earned his title of the Christ (the anointed one) when he was baptised in the Jordan River, which was also known as “The River of the Rising Sun” (Joshua 12:1).
To gnostic Christians, the “Word” and Sign of “Christ” took on a mythical meaning because of the isopsephia value of the name. The “number” of the Greek name “Christ” is 1480 units and six circles with that circumference fit exactly inside the raised Jesus (8880)! The name “Christ” was now transformed into a Christian mystery, a name that signified divine, magical, cosmic powers. The early Christians believed they could become like Christ if they were “anointed” with water and the “holy spirit” through the ritual sacrament of baptism.
We will return to the spiritual unction or baptism later in this article.
Part II.
Cunning Serpents.
It is interesting to note that in Revelation 12, that the “old serpent” is the Devil and Satan, would immediately lead one to connect the word “old” with the earlier and former mention of the serpent in Genesis 3: and the fact that it was Satan himself who tempted “the second man,” “the last Adam,” would force the conclusion that no other than Satan could have been the tempter of “the first man, Adam.” In Romans 6:3-6, St. Paul tells us that all born into subjection of the curse placed on Adam are the “old man,” which is crucified, buried and dissolved with Christ and be reborn.
Know ye not, that so many of us as were baptized into Jesus Christ were baptized into his death? Therefore we are buried with him by baptism into death: that like as Christ was raised up from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also should walk in newness of life. For if we have been planted together in the likeness of his death, we shall be also in the likeness of his resurrection: Knowing this, that our old man is crucified with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed, that henceforth we should not serve sin.
The author of the website, “The Rain”[19], tells us more about the various connections with the serpent, the spirit server sent by Lucifer in Eden.
The Hebrew word rendered “serpent” in Genesis 3:1 is Nachash (from the root Nachash, to shine), and means a shining one. Hence, in Chaldee it means brass or copper, because of its shining. Hence also, the word Nehushtan, a piece of brass, in 2 Kings 18:4. In the same way Seraph, in Isaiah 6:2, 6, means a burning one, and, because the serpents mentioned in Numbers 21 were burning, in the poison of their bite, they were called Seraphim, or Seraphs. But when the LORD said unto Moses, “Make thee a fiery serpent” (Numbers 21:8), He said, “Make thee a Seraph”, and, in obeying this command, we read in verse 9, “Moses made a Nachash of brass.” Nachash is thus used as being interchangeable with Seraph.
Now, if Seraph is used of a serpent because its bite was burning, and is also used of a celestial or spirit-being (a burning one), why should not Nachash be used of a serpent because its appearance was shining, and be also used of a celestial or spirit-being (a shining one)? Indeed, a reference to the structure of Genesis 3 (on page 7 in The Companion Bible) will show that the Cherubim (which are similar celestial or spirit-beings) of the last verse (Genesis 3:24) require a similar spirit-being to correspond with them in the first verse (for the structure of the whole chapter is a great Introversion). The Nachash, or serpent, who beguiled Eve (2 Corinthians 11:3) is spoken of as “an angel of light.” Have we not, in this, a clear intimation that it was not a snake, but a glorious shining being, apparently an angel, to whom Eve paid such great deference, acknowledging him as one who seemed to possess superior knowledge, and who was evidently a being of a superior (not of an inferior) order? Moreover, in the description of Satan as “the king of Tyre” it is distinctly implied that the latter being was of a supernatural order when he is called “a cherub” (Ezekiel 28:14, 16), like we saw earlier.
His presence “in Eden, the garden of Elohim”, is also clearly stated, as well as his being “perfect in beauty”, his being “perfect in his ways from the day he was created till iniquity was found in him”, and as being “lifted up because of his beauty.” These all compel the belief that Satan was the shining one (Nachash) in Genesis 3, and especially because the following words could be addressed to him:—“Thine heart was lifted up because of thy beauty, thou hast corrupted thy wisdom by reason of thy brightness: I will cast thee to the ground, I will lay thee before kings, that they may behold thee.”
Even supposing that these things were spoken to, and of, an exalted human being in later days (Ezekiel 28), still “the king of Tyre” is not compared to a being who was non-existent; and facts and circumstances which never happened are not introduced into the comparison. There is more about “the king of Tyre” in Ezekiel 28:11-19 than was literally true of “the prince of Tyre.” The words can be understood only of the mightiest and most exalted supernatural being that God ever created; and this for the purpose of showing how great would be his fall.
Again, the word rendered “subtle” in Genesis 3:1, means wise, in a good sense as well as in a wicked sense. In Ezekiel 28:12 we have the good sense, “Thou sealest up the sum, full of wisdom”; and the bad sense in verse 17, “thou hast corrupted thy wisdom” (referring, of course, to his fall). So the word rendered “subtle” is rendered “prudent” in Proverbs 1:4; 8:12; 12:23; 14:8; and in a bad sense in Job 15:5; 1 Samuel 23:22; Psalm 83:3.
The word “beast” also, in Genesis 3:1, chay, denotes a living being, and it is as wrong to translate zoa “beasts” in Revelation 4, as it is to translate chay “beast” in Genesis 3. Both mean living creature. The serpent is thus spoken of as being “more wise than any other living creature which Jehovah and his fellow Elohim had made.” Even if the word “beast” be retained, it does not say that either a serpent or Satan was a “beast”, but only that he was “more wise” than any other living being.
When Satan is spoken of as a “serpent”, it is the figure Hypocatastasis or Implication; it no more means a snake than it does when Dan is so called in Genesis 49:17; or an animal when Nero is called a “lion” (2 Timothy 4:17), or when King Herod is called a “fox” (Luke 13:32); or when Judah is called “a lion’s whelp”. It is the same idea when “doctrine” is called “leaven” (Matthew 16:6). It shows that something much more real and truer to truth is intended. If a figure of speech is thus employed, it is for the purpose of expressing the truth more impressively; and is intended to be a figure of something much more real than the letter of the word.
When it is said in verse Genesis 3:15, “thou shalt bruise His heel”, it cannot mean His literal heel of flesh and blood, but suffering, more temporary in character. It means that all Satan’s plans and plots, policy and purposes, will one day be finally crushed and ended, never more to mar or hinder the plans of God. This will be affected when Satan shall be bruised under the feet of the Body of Christ (Romans 16:20). This, again, will not be literal feet, but something much more real.
The crushing of serpents and scorpions beneath Christ’s (and his followers) feet (Luke 10:19) is the most eloquent and impressive way of foretelling the most solemn events; and to point out that the effort made by Satan to evade his doom, then threatened, would become the very means of insuring its accomplishment; for it was through the death of Christ that he who had the power of death would be destroyed; and all Satan’s power and policy brought to an end, and all his works destroyed (Hebrews 2:14; 1 John 3:8. Revelation 20:1-3, 10).
“On thy belly shalt thou go” (Genesis 3:14). Such imagery paints for the eyes of our mind the picture of Satan’s ultimate humiliation; for prostration was ever the most eloquent sign of subjection. When it is said “our belly cleaveth unto the ground” (Psalm 44:25), it denotes such a prolonged prostration.
Perhaps the defeated, prostrated imagery of the serpent also connects to what is being portrayed in the imagery of Atlas, holding up the heavens. In Greek mythology, serpents also show up in the form of Ophis (Οφιων, Ophiôn, Ophion, Greek for serpent) who had reigned on Mount Olympus with his consort Eurynome and was also considered to be one of the sons of Zeus. Moe Bedard, in his article, “Serpent on the Cross,”[20] writes about the connection between Ophis and the Mystery School religions of the ancients:
The followers of Ophis were called the Ophites. Ophis is the Greek equivalent to the ancient Egyptian Apap or Aph-ophis, the Great Serpent who later became Apis, or Epaphus, the Sacred Bull of Egypt. Blavatsky had written, that Apollo and Python, Osiris and Typhon, Christos and the Serpent, are all convertible terms and the followers of this cult that were called Masters of Wisdom, and all Initiates into the Sacred Mysteries, are called Nagas, or Serpents of Wisdom. However, I disagree that Typhon would be considered the same as Apollo, Python, or Osiris.
Later in the article, Moe Bedard writes:
According to Greek Mythology, eventually the Good Serpent Ophis would be dethroned by his grandfather, the God of chaos and darkness, Cronos (Saturn or Satan) and the goddess of fertility and war, Rhea (Saturn’s Moon). Hence, the true serpent and dragon of wisdom, Ophis was cast out, and in his place, chaos and darkness would rule under Cronus (Saturn or Satan) and the goddess of fertility and war, Rhea (Saturn’s Moon). This is the reason why, Jesus on the cross is considered by the Fathers of the church, as the standard of Christian warfare and the lower case Greek t, the symbol of death.
The connection between Cronos, the Beast, or what the cabalists referred to as the “Other God” or the Beast—which is a hermaphroditic pair of dragon/worm-like demons being Samael and Lilith—separated by God’s flaming sword (used also against Leviathan in Isaiah), is a strange one indeed. And if they were to ever reunite, they would destroy the universe and all creation in an instant. They are trying to do this when Satan emerges from the primal sea of chaos (much like how Lilith spontaneously emerges from the chaos of nothingness) and incarnates as the Antichrist in his final move against God. The great secret taught by the mystery schools and practically all of Western occultism is that good and evil are one, encapsulated in the maxim “as above so below” and symbolized by the hexagram, better known as the Seal of Solomon and the Star of David, which is the geometric equivalent of 666. The Mark of the Beast is examined thoroughly in The Sun Lady Unveiled.
In the Old Testament, the Shekinah Glory or the Cloud of Glory is described to be God’s bride. She is depicted as Divine Wisdom or Sophia. Strangely, in The Zohar, God has taken a concubine, equated with the dark demoness Lilith “the Matronit,” who has alienated him from his wife, but that God will return to her at the End of Days and reconcile everything. In other words, Lilith is both the divine consort of God and the Devil! According to the Zohar, Lilith is also the failed mate of Adam as well to eventually become the serpent who deceived Eve and caused Adam’s fall. Therefore, God established eternal enmity between the Serpent Lilith and Eve and between their seed. Lilith’s seed would bruise the heel of Eve’s promised seed, Messiah, but Eve’s seed would revive to crush Lilith’s head along with Samael’s. Revelation 12 is a fulfillment of Genesis.
Returning to Saturn, Augustine mentions that the people of Carthage called Saturn senex, “ancient one” or the “the old one”, De cons.ev.1,16.[21] Zaehner[22] thinks the lion-headed god of the mysteries of Mithras with the coiling snake is Ahriman, but he is certainly also the Syrian god, Saturn, the Canaanite Baal-Ammon, and perhaps even Moloch, the receiver of the child sacrifice. I discuss all these connections in detail in my book.
The Great Red Dragon and the Beast from the Sea by William Blake.
The Number of the Beast 666 by William Blake.
Throughout the world, there are many references to dragon or serpent-like beings that spawned various cultures and religions, such as the numerous Chinese, Mayan, Irish, and Hopi Indian legends. The ancient near eastern civilizations of Babylon, Canaan, and Israel all spoke of a primordial serpent-like monster of the ocean, which was called Tiamat in Babylon, Yamm in Canaan, and Leviathan in Israel. Likewise, the most ancient scriptures of India assert that the chief god Indra is associated with serpentine shapeshifters, and the second most important god, Agni, is called a “raging serpent.” The god of India to whom most devotion is paid, namely Krishna, had this to say about himself in the Bhagavad Gita (10:29): “Of the Nâgas [the snakelike] I am Ananta [supporting Vishnu]…”
The more knowledgeable and occult minds among the ancient Greeks also paid homage to serpent-gods, such as Asclepius. We also know that Epiphanius clearly states that snakes were involved in the Ophite Eucharist and connected them to the Logos like Jesus does with John 3. The Peratic Gnostics believed that Jesus Christ was a serpent-god (Refutation of All Heresies, 5:130-133):
No one, then, he says, can be saved or return (into heaven) without the Son, and the Son is the Serpent. For as he brought down from above the paternal marks, so again he carries up from thence those marks roused from a dormant condition and rendered paternal characteristics, substantial ones from the unsubstantial Being, transferring them hither from thence. This, he says, is what is spoken: I am the door. And he transfers (those marks), he says, to those who close the eyelid, as the naphtha drawing the fire in every direction towards itself; nay rather, as the magnet (attracting) the iron and not anything else, or just as the backbone of the sea falcon, the gold and nothing else, or as the chaff is led by the amber.
The Naassenes believed an omniscient serpent watches over us from above. Specifically, Hippolytus in The Refutation of All Heresies (4:47), had this to say about their beliefs:
Aratus says that there are in the sky revolving, that is, gyrating stars, because from east to west, and west to east, they journey perpetually, (and) in an orbicular figure. And he says that there revolves towards The Bears themselves, like some stream of a river, an enormous and prodigious monster, (the) Serpent; and that this is what the devil says in the book of Job to the Deity, when (Satan) uses these words: “I have traversed earth under heaven, and have gone around (it), that is, that I have been turned around, and thereby have been able to survey the worlds.” For they suppose that towards the North Pole is situated the Dragon, the Serpent, from the highest pole looking upon all (the objects), and gazing on all the works of creation, in order that nothing of the things that are being made may escape his notice. For though all the stars in the firmament set, the pole of this (luminary) alone never sets, but, careering high above the horizon, surveys and beholds all things, and none of the works of creation, he says, can escape his notice.
This idea that something wicked is hovering around the North Pole echoes through the ages down to the present. The official flag of the United Nations is a view of the globe from a region of space above the North Pole looking down and relates it to the Biblical Prophet Isaiah, who said that Lucifer also exalts himself to lofty positions in the north (Isaiah 14:12-13). As mentioned earlier, the first-century Christian leader Elchasai believed that war rages among the evil angels of the northern stars, and therefore immoral nations are in a state of confusion.
Oh inimitable wisdom and incantations gorged with powers! Who will not be astonished at such and such force of words? But since we have stated that they also bring into requisition astrological deceit, we shall prove this from their own formularies; for Elchasai speaks thus: There exist wicked stars of impiety. This declaration has been now made by us, O you pious ones and disciples: beware of the power of the days of the sovereignty of these stars, and engage not in the commencement of any undertaking during the ruling days of these. And baptize not man or woman during the days of the power of these stars, when the moon, (emerging) from among them, courses the sky, and travels along with them. Beware of the very day up to that on which the moon passes out from these stars, and then baptize and enter on every beginning of your works.
But, moreover, honour the day of the Sabbath, since that day is one of those during which prevails (the power) of these stars. Take care, however, not to commence your works the third day from a Sabbath, since when three years of the reign of the emperor Trojan are again completed from the time that he subjected the Parthians to his own sway—when, I say, three years have been completed, war rages between the impious angels of the northern constellations; and on this account all kingdoms of impiety are in a state of confusion (Hippolytus. Refutation of All Heresies (Book IX.11).
