POLARIA | Chapter-4:3 Arcanum

In the Ashes remaining at the bottom of the Tomb there lies the Diadem of our King.

-Arthephius

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Arcadia is the Land of the Living, the Luminous Land, and its Arcanum is the White Stone bestowing Immortality. In ancient times Arcadia was the name given to the Pelop­pones by a people called Pelasgians. They were of Indo-European stock and migrated via Palestine and Asia Minor to Greece at around 3500 B.C. There they established a Polar-oriented society. As in the case of the Sumerian language in Mesopotamia, their esoteric tra­dition was likewise assimilated by subsequent regional cultures. In the process of assimilation, however, much of the original clarity of their teachings were lost. Greek mysticism and mythology are known for their sheer complexity, yet under its layers, there can be recov­ered unmistakable traces of Polar Tradition. However, we have to expect later Greek historians to have misinterpreted much of the Pelasgian legacy, such as was definitely the case in Sumeria where Babylonian scribes were often unable to decipher the genuine mean­ing of important esoteric writings. It is known that by the time the Semitic empire of Assyria rose to power, the original meaning of the Kutullu-names had been lost.

Pelasgians and Sumerians are traditionally related. The former worshipped the Creatrix under the name Eurynome, to be identi­fied with the south Mesopotamian Iahu or Sovereign Dove. About 2000 years before the Pelasgians arrived in the Peloppones, the Sumerians had left the Indus-region and settled in southern Mesopotamia. In India, they inhabited the Indus valley and their cultural settlements can be identified as the Rama Empire, spoken of in Indian writings. Traces of the Indus-Valley culture, one of whose prominent cities was Mohenjo-Daro, can be found thousands of years later in Akkadian-Babylonian theology where we have an epi­thet of Ea-Marduk , namely Amar-Anzu. Anzu is the Sumerian Bird of Fire, but ”Amar” is [the] reverse of “Rama” and implies the Indian ori­gins of the mystical Bird.

As we have already seen in the case of Tibetan Bon, Polar Tradi­tion has survived in Central Asia to the present time. The area of the Himalayas, the Trans-Himalayas, and the Gobi Desert can be regarded as one of the oldest, historically traceable, areas of mani­festation of Polar Wisdom. Before different tribes were compelled to migrate around half the globe, there was an esoteric society of related tribes.

Now the ancient Vedas report of a great war, or the Battle of Ten Kings, fought between tribes devoted to divine Polar Order and non­worshipping renegades. In prewar times there was originally but one line of seers or priest-kings of the highest esteem. They are called Bhrig­vangirasas in Vedic writings, a name containing the word angiras from which the Latin “angelicus,” i.e. “angel,” is derived. That oldest recorded line of seers might have been a type like Lovecraft’s “Eso­teric Order of Dagon” or the ”Angelic Society,” mentioned earlier on.

Those seers were divided into two groups, the Bhrigus and the Angi­rasas, to be equated with Venus, respectively, Jupiter. As the calendar of the Bhrigus was based on the cycles of Venus, this group is related to such ancient cultures as the Egyptians or Native- Americans, but also to the Maya in whose esoteric system Venus had an eminent posi­tion. The legacy of the Angirasas, on the other hand, can be found in China where their calendar of 60 years was adopted (D. Frawley, Gods, Sages and Kings, Passage Press, Salt Lake City, 1991).

The epic report of the Battle of Ten Kings in the Rig Veda is a reflection of man’s Fall from Truth, reflecting the separation of Polar and Solar Orders in recent history. It was the process of the frag­mentation of an esoteric-spiritual society during which the legacy of the Titans was hidden away from the majority of mankind. And in those times of war, some of the ancient tribes were driven out of the original homeland in Central Asia. They migrated far, and to various degrees of obfuscation, kept elements of Polar Tradition.

From what can be gathered from the sacred writings of India, among those tribes that had fallen from spiritual order were the Druhyus and the Anus. The word Druhyus is reminiscent of “druids.” The tribe of the Anus appears to be related to the later Sumerians whose principal deity was An or Anu. The name Ana was given to the Heavenly Race. Though there was a tribal split and a subsequent phase of migration, it seems that despite the gradual departure from original lore, most of the tribes recognized each other even after thousands of years. The Semitic Akkadians adopted much older Su­merian mysticism, and in the course of millennia, it transpired into more recent Near- and Middle-Eastern mysticism such as Sufism. The Battle of the Ten Kings was but one event causing migration.

