POLARIA | Chapter-3.2. The Return

At Midnight A Virgin Mother

Brings forth this Shining Star:

At this miraculous moment,

We call God our Brother.

-The Peak of the Fire-Mountain

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“At the time, his shrieks were confined to the repetition of a single, mad word of all too obvious source: ‘Tekele-li! Tekele-li!'”

This is the closing phrase of Lovecraft’s significant story At the Mountains of Madness. The author knew too well of the meaning of these words that indicate Polar Tradition.

“Tekele-li, Tekele-li” are those mystical sounds that mark the Pilgrim’s way to Axial Being, a state of being also referred to as the White Isle of Isis. As shown before, Is is the sunken realm in Hyperborean tradition. The Is or the Sanctum of Is that can be found on the White Isle is surrounded by the Waters of Immortality.

Based on his deep esoteric understanding, Lovecraft compared that Isle, also spoken of in Celtic myth as the Island of Glas, with Antarctica. The South Pole is the place of the Holy Stone that has to be whitened, and it is also a terrestrial energy center equivalent to the first chakra in the human body. And as the Fisher, King is to be healed from an infirmity in the lower abdomen, the Gateway is to be found in the area of that chakra. Esoterically seen, the South Polar area is the sanctuary of Tiamat Unleashed. When the magnetic aggregates at the poles change, the Antarctic chakra will open up wide. The Fire is there buried deep, and when the ice-sheets melt away, a secret tradition will surface again. Antarctica is a white continent, a massive island, in whose wind-swept depths primordial mysteries are waiting to be unearthed.

The Isle of Isis is the Isle of Ice, the place of the Seed which has to be freed from the waters frozen in order to come into the Black Light of Resurrection.

Recently, a team of Argentinian and English geologists discovered a number of wide cracks in the shelf ice, one of which is stretching inland for about 70 miles. The Antarctic ice-cover is melting away. The frozen waters are cracking. A critical point in temperature seems to have been reached or even exceeded. More, over, huge icebergs, some of them the size of a small town, are drifting off and heading northward into warmer waters. Owing to that, the sea level is increasing gradually, and some island-states in the Pacific fear their submergence at some point in time. But not only in the Pacific have fears of a forthcoming new deluge been voiced by experts. On the basis of recent data from all over the world, German researchers have advanced a frightening scenario where many European cities, now located inland, will someday be coastal.

At the Mountains of Madness is one of Lovecraft’s most momentous tales. It is about a geological expedition to Antarctica, and in the course of events, a prehuman city buried in ice is explored by the two protagonists. It is the mountain-city of the Old Ones in whose honeycombed interior, annals of the terrestrial history of that race are discovered. After a series of stunning revelations, the two eventually flee the Mountains of Madness, their minds shaken pro­foundly by esoteric insight. Lovecraft understood the expedition’s report as a warning addressed to all those prepared to exploit Antarc­tica. It is hiding prehuman secrets whose uncovering will bring doom to the present civilization. The Baptism of Water is followed by the Baptism of Fire. But what did Lovecraft also write in his “Poetry and the Gods” (in H. P. Lovecraft – Dagon and Other Macabre Tales, Arkham House, Sauk City, WI, 1987): “Amidst the Chaos, prepared to herald his coming yet to conceal his arrival, even now toileth our latest-born messenger, in whose dreams are all the images which other messengers have dreamed before him.”

Lovecraft did not only speak of the “exoteric” melting of the poles, he also spoke in cabalistic terms of the “esoteric” melting of the ice in which the Seed is caught and from which it must be liberated. He linked the process of melting, now both esoteric and exoteric, with the decline and eventual cataclysmic ending of present human civilization.

Lovecraft made use of the aforementioned words Tekele-li, Tekele-li which at first sight seem mere reproductions from animal sounds. But they are not. Their meaning is thoroughly mystical and deeply Polar.

The construction “Tekele-li” can be derived from the ancient language of Kitchua of South Chile, whose origins can be traced back to the very beginnings of civilization. “Tekele-li, Tekele-li” is identical with “teke,teke.” In the Indian language, these words represent the mystical “White Shining Mountain” or the “Mountain of Two Summits,” which in turn, as we shall see in the course of this chapter, can be equated with the “Mountain of Isis.” This Mountain is one of the master keys to the understanding of Polar Tradition.

The esoteric-alchemical concept expressed by “teke-teke” is far, reaching. Teke stems from the huara,rune of the ancient Inca language (Rudolf Falb, Das Land der Inca, in seiner Bedeutung fur die Urgeschichte der Sprache und der Schrift, Leipzig, 1883, reprinted by Ravenna Presse, Herbstein, 1984.

The rune which is considered to be one of the oldest ideograms used by mankind can serve as a starting point for comparative mystical and mythological studies.

“Teke-teke” has its equivalent in Tahitan liturgy where we encounter ” tua-tua ” with the meaning of “Double-Serpent ” or “Double-Mountain,” in turn identical with “lua-tua,” that is, “double” or “twin.” In Greek there is analogously the “delta-delta” or the “rotation of the pyramidal design,” since “delta” can be under, stood as a symbol of “cyclic return.” Translated literally, “delta-delta” has the meaning of “serpent-serpent,” a configuration that is vocal, ly expressed by the serpent-sound “s” or “sch,” etymologically interchangeable with the “t-t,” the design of the mystical Two Pillars. In Hebrew, we find the serpent-sound preserved in “theth,” respectively, in the Egyptian name Seth.

The serpent-sound is conceptually one with the ancient wave ideogram. The double-wave “schi” refers to the moving snake or serpent. From “schi” or “sch” are ultimately derived all related constructions, such as the highly significant “si-si” or “schi-schi” that means rendered the “Knot of the Two Serpents.” In ancient Chinese mysticism, this combination or Knot of Serpents is expressed by the equivalent “sse-sse.”