This is echoed in 2 Enoch 10, from about the same time, where it states that there is a hell of black fire in the heavens of the north, and a bunch of witches, vampires, and pedophiles dwell there in torment, with cruel angels carrying savage weapons while mercilessly torturing them, forever. In 1 Enoch 70:1-4, we see Enoch’s spirit “translated” into heaven through the north!
1. And it came to pass after this that his name during his lifetime was raised aloft to that Son of Man and to the Lord of Spirits from amongst those who dwell on the earth. 2. And he was raised aloft on the chariots of the spirit and his name vanished among them. 3. And from that day I was no longer numbered amongst them: and he set me between the two winds, between the North and the 4 West, where the angels took the cords to measure for me the place for the elect and righteous. 4. And there I saw the first fathers and the righteous who from the beginning dwell in that place.
The Prophet Zarathustra was also informed of an evil entity that comes from northern climates, as the holy texts of the Zoroastrians record, in the Vendidad of the Zend Avesta, Fargard 8.3.21, 8.7.72, and the Vendidad of the Zend Avesta, Fargard 8.7. This quote is part of an exorcism ritual for expelling this demonic northern entity.
Zarathustra asked Ahura Mazda: ‘O Ahura Mazda, most beneficent Spirit, Maker of the material world, thou Holy One! When a man dies, at what moment does the Drug Nasu rush upon him?’ Ahura Mazda answered: ‘Directly after death, as soon as the soul has left the body, O Spitama Zarathustra! the Drug Nasu comes and rushes upon him, from the regions of the north, in the shape of a raging fly, with knees and tail sticking out, all stained with stains, and like unto the foulest Khrafstras.
New Age scholar, April DeConick, when speaking of the Peratic Gnostics, spoke of the far-north constellation Draco[24] and its connection to Christ, in The Gnostic New Age.
According to the Peratics, the consequence of this primordial insurrection is that human spirits, the seeds of divine potential, are incarcerated by the dark lords. The dark lord reigning over all creation is Kronos, the violent Titan who quakes the earth and spews the waters of Tartarus upward into the ocean. Kronos, the cannibal god who devours his own children, is identified as the craftsman, the Demiurge, who brings forth human life only to destroy it. He is the Father God who murders his children by eating them, trapping their spirits in the cosmos.
This wretched situation requires a drastic intervention from the two other levels of reality. The transcendent Good and the upright divinities must do something to later this horrible predicament and liberate the spirit. Here the Peratic story takes on a decisively Christian flare. Following the narrative arc of the fourth Gospel, the Peratics taught that Christ was sent down from the Good to save creation.
Christ was a powerful entity that embodied all three levels of reality—the transcendent, the divine, and the human. When he was crucified, he joined the other celestial rulers as a god, as it said in the fourth Gospel, when the Son of Man was lifted up like Moses lifted p the serpent. He took control of the highest and brightest constellation, becoming fixed in the skies at the top of the celestial dome the guardian god of the luminous serpentine constellation Draco.
As such he became the good guardian of the star gat that controls the flow of existence from the transcendent sphere into the cosmos and back again. He opened the Draco portal, establishing a flow of divinity into and out of the cosmos with every rotation of the celestial sphere. This is how they understood the Christian aphorism attributed to Jesus in the in the fourth Gospel: I am the door” (John 10:7).
The Constellation Draco.
Based on Hippolytus’ testimony, DeConick goes on to describe the Peratics’ ritual ceremonies reserved only for their initiates involving astral projection into the bowels of hell and confronting the dark lords that rule the Underworld, including Chronos. Somehow at the end of their perilous astral journey of various trials and tribulations, the Peratics escape the jaws of the northern Draco somehow connected to the Ouroboros-Leviathan that encircles the cosmos and into the transcendent World of Light or what the Neoplatonists like Macrobius and Porphyry would consider being the Milky Way. The Milky Way was considered the well-spring of all pre-existent souls—traversing back and forth from heavens to the earth and vice versa through Zodiac portals like Cancer (descent) and Capricorn (ascent).[25] Accordingly, the belief in the pre-existence of souls is also present in Platonic, Enochic literature, and even in the Old Testament. The church father Origen, who was eventually condemned as a heretic, also held this belief.[26] In Peter Mark Adam’s Game of Saturn (p. 115), he writes about the sign Draco.
The alchemical dragon returns us, once more, to the ambivalence of myth, to the dragon as the undefinable primal substance and its various oblique transformations through the stages of the alchemical process. Represented with one head aligned with the moon and the other with the sun it mirrors on the microcosmic scale the macrocosmic Caput and the Cauda Draconis of Draco, and symbolizes the solar and lunar channels or madis, the ida and pingala, of the subtle energy body. In all cultures the serpent-dragon has served to represent essential life energy or kundalini, especially when ascending via the twin nadis that entwine the body’s central channel or sushumna nadi. It is this energy, ultimately, that the talismanic properties of the deck seek to awaken through the invocation of its presiding deity. At this microcosmic level the energy assumes an impersonal agency that collapses the energetic supports of the persona—an experience parallel to death—and bestows the vision of the sun at midnight, the terrible face of the Dark Mother or gorgoneion, that signals the eclipse of the faculty that sustains the illusion that constitutes consensual reality.
Adams also says that the Caput Algol, the Demon Star was used in the magical use of assault sorcery where the malefic intent of the sorcerer was put in place through grimoires of dark astral magic. Caput Algol was the “most malefic combination of Saturn and Mars imaginable; it is the most unfortunate and dangerous star in the heavens with a reputation for causing violence and unnatural death.” This connects to the Genesis prophecy of Eve’s descendants crushing the serpent’s head just as Jesus is said to put his enemies (including death or Satan) under his feet in the resurrection of 1 Corinthians 15.
Carl Jung in his book Aion (p. 209), also connects the northern parts of the world with hell and is shocked by his own thought-process.
Turning back to our text, I would emphasize, by way of recapitulation, that the infernal fire is nothing other than the Deus absconditus (hidden God) who dwells at the North Pole and reveals himself through magnetism. His other synonym is Mercurius, whose heart is to be found at the Pole, and who guides men on their perilous voyage over the sea of the world. The idea that the whole machinery of the world is driven by the infernal fire at the North Pole, that this is hell, and that hell is a system of upper powers reflected in the lower—this is a shattering thought. But the same note is struck by Meister Eckhart when he says that, on returning to his true self, he enters an abyss “deeper than hell itself.”
Horned Moses at Rosslyn Chapel.
Moses and the Brazen Serpent (detail), ca. 1866.
Moses and the Bronze Serpent. St. John doing the Mano Pantea hand sign.
St. John the Evangelists’ cup of poison transformed into a snake.
Ningishzida.
While all of this is explored in-depth in my book, The Sun Lady Unveiled, we will touch on the following subject matter. The conflict between Yahweh and the snake is a kind of historicization of the ancient trope of the storm god who fights the multi-headed dragon of the primeval ocean such as Leviathan. To the Babylonians, it was Tiamat, who was originally the primal mother of all the gods in Sumerian mythology, and the storm god Marduk slaying her represented him bringing form (empire) to chaos (local authority). The conflict of the snake with the warrior angel is not just Biblical.
Michael vs. Satan.St. George vs the Dragon.
Wotan riding a white horse in Ragnarök.
Thor vs. Jörmungandr.
Marduk vs Tiamat and Yahweh vs. Leviathan.
Chronos castrating Ouranos.
In Job 3,8 Job asks those magicians who can “put a spell on the sea and rouse Leviathan” to curse the day Job was born. Leviathan is here obviously seen as a sea monster like the Midgard’s worm of Norse mythology being Jörmungandr. The phrase “rouse” (pi`el:`orer) has a parallel in what is told of the Midgard’s worm at the end of the world: it will rise up to heaven to the throne of the high-god Odin and sink its teeth into his throne. Now the throne of Odin is the magic location from where one can overlook the whole world. Somehow this motif is caused by the archaic notion of the kundalini-snake rising to union with the high god having his throne in the brain just under the vaulted skull, thereby giving mystic vision. Odin himself is thought to be the Nordic equivalent of Mercury and the Greek Hermes. Odin, like Jesus, was also crucified on a tree (for Odin, Yggdrasil) and descended to the realm of the dead or Hel to gain her magical secrets of creating the Nordic Runes. For nine days and nine nights, Odin mastered powerful Seidr spells (while hanging) and then ritually died. His death marked a worldwide night, until his rebirth and the return of light to the world. [27]
Wotan with a winged helmet, just like Hermes/Mercury.
Runestone from 965 A.D. of Jesus hung on Yggdrasil like Odin.[28]
In a way, Odin, too, was fixed as the “volatile.” Not to mention the conflict between Odin’s son Thor and Jörmungandr is also eerily like that of Yahweh and Leviathan, Marduk and Tiamat, Michael and Satan, Chronos and Gaia/Ouranos as well. And yet, titans like Chronos and gods like Marduk and Yahweh may also be thought of as dragon-like as well—giving rise to the thought that YHWH or the Demiurge is the head-dragon with Satan being an assistant dragon (who later rebels), among many reptilian “watchers” that we see in Dead Sea Scroll literature.[29] It takes a dragon to slay a dragon—a demon to slay a demon, a raised serpent to ward of other, lesser serpents. St. Michael, according to the Ophites, was an agent of the Demiurge, along with Samael, who is also considered to be a name for Yaldabaoth as well. What we are dealing with is a family or a brotherhood of titans and astral lords that have gone to the dark side and taken over the universe—none of which seem to get along with too well with each other either.
One can see it with Medusa and the Gorgons, Alexander the Great’s mother Olympias’ orgiastic snake-worshiping cult of the dying-and-rising god Dionysus, Lilith, Lamia, etc. The long ending of Mark epitomizes his Montanist-like sect as a snake-handling cult focused on healing and drinkable poisons, and in fact, the Old Testament defined a “witch” as a poisoner, which in Greek is pharmekus (pharmacy).
The “snake-pole” that Moses uses sounds like a caduceus (or Asclepius rod), a symbol of healing. The caduceus is also found on a Sumerian vase dedicated to Ningishzida, who like dying-and-rising god Dumuzi, was said to have guarded the gates of heaven against the Sumerian priest Adapa (Adam) until he sympathized with Dumuzi’s and Ningishzida’s deaths. Dumuzi bore the title “Mother-Dragon-of-Heaven,” which he apparently inherited from Nammu, and his wife Inanna, or Asherah was the Queen of Heaven who worships Jeremiah scolded. The Book of Ezekiel complained bitterly that the women of Jerusalem would worship Tammuz, or Dumuzi, right outside the Temple, and strangely instituted an Ash Wednesday-like ritual of wiping a Tau mark on the foreheads of those who wanted to kill Dumuzi worshipers, which seems to indicate there’s been some “cultural appropriation” in this book. Plutarch argues that the thyrsus and trimbles used in the Temple confirm that Yahweh was originally Bacchus (Dionysus). This connection is explored further in The Sun Lady Unveiled. Moses is also connected to Thoth/Hermes, as well, as the author James Cumming reveals.[30]
In ancient Egypt, the sacred emblem of the god Thoth (Djehuty) was the ibis. Thoth was the god of the Egyptian scribes. Moses was, of course, a master scribe who was sometimes called “Moses the Scribe” — for example, in the targums and the book of Jubilees. Thoth was particularly popular among the pharaohs, and the Torah relates that Moses grew up as a prince in the house of the pharaoh (see Exodus 2:10), thus it would not be surprising if he developed an attachment to the god Thoth. According to a legend recorded by Flavius Josephus (1st century c.e.), Moses won victory in battle by using ibises, Thoth’s emblem. (See Josephus, Jewish Antiquities II, chapter 10) And Artapanus of Alexandria (2nd century b.c.e.) asserted that Moses was an Egyptian sage who knew the priestly sciences associated with Thoth and consecrated his military camp to Thoth. Artapanus further asserted that Moses was highly respected by the Egyptian priests (cf. Exodus 11:3), who called him by Thoth’s name. (See Eusebius, Preparatio Evangelicum, 9:27:3-20) Christian scripture also states that Moses “was educated in all the wisdom of the Egyptians.” (Acts 7:22).
Moses’ caduceus pole was probably identical to the “Asherah trees” that were Hezekiah and Josiah are celebrated for tearing down in localized “high places”, which would explain why Hezekiah is also the king who destroyed it. Jesus’ crucifixion is specifically associated with Moses’ pole in the Gospel of John. Vases of Dionysus show participants eating a loaf of bread and wine Eucharist in front of a pole bearing the likeness of a dead Dionysus. These snaky-feminine local cults were always in conflict with the nationalistic storm god temple priesthoods. If you were a rebel, you tended to choose the dying-and-rising shepherd god as the symbol of the underdog. Spartacus chose Dionysus. Augustus’ daughter Julia chose Marsyas. If Moses was leading Semitic rebels, this “rebel underdog” iconography makes sense, just as it makes equal sense that once they became a kingdom and wanted to stifle rebellion, the state would turn against such iconography.
Therefore, Babylon’s creation story is about murdering the mother of the gods and why the cult of Dionysus was long suppressed from the Homeric era of mythology, such that historians long thought him a new god until they discovered his name in the Mycenaean era. Dionysus was finally revised and reformed into something the state could accept. As Cicero, one of those reformers of Dionysus pointed out, they liked the part of the mystery religions about going to heaven after you die instead of the underworld, as the state religion typically said.
An ancient Sumerian story about Gilgamesh finding the tree of Inanna infested with a snake, a Lilith, and an owl. He kills the snake, scares off Lilith and the owl, and then chops down Inanna’s tree and builds a couch for her out of it. The story seems to indicate that these kinds of “reforms” were common, where, just like Hezekiah and Josiah, Gilgamesh tore down the Asherah/Inanna trees in the sacred groves of the local high places and then established official worship in the city temple.
In Norse creation myths found in the Prose Edda, there is a Norse version of Adam and Eve in the form of Askr and Embla—male and female respectively. Odin, along with two other gods—Hœnir and Lóðurr—bestow the first humans with various physical and spiritual gifts. Interestingly, Askr means “ash tree” like the Asherah trees of the Canaanites.
Michael Heiser, the author of books like The Unseen Realm, once wrote that the Genesis serpent wasn’t a serpent but an angelic Elohim, a rebel of the divine council with serpentine features.[31]
Personally, I tend to think that, in light of the serpentine appearance of divine beings in Yahweh’s presence, what we have in Genesis 3 is wordplay using all the meanings of the semantic range. That is, Eve was not talking to a snake. She was speaking to an bright, shining upright being who was serpentine in appearance, and who was trying to bewitch her with lies. She was in the presence of one of the sons of God, beings who had free will, who were more powerful than mere angels, whom humanity was created “a little lower” (Psalm 8:4-5; the phrase usually translated as “a little lower than the angels” is actually “a little lower than the elohim in the Hebrew text).