The Pelasgians were those bringing Polar lore to the middle and north of Europe. There is a record by Greek historian Euripides, quoted in Strabo (see R. Graves, The Greek Myth, Penguin Books, London, 1992), that the tribe of the Earth-Born-Ones adopted the name “Danaans.” Now this name is significant, for we know of it through the Celts as well. The bringers of culture to Ireland are called the Tuatha da Danaan, being a confederacy of tribes, having matrilinear tradition. The word Tuatha contains Tuat, respectively, the ancient t-t-configuration. Tuat is “Tiamat-Tamtu.” Tuatha da Danaan means “People of the Goddess”.

As far as historical records go, the Danaans were expelled from Greece, and it alludes to Herodotus in his “History” that it was due to a Phoenician invasion and the capturing of the Danaan shrine of the White Goddess at Argos.

When the Danaans arrived in Ireland there had already been settlers before them. Those were the people of Partholan and Nemed whose cultural achievements were taken over by the new invaders (Lebor Gabala Erenn, The Book of the Taking of Ireland edited and translated by R. A. S. McAlister, Educational Co. of Ireland, Dublin, 1938).

The arrival of the Tuatha da Danaan on the Emerald Isle is record­ed in the “Book of Invasions” and dated at the middle of the fif­teenth century B.C. According to Irish legends, they brought with them the “Fia Fail” or the “Stone of Destiny” from their first celes­tial abode. This Stone of Destiny is conceptually identical with the Stone fallen from Heaven.

Lovecraft dedicated an entire story to the Emerald Isle, entitled “The Moon-Bog.” We are told of the Celtic “secrets” dating from the times of the children of Partholan. In this story, the “Book of Invasions” is alternatively called “Book of Invaders.” We are told that one city, which was built by the sons of the Greeks, has appar­ently not yet been discovered. It must be mentioned that elsewhere in “The Whisperer of Darkness,” Lovecraft even makes subtle mention of the mysterious plague during which the people of Partholan died. That event is recorded. In the “Book of Invasions” it is report­ed that while the plague was sweeping the Green Island, all the peo­ple of Partholan congregated in a plain to “die together.” This cere­monial act is alluded to in the above story where he speaks of the “Commoriom myth-cycle,” preserved by a certain high-priest named “Klarkash-Ton.” “Commoriom” comes from the Latin “commorior” or “to die together with someone” and refers to Partholan and his doomed people, while “Klarkash-Ton” is a phonetic code of “Clark­Ashton” Smith, one of the members of the Inner Lovecraft Circle who shared some esoteric secrets with Lovecraft.

The Pelasgians were expelled from Greece owing to an invasion from Syria. Several times in recorded history settlers came to Ire­land. Yet, there had been migrations prior to that time, about which, however, historians keep silent. Polar lore spread all over the globe, and in the course of the millennia, its genuine clarity went lost under the layers of an ever-increasing Solar Order.

The war of the seers, spoken of before, is a clear depiction of the Fall from the Grace of Divine Order, the fight between Polar and Solar Order, between spirituality and spreading materialism. And the swords are still wielded today!

It is said that after the Battle the ancient seers withdrew into deep seclusion in the Himalayas and have remained there ever since. Only if spiritual order is restored will they return. This tradition, taken from Vedic writing, gave momentum to the rise of such con­cepts as Agarthi and Shambhala, the subterranean realms of the sages in Asia.

One of the foremost explorers of Central Asia was Nicholas Roerich. Roerich had strong links with Theological circles in India and Europe (J. Godwin, Arktos – The Polar Myth, Thames & Hud­son, London, 1993). On his expeditions through the Himalayan region and Mongolia in the years 1925 to 1928, the Russian mystic and traveler discovered distinct traces of a proto-Sumerian cul­ture. The inscriptions he found hewn in stone were very much akin to the known cuneiform scripts. Lovecraft makes mention of Nicholas Roerich in “At the Mountains of Madness,” in which the mountain scenery in Antarctica is described as reminiscent of Roerich’s paintings of ruin-places in Asia.

But high in the almost inaccessible Himalayas he also found dolmen nearly identical with those erected by the Celts in Europe (N. Roerich, Heart of Asia, Inner Traditions International, Rochester, Vermont, 1990). We can say today that he had a definite interest in Polar mysticism. As a traveling mystic, he was in close touch with the Dalai Lama XIII. In his book, Shambhala (quoted in S. Godwin, Arktos, The Polar Myth, Thames & Hudson, 1993) Roerich speaks of the mysterious realm of Shambhala, the place of the blessed ones, located somewhere under Asia. And in saying that the rays of the Aurora Borealis are the rays of Shambhala, he clearly linked it up with the Mystic Pole Tradition.

