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In Lovecraft, the Messenger is given the name Nyarlathotep. As already quoted in Chapter One, “Ways of Old,” he is depicted as a Fallen God. In “Dreamquest of Unknown Kadath,” the Pil­grim meets Nyarlathotep in person in the Fastness of the Old Ones atop the World-Mountain Kadath. In “The Whisperer in Darkness” we are additionally told: “To Nyarlathotep, Mighty Messenger, must all things be told. And He shall put on the semblance of men, the waxen mask and the robe that hides, and come down from the world of the Seven Suns to mock.”

His realm is the seven-star configuration of the Mystic Pole mark­ing the Axis to be reached. Nyarlathotep is the Crawling Chaos, because Chaos served as the Matrix for the creation of man. Yet are Chaos and Cosmos like beginning and end? Man is neither begin­ning nor end.

The word Nyarlathotep is a conglomerate code and can be decod­ed thusly. As already explained, Lovecraft’s “Nyar” is identical with “Niyah.” This mystical Arabic expression designates “devotional intention” and “destination-orientation.” The word orientation is related to the “Orient.” By the mystical Orient is always meant the Pole. So orientation indicates the crossing of the Threshold and the Undoing of the Web to achieve the Gift of the White Stone.

The sound “la” in the name can be equated with “ta” or “tau,” “ra” and “sa” designating cyclic return and creative rotation (R. Falb, Das Land der Inca, in seiner Bedeutung fur die Urgeschichte der Sprache und der Schrift, Leipzig, 1883, reprinted Ravenna Presse, Herbstein, 1984).

Niyah-la, therefore, means “the intention or destination is the return.” “Thotep” following the “la” is the mystical t-t configuration, being alternatively “tu-te (p),” referring to Tot or Thoth, respectively, “d-d,” as in the Persian “dad,” that is, “law.”

“Tu” can be found in the Egyptian language where it has the mean, ing of “two mountains,” indicating the Mountain of Two Summits otherwise “t-t” or “s and s.” From tu the English “two” is derived.

“Thotep” can be tu-tep or tu-te. Tep, originally Egyptian, has various Polar meanings, such as “head” or “hill,” as found in the Turkish language as tepe. Tep can also mean “mouth,” referring to the Opening of the Mouth explained earlier on, while the tep-ra means “mouth of the God,” relating to creative rotation, expressed by “-ra.” Also, tep is like teph or tephit, that is, “cavernous abyss.”

“Nyarlathotep,” respectively, “Niyah-la-thotep” or “Niyah-la-tu-tep” can thus be translated: “The destination is the return of the two heads or the two hills.” The “two heads” or “two hills” refer to the Mountain of Two Summits, but also imply the mystical two-facedness, meaning Polar insight, into the One Reality beyond the appearance of manifest form. This Wisdom of the Two Oceans is the Whitening of the Stone, bringing about another creative rotation and the manifestation of spiritual order. In Egyptian tradition, we, therefore, have the Hall of Two Truths in which Osiris resides with his 42 Judges of the Dead. Simultaneously, the “two heads” are the entrance into the Underworld, for the Black Light of Spirit rises from the plateau between the Two Summits, completing the Thrice, Greatness of the Messenger.

The two heads are one with the Mountain of Two Summits. The sounds “tu-te” or “tu-tep,” also “ho-tep,” represent the sign of the double,wave, synonymous with the rising of the waters. This “rising of the waters” is in German translated by “an-schwellen,” that is, the “rising of the level or threshold,” the noun Schwelle meaning “threshold.” Related to the German word schwellen is the English verb “to swell.”

Thus Nyarlathotep can also be translated as “the destination is the cyclic return of the waters.” The waters designate the Under, world Sea or the Deeps into which the forces of the Order of Yore were cast. The cyclic swelling of the waters therefore also refers to the energetic flooding of the solar system, when Saturn abdicates as the Guardian of the Threshold. When the Waters Swell there is a Firey Blast, Lightning Strikes, and all belief is gone.

