Wednesday, May 25, 2016

Bacteria in the Library - The Macrobes





What if we are not even cats in the library, what if we are more like bacteria?

Rule Britannia, Otherwise



We are Archons.

Before we get into the depths of this post lets just take a moment to remember the unbelievable suffering that we inflict not only upon each other but also upon animals, plants and the ecosystem in general.  Bacteria subject to antibiotics, cleansing wipes, zit cream, etc  may well be cursing their alien gods, in a language based in ions and proteins, as their membranes pop and fry.  Alexandra brings up a good point, the scale matters, we think less of bacteria than we do of cats and similarly the scale of the archon, the macrobe, above you will determine its level of realization of the pain it is directly/indirectly inflicting.


John Klein: I think we can assume that these entities are more advanced than us. Why don't they just come right out and tell us what's on their minds?

Alexander Leek: You're more advanced than a cockroach, have you ever tried explaining yourself to one of them?

The Mothman Prophecies, John Keel


I see a lot of conversation on the blogs but not so much action or at least not enough accounts of action. As I have stated before summon the alien and ask it some questions or instead attempt to scale the astral prison walls.  My mind has been thoroughly blown by Raziel and the ''discussions'' with him on the subject of time travel.  I have recorded these encounters and attempted to decompress the information I have received.  Attempts at astral prison break have not gone well but I have recorded them and detailed some of what I think are the rules behind this. I have lived at Edward Kelley's Tower in Prague and attempted to navigate that insanely complex spiritual environment to achieve various effects, also failed, somewhat spectacularly, but broke new ground with the 231 Gates*.  I am still standing.

Come on, have a go at it - the worst that can happen is that you will blaspheme, go mad or die, but remember death is but a moment and cowardice is a lifetime of affliction**.  I have been writing here for four years and during that whole time I have seen a lot of mostly recycled discussion, motivational rhetoric from sorcerers, and political posturing but I can count the entries detailing accounts of practical deeper work on one hand.  You can't get better and grow as a being if you are just talking about it.  All your sorcerous success is as nothing if effectively you have been playing with beans in the prison yard, right?***  If you cannot astrally project yet then you are really at a very low level of magic, sorry this is just true - attracting things by magic is relatively easy compared to the hard work/disicpline required by astral projection, developing psychic powers, studying the Qabalah, healing, stoicism, time travel and regaining the nucleus.  If you don't want to at least attempt to understand the universe, and are just happy getting rich and laid then you are still in the kids pool.  I want to be clear that I am not against research and/or discussion of theory these are a huge part of scientific success but you also have to experiment.

I am a huge fan of the fractal or mathematical universe, at a certain level of descent I think ''atoms'' open into new universes and I think fractality is compatible with simulation theory, I don't think the simulation needs to be grounded in some hard drive in a final physical reality, I think the simulation can constitute all there is and outside of it is effectively infinite deadspace - this being where the successful Gnostic ends up****.  We act as archons and we are acted upon by archons, the nature of it determined by the scale of our current level of being.

Returning to my bacterial friends, allies and enemies for a moment, the lessons of the Metabolism of Time involve rediscovering our cellular nature, and becoming more microbial not less, our consciousness is ultimately membrane-bound. As discussed in the Depth of the West, initiations begin with descending our personal tree of life, through various organisms, and own connection to the first cell. We then rebuild ourselves as chronosomes (Yesod), then we regain our nucleus (Tifereth), then our cytoplasm (Daath) and finally our outer membrane (Kether), with its receptors (Chokmah) and transporters (Binah), semi-permeable to the bloodstream of time (En Sof).

The Economist this week talks about the dangers of antibiotic resistant bacteria, and developing this idea we must understand that we could be a similar threat to our archons.  In the episode from Rick and Morty featuring the Moonmen song a higher dimensional entity comes to our plane to annihilate all carbon based lifeforms because we are like a plague from their perspective.  Are we?  Are we really the victims here?  Or are we here because we are criminals, exiles?  The vast majority of us are god damn awful to each other a lot of the time, can we really blame all this selfishness, hatred, exploitation on our archonic masters?  Don't hate the players hate the game?  How do we find out for sure?




