Know the white but guard the black,
the divine light comes to itself;
For the white is the fine gold,
But the black is the water taken as a basis. Water is fundamental to the method,
To the whole world, it is known as the One.

-Tao Teh Ching

 

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When the dust of millennia covering Earth now will have been cleared off, the Diadem of Midnight will be beset with the skulls of all those who could not suffer Death-in-Life.

The Black Stone is the imprisoned potential. It is turned into Spirit-White as soon as the Seed is liberated from its cyclic exile. The Unleashing of Tiamat is the Whitening of the Earth. The esoteric forces of Tiamat correspond to the crescent of the Moon. In Alchemy the Moon is the celestial body presiding over the process of birth or incarnation. In Sufism, it is the symbol of receptivity. It forms one planetary unit with the Earth in Polar Tradition and is corresponding to the metal and color of silver. Therefore we say that Shub-Niggurath can also be called the Silvery One.

The French alchemist Jean d’Espagnet Q. d’Espagnet, The Secret Work of the Hermetic Philosophy, edited by Sapere Aude, The Alchemical Press, Edmonds, WA, 1988) writes on the Gift of the White Stone: “The Philosophers Stone is found in the oldest mountains, and flows from everlasting brooks; those mountains are of silver, and the brooks are e’en of gold: from thence gold and silver and all the treasures of Kings are produced.”

Silver refers to the Moon, “Luna,” and gold to the Sun, “Sol.” The “brooks of gold” are the streams of the “golden juice,” the Chinese “Chin-I,” the Gift of Transformation. “Luna,” the “Watery,” and “Sol,” the “Fiery,” in Alchemy are other words for feminine-passive, and masculine-active. And “Luna” is bound to be one with “Sol.”

The French alchemist Charles d’Albonneville says about Sol and Luna (Opera, Oppenheim, unpublished, no date): “God is the Soul of All, and because He is in Heaven, Sun and Moon are placed in its Vault.” The Black Light only shines forth when the mystical Marriage of these illusionary opposites is achieved in the Baptism. We return to that later in this chapter.

Lovecraft places a particular emphasis on the esoteric-alchemical meaning and purpose of the Silver Key. It represents mystical birth, being the actual Key-out-of-Dreams that Carter makes use of for his esoteric excursions to locations beyond spacetime. For him, the awaking one, it serves as a means to break through the Barrier of Light.

In The Silver Key, written in 1926, Carter-Lovecraft is given the Key by his grandfather, introduced as a scholar in Alchemy and occult lore. The ancestor speaks to the venturer about their ancient family line, and we can learn that one of the Carters was a crusader, who had learned esoteric secrets from the Saracens somewhere in the Near East. Another ancestral personage we are told of was the Elizabethan occultist Sir Randolph Carter.

While the mention of the flame-eyed crusader is meant to indicate the connection between Polar Tradition and Templar mysticism, the English occultist who lived during Queen Elizabeth’s reign, clearly refers to Dr. John Dee whose so-called Angelic Magic is nothing else but a system derived from the esoteric lore linked with the Angelic Society or Societe Angelique, otherwise “Brouillards,” located in France (M. Lamy, Jules Verne – Initie and Initiateur, Documents Payot, 1994). The French word brouillards means “the Fogs” or “Foggy Ones” and implies the alchemical Fog or the Fire Divine.

Some prominent artists and writers, among them Jules Verne, were linked with that esoteric order. Jules Verne incorporated numerous esoteric-alchemical secrets in his works. His Journey to the Center of the Earth recalls the Sacred Journey of Transformation into the Bowels of Earth. And in Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea and The Mysterious Island, the mysterious Nautilus is named, being a submarine vessel crossing the oceans of the planet. In zoology, the Nautilida belong to the invertebrae, more specifically to the Cephalopoda, such as Lovecraft’s Octopoda. We will return to Jules Verne later in this book. The word Cephalopoda is derived from Cephalus known in Greek myth. Cephalus is one with Astraeus of the Morning Star. The morning light is the Mystical Aurora, which we will encounter later on again. The mention of Cephalopoda indicates the Mystic Pole Tradition allegory of the process of human transformation and the entry into the Hidden Realm.