The syllable “tu” is contained in the Sumerian name of Tiamat, i.e, “Tam-tu.” “Tam-tu” is like “Ta-tu,” “ta” being like “la,” that is, “return,” and “tu” being the “two heads, hills or summits.” “Tam, tu” is moreover “Ta,tu” forming the Egyptian “Tu-at.” Tuat is the Egyptian Underworld. So it is in the Underworld where the waters swell; it is in the Bowels of Earth, in the mystical Deeps, where the secret Gateway can be found.

In the symbolism of the Mystic Pole Tradition, the “two summits” or “two heads” are identical with the Arabic “qaf-qaf ” Qaf is not only the Sufi term for the World, Mountain encircling the Earth, it can also mean “hand.” Two summits are like 2 hands, 5 and 5 totaling 10. The measure of the hand is 33; two hands are 66. “Hand” is mystically like “summit.” So 3 summits are 99. 99 is the number of the Names of God in Sufism expressing the state of existence prior to reabsorption into the One. The One is 1 or 100, the most secret Name of Essence.

There were once 11 planets in the solar system, 5 preceding the Heart and 5 succeeding it. The One was wholly mirrored by the planetary order; 1 was l. The 11 is the number of Harmony of Spirit and Manifestation. With the destruction of the Planet of Origins, 10 planets were left. 10 is 1,9, indicating the process of transformation, not the destination. There was the Order of Yore, the Age of Eleven, a state of spiritual unity. The destruction of the Heart, Plan, et was a cyclic change. The remaining planets are 10 by number. But the Age of the Ten will be subject to change again, for unity is the destination. Though there are 10 planetary bodies in the solar system, life must undergo a transformation before entering into the realm of the Old Trinity. When the 10 is achieved, when the Gate, way is opened, unity is restored in manifestation. Therefore we say that the 8 is the gateway to the 10 before the 11 is restored. When this is accomplished, the meeting-point of the Two Oceans is reached and the 11 is demirrored and becomes the 1 again.

The Arabic word qaf is identical to “nun,” the fourteenth letter of both the Arabic and Hebrew alphabets. As we have already seen, 14 is the number of the Mystic Pole Constellations, respectively, Ursa Major and Ursa Minor. “Nun” is not only identical with the Semitic word for “fish,” that is, “nunnu,” but has also the numerical value of 50 in both alphabets. Now it must be said that the Surah 50 in the Holy Quran is named “Qaf.”

Qaf that is, “mountain,” or kav, i.e. “hand,” is the reverse of kva or kua. In the language of the Chilean Indians, “hand” is cuu. We have encountered both words in “Kva,sir” or “Ua-sir,” respectively, the Greek Osiris. The word kva as the reverse of “kav” is identical with the Sanscrit kvath meaning “swelling of the water.” “Mountain” and “Water” are always mystically connected. The Qaf or World-Mountain is surrounded by the Waters of Immortality. According to the stages of Ascent, the Waters swell; that means the Sacred Mountain is climbed.

Therefore, we find in Lovecraft the concept of Ilek-Vad, being another case of phonetic encoding. In “Through the Gates of the Silver Key,” we can read: “You wished to sail up golden Oukranos to search out forgotten ivory cities in orchid-heavy Kled, and to reign on the opal throne of Ilek-Vad, whose fabulous towers and numberless domes rise mighty toward a single red star in a firmament alien to your Earth and to all matter.”

“Ilek-Vad” is “Ile-Kvad” or “Isle-Kvath,” the “Island ‘in’ the Swelling Waters” or the “Island ‘of’ Swelling Waters,” indicating not only cyclic return and mystical arising, but also the White Isle of Isis, the Isle of the South or Island of Jewels in Vedic mysticism. It is the Island that arises out of the Deeps, one with R’lyeh.

