David Bowie was a Narcissus (human) who woke up (”upgraded himself”).
Through his art and music he tried to communicate how to wake up, by increasing the number of experiences that humans alive right now have had gnosis of (c.f. “grokked”).
Because of his ability to do this so effectively to so many people, I would like to nominate David Bowie as a “Gnostic Saint”. I hope he would appreciate this – he certainly knew about the Kabbalah and the teachings of Aleister Crowley.
For evidence of this, see the first image above, from “Station to Station” (1976). Here the Thin White Duke is drawing a Qabalistic Tree of Life on the floor, where each sphere or circle is a “station” as referred to in the title of both the song and the album containing it.
In the background you can see a 3D version of the tree drawn on the walls and floor.
An example of explicit mentions of real occult groups is contained in the lyrics to “Quicksand” (1971):
“I’m closer to the Golden Dawn
Immersed in Crowley’s uniform
Of imagery
I’m living in a silent film
Portraying Himmler’s sacred realm
Of dream reality
I’m frightened by the total goal
Drawing to the ragged hole
And I ain’t got the power anymore
No, I ain’t got the power anymore
I’m the twisted name on Garbo’s eyes
Living proof of Churchill’s lies, I’m destiny
I’m torn between the light and dark
Where others see their targets, divine symmetry
Should I kiss the viper’s fang?
Or herald loud the death of Man
I’m sinking in the quicksand of my thought
And I ain’t got the power anymore
Don’t believe in yourself, don’t deceive with belief
Knowledge comes with death’s release
Aah-aah, aah-aah, aah-aah, aah-aah
I’m not a prophet or a stone-age man
Just a mortal with the potential of a superman
I’m living on
I’m tethered to the logic of Homo Sapien
Can’t take my eyes from the great salvation
Of bullshit faith
If I don’t explain what you ought to know
You can tell me all about it on the next Bardo
I’m sinking in the quicksand of my thought
And I ain’t got the power anymore
Don’t believe in yourself, don’t deceive with belief
Knowledge comes with death’s release
Aah-aah, aah-aah, aah-aah, aah-aah
Don’t believe in yourself, don’t deceive with belief
Knowledge comes with death’s release
Aah-aah, aah-aah, aah-aah, aah-aah”.
Adept (Latin) Adeptus, “One who has obtained.” In occultism, an adept is one who has reached the stage of Initiation and has become a Master in the science of esotericism.
The Ouroboros is a Greek word meaning “tail devourer,” and is one of the oldest mystical symbols in the world. It can be perceived as enveloping itself, where the past (the tail) appears to disappear but really moves into an inner domain or reality, vanishing from view but still existing.
The ouroboros has several meanings interwoven into it. Foremost is the symbolism of the serpent biting, devouring, or eating its own tail. This symbolizes the cyclic Nature of the Universe: creation out of destruction, Life out of Death. The ouroboros eats its own tail to sustain its life, in an eternal cycle of renewal. It is sometimes depicted in a lemniscate shape (figure eight) as well.
The Serpent biting its own tail is first seen as early as 1600 years BC in Egypt as a symbol of the sun, and represented the travels of the sun disk. From there it moved to the Phonecians and then to the Greeks, who gave it its name, Ouroboros, which means devouring its tail.
In mythology, the Oroborus is a symbol representing the Milky Way galaxy. Myth refers to a serpent of light residing in the heavens. The Milky Way is this serpent, and viewed at galactic central point near Sagittarius, this serpent eats its own tail. Many ancients used the galaxy to calculate cosmic and earth cycles.
It is found in Gnosticism and alchemy representing cyclical natural life and the fusion of opposites. It also symbolizes the transcendence of duality and was related to the solar God Abraxas, and signified eternity and the soul of the world.
In alchemy, it represents the spirit of Mercury (the substance that permeates all matter), and symbolizes continuous renewal (a snake is often a symbol of resurrection, as it appears to be continually reborn as it sheds its skin.), the cycle of life and death, and harmony of opposites. As a symbol of the eternal unity of all things, the cycle of birth and death from which the alchemist sought release and liberation. It unites opposites: the conscious and unconscious mind. Alchemically, the ouroboros is also used as a purifying glyph.
The alchemical textbook, Chrysopoeia (gold making) of Kleopatra contains a drawing of the ouroboros representing the serpent as half light and half dark, echoing symbols such as the Yin Yang, which illustrates the dual nature of all things, but more importantly, that these opposites are not in conflict. The book is mainly centered around the idea of “one is all,” a concept that is related to hermetic wisdom.
