The spirits of men are the powdered
bones of Saturn
The
Axis Mundi of Daath
“Talkin bout the one eyed
snake!” -Cheech and Chong, Up in Smoke
In this post I will explain how the Egyptian Deity
Horus ties into the Kabbalistic Sephirah Daath, as well as, symbolically, modern
and ancient obelisks, Crowlean Magick, Mithra and Mithraeums. C. G. Jung’s dream where he beholds the Khaire Phalle, the Gnostic All-Devourer and All-Destroyer in its true
form, is detailed in this post and quoted in its entirety. In Jung’s vision, the throne of the Evil God
is contained inside an unholy Sanctuary described in all but word, as a
Mithraeum.
The Tree Of Life (pictured), of the esoteric
Kaballah, or Qabalah is said to contain ten Sephiroth, or energy nodes. The combined intersections and relationships
which form this metaphysical map are said to contain all the correspondences of
life itself, reaching even beyond our sphere of comprehension. There is, however, an eleventh, secret
Sephirah; Daath, or Da’at. According to
Gareth Knight, “the early texts state most explicitly that there are ten Holy
Sephiroth, not nine and not eleven, but ten.
However, modern research has led to sufficient evidence to justify its
being regarded as a Sephirah in its own right, but in a rather especial
way. It is thus termed the “Invisible
Sephirah” and Crowley suggested that it might be best considered another
dimension to the other Sephiroth.”
Related to the etymology of the word Kaballah is the
word kibla, which in religious
parlance is defined as the direction
which Muslims face in prayer. All Muslim
prayer is directed at the Kaaba, a holy cubic stone located in Mecca. In Arabic, qiblah means “that which is placed opposite.”
Many
people are turned off from mainstream religion which force-feeds a subjective
truth by masquerading it as an objective fact. The Kabbalah is an ancient tool of
correspondence which gives those who study it the ability to find their own
subjective truth. The Kabbalah is a tool
for widening the net of perception, allowing for greater cognitive leaps by the
creative and dynamic powers of the right brain.
Thelemites, the followers of
Aleister Crowley’s channeled “revelation” and philosophical teachings, are also
known as the OTO: Ordo Templi Orientis,
practitioners of the religion Thelema.
“Love is the Law, Love under Will”, is a
primary teaching of Thelema, and practitioners may devote their entire lives to
the study of inner correspondences which make up their “true will.” As an individual spiritual aspirant, I
believe the tenets of a true religion should encourage freedom of thought and
contain ecstatic living ritual. Let your Christ be Risen in thought, word and
deed, rather than static, patriarchal and greedy. Paramount, above much else, is placement of
the Sacred Feminine back into the Administration
Branch, of the Celestial Corporation, so to speak.
The Sephirah Daath is said to represent Knowledge,
and often has a sexual connotation, as in “sexual knowledge.” I believe there is a deeper knowing, a direct
knowledge which comes with experience. The sexual analogy represents the union that results in the birth of this
deeper knowledge. Horus is often
represented as a winged red sun, and is considered the child of the Sacred
Marriage in a Gnostic context. The
ability to “see” truth directly may be one of the “Sidhi,” or occult powers locked
away inside the Daath nexus.
One of my most memorable dreams predates all of my
major research into mysticism. As it
starts, I am walking up a road which begins to become entirely vertical. The road turns into a cliff, a perpendicular
face which I am climbing. The surface is
a bookshelf, and I grab at it,
swinging myself up over higher and higher peaks. Finally I arrive at the top, to enjoy, on the
horizon, a setting, or perhaps rising sun.
The sun appears in a deep red color.
It is an absolutely euphoric dream.
This dream is a pilgrimage. It represents a desire to reach the peaks of
Knowledge, what I am beginning to realize is a universal Archetype, what
Gnostics might call a tree within a
tree. The Quabalistic “missing” Sephirah
Daath is the key to understanding my dream, and quite a bit else in the
Synchromystic realm as well.
Serpents guard the path to Daath, the secret Sephirah
of the Tree of Life. The most common
symbol associated with Daath is the Caduceus.
The Caduceus is also related to Kundalini energy, which is believed to
rise up the spine at the sequential activation of the body’s seven Chakras. The Pineal gland, located in the center of
the head, is artistically represented by a pine cone and is considered the
“third eye” which is said to be activated by Kundalini energy. A common esoteric interpretation of the
Garden of Eden story, says the tempting snake represents the Kundalini
force. Of the two trees which grow in
the garden, The Tree of Life is represented by the Kaballah and its ten
Sephiroth. Daath has been deemed by
Gnostic thinkers as a “tree within a tree;” the Tree of Knowledge which is said
to bring death.