The star Lovecraft alludes to in the quotation is Aldabaran, also mentioned in “Polaris.” This star is of utmost importance in Polar Tradition. “Aldebaran” is from the Arabic “al-dabaran,” that is, the “Follower.” In astronomy, this star is said to follow the seven-star group of the Pleiades. Though the name is popular, it is scarcely known that the old name of Aldabaran was “Ku,” the “Leading Star of the Stars” before the Ram had taken the Bull’s place as the lead, ing interstellar body. In Akkadian astronomy “Ku” is “Dil-gan” or the “Messenger of Light.” As “Dil-kar” the red star is the “Proclaimer of the Mystical Aurora.” “Ku” in astronomy is also connected with Aries that was given the Akkadian titles “I-ku” or “l-ku-u,” when it became chief of the zodiacal signs (according to Marcus Manilius, astronomical poet of the first century A.D., quoted in R. H. Allen’s Star Names, their Lore and Meaning, Dover, New York, 1963). Aries represents the Only Son of Life. It is the sacred Ram accompanying the Fire Divine out of the Bowels of Earth. In Babylonian lore, it was linked up with “Pidnu-sha-shame,” the Furrow of Heaven.” It must be noted here that “pidnu” is one with “pish-nu” respectively “vishnu.” Aldabaran is described as a red burning star.

We return to the meaning of qaf, respectively, kva: In Hyperborean tradition, there is the mystical Blood of Kvasir whose drinker receives the sparks of divine inspiration. Kvasir is the word from which is derived Cesar, that is, Kaiser in German. The kva is like the Qaf, encircling the worlds, being the Serpent as much as embracing the worlds, being the all-pervading Axis.

The concept of the Old Norse Kvasir can be traced back to the Inda-European where we have a so-called soma-gavacir. The “Gavacir” is etymologically related to “Kvasir” or “Uasir,” indicat­ing the indulging in the Drink of Immortality and the state of Undo­ing the Web of Manifestation. Thus the “Eddas are linked with the Vedas” (R. Falb, Das Land der Inca, in seiner Bedeutung fur die Urgeschichte der Sprache und der Schrift, Leipzig, 1883, reprinted Ravenna Presse, Herbstein, 1984).

Now the Hebrew equivalent to Qaf is azar, that is, “to encircle .” From ” azar, ” also related to “kar” or ” car, ” is derived ” zar-pa ” or the “Circle of the Serpent,” in Chinese “pa,” the serpent-sign. In Ger­man we find Scharpe with the meaning of “apron.” In the language of the Vedas, we have the equivalent in “satya.” It must be empha­sized at this point that in ancient Indian mysticism the fish is the first avatar of Vishnu. It is named “Matsya-avatara.” The word mat­sya contains “satya,” and Vishnu is given his name, because of that incarnation. As pointed out previously, pish is Mesopotamian for “fish.” Satya indicates the Fish-Saviour, a mystical concept from which sprang the “Ichthus” of the early Christians. And the Place of Truth is in Vedic lore called “Satya-Loka. ” It is the Holy Place where the Fish is liberated from its cyclic Exile.

“Azar” is identical to “asar” or “ashar.” Asar is the Egyptian word for Osiris. Here we are re-encountering the linkage of Osiris or Uasir and Kvasir again.

One of Lovecraft’s foremost esoteric concepts is that of Azathoth. He is mentioned and described in many stories, such as in “Dreamquest of Unknown Kadath,” where we are told at the begin­ning in typical Lovecraft style: “There were, in such voyages, incalculable local dangers; as well as that shocking final peril which gibbers unmentionably outside the ordered universe, where no dreams reach; that last amorphous blight of nethermost confusion which blasphemes and bubbles at the center of all infinity-,the bound, less daemon sultan Azathoth, whose name no lips dare speak aloud”.

Indeed Azathoth is only to be found where dreams cannot reach. Achieving the Sight of the Old Vistas means having transcended matrical existence and emerged into Daylight. There, the dream is not.

In his “Dreams in the Witch-House,” we are given details of a cosmic scenery, learn about a “green-litten hillside on a far planet,” and a “city of tentacled monsters,” which is clearly referring to the aforementioned Kutullu-Name of “kamaru” and the deep Polar meaning of the octopodic shape of the Old Ones. We are further told of “spiral black vortices of that ultimate void of Chaos where reigns the mindless demon-sultan Azathoth.”