“S” and “s” are “Is” and “Is” or “Isis.” The mystical “si-si-(ra)” is the reverse version of “Is-Is.” “Sisi” with a postfixed “-ra” is not only the Mother Goddess of ancient Sais, whose symbol was the sistrum, otherwise “schi-schi-ra,” that is, “shaking” in Sanscrit, but also has che meaning of “Shining Cover” or “Shining Veil.” This Shining Cover is the universe perceptible by the senses. It is the Veils of Isis or the cycle of spacetime.

We can find the “ra-sound” in “si-si-ra” in South American Indian language. It relates to “creative rotation” or “cyclic return,” and has survived even into later times when the Egyptians gave the name of Ra to their supreme sun-god. Ra can also be called the Spinning One, symbolizing the basic, cyclic reality of all Creation.

“Si-si-ra” is the Shining Veil and indicates the return of Isis, the White Goddess or the Return of Tiamat and the Unleashing of the Old Ones. As “si-si-ra” is the reverse of “is-is” it is an ancient Polar symbol of the Undoing of the Web of Manifestation or the sensory cycle of spacetime. The mystical Undoing achieved by experiencing Death-in-Life means the traversing of the Threshold, the Passage of the Pole and the Whitening of the Stone, the Wisdom of the 8reat Cyclic Relation of Worlds. “Si-si-ra” thus indicates the world-order of the White Goddess and the Gateway-out-of-the-Forest-of-Iron, to be recovered in the Bowels of Earth and in the lower abdominal area of the human body. The cyclic and creative rotation is exactly like that meant by the turning of the Silver Key in Lovecraft.  It means the lifting of the Veils of Isis or the Shining Cover. From “Si-si-ra” symbolizing the process of transformation, the word “si-su-tr” is derived. “Si-su-tr” is Ziusudra or “He, who Found Life” in Babylonian theology. It is the arch-ancient sought by Gilgamesh in his quest for Immortality and the forerunner of the biblical Noah. Noah is derived from the Chaldean “Nuah,” i.e. the Mother God, 3ess. Accordingly, Ziusudra is “Him, who Unveiled the Goddess.”

Because of the interchangeability of “s” and “t,” “si-si” can also be “ti-ti.” The word Ti-tan is derived from that ancient ideogram. Everything “titanic” therefore always refers to the Order of Yore and, essentially, to the Mystic Pole Tradition. “Si-si” can be translated as “si to si” alternatively “ti to ti” having its equivalent in Arabic where we find “qaf to qaf,” that is, “Mountain to Mountain” or “Wave to Wave.” When the arcane sun is shining between the Two Summits of Mystical Abundance, the Thrice-Great is born, being Messenger and Message. Then the Two-in-One have become One again.

In the language of the ancient Egyptians “si-si-ra” means translated “Veils of Isis.” The Veils are the senses or the Forest of Five in Pythagorean teaching. The Shining Cover is of a cyclic nature. It is the phase of repose of the One, and the sensory apparatus of human existence constitutes but the closed eye of the dreaming One. The lifting of the Veils and the leaving of space-time is the Opening of the Eye and the Beholding of the Presence of Daylight.

The Shining Cover or Veils are Spirit-energies manifested in the seventh cycle, and in Polar mysticism, it is one with the Robe of Fire, and one with the Golden Fleece, sought by the Argonauts. The task is to kiss the Sleeping Beauty, to unveil the Goddess, to undo her Web. Before transformation, the Web is the Black Stone; the indi­vidual is caught in it, succumbed to the illusions of the sensory for­est. In Babylonian mysticism there can be found traces of Polar Wis­dom. The Web of the Creatrix is symbolized by the Omphalos Mundi, a stone covered with a grid-pattern. This grid indicates the bonds of space-time, the status of man unawakened. In Egypt it is ram-headed Osiris who has to be freed from the Fivefold Bond. Man’s number is 5. In the ancient Vedas, the subterranean Fire Divine called Agni is always accompanied by the Ram or Aries in astronomy. In ancient times, Aries itself was called “Ku,” the Prince, the Leading-One of the Heavenly Flock (R.H. Allen, Star Names: Their Lore and Meaning, Dover, New York, 1963).

Ku is the force pushing the Spirit-Fire or the Fifth Element from the Stars out of the Bowels of Earth. Only if man can attain the Wisdom of the Veils, is it possible for him to find liberation and reach out and beyond the Labyrinth of Manifestation.
In the South American language of the Kiche-Maya, si-si-ra can mean “opened mouth,” conceptually identical with the German word esse. This “esse” can be traced back to the Hebrew jes, i.e. fire. When the mouth is opened, the mystical sounds articulated, there is stream­ing forth the truthful Breath of Life. This Breath is one with the Fire Divine, blowing in the Cave of Winds in the Deeps Illuminated.

Jesse, a word derived from jes, can be found in the name “Jesus,” translated “He of the Tribe of Fire.” But “Jesse” consists of the mys­tical sound-configuration “s-s.” Jesus was a priest of Isis, a represen­tative of ancient Polar lore, and his mission was to restore the Spir­itual Church.

Returning to the mystical sounds given in Lovecraft’s At the Moun­tains of Madness, we can say that “teke-teke” serves as the symbol of the Mystic Polar Mountain, the Undoing of the Web and of human transformation. It is said in Indian myth that the Shining Mountain was the sanctuary in the time of the Flood, and indeed it will be a sanctuary when the planet is being baptized by the Heavenly Fire.

The additional le-li in the word is an alternative version of lili, or, more ancient lullu, being Sumerian for “man.” So rendered completely, Tekele-li means “Man of the Mountain of Isis.” This Mountain is the Mountain of Two Summits, and the “man” refers to the transforming Pilgrim and his becoming the Third Summit or the Thrice-Great-One. We find the same word lili in the Babylonian name “Ku-lili,” or “Fish-Man,” one of the Allies of Tiamat in the Enuma Elish. Consequently, the Thrice-Great-One is the Fish-Man liberated from the illusions of manifestation. The liberated Ku is in original meaning one with the Perfection of the Khu in the religious practice of the ancient Egyptians (L. Spence, Egypt, Senate Studio Editions, London, 1994).