She was speaking to a member of the divine council who did not share Yahweh’s enthusiasm for his new creation, humankind, to whom Yahweh had just given rule over the planet (Gen 1:26-27). These mere humans were—as the “lesser elohim” had been previously—created as Yahweh’s image (“let US”…“OUR” in Gen 1:26-27), to rule the cosmos for Yahweh, and earth – at least until humanity was fashioned. In this last regard, I share the view of certain lines of Jewish tradition that teach the “serpent’s” motive for seducing Eve was jealousy at humanity’s “appointment” as supreme authority under Yahweh on earth – as oppose to the sons of God getting that job.
Commanding the Demiurge
Genesis (49:10), it tells us, “The scepter shall not leave Judah, nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet, until he comes to whom it belongs. To him shall be the obedience of the peoples.”
The “Judas Gem,” Green jasper amulet, first or second century CE, at the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris, inventory no. 2169.
The Lion of the tribe of Judah is a symbol also found in Revelation. In Revelation, this symbol is seen again when the Lion of the tribe of Judah is declared to be worthy to open the scroll and its seven seals (Revelation 5:5). Jesus is the One who is worthy to open the scroll (John 5:22). Therefore, Jesus is the Lion of the tribe of Judah. However, Jesus’ betraying disciple Judas can also be portrayed as a lion, symbolizing the demiurge and perhaps even Satan himself. The Gospel of Thomas (Logion 7, Layton translation) tells us something similar in that the lion is also symbolic of the Demiurge:
Jesus said, “Blessed is the lion that the human being will devour so that the lion becomes human. And cursed is the human being that the lion devours; and the lion will become human.”
April D. DeConick, in her book The Thirteenth Apostle, she comments about the “Judas Gem,” stating that the Gospel of Judas and the Judas gem confirm each other. The gem is material evidence that there were Gnostics in the second century who identified Judas as the demon who was Lord of the Cosmos. So, this interpretation of the Gospel of Judas is not only narratologically correct but historically confirmed with physical evidence from ancient magic. The identification of Judas with the astral lord Yaldabaoth was a Gnostic secret that had tremendous power to control the demon god who ruled the world!
Enter the Judas Prophecy: How does Judas Iscariot get connected to this complicated web, becoming identified with Yaldabaoth in the Gospel of Judas and functioning as the astral lord’s secret name on this Gnostic gem? What likely sealed his fate as Yaldabaoth’s double was the fact that the scriptures associate Judas’ namesake, Judah, with leonine features. According to Genesis 49:9, Judah is a lion welp. The text describes the young lion Judah, saying, “He stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as a lioness. Who dares rouse him?”
Just in case there might be an objection raised that this scriptural passage refers to one of Jacob’s sons, who was not Judas Iscariot, the Gnostic exegete would likely point to the following verse. For the Gnostic Christian, verse 10 would have made perfectly transparent that there was hidden within the scripture the truth about another Judah-to-come, a Judah who was the Iscariot. “The scepter shall not leave Judah. Nor the ruler’s staff from between his feet. until he comes to whom it belongs. To him shall be the obedience of the peoples.” (Genesis 49:10)
The Sethian Christians must have understood this passage as a prophecy that Judas Iscariot fulfilled. He was the Judah-to-come, the lion of the scripture which had been prophesied in Deuteronomy to become Yaldabaoth, the leonine demon ruling the world, with the body of a serpentine dragon. With this reading of the passage, Judas Iscariot’s connection to the chief archon was cast. His black destiny was sealed, secreted away in the Gospel of Judas, and hidden on the back of a Gnostic gem for two thousand years.
In Astrological Medicine in Gnostic Traditions by Grant Adamson,[32]the connection between the Gnostic aspirant taking control over the Demiurge and his various angelic authorities and daemons, are made more apparent in the form of mystical chants, prayers, chnoubis-engraved amulets and melothesia (i.e., the science of charting how zodiacal signs affect the human body):
Unlike the thirty-six gems that the practitioner is directed to make in the Sacred Book of Hermes and unlike the various invocations and amulets for thwarting individual decanal daemons in chapter eighteen of the Testament of Solomon, this gem probably was not made to heal a single body part or prevent one specific ailment. Rather, with the iconography of the chief astral ruler and both his names on the front together with the names of all seven planetary rulers primarily responsible for incarnation on the back, it could have been used as a cure-all or protection against each and every ailment to which the body is susceptible. By invoking one of the planetary rulers and wearing his name engraved on the gem, the Gnostic could control any of his inferiors, whether zodiacal, decanal, etc.
By invoking the chief astral ruler himself and wearing the names of the lion-headed Aariel/Ialdabaoth engraved on the gem, in tum the Gnostic could control any of the planetary rulers. The wearer of this amulet might not have been familiar with the elaborate double-decanal melothesia or the other melothesia following it in the long manuscripts of the Apocryphon of John. But it is safe to say at the least he or she would have known that Ialdabaoth formed the brain and marrow, lao the bones, Sabaoth the sinews, Adonai the flesh, Eloai the blood, Horeos the skin, Astapheos the hair, or something close to this, and that the seven planetary rulers were assisted by a number of angelic daemons.
Without this form of sympathetic magic, the ignorant rabble, according to the antinomian Gnostics, the demiurge has the power to further enslave the spirit into successive bodies or as a cog in the Matrix-machine after death, as Wayne Bush at the in-depth “Tricked By the Light” website spells out.[33] The “white light” of NDE’s, according to Bush is nothing but an archonic trick.
The Gnostic text Pistis Sophia says the false Gaud Demiurge stole Light from the goddess Sophia in order to enable his ensouled slave creations to stand and I believe (much like the Devil) he is still stealing souls with the light that is seen at death. In my opinion we need to raise our spiritual energy level high enough that we will shoot on past the level that his false light is at so that we can reach the Light of Lights in the Eternal Light realms or what is called The Height of Heights. Sophia repented after she had created the Demiurge by mistake. Jesus saved her and partially restored Her Light, but the rest of Her Light Power is within humans.
On the same website, Wanye Bush also points out that viruses also appear worm-like and alien in their appearance as well as some theorize, that they could very well have been the original inhabitants of planet Earth. As we will see later, magical practice, however, is condemned by some of the writers of the Nag Hammadi Library and other apocryphal texts. The Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn also has a Kabbalistic diagram featuring the Woman Clothed with the Sun. It also contains references to commanding the powers of darkness through Solomonic, Hermetic magic. We must consult Tomas Stacewicz’s The Origins of the Qabalistic Tradition of the Golden Dawn[34] for more information.
…she really can be seen to be the Divine Mother in the Qabalistic partzufic Holy Trinity of Father, Mother and Son. All of this makes a very interesting connection to the diagram of Garden of Eden Before the Fall, taken from the Grade of Practicus of the Golden Dawn in the Outer, and the angelic female figure surmounting this diagram (see Figure 11). This image expresses the divine feminine, the Holy Qabalah referred to as Aima Elohim, which may be translated as “the Mother of God”. Through the imagery she directly corresponds to the Woman of the Apocalypse from the 12th Chapter of the Book of Revelation as quoted above. I further believe that the dynamics between the Virgin Mary and the Woman of the Apocalypse is a very interesting subject, the former being the earthly, fallen and (in matter) entrapped lesser version of the Greater Mother as represented by the latter. In the diagram below the Lesser Mother is represented by the feminine figure (Eve) at the base of the Cross holding the two Pillars, serving as the foundation of existence.
Diagram of the Garden of Eden before the Fall of the Golden Dawn.
According to the diagram, this “Sun Lady” appears to be castrated much like Ouranos and Saturn since “she” is hiding behind the flaming sun. Also notice in the above diagram, it is the seven-headed dragon Satan who holds existence at the very bottom—at the Malkuth Kingdom level of existence—the passageway to the Tree of Death being the Qliphoth or Hell. This is the punishment he must endure. Malkuth is essentially the Kingdom of Satan. The same author also explains Jesus’s main purpose for his Incarnation in Kabbalistic terms.
…the creation below the Abyss is in a hopeless condition that only can be restored by a Messianic figure. This is a reference to the New Adam in the philosophy of the Golden Dawn, which is said to be able to reclaim his throne in Tiphareth and rule with his Rod of Iron, a clear reference to the 12th Chapter of the Book of Revelation. The Messiah is the offspring of the fatherly Chokmah (Wisdom) and the motherly Binah (Understanding) –
Abba and Aima, the “thoughtful light” and the “thoughtless light” respectively. Together they beget the created world below the Abyss but also its redeemer – the Messiah – that can be seen as being represented by Daath (Knowledge). Daath is both involved with the Fall but simultaneously also constitutes its highest point and the intermediary between the Supernal Triad and the fallen universe. The Messiah, according to Nathan, stands above the law of Torah and cannot be judged by the common criteria of morality concerning what is good and what is evil. As the redeemer of the fallen world, and the intermediary link between that which is above and that which is below the Abyss, he must also become part of its fallen condition. Thus he must descend into the pit of snakes, and in the Diagrams of the Garden of Eden Before and After the Fall he is represented by the crucified man (Adam) who partakes in the fall of Eve (see Figures 11 & 12). Nathan explains that the soul of the Messiah, as well as ours, constitutes both the “thoughtless light” and the “thoughtful light.” In his mission he cleanses and redeems the fallen ones, but becomes himself unclean and fallen in the process. He is according to Nathan “the holy serpent” which subdues the “serpents of the abyss,” which reminds us of the numerical concordance between the word mashi’ah (the anointed) and nahash (serpent).
The view of such dark, chaotic (even infernal) forces as fundamental to the physical world is a very Gnostic one. Gnosticism, the Hermetica, and the Qabalah teach that the physical world (as we know it) came about only after Adam Kadmon’s fall from the Celestial Eden. The physical world of suffering, in this view, is a cross-pollination of Divine Light and the earthly demonic Shells that attempt to obscure it. The concept of the End Times, of course, is the reversal of Adam’s Fall and the re-elevation of the world back to the Celestial Paradise.
Regarding Adam Kadmon, he too is both a celestial incarnation of the Ein Sof, or the Alien God, who in Platonic and Mithraism, can also be equated with Aion. This deity is the hypercosmic leontocephaline, the winged lion-headed male figure whose nude torso is entwined by a serpent, who typically holds a sceptre, keys, or a thunderbolt that we saw earlier. In this fashion, the Adam Kadmon may also be equated with Saturn/Cronos as David Talbott reveals in The Saturn Myth (p. 131).
The created Cosmos, say the Zoroastrian texts, took the form of an immense giant named Spihr, housing the elements of fire, wind, water, and earth. The Spihr was “the First Body,” “the body of Zurvan of the Long Dominion.” “As the god whose body is the firmament he is the macrocosm [Cosmos as a whole] corresponding to man, the microcosm [Cosmos in miniature],” observes Zaehner. Thus did Zurvan come to be viewed as “the prototype of man,” eventually acquiring human form as the first ancestor—“the origin of the human race.” Saturn’s identity as the Heaven Man and first ancestor occurs again and again in Gnosticism, in alchemy, and in the traditions of the Kabala.
“As the first man,” observes Jung, “Adam is Homo maximus, the Anthropos [Man par excellence] from whom the macrocosm arose, or who is the macrocosm. He is not only the prima materia but a universal soul which is also the soul of all men.” Saturn, Jung adds, is a synonym for Adam and the prima materia. The planet is the Philosophical Man or Original Man—“the blessed Man on high, the arch man Adamas.” In the Great Magical Papyrus of Paris, Cronos/Saturn is “Lord of the World, First Father.” Orphic thought identifies the primordial man Prometheus with Saturn; the Lapps speak of the ancient Waralden Olmay or “World Man”—who “is the same as Saturnus”; and Norse legend identifies Saturn as the Heaven Man Kroder.
Earlier in the paper, Tomas Stacewicz connects the Frankist-Sabbatean Qabalistic movement with the cult of the Black Madonna—for our purposes, is another mask or “dark twin” of our Sun Lady.
As a matter of fact Jacob Frank and his followers adored the Holy Mother – The Virgin Mary – The Virgin of Częstochwa or Black Madonna of Poland, which Frankists associated with Shekhinah. The cult of the Black Madonna is a form of a worship of the Divine Feminine, and in reference to the Qabalistic theory on the partzufim or “countenances” it thus blended well with the Sabbatian-Frankist movement – also in virtue of its sexual mysticism. We know that Jacob Frank was a devout worshiper of the Divine Feminine, which is easily discernable in one of his sayings: “In a dream in Częstochowa I saw the Goddess who came to me appearing as a beautiful virgin.”
Taken from The Holy Serpent of the Jews by Texxe Marrs.
Returning to Tomas Stacewicz in The Origins of the Qabalistic Tradition of the Golden Dawn, he connects serpents with the Kabbalistic Abyss, as well as the Red Dragon from Revelation. The diagram was made to chronicle the descent of light from the Supernal Eden.
Nathan of Gaza also originated the concept of the infernal abyss filled with serpents, set out to destroy creation, also in Zoharic terms called Sitra Ahra (or “the Other Side”), the world of shells or Qlippoth, situated below the Supernals on the Tree of Life, in which the thoughtless light resides (see Figure 12). This clearly refers to the Red Dragon symbolism of the Golden Dawn, which can be seen in the Diagrams the Garden of Eden Before and After the Fall from Practicus and Philosophus Grades respectively (see Figures 11 & 12).
Figure 12. Diagram of the Garden of Eden After the Fall.
This Red Dragon is related to the Lesser Mother, in the image seen as descended into Hell or Sitra Ahra proper, represented by the circle with seven spheres at the bottom of the Tree of Life (see Figure 12). Thus the Dragon Power is properly speaking a symbolic representation of the impulse of the Fallen and Lesser Mother to ascend and reunite with her consort at the Supernal Eden. The Red Dragon with seven heads is of course another reference to the Book of Revelation, which states that “there appeared another wonder in heaven; and behold a great red dragon, having seven heads and ten horns, and seven crowns upon his heads.” It is also to be found on the floor of the Vault of Adepti (see Figure 13). Reading the teachings of the Golden Dawn regarding the Red Dragon one becomes struck with the controversial contents of its antinomian teaching, where the goal of the Adept is to ride upon the back of the Dragon, harness the forces of “evil” and gain strength therefrom. This concept also has its equivalent in the Zoharic concept of “The Rider of the Serpent.”
Figure 13. The floor of the Vault of the Adepti.
The Golden Dawn teachings concerning the Fall and the Garden of Eden concerns the process which leads to the “breaking of the vessels.” Note that the diagram of the Garden of Eden after the Fall (see Figure 12) depicts the Tree of Life in the form of a cross, which only contains the seven lowest Sephiroth and Daath (which indicates the centre of the cross), and at the mercy of the Red Dragon. According to Nathan of Gaza, the only part of the Tree of Life which is saved from the attacks of the Dragon, is the Supernal which is symbolized by the great circle, because of it being protected by the four (Elemental) Cherubim and the Flaming Sword which God placed there for the protection of the Garden. According to Nathan, this is the place of the “thoughtful light” upon the Tree of Life.
