The Wind carrieth the seed in his womb, the Earth is the Nurse.
-Thomas Thymme
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Both the transformation on the individual and the terrestrial planes are directly connected with the energies of the trans, Saturnian planets of the solar system. Saturn, the seventh planet is the Guardian of the Underworld. Only there in the equivalent Bowels of Earth, the lower abdomen in the human body, can the Seed be awakened from its dreaming in Exile.
Astronomically, Saturn precedes Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto in the system. When individual transformation takes place, however,
Saturn abdicates its position as the Guardian of the Barrier, and the energies of the three planets following, the Tiamatian Trinity or the Old Trinity, can flow freely and directly.
This process should not be confused with the ordinary astrological influence of these planetary energy patterns. Man in his untransformed state of existence, however, does experience these energies. Yet while dreaming in matrical and sensory schemes, he is wholly unaware of their transformative purpose. And what is essentially divine must appear to him demoniac through the distorting Veils.
After having transcended the seventh plane, the energies of the Old Trinity can be experienced directly with no Veil left. The annihilation of the illusionary, conflicting opposites can be undergone. Then even Saturn has awakened from his cycle-induced sleep and has realized his nature of a Titan.
The Pilgrim to the Pole traverses the Threshold. Uranus, Father of the Giants or Titan-Gods, leads on the Old Trinity. With the transcendence accomplished, the Midnight mystic leaves space-time, for Saturn-Chronos is Father Time. It is he who devours his Children. And indeed, if a stage of evolutionary, personal disposition is attained in life, and the Threshold is not crossed eventually, the individual is devoured. The spiritual potential is being freed uncontrollably, and man suffers decease and unwilling discarnation.
Saturn-Chronos is the Lord of Time. In Mandean mysticism, the seventh planetary plane is called “Mshunia Kushta” or the “Land of Saturn.” We can find an esoteric analog in the concept of the “Kushta-Plant” that bestows Immortality, and which, as will be elucidated in the further course of our investigations, is basically identical with the Vedic Soma-Plant.
There are seven planetary stages to be ascended to the Threshold, and there are analogously and correspondingly seven chakras to be transcended. The process of transcendence is coupled with the Mystic Pole Constellation, the respective energetic pattern on the interstellar plane. The Cover of Stars, the Shining Veil of the Creatrix, must be understood as a web of interacting energies. Manifest existence is a Journey meant to lead out of the Labyrinth. Whosoever breaks through the Barrier of Light and transcends the concealing cyclic Veils will behold the One, as the One will behold the Awakened One.
In ancient Egypt, the process of transformation was coupled with Osiris. Therefore the Mystic Pole Constellation was in those times given the name “Tomb of Osiris.” Osiris is caught in the Fivefold Bond, man himself, and one of the stages to be achieved is the necessary experience of Death-in-Life.
In Egyptian mysticism, Osiris was dismembered. Thirteen limbs have been recovered; however, the fourteenth one is missing. Here we encounter the important Polar number 14 again, expressed by Lovecraft’s 770 mystical steps leading the venturer out of the dream.
It is of further importance that the number 14 is also related to the letter “nun,” Babylonian “nunu,” that is, “fish,” designating the “whale” or the “water-being.” In both the Arabic and Hebrew alphabets, this letter occupies the fourteenth position, having the numerical value of 50. 50 is the number of Qaf, the World-Mountain in Sufism. 50 + 50 = 100, is like 5 to 5, Wing to Wing, designating the mystical flight of the Bird of Fire.
The number 14 refers to the mystical Fish, Saviour, identical with Oannes in Chaldean tradition, who, according to Berossos, came out of the “Red Sea” to bring culture, science, and the arts to the people of the Near-East. Oannes is depicted as a “fish-man.”
With the restoration of Polar tradition, the Fish can emerge from its Exile in Earth, and this planet will be changing its likeness. It is the Return of the Eight when the dust is cleared off and the ice caps at the Poles melt away in the heat of the Black Light.
The potential, the Seed Indestructible, will then arise. In Eddaic mysticism, we find analogously the concept of Ragnarok when the Solar Gods go to doom and their Order is extinguished. After that, a new sun will be born and a new cycle will have begun. The turn of times is in Eddaic lore also indicated by the root word ku. In this tradition, it stands for the Age of the Wolf, fierce-fanged and relentlessly tearing open the planet Earth. The Age of the Wolf means a change of order, connected with upheaval, turmoil, conflict, and war. This is what in alchemical tradition is meant by the Baptism of Fire on the terrestrial level. And Lovecraft writes in The Call of Cthulhu that the return of the Old Ones from their Exile under the waves is announced by events of global upheaval. But the terrestrial changes spoken of will also involve the reversal of the magnetic fields at the Poles.
Researchers yielded evidence that the North Pole is negatively charged and the South Pole positively charged. It has been discovered that the South Pole is emitting positive energies that run northward in spirals toward the equator. The grid of energies thus created covers the whole globe. In ancient Babylonia, this grid was depicted in the form of the Omphalos, a stone, covered with a net of lines.