It must be noted that in the language of the South American Indians in the area around Lake Titicaca, the sound-combination “ti-ti” can also have the meaning of “lead.” In this ancient language, originally related to the primordial esoteric tongue of a Proto-Indo, European stem, we can find more words derived from the same combination each of which indicates Polar Tradition. There is a zi, translated “worm.” Particularly in Akkadian-Babylonian mysticism and common religious practice, Tiamat-Isis is often referred to as the Old Worm.

Furthermore, there should be mentioned a “tzi” or “red,” a color which is later explained in this chapter in the context of the Red Kings or Kings of Edom in Hebrew mysticism. And the Indian word si means “net” which, at this stage of our investigations, needs no further explanation.

Out of the opened mouth the Breath of Life is blown forth. This divine Breath is in Polar symbolism equatable with the creative rotation, identical with the number 3. “Teke-teke” or “delta-delta”, Otherwise the rotation of the three-sided pyramidal design, is a symbol of cyclic return. The letter “delta” occupies the fourth position in the alphabet indicating the fourth or the heart-chakra in man. This is the center where the Green Ray is received, where the Poleward Way, the Way of the Primordial Heart, begins.

The rotation of the pyramidal design is the return of the Order of Spirituality after the Baptism of Fire; it is the return of the Octade and the Old Ones. The planetary equivalent to this cyclic return is the Tiamatian Trinity or the Old Trinity. In Hyperborean tradition, it accordingly is the Threefold Breath, connected with the Third Eye, the sixth chakra in man. This sixth chakra corresponds to the lost Planet of Origins, the sixth plane between Mars and Jupiter. The sixth plane, the Guiding Light, is concealed. And in Revelations 17: 10 a mystery is transmitted in the words: ”And there are seven kings; five are fallen, and one is, “and” (cursive in original) the other is not yet come. . . . ”

When the Breath Divine is being blown in the subterranean Cave, winter is changing to summer, and the Seed Indestructible is freed from its icy bonds. And the Sacred South is being illuminated by the Black Light of Spirit.

The Immortality-bestowing Breath is connected with the opening of the mouth. When it is opened, as expressed in the esoterically related words esse and jes, the fiery divine utterance is possible. The concept of the Lost Word or the Watching Eye hovering above the pyramid originates in this symbolism.

The process of the opening of the mouth is related to the fifth chakra in the human body, in Polar lore corresponding to Mars. It is the energy center that enables man to articulate and communicate and at the same time is an indicator of his status between animal existence and divine being.

The Red Kings or the Kings of Edom mentioned evasively in Solar Hebrew lore for obvious reasons, are conceptually linked with the red-burning, esoteric Breath of Fire.

The word edom itself is etymologically identical with adorn, that is, “red,” in turn linkable with the Chinese “tzi,” as already mentioned above.

The Kings of Edom are the Red Kings. The word edom can also mean “red Earth.” In ancient Sanscrit, it is the word raga that depicts the esoteric meaning of the color red or the spectrally related colors like the all-important purple or scarlet. The verb “rag” means translated “to shine.” In Eddaic-Hyperborean tradition, we find the concept of “Ragnarok” or the Dusk or Twilight of the Gods, being a Polar symbolism of the cyclic end of Order Entwined. In a poem in the Elder Edda we are told by an unknown visionary (quoted in H.A. Guerber, The Norsemen, Myths and Legends, Senate Studio Edi­tions, London, 1994):

”A Sword Age, Axe Age–shields are cloven,

A Wind Age, Wolf Age–ere the world sinks.”

When the Winds of Fire blow heavily, the Bowels of Earth open, and the Order of Yore is restored. It is said in Eddaic lore that there “will be a “new sun” in the skies after the gods are all ashes. Indeed, the arcane, esoteric luminary rises between the Mountain of Two Summits to bring about Terra Nova. And from the ashes, the Golden Age is reinstalled.

The Hebrew word edom is furthermore etymologically connected­ with “adam,” that is, “man.” The Kings of Edom are therefore the Kings of Man. In relevant myth, they were the Kings before Solar Order was established, when our Sun was still unobscured. The Kings of Edom are connected with the back-side of the Hebrew Tree of Life, popular since the middle ages. However, what is scarcely illOWn is the fact that in Sumerian and subsequent Akkadian-Baby­lonian mysticism, from which most of Hebrew lore is derived, every­thing located on the “back-side” indicates “the future events” and “things to come.” During the New Year’s Festival in Babylon, sacri­ficial animals representative of the Allies of Tiamat and the Order of Yore to be burned in a ceremonial fire were kept in the back parts of the temple.

The Red Kings are from red Earth. They are the Titans to be reawakened. In the human body, the Gateway-out-of-Space-Time is to be discovered in the lower abdominal area or the first chakra that is traditionally depicted by the color red. But there is more. We know of terrestrial energy centers. Antarctica, the ice-covered con­tinent, is the lower abdomen of Earth. It is the Sacred South.

In earth history, Antarctica and Australia were connected with each other at one stage of continental evolution forming primordial Gond­wanaland. In the course of the drift of continents across the globe, also subject to cyclic, magnetic changes at the poles, large masses of lands were formed, broke apart, and rearranged over millions of years.

One hundred and fifty million years ago, in the Jurassic period, Gondwanaland and Laurasia formed two huge land masses and covered the young planet. In mid-Cretaceous times, about 100 million years ago, Antarctica and Australia were still one continent, though Africa and America had begun drifting off toward their present loca­tions on the globe.

About 50 million years ago Antarctica, still ice-free then, and Australia began to drift apart. By that time, another huge mass of land, India, had broken off from the super-continent and was situ­ated somewhere in the equatorial area.

Antarctica and Australia drifted apart only in recent times, com­pared to the temporal spectrum of earth history. The actual glacia­tion of the austral terra firma began about 25 million years ago in the Oligocene era, a subdivision of the Tertiary period. Some inland parts of Antarctica, however, glaciated only much later, a process contemporary with the appearance of man in the current shape some 2 or 3 million years ago.