According to Gareth Knight, the symbols of the
Sephirah Daath are: a grain of corn, a prism, Sirius the Dog Star, the “World
Mountain” concept, and the Janus-face.
All of these symbols work together to define a distinct and definable
schema, as well as a mysterious truth.
This is a rich thought-stream which has travelled below ground for many
generations, but may still bubble to the surface when tapped. Perhaps an even better analogy would be
digging a well, and striking black oil.
Sirius symbolism is probably the most harped-on
topic for synch-minded thinkers, and the connections between Sirius and Horus
cannot be understated. This is a horse that
cannot be beaten to death; not in this Aeon.
There are many people who are trying to discover a
rational reason why “whenever they look at a clock it says eleven-after.” This eleven-after “time-prompt phenomena” is
associated with the presence of the God Horus.
Looking at a clock and seeing 4:44 is also a common time-prompt. Incidentally, the “stele of revealing,” the
major Thelmite religious icon, measures 44 inches from top to bottom. Clearly an Ancient Egyptian funerary
inscriptionist prophesized the modern English inch and designed their stele
accordingly.
The ritual mating of the six-pointed star and the
five-pointed star creates a mystical eleven pointed star. The eleven pointed star is called the star of
Qliphoth, the star of the dark side
of the Tree of Life. With the
Daath-Horus-Knowledge connotations as they are, I interpret time prompts as
perhaps the most basic form of direct knowing, a call from your Higher
Soul. The message: look to the books;
seek knowledge.
As
a brief divergence: The
Infinite Monkey theorem, in regards to sacred-star manufacture, states; “An
infinite amount of Monkeys, given an infinite number of Spirographs, and an
infinite amount of time, could create a star with an infinite amount of
points. Such a star would be
all-powerful, as it would symbolize all the possible mystical connotations of
the whole universe.” For is the map not the territory in this
holographic realm?
The problem, of course, with my Monkey-Star theory
is that a star with points doesn’t account for the symbolic relationships or paths between the actual Sephiroth. And you thought we were actually talking
about monkeys! It has been said that all
is metaphor, and it has been said that Knowledge is power. The more complete statement would be: Some Knowledge is more powerful than others,
and some metaphors, known as Living Myth
contain the very most power of all.
The
Metaphor of the Caduceus:
“The so-called intertwined snakes of the caduceus.
Originally the caduceus, which is still the symbol of medicine was the staff
of- not Hermes-but-' Fat paused, his eyes bright. 'Of Asklepios. It has a very
specific meaning, besides that of wisdom, which the snakes allude to; it shows
that the bearer is a sacred person and not to be molested...which is why Hermes
the messenger of the gods, carried it.” -Philip K Dick, Valis
The
Living Myth of the Holy Grail:
“I can see Richard Wagner standing at the gates of
heaven. "You have to let me
in," he says. "I wrote Parsifal. It has to do with the
Grail, Christ, suffering, pity and healing. Right?" And they answer,
"Well, we read it and it makes no sense." SLAM.” -Philip K Dick, Valis
The Washington Monument, a pilgrimage site for many
Americans, is still the tallest obelisk; the tallest stone structure in
the world. When it was completed, it
stood as the tallest structure in the world.
The Washington
Monument
On the east side of the pinnacle of the Washington Monument Washington Monument
Ancient Pharaohs were believed to be the incarnation
or Avatar of the God Horus. The
coronation of Horus as God-King, is artistically demonstrated with a complex
two-part crown known as the Pschent Crown.
Separately worn, these two crowns are known as the Deshret, the red
crown and the Hedjet, or white crown. The
bowling pin shaped phallic white crown can be inserted into the red crown to
symbolize the mating of upper and lower kingdoms of Egypt. The union of these crowns represents the
merging of spiritual man with corporeal man.
Due to the overall impact to this essay, and
interrelation of all these concepts, it becomes absolutely necessary to quote
Jung's original enthroned phallus vision in its entirety:
“...I had the earliest dream I can remember, a dream
which was to preoccupy me all my life. I
was then between three and four years old.
The vicarage stood quite alone near Laufen castle, and there was a big
meadow stretching back from the sexton’s farm.
In the dream I was in this meadow.
Suddenly I discovered a dark, rectangular, stone-lined hole in the
ground. I had never seen it before. I ran forward curiously and peered down into
it. Then I saw a stone stairway leading
down. Hesitantly and fearfully, I
descended. At the bottom was a doorway
with a round arch, closed off by a green curtain. It was a big, heavy curtain of worked stuff
like brocade, and it looked very sumptuous.
Curious to see what might be hidden behind, I pushed it aside. I saw before me in the dim light a
rectangular chamber about thirty feet long.
