As the global reset draws closer, I have noticed a few things happen in my own life. Months ago, right after I published my book The Sun Lady Unveiled, messages containing themes connected to crowns, raptures, and parallel universes kept appearing. James True, an author specializing in mind control warfare and religious technological themes, has often used the tagline “Greatest Apocalypse Ever” to describe our current covid hellscape, which continues to ravage the world for the Endgame. While this unveiling is accompanied by crisis after crisis (pandemics, riots, lockdowns, election fraud scams, threats of WW3, cyberwarfare, global resets)[1], an even bigger crisis looms over the horizon. Tracy Twyman’s last few books that came out were foreboding to the max—anticipating what was to come in this year of perfect vision, 2020.
Tracy Twyman, who died in the summer of 2019, is the author of many books. In particular, the last three books were foreboding in the worst possible way. In the book Baphomet: The Temple Mystery Unveiled, which I co-wrote with Tracy Twyman, we concluded that there were certain secret societies and even more traditional religious leaders (including cabbalistic Rabbis, among many others) are secretly trying to usher in the Apocalypse. Somehow, this involves using blasphemous sex magic, alchemy, mind-control and time travel, at the behest of the infernal trinity—Samael, Lilith, and Baphomet, so that they may incarnate into the Antichrist, damn the human race, destroy the universe, usurp the New Jerusalem—the Heavenly cubed city that descends from the chaotic heavens at the End of the Apocalypse. Revelation, however, tells us, all these demons will be destroyed in the Lake of Fire, along with Death and Hell.
As we continue towards the end of 2020 and into the Brave New World of the global reset, the old-world order of things is quickly dissolving, while the “new normal” sweeps over the landscape–signaling the rebirth of the ancient cult of Saturn. I have made similar statements in my previous mega essay The Sun Lady Tales, but I will elaborate and really get into it here. In my book The Sun Lady Unveiled, I explored many of these ideas, as well. Before Tracy Twyman’s untimely death, she was heavily investigating child sex trafficking, Isaac Kappy’s “suicide” and mind control on a series of YouTube videos. But before that, her focus was centered on a diabolical plot of black magic to conjure the Antichrist and his Satanic minions so that he would plunge the world into the great tribulation so that they can act like little gods on earth or escape into another realm so that they can officialize this grand con status of playing God by dethroning God by storming the gates of heaven at Armageddon. Could it all be related? I do not know.
Margaret Barker, in the book, The King of the Jews: Temple Theology in John’s Gospel, she identifies these dark forces being active in Jesus’ time.
The early Christians identified closely with Isaiah. Matthew in particular shows frequently how Jesus fulfilled Isaiah’s prophecies (e.g. Matt. 1.23; 2.23; 3.3, 17; 4.15; 5.4, 6, 35 and many more). This may have originated with Jesus himself, since Luke says that when he was in the synagogue at Nazareth, he claimed to be fulfilling Isaiah 61 (Luke 4.18-21). The Christians also expanded and preserved the Ascension of Isaiah—originally a collection of Jewish stories about Isaiah—and in the Christian version the prophet is a thinly veiled picture of James, the leader of the Jerusalem church. The stories depict the same conflict as in John 8: the rulers in Jerusalem are the agents of Sammael Melkira, two names which mean “God of the Blind” and “King of Evil”. In the stories, Sammael is another name for Belier/Belial.
Perhaps this force behind behind “communitarianism” or the “great” reset of the globalists.[2] This “New World Order” is not just geopolitical, financial, and even religious. It is the complete alchemical universal transformation—constituting the death and rebirth of the sun and the entire universe under the control of a new god, of a New Æon. The Beast/The Antichrist. All secret societies (regardless of their members’ awareness) are dedicated to this end. Tracy Twyman wrote about all this in her book, Genuflect. In the article Bloomberg, Musk and Mithras: Billionaires busting the Matrix?[3] Tracy Twyman wrote about what these black magicians are up to.
2. So why would anyone want to open these doorways to the realms above and below the universe?
There’s the obvious curiosity factor. People want to see what lies above and below the dimensions available to our everyday senses. But most of the magicians who would be capable of performing such a rite are probably motivated by ambition. Some magicians, I believe, have made alliances with the spirits trapped in the underworld, who have helped them discover the secrets of how to do this. These spirits desperately want to be released from their infernal prisons. In order to get the assistance from incarnated humans that they need to do this, they agree to help the magicians they work with to realize their ambitions of becoming gods by penetrating the realm above.
3. Is there any potential danger in doing this?
Absolutely. In addition to the problems inherent in the release of infernal spirits from Hell, there is the issue of instability in the universe caused by this. When the floor of existence is ruptured, it has the potential to collapse the invisible “pillar” or “pillars” that are said in religious and occult traditions to hold up the heavens. This has the effect of dethroning what the Gnostics called the “Archons,” or the seven planetary divinities of classical mythology. This means bringing the Sun, the Moon, and the planets crashing down to Earth from the heavens. In Greek mythology, it was said that if Atlas wasn’t there to hold up Heaven, it would merge with Earth and snuff out all of existence. This, I think, is the real danger.
Indeed, in Templar artifacts, Mete is also depicted as a dark, titanic goddess holding down the chains that connect to the Sun and the Moon and pull it down to snuff out creation. The figure of Mete points to a ritual shown to bring down the heavens and put an end to fate. Joseph Von Hammer-Purgstall claims that the word “Baphomet” connects a Gnostic ritual being the “Baptism of Wisdom” to release the souls trapped in the prison of matter, in the most violent and blasphemous way possible. While there are certainly other Gnostic rituals which are closer to Christianity and are much more enlightened in the most beneficial way, as we see in texts like The Pistis Sophia and the Books of Jeu (we will touch on these books later), and certainly, most of the Nag Hammadi library is ascetic and even sublime in its epic prose, there is also a much darker version of gnosis that crystalized into various secret societies that follow after the Knights Templar. Tracy Twyman, in her essay, “Let the Heavens Fall: The Rites of Destruction”[4], she connects Enochian apocalyptic literature with Dr. Faustus and Cabbalistic legends of the Beast.
In Sefer Hekhalot, also known as The ThirdBook of Enoch, it tells the story of the fallen angels that bred giants with human women, and it says that they taught their hybrid children abominations of ritual magic. One particular passage is worth quoting:
They brought down the sun, the moon, the stars and the constellations… How was it that they had the strength to bring them down? It was only because Uzza, Azza and Azael taught them sorceries that they brought them down, for otherwise they would not have been able to bring them down.”
Interestingly, in Christopher Marlowe’s Faust, this is one of the things that the title character asks the demon Mephistopheles to be ready to do for him:
I charge thee wait upon me whilst I live To do whatever Faustus shall command, Be it to make the moon drop from her sphere Or the ocean to overwhelm the world.
Now the demon mentioned in Sefer Hekhalot — Azazel — is, in most versions of the tale, one of two leaders of the fallen angels who helped organize the conspiracy among them to impregnate human women. In the First Book of Enoch, God instructs Enoch, who is writing the history of the affair, to “ascribe the whole crime” to Azazel and make him solely responsible in the official record, including the disastrous result of it: the creation of giants who wrecked the Earth to the point that God had to bring the Deluge to get rid of them.
Did Azazel know that these actions would result in such destruction? Was that in fact the point? After all, in both the Christian, Jewish and Muslim traditions, the fallen angels are shown being jealous of mankind, and plotting our doom. They did not think that God should have created us in the first place, and complained that God would honor so much a creation made from “clay.” Our physicality, in the eyes of these angels, is what made us inherently inferior to them, as they are made out of a much subtler substance — “smokeless fire,” as the Muslims believe. The Koran says that Satan was cast out of paradise for refusing to bow down and worship Adam. The books of Enoch say that after the Flood, Azazel and his accomplices were cast into “Dudael,” a wasteland of suffering, as an eternal punishment.
This eternal stretch of painful imprisonment, along with his anger at man and resentment of material creation, might explain why Azazel and his colleagues might be interested in seeing creation put to an end. This brings us to another set of legends regarding Azazel. Rabbinical sources tell us that the tempting serpent in the Garden of Eden was a hermaphroditic creature that consisted of the male demon Samael and the female demoness Lilith compounded together. The cabalists called this creature “the Beast” and “the Other God.” This is especially interesting because some Gnostics referred to the demiurge who created physical reality by the name of “Samael” also. The cabalistic work Treatise on the Left Emanation by R. Isaac b. Jacob Ha-Kohen and Tr. Ronald C. Kiener describes Samael as evil, but specifies that this is “not because of his nature but because he desires to unite and intimately mingle with an emanation not of his nature.”
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The ancients believed that people could do rituals to invoke the energies of the planets and stars into their own bodies. In fact, they believed that the energy from the Sun was the chief source of the energy (both physical and metaphysical) that sustained life on Earth. Even when the sun went away at night, they believed that life continued by means of the energy coming from the stars and planets. In The Book of Nabathean Agriculture we read:
…The Sun sets for the night and one might thus presume that our world would then relapse back to its dead state. This, as we may every night perceive, does not happen. The reason for this is that during the night the other celestial bodies take the place of the Sun and substitute for it (NA, pp. 245–246). This gives the basis for a belief in the effects of the stars, as well … as one may use star- or moon-bathing, tanjìm, i.e., letting something be influenced by the rays of the stars and the Moon.
This connects to something I wrote about recently on this blog (see the quote below), also referencing a book I wrote several years ago:
In Money Grows on the Tree of Knowledge, I wrote how these images from Flamel’s book illustrate certain aspects of the process of alchemy, which can be gleaned if one compares them with other alchemical tracts as well, such as the 16th-century Splendor Solis by Salomon Trismosin, or Fulcanelli’s Mystery of the Cathedrals, published in the 1920s. It was from studying these manuscripts that I discovered that the secret alchemical recipe for longevity is shown to be bathing in the blood of children that has been infused with stellar influences, which Fulcanelli called “the Bath of the Stars.” Fulcanelli also makes reference to alchemy as “celestial agriculture,” which might explain the images of fieldworkers that appear in The Book of Abraham the Jew and other alchemical tracts.
What I have said in the past is that many of the secrets hinted at in alchemical texts hint that one can perform this process — bringing the influences of the stars down from Heaven into the bodies of children, then slaughtering those children, and then drinking and bathing in their blood, to obtain youthful skin or even eternal life. This may be the death and rebirth indicated by the Ouroboros serpent, and many other mystical symbols as well. This may also be the meaning of the term “Baptism of Wisdom,” which Baphomet’s name has been interpreted to mean. Also, in the depiction of Baphomet by Eliphas Levi, he is shown with the Latin words “Solve” and “Coagula, (“Dissolve” and “Coagulate”). These words are used by alchemists to describe the process of dissolving atoms to their “primal material” and then reconstituting it in the desired form.
So is it possible that there are spiritual entities who want to slaughter us — the children of the gods — and dissolve our universe in order to bring about the rebirth of a reality more preferable to them, in which they (representatives of the older, pre-physical universe) are once again placed in their proper role at the helm, instead of being subordinate to men made of clay? Are these the spirits who have inspired such destructive rituals as described above?
Indeed, in Luke17:26 (KJV), Jesus talks about his Second Coming at the End Times[5], declaring that, “And as it was in the days of Noah, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man.” But just a couple of lines later, in 17:28‐30, Jesus also prophesies a fiery destruction that is to come:
Likewise also as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they builded; But the same day that Lot went out of Sodom it rained fire and brimstone from heaven, and destroyed them all. Even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of man is revealed.
In my book The Sun Lady Unveiled, I posited that the End Times will be marked by cosmic warfare—the likes of which the world has never seen before and will never see again—until the beginning swallows the end. This type of warfare will also be reflected on earth when the triggered uprising and revolution occurs. This is the same as what the Black Awakening is all about (we will get to this later.)
As quoted earlier, it was the Watchers or the fallen angels that brought down the stars to earth. According to Aleister Crowley’s Liber AL vel Legis, “Every man and woman is a star…” Could this line refer to fallen, human spirits dropped from the Pleroma, but seized and kidnapped by the fallen angels in the Great War in Heaven? As mentioned in my book, Azazel was also considered synonymous with Venus as well, which is interesting considering figures like Isis and Sophia are also depicted as holding down the chains of the archons and seen as destroyers of the universe. These stars are also mentioned in 1 Enoch 18:14: “And I beheld seven stars like blazing mountains and like spirits entertaining me.” These seven stars could refer to the Pleiades constellation. Here is the whole quote in full:
“The angel said: ‘This is the place of the consummation of heaven and earth; it is a prison for the stars of heaven, and for the host of heaven. And the stars that roll over the fire are they who have transgressed the command of God before their rising, because they did not come forth in their time. And he was enraged at them, and bound them till the time of the consummation of their sins in the year of the mystery.” (Enoch 18:13-15)
“The Pleiades”, by Elihu Wedder (1885).
Sumerian Cylinder Seal. The Pleiades in the right upper corner.