Due to the fact that Antarctica and Australia are sister-conti­nents, considerable parts of rock-formation are therefore identical.

It is now remarkable that Ayers Rock in central Australia, sacred to the Aborigines, is a “red monolith.” Antarctica and Australia can be regarded as being one in esoteric meaning. Both represent the first chakra of Earth. Beneath the glacial void of Antarctica, there is a hidden land of red rock. There are the mystical Redlands; and when they are lighted by the Aurora Australis, the Earth can embrace the Wisdom of Old again.

The Kings of Edom is a name for the Titan race that once walked the Earth. They are the Kings of Red Earth or the Sons of the Mys­tical Aurora. Only recently in geological history, Antarctica was covered with ice. In Cretaceous times Antarctica was a green con­tinent. Indeed, the land was in blossom then. In central Australia, there is a red monolith, and beneath the ice-sheet of the austral void, there is the red soil.

The Mystical Aurora can be conceptually equated with the Pur­ple Robe or Robe of Fire. It is the Robe of Esoteric Kingship in which the priest of the Isis, Jesus of the Tribe of Jesse at one time, is attired. Purple is an auroral color and implies the esoteric Aurora Borealis or Australis. Jesus was a bringer of the Fire Divine, an embodiment of Polar Tradition in biblical times. The Aurora is coupled with the alchemical “rubedo,” the Divine Fire to be recovered in Earth.

It must be pointed out at this point that, though mostly consid­ered as such, “Jesus Christ” is not only a proper name. While “Jesus” depicts tribal descendancy in connection with the lore of Isis, the word “Christ” symbolizes “Christhood” or a high degree of initia­:ion. The word christ is identical to the Greek christos, that is, the Anointed One,” traceable to the Sanscrit ghrita, i.e. “clarified butter” or “ghee,” being the ancient Polar symbol of clear spiritual light or the Aurora Borealis. In the Vedas, we are told that Agni has taken residence in an ocean of ghee. The “Anointed One” is a title given to the individual prepared for self-sacrifice when the ego is offered to God. The priest of the Mother Goddess, with a high degree of esoteric insight, equivalent to “Atma-yajna” in Vedic teaching, undergoes crucifixion. In the light of Polar-oriented shamanism, the crucifixion can be seen as a ritual symbolizing the transcendence of the secular world, being a self-wounding ceremony. This kind of ceremony is practiced in the Bon religion to the present day. The process of leaving the secular world is sometimes called Temple-Sleep, serving high-degree initiation into the mysteries of Creation. In our context, it must be mentioned that the ceremonies relating to Templ-S­leep are performed at or around Midnight. Here we encounter again the esoteric meaning of Midnight, the time when the esoteric Black Sun can shine. Midnight marks the temporal division of the 24 hour-cycle. In Egyptian tradition, it is at the twelfth hour of Dark­ness that Osiris is approaching the last gateway of the Underworld before he can eventually re-emerge into the Light of Spirit.

This division of the cycle of the exoteric day is exactly what is meant by the alchemical symbol of Salt, being a circle divided into halves by a horizontal line. The Light of the Spirit is the Salt of Life, indeed. It is at and around Midnight that initiation can take place; and Midnight is like Mother-Night, the time of the Goddess.

Fundamentally connected with the Pole Tradition is the Cross, the symbol of the Implantation of the Logos into Matter. Jesus was a living symbol thereof, Envoy of the Logos. The Cross symbolizes matter, the four elements, and the One of the Tribe of Fire the Fifth, the Quint-essence. Therefore, Jesus is depicted as being in the mid­dle of the Four, himself symbol of the Pole to be achieved.

The Cross is the Spinning Cross of the Heavens, the Cross of Our Lady. The Four are set around the Fifth like the Chariot is drawn by four horses. The Fifth is the One, and the Fifth is their secret source; the Baptism of the Fifth Age is preceded by Four Ages. Indeed, the symbol of the Cross is older than mankind, for it is the Logos that was there before. The Seed is the First, and Creation springs from its potential. Jesus symbolizes the Axis because he is the Son of God; and in its radiating splendor, watchful from the beginning, he beheld the Sun of God, for he was sent forth from it.

Particularly in Asia, in the Himalayas and Trans-Himalayan regions, and in the desert reaches of the Gobi, once a fertile plain, we can trace manifestations of the Mystic Pole Tradition and the lore of the White Goddess under different names. The ancient, pre, Buddhist Bon religion is to be named here as essentially Polar. Bon is a shamanistic society that in the course of time became intermingled with Lamaism. Central to this ancient religious system is the mystical Axis Mundi or the World-Mountain, and we can say with assurance that Bon concepts were assimilated by Buddhism in which this esoteric concept is crucial, too.

Bon has a water-deity named Chulha, derived from the ancient root ku, identical with Cthulhu or Kutullu. In religious symbolism Chulha, also “Chulha varuna,” is depicted blue on an eight-petaled lotus. There are usually seven snakes rising over its head. He is the King of Medusian design. It should be mentioned that the number of the “klu,” or Spirit-Kings of the Water-Realm, is eight.

In Bon religion, we find the Goddess of Water bearing the related name “Chu (‘i) lha mo” or “Chu (‘i) lha mo mamaki.” Her attribute is the snake-snare. The Goddess of Heaven is depicted in her aspects corresponding with the four directions. As the Goddess of the East, she is white and holding the Mystic Pole Constellation of the Great Bear; as the Goddess of the South, she is blue, carrying the lightning, and indicating the Sacred South. As the Goddess of the West, she is red, carrying the banner of victory in Bon symbolism; and as the Goddess of the North her color is green, and she is holding a rainbow (R. Nebesky-Wojkowitz, Oracles and Demons in Tibet, s’Gravenhaage, Netherlands, 1956).