The Angelic Society or the Foggy Ones are essential to be identified with Lovecraft’s “Esoteric Order of Dagon,” mentioned in The shadow over Insmouth, written in 1931. As already explained in the previous chapter, the word dagon means “fog.” The concept of Dagon and Fog-Fire or Fire-Mist, as is found in Lovecraft’s The Whisperer of Darkness, is primarily relating to a state of being to be experienced while undergoing transformation. It always indicates the secrets of the sacred Octade and the transcendence of the Threshold or the sacred Heptade. It is the Pilgrimage back to the One Hidden, to a place where issues the Sevenfold Creation. The Grail is concealed, and truly, as d’Espagnet writes, it is the Oldest Mountain of Life.

Another hint at the Angelic Society is given by Lovecraft in The Call of Cthulhu where we are told that one of Lovecraft’s occult authorities is named Professor Angell.
One of his ancestors, living in witchcraft-riddled New England, was Edmund Carter, who had in his possession the esoteric and arabesque Silver Key. Lovecraft tells us that this Key was handed down over the centuries to the present Carter. And we eventually learn that the Key is preserved in an antique box of oak wood. In Polar Tradition the oak is of great importance. It was revered as a holy tree in Celtic mysticism.
The goal of transformation is to reach the location where the Two Oceans of space-time and Spirit conjoin. There is the Gateway. It is in Greek mysticism we find the story of the Argonauts who set out in their White Ship named Argo for the recovery of the Golden Fleece. The Fleece can be seen as the cover of the stars. It repre­sents the starry and shining Veils of Isis that have to be lifted in order that Wisdom beyond the Barrier of Light can be found. Accord­ing to relevant myth, the Argo or White Ship of the Argonauts, was made of Dodonian oak wood, such as the esoteric Silver Key rests in. In other words, we can say that the Key is placed in the box of Duir, “Duir” being the designation for “oak” in the Celtic Beth-Luis­Nion Tree-Alphabet. It must be pointed out that it has the addi­tional meaning of “door.” We can find respective derivations in many European languages, such as in the Greek “thura,” in German “tuer,” Old Norse “thor.” The Celtic “Duir,” and ultimately all root-related words, can, in turn, be regarded as derived from the Sanscrit word “dwr.” In the Celtic Tree-Alphabet, one of the last genuine remains of Polar culture, we find the oak-tree given as the seventh in line. It clearly indicates the planetary plane of Saturn. The Silver Key kept in the box of oak is thus the hidden door or the Gateway-out-of­Space-Time. It is the secret place the individual can find in himself. In Greece, the oak was held sacred to Zeus who was often wor­shipped as the Ram-Headed-One and can thus be linked with Osiris who is depicted in the same manner. In Polar Tradition it is always a Ram that pushes up the Fire Divine out of the Bowels of Earth. Osiris is also one with Saturn. The Resurrection of Osiris can only take place when Saturn opens the way beyond the Threshold. In classic myth, the seventh planet is considered to be a sleeping Titan. And indeed, when traversing the Threshold, his reawakening inaugu­rates the return of the Titan race; not only is the return of the Titans brought about with the crossing of the Barrier of Light but also the return of their forefathers and makers: the Old Ones. Then Saturn, which fell asleep after a planetary catastrophe to be elucidated later in detail, is becoming an ally again, as he was an ally in days of yore. And from Titanic soil, life will spring again. The oak tree, such as the oak box in Lovecraft, are thus symbols of transformation and the Threshold to be crossed.
Saturn, the Keeper of the seventh plane, is one with Janus or Ianus, to be also identified with Heracles, the gatekeeper of the gods in Greek mysticism and the Lyr-Lludd or Nudd in Celtic lore that is one with Lovecraft’s Nodens in The Strange High House in the Mist, written in 1926.
Once in possession of the esoteric Silver Key, the Pilgrim can look into both directions, which means he can oversee both Oceans and travel freely through them. The Spirit-Light shines in him and he has reached the mystical place where the Two Oceans meet, the location beyond the reaches of spacetime where the esoteric luminary rises between the Mountain of Two Summits.
Further in the events in “The Silver Key,” the box is opened, and inside is found a parchment with a text written in ancient hieroglyphics. Carter recognizes the characters he previously saw in a papyrus scroll belonging to a scholar who had come out of the South and vanished one midnight in a cemetery. The “scholar of the South” is another hint at the Polar Tradition in which the South, the Under, world, or Bowels of Earth are crucial since all of these terms indicate the location of the secret Gateway to be recovered.