As other authors have pointed out, this star constellation refers to many different points of origin: the seven fallen angels/archons, the seven brides that mated with the Greek Titans, and the seven churches addressed by Jesus Christ at the beginning of the Book of Revelation. In Revelation, it depicts the Living One, the Alpha, and the Omega as holding the seven stars (the church) in his hand and is the one only found worthy to open up the scrolls and the seven seals of judgment. Revelation 10 opens with the scene of a mighty angel descending from heaven, while robed in a cloud:
“with a rainbow above his head; his face was like the sun, and his legs were like fiery pillars. 2 He was holding a little scroll, which lay open in his hand. He planted his right foot on the sea and his left foot on the land, 3 and he gave a loud shout like the roar of a lion. When he shouted, the voices of the seven thunders spoke. 4 And when the seven thunders spoke, I was about to write; but I heard a voice from heaven say, “Seal up what the seven thunders have said and do not write it down.”
5 Then the angel I had seen standing on the sea and on the land raised his right hand to heaven. 6 And he swore by him who lives for ever and ever, who created the heavens and all that is in them, the earth and all that is in it, and the sea and all that is in it, and said, “There will be no more delay! 7 But in the days when the seventh angel is about to sound his trumpet, the mystery of God will be accomplished, just as he announced to his servants the prophets.”
8 Then the voice that I had heard from heaven spoke to me once more: “Go, take the scroll that lies open in the hand of the angel who is standing on the sea and on the land.”
9 So I went to the angel and asked him to give me the little scroll. He said to me, “Take it and eat it. It will turn your stomach sour, but ‘in your mouth it will be as sweet as honey.’” 10 I took the little scroll from the angel’s hand and ate it. It tasted as sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I had eaten it, my stomach turned sour. 11 Then I was told, “You must prophesy again about many peoples, nations, languages and kings.”
Some even suspect that the “little scroll” that John consumes is the Book of Enoch![6]
Angel of the Revelation (Book of Revelation, chapter 10), circa 1803–5, by William Blake (1757–1827)
According to the Gnostic Pistis Sophia, the Church was also actually crafted by Sophia-Achamoth.[7] One website connects[8] the Pleiadean stars with a sort of a holding tank or prison for the fallen angels. The author also reveals that Ishtar, the Queen of Heaven and Harlot of Babylon, is also copulating with UFO abductees for good measure.
Let’s take a close look at the verses in chapter 18 of 1 ENOCH VERSE 15: “Then the angel said, ‘This place until the consumption of heaven and earth will be the prison of the stars and the host of heaven.’”
This ‘place’ is the seven stars of the Pleiades. The word ‘prison’ in Greek (teresis) means “a watching – keeping” similar to a “place of keeping.” This means that the seven stars of the Pleiades will be a prison, a place of keeping of these seven fallen angels. {{Is it any wonder that the Pleiades – in particular – is so often mentioned in THE NEW AGE CONTACTEE literature?
I have often mentioned this seemingly bizarre connection from people who track the Semjases of the Pleiadian system, such as Richard Thompson who recorded the New Age “gibberish” of Semjasa (as contactor) who gave the same to Billy Meier which Richard cited in his book, “ALIEN IDENTITIES” recently I saw Gary Bates cite another reference to Semjase, Semjaza in his book, “ALIEN INTRUSION;” this time it revolved around “her” possible disguised Fallen Angel feeding false or misguided information to author Brad Steiger as well as Fred Bell, grandson of Alexander Graham Bell, so it seems that this ‘lady’ QUEEN OF HEAVEN from the Pleiades is very active in UFO circles; even Whitley Strieber seems to have had sex with a similar Fallen Angel (posing as a female, going by the name of Ishtar, a mother-goddess of Babylon, who has many names in different cultures throughout the world,) as per his own admission in the book, “COMMUNION.” Perhaps Enoch’s clue about the seven stars as well as the actual mention of the Pleiades in The Bible are not coincidental in my humble opinion, and the names they give out may simply be clues as to whom they really are ~~ i.e., FALLEN ANGELS, and with its fruit, by any other name smells as bitter!.}}
According to Helena Lehman, in her article called “The Pleiades Connection to the New Jerusalem,”[9] connects both the Heavenly cubical city of Revelation and “Alcyone” the brightest star of the Pleiades as also being the offspring of the Morning Star as one of the titles of Christ in Revelation.
….the Pleiades Star Cluster may be allegorically connected to the New Jerusalem, which is to be the heavenly and earthly home of the Bride of Christ and her Redeemer Yahshua Ha Mashiach for eternity. In fact, the word “Al Cyone” or “kingfisher” (a brightly colored little bird) in Greek, was the name of a mythological Princess who married a man named Ceyx, who was the king of Thessaly and the son of Phosphoros, which is a Greek name for the planet Venus. Phosphoros was also known as the “Morning Star” in Greek. Strangely, though the wandering star Venus is associated with the Roman goddess by that name, the goddess Venus was known as Aphrodite in Greece.
Although Phosphoros (Phosphorus in English) has been identified with Lucifer due to the connection of the Greek word Phosphoros with the Latin word Lucifer meaning “shining” or “luminescent”, the term “Morning Star” is a special appellation ONLY for Yahshua in the Book of Revelation (See Rev. 22:16). This could suggest that Al Cyone is meant to signify the Bride of Christ, and by extension, the New Jerusalem. The New Jerusalem is the heavenly city constructed by YHWH God for His saints, and it is where our Heavenly Father and His Son will dwell with the Bride of Christ or Church of Philadelphia for all eternity after the Millennial Rule of Yahshua, when the New Heaven and New Earth will be created.
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In Greek Mythology, which was invented to explain the historical events of the Bible’s Book of Genesis from the perspective of the outcast Cain rather than from the godly line of Seth, Pleione was the wife of Atlas, and she gave birth to seven daughters. Atlas and Pleione are the names of two of the stars in the Pleiades, while the names of their daughters are connected to seven other stars in the Pleiades. These became known in legend as the Seven Sisters, and it is my firm belief that they represent the Seven Churches of Revelation in the Star Gospel.
The most common legend about these Seven Sisters is that they were the immortal nymph companions of the goddess Artemis. Collectively, these sisters were called the Pleiades, and they were very close – spending all their time together. That is, until one of them became mortal by falling in love with a human, and was thereby eventually claimed by Hades in death. Meanwhile, the other six nymphs stayed immortal. However, they were eventually given an abode in the heavens as a form of protection by the top god Zeus to protect them from the amorous advances of Orion. According to the Greeks, Orion was a mortal hero and half son of the gods who found the Pleiades sisters to be very desirable. This happened after Orion got involved in a hunt with Artemis, upon which he discovered the beautiful nymphs in her care and began to relentlessly pursue them.
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Furthermore, the Pleiades signify the Seven Churches of Revelation, which are not filled with immortal people as yet, but mortal people who have been promised everlasting life and immortality as a result of their faith in Yahshua as God’s Son, who was offered up as an atoning sacrifice for sin.
Furthermore, one of these Churches – the Church of Philadelphia – is held in higher regard than the others and is identified in Revelation, Chapter 3 as the Bride of Christ, who will dwell in the New Jerusalem with her Five Wise Virgin handmaidens in attendance. In Yahshua’s Parable of the Ten Virgins, the Five Wise Virgins represent groups of born-again saints that will be taken out of five of the Seven Churches of Revelation, which are depicted in the Pleiades Star Cluster.
Heavenly ladder to the Pleiades.
First Degree Tracing Board. Pleaides surrounds the Moon.
Another Masonic ladder to Pleiades.
We must consult Tracy Twyman’s “F.A.K.E. News: Unboxing The Compass” to tell us more about this Heavenly Ladder:
So what is the significance of a heavenly ladder to the Pleaides, the “Seven Sisters” and daughters of Atlas? Albert Pike writes in Morals and Dogma that:
“Before the colure of the Vernal Equinox had passed into Aries, and after it had left Aldebaran and the Hyades, the Pleiades were, for seven or eight centuries, the leading stars of the Sabaean year.”
Supposedly, there are, or were, seven stars in the constellation Pleiades, to correspond to the number of sisters (also called “doves” or “virgins”) in the myth. In Edith Hamilton’s Mythology, we read, “Although it is agreed that there were seven of them, only six stars are clearly visible. The seventh is invisible except to those who have especially keen sight.” Robert Graves, in The Greek Myths, explains that “the seventh married Sisyphus of Corinth, and failed to be included in the constellation, because Sisyphus was a mere mortal. Albert Pike tells us, “They are usually called the Seven Stars, and it is said they were seven, before the fall of Troy; though now only six are visible.”[x] Troy, like Nod and Atlantis, is another fallen netherworld that exists in chaos, which is why a maze or labyrinth is sometimes called, in England, a “Troy Town” (and perhaps why London, built around the entrance to the prison of Kronos in Tartarus, was once called “New Troy.”
But I think there might be another reason for in. I’m not sure, but I think it’s a clue that The Secret Societies of All Ages & Countries—Volume 2, by Charles William Heckethorn (1875), a Masonic ladder with seven steps is talked about that symbolizes the next part of the celestial journey, from the Vernal to the Autumnal equinox, which is:
“…the sun’s progress through the seven signs of the zodiac from Aries to Libra, both inclusive. This the candidate ascends, receiving at every step the explanation of its meaning from a hierophant…. When the candidate has ascended the ladder, and is on the last step, the ladder is lowered and he passes over it, because he cannot retiree the same way, as the sun does not retrograde. He then reads the words at the bottom of the ladder, Ne plus ultra. The last degree manufactured is always the ne plus ultra, till somebody concocts one still more sublime, which then is the ne plus ultra, till it is superseded by another. What sublimity masonic degrees will yet attain, and where they will stop, no one can tell.”
The ladder to Heaven with seven steps is more common in mythology. Supposedly, the Tower of Babel had seven stages, as did the ziggurat or “salem” that Jacob saw stretching to Heaven. Each step may also correspond to a pillar. In the cabalistic text Sefer Yetzirah, it says about God: “He made nonexistence into existence…He carved great pillars.’” According to Aryeh Kaplan’s commentary
The reference here is obviously to the verse, ‘Wisdom has built its house, it has carved its seven pillars.’ (Proverbs 9:1)…
The Kabbalists teach that these seven pillars represent the lower seven Sefirot.
To Jewish cabalists, whose system influenced Freemasonry more than any other, things on the outside of physical reality were even more complicated. Their Tree of Life is usually presented with the following orientation: Kether (“the Crown”) is on top, and Malkuth (“the Kingdom”), containing the four elements of materiality, is located on the bottom. There are eight other spheres of reality in-between these two, with 22 paths connecting them, each one associated with one of the letters of the Hebrew alphabet. Then there are three additional layers on top of the Crown: Ain, Ain Soph, and Ain Soph Aur. These translate, respectively, to “Nothing,” “No Limit,” and “No Limit Light.”
Just as the Masonic pillars seem to indicate paths leading to “gateways” linking different spatial dimensions (and perhaps dimensions beyond time), so do the pillars and paths of the cabalistic Tree of Life. Kaplan writes:
“The two pairs, Chesed-Gevurah and Tiferet-Yesod are like two crossing lines. This yields four directions in a two-dimensional continuum.”
These two dimensions can be represented in physical space. The Tiferet-Yesod axis can represent east-west, while the Chesed-Gevurah axis can represent south-north. This then yields a two-dimensional continuum.
…These, in turn, form a new, third dimension, which can be related to the up-down direction. This is the axis linking Netzach (Victory) and Hod (Splendor).
So now we have evidence that the path between Netzach and Hod represents up and down. Kaplan also writes:
“In Hebrew… Adey Ad [‘Until eternities of eternities’], and this expression occurs numerous times in the Bible…. The expression… denotes the realm outside the time continuum, where the concept of time does not exist at all.”
Note that the theory of gravity is not specified anywhere in the above-summarized cabalistic creation and cosmology doctrine. Instead we simply have the idea that creation proceeds downward. Subtler, lighter things (both in tone and weight) manifest into denser things, “falling” along the way, and thus making that which they came from “higher.”
The Gnostics have the same concept with their Pleroma, the light realm that creation fell from, and really, Christians often believe the same thing, even if they can’t always specify which scripture it comes from. People tend to talk about birth and the afterlife as though somehow we came from “heaven” with “God” before we were born, and will go back there with the help of Jesus after we’re done here. Therefore, when philosophers decided that the Earth was “spinning” and “orbiting” through space because of the pull of “gravity,” they were distracting us from the fact that the Earth is perpetually falling down into the Abyss of non-existence.
There are, of course, Masonic traditions of the Pleiades forming a ladder to Heaven. According to The Bible Temple’s article “Astronomy Confirms the Accuracy of the Book of Enoch”[10] Pleiades also connects to the Sumerian gods of the underworld.[11]
In the Greek myth, seven women were put in the starry heaven because of their mingling with the Titans, by which they were made pregnant. This is also a clear parallel to Genesis 6. And in Enoch, which describes this story in detail, we read, in the chapter after chapter 18, that the women who were seduced by the fallen angels, were to be imprisoned together with those angels, among those seven stars. These Greek women were called the Pleiades, and thereby we know that those seven stars in Enoch must be the Pleiades. Then there is also a myth from Mesopotamia, where seven demons were bound as seven stars in the sky. Also here those stars are identified as the Pleiades. This star formation was very well-known to all the ancients, because of its beautiful appearance and for its role for agricultural dates. Thus we can be quite sure that the stars Enoch saw on the horizon above Antarctica, were the Pleiades.