The original unity and division between God or Yahweh and his bride/consort Asherah are written in detail in the Sun Lady Unveiled. Perhaps this is what the Golden Dawn diagram “After the Fall” symbolizes. Tracy Twyman, in her article, Fake N.E.W.S.: Unboxing the Compass[35], connects the Sun Lady’s male child with Jesus’s descent into Hades.
The motivation of those trapped below, like demons in Hell, or like the Cainites in The Book of the Cave of Treasures, is to bring those who have usurped them down as well. Before the Fall, the subjugated Dragon is asleep, dreaming of the day when he will awaken, overcome the Man, drag his woman down to Hell, and penetrate the Supernal Eden once again. The Golden Dawn’s literature said that this was accomplished by tricking the woman, who was supporting the entire Tree above her, to stoop down to pick up some fruit beneath her. This is what caused the lower part of the Tree to fall into the jaws of the waiting dragon heads.
The “woman clothed with the Sun” in Revelation also had a dragon waiting to devour her child. We are seeing the illustration of those verses in these Golden Dawn diagrams. The Sun covering her womb in the Supernal Eden is the child Jesus. After the Fall, the dragon has devoured it. This happened when Christ descended into Hades, the belly of the Beast. That’s how it gained the additional eighth head.
But I think it was only temporary. Eventually, the Tree will be restored again, and the Sun will shine in Eden once more. But it’s never really done. This is the continuous loop connecting the End of the World to the restoration of Paradise, the war between God, Man, and the Devil.
Be warned: Any usage of a spirit or Ouija board opens the user up to demonic oppression and possession. And I say this with all respect to Tracy Twyman’s memory. This is what more than likely happened to Tracy Twyman in the end, who put her life and perhaps even her soul on the line for forbidden knowledge.
In this essay, Tracy Twyman makes a presentation of the universe as revealed by the spirits of Ouranos and Mithras (supposedly) she was in contact, is even more startling and specifically mentions the hypercube symbol associated with Saturn—a cube within a cube—as the real model of the universe. This somehow also weirdly affirms the infamous “flat earth” model as well. We are in the inner cube while the dead spirits are in the outer cube. Later in the essay, she compares the Tree of Life with the hypercube, theorizing that perhaps the universe or even “multiverse” (if there is such a thing) conforms to this specific shape. Tracy also emphasizes the Saturn myths and applies them to the idea of the Matrix.
Tracy wrote about the Plus Ultra elite ascending the stairway to heaven through the “keystone.” But she also alluded to the idea that what they find is really a staircase to hell. The Masonic Royal Arch rituals depict the initiates as Templars discovering the keystone in the floor of Solomon’s Temple, and an underground vault beneath that. But it’s the same keystone they show in the arch. It implies that the “portal to the outside realm” is really a portal to hell.
Maybe we are in Hell in that Earth is a bubble of safety inside Hell that we get released from at the end, either into the New Jerusalem Cube with Jesus or into the Lake of Fire with the rest. The good guys go into the cube, and then the firmament collapses, the stars fall from heaven, the water turns to blood because everything is getting mixed together when the up and the down become the middle. This is symbolized in William Blake’s The Marriage of Heaven and Hell. Also, a lot of those stories in Revelation seem like they might be depicting the war in heaven at the beginning too as if the beginning and the end are both parts of the same scene taking place in a timeless realm and the human race is smack dab in the middle of it.
Tracy also revealed that the Sun and the Moon are portals or gateways to a realm beyond. If this Sun were to not be replaced, the universe would begin to collapse and fold up into nothingness, back into the abyss of chaos. In each new successive aeon, the moon gives birth to a new Sun and the old Sun goes underground.[36] In this process of successive solar worlds, a powerful black magician (named Blake Rosenberg in Tracy Twyman’s novel Genuflect), ripped a hole in the heavens through sex-magic and alchemy, allowing him to escape while our own reality collapses around us, thus ensconcing him as our new divine overlord, making our world a footstool and energy base for those above.
Tracy Twyman also tells us about the Renaissance magician/astrologer/secret agent to Queen Elizabeth, John Dee, and his system of magic as the underlying unifying force behind our current reality. In particular, John Dee’s connection with the United States of America is emphasized, when it was initially found or even conjured as the “New World” or the “New Aeon” and ultimately the new Atlantis as Freemasons claimed this was so—the birthplace for the final New World Order and the New Babylon of Revelation 17 and 18 and its eventual annihilation and judgment by God. In essence, the world in its current form is an artificial reality induced by black magic. In fact, it was John Dee who gave us our current map of the world. In other words, John Dee is the demiurge of our current reality that is currently breaking down and being alchemically transmuted into something else as if all existence is trapped inside an alembic.
Renaissance alchemy was treated as a science, and alchemists during that period were literally attempting to transmute lead into gold. In fact, Edward Kelley of John Dee fame was repeatedly imprisoned for his failure to produce results when promising to create gold. If only they could find the Philosopher’s Stone! The alchemical transmutation of matter not only involves our world but also humanity as well.[37] Zosimos’ Vision is particularly macabre and violent on the level of Hellraiser when it comes to its depictions of alchemy, as we saw earlier.[38] Tracy, further in the essay writes the following:
The Bible pretends to tell a chronological history, but every major story within it is another angle of metaphor on the same primeval events. Which is not to say that “creation” hasn’t occurred multiple times in different aeons—it has. However, this language we use forces us to conceptually separate these events into a time sequence, which doesn’t strictly work. That which is created includes time, and therefore the process of creation is not constrained by it. The Abyss contains all the possibilities of what can be created. It pre-existed and exists still, but not in the sense of manifested reality. Primeval chaos didn’t go away when the light was created; it simply “comprehended it not.”
So Moses, whose name means “born from the water,” is the same hero as Mithras/Saturn, who used a knife to cut his way out of the “womb of the Great Mother,” which is a title for the Abyss. The Babylonians called this hero “Marduk,” and they called the Abyss “Tiamat” (very close to the Hebrew word for it, tehom). They represented it as a fierce dragon that Marduk cut in half. Then, they said, he used its physical remains to fashion physical worlds.
I think it’s safe to say, then, that this adventure did not take place in “Egypt” as we commonly think of it, which is why scholars have found no evidence for it and can’t make sense of the story geographically or historically. Rather, the tale of the Israelites being in bondage in “Egypt” is really about a world that was subdued and forced to carry the burden of another world on its shoulders. It is the condition of slavery endured by those trapped inside the womb of the Great Mother.
The womb of the Greek Earth goddess Gaia was none other than Tartarus, which was Hell. It was the same place that people and gods alike were imprisoned and tortured, often by being forced, like Sisyphus rolling the boulder up the hill, to spend eternity trying to perform some impossible task. Similarly, when the Israelites were enslaved in “Egypt,” they were forced to make bricks without straw. What is the purpose of doing this to someone?
It really isn’t that much different from life on Earth at present. Many people are employed at a job where the requirements for the position can never be fulfilled. Many have jobs where their employer spends more employing them than is gained from their work. A great many people work doing things that contribute nothing good to others, or even cause harm to others. Most people are indebted to others beyond what they could ever conceivably repay. Most of us have physical needs that can never be properly fulfilled, which us a significant factor in determining when we expire. Yet we must keep all of this going. The system we live in demands it.
What I suspect is that, just like in film The Matrix (the name of which actually means “mother” in Latin), where humans trapped inside of a mass illusion are being used as batteries, the womb of the goddess is also her stomach, and those inside provide her with energy. We live in a dream, within which our meaningless efforts generate a charge that’s feeding something unseen outside of the dream. The mother is both feeding and digesting her young, a condition symbolized by the Ouroboros serpent eating its own tail.
There is no escape from this endless loop prison except to cut a way out, as Kronos did. This is how the first conscious entity, which was self-contained, first gave birth, generating the future out of eternity. Thus Kronos is remembered as the Father of Time, whose birth brought time itself into being. That cutting open of the mother from within is remembered as a courageous and creative act that helped us all to be here, instead of inside the mother being eaten. Thus Kronos, Saturn or Mithras was worshiped as a form of God, even if he also ate his children and had himself to be overcome by another.
But because he escaped the gullet of the Mother, and cleaved open her womb, we must sacrifice the first-born in place of the one who escaped. Just as the Lord took the firstborn of Egypt, he required of Israel the firstborn of their animals in place of their child. As it says in Exodus 13:12:
…thou shalt set apart unto the LORD all that openeth the matrix [my emphasis], and every firstling that cometh of a beast which thou hast; the males shall be the LORD’S.
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In Greek mythology, as soon as he cuts himself out of the womb, Kronos (Saturn) began eating his own children out of fear of being “usurped” by them. Zeus survived to dethrone his father because his mother fed his father a decoy baby in the form of a stone. The stone was then vomited out of Kronos, along with the progeny that he’d already eaten. Many of these siblings of Zeus correspond to the classical planets.
But I think that the Mother Dragon of Chaos still exists, and she’s still hungry. I have recently been thinking that the Sun, if a crystal, is perhaps a decoy stone that keeps this voracious beast satiated. If so, it’s role would be just like that of Jesus Christ, said to have taken our punishment in Hell for us, and to have freed the souls that he found there (just as the siblings of Zeus were freed. As Helena Blavatsky wrote in Secret Doctrine Volume II: Anthropogenesis:
‘…Christ-stone,’ or Christ-Rock, ‘the spiritual Rock’ that followed ‘Israel’ (I Corinth. x. 4) ‘became a Jupiter lapis,’ swallowed by his father Saturn, ‘under the shape of a stone.’
Without it—without him—the Abyss would consume everything, beginning with its own “tail.” The pieces of the serpent that were split to become Heaven and Earth will reconnect and become One Thing that will swallow itself completely.
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It is important to recall that Plato’s version of the Atlantis myth was never finished. He prefaced it by mentioning that their land sunk beneath the ocean, but then the manuscript trailed off before he described it in full detail. Helena Blavatsky, deliberately blurring (correctly, I think) the fabled Atlanteans with the “Atlantes” nation that Herodotus wrote about being in Western Africa, mentions in his report that the people who lived there never dreamed while sleeping.
To me, this seems to indicate that perhaps their entire life was a dream. Recall that the Titan Kronos was said by Plutarch be asleep in chains in Tartarus, his dreams influencing our reality here on the surface of the Earth. Some people even hold council with him in their sleep, he wrote. I think of both Atlantis and Tartarus as being nebulous zones of non-reality, dreams in themselves, like the chaos of the Abyss outside of the Universe—surrounding us on all sides, both up and down.
Tartarus, we know, is to be viewed as both underneath and also inside the Earth. We think “inside” because it’s said to be Gaia, the Earth-goddess’s womb, out of which the Titans sprang in the first place, and to which they returned as prisoners after they were defeated by Zeus.
But from what Uranus was telling us on the Ouija board, Tartarus is the chaos surrounding everything that exists. Perhaps what’s “inside the Earth” is really a portal leading to it, a vagina leading to a womb of nothingness, from when possibilities in potential take form in solid reality as they are birthed into the Earthly realm. It also seems to be a place where things that have been real before are ostracized, to be remembered as fables, but not considered history—alternate forks in a choose-your-own-adventure story.
In Meet Mete: Twyman’sIntroduction to Mysterium Baphometis Revelatum, English Translation,[39] Tracy Twyman also makes further parallels with Christ and Saturn myths.
The parallels with the story of Jesus Christ might have been obvious to the Templars. After his death on the cross, he was swallowed by Hell, but, according to Catholic doctrine, released all the souls there (and according to most Christians, he certainly purchased the potential release of them all). Also, many Gnostic texts describe Christ as an “alien” from the light realm of the Pleroma beyond creation, whose presence here is being rejected as a foreign object by the body of the Demiurge, within whose gullet creation apparently was thought to reside. Finally, the way in which the children of Chronos are “born again” with the stone in reverse order from their first birth, like a Christian reborn with Christ, could have been seen as a fulfillment of the prophecy made by Jesus in Matthew 20:16 that “the last shall be first, and the first last”(KJV). Also, in Revelation 4:1, the one sitting on the throne of God is actually described as a stone.
After this I looked, and, behold, a door was opened in heaven: and the first voice which I heard was as it were of a trumpet talking with me; which said, Come up hither, and I will shew thee things which must be hereafter. And immediately I was in the spirit: and, behold, a throne was set in heaven, and one sat on the throne. And he that sat was to look upon like a jasper and a sardine stone: and there was a rainbow round about the throne, in sight like unto an emerald.
This takes place within the New Jerusalem, described as a cubic city, the righteous ones selected to be saved must enter before the Lake of Fire destroys the rest of creation (thus making the inside of the box a new cosmos in itself). It is described by St. John the Divine as “coming down out of heaven from God, shining with the glory of God. Its radiance was like a most precious jewel, like a jasper stone, clear as crystal.”
Thus, any future emergence from this crystal enclosure into a larger realm could be considered a “birth from the stone,” and the cubic city viewed as a vehicle that safely guides the passengers through the ocean of chaos into a new realm. This is actually how oceans were viewed in ancient cosmologies: as bowls of primordial chaos, full of that which preceded material existence. Thus, existence was viewed as literally coming out of the sea, just as evolutionary biology now claims more complex forms of life were formed on Earth.
This would explain why the stone in the Greek story, the substitute for Zeus, was called omphalos, and said to be the “Navel of the World.” In Jerusalem, in the floor of the Al-Aqsa mosque, there is something similar, called the Eben Shityah, the “Foundation Stone of the World.” The Ark of the Covenant supposedly rested upon it, and there are even Christian traditions saying that this is the real location of Golgotha (“the Place of the Skull”), where Jesus was purportedly crucified.
The curious connection between Christ and Saturn/Chronos is also further elaborated in my book.[40]
Interlude.
Biblical Gematria
According to the English numerological system by increments of 6, whereby A= 6, B=12, C=18, etc, the number of the name of Jesus is 444, and the number of the name of Lucifer is also 444. Hence, Jesus = Lucifer. Both are shining serpentine beings, and both have at one time or another been bringers of light. Not that they are the same entity, but rather they are the same or similar species. In Jesus’ last words of the New Testament, he said, “I am that bright morning star,” (Revelation 22:16) which hearkens back to Isaiah, where it is written, “How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!” (Isaiah 14:12). The Hebrew here for “Lucifer” is hilel ben shaker, which refers to the bright morning star, Venus. Hence, Jesus is that bright morning star, the son of the morning, symbolically Venus, and he is called by this name because he is the carrier of light. Jesus replaces the first carrier of light who fell from grace, and thus Jesus is the new Lucifer.