The ceiling was arched and of hewn stone. The floor was laid with flagstones, and in
the center a red carpet ran from the entrance to a low platform. On this platform stood a wonderfully rich golden
throne. I am not certain, but perhaps a
red cushion lay on the seat. It was a
magnificent throne, a real king's throne in a fairy tale. Something was standing on it which I thought
at first was a tree trunk twelve to fifteen feet high and about one and a half
to two feet thick. It was a huge thing,
reaching almost to the ceiling. But it
was of a curious composition: it was made of skin and naked flesh, and on top
there was something like a rounded head with no face and no hair. On the very top of the head was a single eye,
gazing motionlessly upward. It was
fairly light in the room, although there were no windows and no apparent source
of light. Above the head, however, was
an aura of brightness. The thing did not
move, yet I had the feeling that it might at any moment crawl off the throne
like a worm and creep toward me. I
was paralyzed with terror. At that
moment I heard from outside and above me my mother's voice. She called out, “Yes, just look at him. That is the man-eater!” That intensified my terror still more, and I
awoke sweating and scared to death. For
many nights afterward I was afraid to go to sleep, because I feared I might
have another dream like that. This dream
haunted me for years. Only much later
did I realize that what I had seen was a phallus, and it was decades before I
understood it was a ritual phallus. I
could never make out whether my mother meant, “that is the man-eater,”
or “that is the man-eater.” In
the first case she would have meant that the lord Jesus or the Jesuit was the devourer of little children, but the
phallus; in the second case that the “man-eater” in general was symbolized by
the phallus, so the dark Lord Jesus, and the Jesuit, and the phallus were
identical. The abstract significance of
the phallus is shown by the fact that it was enthroned by itself,
“ityphallically” (“upright”). The hole
in the meadow probably represented a grave.
The grave itself was an underground temple whose green curtain
symbolized the meadow, in other words the mystery of Earth with her
covering of green vegetation. The carpet
was blood-red. What about the
vault? Perhaps I had already been to the
Munot, the citadel of Schaffhausen? This
is not likely, since no one would take a three-year-old child up there. So it cannot be a memory-trace. Equally, I do not know where the anatomically
correct phallus can have come from. The
interpretation of the orificum urethrae as an eye, with the source of
light apparently above it, points to the etymology of the word phallus (shining
bright). At all events, the phallus of
this dream seems to be a subterranean God “not to be named,” and such it
remained throughout my youth, reappearing whenever anyone spoke too
emphatically about Lord Jesus.”
Jung experienced this dream contemporaneously with a
real-world encounter with a “man dressed as a woman:” a Jesuit Priest which
scared the hell out of him.
Jung’s mention of the man-eater and devourer of
little children brings me back to my Saturn references; Chronos/Saturn is the
Titan who ate his own offspring because he feared their power. Is the mystery of Daath, simply stated, “I
and the Father are one.”?
One Sephiroth to rule them all? One Sephiroth to bind them?
The Sephirot Daath plugs into the Tree of Life, like
a light bulb to a socket. It fits below
Kether and above Tiphareth, the problem here is that most occultists show Daath
as simply floating there. Kabbalists
understand that the correspondences of one Sephirah to another are just as
significant, or perhaps more so, than the symbolic placement of the Sephirah
themselves. What are the paths to Daath?
Gurdjieff and Crowley
I printed out a copy of the Gurdjieff drawing and
literally turned it over back into the printer and printed a Tree of Life over
top. Instantly, I had a Gurdjieff Tree
of Life. The most amazing synchronistic correspondence in this
overlay was a perfect “throat Chakra” match for Daath. The throat Chakra controls communication,
creativity, and union of higher and lower. The female angel on the left (in Gurdjieff’s
drawing) matches the pillar of severity, and the devil on the right, the pillar
of mercy. A scale ends up being
encircled by the Yesod Sephiroth, Malkuth encloses a trowel, tools representing
the arts and sciences are littered across the floor. The crossed branches at Kether, held by the
angel and demon are visually similar to common depictions of The Alchemical Marriage. Perhaps what Gurdjieff is telling us is that
an Alchemical Marriage between the positive and negative pillars produces
Horus, the Hawk-headed representation of the middile pillar; the pillar of
equilibrium. Below the Horus Avatar, we
have a bull, dove and lion, all of which is then encircled by an Ouroboros, or
snake eating his own tail.
An attempt to find more connections led me again to Aleister
Crowley, speaker for the Aeon of Horus himself.
In Crowley’s ritual incantations within “Liber V Vel Reguli” we have the
beginnings of what, I promise, is not another wild goose chase. Also warranting further study is Crowley’s Gnostic Mass.