Ancient and remote Bon is Polar and has preserved a legacy dating back to the times when Titans walked this planet. It is the Sight of Darkness Illuminated that the Poleward Pilgrim must seek. Sometimes the Black Sun or Midnight Sun is called the “illuminatio matutina,” being the Auroral Light that can be beheld in primordial splendor when the King can claim back his spiritual Robe of Kingship.

Spiritual kingship is bestowed when the Eighth Plane is reached, when the secret Gateway is opened to let flow freely the energies of the Old Trinity. Only man transformed is suffered to see the Old Ones. They are Shepherds of Eternity. In the very moment, no longer to be calculated by temporal measure, the Wisdom-Knowledge of the Creatrix is attained. The Two have fused into One again, highest spiritual unity is achieved on the Summit of the Deeps. The Mes­senger becomes the Message. Life has transformed itself into anoth­or state of existence.

Urania-Uranus follows Saturn, the Guardian of the Threshold. The word Uranus is derived from the root ur, which appears in Mesopotamia in the prominent city names “Ur” and Uruk,” both recollections of Polar Tradition in a Solar society. “Ur” is the midwinter-sound for “Earth.” In summer this sound is transformed into “ar,” such as exemplified in the word ark and the name aryan.

“Ar” is the reverse of “ra,” the mystical sound representing cre­ative rotation and cyclic return. This rotation, the “ra,” creates the “ar,” respectively, one and the same process of spiritual blossoming is expressed thereby. So “after winter is summer,” as Lovecraft wrote in an extract taken from the Necronomicon and published in The Dunwich Horror.

As said before, the ancient root-word ur can be found in “Uruk,” the name of the city where the Akkadian-Babylonian Epic of Gil­gamesh is set, originally copied from older sources dating back to Sumerian times. The Epic is a Semitic description of the process of human transformation. Not only is the city name linked with the Mother Goddess Urania, but also can “Uruk” be read “kuru” or “kur-u.”

Kur is the Sumerian word meaning “stone” or “mountain,” “u” being the mystical winter-sound. In Indo-European Persian, it is kuh(ha), phonetically akin to culha. Kur-u can be translated as “Stone of Win­ter” or “Black Stone,” being Tiamat-Bound. The word is akin to “Kur-kulu,” or Caer Colur, the Sinister Castle of Arianrhod.
A comprehensive study of the Epic of Gilgamesh would exceed the scope and purpose of this book. So just some examples may be given here.

On his journey to reclaim Immortality, the hero reaches the moun­tain where the sun rises, esoterically one with the Mountain of Two Sum­mits of the Mystical Aurora. Gilgamesh arrives at the place that is guard­ed by a fierce Scorpion-man. That mystical being does not only indicate the Allies of Tiamat, since in the Enuma Elish the Scorpion-man or “Gir-tab-lullu,” is given in the list of the Allies of Tiamat and the Order of Yore, but it does moreover clearly indicate the zodiacal position of Scorpio, occupying the seventh position. This sign marks the arcane entrance to the plane of Ophiuchus, the thirteenth sign, crucial to Polar Tradition, to be dealt with later on in detail within the context of Love­craft’s Yog-Sothoth. The thirteenth sign of the zodiac is directly con­nected with transformation and the secret Gateway-out-of-Space-Time.

In the Epic, Gilgamesh sets out for finding Ziusudra, a sage of old, who has found Immortality and lives in the Land of the Living. The name “Ziusudra” is identical with “Sisira,” symbolizing the Undoing of the Web as explained earlier in this chapter. Eventually, Gilgamesh can succeed in reaching the mystical Arcadian climes where stands the Tree whose Fruits are precious stones. The Land of the Living is the place where those residents who could whiten the Stone. The Tree in Gilgamesh is the Axis Mundi or the Polar Mountain. The Edinic location itself is identical with the Mesopotamian Arallu or the Land of the Dead . This Land of the Dead is what was originally meant by Paradise. For only those who experience Death-in-Life can resur­rect and become immortal.

Arallu is the Babylonian Underworld. It is the subterranean divine place where the Pillar stands, around which the heavenly spheres revolve. Arallu is the Shadowless Land of the esoteric, black-shin­ing luminary. Arallu is R’leyh and becomes Allara when it has emerged from its oceanic exile. Alla-ra is the Place of Resurrection, the City of the White Stone.

The city where the Black Stone stands is called Ur, sacred to Ura­nia. She can grant access to both the Arcana of Heaven and Earth, the Shadowless Land beyond the Barrier of Light and of the Web of Manifestation. For that very reason, the Celtic word Uiria given to the Creatrix means “Goddess of the Borders.” Wisdom of the Bor­ders is White Knowledge, knowledge illuminated of the Two Oceans, one being the Ocean of Night or manifestation, the other being the Ocean of Day or Eternal Spirit.

Urania, Uranus is the eighth planet in the solar system. Its energies are connected with the Eightfold City of Light, spoken of in early Christian and Hebrew mysticism (R. Robert Graves, The White Goddess, Faber & Faber, London, 1961). This City is a recollection of ancient days when Solar and Polar Orders were one, and the Titan, Gods were in loving embrace with their Titan-Goddesses. In this Spirit-City the Word of the Messenger dwells. However, with the Exile, the Word, otherwise the Wisdom of the Eight, was lost to mankind.

In ancient Chinese mysticism, whose concepts are largely derived from Taoist teachings, we know the term “wan-pa” or the Forgetting of the Eight that brought disaster and, doom to mankind. The Chinese word Kua depicts the principle of the Octade. Both kua and pa mean 8. As a derivation of that, we find the mythical Chinese emperor named “P’an-ku.”

In Sumerian, a language held sacred by the Semitic Akkadians and Babylonians for obvious reasons, there is a kua as well, having the crucial meaning of “Fish” or “Water, Being.” Kua is found in Ku(a)tullu (m) otherwise Cthulhu, the one sleeping and dreaming in his House of Stone beneath the waves in Lovecraft’s Primordial Pantheon. The Way of the Waters is the Way of the Fish, and it is the sacred way toward the reconciliation of opposites. In Lovecraft, we find an allusion that Polar Tradition is connected with Taoist lore, for in his “Whisperer in Darkness” we are told of the truth veiled in the immemorial allegories of the Tao.