Particularly around the turn of the century until the nineteen-thirties, Shambhala was hardly to be overheard in esoteric societies. It has been and probably is an extraordinary concept discussed in the Theosophical and related circles. However, the concept of the Shining Place, the Arcadia of Asia, had long become distorted and obfuscated with all sorts of occult misinterpretation by the time it became popular in Europe.

Shambhala is essentially one with Agarthi, both are but aspects of the same esoteric-alchemical concept. While Agarthi is the Ashen Place, the place where the Phoenix rises resplendent to a new life, Shambhala is the Land of the Resurrected. The word Shambhala is both akin to “Shambara,” the dwelling high up on the mountain, implying the Pole and related to the Sanscrit skambha or “axial pillar” (R. Guenon, Fundamental Symbols, Quinta Essen, tia, Cambridge, 1995).

Agarthi is the Land of Death, the Threshold itself, whereas Shambhala is the Land of the Living, of man transformed beyond the Barrier of Light.

All cycles are simultaneous; and there is also a Shambhala in manifestation, a place where the Fifth Element can be beheld unveiled. According to an Asian tradition, the geographic Shambhala is bordered by Siberia in the north, Tibet and India in the south, China in the east, and Khotan in the west (N. Hagger, The Fire and the Stones, Element Books, Shaftesbury, 1991).

Over thousands of years and thousands of miles, the esoteric concept of the Land of the Living was preserved and became manifest in the Pelasgian version of Arcadia. Much of their esoteric lore served as the prototype of later Greek mystery cults. Since it is located between Europe and Asia Minor, Greece was a cauldron of mysteries. And it is due to the interchange of teachings that Pythagoras could establish his famous esoteric school, based on Egyptian tradition.

The area where the Indo-European Pelasgians had settled was later called Peloppones after the name of their god Pelops, also called the Green Zeus. They regarded themselves as Earth-born, respectively, autochthonic and were Keepers of the Titanic Memory.

Their Creation myth, as it was handed down by Greek historians, speaks of the Creatrix named Eurynome. [At] the beginning of the world, she rose from the waters, and after the division of sea and sky, she danced alone toward the south. From the wind that whirled in motion behind her, the work of Creation began. She caught the north wind, rubbed it in her hands and, the serpent Ophion, later called Oceanus, appeared.

After having coupled with it, the north wind or Boreas became fertile. Then, she assumed the form of a dove, and, brooding on the sea, she laid the Universal Egg. On her instruction, Ophion coiled seven times about this Egg, until it hatched and split in two.

When all things had eventually appeared, she created seven planetary planes and had a Titan-god and a Titan-goddess preside over each of them, totaling 14, the important Polar number we have already encountered in Lovecraft’s “Dreamquest of Unknown Kadath.” There we have 770 or 7 plus 7. Fourteen is the number of the two seven-star constellations revolving around the interstellar Axis. 14 is 1 plus 4 or 5. Osiris is caught in a fivefold bond or the Forest of Senses. Moreover, 14 is the number of the totality of the slain god’s limbs. Thirteen were recovered, one was missing. The missing one is the generative organ. It indicates the lower abdomen and the place of the secret Gateway, the position of the Eighth Chakra in the human body to be recovered.

Later in the Pelasgian creation myth, Ophion becomes desirous to be a world ruler, and Eurynome resolves to ban him into the Underworld.

While in Polar lore, such as in the Vedic religion, the gods represent but aspects of the One despite their sometimes contrary depiction, the Solar creation myths are characterized by a distinct antagonism. This very illusionary, antagonistic worldview has resulted in intellectual constructions in which things are separated and systematized. This system represents the Kali Yuga when man has fall, en prey to the weaving illusions of material appearance.

In the Enuma Elish Ea-Marduk slays Tiamat. Afterward, he bans her 11 allies into the Underworld. While in Polar mysticism the opposites are taught to be reconciled, and the individual has to face the apparently fierce aspects as well in order to arrive at spiritual unity beyond qualifications, Solar theology has become entangled in cultivating Good and Evil as antagonistic, hailing the “Good” and cursing the “Evil.”

But the Serpent of Earth, banned into the Underworld, has to be transformed [into] a Bird of Fire. This cannot be avoided.

The Fire Divine, symbolized by the Bird, is central to the Tradition. In its company there is always the Ram with its two horns push, ing Agni out of the interior of the Earth. In esoteric symbolism, the Ram is one with the Goat that in medieval times became a symbol of the “devil” and witchcraft. To Solar order-keepers, it served as a pretext to fight Polar-oriented traditions.

