A FEW WORDS ON…
POLARIA, THE GIFT OF THE WHITE STONE
BY LON MILO DUQUETTE

As a member of the Body of God, I hereby bind myself on behalf of the Whole Universe … that I will interpret every phenomenon as a particular dealing of God with my Soul.

The above declaration is known as the “Oath of the Abyss.” Whosoever utters it with full magical intention invokes a terrible curse upon themselves for they are either hopelessly deluded and committing an act of supreme spiritual presumption, or they have balanced and perfected all aspects of what most of us consider to be the “self” and are now prepared to take the last irrevocable step toward becoming more than human. In both cases, the world will presume they have gone mad.
Modern qabalists constantly refer to the “Tree of Life,” a linear schematic of ten emanations and twenty-two paths upon which the universal mechanics of energy and consciousness are projected. In one respect it is a very unsatisfactory diagram for it attempts to dimensionalize the transdimensional. Nevertheless, if its shortcomings are kept in mind, it provides us a vocabulary with which we can weigh complex abstractions and attempt to communicate them with others. It also provides a very convenient filing cabinet in which the spiritual concepts and images of all religions, mythologies, and cultures can be correlated and stored.

All ten Sephiroth, or emanations, of the Tree are really only aspects or facets of the top (first) Sephirah, Kether, which repre­sents the totality of existence – the supreme monad. But even the concept of ONE is a blemish upon the sublime perfection of the pre-existent ZERO. If ONE is to exist and be conscious of its one­ness it must reflect itself (like a yogi in meditation who reaches to the core of being and exclaims “that’s what I am!”) The mere act of reflection creates TWO. (ONE is now conscious of itself and its reflection.) The knowledge that there is a difference between ONE and TWO immediately creates THREE. This “trinity” by itself is still an abstraction and exists only in potentiality. Nevertheless, the cosmic pattern established by ONE becoming THREE becomes the archetypal germ that sets into motion a chain-reaction that ani­mates the entire creation scenario – the process of conscious­ness/light/spirit descending into matter.

The phenomenal universe manifests through a process of degen­eration in the next seven Sephiroth. The trinity unit FOUR-FIVE-­SIX is created by the reflection of the ONE-TWO-THREE unit, and the same process that created THREE from ONE-TWO cre­ates the trinity unit of SEVEN-EIGHT-NINE.

TEN, the world of matter, is rock bottom and dangles from the Tree of Life like an afterthought of creation.

The Great Work of the initiate is to reverse this process and sys­tematically climb the Tree of Life, overcoming imbalances and imperfections in his or her own being thereby achieving progres­sively exalted states of consciousness. The entire journey is a series of ordeals, but the most significant crisis comes when the candidate reaches a level of consciousness that is so high that in order to pro­ceed further requires the abandonment of all the old machinery of perception. It means quite literally the annihilation of everything that the individual has heretofore believed to be the components of per­sonality and self.

This crisis point comes when the candidate attempts to move from the Fourth Sephirah (the highest point of the “actual”) to the Third Sephirah of the Supernal Triad ( the world of the “ideal”). On the Tree of Life, there is no path leading from FOUR to THREE. An abyss of inscrutable mystery yawns before the candidate who must rely sole, ly upon the attraction of THREE and the initiatory momentum they have established to hurl them through the looking-glass of the Abyss.

No one whose point of perception is below the Abyss is equipped to understand the nature of reality above the Abyss. It is said that below the Abyss division is the result of contradiction – above the Abyss contradiction is unity.

For those who are ready to endure the concentrated anxiety of interpreting every phenomenon as a particular dealing of God with their souls, the Oath of the Abyss triggers an initiatory crisis in which the aspirant is required to draw upon all the knowledge and skills he or she has accumulated up to that point on the initiatory journey. In other words, the images and data we absorb in our quest for illumination are the same images and data illumination will ultimately use to illuminate us. The more we know, the more we will be required to know … in order to know.

I am not qualified to judge the sanity or the initiatory level of the magical entity who writes as W. H. Muller. However, it is obvious that he knows a great deal. In his remarkable work, Polaria, The Gift of the White Stone, it is also clear that he has reached a landmark level of consciousness wherein a great secret has made itself known. A secret so vast and universal that for him it unlocks the mysteries of all lesser secrets.

Naturally, such a mystery must reveal itself in a ‘language’ understandable to the seer. If Mr. Muller were a dancer, perhaps this ‘language’ would be movement and his prophet Nijinsky. If he were a musician he might have gained enlightenment while listening to Wagner and he might attempt to explain his revelation in pitch or tone or rhythm. Although I have never met Mr. Muller and know nothing of the details of his life, it is clear to me that he has a love of learning. He is certainly a serious student of history, mysticism, and world religion and has a broad knowledge of mythology and the esoteric sciences of all ages and countries. It is here he has diligently searched, perhaps not for the answers but for the proper question. lt should be obvious to all who read Polaria that when the great answer came to Mr. Muller it was delivered through the medium of the words and images of H. P. Lovecraft.

Many will be quick to condemn a revelation whose prophet was a reclusive writer of popular horror fiction. They will dismiss the Polar Wisdom because it does not pander to the images and nomencla­ture of their own spiritual prejudices. Muller has not written to pros­elytize to such as these nor, indeed, anyone.

Polaria is a wall-to-wall self-referential discharge of thought … a personal qabalah expressed in a chain-reaction of numbers, sym­bols, sounds, colors, images, angels, devils, and gods forming a Mobius strip of tightly woven bits of information. It cannot be read and analyzed like a standard book. It must be listened to like music.
Listen with respect. For most assuredly after you have heard it your personal qabalah will be forever changed.

– Lon Milo DuQuette

Newport Beach, California

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