Kua is the Chinese hoa, applied to the two horns of the ram whose mission is to push the heavenly Fire out of Inner Earth. In the Spirits retinue, there is always the Horned One. It is the Agents of the Tiamatian Trinity. In addition to the explanations given on “teke­-teke,” hoa is also derived from the primordial huara-rune.

The words hoa and kua can, in Chinese mystical lore, be equated with “Kuan-yin,” a name given to the Palace of Nine Stories of Hsi Wang Mu, whose fundament is octagonal. “Kuan-yin” is the Holy Place, the Spiral Castle of the Goddess. In this Spinning Fastness of “Kua-ra,” the Fisher-King lives a life in pain. He is wounded. And only in these palatial reaches can he be healed from his infirmity.

According to phonetic rules the sounds “k” and “t” are inter, changeable. So Kua-ra can be also read and spoken Tua-ra (M. Yiueller, Vorlesungen uber die Wissenschaft der Sprache, II, 183-). Kua and Tua can also be tur and kur. We find, for example, tua in the name of the tribe of the originally Indo-European Tuareg, otherwise tua-reg or tua-rag. Tur is, of course, identical with Thor or Tyr in Eddaic lore. In German tor means “door.” But also dur is derived from this ancient root word. Dur is, for example, found in du-ra as in the English word “du-ration” meaning “period of time.”

Kur means “stone” and “-ra” depicts the creative rotation requisite for the return of spiritual world-order. “Stone” and “Earth” are interchangeable, so “Kur-ra” is the Earth, the spinning Black Stone in stellar space. As “k” and “t” are synonymous, we can read “Tur-ra” or “Tar-ra,” employing either the winter or summer sounds. So the winterly “Tur-ra” becomes the summerly “Tar-ra.” “Tur-ra,” alter, natively “tor-ra,” means spinning door equatable with the mystic concept of the double-headed Ianus, husband of Cardea, Goddess of the Hinges in Greek mythology. From tar-ra there is also derived the Latin ter-ra, that is, Earth. The Earth is thus to be conceived of as a spinning door itself, for it is the place in this cycle where Resurrection takes place, where the cyclic planes meet, and Wisdom, Knowledge of the Two-Oceans-in-One can be achieved.

Lovecraft’s City of Ulthar mentioned in the “Cats of Ulthar,” but also in other stories relating to his dreamquest of the World-Mountain Kadath, is another example of Phonetic Cabala. According to Lovecraft, it is a town where cats are forbidden to be killed. In Celtic, Ireland cats were symbolical of the Queen of Heaven and Earth. In Polar mysticism, this species is linked up with the moon and silver.

The word Ulthar reads Althar, or al-tar, if pronounced in English. As we will explain later on, “al” is another ancient root-word indicating individual and global transformation. Altar can therefore be translated as “City of Summerly Return.” The fields of Althar are those of Mystical Harvest.

In Lovecraft’s “White Ship,” also belonging to his dreamquest, related body of works, we encounter another word, that of “Xura,” the name given to the “City of Pleasures Unattained.” This name is identical with “Kua-ra” or “Ku-ra,” as “x” and “k” are also interchangeable. Furthermore, “x” is the ancient tau-cross, in Chinese called “tao.” Tao is not only the cross of creation but also the word for “island.” Another Chinese word depicting the “land in the waters” is “xu.” Consequently, “Xura” implies the leaving of the Labyrinth of Illusions and the Ascent of the World-Axis, the creative rotation and rebirth, as well as the Island of the Blessed, surrounded by the Waters of Immortality. But there is another reading possible: “X-ura.” Here it is “ura,” being the Hyperborean sound of Earth; and ”x” designates cyclic return and the rotation around the World-Axis. ”Xura” can be rendered “Spinning Cross of the Heavens,” “Spinning Island,” or “Spinning Heavenly Earth.” In “Xura” we have another example of the many-layered nature of the Lovecraft Code.

The above story is thoroughly alchemical. Lovecraft describes himself as the “Keeper of the North Point,” which I think at this stage of our esoteric investigations requires no further explanation.

Further in the story, we are told by the narrator that on an “ocean that is older than the mountains,” the White Ship sails along “from the south.” Exoterically the south stands for the Austral Isle, the Isle of the White Goddess. As explained earlier, it is the terrestrial energy center that is esoterically equivalent to the first chakra wherein dreams the untransformed potential or Seed Indestructible. The Ship itself is the Argo or the White Ship of the Argonauts employed on their quest of the Golden Fleece and the Wisdom of the Stone. We can clearly see how subtle Lovecraft is, in “Dream, quest of Unknown Kadath,” where it is said: “Carter went to sleep at midnight, and rose in the glow of a young morning, marking that the sun seemed farther south than was its wont.”

The Wisdom of the Stone is the successful transformation of human energies. Earth is the place of man’s spiritual evolution, being man’s dream city or City of the Night, enveloped by the darkness of sensory perception. And only by transformation can man awake and turn this City of the Night into the divine Daytime Plane. It is the individual’s task to recover the entrance to the Palace of Eight Pillars in order to heal the wounded Fisher, King. Rex quondam, rex-que futurus- Once King and King again to be.

Entering the Palace in the Bowels of Earth means taking off the Garment that Hides, for the venturer must be prepared for the Mystical Bath. Solve et Coagula.

In Alchemy the Dragon is the cleansing force, the force that pushes itself towards its own Death. It is the force that cleanses but also destroys. Therefore slaughtering the Dragon ere you are bereft of your chance of Death.

The Dragon goes to ashes in a Firestorm. In this it is purified finally, for Fire is like the Door.

Thus as the individual must undergo the Baptism, there will be a Firestorm raging across the planet in times to come. Everything impure, left in a state of untransformed existence or unable to transform, will undergo transformation instantly. This, of course, means physical death, as the unprepared individual, still caught in matrical dreaming, cannot cope with the liberating energies. The task is to use these energies which are potentialized in man for transformative purposes only, and while experiencing Death-in-Life, the Pilgrim is awakening, shaking off the bonds of material existence. No longer will he be fastened to matter with the Iron Nails that are three by number.