In Celtic lore the Goat was the vehicle of the Mother-Goddess called Goda, that is, “good.” In Coventry Cathedral, England, she was depicted naked except for a net, with an apple in hand, accompanied by a hare or raven. Her apple is the token of Death-in-Life. We have encountered the Apples of the Hesperides in connection with the Pole Constellation elsewhere. At the same time, the Apples, fundamentally equivalent to the Plant of Immortality, indicate the Land of the Living. The hare symbolizes the chase, during which she turns herself into a greyhound. The greyhound is one with the wolf, fed by Angurboda in the Wood of Iron, here symbolized by the net. The raven gives oracles from his tomb, referring to Saturn awakening while the Threshold is being crossed.

Central to genuine Polar mysticism is the annihilation of opposites. Neither female nor male must be banned, but reunited. Queen and King must take their mystical bath. Only in this reunification process lies the key to the achievement of genuine Wisdom. Only then, can the Stone be whitened. Polar and Solar Orders have to go hand in hand. The One is formed by the One.

Since the departure from spiritual unity after the Entwaining of the Old Order human civilization has been veiled in the illusions of the man-god and his order-keepers. In that, however, there is an arcane purpose, spoken of in the biblical Book of Revelations. God will dwell among his People after the Wheel of the Mill has ceased to grind for another Creation. And from the grain there is baked the Bread of Life, nothing goes lost but is only transformed. Trans, formation on the global scale is called Twilight in Polar Tradition. Twilight is Twilight or Two-Lights, that is the Time of the Two Suns, one exoteric, one esoteric. Two Suns will shine as One: The Gift of Unity received at last.

Let us return to the Pelasgians. According to their teaching, Pelasgus was the first man, springing from the soil of mystical Arcadia, the Land of the Living. Eurynome can be translated “wide wander, ing” (R. Graves, The Greek Myths, Penguin Books, London, 1992). In Sumerian, she was “Ia-hu,” meaning “Sovereign Dove.” As already elucidated, “ia” is the mystical sound configuration indicating the seasonal change from winter to summer. “Hu” is like “ku,” otherwise “k ur ” or ” tur. ” Because ” tur ” is identical with “pur,” “Ia-hu” is known as “Dove.” Applying the Greek derivation “pyr,” i.e. “fire,” “Ia-hu” becomes the Fiery One. But she also indicates the Awakening of the Fish, the Gateway opening, the Fire returning, the Earth blossoming.

The Hebrew names of the wrathful deity Yahveh or Jehovah are also derived from it, illustrating well how the original tradition was deliberately twisted.

In history, the Pelasgians are said to have been born from Ophion’s Teeth that were sown by Iason-Cadmus-Apollo. They were Sons of the World-Serpent. The Pelasgians had the tradition of the so-called Sown Men, echoing the Allies of Tiamat in her battle against Ea, Marduk (R. Graves, The Greek Myths, Penguin Books, London, 1992). These Sown Ones were the deities they worshipped in pre, Hellenic Greece. They were Echion, the viper-snake, and Udaeus, the Earth-Born One. In the name “Udaeus” we have preserved the Sanscrit word uda, as in Garuda, the Vedic Bird of Fire. There is also Chthonius, the One-of-the-Soil; Hyperenor, the Upcoming, One; and Peloros, the Serpent. The festival of Peloria was dedicated by the autochthonous Pelasgians to the forces of the Mother Goddess Eurynome or Tiamat-Isis.

The name ”Arcadia,” written alternatively with “k,” is derived from the Sanscrit word arka respectively, the stem “ar(k),” containing the mystical “ra” symbolizing cyclic return. Its derivations prove to be a repository of Polar lore.

The word arka means “ray” or “flash.” Both arka-tanaya or arka­nandana are translated “Saturn.” Derived from arka, arcat means “shining,” and is one with the word catar or Cathar, explained pre­viously. From arcat “Arcadia” is derived. The Land of the Living is the Shining Realm or the Luminous Land of the Spirit-Light. The word arka-mandala has the meaning of “disc of the sun,” exoterical­ly depicting the luminary in the solar system, esoterically applying to the Black Sun that shines above the Midnight Mountain. Anoth­er word coming from arka is arghata. In arghata we do not only re­encounter the “argha” or Vessel of the Creatrix, but also the con­cept of subterranean Agarthi. In myth, it is located in Asia. But “Asia” has a double-meaning typical of Polar symbolism. In alchem­ical lore “Asia” is to be equated with the element Air, such as Fire with Africa, Earth with Europe, Water with America.