The terrestrial energies run north clockwise into equatorial climes. There the directions of the energy-flux of Earth changes and continue north counter-clockwise. At the North Pole, the energies are eventually absorbed and emitted into space.
The magnetic fields at the Poles are subject to cyclic reversals. The fields are more or less stable during a period of 750,000 to 1 million years. But there are also short-term reversals, happening every 1,000 to 10,000 years. One of the major events connected with magnetic reversals was the last ice age. The approach of a cyclic turn is always accompanied by changes in global climate, natural catastrophes, tee, tonic upheavals, volcanic eruptions, and so forth. It is the opinion of several biologists that the amount and type of radiation reaching onto the surface of the planet are influenced by those polar magnetic changes. These periods can even lead to genetic mutations and moreover to the extinction and appearance of species. The ozone hole above the Poles visibly indicates that the fields are changing again. Some geophysicists say that a change of magnetic charging of the South and the North Pole is imminent. It is not known today how man, made pollution and other exploitative activities of the human species accelerate or slow down the process of magnetic reversal. The Canadian geophysicist R. J. Uffen maintains that these cyclic changes are simultaneous with the beginning of new evolutionary phases (L.B. Young, Earth’s Aura, Avon Books, New York, 1977; R. 0. Becker, Cross Currents, Jeremy P. Tarcher, Los Angeles, 1990).
The North Pole is emitting the energies that spiral up from the South Pole. Both Poles are energy centers or Earth-chakras, to be equated with the first and the seventh chakra in man. The North Pole marks the Threshold. When the magnetic fields reverse, the South Pole becomes negative and the North Pole positive, and the flux of energy then runs southward. That process is a global analog of individual transformation, as the Gateway-out-of-the Labyrinth is to be found in the South. This South is the Underworld or Bowels of Earth, being the lower abdomen in man. The flux of transforming energies streaming from the seventh chakra illuminates the Deeps or the Sacred South. This Gateway is the hidden key. It is the Eighth Plane which shall be elaborated in the context of the secret Eighth Chakra in man.
As Lovecraft wrote in The Dunwich Horror, written in 1928, Kadath is located in the ice desert in the South and the sunken isles of the Ocean hold stones whereon the seal of the Old Ones is engraved.
The South Pole that will become a geographical place of utmost importance during the coming changes of magnetic charging is one with the ice desert mentioned by Lovecraft. And in the ocean are sunken the isles of old. The cycle of space-time, the Weave of Isis, is the one Ocean in which the Seed Divine is dropped, caught in the sensory state of dreaming. The Poleward Pilgrim sets out for the place where the one Ocean meets the other. There the ice can melt; there in the divine South is the Stone and the Seal engraved. The Seal is the Arcanum of God, and only man-reborn can behold it.
Every new evolutionary cycle is introduced by a Baptism of Fire. After the Baptism of Water, the process of incarnation into the space-time exile, the Baptism of Fire follows, serving the purpose of cleansing requisite for Terra Nova. The planets to Saturn are the Way of the Seven. Transformation begins with passing the Mystic Pole, and the Pilgrim reaches into the Presence of the Eight. While the seven planets and the seven stars are the Ladder, the Eight is the Gateway.
The age of the Old Ones will come when the stars have come round again. There will be a Saturn, Uranus leap, during which the Guardian of the Threshold will awake from his sleep and be a Titan again. There will be the unleashing of Tiamat and her Allies on this planet. A new species will appear; it will be the time of the White Goddess, of the Whitened Stone, the Age of the Octopodes.
The message of Alchemy does not only refer to individual transformation and Resurrection but also to terrestrial, transformative events. Saturn is plumbum in Alchemy, being the Latin word for ‘lead.” The Seer of Our Lady alludes to the cyclic rising of the Black Sun writing that the “hecatomb,” that is, “mass dying or extinction,” will be completed when a tomb of lead and marble is discovered. The tomb is also called the tomb of a king “of Medusian design.” It is the king whose Diadem is in the Ashes. It indicates the imminent turn of times when the planet is cleansed and prepared for the appear, ance of a new species. The tomb is the place of Mystical Death-in-Life, individually and terrestrially. The “Medusian design” implies the return of the tentacled ones of the Primordial Pantheon.
In an alchemical work entitled “Livre de Crates” (in J. Evola, Die Hermetische Tradition, Bibliotheca Hermetica, Ansata, Interlaken, 1989) we read the lines: “When the White appears in the matter of the Great Work, life has conquered death, the King having resurrected, Earth and Water have become Air, the Rule of the Moon has come, the Child is born.”