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The Pleiades are seen as only seven stars with the naked eye (or as six since ancient times). Yet Enoch says this place is a prison for the stars of heaven and for the host of heaven. This tells us there are more than just those seven stars bound together in that place. And the Pleiades actually is a star cluster, consisting of more than 1000 stars! And it is one of the closest clusters to Earth. So, again a surprisingly accurate description, no doubt not given by human knowledge.
To further strengthen the Enoch/Pleiades relation, compare Enoch 18:15, where he is speaking of the seven stars: “And he was enraged at them, and bound them…” with Job 38:31: “Can you bind the chains of the Pleiades…?”
In the Reddit thread, the author quotes an excerpt from “The Devils and Evil Spirits of Babylonia” (1903), where Sumerian underworld titanic gods emerge from the depths of the abyss to wage war against the human race and the gods.
“There are certain spirits described as “the Seven” around whom a great many poems were composed and welded into the incantations and spells. The best known is the Invocation against the Seven: —
Seven are they! Seven are they!
In the Ocean Deep seven are they!
Battening in Heaven seven are they,
Bred In the depths of Ocean.
Nor male nor female are they,
But are as the roaming windblast,
No wife have they, no son can they beget;
Knowing neither mercy nor pity,
They hearken not to prayer or supplication.
They are as horses reared among the hills…
Of these seven [the first] is the South Wind.
The second Is a dragon with mouth agape
That none can [withstand];
The third is a grim leopard
That carrieth off children…
The fourth is a terrible serpent…
The fifth is a furious beast [?]
After which no restraint…
The sixth is a rampant […]
Which against god and king.
The seventh is an evil windstorm…
These seven are the Messengers of Anu, the king:
Bearing gloom from city to city,
Tempests that furiously scour the heavens,
Dense clouds that over the sky bring gloom,
Rushing windgusts, casting darkness o’er the brightest day,
Forcing their way with baneful windstorms.
Mighty destroyers, the deluge of the Storm-God,
Stalking at the right hand of the Storm-God.
They take their stand for evil, and none may oppose.”
These underworld gods also sound curiously close to the Beast that emerges from the sea in Revelation as well. According to Sumerian myth, Nammu, the mother of the gods, including Enki, is also equated with the Cosmic Abyss or the “Abzu”.[12] In the city of Eridu, Enki’s temple was also known as “Abzu” (house of the deep waters) and was located at the edge of a swamp. Wikipedia entry for Abzu[13] tells us more about this character:
Abzu (apsû) is depicted as a deity[3] only in the Babylonian creationepic, the Enûma Elish, taken from the library of Assurbanipal (c. 630 BCE) but which is about 500 years older. In this story, he was a primal being made of fresh water and a lover to another primal deity, Tiamat, a creature of salt water. The Enuma Elish begins: “When above the heavens (e-nu-ma e-liš) did not yet exist nor the earth below, Apsu the freshwater ocean was there, the first, the begetter, and Tiamat, the saltwater sea, she who bore them all; they were still mixing their waters, and no pasture land had yet been formed, nor even a reed marsh.” This resulted in the birth of the younger gods, who later murdered Apsu in order to usurp his lordship of the universe. Enraged, Tiamat gives birth to the first dragons, filling their bodies with “venom instead of blood”, and made war upon her treacherous children, only to be slain by Marduk, the god of Storms, who then forms the heavens and earth from her corpse.
According to New World Encyclopedia[14], Nammu’s daughter, the Sumerian goddess Ninhursag was once considered to be a “true and great lady of heaven” only to be supplanted later by the likes of Ishtar, much like how the Whore of Babylon supersedes the Woman Clothed with the Sun in Revelation. Interestingly, her symbol resembles the Omega sign. In fact, Nammu as the Queen of the Supernal Eden was originally a creator deity just like Yahweh and other sky gods as she is eventually replaced by them as a creator deity.[15]
Returning to Tracy Twyman, in her book Clock Shavings, Tracy revealed some startling information about what it will be like in the End of Days, where the Up and the Down meet in the Middle. In other words, Heaven, Hell, and Earth will co-mingle as prophesied by Tracy Twyman and other contacts. One can read more here.[16]
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Interestingly, there is a folk legend in modern Greece saying that demons known as “Kallikantzaroi” are let loose from the underworld on December 25th of each year, when the sun “stops moving,” according to tradition. This happens because all year long they work to saw down the pole that separates Heaven from Earth, and at Christmas they are finally successful, leaving them free to roam the Earth. If they were to remain at large, it would purportedly cause calamity on Earth.
But luckily, on Epiphany Day, January 6, God puts them back in prison down below, and the pole is restored, so that they have to start all over again sawing it down once more. Not knowing this story, years ago I channeled instructions for “the Divine Rite” of the OLE, meant to mimic the coming crowning of the Grail king. Remember, the rite involved pretending to sacrifice the king, so that Cain could be released from his prison, and possess the monarch’s body, bringing him back to life. This, I envisioned, would be like a key unlocking the timeless realm of Drakenberg and merging it with our own. The date I had chosen to perform this rite each year was December 23rd, the days that King Dagobert II was killed in a hunting accident, just like Cain.
Cain wants to get out. All of those in who are in Hell want out. But the fallen angels down there know something that the human spirits also trapped there probably don’t know: that at the End of Times, the Abyss will open up and let them out of Hell, temporarily. Heaven will also open up, and literally merge with Earth as the white cube of the New Jerusalem descends. In my mind, it is most likely that the black cubic city will ascend from the depths as well. Heaven, Hell and Earth will all co-mingle in a timeless moment. Perhaps the black and white cubes will merge. This may be the ultimate explanation for the checker pattern on the Ageio board.
This, I think, will be their opportunity to switch places with humankind, and be back in the bosom of the Lord. Then again, perhaps they think that they will be able to take control of the celestial Ark, the cube, and be in the driver’s seat, the God position, when things start anew. I think the belief is that, if they can get inside the white cube, in the position of God, they can be God, and they can win the Apocalypse game. Meanwhile, they believe, Baphomet will get his expressed wish: to see “MAN LOST IN HELL.”
We will be outside the cube, trapped in the chaotic Abyss where they were once tortured. Mephistopheles describes this future to Dr. Faustus during one of their conversations. As it says in the Marlowe play:
Mephistopheles: Now, Faustus, ask what thou wilt.
Faustus: First will I question with thee about hell. Tell me, where is the place that men call hell?
Mephistopheles: Under the heavens.
Faustus: Ay, but whereabout?
Mephistopheles: Within the bowels of these elements, Where we are tortur’d and remain for ever: Hell hath no limits, nor is circumscrib’d In one self place; for where we are is hell, And where hell is, there must we ever be:
And, to conclude, when all the world dissolves, And every creature shall be purified, All places shall be hell that are not heaven. When the portals open, Hell rises and Heaven descends.
This is the “Marriage of Heaven and Hell” which William Blake wrote about. Perhaps it is the ultimate “chemical wedding.” This is the true “Golden Dawn,” which the magical order is named after. This is why they have a hexagram for a logo, often showing a golden sun within the descending triangle, merging into the blue Abyss waters of the ascending triangle. Interestingly, in the Golden Dawn rituals, they treat the Garden of Eden as though the place itself “fell” along with Adam. In their graphical depictions of the Fall, they show the Dragon of Revelation enveloping Adam and Eve, and encompassing Christ as he dies on the Cross. They also speak of both the pre-and post-fall Eden as being places that exist presently. The event of the Fall, as well as the restoration of Paradise, are both referred to as in the present tense.
Similarly, Baphomet talks about the war in Heaven, the fall of Eden, and the Apocalypse as all being events that, to him, are occurring right now. When we became confused and asked why he was talking about these past events and future events like they were presently happening, he said: “NOW REALLY SOON.” Note that the abbreviation “NOW” (commonly used now to refer to the “New World Order” of the coming Anti-Christ) is an anagram of “now.” It goes without saying that, as our time-space dimension merges with those that are outside of time, our perception of time will stop. This is why modern Satanists refer to the concept of “Year Zero.” It is not really “Anno Satanas,” the year the Church of Satan was created, in 1966. It is that future “final hour” that has yet to come. This concept of the true “End of Times,” and the breakdown of the time dimension, explains why the Beast of the Apocalypse is described by St. John as “the beast that was, and is not, and yet is,” said to have been born in the “wilderness” of chaos.
Chapter 17: 8-13 states: “The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is. And here is the mind which hath wisdom. The seven heads are seven mountains, on which the woman sitteth. And there are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space. And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven, and goeth into perdition. And the ten horns which thou sawest are ten kings, which have received no kingdom as yet; but receive power as kings one hour with the beast.”
These have one mind, and shall give their power and strength unto the beast. This “Year Zero” may be what is depicted on the Great Seal of the United States. Everything that exists is contained within the walls of the pyramid, surmounted by the All-Seeing Eye of the prison guard, surrounded by a barren landscape of nothingness. The Latin phrase “Novus Ordo Seclorum,” is usually translated “New Order of the Ages.” It is an allusion to Virgil’s Eclogue IV, where it says:
Now comes the final era of the Sibyl’s song; The great order of the ages is born afresh.
The Virgin and the Reign of Saturn returns
Now a new lineage is sent down from high heaven.
I think that it ultimately refers to the dissolving of reality, and the coagulation, or collection, of a small remnant of that reality to be saved, via an “ark” or Hermetically sealed alchemical vessel. Cain said that one of the keys to winning Ageio is to “ACCEPT DEFEAT” because, “IF YOU ACCEPT DEFEAT, REALITY CANNOT WIN.” As you will recall, there is ultimately not much competition between the white and black armies in the game, because there is no doubt that the white side is going to win. So perhaps the game is to play both sides, and make sure that you’re on the winning side when the game stops.
At the Golden Dawn, the Abyss rises to merge with the fire coming down from Heaven
The “Year Zero” that Tracy Twyman mentions sounds a lot like “prelude” (being 2020) to the actual dimensional convergence. We will revisit Tracy Twyman’s occult prophecies related to the Antichrist later in this series. Virgil’s Eclogue is particularly intriguing since I’ve written in previous articles, that the Age of Aquarius we are now entering is also the Age of Saturn.[17] The reason the most primeval era is called “The Golden Age” is that Saturn is actually the color gold (look up actual color photos of Saturn) and Saturn’s upper atmosphere would have been visible to the naked eye on the Ancient Earth in the past times. Also, all stars can produce gold. The ancient solar system had more glowing dwarf stars whose gold and silver was able to reach Earth’s surface. Tracy Twyman, in many of her writings, connects the Black Sun with not only Cain but also Saturn himself. In Tracy Twyman’s article “Regnum in Potentia, Part 2: Fishing for Men.”[18]
The description of the Wonderland casino prison on this SyFy channel program from 2009 resembles remarkably a metaphor used by economist Max Keiser, starting around the same time, of the “casino gulag” to describe the global economy. In his view, everyone in the peasant class here on Earth is forced to speculate with their earnings on the stock and bond market in order to avoid losing wealth every time the government inflates the fiat currency by alchemically printing more money. Since, like a casino, the game is rigged by the banking cartel, who can front-run the market with high-frequency trading and are insured against losses with government bailouts, they keep the gambler slaves playing by hypnotizing them with the prospect of being the one-in-a-million lucky slave who gets to win the jackpot.
The people at the casino in Alice always win, or at least they feel like they do, and because of this, they are oblivious to the fact that they are prisoners. Towards the end, they are freed from their spell, and only when they stop playing the games do they remember the children that they have left abandoned at home. This is like the “Caucus Race” of the original Lewis Carroll story, a perfect metaphor for the modern rat race. At this event, people run around in a circle competing with each other, but with no end in mind, because “No one ever loses, and no one can ever win.”
Another obvious comparison to be made with the casino gulag is, of course, to The Matrix film series. This story is replete with references to Alice in Wonderland from the very beginning, with the white rabbit playing the role of the initiator yet again (only this time waking the sleeping victim out of his dream state instead of luring him into it). The idea of human bodies being sucked of their essence by unseen monsters, their bodies used as batteries to power the machines of an unseen world, is in fact a perfect metaphor for our economy, and does correspond to many Gnostic descriptions of the universe.
So why do the monarchs of the hidden realm fish for men using subtlety instead of force? Well, for one thing, initiation must be freely sought by the initiate, like the Apple of Wisdom proffered by the serpent in Eden. Was it the intention all along that Adam and Eve would eat the forbidden fruit, obtain the forbidden knowledge, and fall down, down, down, like Alice, into another world? It seems likely.
The other things is that, imprisoned as he is in the center of the Earth, lost eternally in a death-like slumber in the land of Nod — the land of Not! — there are not a lot of other options available to Saturn, the Lord of the Earth. Like Alice says, “When one is lost, it is best to wait for someone to find you.” Just as Cain proclaimed “Whosoever findeth me shall slay me,” Saturn passively awaits resurrection through the discovery of his tomb, as is the case with the sleeping occupants of the tombs of both Hermes and Christian Rosenkreutz.
The tomb of Venus, according to the Rosicrucian text The Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz, is just like these other sacred tombs — in the center of the Earth, lit by an inner sun, etc. Guarding this tomb is a man who has been appointed this task since he accidentally stumbled on the naked body of Venus many centuries earlier. There he is, condemned to wait until someone else makes the same mistake and comes to take his place.