History
The Ouroboros appears in many other cultures and settings as well…the Serpent Jormungand of Norse legend, one of the three children of Loki and Angrboda, grew so large that it could encircle the world and grasp its tail in its teeth. It guarded the Tree of Life, and is often depicted as an ouroboros.
The Aztec serpent God Queztacoatl was depicted similarly, and Chinese alchemical dragons have both similar shapes and meaning.
In Hindu, you have the dragon circling the tortoise which supports the four elephants that carry the world.
All things are expressions of the Primal Trinity, expressed here as the three primary colors: blue = active (Alchemy = Sulfur), yellow = mutable (Alchemy = Mercury), and red = passive (Alchemy = Salt) as attributed by vibratory attenuation (blue has the highest frequency, yellow the second, and red the lowest). Even numbers are considered feminine, and odd, masculine. The letters share the masculine or feminine attribute of their associated number. The Six Parents are: A,E,I,O,U,Y. A,E & I are masculine, O,U, & Y are feminine. These vowels, by parity with the consonants, create six tables of 21 consonant/vowel pairs, producing 126 (1+2+6=9) magickal syllables in all.
The process of emanation from the Higher World to the Lower World occurs through the singularity of Consciouness. From it proceeds the three Trinities of Manifestation, mirrors of God in the Lower Worlds. Each principle proceeds from the next. Perception generates space-time, proception generates the concepts of mass and energy, and mentation predicts complexity and entropy, These trinities are mutually emergent phrnomena and have no existence apart. These are the foundations of the hologram and provide us with a UI (User Interface), a set of imperatives, and a means of problem solving within the simulation and fulfilling our imperatives. God has descended into this illusion through the Gate of Consciousness.
0
– Consciousness
1
– Perception
4
– Space
7
– Time
2
– Proception
5
– Mass
8
– Energy
3
– Mentation
6
– Complexity
9
– Entropy
Consciousness touches the noumenal, implicate order of reality, and is the basis
for the human experiential user
interface (HEUI) and is the downlink / uplink for the Divine between the holographic lower world and the Upper World of the One Reality.
The
cosmos, our perception of it, and of ourselves and others, are
mutually emergent phenomena rooted in consciousness. The body is the
soul, the soul is the cosmos, and the cosmos is a dream. We are all
one thing and have no independent existence apart from this shared
delusion.
Perception,
proception and mentation are the causal physical phenomena they
interact with and cannot be said to exist without consciousness,
which supplies the experiential framework. These projections in
consciousness provide limitations necessary for manifestation. We
can observe that the brain is a perceptual apparatus, but that
apparatus does not exists outside of our observation.
Note:
a game without rules is not a game. Perception establishes
boundaries and limits our focus deliberately for the sake of an
engineered experience, such as in a video game or a work of fiction,
and reality has many game like qualities.
Our
experience of being human requires limitation in the form of
operational parameters, yet an awareness that this is a
hallucination (a holographic simulation) and that the phenomena of
mind is not Consciousness, but a projection within the field of
Consciousness, an understanding of which is the basis for all
technologies of liberation such as meditation and certain forms of
gnostic ecstasy.
There
is this notion that Consciousness can be “liberated”. In truth,
it is we who are liberated from our own minds, our identifications,
and from our conception of self / not-self, that false duality which
arises from the scission of perception and the projections that
occupy it. All is one, a unified field of being, divided by
perception for the sake of proception, and susceptible to wear and
complexification in the perceived objective world through the
mutually emergent processes of entropy and mentation.
Sigils
operate through the medium of consciousness and represent a means of
bypassing mentation and proception ( these interfere with action by
imagining a will through its tendency of complexification, which
tends to negate hopes with simultaneously emergent fears that supply
interference in order to maintain homeostasis) by hacking perception
(either visual, auditory, or both). Entropy and thermodynamic
equilibrium are the phenomenal kin of mentation, and effective acts
of sorcery negate their stasis.
Consciousness
may be defined as a dimension whose direction of motion is inward
and outward, a liminal bridge between the acausal and causal
universe. In physics, form equals force, and the curvature of
Consciousness (the fifth dimension) is experienced in three
dimensions as perception, proception, and mentation, the basis of
“self”, which, through perceptual scission, represent three
dimensional cross sections of a singular entity or structure in this
higher dimensional continuum, and all change and apparent
separateness and centrality are mere tricks of perspective.