*Bear in mind Paul Foster Case thought that Enochian was simply an incomplete earlier form of  Qabalah... Perhaps think back to the legends regarding Raziel teaching the original Qabalah.
**Retreat is always an option and fear can be your friend at times.
***Some sorcery is necessary to acquire enough beans to get equipment for escape attempts or to communicate with beings beyond the walls - otherwise it is a means unto itself not a gateway into the why.
****Although there is a huge paradox in this.  The paradox may well be the root cause.

Monday, May 23, 2016

The Depth of Up - Venutian Time Forms


I'd woken up early, and I took a long time getting ready to exist.

Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

In Time Images Io discusses the role of Hera, heroism and the human understanding of time, pointing towards Heracles and his twelve labours.  Like the different phases of the cell-cycle and their basic genetic rhythms,  the zodiac, planets and elements could be said to be forms of time.

Since we were on the subject what do I think I know about Venutian time forms?

THE MIME

The Path of Venus leads to the Depth of Up represented in my cosmogony by The Mime figure above.  In her perfected state she sits atop the Stoa, juggling and multi-tasking stresslessly while beneath her two less perfected selves weep and self-medicate. The swamp, the ruins and the key turning in her back present this specific form's relationship with time i.e. getting lost, inevitable decay and the reality that all our achievements are as sandcastles. How does she wrestle with these temporal realities?

To respond to Io the role of the Stoa/Stoicism connects to the free will/choice situation, if the synchs/event represent the process of the fulfilment of desire, then one way into the de-synchronous or to disentangle is stoicism - to rise above it*.  In the Symposium though, the Stoic (as Socrates is described by Alcibiades in his final monologue regarding his immunity to cold/heat/fear/love - etc) ends up becoming the object of desire; the beloved instead of the lover - or in our previous language the Stoic becomes the significant event for another which often plays out as the meeting with the master/teacher.
He resembles the Sileni in the contrast between his exterior and interior. (αExternally he adopts an erotic attitude towards beautiful youths: (β) but internally he despises beauty and wealth, as I know from experience. For I tried to bribe him with my beauty, but all my many attempts came to nothing. Private conversations, gymnastics together, a supper-party à deux, even a night on the same couch—all was of no use. Against my battery of charms he was armed (by his temperance) in “complete steel”; and I charge him now before you with the crime of ὕβρις. His hardihood was shown in the Potidaea campaign, where none could stand the cold like him. His valour was displayed in the battle where he saved my life, and in the retreat from Delium. Especially amazing is his unique originality, which makes it impossible to find anyone else like him—except Satyrs and Sileni.

Alcibiades, The Symposium, Plato
As Io states - ''What we are is cultivated by these other forms to which our will is directed'' - If one is genetically inclined towards this archetype one will play out its dramas whether one knows it or not; an inevitable oscillation between mania and depression with those moments of stoicism hopefully rising ever more supreme, full of poise and elegance, sometimes seeming cold, aloof and attractively unobtainable - achingly cool.**  Although the Venutian inevitably becomes the beloved of the Mercurial, what in many ways the Mercurial strives to be, like Io states a new path opens to the Stoic in doing so as they are finally ready to be initiated into the Sun, the Depth of the East, the Form of the Good and regain their nucleus.

The role of restraint in training the will and ultimately opening up the paths to deeper magic cannot be underplayed - stoicism or the steeling of oneself is essential to the Yogi, the Renaissance Magician, the Cathar, the Neognostic.   Without control of the mind how can you pass accusing angels, access the higher planes, not go mad with the fear? The modern conversation in the WMT is about simple desire fulfilment as easily, as quick and as effective as possible through sigil or spirit - you rarely hear discussions about restraint.

No growth without assistance. No action without reaction. No desire without restraint. Now give yourself up and find yourself again.

Master Li Mu Bai, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon

*As a key component of stoicism is Nature itself, rising above actually requires considerable if not complete submission.
**The quality of the skin of these forms cycles with these states, its a useful diagnostic tool for navigation/medicine/physiomancy.

Monday, May 16, 2016

The Depths of Up and Down - Is it Synching in?