This like the story of Atlas, obliged to play the part of the World Tree, the Earth’s mythical central pillar or pole, upholding the weight of the Earth upon his back. There he must stay until someone else comes along that he can trick into taking his place (a role temporarily played by Hercules at one point). Likewise, Prometheus had to stay chained to Tartarus, having his liver eaten daily, until someone else agreed to be sacrificed in his stead (a role eventually played by Chiron).
On a similar note, in the New Testament, it is proclaimed that God the Father will not let his children out of Hades until his first-born, Jesus, is willingly sacrificed, and descends into Hell to take their places. There the dead are eternally eaten, digested, and eaten again by Satan. In the images of Hell that decorate European cathedrals, inspired largely by Dante’s Divine Comedy, Satan is always seen as a monster eating the damned, and his mouth is sometimes akin to the gates of Hell itself.
Furthermore, in the Grail legend, Parzival takes up the crown of the Fisher King after obtaining the kingdom’s release from the spell caused by the Dolorous Stroke. Sometimes he is sent by the king to avenge his wounding by killing the rival king who hurt him. Then somehow the hero must use the very same sword or spear to cure the Fisher King’s wound through sympathetic magic. In some versions, when this happens, the old man is finally able to die, and Parzival is revealed to be his nephew, who then takes his place as Grail king.
As I have hinted in other articles, Saturn is also connected with the ritual alchemical operation of Solve et. Coagula.[19] If Saturn-Chronos ruled over a golden age when men were gold, does the fact that Saturn in the Qabalah (some equate Saturn with Binah) is equated with lead suggest an alchemical operation, to transform the present lead of Saturn once again into gold? This connects to the Piscean Era shifting into the Age of Aquarius, which is also ruled by Saturn. This is what Zosimos’ Visions, perhaps, is referring to.
Saturnus as Sol Niger
In another article,[20] “Noah Film Review: Tubal-Cain Almost ‘Reaps All of the Wealth’” by Tracy Twyman, she reviews the film Noah by Darren Aronofsky and connects her occult research.
At the end of the film, the song “Mercy Is” by Patti Smith and the Kronos Quartet is played. The lyrics, which were also spoken at earlier points in the film (where it was used by the characters as a lullaby) are quite interesting:
“Mercy is as mercy does, wandering in the wild The stars are eyes watching you, a breath upon a cloud Two white doves, two white wings to carry you away To a land in memory, a land in memory The sky is high, the Earth is green, and cool beneath your feet So swiftly now, beneath the bow, your father waits for thee To wrap you in his healing arms as the night sky awaits Two white doves, two white wings to carry you away For mercy is the healing wind that whispers as you sleep That whispers you to sleep”
Why do two white doves have only two wings between them? Why is “mercy” described as “wandering in the wild,” like Cain and the fallen angel Azazel were said to be?
I haven’t figured that out yet. However, I can tell you that there are many elements of the film that made me think that the scriptwriters, Darren Aronofsky and Ari Handel, seem to be tapping into some of the same hidden information that I did in my seances with Cain and Baphomet, as discussed in my book Clock Shavings. In particular, these elements remind me of the story that Cain told me about the battle with his brother’s kingdom over the “throne of Eden” and possession of “the Ark.”
The Ark, in Cain’s story, was not just the boat that men used to escape the Flood. It is a larger concept, the “ONE BOX OF THINGS,” as I was once told. It already existed in Eden before the Fall. It was the treasure box that the war was fought over. It contained the greatest power in the world. With it, one could rule all, and make anything happen with its magical energies.
This war, he said, ultimately provoked the Deluge, caused the Fall of Eden, and led to Cain being imprisoned in the underworld. The battle, he says, was commemorated in the game of “Ageio,” which he says was the ancestor of modern chess. In Ageio, the “REAL POWER” is said to be in “THE SECOND SQUARE.” This is the term for the inner 36 squares of the board, the boundary of which is marked off by small crosses. This represents where the Ark is, and, I believe, the boundaries of Eden as well. You could think of the Ark as containing Eden within itself, including the Tree of Life. As I discuss in Clock Shavings (and relevant excerpts can be found here), scripture and tradition both tell us that Eden was sealed off after the Fall with a “flaming sword” and cherubim placed as guardians. I even discuss how this may be the same location as that of God’s throne, which is guarded by four cherubim.
In the film Noah, the Ark represents the same thing. This is why it was built near Methuselah’s mountain. Obviously, it is being implied in the movie that Methuselah, like his father Enoch, was initiated into the secrets of eternal life via the Tree of Life from the Garden of Eden. In the Bible, God sealed off Eden to keep men from gaining access to the Tree of Life, lest they “live forever.” Enoch is the only figure said to have been granted this privilege, and he was also the first to be given foreknowledge of the Flood.
Methuselah’s mountain is shown in the movie to be green, whereas the land around it is barren. So it has been blessed with a miraculous fertility. Methuselah, as we know from scripture, was the man said to have lived the longest — 969 years! In the film, it is implicit that his longevity and the mountain’s fertility are due to his contact with the Tree of Life. Methuselah is said to have been the “only” human to have sided with the fallen angels during their war with the Cainites. We can assume that this has something to do with why he appears to have special knowledge and access to the Tree of Life.
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The part where Noah declares that outside of the Ark is nothing but “chaos” falls directly into line with my own speculation in Clock Shavings. In that book (and these relevant excerpts) I discuss my belief that the Ark was an alchemical vessel, outside of which the whole universe dissolved into chaos, literally. Nothing existed outside while they were inside. It was only when they exited the Ark that Creation began anew, spreading outward from the mount on which the Ark “landed.”
I don’t think the Ark physically went anywhere, but rather that it was built on the “Holy Mountain,” the top of which was the supernal Eden, that after the Fall became obscured and inaccessible to mankind. Methuselah’s mountain is implied in the film to be this place. The summit is invisible, and it is covered in greenery, like Eden. Plants from Eden are growing there. When the Ark lands, it is on a similar mountain, perhaps even the very same one.
Then statement that Tubal-Cain makes right before he tries to kill Noah, declaring “The Ark, the beasts, and all of your women are now mine,” is totally reminiscent to me of the key phrase “I reap all the wealth,” used in the game of Ageio, as explained to me on the Ouija board by Cain and all of the fallen kings of Eden (and as I reported in the book Clock Shavings). The “wealth” in the game is the Ark, containing all of the “Agei”: the lifeforce, the holy treasure.
In the book Aradia: The Gospel of the Witches by Charles Godfrey Leland, he quotes an Italian witchcraft ritual to conjure the warrior king of Eden, Cain. The ritual goes on to state that Cain is actually imprisoned in the sun as well.
According to Tracy Twyman in “F.A.K.E. News: Unboxing the Compass,” if the Sun were to not be replaced through magic, the universe would begin to collapse and fold up into nothingness or revert into the Abyss of Chaos. Through channeling, Tracy Twyman found out that Michael Bloomberg (yeah, you had to be there when Tracy Twyman came out with this stuff) really is doing a sun-killing ritual on the eclipse around September 30, 2017. He talked about how the old sun will die and be replaced, but nobody would know it, which is exactly what Tracy wrote in the book Genuflect. Then he said that the sun was a diamond. Then Mithras talked about “Ghent” which is in Belgium and turned out the “Superman diamond” is this thing called the “brilliant round cut diamond” which was invented by a guy in Belgium and is the most perfect way of refracting light through a stone.
And John Dee was obsessed with the London Stone and moved right there at Bucklersbury to study it. Dee wrote the Monas Hieroglyphica in Antwerp and finished it on January 25 after a two-week frenzy of channeled writing. Then published it on March 30 of that year-the same date as Genuflect. Then the Cullinan diamond, the largest in the world was discovered in South Africa on January 25, 1905, and years later, part of it was made into a brilliant-cut diamond for the royal family after the Belgian mathematician invented it in the 1920s. Belgium is the center of the world diamond trade. And there is that Ghent Altarpiece with the lamb of god bleeding into the rivers of life that seems pregnant with meaning, and the sun rays over the altar seem significant.
The brilliant round cut has 33 facets on the crown and 25 on the pavilion, for a total of 58. Facet means “face.” A head with 58 faces. The Templars had a Baphomet head they labeled “head 58.” There are 25 letters in the Sator Arepo Square, as discussed in-depth in my book The Sun Lady Unveiled. And 8 different letters used in the square, with three different magnitudes of use for each.
As Tracy points out in the book: representing three different levels of divine power. T, R, E, O, and A are used four times each, representing the five wandering planets. P and S are only used two times each. They represent the higher powers of the Sun and Moon. N is the letter in the center of the square, and it is only used once.
Tracy also stumbled into this concept of a “deck prism” and realized could be what the Masonic keystone is, and really, that could be what all the lights in heaven are. It is a stone that does just this: acting simultaneously as a deck prism and as a protective light filter. It is because it provides protection that it was represented as a “buckler” or a shield in Rothschild heraldry.
The penis has to be removed before Mithras can escape from the Womb of Tartarus. They are probably always changing reality, just like the Aztecs said. They kill the old sun and start a new age. A New Æon.
A good parallel is the story of Atlantis, which is at once described by myth-tellers as a fallen “city,” and as a representation of an entire fallen aeon. Its name derives from that of its fabled foundational king, a guy named Atlas, said to be a son of Poseidon. Now, he just happens to have the same name as the Titan from the Golden Age who was enslaved by Zeus after the Olympian revolution, thereafter, burdened with the obligation to eternally uphold the sky. This is a clue that the fallen aeon symbolized by Atlantis had its own Pillars of Heaven, represented in Plato’s tale by the two pillars of the Temple of Poseidon said to be in the city’s center. When Atlantis fell, these pillars collapsed (and who knows if one caused the other, or if there was another cause common to both events). Everything was submerged into the waters of Chaos, becoming mire, which eventually solidified and was used as the foundation for the aeon that came afterward. In my mind, the story really represents the fall of the Golden Age, when the Titans were imprisoned beneath the Earth and made to serve as the foundation of the realm above them. Then finally, the meaning of “dear prudence” as explained in her article Rebirth of Metis: The Meaning of “Dear Prudence”
Jehovah, the god of the Bible, was thought by Gnostics to merely be one of these Archons, identifiable with Jupiter, a.k.a. Jove, whom the Greeks called Zeus. His mother, the Gnostic wisdom goddess Sophia-Achamoth, was added to the seven to form the Ogdoad—the Eight. Hammer-Purgstall thought that Sophia-Achamoth was worshiped by the Knights Templar in the form of “Baphomet” or “Mete.”
This latter name, he thought, could be traced back to the Greek figure of Metis, the first bride of Zeus. She played an especially important role initiating and upholding his rule as king of the gods. Like “Sophia,” her name translated directly to “wisdom,” specifically “cunning,” “prudence” and “wise counsel.” To understand what happened to her, we must go all the way back to the “Genesis” story of Greek mythology.
Zeus was the son of Chronos, who had to castrate his father Ouranos to escape the womb of his mother, Gaia. Ouranos had deliberately prevented his children from being born, cognizant that one of them was fated to overthrow him as the king of the gods. When Chronos later engendered his own children with his wife Rhea, he became aware of a similar fate that was to come from one of these progenies. So, he devised his own way of dealing with it by swallowing them upon birth. But just as Gaia had schemed against her husband to aid her son Chronos in fulfilling his destiny (by supplying his with the castration knife), Rhea came up with a plan to save her son Zeus from ending up in his father’s stomach. In this case, she substituted the baby with a decoy in the form of a stone wrapped in swaddling clothes. Later, they say, Zeus found a way to poison his father, causing him to vomit up all the other children that had already been swallowed. Zeus and his siblings then fought their way to supremacy, overthrowing Chronos. The clever witch who conceived the poison plot was the goddess Metis, Hammer-Purgstall’s “Mete,” whom Zeus subsequently married.
As the story goes, Zeus, just like his predecessors, gained knowledge of a prophecy that if he bred with Metis, one of the children would overthrow him. Having already consummated the wedding and impregnated her, his solution was to swallow the mother before the birth even happened. He was able to do this, some say, by tricking her into turning herself into a fly, so that she was small enough to go inside his mouth. However, other depictions of the act show him eating her limb by limb at full size.
Whichever way it happened, as with the Olympian gods in the gullet of Chronos, Metis was immortal, so she remained alive inside Zeus. Eventually she gave birth to a daughter, the wise Athena. Metis worked from within Zeus’ body to hammer out a coat of armor for her daughter to wear. The hammering caused Zeus discomfort, and so he had his head cleaved open to alleviate the pressure. This allowed Athena to escape.
She went on to become an important goddess to the Greeks, associated, like her mother, with wisdom. But for some reason Metis did not escape with her daughter and remained inside Zeus. He reportedly utilized her as a source of wise counsel during his reign, and she was often depicted supporting his throne from underneath, propping it up, like a royal slave. What a raw deal, I thought as I ponder these stories again. I wonder what kept her from leaving with Athena. Was it the chains?
On the Mete coffer pictured earlier in this post, the goddess was shown holding a pair of chains. The Sun was shown attached to the top of one chain, and the Moon to the other, with the solar and lunar faces shown upside-down. These chains also appear to have been shackled to Mete’s legs. The image seemed to me to be showing her breaking the chains from her ankles while simultaneously dragging the heavenly bodies down from the sky.
Was the destruction of the Archontic order Mete’s revenge for being imprisoned and enslaved by Zeus? The Gnostics saw Sophia-Achamoth as a heroine trying to help them escape the jail of illusionary existence. Maybe the idea is that she is trapped inside here with the rest of us, so her escape is also our chance for escape.
