Visita Interiora Terrae Rectificando Invenies Occultum Lapidem
– Basilius Valentinus
[The acronym V.I.T.R.I.O.L. stands for the Latin expression “Visita Interiora Terrae Rectificando Invenies Occultum Lapidem,” which means “Visit the interior of the earth, and by rectifying (correcting or purifying) what you find there, you will discover the hidden stone. A similar phrase V.I.T.R.I.O.L.U.M. used in alchemical literature is formed by the Latin expression “Visita Interiora Terrae Rectificando Invenies Occultum Lapidem Veram Medicinam”, which means “Visit the interior of the earth, and by rectifying you will find the hidden stone, which is the true medicine.” ]
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In the year 1890 New England saw the birth of an exceptional man: Howard Philips Lovecraft.
In this century he became famous as one of the most gifted writers of the macabre, often celebrated as the literary heir to Edgar Allan Poe or Jules Verne. During his lifetime, however, just a few of his works were published, and only after his death in 1937, did he begin to gain more and more publicity inside and outside the United States. Today H.P. Lovecraft is read in almost every language, and there is a great number of books on his works and life as well. But there is more than has been discussed so far. There is the “unknown Lovecraft,” the hidden dimension in his work that has been there untouched since his death almost 60 years ago.
He was more than just an exceptionally gifted writer of the macabre, he was an alchemist and his works, mostly encoded to a masterly degree, center around the Mystical Quest, the Sacred Journey to the Pole.
It has now become possible to shed a revealing light on the esoteric dimensions of the works of that “Recluse of Providence.” Celebrated in literary circles as the adept of the macabre without any serious inclination toward esoteric lore, H. P. Lovecraft can now reemerge as a secretive mystic whose so-called Cthulhu-Mythos centers around a genuine mystical tradition originating far back in planetary history. And, as shall be seen, Lovecraft has indeed been America’s foremost “esoteric writer misunderstood.”
Perhaps more than anyone else in the history of twentieth-century American literature, he delved deeply into the Arcana of Creation, yet hiding away his profound insight from his environment; and only a few friends were to know more about his secret.
Lovecraft had been in possession of rare esoteric information, probably given to him in juvenile years by one of his family members for the furtherance of a natural disposition found in him. And we will see that he devoted his lifetime to the Sacred Mystical Quest, the Ascent of the World-Mountain, and the esoteric-alchemical alignment to the Axis Mundi. He was a true Pilgrim to the Pole.
In Lovecraft we can find distinct traces leading back to ancient Mesopotamia where certain fragments of the Tradition of the Goddess and the Mystic Pole surfaced in the Akkadian-Babylonian Epic of Creation, compiled by scribe-priests in the third millennium B.C. The Epic relates the primordial order on Earth, the Gods of Yore, of Tiamat and Apsu and their Allies. The principal part of the “Enuma Elish,” Akkadian-Babylonian for “When on High,” is on the clash of the aforementioned Polar Order, and another group of gods, led by Ea-Marduk, the representative of a conflicting order which is called “Solar.” When opposed to “Polar,” the Lore of the Deeps, “Solar Order” is a departure from spirituality, In the history of mankind, the latter’s establishment led to the cyclic concealment of the former. Ea-Marduk, the champion of the gods, defeated the Allies of the Goddess, the Titans of Old, and cast them into the Underworld. The Solar Empire that was then established, lasting till the present day, has left man in a state of ignorance, hiding from him the facts of his origins and tasks: the Liberation of the Fallen One.
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In this book, a specific level of understanding, embodied in the Epic, will be considered. It is an image of the decline of mankind since the Golden Age or the Age of the Titans on this planet. As related openly in the writings, mankind was denied the Key to read in the Tablet of Fates, containing the Arcana of Creation and man’s existence on earth. The Gateway of Liberation has been kept in secrecy thenceforth, the Wisdom-Tradition of Tiamat disappeared from the surface of the Earth, and the plan of the Solar gods was enacted.
The encoded nucleus of Lovecraft’s work constitutes a manifes:ation of the Lore in the twentieth century and is of utmost impor:ance prior to the imminent turn of the millennium. His “Mythos,” as it is often called, has in it the depths of Polar Truth. Lovecraft left a message, which in its profundity is older than the human species. He was a receptacle of the Ray. His Pantheon of Gods is a Pantheon of Terror. The works he wrote serve as a Threshold, such as he himself had to cross. His Gods are thus true Guardians of the mysteries. But it is from the beheaded body of Medusa, the terrible universal aspect of the Great Goddess, wherefrom springs the winged Horse to climb the Heavens.
During his adult lifetime, the “Recluse of Providence” did everything he could to conceal his esoteric insight. He worked in secrecy. Only a few friends, an Inner Lovecraft Circle, knew about it and shared some of his secrets. In the state of seclusion, Lovecraft tried to reach the mystical Axis Mundi, climb the mystical World-Mountain whose spiritual reality he cloaked in the mysterious name of “Kadath.”
“The White Ship” and in particular “The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath” are early autobiographical echos of his dawning urge of mystical conquest. Later works such as ”At the Mountains of Madness” or “The Case of Charles Dexter Ward” give further momentous evidence of his deep-reaching esoteric-alchemical insight.
By his Primordial Pantheon, in which we have such encoded keywords as Yog-Sothoth, Azathoth, or Nyarlathotep, he unveiled the process of human transformation and the recovery of the Hidden Stone in Earth.