The
moment is the attenuation of space-time by perception, proception is
the attenuation of energy and matter as tactile and relational
experience in the field of perception, and mentation is the
attenuation of the possible within the fields of perception and
proception. Attention represents the omission of totality as a whole
and is a single vector of playback, a moment isolated from all
possible moments but not itself separate. Real time is the
simultaneity of all possible pasts, presents and futures, not the
relative movement of objects (perspective) nor its circadian
manifestation.
Intellect,
emotions, and will occupy the field of consciousness but do not
exist outside of it. There is no thinker, only thought. There is no
thing that feels, only feelings. There is no will, there is only
doing. And all thinking, feeling and doing are the shadows of
acausal archetypes in consciousness.
So
the questions remains: is reality for us acausal and fixed or causal
and adaptive? Our tendency to think in such harsh polarities is the
result of our self reflective nature. The answer is that it is both.
It is archetypally fixed yet adaptively navigated, and neither
version has any meaning without the other to define it. Causal
indeterminism and acausal determinism are mutually dependent aspects
of the same cosmological architecture, a user-based architecture
that supports conscious experience for its own sake.
Perception is the predictive scission from which space and time are derived.
Space-time coordinates have no meaning outside of perception and are
useful primarily for maintaining an organisms fitness.
Proception is the experiential cross-section by our brains in the
hyper-temporal architecture reduced by perception, and is the
cumulative experience of life that is the sum of the interactions of
self, environment and others. Energy and matter are derivative of
proception which postulates them in precisely the same way that
perception predicts space-time relationships. Proception can be
defined as the sphere of fitness and, in biological terms,
proception is described as the sexual behavior of an organism that
leads to conception which, arguably, is at the root of all human
endeavors. It is the force responsible for the growth and evolution
of all life and may be analogous to Reich’s orgone. This does
not imply that homosexuality or transsexualism is somehow abnormal
or a symptom of a lack of fitness. Rather I see them as adaptive
responses to global and societal pressures as well as representing
an expansion of the possibilities of experience and union. “It is
for Love’ sake that we are divided, it is for Love’s sake that we
are united.”
Mentation predicts complexity and entropy which it abhors and seeks to order
by its very nature, while simultaneously increasing their measure in
the cosmos. Dark Matter may well be an objective expression of
mentation is broader universe (I say this in jest, yet I would not
be surprised to learn that it is so). Here is derived our sense of
executive function and of will (which is, in truth, an afterthought
). Thought, it will be seen in mindful praxis, tends to interfere
with the fluid execution of actions, be they magical or otherwise.
Magic is, in a real sense, the art and science of getting out of
your own way.
These three trinities interact with the Archetypal Trinity and produce the Six Elements: Spirit (the Divine), Soul (the Divne Spark trapped within the hologram), Fire, Air, Water and Earth, which can be seen as follows:
Note that the spectrum of colors is produced by the trinities of the 9. Their symbolic associations and their effects on us are as follows:
If we observe the trinities of the 9, we see their relationships as follows:
The 9 is represented best by the Nonagon regular polytope which may be used to create sigils by transmuting the letters of a statement of intent into angular sigils:
The methods for obtaining mantras and sigils via the New Resvised Pythagorean Table are simple and represented below:
There are ritual implements associated with the 9:
The three causal trinities find expression in Metatron’s Cube which, counting the centers of each of the two cubes of the tesseract as vertices reveals 18 in all or the 9 in 3D and the 3D> archetypes of the 9 as 10 through 18 (1+8=9). Turn Metatron’s Cube out of center, and suddenly you can see the tesseract and the vertices occluded from it’s original position. By using the same method of obtaining mantras, we can use those same numbers generated by parity and syllable and map them through the vertices to produce truly 3D> sigils which I call metamorphogons. Taking this a step further, by using an angular version of the English alphabet similar to the Norse Runes, we can construct complex hyperspacial yantras that represent an entire complex of desires and targets of actuation.
(Metatron’s
Cube, first discovered by the famous medieval mathematician
Fibonacci, contains the blue prints for all of the platonic solids,
as well as a hypercube, a construct of 3> spatial dimensions. The
hypercube, and other 3> polygons, are the foundation of the system
of sigilization I will expound. The system makes use of the mechanics
of perception, geometry, perspective, intent and anoesis to make
alterations to our realities. It is a highly effective form of magick
without relying on gods or spirits to effect change. That is not to
say that the system cannot be happily wed to other systems and used
with deities and daemons. I find combining several different
approaches only compounds the effects of this method. making for some
incredible results).
As
with all sigils of the chaos magick variety, they are based on
“vernacular prime” (as Peter J. Carroll puts it in his seminal
work ‘Liber Kaos’) which, in our case, is English. The above “runes”
are the letters of the English alphabet geometrically interpreted
using the inherent symmetries of the the square.