The vanishing of the scholar refers to the Midnight Sun or Black Spirit, Light, while the cemetery symbolism, almost omnipresent in Lovecraft, marks the Threshold itself, the Tomb of the Individual that has to be crossed in order to be reborn.
The parchment itself, we are told, is written with an antique reed. Though it can easily escape the reader’s attention, the very use of the word reed is of utmost importance in this context. Again, on purpose, the Visionary of Providence established a link with Polar Tradition.
In the Beth-Luis-Nion tree-alphabet of the Celts, the NG-tree is the Ngetal or reed. It is to be identified with the oriental qanna-reed, chat is, the ancient Polar symbol of spiritual achievement. In “qanna” there is contained the name Anna, epithetical of Tiamat, Isis. A reed was given to Jesus when he was attired in Purple or Scarlet.
And in Assyrian, reed or cover is translated with “qutullu.” The Assyrian “qutullu,” containing the root “ku,” is etymologically related to the Sanscrit root “guh,” that is, “to hide” or “to cover.” Kutul, lu is the One Covered by the Waves; his House of Stone is sunken beneath the sea. The Sanscrit word guha designates the Cave of the Heart and the Way of the Mystical Heart, explained below.
Furthermore, the Assyrian word qanna, alternatively, kanna, is the reverse form of the Hebrew annak, that is, “king.” In the old Jewish language, ennak means “giant”; in Greek, anac-s is “ruler.” On the other side of the globe in South America, the Kitchua word hanak relates to “high-grown”; and in the language of Aimara it is “kenako” or “treasure.”
Carter eventually resolves to perform the Rite of the Silver Key in a secluded place called Snake-Den. And in connection with Polar symbolism, as used by the ancient Celts, we further learn that this den is located amidst a mysterious forest “where rocks rise in the dim light like Druid monoliths.” With the turning of the esoteric Key, the Pilgrim opens that Gateway leading into the Presence of the One.
The Mystic Pole Tradition is the keeper of the secret of light. It is exactly the secret that materialistic science is vainly attempting to uncover. Though they make increasingly perilous use of uranium, ignorantly employing Titan forces, they cannot track down the Titans themselves. The attempts launched by scientists exemplify the barrenness of knowledge unilluminated. Materialistic science is caught in the Web of Illusion. Fostering a panicky belief in progress that is regressive in reality, they try to escape the limited vision of space, time existence without obeying the Principles of Existence. Yet they are unable, for they listen to the Voice of the Minotaur being the test for humanity, necessary for the Work of God, yet to be transcended for its completion. The Barrier of Light, the Threshold, can only be traversed if the ego or the individual’s illusionary spacetime definition is transcended. In order to comprehend the secret of light, man has to transform and change his frequency of existence. He has to reach out for the Pole, pass it, and achieve Spirit-Sight. And the need to accelerate to the speed of light and beyond will be no more.
In Through the Gate of the Silver Key, we are told that Carter knows “how to rotate” the Key and “how it must be held up to the setting sun.” Then Lovecraft tells us that “syllables of the ceremony must be intoned into the void at the ninth and last turning.” The “rotation of the Key” refers to the rotating wheel of the zodiac and the secret gateway out of its energetic grid, while the “ninth turning” implies the significance of the Polar number 9. In 1,9 it indicates the Return to the One. Thus 1 and 9 equal 10 or 1, the Absolute One. An equivalent is found in the number 99 in Sufism that can be regarded as indicating the state immediately before being reabsorbed into the Absolute. 100, otherwise 10, is in Sufism called “lsmu dh’Dhat” or the “Name of Essence.” This Name also referred to as the Angel of the Face, is the most secret Name of God, only to be found in the Heavenly City.
Adding another 9 to 99 we obtain 108, the number of the Chain of Worlds. 108 is the number of the beads of the rosary or the num, ber of the mystical Rose Garden. In Hinduism, the rosary is called “rudraksha-valaya,” that is, “Ring of Seeds,” since rudraksha means “Seed,” explained as having a “red-eye.”
Each Seed is a world, each world a cycle of Creation whose essence is indestructible. Together they form the acausal Chain or Totality of Worlds. This Totality is expressed in the Great Cyclic Relation of Worlds, as explained later in this book.
108 is the number of this Totality, and, indeed, the “ninth and last turning” of the Silver Key means mystical reabsorption into the One.