Liber
V Vel Reguli, the “Ritual of the Mark of the Beast”
begins with the “Oath of Enchantment, Which is called the eleven fold
seal.” This seal counts three marks up
to Daath, exactly pointing out where this Sephirah appears on the Tree. See (red) illustration at right:
Among other ritual commandments is: “Let
him touch the Centre of his Forehead, his mouth, and his larynx, crying
AIWAZ!” This connects Aiwaz with the
throat Chakra, Aiwaz is the communicator
of Daath. Crowley’s depiction of Aiwaz
looks strikingly similar to a “grey alien.”
There is a phase of this ritual
which has the practitioner act as if he is holding a baby to his left
breast. Christopher Knowles, at The Secret Sun Blog, has lately been
discussing the archetype of the uncovered left breast in reference to
historical art and pop-culture. Knowles
believes there is a connection between the exposed breast imagery and the
child-god form of Horus. The Secret Sun also has many
illuminating articles on Crowley and Mithra/Mithraeums, as well as hundreds of
other impressive, insightful blog entries.
I can’t claim, with my modest knowledge, to have complete intrepetation or
understanding of Crowley’s symbols. But
I am willing to take a whack at it.
My entirely-preemptory and cursory conclusions of the meaning Crowley’s
ritual is this:
Crowley’s Liber V Vel Reguli ritual is an instruction for “mounting” the Sephirah Daath upon the Tree of Life. I suspect, in fact, this whole
ritual entails activation of Kundalini energy.
Crowley’s ritual goes on to mention Saturn, the phallus and many other
things which I have been speaking about herein.
Please do not try Crowley’s
ritual unless you feel you are spiritually ready for it, as unprepared
Kundalini activation can be injurious or even deadly. According to Gareth Knight, “There is a
dark side of Daath relating to what might be called the subconscious mind of God,
and this could have strange results on the soul. Contacts with the personal subconscious can
be disturbing enough, so one can well imagine how much more explosive would be
contacts with the Universal Subconscious, containing the whole past history and
stresses of the Logos… …The safest way to work with Daath is through the Isis
mythology.”
The pentagram is just another
form of the Baphomet icon, as drawn by Israel Regardie. The Baphomet, incidentally, is also often pictured
similarly to the God Janus, with his head facing both left and right
simultaneously.
This goat-headed pentagram fits
into the Tree of Life in the Daath “plug.”
The Baphomet has a flaming torch springing from its head which
represents the Kether Sephirot. The Goat
ears point to Geburah and Chesed, while the horns point to Binah and
Chokmah. The snout points to Tiphareth.
Aleister Crowley suggested that
the term Baphomet was derived from “Father Mithras.” Crowley
References
to Christopher Knowles or the OTO Order do not imply that these people endorse
or agree with my work. Draw your own
conclusions. Sources:
LIBER V VEL REGULI
http://hermetic.com/crowley/libers/lib5.html
The
Secret Sun Blog, by Christopher Knowles: http://secretsun.blogspot.com/
Jung’s Autobiography Memories Dreams Reflections
A
Practical Guide to Qabalistic Symbolism, by Gareth Knight
The Kiblah, by by Tau Apiryon http://hermetic.com/sabazius/kiblah.htm
Wikipedia Baphomet Article: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baphomet Wikipedia
Quotes Crowley: “So far, the Wizard had shown great qualities! He
had cleared up the etymological problem and shown why the Templars should have
given the name Baphomet to their so-called idol. Baphomet was Father Mithras, the cubical stone which was the corner of
the Temple.”
Bonus Footnote: The Wizard of Oz
is the communicator appearing behind
a green curtain, just as in Jung’s
dream of the Phallus. (Not included in
above text in order to avoid confusion with Aiwaz, my little alien buddy)
Also: Many websites discuss sacred geometry in the
District of Colombia map. Looking up the
George Washington statue where he is depicted as Baphomet would also be a fun
place to start. The Statue of Liberty,
as Isis, sits on top of an eleven pointed star dias platform!
I am impressed by, as I study these topics further, the continuing ability of Frank Herbert’s Dune Myth to “hang in there” and correlate with my findings.
In Frank Harbert’s Dune Mythology, Maud’Dib becomes Harendotes: Horus in the avenging form, in vengeance of his fathers’ death. Later, he sits on the Lion throne as emperor of the universe. Maud’Dibs’ son, Leto II later sits on the same throne as God Emperor; The Tyrant. As a youth, Paul Maud’Dib cherished his Orange Catholic Bible, later becoming a Prophet in his own right. Kaaba imagery, which is rife in Crowley’s writings, goes hand-in hand with the Middle Eastern themes of Dune, and its Sufism philosophy. (Topmost Picture: Saint Alia of the Knife, Sitting on the Golden Lion Throne)
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