On the “Templar artifact” that featured the candelabra being extinguished, the figure of Mete on the right is holding the chains (without the heavenly bodies included), while the horned figure of Mete on the left is holding a banner displaying Arabic writing. Hammer-Purgstall’s translation of this writing includes the phrases “Mete is exalted” and “one and seven were our race,” referring, he thought, to the Gnostic belief that Sophia-Achamoth was the grand-mother of the other seven Archons. If Mete is exalted, I thought, that means that she’s somehow escaped from inside Zeus. But how? Maybe through the rectum?
The reason I thought about this was not just because it’s the only obvious way out if one’s been swallowed. It also occurred to me because another phrase written in Arabic on Mete’s banner next to the candelabra is: “He makes return easy through the rectum.” Hammer-Purgstall hadn’t really deciphered the meaning of this, except to identify it as being related to the rumored Templar rites of sodomic pederasty, now confirmed because of their confessions to the Pope, documented in the Chinon Parchment released by the Vatican in 2007. But now, as I pondered this, I wondered if that was why the Sun and Moon were shown upside-down. Perhaps it is really Mete who is upside-down, I thought, coming out through the rear exit.
Dear Prudence, won’t you come out tonight? The Solstice is on December 21. December 25 was generally seen as the birth time of Sol Invicuts/Helios/Mithras. It is said that the next great conjunction of Jupiter and Saturn is also the same date the Mayan calendar is presumed to end once you add 8 years to 2012, which is December 21, 2020. We will explore this further in the second entry of this series. Metis, aka Ops, Rhea, Opiconsivia, has a festival that week on the 25th of August as well.
Check out the Compass of the Wise image above. The seven lights are being channeled down through the stone then refracted down to the pillars beneath the earth, their graves in Tartarus, resurrecting them!
In another article by Tracy Twyman, “Made Love: Pedophile Hearts, Disposable Teens, and the Closing of the Doors of Mercy,”[22] she discusses the pedophilic, homosexual and Satanic rites of the elite and their use of alchemy in effort to storm Heaven and revolt against God Himself. After all, this is what Saul Alinsky’s Rules For Radicals is based on—the mad revolution of Lucifer and one third of the heavenly host against the Lord.
I think that the use of the symbols I have mentioned, in the contexts which I have described, indicates that there is still an occult tradition in certain circles regarding this. There are people who think that this is the way to dethrone God. They think that the gods above are as sick as they are, and therefore they will be attracted most not by mere heterosexual encounters, but by the abnormal and perverse. As the Templar artifacts of Hammer-Purgstall’s Mysterium Baphometis Revelatum illustrate, this is why the Templars ritualized the sodomy and sacrifice of young boys. On several of the artifacts, he found a phrase encoded on them: “The Distinguished Charity of Mete Uproots the Enemy.”
The one called “Mete” is the Templars’ secret wisdom god, Baphomet. The “Distinguished Charity” could also be phrased “Peculiar–or Strange–Love.” This “Strange Love” or “Mad Love” is signified by many other things in Western occultism, roses, honey, and now, via Marilyn Manson’s use of pedophile symbolism, a spiral heart can be added to the list. The “Enemy” that it uproots is none other than the Demiurge of the Ophite Gnostics: the god and creator of this world. The idea is that ultimately you must not only fuck, but also kill and eat, the things you love in order to become one with them, as even God (they believe) does this to his own children.
As I explained in previous articles, such as this, this, this, and this, I believe these things are all part of a process of trying to upset the balance of the “pillars” that uphold our current state of existence, allowing them to collapse so that the universe we live in might be destroyed. When the innocent body of a human child, the image of God, is defiled in rites such as this, it creates a reflexive reaction that affects the magnetic polarity of the Earth and upsets the tectonic plates beneath us.
It is hard for even the good people of this Earth to stop this process when we are all, to a greater or lesser degree, being seduced by the same type of perversions. Even if we have never done the worst of these things, we have participated gleefully in a culture that celebrates it. Perhaps this was the year that the Pope asked us to pray for God’s mercy because this was the year in which the fullness of our sins was revealed to us. I wonder if there are enough righteous people among us to earn God’s mercy, or if we shall all inevitably perish in the wages of our own sins.
The 9/11 terror attacks symbolize the toppling of the Pillars of Hercules/Atlas/Solomon and the temporary union of Heaven and Hell, as written about as early as William Blake.[23]
The connection between the Sun Lady and Isis is thoroughly discussed in my book. Isis is strongly connected with the idea of veiling and unveiling. The Wikipedia entry of the Veil of Isis has this to say on this occult concept:
Several other sources influenced the motif of the veiled Isis. One was a tradition that linked Isis with nature and the goddess Artemis. European art has a long tradition of personifying nature as a motherly figure. Starting in the 16th century, this motif was influenced by the iconography of the goddess Artemis of Ephesus (also known under the name of her Roman equivalent, Diana). The Ephesian Artemis was depicted with round protuberances on her chest that may originally have been jewelry but came to be interpreted as breasts. Isis was sometimes compared with Artemis, and the Roman writer Macrobius, in the fourth century CE, wrote, “Isis is the earth or nature that is under the sun. That is why the goddess’s entire body bristles with a multitude of breasts placed close to one another [as in the case of Artemis of Ephesus], because all things are nourished by earth or by nature.” Thus, the 16th-century artists represented nature as Isis-Artemis with multiple breasts.
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The “Parting of the Veil”, “Piercing of the Veil”, “Rending of the Veil” or “Lifting of the Veil” refers, in the Western mystery tradition and contemporary witchcraft, to opening the “veil” of matter, thus gaining entry to a state of spiritual awareness in which the mysteries of nature are revealed. In ceremonial magic, the Sign of the Rending of the Veil is a symbolic gesture performed by the magician with the intention of creating such an opening. It is performed starting with the arms extended forwards and hands flat against each other (either palm to palm or back to back), then spreading the hands apart with a rending motion until the arms point out to both sides and the body is in a T shape. After the working is complete, the magician will typically perform the corresponding Sign of the Closing of the Veil, which has the same movements in reverse.
Indeed, in ritual magic, specifically, the “rending of the veil” is the Greater Ritual of the Pentagram as taught by the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn and in Thelemic circles as well.[24] In the series of books by Helena Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled[25], she writes about mankind’s cyclical relapse into barbarism and unimaginable cruelty due to his fallen nature as explained all throughout Biblical scripture—anticipating Civil War 2.0/Dark Winter Purge developing as the countdown to the global reset marches on.
For a man of science to refuse an opportunity to investigate any new phenomenon, whether it comes to him in the shape of a man from the moon, or a ghost from the Eddy homestead, is alike reprehensible.
Whether arrived at by the method of Aristotle, or that of Plato, we need not stop to inquire; but it is a fact that both the inner and outer natures of man are claimed to have been thoroughly understood by the ancient andrologists. Notwithstanding the superficial hypotheses of geologists, we are beginning to have almost daily proofs in corroboration of the assertions of those philosophers.
They divided the interminable periods of human existence on this planet into cycles, during each of which mankind gradually reached the culminating point of highest civilization and gradually relapsed into abject barbarism.
To be Continued in Part 2.
[1]Revelation claims the Beast as having to “rise up out of the sea, having seven heads and ten horns, and upon his horns ten crowns, and upon his heads the name of blasphemy.” (Revelation 13:1) It was like a leopard, with feet like the feet of a bear, and had a mouth like a lion, etc. This is all done with the help of the Fourth Beast Power i.e., the United Nations. Some authors like Niki Raapana defined 2020 as the year for the rise of “Communitarianism.”
Regarding the Global Reset, please see the following links:
[5] “According to Zechariah 14:4, Jesus will “touch down” on the earth in much the same manner as this angel. But the question is: When will He do so? This angel stands on the earth just prior to the blowing of the seventh trumpet, whereas Jesus Christ will return to earth at the end of the Tribulation (Rev. 19:11-14), at which point the Mount of Olives will split in half, creating a new valley and freshwater source, and Christ’s kingdom will begin. Furthermore, when Jesus returns to earth, it won’t be as an angel but with angels surrounding Him like the clouds of heaven. (See Matt. 25:31.) Who, then, is this “mighty angel?” It is possibly the archangel Michael who is not Jesus Christ, but one of the “mighty angels” of God. Daniel describes him as “the great prince who stands guard over” the people of Israel. (Dan. 12:1) John later describes him casting the devil and his angels out of heaven.” https://principlesforlife.org/tag/mighty-angel-seven-thunders/
[7] “The Achamoth first receives (by means of Christus and Pneuma hagion the Pair of Aeons within the Pleroma whose emanation is most recent), the morphōsis kat’ ousian. Left alone in her suffering she has become endued with penitent mind (epistrophē). Now descends the son as the common fruit of the Pleroma, gives her the morphōsis kata gnōsin, and forms out of her various affections the Demiurge and the various constituents of this lower world. By his appointment the Achamoth produces the pneumatic seed (the ekklēsia).” http://www.bahaistudies.net/asma/pistis_sophia-greek.pdf
The Book of Revelation, chapter 12, tells us of a pregnant Woman Clothed with the Sun, wailing in birth pangs. It also tells us before St. Michael flung the dragon to the earth, he pursued the winged Sun Lady to devour her and her royal child of God. But in the last moment, they are snatched away to safety.
Many have speculated that this story connects to the great celestial sign pointing to a series of future calamities which are unfolding before our eyes. These stories, symbols, and archetypes point to an emerging revelation about humanity’s secret past and ultimate destiny.
We must travel back to ancient Israel, Samaria, Egypt, Rome, Greece, and Babylon to find the origins of the Sun Lady. Why does the occult place special emphasis on the Book of Revelation? Do you have the heart and mind to discover the truth? Join me, Alex Rivera, for an exciting and dangerous journey into the esoteric and hidden dimensions of the Sun Lady Unveiled!
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.
The Holy Grail story is familiar to many in the western world; to some it is an icon of literature and to others a source of comical amusement thanks to Monty Python and the Holy Grail. It is absolutely true that the Holy Grail represents the divine knowledge gained at the end of an inward spiritual journey—knowledge that is gradually lost through the cyclical ages that Hesiod, Vedic and even Hermetic traditions speak of.
Traditionally, it is a legend commencing in late 12th century, created by French and German poets like Wolfram von Eschenbach in Parzival. The Holy Grail takes various forms: a plate or bowl containing the bread of Holy Communion for the Fisher King. It is also portrayed as a stone cast down from heaven on which the abstaining angels stood for sanctuary when Lucifer rebelled against God as mentioned in texts like Isaiah and Ezekiel. The gem was given to Adam when he lived in the Garden of Eden after the rebellion of the angels. When he and Eve were cast out, the Grail was lost to him as well. Seth, Adam’s progeny, was said to have gained re-entry into Eden and to have recovered the sacred vessel. Significantly, Seth remained in paradise for 40 years. The number 40 is itself a mystical motif; Moses wandered for 40 years in the desert, with Noah on the ark 40 days and nights, for Jesus was tempted for 40 days.
It is also a cup in which Joseph of Arimathea collected Christ’s blood on the cross. More modern interpretations include Mary Magdalene as the receptacle of Jesus’ seed as the foundation for the “Merovingian bloodline,” as the authors of Holy Blood Holy Grail have theorized. The chalice is most popular today, doubling as the same cup used by Jesus in the Last Supper. Joseph of Arimathea is said to have brought the Grail to England, which then became an important part of the Arthurian myths.
The Holy Grail myth also links to ideas of gnosis in its relationship to humanity and the world, especially the world of nature and its elements. In the book Baphomet: The Mystery of the Temple Unveiled by Tracy Twyman and Alex Rivera, we go into a great explanation that the Holy Grail cup wasn’t just the vessel for the holy blood of Christ but was actually connected to the Krater of Hermes and the Ophite/Orphic Bowl of the coiled dragon-like serpent (please see our book for more details on this). It is also connected to the idol head that the Templars supposedly worshiped Author authors like Julius Evola, have argued for a non-Christian and even Hyperborean origin for the Grail legend, in his book TheMystery of the Grail, a possibility in which we will explore later in the second part of this post at a future point in time.
Julius Evola writes in the same book that there are certainly repeating patterns and archetypes that any student of Carl Jung would identify with clarity. It also ties into the mono-myth cycles of Joseph Campbell as we will see later:
When we isolate the texts that make up the Grail cycle, we find that they repeat a few essential themes, which are expressed through the symbolism of knightly figures and deeds. What we are dealing with, then, are essentially the themes of a mysterious center; of a quest and a spiritual test; of a regal succession or restoration, which sometimes assumes the character of a healing or avenging action. Percival, Gawain, Galahad, Ogier, Lancelot, and Peredur are essentially various names portraying the same human type; likewise, King Arthur, Joseph of Arimathea, Prester John, and the Fisher King are equivalent figures and variations on another theme. Also equivalent are images of various mysterious castles, islands, kingdoms, and inaccessible and adventurous lands, which in the narratives are described in a series that, on the one hand, creates a strange, surrealistic atmosphere but, on the other, often ends up becoming monotonous.