Arghata translated from Sanscrit means “ashen” and refers to the Ashen Place of Resurrection from which the Phoenix or the Bird of Fire can arise. Agarthi is this mystical place, and it is located in the Air. There the Wind of Fire blows and there can be found the realm of the race of the Ana. The Seer of Our Lady, misinterpreted these days as a secular prophet, says that the Grand Monarch will appear in Asia. And in Vedic writings, it is said that in a divine vessel Vish­nu the Marut will rise up to the heavens at the end of the Kali Yuga in order to inaugurate the new Earth of old.

The word arc can also have the meaning of “to roar.” In this sense, it applies to the roaring of the Maruts, while the divine vessel or “vimana” is reminiscent of the “manna,” the White Dew from heav­en that fed a whole people. The White Dew is the Gift of the White Stone. It is as white as the blackness of spiritual light.
In the sacred writings of the Fiery Ana, called the Pur-anas, we can read (H. Zimmer, Myth and Symbols in Indian Art and Civilisa­tion, Delhi, 1990) concerning the Kali Yuga or dark age: “When soci­ety reaches a stage, where property confers rank, wealth becomes the only source of virtue, passion the sole bond of union between husband and wife, falsehood the source of success in life, sex the only means of enjoyment, and when outer trappings are confused with inner religion, then there is Kali Yuga.” This applies to these times.

But the Kali Yuga will come to an end, the Goddess will be whitened, the Mosaic reassembled, Order reestablished, Unity reborn. The Kali Yuga will be no more, no longer will the outer trap­pings of the man-god be confused with inner religion. But for those entangled in the labyrinth of illusory man-made order, there is noth­ing to fear but the Joy of God.

In Hyperborean Eddaic tradition it is said that at the time of Rag­narok the Dragon gnaws through the root of the World-Tree Yggdrasil, the red cock Fialar in Valhalla, the Place of the Gods, crows an alert, which is echoed by the rooster in Midgard, the earth of man, as well as the Dark Bird of Hel, the Land where the Sun is sunken. The forces are joined. Then, it is further told that Heim­dall will blow the Fatal Blast with the Giallar-Horn, and the Steeds of the Gods, saddled for vengeance, will be mounted at last. And they will gallop across the Rainbow Bridge to meet for the last bat­tle. And in an ancient poem (in Literature and Romance of North­ern Europe, cited in H. A. Guerber, “The Norsemen,” Myth and Leg­ends, Senate Studio Editions, London, 1994) we read:

Then comes another, Yet more mighty.
But Hiln I dare not name. Few farther may look Than to where Odin
To meet the wolf goes.

Indeed, afterward, no one will be there anymore with a mask of iron hiding his face.
Moreover, the Greek word Argyros, that is, silver, can be traced back etymologically to arka. As we have previously seen, silver is indeed connected with Saturn. The mouth of the crow is shaped like a sickle. Sickle and crescent are one in meaning, symbolizing Moon and Saturn, both eminent symbols of Polar Tradition. The Moon, [the] remainder of the Planet of Origins, leads to the Threshold and to the Awakening of the Titans.

But we also have the Greek word argillos in which is preserved the ancient Indian word ark. Argillos gave rise to the English argilla­ceous, that is, “made of clay.” Clay is earthen. According to Near­-Eastern myth, mankind was created from clay, of earth and water. The life-giving waters refer to the Mystical Fountain, Mare Philosophorum, Amphora Dei, the primordial Waters of Sulphur, the Undying Fifth Element of Spirit.
‘Arktos” is the name of the star in the seven-star constellation of Ursa Major. But also in the language of the ancient Egyptians, we can find definite traces of the Polar symbolic language. The ark-stem is preserved in arqheh, that is, “necropole,” and also in the conceptually related arq-hehtt, or “world beyond.” The root in the words Artie or Antarctic is obvious.

The Hebrews have the Ark of the Covenant. Noah’s Ark is Ziusudra’s Treasure, for Noah is one with Ziusudra or He who Found Life. He undid the Weave of the Creatrix. So Noah’s Ark is the Arcanum of the White Stone. Here we find Polar symbolism embodied in the biblical story of Noah. There is the raven sent out to seek dry land, and the ark-vessel itself lands high on a mountain. The Deluge itself is in the first place a spiritual concept, like that of the Baptism of Fire, as already explained elsewhere.

By the time the biblical stories were set, most of the Polar Wisdom and its sources had either been lost or become inaccessible to most scholars. Except for a few priests, the decadent people were ignorant. Mosaic tradition contains traces of original Polar mysticism. As a priest taught at On, Heliopolis, Moses was initiated into Egpytian and proto-Egyptian mysteries. He had access to the Emerald Tablets, said to have been preserved at a certain time in the Great Pyramid at Giza. The Mount Sinai atop of which the leader of the Jewish community received divine instructions is an anagram of Ia-Sin. Ia-sin is Ya-Sin or the 36th Surah in the Holy Quran. It is the Surah of the Heart, indicating the Poleward Way.