To
make a basic square sigil or “bind rune”, one starts with a
statement of intent. This is phrased in the immediate present, as if
the thing has already come to pass. This statement should be as short
and precisely worded as possible.
Once
this is obtained, these words will be written in the same dimensional
space, framing the intent in a state of superposition, not unlike
quantum states. Repeated letters are naturally omitted as they
eclipse one another when inscribed one over the other. The resulting
design is your sigil; it may be used on its own, coupled with a
mantra version of the intent by way of conversion with the Key of
Naming, formed into a compound sigil as a cube, or constructed as a
hypercubic sigil referred to henceforth as a metamorphogonal sigil,
or “morphogon” for short. (The latter being very
effective).
In
forming a cube, each face will represent an aspect of the desired
outcome. One must be certain that the sigil is facing outward so that
if the cube were rotated in 3D space, the sigils are not reversed
when facing you. This will require that some sigils be reversed and
manipulated in 2D using logic and perspective to visualize their
correct arrangements.
Building
a tesseract can be a bit trickier in that what is desired to be
effected is arranged on the faces of the central cube, and the
external vectors that may realize the desired results are arranged on
the faces of the outer cube. (I recommend using a mantra formulated
with a condensed version of the desire as a means of binding the
total tesseract for realization).
You
will note the incredibly complex designs that result, and how the
combined sigils produce vectors that move through multiple spaces at
impossible angles, thus binding the subject of desire and the object
of effect, creating vectors of realization.
As
you use these, you will notice how they seem to shift and change.
They can become disorienting. Allow your vision to drift through the
angles, but then gently return your gaze to the thing as a whole.
They will sometimes fluoresce and appear to mutate and fold in and
through themselves. This is normal. Just return your gaze to the
totality. Once you achieve anoesis, either destroy the sigil, or put
it away so that it is out of sight and out of mind.
(An
important part of chaos magick is that the sigil be put out of mind
following the working. I will often meditate silently afterward or
use my personal meditative mantra to clear my mind. I recommend using
a simple banishing rite before and after as well as this helps
prepare the mind initially, and serves also to put the desire and
sigil out of your immediate focus. You may use The Rite of The
Pyramid for this purpose which I have posted earlier in this blog).
The Archons in Extension via Projections In Causal Space-Time.
There are 9 Archons expressed as 18 through polarized parity (18 = 1 + 8 = 9).
Numbers 10 – 18 represent the 9 in 4D> space whereas the 1 – 9 are their presences as expressed in <4D space. These polarities are represented by the vertices of the hypercube, aka Metatron’s Cube, the central cube, the 3D universe, being the Kaaba (lit. “cube”), or “Black Iron Prison”, which is the realm of causality ( temporality and the dominion of Time having been attributed variously to Cronus, Saturn, and known to the Gnostics as Abraxas, an Archon and demonic Lord of Time).
Inversion is the nature of this Cosmic Prison, and so it is through enantiodromia that the Archons in higher space are expressed as their opposites in the Abyss of Time and Causation. It is in this manner that God, who in the Higher World (5D> Space-Time) is infinite and unbounded, is, in this 3D holographic labyrinth, finite, bounded, and crippled with amnesia through the oblivescence of incarnation.
Though the Archons do correlate with both the major and minor celestial bodies that comprise our total solar system as we know it today, the classical associations of these as they have come down to us through the ages are incomplete and inaccurate as they were based only on limited glimpses of our solar system.
These ancient associations were deliberate obfuscations of the reality of the Rulers. These celestial bodies are only acausally synchronous shadows of the actual Archons, and not the things themselves, nor do these roughly associated planets, and the pagan lore connected with them, have anything to do with the actualities and functions of these Entities as pertaining to the Prison.
Classic Gnostic models depict the zones of our solar system as lorded over each by one of the seven classical Archons, but as we now know, the Archons are the predictive/manifestational forces of becoming, suffering, death, oblivescence and reincarnation in the Abyss of Time and Causation (the great deception known as “The Real”).
Rather than ritually and “astrally” ascending the “ladder of lights” (this Gnostic concept of passing through cosmic zones was borrowed from the ancient Chaldeans), we now understand that the only way out is to go deeper in, through the singularity of consciousness, the liminal bridge between the Upper World and the Lower World, in which the hologram is projected.
It is through this inward journey that Soul is united with Spirit and the Dreaming God is awakened. One must keep in mind that the Archon’s, who hide behind the false monotheisms of the world (Christianity, Judaism, and Islam), and who delight in the suffering of the sentient: they not only produce the hologaphic prison of the Black Cube, they are the Black Cube.