The “spiral black vortices” indicate the vortex of Spirit, Light or the transformative process of reabsorption into the One. There are two spirals, one being evolution, one being Involution.
In India the World-Spiral is called Ashvatta, or the Tree of Union, being one with Ashet in ancient Egypt. It is the Tau-Tree or rotating Tree of Life, prototypical of the Spiral or Spinning Castle of the Creatrix.

In “Whisperer of Darkness,” Lovecraft publishes deep esoteric insight cloaked in scientific terminology speaking of the juxtaposition of the dimensions and the frightful position of our own cosmos of space and time in the unending chain of linked cosmo-atoms that makes up the immediate super-cosmos.

This acausal Chain of Worlds, Chain of Cycles, is the Totality or Totum. It is named Azathoth of the Prophet of the Fog. The Circle of Being belongs to the Primordial Pantheon in Lovecraft; it is the mystical center, identical with the Heavenly City, known in all religions under different names. The City of the White Stone is the center of all worlds, the Great Axis or Primordial Ray. It is the City of the Dead, for all those having reached it has experienced Death-in-Life.

Lovecraft’s “Azathoth” is “A-zar-thoth,” alternatively, “A-zar-tu,” since thoth is interchangeable with zu, both having the meaning of “Wisdom.” From the aforementioned “zar-pa,” the Latin word series or “chain” is derived. “A-zar” is thus the “Chain of Worlds.” Each cycle of Creation is what Lovecraft called “atoni” or “globule.” “A­zar” is Qaf, Pervader and Embracer, noncausal and eternal.

As already explained “Thoth” is conceptually identical with “Zu.” Both words stand for the Fiery Wisdom of the Winged One, the one having reached into the Inner Sanctuary.

“Thoth” consists of the mystical t-t-configuration that symbolizes the Mountain of Two Summits or the Two Pillars between whose depths the Thrice-Great-One is striding. Both symbols of moun­tain and pillar represent the Entrance to the Sanctuary when the Heights of the Deeps are reached. Thus ”A-zar-thoth” or ”A-zar-tu” can be translated as “Encircling and Pervading Mountain or Pillars” or ”All-Wisdom.” The symbolism of the 2 designates the Wisdom­Knowledge of the Two-in-One, its transcendence, and the Sight of Place where the Oceans conjoin. The Pilgrim will have annihilated the illusory opposites, and with the Wisdom of the Stone achieved can enter through the Two Pillars into the Inner Sanctuary.

The construction “tu-tep” contained in Nyarlathotep or “Niyah­la-tu-tep” indicates Thoth and the t-t-configuration. Niyah-la-tu­tep guides the Pilgrim into the Presence of Azathoth representing the process of essencification or recentrification. In Egyptian, Thoth is tot, tut, or taut, identical with the ancient “tau” and the symbol of the Tau-Cross. This Cross is the Spinning Fastness and token of the Mystic Pole Tradition.

Lovecraft makes mention of the “Book of Thoth.” In “Through the Gates of the Silver Key,” we are told in an “extract” from the Necronomicon that there is a terrific price to be paid for a single glimpse of the climes beyond the Barrier of Light. And elsewhere Lovecraft writes that there is “a mortal peril in trafficking with the Old Ones.” Though it sounds rather like a “needless to say,” there is indeed such peril, for the one undoing the Web will die the Death­in-Life and resurrect into another cycle of existence.

The ancient letter “tau” is equivalent to “teu” in Chinese, that is, ” summit. · ” The word tao is related to both “teu” and ” tau, ” but can also have the meaning of “island.” Thus the “Tao” designates the Island of the Mountain, surrounded by the Waters of Immortality.

Furthermore, in Egyptian tau is the word used for “hand,” indi­cating the mystical 5. So two “hands,” identical with the Measure of the Hand otherwise the number 33, equals 10.