This is further borne out by the fact that when 444 and 444 are added together, that is Jesus and Lucifer being added together, the sum is 888. 888 is the number of the name of Jesus according to the Greek system of numerology and as we saw earlier. Hence, Jesus + Lucifer = Jesus, 444 + 444 = 888; which ironically also means that Lucifer mathematically is a zero, a looser, if the equation is changed to Jesus + looser = Jesus, that is 888 + 0 = 888. This makes sense because Lucifer fell from grace, and so he is counted as a zero, a looser. It is well documented that 888 has always been the number of the name of Jesus. For example, Hippolytus stated:
….the Greek alphabet has eight monads and eight decades, and eight hecatontads; and these exhibit the calculated sum of eight hundred and eighty-eight, that is, Jesus, who consists of all numbers. And that on this account He is called Alpha (and Omega), indicating His generation (to be) from all (The Refutation of All Heresies 6:45).
Irenaeus likewise stated, “This is the name of Jesus; for this name, if you reckon up the numerical value of the letters, amounts to eight hundred and eighty-eight. If you count up the numerical value of the letters you get 888” (Against Heresies 1.15.2). If seeking Biblical confirmation, one may look to the book of Revelation, since it also implies that Jesus is 888. The chronology of Revelation is as follows: The beast, 666, is followed by the wrath of the apocalypse, which in Revelation is 7 trumpets, 7 plagues, and 7 bowls of wrath, 777, and this is followed by the triumphant second coming of Jesus, 888, who then says “I am the bright morning star,” which is Lucifer, 444, and when added to himself, who is also 444, the sum is 888. And so, there is a numerological pattern to Revelation.
The actual calculation of the number of the name of Jesus is as follows: The Greek letters of his name, IESOUS, carry the values 10 for Iota, 8 for Eta, 200 for Sigma, 70 for Omikron, 400 for Upsilon, and 200 for Sigma, which when added together total 888. Numerology is by no means arbitrary, for the values of the letters do not change from word to word, but stay constant; thus, there are most certainly a very limited number of interpretations for any given word.
Moreover, the number 888 is borne out by an Old Testament prophecy that foreshadowed Jesus long before his coming. The famous prophecy that Judah would continue its government until Shiloh came, that is, until the kingdom of Judah came to whom it belonged, has traditionally been interpreted to be a prophecy that when Jesus came, the nation of Judah would cease to exist—a fact which actually happened in history because shortly after Jesus came, the Jewish nation was abolished by the Roman Empire. The Hebrew word Shiloh calculates to 345.
When combined with the Holy Name of God which was spoken through the burning bush to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM,” (Exodus 3:14) which calculates to 543, these two added together are 888. Jesus claimed to be the I AM of that statement (John 8:58) and so it too is traditionally interpreted to be a foreshadowing of him. This relates to the conflation of Yahweh with Jesus, which we will address later. However, it is more accurate to say that Jesus was indeed what he said he is that he is the “Word” of God or the Father, just as Johannine prologue says and “keeps His word” while the Pharisees do not know Jesus’ Father at all. Hence, the Pharisees are only aware of a lesser, inferior power being Yahweh as the “Lord of Hosts” and his angels and demons (or the archons) at his command and not the Father above, being El Elyon, the Most High like we originally see in First Temple Judaism. At any rate, there are still several allusions between Jesus and Yahweh, which I note in my book. The calculations are as follows: Shiloh in Hebrew letters is SYLH, which carry the numbers 300 for Shin, 10 for Yod, 30 for Lamed, and 5 for Heh—these added together are 345.
“I AM WHO I AM” in Hebrew is “AHYH ASR AHYH.” Aleph is 1 and Reish is 200. Hence, we have AHYH 1+5+10+5 and ASR 1+300+200 and AHYH 1+5+10+5, which is 21+501+21 = 543. Thus, when I AM WHO I AM is added to Shiloh, which symbolically means that when the Unfathomable God becomes king of the Jewish nation in the form of the Messiah, then his numerological equation will be 543+345 = 888, that is, I AM WHO I AM + Shiloh = Jesus. Hence, this numerological prophecy of the Old Testament confirms that Jesus is the Messiah. 888, when turned on its side, is three infinity symbols, which symbolizes the infinite nature of the Holy Trinity.
Part III.
Revisiting the Compass
In another article, the Christian historian and Theologian Sextus Julius Africanus and his work Narrative of Events Happening in Persia on the Birth of Christ have been mentioned.[41] Fulcanelli in The Mystery of the Cathedrals: Esoteric Interpretation of the Hermetic Symbols of The Great Work (p. 53), tells us more about this source.
A priest announces that Juno has conceived. All the statues of the gods dance and sing at this news. A star descends and announces the birth of a Child, the Beginning and the End. All the statues fall down with their faces to the ground. The Magi announce that this Child is born at Bethlehem and advise the king to send ambassadors. Then Bacchus (Aiovuoos) appears and predicts that this Child will drive out all the false gods. Departure of the Magi, guided by the star. At Bethlehem they greet Mary, have a portrait of her with the Child painted by a skilful slave and place it in their chief temple with this inscription: “To Jupiter Mithra (Aii HAio-to the Sun God) to the Great God, to King Jesus, the Persian Empire makes this dedication.”
Then said we to her: Mother, mother, all the gods of the Persians have called thee blessed. Thy glory is great; for thou art exalted above all women of renown, and thou art shown to be more queenly than all queens.
The child, moreover, was seated on the ground, being, as she said, in His second year, and having in part the likeness of His mother. And she had long hands, and a body somewhat delicate; and her colour was like that of ripe wheat; and she was of a round face, and had her hair bound up. And as we had along with us a servant skilled in painting from the life, we brought with us to our country a likeness of them both; and it was placed by our hand in the sacred temple, with this inscription on it: To Jove the Sun, the mighty God, the King of Jesus, the power of Persia dedicated this.
This part is relevant to the story since, on September 23, 2017, the “great wonder sign” of Revelation 12 took place in the month of Virgo, the only woman in the twelve constellations. Many had theorized about this and connect to Jupiter with Virgo, when it entered Virgo almost a year ago, around November 20, 2016, with “conception” occurring on Hanukkah (the Festival of Light). Due to its retrograde motion, Jupiter spent a little more than nine months within the womb of Virgo. This falls within the average length of time for the gestation of a human baby. Jupiter will then exit Virgo illustrating the birth of the child around September 23. The Jupiterian Sol Invictus Messiah is clearly emphasized in Africanus’s work and connects to Revelation 12.
The Madonna and Child cult is evident throughout almost all world cultures. The son of the Queen of Heaven is often called the “Man-Child” much like what Revelation 12 says. This title is often assumed by many ancient warrior god-kings like Re, Horus, Tammuz, Attis, and of course, Mithras, Helios, or Sol Invictus, etc.[42] This same title is also applicable to the figure of Melchizedek, who is also the Jupiterian royal Son of the Sun Lady, as I discuss in-depth in the book. Tracy Twyman in Fake N.E.W.S.: Unboxing the Compass, reveals that September 23 also has Freemasonic connections, as well.
Perhaps, then, you can imagine what went through my mind when, for the second year in a row, the Masonically-significant date of September 23 was marked with public reenactments of the mourning ritual that Masons do for their imaginary hero Hiram Abiff (a stand-in for the demons who are said to have built it). I am of course referring to the kneeling protests that started the football seasons both this year and last, but appear to have much more momentum this year.
September 23 is the date on which Freemasons observe the Autumnal Equinox, marked as the date on the screen-right pillar on their Royal Arch tracing boards, and the Vernal Equinox marked off on the screen-left pillar, with the keystone joining them at the top of the arch (or sometimes shown removed to let in the rays of the Hyperuranian Sun). It’s also the date that the ladder of seven steps leads to, according to The Secret Societies of All Ages & Countries—Volume 2, by Charles William Heckethorn. But there’s much more, for September 23 is also the date on which Freemasons observe the martyrdom of Hiram. The Masonic ritual revealing the mysteries of Hiram involves half-genuflection to his body, lying dead in a shallow grave.
Stewart Best in Frequency: The Mind Matrix (p. 24) interprets Revelation 12 as the arrival of “extraterrestrials” who, the author claims are, fallen angels, led by that ancient, deceiver serpentine Satan, preceding his world-wide worship as the “Beast” as foretold in Revelation 13. This is what Christians refer to as the “Strong Delusion” of 2 Thessalonians 2.
Here is the spirit war that is invisible to humanity because of the veil over his mind. This is the arrival, and the vast majority of humanity will be tricked into thinking this arrival is from “outer space’) when it is interdimensional, and mankind will think these “fallen ones” are God and His angels. It is the strong delusion.
The movie The Matrix has been very influential in the so-called truth movement. Countless people have used various bits from the movie as analogies of our experience in this world. There’s the blue pill/red pill, the Platonic ideal of the world of matter being a cave where the shadows of the true forms are seen but not recognized. On one hand, I’ve always sort of liked The Matrix (way before I “woke up”), but on another, I’ve found something off about it, especially since V for Vendetta came out from the Wachowski siblings (which are now “sisters”.)
The Matrix, among other reality-warping movies like Dark City, of course, has something that speaks to our current state of existence, and that’s why we identify with the story, but then there’s another element to it. I think there are three different ideas that the popularized idea of the Matrix brings up:
The physical world is not as solid as we think. Matter is solid only because we think it is. On some level, the world is an illusion, or rather a projection, like a movie or a computer game. Yet although a movie or game is scripted or programmed, it’s not entirely unreal. The actors, some of the props are real, in games the code is real.
The Matrix is an analogy of our mental state. It’s the “world pulled over our eyes” as Morpheus says. This means the illusion or deception is mental, and we unwittingly yet willingly contribute to it by believing falsehoods.
The world we inhabit is a prison designed to leech energy off us to basically feed unknown inhabitants on the other side of existence.
These three different interpretations of the Matrix all sort of connect with one another in some ineffable way. I do think that this physical world is in many ways akin to a computer game, such as World of Warcraft or the Sims. It has plenty of nice-looking characters and places, but when you play it, you know the polygons of the (physical) world in the game consists of are merely illusions with the purpose to make the gaming experience more pleasurable. They do not really affect the mechanics of the game, instead, the coding, which is below the surface and cannot be seen while playing the game, is what runs things. It does not mean this world unreal; it simply means this is how this world works.
The second definition is the real Matrix, in which most of what we are thought to believe is false. Whether it’s simplified ideas of religion or materialism that say most things in life are meaningless, or dysfunctional political or financial systems are told are the best option we have. All these artificial, social and religious constructs reinforce the evil inclinations of the prison Matrix we are trapped in. The solution then is, as Jesus says in the Gospel of John, the truth will set you free.
The third definition I think is sort of a half-truth or perhaps a psyop. While currently, the Earth acts as a prison for us in some sense, yet I don’t think that is the original function of the Earth. It is a prison because we (or our distant ancestors) allowed their minds to be taken over by something. I think something wants us to think this world is a prison, so we would leave it, or give it to them. That “something” would be an evil intelligence that controls our reality, and that elites who’ve made a pact with this force are corralling earth inhabitants like cattle on its behalf in exchange for material rewards and longevity. I think something wants us to think this world is a prison, so we would leave it, or give it to them.
Tracy Twyman says in Clock Shavings that demonic entities are trapped within a prism in hell (which is also a Saturnian black box). They are dead but do not truly exist yet they do, they are being tortured and can somehow contact us. She thinks they’re trying to change places with humanity, so we’d be trapped in hell, and they’d be free on Earth. Freeman Fly of the Freeman Perspective has noted that the media, like Disney, is trying to convince to children it’s cool to be possessed by demons. All you must do is watch an episode of Disney’s “The Owl House” to see the Satanic brainwashing on full display as more and more people come out as self-declared Satanists.[43] Katy Perry, for example, sings some very suggestive lyrics in the track Supernatural. And now we see Kanye West who worked on that track about alien sex is now rapping about how Jesus is Lord, which is interesting considering he dressed up as a fly (or the lord of the flies) on Halloween if you follow his social media.
Now as Katy Perry sings, there might not be much difference between a demon or an ET. Of course, CERN is often blamed for opening a portal to hell or other parallel dimensions. Demonic possession and portals to hell are becoming a popular theme. I think the demonic entities imprisoned in a prism box in hell are the ones in the Matrix. Naturally, they want out and are trying to convince us we are in the Matrix, so we’d try to escape. It’s basically a bait and switch tactic. This, unfortunately, is what could have befallen Tracy Twyman.
The Matrix, like online conspiracy culture, tends to promote a mindset that we should try to escape from our problems instead of facing them. All the suicide cults, UFO cults, and people awaiting rapture have a similar mindset that this world is prison and freedom is out there. I would also include the Cathars and Gnostics into this mix as well. This world has many problems, but we do not fix them by escaping somewhere else. And yet even after an indefinite period of feeling blissful love, one would be considered “trapped” in reincarnating on Earth again and again until one awakens and is liberated.
Many religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism, and Gnosticism already teach the need for liberation from the cycle of the illusions of this world. For the demons in hell, however, the situation is different. Escape is the only solution. According to Peter Mark Adams, the author of the Game of Saturn, the Renaissance elite bypassed the cycles of reincarnation by making an astral, draconian pact with Chronos, the Demiurge himself![44]
For non-religious authors specializing in the paranormal and psychic phenomena, like John Keel, the world is ruled over by an ancient artifact constructed by ancient Titans or the earth-born giants that existed before man, called the “Eighth Tower,”(Keel’s book has the same name, p. 171) in the Superspectrum, with the help of seven Yezidi citadels throughout Asia and the Middle East, ruled over by priests of Satan—projecting Satanic, demonic curses throughout the universe.
Stretching across Asia, from Northern Manchuria, through Tibet, west through Persia, and ending in Kurdistan, was a chain of seven towers, on isolated mountaintops, William Seabrook wrote in his Adventures in Arabia, ‘and in each of these towers sat continually a priest of Satan, who by “broadcasting” occult vibrations controlled the destinies of the world for evil.’ Thoughtful men have always uneasily recognized that some superhuman force seems to manipulate human events and subtly guide human history. It was a natural step to divide such manipulations into two parts. The good (prohuman) events were credited to the gods, while the bad (antihuman) events were blamed on assorted demons and devils. It gradually became clear that the bad events outnumber the good, so it was obvious that the demons were pretty much in control.
The earliest myths of Africa, Asia, and South America – myths produced by completely isolated cultures – contain many interesting correlations. They claim that in the beginning men ‘were actually enslaved by the gods. We were like cattle in a pen, forced to build senseless monuments for the use of our masters and even to sacrifice our physical bodies to them. Many cultures continued these ritual sacrifices into this century. Even the Old Testament of the Bible carefully depicts God as a vengeful, jealous, egotistical tyrant who frequently punished man with horrible disasters.