The Gnostic Circle is an alchemical Key of knowledge from the Vedic
texts of ancient India revealing the primary role of Time in our
developmental process. Most astrological systems are oriented toward
the individual’s egoic development, but the Gnostic Circle provides a
means by which we can perceive the imperatives of the Soul and its
hidden but primary influence in our lives. It is the unifying
element of a complete astrological work-up which helps us to understand
the cyclic nature of our developmental process; where we have been in
the past, where we happen to be at the present moment and what we are
moving toward in the future.
“The Gnostic Circle is the most effective method for understanding
the transformation of human consciousness. It represents a vision of
wholeness and has only one objective: it deals with the soul or seed of
the divine in each created thing and reveals the process by which that
seed is made to flower in its process of becoming.” – Patrizia
Norelli-Bachelet
Used in conjunction with the practice of yoga, the Gnostic Circle
reverses the long-standing perception of Time as the destroyer and
presents mankind with an entirely new awareness of Time as the
integrative mechanism by which a Divine purpose is expressed in the
world, thus it contains the highest wisdom of our age.
“The Gnostic Circle allows us to measure the progression of any event in time. And it provides the means of assessing an event’s relevance to time and place within a global and universal context. Above all, it permits us to appreciate the interconnectedness of events through a unified, spherical approach to Time. The
Gnostic Circle is a yardstick which can be applied to any event and by
which that event or object may be made to reveal its intrinsic nature
and objective value. In ancient literature and tradition, such a tool was sometimes referred to as the Golden Rod, or the Philosopher’s Stone. Its
value resided in the fact that because of its special relation to Time
and Space, it could provide an objective means to assess the
truth-conscious substance of any given situation or event or object. In
a word, it could objectively reveal the element’s inner pulse and place
within the greater harmony of life on Earth and within the solar
system.” The Vishaal Newsletter, – Oct 30, 1991
For each person there are two ways of being in the world, two
existential situations critical to our perception of life and reality.
The first and most common is an experience of the world from the historical perspective of linear time.
The second, and more rare, is the direct perception of non-linear time or cosmic cycles.
These modes of awareness represent two different worlds, one within the other. Non-linear
or sacred time appears under the paradoxical aspect of whole time, an
eternal present which is connected with man’s deepest spiritual
dimension. It is based upon a perception that time does not proceed
endlessly in a straight line. Rather it is always and everywhere a
closed curve, although from our ordinary perception, we do not see that
it’s movement is either curved or closed.
To move beyond the illusion of linearity and recover a realization of
whole time one must undergo a process of yoga which illumines the
cyclical nature of the life experience. This is most easily achieved
through the application of a cosmological model which highlights
certain essential relationships between man and the universe and which
unveils a common center. In ancient times these cosmological models
were based upon the known universe which was believed to consist of six
planets and a central Sun. It was not until the 20th century, following
the discovery of Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, that the complete
cosmological key could be revealed and man’s integral transformation
fully understood.
In ancient India, as in all other traditional societies, the
unveiling of this axis or ‘center’ was achieved through a disciplined
study of the archetypal language contained in the zodiacal hieroglyphs
and a knowledge of the principles of the Cosmic order. Once these
foundations are laid, one’s lived experience becomes revelatory. The
awareness gradually shifts from the ordinary linear perspective of past,
present and future to an experience of time as a cyclical developmental
process. As the individual lives and repeats these cycles of whole
time, he becomes imprinted with their order and aligned with their
harmonies. The axis of his being gradually shifts from the pivot of ego,
to a higher perceptual center. For it is by observing the cycles of his
own microcosmic process, that man comes to know the macrocosm and the
principles of its evolution. In the Veda, this realization is known as SWAR or Truth-Consciousness, and grants the seeker a direct and unequivocal perception of Unity.
‘The Gnostic Circle is merely the combination of the zodiac – the
occult circle which contains the knowledge of the evolution – and the
structural pattern of the solar system. The Circle of 12 is the zodiac,
and the Circle of 9 is our actual solar system, each orbit representing
one year of Earth life. The joint harmony of these two, superimposed or
synthesized in one circle, is what constitutes our key to the evolution
and flowering of the seed of the Spirit. In fact we can say that the
Gnostic Circle is mainly for this purpose. It shows mankind the ultimate
and ideal perfection that can be attained during this particular phase
of the evolution, during this great transition point from animal-mental
to the more divine mankind.’ – The Gnostic Circle p. 159, 1975, Patrizia Noreill-Bachelet
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