With the Rite of the Silver Key performed, Carter disappears eventually into his mystical subterfuge. Friends and relatives launch a search for him in the area, and we are told that halfway up Elm Mountain, on the way to the ruins of the Carter place, they succeed in finding his motor set by the roadside. Yet, no traces of Carter are found. He has vanished beyond the Barrier.
The place where Carter lived is called Elm Mountain. This name is subtly chosen and unmistakable in esoteric meaning. “Elm” is like “ailm,” the latter word of which is a symbol of the birth aspect of the White Goddess. The Elm Mountain implies Carter’s fate: Rebirth after mystical Death-in-Life. Here, the White Goddess is Nemesis, being originally the nymph-goddess Leda in Greek lore. Sacred to her were the swans of white plumage or the ambrosial swans, and hers is the Nemesis’ Wheel or the cycles of existence. A story writ, ten by Lovecraft bears the title “Nemesis.”
In Through the Gates of the Silver Key, written in 1932, a long story laden with Polar symbolism, Carter, Lovecraft succeeds in reaching through the Veils of Isis. There in the Snake-Den, the Pilgrim can awake the Messenger in himself and becomes able to read the Mes, sage with inward-looking eyes. The Snake-Den is on purpose identical to the cavern of flame spoken of in the opening portions of Dreamquest of Unknown Kadath. The den or the cavern are one with the mystical cave. It is the cave of the Black God that has to be seen and traversed. There initiation takes place, and only there can the Messenger be summoned.
In the works of Lovecraft, Nyarlathotep is the name given to the Mes­senger of the Old Ones, whom Carter meets in “person” after having arrived at star-crowned Kadath. In his “Haunter of the Dark”, we are told that it was in antique and shadowy Khem where their Messenger took on human semblance and the lore of the Old Ones appeared.
Nyarlathotep is the Crawling Chaos. He took on human sem­blance when Cosmos was created from Chaos, the Stones of Foun­dation were laid in the Temple, erected without a tool of iron. Indeed, when he took on the Raiment, the Clouds of the Unknown obscured the Sun. Lovecraft writes, therefore, that Nyarlathotep became manifest in “nighted Khem.” He was very subtle here. Khem is indeed nighted by the luminous Light of Spirit.
Nyarlathotep is the first. He passes on revelation while Kutullu is being taken from his Tomb and can finally resurrect. Nyarlathotep is in Kutullu such as Kutullu is an aspect of Nyarlathotep. Meeting the Messenger of the Old Ones, the transforming individual is to be iden­tified with Kutullu in the process of being freed from his cyclic exile.
Nyarlathotep is one with the first chakra in man before Kutullu awakes. During the process of transformation, the Messenger brings his Message, transforming man becoming the Message himself. Then, Nyarlathotep has become the Last One, being the first and the eight, as will be explained in detail when we arrive at elucidat­ing the secret Gateway-out-of-Space-Time.
In The Whisperer of Darkness, we learn that the Messenger came down from the World of Seven Suns. Here we are re-encountering the symbolism of the seven-star configuration, symbolizing the Way­out-of-the-Labyrinth beyond the cyclic spectrum. In astronomy, they are exoteric guides which simultaneously is their esoteric purpose. The Pole must be reached, but the Sacred Journey leads farther on. It is the spiritual area of entry into the Spectra of Old beyond the Pole, otherwise given the name Transpolaria. Combined with it are spiritual concepts that have never before been spoken of. The read­er will find an introduction to it in the further chapters of this book.
The Mystic Pole means orientation toward the annihilation of opposites and the final achievement of mystical unity. However, where known meditation practice ends in the seventh plane, or the crown chakra, the Ways of Old begin. Beyond Saturn, beyond the Threshold, lies the sacred destination of the Pilgrim. This destination is the Order of Yore, the place of spiritual unity. It was the Time of the Heart. But then, an interstellar body crashed through the sys, tern colliding with the sixth planet or the Planet of Origins. As there were eleven planets, it was preceded by five and succeeded by five. During the collision the Heart became lost. And Saturn became the seventh planet, and, due to the cycle of manifestation being the seventh cycle or the cycle of divine repose, he became the Threshold and its Guardian. We will later in this book return to the lost Heart or Planet of Origins that is essentially linked up with the secret Gate, way in man, and the goal of transformation. And it is also because of this Planet that Polar Tradition is called the Way of the Heart. Green is the color of the Heart, and green is the color of the Messenger. Eleven is the number of spiritual unity, and it is the number of the precious stones set in Lucifer’s crown in the Golden Age.