John Keel’s theory (from his book The Eighth Tower) of the “superspectrum” is that it is a layer of reality that exists as a membrane—enveloping our physical universe as a resting place for the “ultraterrestrials,” where all paranormal, supernatural, religious and cryptozoological phenomenon ultimately springs from. In other words, this “super spectrum” is God and there is no God above or outside it to save us. Investigating all of Keel’s claims will take an entirely separate book to analyze, however. Like in the second Matrix movie where the Oracle tells Neo that “all the stories of vampires, werewolves, are programs that are doing things they shouldn’t be doing.” That’s in a manner of speaking not too far off from the ultra-terrestrials or the Interdimensional Hypothesis.
In another section of the same book, Keel (p. 193-194) bases off the observation that a race of titanic giants once inhabited this world, while suggesting that what we call “God” is an ancient super-quantum computer built by super-earthlings, being the Titans. He calls this computer the “Eighth Tower” and makes a stark observation:
The Eighth Tower manipulates a few of us through its manifestations, but it manipulates great masses of us through our belief in those manifestations and our interpretations of their meanings. During the 1960s I wandered dazedly through old cemeteries, garbage dumps, and gravel pits, haunted by the strange, seemingly intelligent lights prancing in the skies, often asking myself, ‘What does the phenomenon want? What is it trying to teach me and all of us?’ These same questions plagued the men of 5,000 B.C., and they plagued Charles Fort. The ancient answer was that the gods owned the earth and that mankind was placed here to serve them. Fort simplified this. We are property.
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You and I are biochemical robots controlled by the powerful radiations being broadcast from the Eighth Tower. Our brains are programmed like computers, and many of us are suddenly and completely reprogrammed at some point in our adult life. At birth our entire lives are planned for us, and as we weave and totter through our allotted three score and ten, we find ourselves manipulated by “luck”, by strange coincidences, and by sudden changes in ourselves and our environment. Visualize a mad scientist who needs someone to clean out his secret laboratory in his castle on a forbidding mountaintop. He constructs a mechanical robot for the job and programs it so it can move freely within the lab, but if it should open the door and try to move out of the laboratory, it is programmed to self-destruct. The robot calls it slavery. We call it free will. We are free to pursue our life in our own way so long as we conform to the hidden master plan. If we try to circumvent that plan by zigging instead of zagging, we self-destruct.
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Life can seem like a cruel and pointless joke to those locked into a seemingly empty existence. So the Eighth Tower has given us all kinds of beliefs to sustain us. People in Asia and Africa starve to death in a posture of prayer. Lonely, frustrated people shuffle from one mil- to another in the search for a belief that will miraculously give them an identity. Thousands trapped in the technological skepticism of the age are turning to the belief in space people from another world, cosmic Brothers who will save us from ourselves, just as the people of another time looked to Osiris, Zoroaster, and Christ. We sense that we somehow are part of something larger, but it is something unseen, and we try to fit ourselves into a broader cosmic view like ants trying to relate to an elephant. (p. 204)
With Keel’s strong connections between the Titans, (which Saturn certainly was one) and the Superspectrum, this leads me to believe Saturn/Chronos/Father time is ultimately the supreme god here, at least in this universe. All of this is what Q-Anon may be referring to whether it be the “alliance” or “Space Force” military or some super-smart A.I. online bot as the so-called “Great Awakening”[45] which really refer to the rousing of the “Old Ones” of Lovecraft or the Sumerian planetary deities such as Utu, Nanna-Suen/Ekišnuğal, Nergal, Nabu, Marduk, Innana/Ishtar, and Ninĝirsu. Could these same Titans be returning to somehow “reboot” the Eighth Tower?
Q-Anon’s reference to the “Great Awakening” also connects to the Theosophical new-age idea of the dawning of the Age of Aquarius or “Ascension” and the Crowleyan or Thelemic idea of the “Aeon of Horus” where the “Old Aeon” religions like Christianity, Judaism and even Islam are finally defeated. Aquarius is also ruled by Saturn, and Saturn is associated with authoritarian governments, big brother, slavery, mind-control, and deception. Many political movements associated with Nazism, Communism, and Socialism also feature prominent symbols like the sickle associated with Saturn, as well.
I also think part of the Q charade was trying to use Tracy Twyman’s work, and so was Isaac Kappy before Tracy died. As a side note, if you look at Tracy Twyman’s original publishing company, Quintessential Publications, its chief logo is simply a giant Q. Perhaps what I’m suggesting is whoever Q-Anon is, they do take some inspiration from her, as Tracy Twyman herself stated on podcasts and website, she made but subsequently took down.[46]
Tracy Twyman also wrote this in QAnon on 4Chan’s covert coup is about the hidden hyperspace kingdoms.
QAnon repeatedly mentioned “Alice & Wonderland.” People have decided “Alice” is Hillary Clinton. But as I mentioned in “Fake N.E.W.S.: “Unboxing the Compass,” “Alice Rosenbaum,” was the real name of Ayn Rand, who wrote about the hidden realm of “Atlantis,” where, in her story, the elite go to hide under a forcefield of invisibility while they watch the rest of the world go to Hell. “Alice” is also the name of a project at CERN focusing on creating interdimensional portals.
QAnon mentioned “the fall of the archons” a few days ago, and the coming disclosure of the existence of “benevolent ETs.” The TV show “the Event” from a few years ago was about ETs that looked just like humans, and who had names corresponding to Gnostic figures, such as “Thomas” (as in the Gnostic Gospel of Thomas) and “Sophia” (their leader, clearly representing the wisdom goddess who is the mother of the demiurge (the creator of physical reality) in Gnostic creation myths. At the end of the show, it was revealed that the ETs were from a planet in another solar system where the Sun had grown too large and was threatening to destroy all life there. So they teleported their planet to our place in our solar system, and teleported our planet to where theirs used to be.
In other words, they (the evil, fallen angels) are trying to pull a switcheroo at the End of Days, thereby forcing us to pay the price for them, and endue the fires of Hell in their place. This is exactly the sort of thing that the spirit of Cain seemed to be hinting at in the various conversations I’ve had with him on the Ouija board over the years.
GnAnon, an alleged confidant of QAnan, recently also mentioned the Disney film Tomorrowland in some of his latest posts. And CERN. And Gnosis. “Tomorrowland” is a term for a land hidden in another dimension, accessible for those with eyes to see, where the real elite hide themselves, their real wealth, their real property, and their real technology.
“QAnon” is supposedly so-named because “Q” s the highest level of security clearance in the Department of Energy. QAnon has indicated that there is free energy tech being hidden from us that will soon be revealed.
People have been saying for the last year that we don’t know what Donald Trump is really up to: that he’s playing “4D chess.” If you read “Fake N.E.W.S.: “Unboxing the Compass,” you’ll realize that 4D chess is actually the game of Ageio described there, described to us by the spirit of Cain, who told us that it was actually to origin off the game of chess, and that it is a ritual for the purpose of changing reality. As I explained in the essay, the board on which the game takes place appears to represent a hypercube, and I speculated that this may actually be the shape of our universe.
The seizing of the Saudi princes and their bank accounts, and the release of the “Paradise Papers,” is an indication that what’s coming is the lawful seizure of untold amounts of ill-gotten gain. I would think this would also go along with a debt jubilee, as the illegitimate nature of most of the world’s debt instruments is revealed.
But all this sounds like a fantasy. I have no reason to believe it’s real.
Alice in Wonderland or the Sun Lady (?) from I, Pet Goat 2.
A rather curious article from Space.com, reveals that conclusive alien life may be found in 2020.[47] According to an Orthodox Christian website called Daimonolgia[48] about a story about descending people from airships in clouds in the ninth century. As the story goes, a mob of people accused these “airship people” visitors as evil magicians who wanted to ruin their crops. A Christian bishop Abogard of Lyon ran to their aid and dismissed their story of aerial visitors as a made-up fantasy, perhaps to save their lives. It’s the basis for the book title of Passport to Magonia: On UFOs, Folklore, and Parallel Worlds by UFO researcher Jacques Vallee. Interestingly, in one of Tracy Twyman’s articles about her online harassment, she posted a picture of the infamous “Men in Black.”[49]
In one article, Ritual Magic, Mind Control and the UFO Phenomenon by Adam Gorightly,[50] he surmises and connects Aleister Crowley, Jack Parsons, John Dee, Robert Anton Wilson, Philip K. Dick, Whitley Strieber, MK-Ultra mind control and the Montauk Project Conspiracy and connects all of this with UFO’s as well. All this research just points to the idea that UFOs are just another hallucinatory manifestation of the same spirits that magicians conjure. The veil is especially thin these days, with various sightings of Bigfoot[51], UFO’s, threats of WW3, political coups of a sitting President and mass disease pandemics and pestilences—similar to what we find about prophecies of Revelation’s Four Horseman of the Apocalypse—it certainly feels like the End Times. The 11th hour is just about over and the Endgame has begun. Time and space are breaking down into its base elements and heaven will become the new earth.
Next, we turn our attention to Eden once again. Only this time, we must do saw from the angle that there are competing powers, all fighting for power and control over Eden and those who establish, inhabit and rule over it.
Back to the Supernal Garden
What I find interesting is the information presented by Tracy Twyman in her online article, Meet Mete: Twyman’sIntroduction to Mysterium Baphometis Revelatum, English Translation. In this essay, she writes about these gods, who like in the Apocryphon of John, are presented as bound victims of Fate. You can find her presentation video based on her only novel Genuflect and Joseph Von-Hammer Purgstall’s essay on the Knights Templar and the Ophite Gnostic and pagan beliefs at Bitchute.[52]
According to Hammer Purgstall, one of his idols, Tab. I, fig. 13, sports an inscription that reads των υδατων χρυσος [ton ydaton chrysos], which he interprets as meaning “golden waters.” He adds: “What is to be understood by this golden water, or by this golden liquid, is reserved for discussion further on.” It obtained this quality because of the food and drink—nectar and ambrosia—eaten by the gods, which, in a previous book of mine (Clock Shavings), I argued was most likely the flesh and blood of those sacrificed to them.
I think it is noteworthy that the gods of Greece were said to have blood which was golden in color, called ichor, the possession of which was considered the cause of their immortality. When drained of it, they died. But in medical pathology, the same term, according to Dictionary.com, means “an acrid, watery discharge, as from an ulcer or wound.” Regarding this, Church Father Clement of Alexandria wrote that “the ichor of the poets is more repulsive than blood; for the putrefaction of blood is called ichor.” This makes sense once we realize that the gods of all traditions appear to be literally zombies rotting in the bowels of the Earth, using magical techniques involving the blood and flesh of humans to regenerate themselves.
Unfortunately, when dealing with things supposedly ancient and supposedly sacred, we can’t seem to get away from the gore of dead and dismembered bodies, sexual depravity, and the unnatural abuse of bodily functions, along with the resulting byproducts. The Gnostics were accused of heresy for saying these things, and scorned for practicing them, but we seem to find it hidden within every religious tradition, but still hinted at by the myths and imagery in a way that is obvious once you understand the symbols.
Tracy Twyman also makes a lot of interesting observations about the cults of Cybele and Mithraism and their castration rites, which in my mind does connect to the current transgender/gender fluidity/ “woke” mania that has overtaken Western culture now. Tracy Twyman also makes some connections with the Russian historian Anatole Fomenko who claims that much of human history is fabricated and perhaps the history of the Knights Templar and various Christian patriarchs like Jesus, John the Baptist, Simon Magus, etc., were actually closer to them in the timeline than what is originally thought.
On the one hand, the implication seems to be that the person who initiated Hughes de Payens (whose name means “Hugh the Pagan”) into the secret doctrine of Johannism was John the Baptist himself—or, at least, that the Templar tradition claimed he was. This created a bizarre unexplained gap of 1000 years between the alleged date of the death of John and the alleged date of the inception of the Templar order. But this gap is eliminated if we consider the chronological revisions of Anatoly Fomenko, which eliminates the Middle Ages and puts the Crusades right after the death of Christ.
Also, another intriguing possibility is allowed which makes this whole matter potentially much simpler. One can then consider the perspective that maybe the Templars were, in fact, practicing the religion of the Church that chartered them. However, the rituals and teachings of the Church may have been quite different than what has been handed down to us today. It may be that, somewhere along the line, a decision was made to sanitize the religion, to make it more palatable with the developing mores of the day. This may have required the public sacrifice of the Templars, Cathars, and other Christians, now “heretics,” to make it look as though the “impurities” of the Church had been dispensed with. If we consider this, then a lot of the most peculiar elements of Christian mythos and doctrine, as well as many of the otherwise bewildering physical artifacts left behind by our Christian ancestors, make a lot more sense.
First, let us note that the way in which some anti-Christian Roman chroniclers described the “Agape feasts” of early Christian sects sounded more similar to descriptions of the Satanic Black Mass or the Witches’ Sabbath, rather than what we think of now as the traditional Eucharist celebration. These rituals reportedly involved intoxication, orgies, infant sacrifice and cannibalism. It is now thought by most scholars that these chroniclers were probably mixing up reports on the activities of both Christian groups, Gnostic Christian groups, and non-Christian Gnostic groups, not being able to tell the difference. Perhaps, though, the differences were not quite as great as modern Christians would like to think.
These “agape feasts” of the early Christians or Gnostics have many parallels with the Hindu left-hand path tantra. These are analogous to the “Saturnalia” festival of ancient Rome (which would eventually be outlawed) and the sacred temple rites and sex orgies of ancient Canaan Phoenicia, in which Simon Magus found Helena being prostituted or pimped out in a brothel. In fact, there’s reason to believe that the original Catholic Church was originally a brothel dedicated to the rites of Cybele, Mithras, and other Roman pagan gods like Liber and Bacchus. Carpocrates, a Simonian heretic, is said to practice and advocate similar practices and beliefs.
According to Hippolytus (Ref. VII, 20), Carpocrates believed that Jesus was generated by Joseph and Mary, but his soul was more righteous than any other man on earth, and that the angels created the world and the law, and were inferior to the “unbegotten Father.” He held more heretical Judaic beliefs like that of the Jewish Gnostic Cerinthus, another heretic that the church fathers railed against. Carpocrates’ followers, likewise, engaged in “spells and voluptuous feasts” while containing powers and sorceries over the “Archons and the makers of the world…” Carpocrates’ techniques remind us of what we saw earlier in the quotation of the article Astrological Medicine in Gnostic Traditions by Grant Adamson.