Lovecraft did not only incorporate genuine Polar Tradition but his works also contain unmistakable concepts taught in medieval Alchemy.
Human transformation, the crossing of the Threshold and the “Sight of the Sun Invisible, is the essential goal of every esotericalchemical practice. Alchemy holds the Wisdom of the Stone and can be regarded as not only underlying all myth and religion but also as being their very nucleus.
Apart from the transformative stages Lovecraft described in allegorical terms or adumbrated, he practiced the Art of the Phonetic Cabala to a masterly degree. As the reader shall see in the course of the studies published here for the first time, there is a specific code whereby Lovecraft unveiled the fruits of his deep mystical experience.
In Polaria, the Lovecraft-Code and HPL’s (Howard Phillips Lovecraft’s) insightful esoteric-alchemical concepts serve as a steppingstone. By decoding the principal elements of his work the mighty gateways to the Arcana are opened wide.
In this publication, there will be proceeded from mythology and religion evolved in Polar-oriented cultures throughout the ages. All concepts explained, colored by respective cultural influence, center around the millennial message of the Mystic Pole Tradition: the Recovery of the Seed, the Liberation of the Fallen One. The dust of concealment must be cleared away.
The works of the esoteric Visionary of Providence are essentially “Saturnian.” He had reached the Tomb of Time; most of his stories are on death and decay. He had caught glimpses through the Fog and was given Vistas of that which lies beyond the Leaden Tomb.
The centerpiece of his quest is a book bearing the title Necronomicon in which the Lore of the Primordial Gods and their secret cult on Earth is written.
As the Greek word Necronomicon translates as “an Image of Death” or “Law of Death,” it clearly indicates its true meaning: Death-in-Life.
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In allegorical terms, Lovecraft spoke of the mystery of human existence. Man must die mystically, achieve a certain level of Resonance, in order to resurrect. In modern terms, this Resonance can be called a “secret highway of information,” the Realm of Religion, accessible to the Loving One only. Death-in-Life refers to the Secret Tomb from which the Entity can emerge. This is the Phoenix that rises from its Ashes. So happy is he, who is all Ashes, for it is in these that the Diadem of the King is to be found.
Who realizes the Seed, realizes the Origins, and the Seed is the Fish of the Earth, its Liberation, it’s Awakening.
As shall be seen in this book, Lovecraft was an alchemist seeking the Wisdom of the Goddess. Writing that the Messenger of the Gods, he called the Old Ones, took on human semblance in nighted Khem is a clear reference to the Black Sun. The word Alchemy itself is related to the Egyptian word Khem or Chem, meant to designate the mysterious Black Land. According to the Indian scholar S. Mahdihassan, the word originally stems from the Chinese Chin-I or Chin-je, meaning “Juice of Gold.”
Primarily and esoterically, the Black Land is the Land of the Black Sun invisible to ordinary human perception, and its origins lie beyond the Barrier of Dreaming.
Exoterically, Khem can be seen as representing the Earth, for it is the Place of Resurrection; but it is also man himself, black as wreathed in ignorance in his untransformed state of existence and destined to awake into a state of spiritual revelation.
The inner is like the outer, and from the Seven emerges the Eight. Therefore it is also the Octagon that is sacred to the Goddess. The achievement of Polar Resonance means realizing that the seventh chakra in man is not the destination, but a stage toward the Final Recovery.
On the planetary level, the seventh chakra is identical with Sat, urn marking the Threshold, being the Plane of Death. Yet, there is the Phoenix, that miraculous Bird that can arise from its own Ashes.
Times are changing, and the Trinity of the Planets-beyond-the-Threshold, beyond the seventh, will attain momentous significance for the evolution of terrestrial life.
The Veils have to be lifted to recover the Seed, the Dreaming One must awake, the Fish must be freed from the Net in which it is caught since the Fall.
Some will embark upon that stony Way to the Pole and to transformation; others will not. Some will know the Mysteries of Creation; others will never catch a glimpse. But those who will know will change.
The Black Stone must be changed into a White Stone, the Hid, den must surface again. Indeed, the Titan-Gods are longing for their Titan-Goddesses. Solar and Polar aspects of life have become separated. In myth, Tiamat was estranged from her lover Apsu, the primordial House of Water; Earth became a Wasteland. These two aspects of Creation must be reunited again, Tiamat in loving embrace with Apsu: That is what we call the Embrace of Yore. Together again, they can dance the mystical Dance of Resurrection.
This book is intended for the spiritual Pilgrim, the phonetic cabalist, and esoterically inclined Lovecraft reader who already feels a certain draw toward the Threshold.
The Mysteries of Creation are uncovered when the Stone, the Grail, is found in Earth. Whenever the Grail is within reach, a question is addressed to the Pilgrim: “Whom does the Grail serve?”
It serves the Fisher-King and his Healing; it serves the Truthful only, the King that is healed from his infirmity, and the Land that is in the Blossom again.
The renowned alchemist Basil Valentine wrote: “Visita interiora terrae rectificando invenies occultum lapidem.” The interior of the Earth is indeed the holy place where the Stone of Unity must be found. However, and as Lovecraft wrote so appropriately in The Festival: “The nethermost caverns are not for the fathoming of the eyes that see.”
Hopefully, this book will be of help to those undergoing the process of transformation. There are those who do not know what is happening with them; some might not know where to seek advice, while others might be in great despair. Let “Polaria” be a writing of instruction to those who sincerely seek.
-London – Berlin, March 1996
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