 

But Saturn reawakes with the Passage of the Pole and becomes a Titan again. This is a major key in Mystic Pole Tradition. And what applies to the individual is applicable to the earth as well. The Guardian will abdicate his position so that the energies of the Old Trinity can flood the solar system. Therefore we can speak of the coming Age of the Old Trinity. He who traverses the Threshold to 6ehold the Vistas becomes a receptacle for these energies and is enabled to read the Message in the Book of the Deeps.

By sacrificing spacetime, the Labyrinth can be left. This is the death of the man-god, who speaks with the voice of the Minotaur. It is the tearing apart of the Veils of Isis. And such as the Silver Key is an esoteric symbol and does not primarily have any material form, the death of time and the climes of the Pole are a state of being to be defined by means of esoteric coordinates to be elucidated later.

Only when man has transformed into another being, having transformed the Tomb of the Individual, one in meaning with the cemetery-symbolism prevalent in Lovecraft, can revelation wholly take place. And Saturn will have been but a station on the Way to the Old Ones.

The transformative modes of being can also be called Chambers in the World-Mountain. The Way is thus the illumination of the Chambers Hidden; there, destiny awaits. Existence in its cosmic, Polar, and transcosmic-Transpolar context can be experienced, and the Great Relation of Worlds will reveal itself. The way from mammalian existence to the Old Ones is like the way from Solar lore to the One Reality beyond the veils. It is the Polar Spectrum that is the guiding light; and it is the Transpolar Spectrum, or the Vistas, that lead into the Inner Sanctuary. The Pole is the bridge between animal-man and the Old Ones. The Polar Spectrum is followed by the opening of the Gateway. And in the midst of constellations of effulgent blackness, never to be known in spacetime relation, the Old Ones can guide the awakened one to farther horizons. Then man has slaughtered the Minotaur; then man is freed from the yoke of Order Entwined.

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