The original form of Gnosticism sees the world with the eyes of a mystic: the material world is created (or at least dominated) by evil or ignorant powers, and human thought descended from unity with the divine mind and got entangled with matter. Salvation is Gnosis, the mystic experience of unity with the divine mind, but this unity can also be won by manipulating the sexual energy or by a baptismal practice. And yet, as we uncover in Baphomet: The Temple Mystery Unveiled, there seems to be a tragic warping of this “baptism of wisdom” of the ancient Gnostics and Hermeticists into something so hideous and blasphemous that it can only be described as Satanic. Or perhaps, this was the original intent all along? We see this clearly in Joseph Von Hammer-Purgstall’s work on the Knights Templar and the Arabic Assassins.[53] How strange would it be that Catholic soldiers who pledged themselves to Christ and the Pope would fall into savage blasphemies and witchcraft involving golem and homunculus creation, made from dead flesh and sex magick.
In fact, all forms of magic and the occult are condemned by all higher religions and philosophies, considering their demonic origins. Revelation says that no sorcerers will be allowed in the New Jerusalem. According to Gnostic belief, it was the fallen angels/archons who taught magick to mankind when the “sons of God” came down and had intercourse with women, as retold in the Book of Enoch and other apocryphal texts. In fact, there are numerous condemnations of magick in the Nag Hammadi Library. The type of magick some of these left-hand antinomian Gnostics were involved with is condemned in strong terms in the Pistis Sophia and the Books of Jeu—both of which are analyzed at length in the Sun Lady Unveiled book. In these books, Jesus threatens that those who practice it will go to the outer darkness and be eaten by pig demons and such.
Despite Tracy Twyman’s occult past, this is what she was involved with up until her last days on earth—uncovering the Satanic, Baphometic gnosis of the Knights Templar and every secret society connected with them, including Freemasonry, the Ordo Templi Orientis, French Gnostic churches, the Rosicrucian’s, Illuminati, various syncretic “Saint” orders, and the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn. Mysticism and magick are ultimately two different paths—a distinction that I will elaborate on more another time.
Christianity has historically condemned savage religious traditions such as human sacrifice. The indigenous tribes of pagan peoples did not and consequently brought societies that lacked such human rights. Sure, there were multiple Catholic conquests of the pagan peoples which ultimately led them to absorb some of their traditions, but the fact remains: many pagan peoples would abuse and terrorize their own, all to feed their demonic dark gods who own them like a rancher owns his cattle.
A vision appeared to Paul in the night: a man of Macedonia was standing and appealing to him, and saying, “Come over to Macedonia and help us.” When he had seen the vision, immediately we sought to go into Macedonia, concluding that God had called us to preach the gospel to them.
My brothers and sisters of Macedonia, what many of you may not know is that there was a slave girl among you in whom you’ve believed in, and like so many others of this city you we’re taken captive by the same spirit that held her in bondage. (Acts 16:9)
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“For some of them will blaspheme the truth and proclaim evil teaching. And they will say evil things against each other. Some will be named: (those) who stand in (the) strength of the archons, of a man and a naked woman who is manifold and subject to much suffering. And those who say these things will ask about dreams. And if they say that a dream came from a demon worthy of their error, then they shall be given perdition instead of incorruption.” (The Apocalypse of Peter)[54]
“They are wicked in their behavior! Some of them fall away to the worship of idols. Others have demons dwelling with them, as did David the king. He is the one who laid the foundation of Jerusalem; and his son Solomon, whom he begat in adultery, is the one who built Jerusalem by means of the demons, because he received power. When he had finished building, he imprisoned the demons in the temple. He placed them into seven waterpots. They remained a long time in the waterpots, abandoned there. When the Romans went up to Jerusalem, they discovered the waterpots, and immediately the demons ran out of the waterpots, as those who escape from prison. And the waterpots remained pure thereafter.” (The Testimony of Truth)
In the last quote, there is a straight-up condemnation of Solomonic magick which is very magnetized for demonic activity. Its usage of Sator Squares and such are basically talismans meant to place your mind in an altered state to conjure angels and demons successfully. Solomonic magic comes from the period of the Babylonian captivity of Judaism and when Solomon introduced Baal and Ashtaroth worship to Israel through his pagan wives. As mentioned earlier, it is said in the Book of Enoch that there were 200 of the Watchers that came to earth and took for themselves wives of the daughters of men, and these same beings taught them magic spells, charms, astrology, even necromancy (contacting the dead). What these beings did not tell nor teach them, is that the supposedly dead they were speaking to, was the counterfeit spirits or demons of that person. Therefore, spiritism is not only dangerous but also universally condemned throughout the Bible.
This counterfeit spirit was placed alongside that person, as was one placed alongside us all at birth, this spirit knows the things we know and are with us all the days of our lives, and has the ability to mimic human appearance and voices, this is to whom they are speaking with. Like the rest of magic, all magic is an illusion and deeds performed by demons sent to do the works of the rulers of this world or the archons.
Why would the Father, the preexisting eternal virginal spirit need magick and if the God of this world condemned those of old for practicing it? What shall come upon you who now dabble in it, surely you don’t think you shall escape do you, or did you not know that these same spirits brands you like cattle that other spirits may know who you belong to? The fate and destiny of all who practice such things are always the same: heart attacks, cancers, or some old and unknown disease that cannot be cured. Some may say there is good and evil magic, but I say to them both good and evil magick was taught to mankind by the same 200 Watchers/Nephilim who commanded demons to do the works of magick for them like we see in the text On the Origin of the World which lists a compendium list of demons, angels and their signs and symbols, their duties and who commands them to carry out those deeds.
Many Gnostic texts reveal the beauty of the rose and its thorns. These thorns of magick are ultimately poisonous and toxic to the soul. These Watchers are the wild animals in the book of Genesis that refused to be tamed, learn about them, this knowledge will bring salvation to the souls of mankind because to us the wrestling is not against blood and flesh, but against the rulers, against the authorities, against the cosmic powers of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of evil in the heavenly realms. (Ephesians 6:12, Berean Literal Bible)
And if there are evil forces in the realms of the heavens, then why should one strive to reach there? Did not Christ say the Kingdom (of) heaven, the word “of” means, above, beyond, to have preeminence over a person, place or thing? As it follows, we are called to know our root and know ourselves. This can only be accomplished by awakening from the death-like sleep of ignorance and gain awareness. Just as humans have the “counterfeit spirit” there is also a counterfeit Christ or “El Cristo Negro,” (often associated with Judas) the opposite mirror image or black twin of Jesus Christ. Some call him Judas as we saw earlier, others call him the Beast or the antichrist—both of which are also connected to Chronos as mentioned earlier. Whatever the case is, he is undoubtedly one of the Archons that seek to imprison and ultimately damn humanity.
The Watchers were originally created to watch over humanity as guardians over prisoners that have been taken captive for reconditioning. These Watchers are creatures, spiritual in nature possessing the ability to conform themselves to be like humans, which gave them the ability to mate with them, this was their rebellion.
According to Gnostic belief, “He” the demiurge or the Creator god sent a spirit of fear into this world, and this spirit will cause Men to fear and have a need for a savior to bring them peace, while his pseudo-Christ will offer them “men” a false hope of salvation, He and all of the creatures he created reflects him and his desire to be worshiped, this is the flaw that his Mother (Sophia), it was in her mind to create a ruler over “Matter” that the Savior Jesus may see and take notice of her creation and grant her a place in the Kingdom of Light, to which the children of Light spring from.
The cosmocrator and his creatures have been taking members of the human race since the beginning of civilization, and “turning” or “corrupting” many into “enhanced” tares and have great abilities and life spans to war in darkness, but no worries hell has enlarged herself for them. The Children of Light, however, are themselves the “thought” in the Mind of the Father. They also dwell in the womb of the Forethought of the Father, who is called Barbelo, the Virgin that gave birth to the Pleromic universe and the first-Begotten Savior, Jesus Christ.
It was the creator god, or the demiurge who said to himself “I shall be like the Most High” then he went about creating his “Heavens” first then the earth, being his footstool, then this world. Then he became tired and rested from all his work. The primeval Titans or Giants who sired humanity may be also equated with the Gnostic archons and the chief ruler, Yaldabaoth/Aariel since indeed they were giant in stature (along with their angels, demons, beasts, etc.) just as the heavenly angels like Christ and the Holy Spirit were according to Elchasai, as we saw earlier. These beings are one and the same as the “Ultraterrestrials” of John Keel and are considered the creators of the material Adam race (but not the spiritual race).
The Sumerian cosmology chart shares many parallels with Gnostic cosmology. Different names but each emanation has the same meanings in the same positions. They also have a trinity with Anu as the cabalistic Ain Soph and both sons Enlil (wind and sky) and Enki (water and wisdom). Anu is equal to El Elyon, while Baal becomes king. Both are kings over other gods, but El’s kingship is timeless and unchanging. Baal must acquire his kingship, affirm it through the building of his temple, and defend it against adversaries; even so, he loses it and must be enthroned anew.
One can also equate these archons with the Sumerian gods, the first of which would be Anu (as the chief archon this time). One can also equate some of the various archons with the Sumerian deities like Enlil and Enki. For the argument’s sake, we can put “Yao” (Iao) as Enlil and Eloia or Sabaoth with Enki. Enki was something of a Babylonian trickster god like Hermes, and a craftsman god as well. Enki’s Sumerian name means “Lord of the Earth” and his Mesopotamian epithets included Nudimmud (Maker), Ushumgal (Great Serpent) and Lord of the Abzu, the abyss of the primeval waters. His symbols were the serpent and water—much like what Satan is associated with. He is also identical to the benevolent titan Prometheus who enlightened man, his own creation, with the Fire of the Gods. The mercurial trickster archetype is particularly strong with Enki.
Anu and his connection with Yahweh are also evident. As one fascinating essay called Enlil is Not Yahweh, Anu Is puts it, “…in the Mesopotamian tradition the sky god Anu was associated with the planets Mars and Saturn (Evans, 1998). Since ancient times Mars has always symbolized warlikeness and Saturn has always been considered a dark and malefic planet.”[55] While the research is sound, all of this comes from an essentially pro-Enki (Lucifer)/anti-Christian website.
Therefore, it is said in Genesis 6:4, “there were giants in the earth in those days.” These are the same as the “sons of Anu” or the Anunnaki being the titan-archons that dominate the universe. The “sons of Anu” can be translated to “those who came from heaven.” Anu may also be equated with Ouranos, the Greek deity of the sky or heaven, which is interesting because the Church Fathers also reported that the starry vault or the heavens were also equated with the Dark Womb of the Demiurge and some of these Gnostic groups were attempting to penetrate, manipulate and “storm the heavens” like Mithras. The Babylonian Marduk was associated with vegetation and harvest. As Enlil, he was the inventor of the mattock (key agricultural tool of the Sumerians) and caused plants to grow. Cronus was also considered to be a Greek harvest god.
In Babylonian Myths, Marduk eventually betrayed Anu, his father, and took the power of the Gods. In ancient myths recorded by Hesiod’s Theogony, Cronus envied the power of his father, the ruler of the universe, Uranus. Uranus drew the “power” of Cronus’ mother, Gaia. One story names Enlil (Marduk’s) origins as the exhausted breath of An (Anu) (god of the heavens) and Ki (possibly Danu, or Gaia, both goddess of the Earth) after the sexual union. In both stories, Enlil (Cronus) is a bit of a “problem Child” as is Yaldabaoth who is also called a “child of the void” or the “child of chaos.”
Enoch recounts the history of how the sons of Anu first came to earth and made themselves to be worshipped as gods and his daughters as goddesses, they all were brothers and sisters and Anu there father commanded them to only procreate with one another, he called his children “fruit trees whose seed is within themselves” this is what is meant when it was said in Genesis 1:11 (English Standard Version) “And God said, “Let the earth sprout vegetation, plants yielding seed, and fruit trees bearing fruit in which is their seed, each according to its kind, on the earth.” And it was so.
Anu commanded this because he did not want humans to gain access back to the planet called “Nibiru,” (his divine throne) meaning wandering star, or moving planet—according to some, this is where Adapa was originally created. In other creation accounts like the South Wind tale, Adapa is created by Ea or Enki. Now as for the angels of Anu’s creation there was a group called “the Watchers” which are spoken of in Genesis 6:4, also afterward, when the sons of God went to the daughters of humans and had children by them. They were the heroes of old, men of renown.
It was them, the Watchers that violated Anu’s commandments along with his sons, and this angered Anu, these children born from the union of the Watchers and human women were called the “Nephilim” and it was one of the sons of the Watchers called “Nimrod” who sought to get to the heavens to war against the gods, who himself was an angel/human hybrid, he sort to build a tower and atop of that tower to build a gateway, portal to the heavens, and this is why it was said of the creators in Genesis 11:6: “The LORD said, ‘Behold, they are one people, and they all have the same language. And this is what they began to do, and now nothing which they purpose to do will be impossible for them.”
This deed performed by Nimrod angered Anu and in the seventh verse, he and his sons confounded the language of the builders. What Anu did not count on was, that his own sons would rebel against him and his creation of mankind, humans would also, the first of his sons that rebelled against him was “Sabaoth.” “Now when Sabaoth, the son of Yaldabaoth, heard the voice of Pistis, he sang praises to her, and he condemned the father.”
Yaldaboath/Anu showed himself to be a boastful creature and a vengeful one who could not control his sons nor any of his creation that soon became as great as he was then in his anger he created death, and death was passed into mankind and destroyed his own grandchildren that were born of the relation of his sons and humans as well as the Watcher angels. Theirs is a history of a broken family, an arrogant father, and disobedient children. Therefore, we came to this place, as a testament against Yaldaboath and his arrogance.
In Enochian and Gnostic thought, the spiritual race is from a kingdom that is far above the heavens of Yaldaboath and the regions in which his mother Pistis Sophia dwells. Pistis Sophia is yet, another mask or incarnation of our Sun Lady—which is thoroughly examined in my book. The ultimate fixing of the volatile is within the spiritual heart, however, and this is what Christ spoke of when he said in Matthew 7:14 (New Living Translation) “But the gateway to life is very narrow and the road is difficult, and only a few ever find it.” This is only but the tip of the gnosis iceberg, which is about discovering the root and the origin of our being.
Update: As states and countries around the world experience lockdown and compromised, governments revealing their true authoritarian colors as they strip everyone of their most basic rights with medical quarantines, forced vaccinations and digital currencies as preludes for the Mark of the Beast, economic manipulations and market crashes, CEOs jumping ship, checkpoints everywhere, etc., I am reminded of Tracy Twyman’s words from the same essay, Fake N.E.W.S.: Unboxing theCompass I quote throughout this post and mentions a secret, breakaway civilization ruled over by the Plus Ultra elite who worship Saturn. In any case, the following excerpt sounds a lot like current events.
The idea of creating a secret invisible place on Earth for the “elect” to hide in shows up in Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged. There, society’s elite, lead by a renegade genius engineer, decide to rebel against society’s needy, useless masses and retreat into a hidden world of their own. It’s an invisible realm they’ve named “Atlantis,” hidden inside the Rocky Mountains by some kind of force field invented by the society’s founder, John Galt. This little modern-day Saturn (Lord of Misrule during the legendary “Golden Age”) populated his hidden kingdom of perfect anarchy with society’s true elite. Galt selected them personally and, one by one, presented them with an offer that, for some reason, none of them chose to refuse.