Arcadia is the Land of the Holy Grail, for the word Grail itself is derived from ark respectively car. Grail is “Caral” or “Gar-al.” The word al is used in Semitic religion as “El” or in “Bel,” otherwise “Baal,” being a name of God. The “al” is used in Allah, written with the four letters “Allh,” spoken “al-la(h),” and thus constituting a mirror-word. Esoteric Islam is basically Polar, and eminent mystics such as Ibn Arabi were conceptually linked with Persian or Indo-European Sufism. In Ibn Arabi we encounter such an eminent mystical concept as the Hurqalya, the Heavenly Earth, the Luminous Land.

Another name given to the Land of the Black Sun of Spirit is Sar, ras. In “Queste del Saint Graal” Galahad is one of three Knights who after many tests and trials can finally enter the mystical City of Sarras. Three Knights represent three Summits or the mystical Mountain of Two Summits with the third one rising. Sarras like Anna can be read from both sides indicating the Tradition of Polar Wisdom and the arcane mirror-nature of Creation. Only where the Two Oceans meet is the place where any mirror-image is annihilated and the individual can be freed from the fivefold bonds of labyrinthine existence. And what is the arcane meaning of Omar Khayyam’s elegy wherein a ruined place a dove cries out in solitude: “Ku? Ku? Ku? Ku?”

All these places mentioned throughout the ages indicate the Arcadian clime, the Land of the Stone. Lovecraft’s version of Arcadia is Arkham, the town of occultists and mystics in New England, the center of mysterious and secretive activities around the Pole Tradition and the Wisdom, Lore of the Old Ones. As already mentioned, ark is the reverse for car, but it is also identical with rag that is, “to shine,” as contained in “argha,” and also found in the Old Norse word Ragnarok, the Twilight of the Gods.

Arcadia, in the form of Arcade,” is also identical with Cardea or Cardia, being not only the name of the Goddess of Hinges and wife of two-faced Ianus, but also the Greek word for heart. But more: “Cardea” is “Car-d-ea,” or “Car-d-ia,” consisting of “Car” and “Ia.” Thus “Cardea” is the “Stone of Ia, the Creatrix.”

Connected with the heart and its respective chakra is the Green Ray, that is, arka in Sanscrit. It indicates the mystical Way of the Heart and the Planet of Origins, the Globe of Sulphur Seas between Mars and Jupiter. Green is its color, and it is the color attributed to al, Khidr or the Green Man of myth. In Polar tradition, Khidr is unbounded by Religion. He is Hermes, Mercury, the Divine Messenger, the Green Ray of Guidance. Jules Verne dedicated a whole story, entitled “The Green Ray,” to this Polar symbolism.

Arka, the Green Ray of Spirit, is like the Argha, the Vessel of the Goddess, a receptacle of spiritual energies, pivotal to the process of transformation. This energy-center is magnetic; and if a certain degree of ‘receptability’ is achieved, a preparedness of dissolution kindled, the Ray flashes forth and the individual is oriented toward the Pole. The Poleward Way begins in the fourth plane in man, the Heart Chakra.

The term “love,” spoken of in the context of transformation is not to be confused with material or sexual love subject to sensory illusions. “Love” here means devotion and receptivity. In Polar Tra­dition it is an aspect of Niyah, an Arabic word meaning devotional­divine intention. We will re-encounter Niyah later in the examina­tion of Nyarlathotep, the name of the Messenger in Lovecraft’s Pri­mordial Pantheon.

In Vedic lore, the heart is closely connected with the mystical Island of Jewels. In the midst of the Waters of Immortality, there is situated the Sacred Island. The ocean designates the omnipresent Fifth Element of Spirit. In the middle of the fragrant, blossoming Island, termed “Manu-dvipa” in Sanscrit, there stands a palace made of precious stone. And within that palatial magnificence under a jeweled awning there is a golden six-sided throne, and on that throne is seated the Mother Goddess. In Sanscrit, the Creatrix is called the Fairest One of the Three Worlds or “Tripura-Sundari.” She is the Creatrix herself, being the first drop of the Divine. She is Tiamat­lsis, the Creatrix. But she is also the Maya, for hers are the Veils of Manifestation. There on the Island is the place where the Veils are ultimately lifted. There the individual is sacrificed so that the Enti­ty can emerge from its cyclic sleep.