As the authors of Holy Blood Holy Grail have identified, the “divine blood” is an important concept and is one that repeats in the Bible, in both the Old and the New Testament as we will see. Evola further writes about all the objects associated with the Grail, especially of the blood:
In the various texts, the Grail is essentially portrayed under three forms:
“1. As an immaterial, self-moving object, of an indefinite and enigmatic nature (“it was not made of wood, nor of some metal, nor of stone, horn, or bone”).
As a stone-a “heavenly stone” and a “stone of light.”
As a cup, bowl or tray, often of gold and sometimes adorned with precious stones.
Both in this form and in the previous one, we almost always find women carrying the Grail (another element totally extraneous to any Christian ritual, since no priests appear in it). A mixed form is that of a cup carved out of a stone (sometimes of an emerald). The Grail is sometimes qualified as “holy;’ sometimes as “rich”; “this is the richest thing that any man hath living.”l This text, like many others of the same period, uses the expression “Sangreal;’ which is susceptible to three interpretations: Holy Grail, Royal Blood, and Regal Blood.”
“… a system of self transformation that can be reconciled with other similar systems in the Western esoteric tradition. It is a cosmological scheme that is comparable with Tarot, Kabala and Astrology. There are also hints of a connection with Alchemy. All of these systems or schemes follow a unifying principle that points to one underlying reality. The Holy Grail in its 5 Transformations, is one approach to that reality. To achieve the Grail, is to understand reality. To understand reality, is to be transformed and to be saved.”
How does any of this tie into the blood of Jesus Christ? For that answer, we must look beyond the natural and the flesh. The blood is obviously symbolic in its spiritual meaning. It is the spiritual power behind the blood of Jesus in which the believer partakes in, and is eternally saved to be allowed to enter a place that is so radically different than the manifest world—being the “Kingdom of God.”
The Holy Blood
In Jesus’ death on the cross, we read that in John 19:32-38, especially verse 34:
32 So the soldiers came, and broke the legs of the first man and of the other who was crucified with Him; 33 but coming to Jesus, when they saw that He was already dead, they did not break His legs. 34 But one of the soldiers pierced His side with a spear, and immediately blood and water came out.35 And he who has seen has testified, and his testimony is true; and he knows that he is telling the truth, so that you also may believe. 36 For these things came to pass to fulfill the Scripture, “Not a bone of Him shall be [a]broken.” “They shall look on Him whom they pierced.” 38 After these things Joseph of Arimathea, being a disciple of Jesus, but a secret one for fear of the Jews, asked Pilate that he might take away the body of Jesus; and Pilate granted permission. So he came and took away His body.
Note the extraordinary hiatus John introduces into the narrative at this point. Clearly he wants us to note something of supreme importance: the legend is that Joseph caught some of this blood and water in the chalice used for the last supper.
I think we can really see the Grail as both objects simultaneously, and that its atemporal “absurdity” is essential to the salvific nature of Christ’s blood: How could the blood shed on the Cross have gotten into the cup of the Last Supper other than by having traveled back in time? Christ’s blood is either made of tachyons (hypothetical faster-than-light particles that most physicists currently reject) or is, in effect,outside of linear Time altogether. Only if Christ’s blood is outside of Time and Cause does it make sense that the cup that once ever held it must have always held it and will keep holding it eternally—and there is just one thing known to physics that has those properties: The blood of Christ is, in effect, light.
Blood symbolism is extremely important in the Grail mythos: In the Old Testament, it is the substance of life. Jewish temple worship revolved around the outpouring of blood, and sprinkling of blood via animal sacrifice. It is taken into the Holy of Holies and sprinkled on the mercy seat on the Day of Atonement (Leviticus 16). Blood atones for sin and makes everything holy again. It is the seat of the spirit within the body, but it is also the animated life-force, of the body. It is that which contains, as it were, the soul of the body.
Jesus, as the Heavenly Priest of Melchizedek, also wearing the breastplate of Aaron. Also known as the “Urim and Thummim.” It is clear that Jesus is the “initiator” for the “Mysteries” of God in the Heavenly Temple.
Over at Temple Secrets, Tony Badillo explains that the animal sacrifice and its sacrificial blood represented a separation between the sins and a person’s spirit/soul:
On Ezekiel 44:6, 7 the Lord rebukes “rebellious” Israel for profaning his temple by offering him food in an unacceptable manner. What is his food? According to v. 7, “the fat and the blood;” similarly in v. 15 where only the Zadok priests may ”offer me the fat and the blood, says the Lord God”. There you have it! His “food” is blood and fat! Should we accept this literally? Yes, in the sense that blood and fat were literally offered to him. But No because he did not consume either. Why does he say this, then? Because the blood, actually poured outside into a Temple drain, symbolizes the spirit’s separation/expiation from sin; while the fat, when turned into smoke, symbolizes the spirit’s ascension to him for acceptance. God’s “food,” then, is simply the language of symbol, and it means that separation/expiation from sin (by the blood) and ascension of purified souls (the rising smoke) are the things he desires from people.
In John 6:53-56, Jesus says to his disciples:
Most assuredly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in you. Whoever eats My flesh and drinks My blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day. For My flesh is food indeed, and My blood is drink indeed. He who eats My flesh and drinks My blood abides in Me, and I in him.
Jesus implores his followers to consume his divine flesh and blood made up of spiritual light to regenerate their own fallen meat sacks degenerated as a result of Adam and Eve’s exile from Eden and from the consumption of the fruit of the knowledge of good and evil. Hence, the Holy Grail cup is said to contain the Christ’s saving blood of the Lamb—the remnant or leftover spiritual substance dripping from a primal trauma of a divine being, who is crucified by the rulers and authorities of the lower heavens, dies and resurrects so that his followers can follow his example, so that they might be salvaged from the sinfulness of the lower world/cosmos of the devil, which is destined to be overthrown, cast out and destroyed at the end of the apocalypse. The saved and elect are transferred into a new kingdom or reality of God while the rest who rejected the Gospel are destroyed.
Many of the Cathars believed what the mythicist scholar Earl Doherty theorizes was the earliest form of docetic Christology: that Christ was never incarnate on earth. Most of the radical dualist Cathars believed that the whole Jesus narrative, from the beginning of his ministry to his crucifixion, occurred in the heavenly world of the good god and in the astral realm of the demonic rulers.
In the Parzival romance, the impotency of the Fisher King being his maimed, never-healing state (all thanks to Klingsor’s Spear) reflects the sterility of his land. It also reflects the nature of matter itself. In the studies of pagan practices by such scholars as Sir James G. Frazer in The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion, the recurring themes of the killing of the previous high priest or king to be replaced by a new avatar (much like John the Baptist and Jesus) and the marriage of fruitfulness of this new avatar with a female deity/queen is essential to the vegetative and natural fertility and prosperity of the land. The mirroring effect between the human enactment of natural prosperity and vice versa is apparent enough in the Priest-king of the Grail, Anfortas or the Fisher King’s “Waste Land” is to appropriate this mythic pagan belief into a solid representation that the barrenness of the soul/mind and body reflects upon the surroundings/ environment and nature. This, one might say is the objective co-relative function where the emotions, experiences of the subject becomes objective reality, hence the idea that the imaginal/spirit/ideal realm controls the realm of matter and the manifest world.
It is said that the blood of Christ at Holy Communion in Catholic ritual gives new life and deifies. But that blood is wine transfigured by the descending Holy Spirit in the form of a dove. However, this ritual does seem to have strong vampiric, witchcraft cannibalistic undertones, if placed in a literal context as the Catholic Church has done for hundreds, if not thousands of years. The Cathars were infamous for being hard, uncompromising opponents of the Catholic Sacrament as well as its icons and its worship of the Virgin Mary as devilish trickery to commit idolatry. Various Gnostic groups like the Phibionites, Barbelites, Bororites, Simonians, etc. as well as the Jews (and their rituals as magic in the form of “blood libel”) were accused of human and infant sacrifice in the form of ritually consuming fetuses, in the case that women became pregnant in their infamous orgies. In these ritual orgies, semen and menses were said to be also ritually consumed as a Eucharistic sacrament to Christ as Epiphanius claims in the Panarion. All of this seems to originate in Pliney the Elder in Natural History 30.11, when he writes as a matter-of-fact, that certain magical rites of the Magi (and Emperor Nero) involve ritually killing and eating men (e.g. cannibalism):
The Magi have certain means of evasion; for example that the gods neither obey those with freckles nor are seen by them. Was this perhaps their objection to Nero? But his body was without blemish; he was free to choose the fixed days, could easily obtain perfectly black sheep, and as for human sacrifice, he took the greatest delight in it.
So, in other words, could the Catholic Eucharist be just a Christianized magical ritual? We certainly see Romans who viewed the Christians as simply a diabolical secret society addicted to sorcery and the conjuring of daimons, as seen in Celsus in the True Doctrine and Suetonius in Nero 16.2. All of this seems to be a precursor for the Medieval and modern gossip and rumors of witch covens and Satanic elite secret societies, like the “Illuminati” who engage in human sacrifice and Faustian pacts with demons. The drinking of wine in Dionysian rituals involved ritually imbibing the spirit of Dionysus, which is like drinking the Elixir of Life, or “being baptized in wisdom.” The wine is the blood of the earth, “fruit of the vine and work of human hands.” This wine is used as a commemoration of ritually consuming the blood of Jesus. The Gospel of John chapter 2, where Jesus transmutes water into wine certainly plays on this distinctly Dionysian idea. So the outpouring of Christ’s blood on the cross is the outpouring of his very life—the spirit of the Son of God.
The Book of Hebrews (9:22-24) tells us that the blood of Jesus (and all the Old Testament sacrifices) were necessary in order to cleanse things in the heavens–the same place in which the angelic rebellion was said to have occurred as recorded in Revelation.
“And almost all things are by the law purged with blood; and without shedding of blood is no remission. It was therefore necessary that the patterns of things in the heavens should be cleansed with these; but the heavenly things themselves with better sacrifices than these. For Christ is not entered into the holy places made with hands, which are the figures of the true; but into heaven itself, now to appear in the presence of God for us.”
Colossians 1:20 says something very similar:
“And, having made peace through the blood of his cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.“
Notice how in Hebrews, it says that the tabernacle, and all its services, were “patterns of things in the heavens.” The physical objects associated with the earthly sanctuary were “figures of the true” — the “shadow of heavenly things” (Hebrews 8:5). As it follows, each physical item had its spiritual counterpart in heaven. So, as long as there was a tabernacle or temple on earth, there was a material reflection of God’s heavenly palace for mankind to see and take part in. This all sounds strangely reminiscent of certain Hermetic writings pertaining to “as above, so below.”
Also, in a way, when Jesus Christ was nailed to the Cross, he was essentially nailed to a circular “Leviathan” which is the same as the Ouroboros of the Gnostic alchemists like Mary the Jewess, Zosimos and the Ophites. The atheistic German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche uses this symbolism to build his own theory of “eternal recurrence.” This is what the Gnostics called the “fall of spirit into matter.” Hence, we have various alchemical images of the crucified serpent, and perhaps even the same tempting serpent from Eden. According to the Apocryphon of John, there are a few archons that seem to have strong serpentine and dragon-like features, including Iao and Ialdabaoth, the chief archon and Gnostic parody of Jehovah. All of this seems to have a Pauline basis, in Colossians 2:13-15
…When you were dead in your transgressions and the uncircumcision of your flesh, He made you alive together with Him, having forgiven us all our transgressions, having canceled out the certificate of debt consisting of decrees against us, which was hostile to us; and He has taken it out of the way, having nailed it to the cross. When He had disarmed the rulers and authorities, He made a public display of them, having triumphed over them through Him.…
In the Gospel of Matthew (20:20-23), we read that a mother of Zebedee was asking Jesus to have her sons sit at his right and the other at his left hand in the Kingdom of God. Jesus asks her sons if they can drink what he is going to drink and they answer in the affirmative. Here is what Jesus says as a reply:
20 Then the mother of Zebedee’s sons came to Jesus with her sons and, kneeling down, asked a favor of him. 21 “What is it you want?” he asked. She said, “Grant that one of these two sons of mine may sit at your right and the other at your left in your kingdom.” 22 “You don’t know what you are asking,” Jesus said to them. “Can you drink the cup I am going to drink?” “We can,” they answered. 23 Jesus said to them, “You will indeed drink from my cup, but to sit at my right or left is not for me to grant. These places belong to those for whom they have been prepared by my Father.”
The Baptism of Blood and Water
In Genesis 1, the Spirit hovers over the face of the deep at the onset of creation. Water signifies the chaotic, untamed and unformed material of creation. It is the proto-element out of which all creation, the whole cosmos, including humanity, is ultimately made (Gen 1:2, 6; Ps 29:3) So crossing the waters of the great Flood, the waters of the Red Sea, the waters of the Jordan, and the waters of baptism are the recreating and renewing waters of creation. This water baptism acts like a conduit that transports the believer from one world (the old man of sin) to another (the newness in Christ). Likewise, priests must bathe in water before entering the Holy of Holies of the Temple of Solomon on the day of Atonement.
Similarly the Sea of Glass in Revelation 15:2, beside which those who have defeated the beast are standing, singing the song of Moses. This is a reflection of the “Molten Sea” which was a large basin in the Temple in Jerusalem made by Solomon for the ablution of the priests. It is described in 1 Kings 7 and 2 Chronicles 4. It stood in the southeastern corner of the inner court.