The result is that each of them decides to walk out on his or her life, including all business and family obligations, so that they can disappear into “Atlantis” in the Rockies, and live without rules or expectations in this land of perfect freedom. In so doing, most of them chose to commit some catastrophic act of sabotage against their own handiwork. Mines, factories, and railways are blown up with explosives, leaving heaping, burning piles of ruin, including a petroleum fire that nobody can put out because everybody smart enough to figure out how has already disappeared into Atlantis.
The man who does this last act in particular leaves behind a sign stating “I’m leaving it as I found it.” This is all connected to the title, of course. It’s a “fuck you” to humanity. The message is: “We, the ‘Titans of industry’ who keep the sky from falling like Atlas, are going to ‘shrug’ and let everything collapse on top of you.” This is the “shrug of ‘whatever’” embodied in the Cremation of Care ceremony at Bohemian Club meetings. The Lake of Fire imagery in the scene mentioned above (the burning pit that cannot be extinguished) is a clear channeling of the spirit of those trapped in Tartarus, enslaved and forced to hold up the pillars of Heaven and Earth (or “Solomon’s Temple,” as its presented in The Testament of Solomon).
The little snot who gets this all started—John Galt—invents a free energy machine (a “mini particle accelerator” harvesting atmospheric energy, as it’s described with unintentionally comedic sincerity in the film version). But then he realizes how much he hates humanity, and that they don’t deserve to benefit from his invention. In fact, he decides to take it upon himself to teach society a lesson. So he runs away, vowing as he leaves to “stop the engine of the world.”
He plans to do this by persuading all the other “pillars of society” like himself to following him to his hidden underworld of Atlantis. Inductees are all forced to spend the first night alone in a particular room in John Galt’s house. (Weird, right?) They are made to take a vow “never to live for another man, and to never ask another man to live for me.”
The sun itself has been increasingly brighter and bigger these last few years ever since Tracy Twyman wrote about the alchemical death and rebirth of the sun through black magic. 666 is the cabalistic number of the sun in the occult, after all. All of this is written about by Tracy Twyman in Genuflect. In another article written by Tracy Twyman back in late 2018, called Informant talks to me about Global Debt Facility Tracy reveals that there are accounts worth trillions of dollars that will be “released” to the public in the form of a global financial reset. Here’s what she wrote:
The subject of discussion is an alleged giant cache of gold, silver and diamonds, purportedly put into an account years ago, worth many trillions of dollars, for which, it is claimed, a secret cold war has been waged for years by elites, behind the scenes. Some of the claims about the “Global Debt Facility”– supposedly containing wealth large enough to retired the sovereign debt of all nations–have been spread by alleged World Bank employee Karen Hudes. Hudes has made the rounds on several alternative media talk shows over the last few years, releasing what she claims to be inside information about the existence of these accounts, as well as the people vying to take control of them: the world’s financial elite. Most shockingly, she claims that the people who are trying to take the money there are members of exclusive blue-blood families who are not really human. She calls them homo capensis, and says that they have extraordinarily large skulls.
In addition to Hudes, a Filipino man calling himself Tiburcio Villamor Marcos Tallano Tagean, who also claims to be the true heir to the throne of the Philippines, says that he personally is the actual rightful owner of these accounts, and that if he could get access to them, he would use the money to solve the world’s ills.
Several code words are associated with the subject of these alleged accounts, including “TCM-666” and “AP13652.” Earlier this year, there were many documents, articles, and interviews of people on the internet talking about this subject. Now, there is nothing about “AP13652” to be found anywhere, and “TCM-666” just brings you the Filipino guy’s YouTube channel. This consists mostly of videos narrated in English by a robot voice, making bizarre claims about the supposed accounts while showing images of heavily seal-embossed “official-looking” documents purporting to be actual correspondence sent by Mr. Tagean to various heads of state and other officials working in government positions relating to finance. Comments are disabled on all of these video, and few if any outside of this man’s YouTube channel are corroborating his claims, as far as I can tell. However, until a few months ago, there was plenty of content on the internet about the alleged “global collateral accounts” that made no mention of Tagean or his claims.
Some time last year, I spoke to a person who had reached out to me, claiming to have inside knowledge of this topic, and told me a bit of rather wild information over the phone. We made tentative plans to talk again, but we never did end up doing that.
Considering that the number “666” is part of one of the main code names for the accounts, I have theorized privately that, if these rumors are based on anything real, the “wealth” that really backs up the accounts may end up being the money for which men will sell their souls when the prophesied new “Mark of the Beast” money system is brought to fruition. Perhaps the souls themselves would be the real “collateral” backing the new system. The informant I spoke to told me that the “interbank screens” where the alleged accounts can supposedly be accessed are “in some sense spiritual-transacting.”
Now we find it alleged in the writings of Q-Anon that the Federal Reserve system is about to be brought down, following an engineered economic collapse, and that a new money system collateralized by gold is about to be announced. A few months ago, the Q-Anon boards were buzzing about a new digital system that would trap the consciousness of people who utilized it in a computer simulation, eternally, and which would correspond to the “Mark of the Beast” system foretold by Saint John the Divine.
According to Alexandra Bruce’s Forbidden Knowledge, this is exactly what is currently happening! Others like Karen Hudes aren’t so convinced and think the so-called “Black Nobility” are involved. One website that Tracy Twyman links to in QAnon on 4Chan’s covert coup is about the hidden hyperspace kingdoms, it says about the “Event” which sounds a bit New Agey and strangely communist for good measure, adding to the overall fantastic and overall falsity to this narrative.
Mass arrests of Cabal
Financial Reset (banks closed for max 2 weeks)
Alliance take over of media and broadcasting truth
Emergency broadcast system to be used to announce operations and changes to population
Release of suppressed technology
Full disclosure of crimes against humanity
First contact with benevolent ETs (later)
Ascension for some beings
Could all of this drama and calamities unfolding before our eyes be the final death-throes of our current financial world system as the Plus Ultra elite help bring about the Antichrist system foisted upon the world as prophecied by Saint John? Talk of wars, famines, and pestilences all occurring simultaneously, could not have happened at a better time. Could this world pandemic be an elaborate public initiation ritual for the Plus Ultra elite to conjure Saturn/the Beast to be the literal “king of the world” Rex Mundi or Lord of Misrule over a coming “New Aeon” or “Golden Age” as warned against by the Cathars? After all, you can’t spell “pandemic” or “pandemonium” without the pagan devil, Pan.
This is the same as the Antichrist/Beast homunculus that Aleister Crowley and his OTO cult have conjured through sex magic, mind control, and time travel, as the god of the “new aeon” (the Antichrist) where the pillars (including the sun and the moon) and the archons of the old universe (along with the rest of creation and humanity) are mixed together and transmuted into the prima materia to form a new, artificial universe and perhaps even create portals into other parallel dimensions, as well. The goddess Mete is also depicted as pulling down the chains of the archons that hold up the heavens, connected to the sun and the moon. In the Gnostic text, On the Origin of the World, Sophia is depicted as the ultimate destroyer of this material universe, Yaldabaoth and all his Heavens. Tracy Twyman has also written extensively about all this in her work as well, especially in her book Clock Shavings, which depicts real people being tricked into/unknowingly performing the ritual to open the portal to hell and bring on the Apocalypse. This is the Great Awakening. In her article Film as Myth, she writes:
Sleeping God/Goddess: An important monarch, god, or royal heir has been trapped in a “death-like” sleep in a hidden tomb or prison, an eternal coma, waiting for someone to release them. Thor, Sleeping Beauty, Snow White, Jack and the Beanstalk, Pan’s Labyrinth, and Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos all contain this theme.
Return of the King: This is the destiny of all of these exiled monarchs-in-waiting (mentioned above): they must bide their time on the other side until the moment comes for them to travel back to the other world and reclaim their rightful inheritance there. (This may be rooted in a fantasy of Satan storming Eden to take back his former glory).
Rise of the Fallen Kingdom: This is an extension of both the “Return of the King” and “Sleeping God” themes. The king and the kingdom itself have both been exiled, fallen into the underworld. They plot to “rise again,” like Satan in Hell, and Cthulhu in the sunken city of R’lyeh.
All of this only supports the idea that a global reset is about to occur (and perhaps even a metaphysical reset at that) and perhaps we really are at the End of Days. The real target in this whole drama isn’t the Deep State at all, as the Bible reveals. It’s actually God’s people, the tribulation saints/the church represented by the Sun Lady of Revelation 12, some of which are prophecied to be martyred, by the Beast and the Harlot Babalon while others are quite literally snatched or raptured out of this world before the “new aeon” begins like a snare or a trap for those not watching. You can find more information about all of this and more about future trends in The Sun Lady Unveiled.
[10] According to April DeConick in “From the Bowels of Hell to Draco: The Mysteries of the Peratics,” the fiery serpents were interpreted by the Peratic Gnostics (according to Hippolytus) as the stars that combat the Gnostics from escaping the cycle of birth and death. The celestial spheres or the Zodiac were also considered to be the desert and the Red Sea—synonymous with the one that the Israelites crossed when they encountered the same biting and stinging fiery serpents.
[11]“The snake indicates the incisive and solvent nature of the Mercury, which avidly absorbs the metallic sulphur and holds it so powerfully that the cohesion cannot later be overcome. This is the ‘poisoned worm, which infects everything with its venom’, mentioned in L’Ancienne Guerre des Chevaliers.” This reptile is the aspect of Mercury in its first state and the golden wand is the corporeal sulphur, which is added to it. The solution of the sulphur, or, in other words, its absorption by the mercury, has given rise to a great diversity of emblems; but the resulting body, which is homogeneous and perfectly prepared, retains Philosophers’ Mercury as its name and the caduceus as its symbol. It is the first class matter or compound, the vitriolated egg, which requires only gradual cooking in order to be transformed first into red sulphur, then into Elixir, and the third time into the universal Medicine. ‘In our work, the Philosophers affirm, ‘Mercury alone is sufficient.’” Fulcanelli, The Mystery of the Cathedrals: Esoteric Interpretation of the Hermetic Symbols of The Great Work. (p. 82).
[12]Epiphanius preserves 2 verses from it in Panarion, 26. The second one goes: “I saw a tree bearing twelve manner of fruits every year, and he said unto me, This is the tree of life.” Epiphanius meant to represent the menstrual cycle.
[16] Following Carl Jung’s logic, if Mercury is also the Holy Spirit, then it would make sense that Mercury functions more like the Astral Light of Baphomet, as the Freemason Eliphas Levi discusses—containing the elements of God and the Devil, simultaneously. This is the Rosicrucian Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz. https://hermetic.com/osiris/levibaphomet
[17] Ethel S. Drower, The secret Adam, 1960, pp.21ff. & The Haran Gawaita and the Baptism of Hibil Ziwa, 1953, pp.39f.: “And he (Adam) ascended the bank of the Wellspring and his glory burst forth over all worlds.”
[24] “Coiled around the sky’s north pole is the celestial dragon, Draco. It is said that this dragon protected Hesperides’ garden, which had a tree with golden apples. The constellation is made up of 21 main stars and most notably the ‘Zenith’ star. As part of Hercules’ Twelve Labors, the dragon is killed while protecting the golden apples from Hercules. Hera placed him in the sky to always remember his sacrifice.” https://osr.org/constellations/draco/
[25] Please see Macrobius’ Commentary on the Dream of Scipio and Porphyry’s Cave of Nymphs for more information.
[26] Please see the following paper for more information on this topic: The Pre-Existence of the Soul in the Book of Wisdom and in the Rabbinical Writings Author(s): Frank Chamberlin Porter Source: The American Journal of Theology, Vol. 12, No. 1 (Jan., 1908), pp. 53-115 Published by: The University of Chicago Press. https://www.jstor.org/stable/pdf/3154642.pdf. Also see this article as well: ldysinger.stjohnsem.edu/@books1/Jones_soul/07_whence-soul.htm
[27] The Norse trickster god Odin used to demand human sacrifice, and Norse pagans would sacrifice people to him by crucifying them to trees. In Norse mythology, Odin crucified himself to descend into hell and learn the secrets of the dead, so human sacrifices were offered up to him in imitation of his own self-sacrifice.
[32]Practicing Gnosis: Ritual, Magic, Theurgy and Liturgy in Nag Hammadi, Manichaean and Other Ancient Literature. Essays in Honor of Birger A. Pearson. Edited by April D. DeConick, Gregory Shaw, and John D. Turner. Nag Hammadi and Manichaean Studies. Leiden: Brill, 2013.
[40] “Jesus’s baptism and tests in the desert coincide with his first Saturn-return, marking the mature point of completing his preparation and beginning of his ministry. He requests baptism for redemption for his previous earthly life, having evolved into a higher level of consciousness. His forty days and nights of ‘Temptation’ and fasting in the hellish desert reflect the Jews’ forty years of painful wanderings in the wilderness. There he forces himself into a severe hardship within Saturn’s realm of wilderness; he defeats Satan’s – lower Saturn’s – earthly rule and achieves a higher Saturnine mastership of all physical and spiritual forces.” https://www.astro.com/astrology/aa_article151102_e.htm
[53] Kyle Fraser, in his paper, Zosimos of Panapolis and the Book of Enoch: Alchemy as Forbidden Knowledge, writes, “The Greek word for ‘baptize’, baptizein and its cognates, is connected, etymologically and conceptually, to the alchemic terms baphê and katabaphê which I translate as ‘tincture’.” This is one of the sources of Baphomet etymological origins. As we will see, the “Baptism of Wisdom” eventually was warped into something completely different by the Medieval period—or perhaps was originally that way all along. While Baphomet does connect to the Gnostic goddess of wisdom, Sophia, this creature also connects more specifically to a demonic archon. Baphomet, as suggested by the inverted pentagram, ultimately represents the the baptism of the initiate into the inferno of matter, as opposed to the true baptism of the Christ, which is the ritual reenactment of one being initiated into the Pleroma, or the Kingdom of God.
This is exactly what authors like Zrinka Stahuljak in Pornographic Archaeology Medicine, Medievalism, and the Invention of the French Nation assert that the worship of Baphomet, in which Hammer-Purgstall identified as the secret behind the Templar-influenced Holy Grail legends as the alchemical, hermaphroditic devil associated with heresy, sodomy, and other abominable sins. Baphomet could very well be associated with the “archon of lust” as mentioned by Epiphanius in his explicit accusations which describe Gnostic rituals in pornographic terms in the Panarion (26: 3.3-5.8). The entire relevant section is too long to be quoted here, however.
[54] The man and the woman mentioned in the passage were likely Simon Magus and his sorceress concubine, Helena.
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