Another meaning of “tau” in this ancient language is “spinning-­wheel,” the corresponding sign being two Ts depicted upside down. Thus Thoth can also be the spinning-wheel on which the world of manifestation is woven. It is a symbol of the Impulse of the One that becomes manifest in the seventh cycle of world-globules. From “Thoth” or “tot,” the Latin word to tum, that is, “all,” is derived. Therefore we say in Transpolaria that the One is the Totum, while the Web of Manifestation, the evolutionary spiral, the Creatrix, is called the Isinum.

In Hebrew the symbolism of “tot” has been preserved as “zav-al­zav,” etymologically related to “kav-al-kav” or “Mountain of Two Summits.” It must be stressed here that in biblical times the Hebrew tav had the form of the Greek tau; and it must be pointed out that the syllable “al,” reverse of “la” or “cyclic return,” is placed between the two “zavs.” Thus “la,” respectively, “al” designates the Mystic Pole, the Axis, around which Creation revolves. “Zav-al-zav” can be translated as “pillar to pillar.” In classic Greek myth we find a reflection of that deeply esoteric symbolism in the “Pillars of Her­cules.” And in Lovecraft we have the analogue in the “basalt pillars of the west,” mentioned in “Dreamquest of Unknown Kadath.” It also means “mountain to mountain”, otherwise “wave to wave” indi­cating the Ocean in which the Seed is dropped and where it must be awakened. The Hyperborean word for mountain is tor; the Edda­ic Thor, related to the Hindustanic zur, is likewise derived from that ancient esoteric concept. In the Indo-European language of ancient Persia we find the word dad, that is, “law.” Dad is like tat. In Hebrew it is synonymous with “Daath.” The “Two Summits” are therefore “Daath-to-Daath,” the Twofold Law, the Wisdom-Knowledge of the Two Oceans. In Solar Hebrew mysticism, Daath is the mysterious “doorway” leading to the other side of the Tree of Life. It is inter­esting to mention in this context that in Sumerian tradition, later adopted by the Semitic tribes, the back-side is always related to the future. While the front side of the Tree, as it is depicted today, stands for the Web, the back-side of the Tree is what has to be really sought.

Niyah-la-tu-tep is Messenger and Message. When the Pilgrim has reached his destination, he is initiated in the Light of Old, a process for which we use the Arabic term “Zurqa Azraq.” This is the Black Light of Purity, and the Awakening One is bestowed the Sight of the Vistas of Vastness, while between the Two Summits the third one has risen. The Shadowless Land is reached eventually. Transpolaria is opening. There he finds his mystical company. With the Old Ones he plunges through 1:he Spaces of Spirit beyond the spectrum called “light.” And with the Winged Ones he ventures along the Great Axis through the Transpolar Vastness in the Presence of the One.

In Lovecraft’s Azathoth there is also contained the Sumerian word azag, translated “shining.” It stands for the divine luminosity of ini, tiation, the Esoteric Luminary. Azag is identical with the Arabic azraq, a word in turn containing the word ark, here exemplified as arq. ”Azathoth” is therefore ”Azag,zu” or the “Light of the Deeps.”

In Babylonian we find connected with ”Azag-zu” the esoteric phrase “e-azag-an-ashar-la-amari.” “E-azag” is the “House of Light” indicating the Luminous Night in Polar Tradition. The House of Light is the House of the Shining Darkness, the House of Spirit, being the Axial House of God; “an-ashar” is the “Heaven of Ashar”; “la-amari” is the “return of Amar-Anzu.” Thus the above phrase can be translated: “The House of the Shining Darkness is the Heav, en (the Whitened Knowledge when reaching the Two Oceans) of the Fallen One (‘ashar’ is ‘asar’ or He Who is Bound in a Five-Fold Bond, otherwise Osiris), being the Return of the Fifth Element and the Fire, Bird of Wisdom to the surface of the Earth.”

In Babylonian mysticism, the House of God is always wreathed in darkness, being the House where eyes cannot see. For those caught in sensory perception, this House must be but dark, but for the inward-looking one it is the House of Divine Light, the experience of the Luminous Darkness.

 

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