Water in essence is a unifying yet all-dissolving element of the earth and the cosmos. Blood and water together, therefore, signify the fullness of saved humanity: material body and animating soul and spirit as well as the sacrificed body and blood of the Lord Jesus Christ. In the Gospel of John 3:5, we have Jesus saying to Nicodemus “you must be born of water and the Spirit.” In 1 John 5:6, it says, “This is he who came by water and blood – Jesus Christ…there are three that testify: the Spirit and the water and the blood.”
We need to pause for a moment to reflect on this: the incarnated Son of God took on the likeness of humanity upon himself, meaning that this was not his original nature: this humanity, united to the Second Person of the Trinity, is literally poured out from his side upon the cross. This body and blood is NOT the same as the body and blood of communion, although they are clearly related. The bread and wine of Holy Communion are the substance and blood of the earth, transfigured by the Spirit of God to become our spiritual food and drink as the Eucharist.
The chalice in itself is not the real Holy Grail—that is simply romantic myth. The real Holy Grail is the very ground onto which this blood and water is sprinkled upon. The earth itself received the body and soul of Christ in his death. This is the blood and water of his sacrifice, rather than the blood and body of communion, although again, clearly the two are related. The bread and wine of communion—Christ’s body and blood—rather than being consumed by us to become part of our body, performs a spiritual function, transforming us into the body of Christ. “Though we are many, we are one body because we all share in the one bread.” Thus consuming Christ’s body and blood transforms us into itself. Likewise, with Christ’s blood and body out poured on the cross—it transforms the whole of creation into Christ’s body. Christ’s physical presence, although hidden, still abides throughout the very fabric of the universe. His humanity, which is our humanity, abides in creation, even today, transforming it and making it holy. In a sense, this relates to the infamous Baptism of Wisdom ritual of the Knights Templar in which we discuss in the book, at length.
Christ’s crucifixion and the Harrowing of Hell, in effect, unseated and usurped the power and possession of the authorities, archons and their demonic possession of the world and perhaps even the “Wasteland” of the Fisher King, a reflection of the inner state of the sinner. The quest for the holy grail to heal the wounded king and to restore the land to its original, pristine, Edenic state. Many see this as related to Matthew 4:19 in which Christ said, “Follow me, and I will make you fishers of men.” This reference would later become crucial to the Christian version of the Fisher King of the Arthurian Grail romances.
As one can see, the Parzival/Arthurian Grail stories, like the story of the Temple of Solomon is simply a retelling of Genesis (as well as a intricate visual depiction of the “Divine Man” or “Son of Man”), which in itself is a reflection of the war in heaven, and the fall of the angels. The Titanomachy of the Greeks as well as Hesiod’s Works (126) also speaks of similar tales of Olympian gods struggling against the titans and their terrible giant children, which no doubt mirror the infamous Nephilim of Genesis 6 and Enochian literature. Hesiod in the same text describes these Nephilim as being Heroes of the “Silver Race,” as a gigantic, brutal and ferocious giants:
Then, a second race, far inferior Was created, of Silver, by the gods…
Being reared by their mothers.
And when they reached adolescence,
They died a painful death,
On account of their stupidity,
For they could not contain their foolish pride and refused to worship the gods above and to sacrifice to them upon the altars.
Hesiod calls them “big children” (mega nepios) and tells how, disgusted with their impiety and arrogance, Zeus decided to wipe them off with a cataclysm, burying them in Tartarus, much like how Jehovah sends a flood to wipe the giant children of the Watchers and condemns the fallen angels in the abyss-like underworld in chains. Essentially all mythologies speak of similar wars between Blacks and Whites or between Angels and Devils, Devas and Asuras, Daevas, and Ahuras, the Sons of Light and the Sons of Darkness, Gods and Titans, etc., etc. This all seems to influence the story of Klingsor who injures the Fisher King with a spear. Klingsor also happens to be directly related with Faustus.
Once again, we cannot ignore Tony Badillo’s thoughtful explanation of Eden with those who are baptized in the Holy Spirit being the Spirit of God, which have strong Gnostic undertones:
…in Isaiah 58:11 and Jeremiah 31:12 the people themselves are a “well watered garden,” implying that Paradise on earth consists of an ideal relationship between God and humans. This is a key reason why the Divine spirit is not given solely or primarily for uttering profound prophecies, performing marvelous miracles, or making doomsday declarations, but for subduing the Sinful Inclination and renewing God’s “image and likeness” within each of us, and in so doing we become like a well watered garden, Genesis 2:10, bearing good fruit for the one who did the planting. This is the true Paradise, the true Garden of Eden while we are here on earth. And that which waters one’s personal garden is the Divine spirit.
The sprinkling of his blood on the earth, prefigured in the Old Testament by the sprinkling of the blood of the sacrificial bull and goat in the Holy of Holies, has made the world the Holy of Holies, the dwelling place of God, signified by the rending of the veil in the Temple. Yet it remains hidden, invisible, and unknown, until the day that the new heaven and new earth are revealed when Christ returns again in glory as discussed in Matthew and Revelation. Just like the hiddenness of the glory of God, momentarily revealed in the burning bush, or on the Mount of Transfiguration. On that day we will see that “in him we live and move and have our being.” The sacrificial bull concept, however, is an ancient Rome and eventually later from Mithraic sacrificial rites. The Gospel of John tells us that after the death and resurrection of Jesus, the Baptism of the Holy Spirit is made manifest to the believer, and the Body of Christ.
According to the Excerpts of Theodotus, the Valentinian teacher Theodotus said that the baptism 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 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.
77 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.
78 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.
The Foundation Stone of Fallen Angels
The holy grail also has a strong Hermetic ring to it as Tracy and I have explored in depth in our book. We point out that the word “grail” itself has been derived from crater, the Greco-Latin term for a vessel, meaning a shallow vessel or plate where sacrifices were offered to the gods in ancient Greece.We also explore in depth how the Holy Grail concept is directly tied with the Corpus Hermeticum, as well as Wolfram’s Parzival, which is in itself almost a paraphrase of the Hermetica- a collection of ancient Egyptian texts that also reflect the Gnosticizing tendencies of Alexandria, Egypt. Wolfram rewrote it to match it with thirteenth-century German sensibility. The Holy Grail themes seem to greatly match with the Krater of the Hermetica which directly mirror Parzival’s spiritual journey. In fact, as the above link quotes a book called The Krater and the Grail: Hermetic Sources of the Parzival by Henry and Renee Kahane as towards the end of Parzival, they compare the precision of knights in the Grail Castle to the universe and the Holy Grail itself to the Monad as I.M. Oderberg writes:
A procession comprising the knights and the twenty-four maidens attending the Grail entered the hall, only Repanse de Schoie being permitted by the sacred object to be its bearer. These attendants were grouped in numbers, first four, then eight, then twelve divided into two sixes. Each group carried corresponding numbers of lights. Last came the “princess” of the Grail carrying one. This sequence has baffled many commentators, but Kahane and Kahane point out the marked similarity with the Hermetica, where the groups in the same order “represent the twenty-four stations of the journey of the soul: 4 elements + 8 spheres + 12 signs of the zodiac + 1, the Monad. . . . The Grail procession, in other words, is a representation of the mystic journey of the soul towards the Monad, itself symbolized by the Grail” (op. cit., pp. 105-6).
The end of the Grail quest is the return to the source of life and rebirth into it as divinely self-conscious entities purified by involvement in earthly experiences and having also contributed to the ongoing process of cosmic evolution by refining the substance they have used. The great lesson for Parzival — for all of us because he is our prototype — was the interconnected relationship of all earth entities. The bonds of a universal brotherhood make us all kin. The suffering of one hurts all, and compassion in our heart obliges us to ask forever: What ails our brother?
What could be the most interesting aspect of this story, involves looking at the second clue of what the Holy Grail represents, provided by Wolfram in the form of “a precious stone, lapsit exillis (i.e. lapis or lapsi ex caelis) of special purity, possessing miraculous powers conferred upon it and sustained by a consecrated Host”, which is indeed the blood of Christ, with holy powers to act as the Elixir of Life. This precious stone fallen from heaven is both the emerald fallen from Lucifer’s crown.
Wolfram von Eschenbach identified the Holy Grail as a Stone of Heaven, he knew he was alluding to a Holy Grail tradition that had extended far back into the mists of time. Many traditions tell that primitive man, experienced a physical and or emotional change just by being in proximity to certain stones. Even the term “magic,” associated with the title of “Magus” or “magician” has its etymological roots in the force of magnets or magnetism, which plays into the idea of “greatness,” or “magnifying” one’s spirit or essential self under the light of God. Perhaps this is why Simon was called “Megas” Greek for “Great” which sounds virtually the same as “Magus.” The Persians thought of their priests as “magos” as well.
Alchemists told of transforming a base metal into gold and a human into a god or goddess. Many texts were cataloged of the Muslim Empire by the Sufis, who added their own alchemical data before transmitting it to their students, the Knights Templar, who took the wisdom into Europe and supposedly carried in tradition through Freemasonry. Those indoctrinated were of the Holy grail Mysteries and eventually given the wisdom of the Alchemical or Philosophers Stone. Some tell of it being a platter or bowl full of precious stones. The Stone of Heaven is a Latin translation of the term Lapsit Exillus, closely related to Lapis Elixir, an appellation used by the Sufis that denoted, “Philosopher’s Stone.” Lapsit derived from “stone” and related to the Latin lapsus, meaning fallen, thus denoting “fallen stone.” Since the term Exillus is related to exillis stellis, meaning : “from the stars,” the entire moniker Lapsit Exillus literally translates as “The Stone of the Heavens” or “The Stone which came down from the Stars.”
The name Stone of Heaven can also be derived from the word Grail. The term Grail is derived from the French gres or Persian gohr, both denoting a stone. The Grail of Greal could also be related to the French grele, meaning hailstone, which is a “stone” from heaven. According to Arthur Edward Waite, the term Lapsit Exillus is “Exiles Stone.” This surprisingly affiliates the Stone of heaven with Heaven’s most notorious exile, Lucifer. A poem of a German heritage called, Wartburgkrieg, the “Wartburg War,” summarizes the heavenly battle between Lucifer and St. Michael, and identifies the Stone of Heaven as a large emerald that became dislodged from Lucifer’s crown and descended to Earth:
“Shall I then bring the crown
That was made by 60,000 angels?ill
Who wished to force GOD out of the Kingdom of Heaven.
See! Lucifer, there he is!
If there are master-priests,
Then you know well that I am singing the truth.
Saint Michael saw GOD’s anger, plagued by His insolence.
He took (Lucifer’s) crown from his head,
In such a way that a stone jumped out of it.
Which on Earth became Parsifal’s stone.
The stone which sprang out of it,
He found it, he who struggled for honor at such a high cost.”
Lucifer’s fall that is incorporated into this poem first popularized by the Prophet Isaiah during his harangue against the King of Babylon. When describing the decline and all of the King of Babylon, Isaiah used the metaphor of the Morning star’s “fall” or descent below the horizon at sunrise, an image subsequently became linked to Lucifer when translated into Latin was Luz-I-fer or Lucifer, the Light Bringer. Morning Star then became known as Shahar or Helel, which were the names of Venus’ dawn appearance. Thus, Lucifer is associated with both Venus and Helel, a name that evolved into Hell, Lucifer’s underworld home.
In the Book of Ezekiel, he expanded upon the meaning of Lucifer’s infamous fall. While comparing the King of Tyre with Lucifer, Ezekiel identifies Lucifer as the anointed cherub and forever-young boy who once walked in the Garden of Eden while covered in precious stones, including the emerald, and was perfect in his ways and from that day he was created until iniquity was found in him. Thus Ezekiel perpetuated the tradition of Isaiah by making Lucifer’s fall the product of pride.
Ezekiel 28:13 tells us:
You were in Eden, the garden of God; every precious stone adorned you: carnelian, chrysolite and emerald, topaz, onyx and jasper, lapis lazuli, turquoise and beryl. Your settings and mountings were made of gold; on the day you were created they were prepared.
Lucifer then resolves to rule in Heaven and this culminated in his expulsion from Paradise. When St. Michael and his angels fought with Lucifer/Samael over his right to rule, states John the Revelator, “that old serpent, called the devil, and Satan which deceiveth the whole world…was cast out (of heaven) into the earth, and his angels were cast with him.”
The remainder of Lucifer’s legend in the poem states that during the battle with Michael, an emerald became dislodged from Lucifer’s crown and fell to Earth. This is based on Ezekiel’s description of the gems-especially the emerald-that adorned Lucifer’s regalia in the Garden of Eden. It is also influenced by the Knights Templar. But of course this predates the Templar’s by many thousand of years. Before their time the emerald had been recognized as the esteemed Stone of Venus, the “fallen star” of Lucifer.
Strangely enough, however, Lucifer does seem to embody the twin archetype we see over and over in world mythologies. In a way, Michael the archangel could also very well be his angelic twin, just as Metatron is said to have an angelic twin soul in the form of Sandalphon. Both of these angels’ lower selves exist in the forms of both Enoch and Elijah, both of which are intimately connected with Hermes Trismegistus. In Roman myths, we have Romulus and Remus, in Genesis, Cain and Abel, Ariman and Angra Manyu in Persia, the Ashvin Twins, or Mitra and Varuna in India; Zeus and Poseidon, Castor and Pollux, Apollo and Dionysus and Hercules and Atlas in Greece; Set-Typhon and Horus in Egypt, etc. In a way, Lucifer is simply a reflection of the Supreme Heavenly Father, who is the spiritual sun of Heaven.