Aha! You see?  That's what you said... We all, as I said, everyone has feelings, everyone would like to 'make a difference'.  Everyone says 'I'm a maverick' but we're, you know that, just one part of the whole, nobody's a maverick.

Speed-the-Plow, David Mamet

Synchronicities are like sonar pings - the rate at which they happen increase as I head towards a significant event and decrease as I move away.


What is a significant event?  The work with Raziel on Daughter Dimensions would suggest that a significant event is a robust branching moment, a place in space-time where your life diverges one way or the other.  I do not believe that there are an infinite number of possibilities in each moment, I believe the universe - spatial, temporal and observational - is finite and that any given life path collapses down into a manageable number of branching moments.  Although there feels like freedom in movement a series of different decisions of yes or oops in a number of moments lead to the same event in aggregrate* - there are perhaps fourteen versions of me in total.  Like riding in a tram I am free to do whatever I want on the inside of it, think what I want, talk to other passengers, form opinions of what passes by but I can only get off the tram or change to another track at certain key moments.

An obsession with synchronicities and a desire to navigate ones life via them stems from the Mercurial in us - the guide of the dead** - and ultimately from the Depth of Down (In/Fall).  For those who fixate on synchronicities heading towards a significant event and the uptick in the ping ping ping of synchs feels like you are spiralling in towards a nugget of destiny, fate or perhaps even magickal success.  The treasure that one discovers at the middle of this spiral is the vertex of the branching moment and, ultimately, meaning itself***.

Obversely our Venutian impulse, and the Depth of Up (Out/Rise), is about spiralling out - the police sirens screaming by your car in the night, Doppler staggering themselves into the darkness beyond your hearing. Leaving the city behind you, driving on that open road in the middle of the night, the yawning cosmos above you and the pinglessness in your heart is about getting lost as opposed to being discovered.

THE METABOLISM OF TIME

In the Metabolism of Time, the Depths of Down and Up are related to Remembering (discovering/synching in) and Forgetting (getting lost/de-synching) respectively.  If an uptick in synch pings indicates that we are moving towards a significant event - a memory, or branching moment in our pre-existing histories - then a decrease indicates we are moving away from one.  At the maximum distance away from a branching moment before we head towards another we may expect to encounter moments which are de-synchronous - the best way I have of describing this is ''Surprise!'' Following synchronicities has a sense of inevitability to it, that they are leading to something and as you are increasingly initiated into the Mercurial you acquire more knowledge of the specific type of event that the synchronicities are prologuing for you - you know how to read the signs.  The de-synchronous Venutian surprise always seems to have something of the time-ghost to it - a long lost love, friend or enemy turns up for example but not foreshadowed, you won't see it coming in the mirror...  Otherness, forgotten for so long it has become strange and alien.  Although navigation by synchronicity is easier, navigation by the de-synchronous is still possible.

A magician who believes in free will would say that they create the event in the future that they are gleefully pinging towards.  As a results-oriented WMT stumbles towards an understanding of the retro-causal temporal entanglement that is the only plausible explanation for many of those results, we grasp that the event causes the magick as much as the magick causes the event and our agency in this is called into question - the egregore creates us as much as we create the egregore.

Magicians avoid this line of reasoning as it really cramps their style.

Not only have I imagined these games, I have also meditated on the house. All parts of the house are repeated many times, any place is another place. There is no one pool, courtyard, drinking trough, manger; the mangers, drinking troughs, courtyards pools are fourteen (infinite) in number. The house is the same size as the world; or rather it is the world. However, by dint of exhausting the courtyards with pools and dusty gray stone galleries I have reached the street and seen the temple of the Axes and the sea. I did not understand this until a night vision revealed to me that the seas and temples are also fourteen (infinite) in number. Everything is repeated many times, fourteen times, but two things in the world seem to be repeated only once: above, the intricate sun; below Asterion. Perhaps I have created the stars and the sun and this enormous house, but I no longer remember. 

Jorge Luis Borges


*A bit like a choose your own adventure story book.
**We may already be dead and this is the underworld.
***Meaning or context is derived from the branch, it is the third step - point, line, branch - or ''Binah'' - see Changing the Future on the Metabolism of Time diagram.