The Mystical Heart or the symbol of the Sacred Island can be called [a] point of power in Vedic tradition. The Island of Jewels, oth­erwise the Isle of Isis, is surrounded by the fluid of Immortality. The Island itself is the Point of Divine Power. It is one with the biblical concept of Luz, the Heavenly City, depicted in etheric blue. The fourth energetic plane is the location of the heartbeat in man; the Sacred Island is the location-beyond-the Barrier-of-Light where the Heartbeat Eternal can be heard. This Heartbeat Divine is the Cre­ative Impulses of the One.

The Way to the Pole leads through the Charnel-Winds of the Tomb-City. Expansion and material evolution must be sacrificed and the Way of Involution must be gone. Otherwise, there is no lib­eration. That which has unfolded must be reabsorbed in the One; the individual must become the Entity and resurrect into the Pres­ence of the Heavenly Ones. These are called the race of the Ana. In the Vedas, the Goddess is described as “abundant with mystical food” and given the name Anna-Purna.

“Love” is of central importance in the esoteric concepts of medieval minnesang, being praised as courtly love in the poems of Polar-oriented people. And it is a significant component part of the Grail romances.

The Cathars, persecuted by the Church of Rome in the south of France because of their Polar spirituality, are said to have had in their possession a “Book of Love,” that was preserved in a “leaden casket,” located in a “subterranean chamber.” These are unmistakable hints at Polar Tradition. As soon as the leaden container is opened, spiritu­al love is found. It is known that the minstrel singers of the middle ages were familiar with phonetic cabalistic methods. The word “Rome,” for example, was used as the reverse of “Amor” or “love.” The Church of Rome was clearly conceived as opposed to true spiri­tuality. Only by cordial initiation, can the Pole be reached safely.

“Love” in the Polar sense means devotion to the divine. It is sacri­ficial since the cycle of sensory existence has to be transcended. Becoming must be sacrificed to return to Being. This is the meaning of the Rite of Involution. This Rite is life itself It is the self-sacrifice of the individual for the sake of being reabsorbed into the One. It is the Transpolar Fusion. That Fusion is otherwise called the Octopodi­um, the entry into the Palace of Eight Pillars. The Eighth is of Seven, Arcadia is the Land of Living where resurrects Our Pelican from the Ashes. The mill gives the grain, and from it, the miller makes the bread. Arcadia is where Our Mill-Stone stands, the Origin of Judge­ment, the Wheel of Wheels. It is the City arch-ancient and corus­cating like a Thousand Stars. It is where from the Amphora of Truth, Amphora Veritatis, the Milk of the Virgin is flowing torrentially. Truly, it is the Joy and the Wrath of the Gods that flow therefrom.

Arcadia is the House of Our Lady. It is Jerusalem, old and new, unchanged since the beginning; it is New Atlantis because it will emerge from the Waters of Concealment and bring back the Gold­en Age; it is the Lake of Milk like the Lake of Honey, the Virginal Place because it is Terra Nova.

Even when there is winter, there is always a patch of green. In winter everything is being prepared for summer. Emergence, Sun­rise, Cradle of a New Golden Age. How will it be like? After winter, there will be Wrath, because there will be thirst and hunger; and there will be Joy because there will be so much to drink and eat.

The Orders will meet in a Clash, and One will emerge like Light­ing. And all belief will be taken away from man. Of Sunlight will they drink and eat, until all the darkness in their hearts is gone.

In Pelasgian times Arcadia was held sacred to Calliste-Artemis. She is the White Goddess worshipped in the shape of the bear. This symbolism is of particular esoteric importance, and we already en­countered it in the case of the Mystic Pole Constellations Ursa Major and Ursa Minor. The She-Bear is identical with the Sumerian Bear­Bird named Anzu. Anzu is “An-zu” or “Zu-an;” here we have an, that is, Sumerian for “heaven,” and zu meaning “wisdom.” ”An-zu” is the “Wisdom of Heaven,” achieved when the Heights of the Deeps are reached on the Wings of Fire.

In Pelasgian tradition, the Way of the Heart is symbolized by Pelops, the Green Zeus. He is al-Khidr, Hermes-Mercury, and Nyarlathotep in the Primordial Pantheon as given to Lovecraft.

In classic times, Hermes was depicted in the company of a dog. Lucius Apuleius of Madaura pictures him at the end of his The Gold­en Ass and Philosophical Works (Lucius Apuleius, The Golden Ass, Penguin Books, London, 1990) as “his face sometimes black, some­times fair, lifting up the head of Anubis” (R. Graves, The White God­dess, Faber & Faber, London, 1961). This was to imply his position as a Guardian as well, for canine Cerberus is the divine Watchdog of the Underworld.
In Greek mysticism, it is Cerberus, who stands watch at the gate to the Bowels of Earth. The ancient Egyptians knew him as the dog­headed Anubis, son of Nepthys. Nepthys is but another name for Hecate or the Creatrix. Now, Anubis-Cerberus can be equated with Gabriel, the Angel of Initiation in biblical times, and Semitic myth and religion.