As the story goes, a number of angels remained neutral and inactive during the battle of Lucifer and the rebel angels against God and the faithful heavenly hosts, after Lucifer’s fall they were condemned by God to support this stone, which had dropped from Lucifer’s crown, hovering between Heaven and Earth until the hour of the redemption of sinful mankind and the “Day of Judgement” at the end of the apocalypse. Then they brought it to Earth, and, formed into a holy vessel, it served for the dish out of which the Jews ate the Paschal lamb in Exodus 12 on Passover, and in which Joseph of Arimathea received the Saviour’s blood, and perhaps even the receptacle for the severed head of John the Baptist.
By uniting the two objects, being the kraters and with meteoritic stones fallen from heaven, it becomes obvious. We see ancient worship of meteorites in the Kaaba Stone of Mecca in Saudia Arabia, which is associated with the worship of Venus/Lucifer and Saturn/Chronos, the pyramids of Mexico, the vajra thunderbolt of Hinduism, etc. So the Grail is indeed the meteorite crater opened up by a falling object from the heavens. It may also refer to volcanic activity and magma, associated with the conflagration spoken by the ancients that is said to have destroyed Atlantis-Eden.
Rudolf Steiner, the Austrian philosopher and esotericist famously reimagined the grail, foundation stone as a, “dodecahedron fashioned in copper in 1913 to consecrate the building called the first Goetheanum, with twelve, pentagonal (five-sided) facets and called the “dodecahedron of man.” (Bill Trusiewicz, The Foundation Stone as The Golden Triangle, The Mystic Hammer, and The Lost Word)
Bill Trusiewiscz further asks:
Firstly, we should ask: What is a foundation stone? Also called a “cornerstone,” a foundation stone is a stone ceremoniously set in place at the start of the construction of a building. This is done to initiate certain defining principles or ideas in connection with the proposed building with the intention of consecrating it for a specific purpose. It is, if you will, a “mental” building to use modern terminology, to correspond to a physical building proposed. Students of spiritual science would likely be comfortable with the idea that the “soul and spirit” foundations of the building were being laid alongside of the sense perceptible building itself.
Indeed, the Foundation Stone concept can be found all throughout the Old Testament and in the Jewish apocrypha, especially in 2 Enoch (see my paper “The Gods of Imagination: Alchemy, Magic, and the Quintessence” found in The Gnostic 6 by Andrew Phillip Smith). It is the starting point or even the “heart” in which the world and even the whole breadth of the cosmos is founded upon. It is also the Holy of Holies, in which it becomes the “cornerstone” of the Temple of Solomon, which is just another form of the Grail Temple of Parzival. Perhaps this is where the Theosophists would claim that Shamballah of Tibet would be the “heart of the earth” and the “King of the Earth” being “Sanat Kumara,” the so-called “Lord of the Flame” came from Venus! This is undoubtedly connected to Lucifer, the equivalent of Rex Mundi of the Cathars, Melek Taus of the Yezidis, Satan “the god of this world/cosmos” to St. Paul and Ialdabaoth and his legions of archons to the Gnostics. As it follows, the foundation stone is currently owned by Lucifer on his crown, since he is essentially the “prince of the world,” as the Fourth Gospel puts it, when he fell into the depths of the sub-lunar realm after the War in Heaven.
The brightness of the Holy of Holies was the light of Day One, before the visible world had been created… Those who entered the Holy of Holies entered this place of light, beyond time and matter, which was the presence of “the King of kings and Lord of lords who alone has immortality and dwells in unapproachable light.” This was the place of glory to which Jesus knew he would return after the crucifixion, “the glory which I had with thee before the world was made.” In the Gospel of Thomas, Christians are described as the new high priesthood who enter the light, and Jesus instructed his disciples to say to the guardians (the cherub guardians of Eden?) “We came from the light, the place where the light came into being on its own accord and established [itself]…
Bradshaw rightly points out that the tabernacle of Moses is an earthly attempt to recapture the Edenic state that that man once held before the fall:
Carrying this idea forward to a later epoch, Exodus 40:33 describes how Moses completed the tabernacle. The Hebrew text exactly parallels the account of how God finished creation. Genesis Rabbah comments: “It is as if, on that day [i.e., the day the tabernacle was raised in the wilderness], I actually created the world.” With this idea in mind, Hugh Nibley has famously called the temple “a scale-model of the universe.” As a complement to the view of the Creation as a model for the temple, BYU Professor Donald W. Parry has argued that the Garden of Eden can be seen as a natural “temple,” where Adam and Eve lived in God’s presence for a time, and mirroring the configuration of the heavenly temple intended as their ultimate destination.
Bradshaw concludes that the temple symbolism of Revelation also carries on this Edenic/Solomonic tradition:
Fittingly, just as the first book of the Bible, Genesis, recounts the story of Adam and Eve being cast out from the Garden, its last book, Revelation, prophesies a permanent return to Eden for the sanctified.36 In that day, the veil that separates man and the rest of fallen creation from God will be swept away, and all shall be “done in earth, as it is in heaven.”37 In the original Garden of Eden, “there was no need for a temple—because Adam and Eve enjoyed the continual presence of God”—likewise, in John’s vision “there was no temple in the Holy City, ‘for its temple is the Lord God.’”38 To reenter the Garden at that happy day is to return to the original spiritual state of immortality and innocence through forgiveness of sin, and to know the oneness that existed at the dawn of Creation, before the creative processes of division and separation began. The premortal glory of the righteous shall then be “added upon” 39 as they receive a fullness of the blessings of sanctification, “coupled with eternal glory, which glory we do not now enjoy.”
The Even ha’Shettiya, also known as the “Stone of Foundation,” which currently resides within the eight-sided Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, the Holy City and center and heart of the earth as European mapmakers charted.
This is the same rock that supposedly was the same rocky site upon which Abraham was coerced into sacrificing his own son Isaac in the sight of Jehovah, to test his faith, as well as the place where Mohammed was lifted into Heaven by the archangel Gabriel. This is also the same site where the Knights Templar resided nearby when they founded modern-day Jerusalem. So the Stone of Foundation for the Jews, Muslims, and the Catholic Crusaders was in fact, the Stone of Lucifer as part of the Axis Mundi or column that unites Heaven and Earth, and even the Underworld. King David, who purchased the rock of the Even ha’Shetityya from the Jebusites as the location of the Ark of the Covenant, was not overlooked by him. This sacred object primarily served as a vehicle for communication with Jehovah/Yahweh.
King Solomon holding the Grail Temple and Royal Scepter.
David’s son, King Solomon, a famous alchemist, similarly thought that the stone’s alchemical properties as a mediator between Heaven and Earth, used the rock as a cornerstone or foundation for his famous Temple, which would draw upon the power and spirit of YHWH. We see the Testament of Solomon depicting Sabaoth as the god of Solomon, who gives him a magical ring through the archangel Michael to build the temple through the forced help of 72 goetic demon helpers. This is Sabaoth is probably the same deity as Abraxas. (This connection is fully explored further in depth in the book.)
Perhaps the pyramids of Egypt and Mexico were constructed by similar means through the use of demonic, supernatural power. Furthermore, perhaps this is what the Knights Templar were so drawn towards—the supernatural power behind the Temple of Solomon—the same power that would one day make them so rich that they would become a threat to French and Catholic nobility. It is this power that manifest itself in the form of a head of a man or even of a cat, and eventually from the Dionysian and Azazel-like goat head.
What is most fascinating as that the Freemasonic pontiff Albert Pike in Morals & Dogma seems to spur and condemn the idea that the Templars also worshiped Baphomet when he writes:
“[It is absurd to suppose that men of intellect adored a monstrous idol called Baphomet, or recognized Mahomet as an inspired prophet. Their symbolism, invented ages before, to conceal what it was dangerous to avow, was of course misunderstood by those who were not adepts, and to their enemies seemed to be pantheistic. The calf of gold, made by Aaron for the Israelites, was but one of the oxen under the laver of bronze, and the Karobim on the Propitiatory, misunderstood. The symbols of the wise always become the idols of the ignorant multitude. What the Chiefs of the Order really believed and taught, is indicated to the Adepts by the hints contained in the high Degrees of Free-Masonry, and by the symbols which only the Adepts understand.“
Pike is claiming that the symbolism associated with the Templars and Freemasonry is veiled and misunderstood by the masses also reflects the idea that the alchemical Philosopher’s Stone was simply a ruse created by alchemists to confuse the masses and mask their true and secret methods and sciences to create gold or something else completely. However, this doesn’t answer the general claim that a certain Templar possessed a severed idol head and turned to it to form their own Faustian pact with the spirit of Baphomet. We can gain more clarity on this subject from Sean Martin in The Knights Templar (p. 139):
Misunderstanding is almost certainly at the root of the allegation that the Templars worshipped an idol called Baphomet. Descriptions of it varied, but it was usually described as being a life-sized head, which was said to make the land fertile (as is said of the Grail). That the Templars did possess heads is without doubt. They possessed the head of St Euphemia of Chalcedon at their preceptory in Nicosia on Cyprus, and, more curiously, a silver head shaped reliquary was found after the arrests at the Paris Temple. This bore the inscription CAPUT LVIII, and inside it were parts of a woman’s skull (who was believed to have been one of the 11,000 virgins martyred at Cologne with St Ursula). The heads may have indeed been worshiped, in the way that the Celts revered the head.
The Assassins, during their initiation ceremonies, buried the initiate up to his neck in sand, leaving only the head visible, before disinterring him. Given their simulation of Saracen torture, the Templars may also have carried out this practice. A further possibility is that Baphomet, long thought to be a mistranslation of ‘Mahomet’ (the Prophet Muhammad), could well be a corruption of the Arabic word abufihamat, which means ‘Father of Understanding’, a reference to a spiritual seeker after realization or enlightenment has taken place: ‘The Baphomet is none other than the symbol of the completed man.’44 It is therefore possible that the supposed head the Templars worshipped was actually a metaphorical head. That Hugues de Payen’s shield carried three black heads suggests that certain elements within the Order – the upper echelons perhaps – were involved with esoteric disciplines learned from the Sufis from the very beginning of the Temple’s existence.
Could these “alchemical heads” be code words for a secret knowledge held by the minds of the initiated as well as literal severed heads who supposedly “prophesied”? The Templars were also said to have in their possession, ritual skulls made out of precious metals and human bone covered in gold and silver. These skulls may have been their own deceased brethren. There are testimonies taken from the Catholic inquisitions that purport of the Templars alluding to possessing metallic skulls used in Templar ceremonies, especially in the legend of The Necromantic Skull Of Sidon.
Skulls tend to be used in ancestor worship and also happen to be the premiere emblem of Mexican commemoration of the Dia de los Muertos (“Day of the Dead” being a pre-Colombian tradition of ancestor worship and colonial Catholicism) and demonic deity of the drug cartels, Santa Muerte, a mixture of the Virgin Mary (who, herself is the Catholic version of Astarte and Ishtar/Lilith) and the Aztec god of death Mictlantecuhtli. The Yale Masonic secret society of the “Skull & Bones,” a Satanic club of which a string of U.S. Presidents belong to (John Kerry, the Bush family, etc.) via secret oaths and initiation rites into diabolism similar to the ones found in Templar Baphometic rites. These “Bonesmen” have their origins in the so-called “Bavarian Illuminati” who themselves come from the Jesuits, whose saints are often depicted next to skulls or holding skulls. There are paintings depicting Mary Magdalene holding a skull as well.
The famous skull and crossbones motif normally associated with pirates is often said to have originated with this skull from Sidon, but it was probably much older. This haunting motif, which we today associate with poison, was most likely a symbol related to the earlier alchemical rites of the Templar Knights. During these early rites, skulls were used representing “Caput Mortumm” or “Dead Head,” which refers to a stage in alchemy preceding creation of the “Philosophers Stone,” which is the Great Work of the alchemists, equated with spiritualized gold. This is the stage of “Nigredo” or the “blackening” in Hades/Hell. The Gnostic-Hermetist Zosimos depicts this stage in the most extreme and gruesome imagery in his alchemical work Visions.
The most important skull or head used in the rites of the Knights Templar was known within the Order as Baphomet. This most sacred of heads, which many of the Knights alluded to during their depositions preceding their French trial, may have been that of John the Baptist, whose head was acquired by the Templar’s as part of treasure they looted from Constantinople during the Fourth Crusade in the 11th century. Even stranger is the fact that this Baphomet skull could also be related to the head of Simon Magus–one of the bad guys featured in the Book of Acts.
However, the idea that the Templars revered Baphomet in its Gnosticized form, seems to be a later additional detail that emerges during the French Revolution and was later emphasized by the likes of Purgstall, Eliphas Levi, Aleister Crowley, etc. Whatever the case may be, it seems as though the Templar treasure is somehow tied with the symbolism of the head, the mind, as well as the Holy Grail cup which is associated with drinking the wisdom of various Hermetic and Gnostic deities and alchemists like Zosimos, as we explain in the book. Indeed, even the Holy Grail/Fisher King legends themselves have strong associations with Gnosticism, and it is this heresy that Roman Catholicism greatly desired to have stamped out of existence and absorbed into their own “universal” collective religion.
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