The Saturn, Uranus leap is the Ascent of that which is fallen, the liberation of the Seed in man, the freeing of the sacred Fish. The return of the Old Ones is connected with the mystical number 8, the Octade. Therefore, as Lovecraft writes, they are octopodic in shape. The renowned French alchemist Langlet, Dufresnoy wrote summarizing (in J. Evola, Die Hermetische Tradition, Bibliotheca Her, metica, Ansata, Interlaken, 1989): “The Great Work of Alchemy is completed in eight days.” These eight days in Alchemy are identical with the Qiyamat or the “Eight Resurrections,” known in Sufi mysticism. The Arabic word “Qiyamat” is phonetically reminiscent of Tiamat. The Eighth Day brings the actual initiation into the Arcana of Creation. The Logos is implanted in man and is to resurrect eight times. Yet the forms of its choice are different each time; and the forms that people the Night are not those that people the Day. Al Wiriz writes in L Heras du Soleil, (Toledo, 1546) these cryptic words: “The Logos is likened to the Sun whose course cannot be seen at night, though it is always there.”
The Old Ones have a Messenger. His name in Lovecraft is Nyarlathotep. He is Messenger and Message in one. The Message is deep in man and must only be read. The Element of Spirit is the Element, brought to man by the Octopodic Ones. The analog of the Element of Spirit, the Fifth Element, can be found in the Agni of the Vedas, being the Fire Divine that is pushed into manifestation by the sacred Ram. Agni is a Sanscrit word, and the Latin word agnus, that is “lamb,” is originally derived from it. The “agnus dei” or “Lamb of God,” as integrated into Christian mysticism, is Agni, the Fire Divine. The Lamb of God or the Fire Divine is slaughtered for the foundation of the world, for it is descending into space-time. So the temporal is a sacrifice of the Eternal. Man must therefore make a reciprocal sacrifice.
The meaning of the 8 is eminent in Polar Tradition. It is likewise a sacred number in Sufism, and even Christian mysticism knows of it in the form of the concept of the Eightfold City of Light.
This City indicates the secret Gateway, the Eighth Chakra, and the Stone of God-the Element from the Stars or the “lapis ex coelis.” The opening of the secret Gateway-out-of-Space-Time is the Emergence of the Entity. This process is also called Transpolar Fusion since it takes place beyond the Threshold. When the Fifth Element arises, the Fish is being freed from the Net, the human individual is no more and has become like the Old Ones: 5 and 5 equals 10, and the first is the last, 1 is 8.
”After winter is summer,” Lovecraft writes in his important story The Dunwich Horror. The mystical Fusion brings the return of the Old Ones, their appearance on the surface of this planet again. And by the Auroral Winds, the dust of the two Orders entwined will be blown away.
The above words, published by Lovecraft as being part of the “Necronomicon,” indicate the meaning of the seasons in the Tradition. In the Ogham-Alphabet of the Celts, it is accordingly “illait” or the Young Eagle that acts as the Messenger and bringer of the Fire Divine. The Bird is born in the midst of bitter winter, and consequently, his color is white. In Alchemy the Eagle is the symbol of purified water and to be considered identical with Tiamat-Unleashed or the swelling of the mystical Tide. Synonymously, there is the ancient symbolism of the life-giving Milk, or the alchemical Lac Virginis, that flows forth from the sacred Tree. Indeed, on the Tree of Life, new fruit is growing right now in the revealing warmth of the Black Luminary rising towards a new zenith.
The Celts preserved much of their Polar origins. The name they gave to their Mother Goddess is Anna, meaning translated the Heavenly One. Anna is a word derived from the Indo-European root “an,” that is, “heaven.” The Sumerian Anu is the god of heaven, being the masculine counterpart of the goddess Anna, alternatively Ana. The name of the White Goddess is preserved in the Mesopotamian construction “ku-li-an-na” or the divine Fish-Man. Kutullu or Cthulhu is the Fish of Heaven awaiting his mystical ascent and the reinstallation of Polar Order.
The Creatrix or Tiamat, Isis is identical with the ancient goddess Urania, the letter “ura” being sacred to Urania-Venus in Hyperborea, an tradition. Urania’s mystical number is the 8, her symbol the octagram or octagonal design, as is evidenced in the case of Inanna, the Sumerian Creatrix, or Ishtar, Mother Goddess of Babylon. In Celtic mysticism, she is the Triple-Goddess or Queen Ura. In Solar Order the original, feminine word Urania was simply replaced by the masculine word Uranus.
“Ur” is the ancient sound of Earth. According to etymology, the name “Urania” can also be written “Ur-ana,” whereby we obtain the meaning of “Earth of Heaven” or “Heavenly Earth,” linking her up conceptually with the luminous land of Hurqayla in Sufism.
But “ur” is not only the sound and letter of Earth, it is also the sound of winter. In Hyperborean Polar tradition we, therefore, encounter the concept of the Winterly House of Death in which the Son of God awaits his Resurrection. With the beginning of summer, the “ur-sound” becomes an “ar-sound.” This change of sounds, which will be explained in detail later, is of momentous esoteric significance for the understanding of Polar Tradition.
Urania is Tiamat; the planets following her are Neptune and Pluto, the latter being her “youngest child,” as Lovecraft put it in “The Whisperer of Darkness.” Indeed, the energies of the Old Trinity will be governing Terra Nova.
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