On this planet, there will be an Island of Refuge as there has been one before. This will be there for those whose Way has led them to the Pole and further. Earth is the place where liberation takes place. For a few there will be Immortality, for others, there will be but disaster and death.

Death is one of the driving forces of evolution. In the Arcane Work of the One, it is like Love. God is the Greatest Alchemist of All, and Love is a Gift, so is Death. St. Gilles says that Love and Death are Twins in Destiny. Indeed the one cannot be without the other. With iron bands, man is held to the Wheel of Life which is the Wheel of Incarnations. As Dante and Virgil scale the Mountain step-by-step, the Wheel reveals itself to be the Mill Stone of Creation life-by-life.

The place where the Mill Stone stands since the beginning when Cosmos was created can be called Kua-ra. In meaning it is one with Kuan-yin in Chinese mythography: it’s origins, however, are much older. The Chinese Palace of Immortality is the residence of the Goddess of Mercy. The Goddess of Mercy is Isis, the White Stone, the World Unwoven, the Gate Opened. It is the Holy Place for all those, who, like Ziusudra in Mesopotamian myth, found Life Eternal.

The originally Chinese “Kuan-yin” was renamed later in history the “Kingdom of the Holy Hiarchas,” which Apollonius of Tyana is said to have visited in the first century Christian Era. He was allegedly in possession of an old map in which there was shown the exoteric way to the mystical center.

Also the wise Laotse, one of the founding fathers of Polar Taoism, is said to have gone to this place in the sixth century A.D after his mission had been accomplished.

Taoism is one of the most ancient Polar teachings. The allegories of the Tao Teh Ching, the illuminated writing on the “Island of the Blest,” has in it a mysticism predating the appearance of man in his contemporary form. The Way of the Tao is the Way to the Island, implying the Way of the Mystical Heart.

Chinese Taoism and Western Alchemy are closely related. It is the essential teaching of how to stop the flux of the generative fluid in man. Instead of being discharged for procreation, matrical repro­duction, it is retained in the body for the sole purpose of purifica­tion and transformation.

And it is therefore in Taoism that the Gateway-out-of-Space­Time is spoken of as the Cavity of Life, “ming ch’iao.” This Cavity is the Cavern of Winds to be found in the Underworld. “Lower tan t’ien under and behind the navel” is a term often used to designate the Eighth Chakra. It is also referred to as the “Ocean of Vitality” or the “Field of the Elixir.”

The Whitening of the Stone is the Opening of the Gate to Life, called “ming men” in Chinese. In Taoist Alchemy, the lower abdomen is called the House of Water, while the Heart is the House of Fire. And it is the Pilgrim’s task to drive down the Fire into the Water. Lu K’uan Yii comments on that writing (Lu K’uan Yu, (Charles Luk), Taoist Yoga, Samuel Weiser, Inc., York Beach, Maine, 1973):
… and the water below should be scorched by fire to become steam and be lifted to wipe out passion in order to achieve the stable equi­libirum and harmony of fire and water.”

The driving down of the energies is also referred to as the Cold Storage Technique, the transformative process during which the light of positive spirit, becoming manifest in the head, must be direct­ed down into the lower abdomen until Vitality, the actual Elixir, starts vibrating. Then, the Pilgrim should imagine this Elixir Vitae going up and down in the axial channel between the Heart and lower abdomen until the transformed energies slip back into the tan t’ien. This is called the Entry into the Cavity Within a Cavity, the Circle of White Light, being the revelation of the nature of the self. The Fish is freed from its spatial-temporal bonds, and the Heart is now void of passion. The Circle of Light is the White Stone, the Immor­tal Foetus in Taoism, the Seed Indestructible, the Wing Recovered. Vitality achieved, the Elixir prepared, the Light soars up to the Orig­inal Cavity of the Spirit and manifests brightly between the eyes. This is the Leap into the Void, the Re-Absorption into the One, as elucidated later in this book.

It must be pointed out that the tan t’ien is also called the North­ern Sea, located in the South of the human body. The Sea of the North is the Sea of Ice, and it is the Frozen Waters in which the Seed is caught, and only when these Waters are melting in the illuminat­ing Fire sent down in the mode of the Heart, is Immortality bestowed.

The esoteric-alchemical purpose of the Pilgrim is the annihila­tion of the illusory opposites, the union of Sun and Moon, male and female, metal and wood.

Humanity is right now undergoing its mystical winter. The time of global changes is nigh. And with these changes, interactive on various planes, there will come the Twilight of Solar Order which was cyclically estranged from its Source. And those who have found Life will be able to establish the Order of Yore again.

The time of global changes is what in ancient Norse mysticism is called Ragnarok. It is the Dusk or Twilight of the Gods when forces unguessed are unleashed. It is said in Hyperborean lore that the frost-giants will rise to the sound of the Giallar-horn; the wolves, once fed in the Wood of Iron, will be let loose and ravage the Earth. The Winds of Fire will indeed be life-giving to those ready to tra­verse the bridge of mystical death.

The Shadows are waving in the Winds, coming up from the Bowels of Earth; the air is filled with the Scent of Revelation. Now, it is Dusk, and when there is Dusk no more, the Wood of Iron will be felled. Now, it is Twilight, and in the Winterly Lair, the Sun is awaiting its rise across the Vault of Heaven towards a New Zenith. A new world will be delivered: Corona Vitae. This is now Crepesculum, the time before Sunrise, the Time of Awakening, the Time of Preparation.

The skies are beginning to be flooded with auroral colors, and under the exoteric sun, a planet is changing its likeness. Day after Day: Panta Rhei – All things flow from no beginning to no end.

Luzifer is the Fallen One climbing the World-Mountain and dethroning the Minotaurian man-god. Luzifer is the Purple One, he is attired in the Robe of Mystical kingship. In Revelations 22:16 it is said: “I Jesus have sent mine angel to testify unto you these things in the churches. I am the root and offspring of David and the bright and morning star.”