Cerberus-Anubis-Gabriel is Hermes-Khidr, the Green One. He is the Bestower of the Green Light, the arch-ancient link with the Plan­et of Origins. Though the Globe of the Water-Deeps was destroyed in a planetary collision, the energy field and the equivalent chakra in man remained. There it lies buried deep in the Bowels of Earth.
Hermes is the Legacy of the Age of the Eleven. In Greek myth, it is said that Arkas was the father of the Arkadians, who claimed to be the first men. Hermes, the Thrice-Great-One, was a born Arca­dian. He came from Mount Kullene in the Land of the Living. The word Kullene is derived from kula or hollow and means “hollow mountain.” Because of the etymological relation of kula or hollow and kulio or rolling, the mountain where Hermes was born is to be identified with the Mountain of Adad, Lovecraft’s Kadath, the Mountain of the Thunder Rolling like Revelation.
Moreover, the birthplace of the Messenger is esoterically connected with the word sid, already explained earlier in this book. “Sid” does not only stand for the Green Ray of Initiation but can also be translated as “hollow hill” in Celtic.
In Polar Tradition, the hollow mountain is one with the Cavern of Winds. “Wind” is always a synonym of “Spirit.” In early Mesopotamian tradition, this Cavern is located deep in Earth. There the mountain-cavern is identical with the Sumerian concept of the “Fish-Hill” or “du-kua” otherwise “du-azag-ga” or the “Pure, White Place.” In Hyperborean lore, it is equatable with the “winter-lair of the bear” or the “hidi.” The hollow hill or mountain-cavern is a symbol of the Mystical Cave of Initiation, the place not on Earth where the Winds of Spirit blow.

There, in the Cave of Fog, is the nest of the mystical Fire-Bird called Anzu in Sumerian. In the Vedic writings, it has its analog in Garuda, the chief of the fair-feathered race- the Ana, the Heavenly Ones. Ablaze with the heat of the glowing sun, the fair-feathered master of the skies is described as a relentless annihilator of Serpents. These are called the “nagas” in Sanscrit. But both Serpent and Bird are one and the same, the former being the potential untransformed or dormant, the latter being the individual trans, formed or the Entity emerged. Though Serpent and Bird are depicted as conflicting opposites they are but aspects of the One. The Serpent must be conquered so that it can change into a Bird.

Gar-uda is a Sanscrit word, consisting of gar and uda. Uda can be found preserved in the Pelasgian Udeaus, the name of one of the Sown Men.

Gar, respectively arg or ark is the Stone. Uda can be found in the Sumerian language where it has the meaning of “fire.” “Garuda” is thus the “Stone of Fire” or the “Bird of Fire.” In Sanscrit uda means “water.” In this sense, “Garuda” is the “Stone of Water,” indicating the ancient correlation of stone and water, transpired into the alchemical concept of the Sophie Hydrolith. It is the Stone of the Water-Deeps or the mystical Treasure-House of Apsu in Akkadian­Babylonian theology. It is one with the ocean of the Underworld or the lower abdomen of the human body. There the legacy of the Plan­et of Origins with its Primordial Seas of Spirit can be recovered.

Garuda is like Anzu, the Messenger of the Spirit. He is the alchem­ical Agens. He leads the Pilgrim across the Threshold into the Pres­ence of the One. The individual is initiated into Eternity, becoming an Entity, being reabsorbed into the One.
Bernard of Trevisa says in his Parable (in ”An Open Entrance to the Closed Palace of the King,” in The Hermetic Museum, Samuel Weiser, Inc., York Beach, Maine, 1994) that “when the King has come to the Fountain he takes off the Golden Garment, gives it to Saturn, and enters the Bath alone, afterward receiving from Saturn a Robe of Black Silk.”

The Fountain is the Source of Immortality that is to be found where issue the Rivers of Creation like milky ways; the Golden Gar­ment is the sacrifice, ripened in the light of the exoteric luminary; the Bath is the Baptism of Water, the Bath of Dissolution; and the Robe given to the Pilgrim by Saturn when emerging out of the Aqua Viva is of Black Silk, iridescent with the light of Spirit and shining like the Black Sun on its Orbit of Mystery. The Bath to be taken by the Pilgrim is the experience of Mystical Death. Now having under­stood-by-Heart the Message Divine, the Entity can act like a Mes­senger himself.

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