The Mystical Aurora is connected with the rising of the Morning Star. As we are told in ancient Pyramid Texts, it is exactly that Star that accompanies the departing Pharaoh to the Island of the Blest. The Auroral Star is often described as a green falcon, in symbolism one with Horus. And green is the color of the Mystical Heart in Polar Tradition.

The Morning Star is coupled with the Robe of Kingship in which the priests of Isis are attired. This Robe is linked up with the original meaning of the Dove.

The word purple (purpur in German) is derived from the Hebrew tur, that is, “dove.” Therefore we find the White Dove as the symbol of the Seed Awakened, while the Black Crow implies the Threshold.

The word tur-tur means “tur-tle dove,” since the Hebrew tur can be translated “to go in circles;” synonymously, tur-ra expresses the love dance of the Dove.

Tur is identical with tor or the Indo-European god “Thor.” Tor or dor, otherwise dor, relates to “period” or “cycle.” Dor is also identical with the Babylonian dur, as can be found in “Dur-an-ki,” the Alliance of Heaven and Earth. Babylon was the Door to God, the exoteric “Dur-an-ki.” Esoterically, Dur-an-ki means the Twofold Door, implying the double-faced god Ianus. The Wisdom, Knowledge of the Dur-an-ki embraces the World Woven and the World Weaving One or the Two-in-One.

Ianus in turn is Thor, otherwise Tyr. He is the ruler of the energetic grid of stellar energies called zodiac. In Greek mythology, Ianus is the husband of Cardea, the Hinge of Heavens, terrestrially situated in the polar regions. As we shall see in the next chapter, Cardea is one with Arcadia, the Pelasgian Land of the Living, indicated in Lovecraft by the name of Arkham.

Tur, dur and tor have become synonymous since the “door” usually consists of “two wings.” The Dove has two wings, too. Man, with this cycle of manifestation fallen into the Web of space-time, has but one wing. He is the Eagle that cannot fly until he transforms and resurrects. But he is also the Wounded King in the Grail Castle.

In the process of transformation, after having transcended the Threshold, man becomes like Garuda, the Bird of Fire, or Fair-Feath­ered One in Vedic lore.

The Bird of Fire brings the Fifth Element, the Spirit of the Cre­ative Eternal One. In Mesopotamian mysticism, the bird’s nest is situated on the Mountain Sabu, a word that is an anagram of Absu or Apsu, that is, “abyssos” or the “water-deeps” in Greek. In Love­craft, Cthulhu’s tomb at R’leyh is sunken under the waves. It is in the Deeps or the lower abdomen of man. In the Babylonian Cre­ation mysticism, it is reported that Tiamat and Apsu once were lovers. It was the time when the Light of Wisdom was the illumina­tion of the Deeps.

In a tract, anonymously written in the middle ages (reprinted in A. E. Waite, The Hermetic Museum, Weiser, York Beach, ME, 1994), the Stone to be found is called the Sophie Hydrolith or the water-stone, implying the location of the bird’s nest in the Apsu. The Stone is in the Waters, and the Waters of Spirit are the Element of the Fish. In Alchemy, these are the Mercurial Waters, marking the beginning and end of the Great Work. Indeed it is the Worm that gnaws that grows to a strong Bird, Our Phoenix, Our Pelican. And is not the flutter of its Wings like the flutter of the Sails of Our Heavenly Ship?

In Alchemy the Creatrix is often referred to as the Wife of the Philosopher. Basilius Valentinus writes in his “Aurelia Occulta Philosophorum” of the Goddess of Beauty as the Woman of the Sea.

At the center of Fons Perennis, the Tree of Life, she is the Keep­eress of the Arcanum. Indeed, as Zosimos says: “Without water there is nothing.” The water is the Holy Water of the Abyssos, the Aqua Permanens, or Aqua Viva. It is also the Mare Nostrum or Mare Mag­num Philosophorum. In the Vas ex coelis there is Aqua Viva, and life emerges from it transformed like the splendid Bird of Resurrec­tion at Heliopolis. (in J. Evola, Die Hermetische Tradition, Bibliothe­ca Hermetica, Ansata, Interlaken, 1989).

Space-time is the Ocean of Night and the Spirit-Vistas are the Ocean of Day, being Light and Light, though Light is not like Light. Bernard von Treviso puts the process of mystical essencification thusly:

“It is the Fountain that brings Death if its waters are given way; however, the King who knows how to bathe in them will gain power over all things.”

This alchemical process, the experience of Death-in-Life, often depicted as the bathing King and Queen, is also called the “mors philosophorum,” the death of the alchemist. As is said in Alchemy, it is not the body that is dissolved leaving the soul, but the soul that centers in its Spirit-nature and frees itself from its corporeal bonds.

In the very moment, the Black Light is seen inwardly, the Ku or the Fish will be liberated. In Alchemy we can in this context read of the Fish of the Cosmopolite, called Echineis or Oursin. Oursin in turn is an appellation of the seven-star constellation of Ursa Minor. This Fish caught in the Net of Light is the Wounded King. It is the King that awaits his Resurrection into the Light of Lights. The Fisher-King suffering from an infirmity in the lower abdominal area is to be considered one with the Limping One in esoteric sym­bolism. The Limping One is Son of the Mystical Aurora, the Bird of Fire that lost his one wing or “el” while falling into manifesta­tion. The recovery of his other “el” would make him fly again, com­pleting the secret measure of light. The word el is contained in ‘Elysian Fields,” another name for the Land of the Living. The wings stand for the secret of light and for the crossing of the Barrier. One wing means being caught in the Web of Isis. Only two wings bring about its Undoing.

Man’s task is to lift all Veils and to attain mystical Axiality. The essencification is the eventual liberation of Osiris from his Fivefold Bond. Five is the number symbolical of man, who is destined to free himself from himself. Freeing one’s self from oneself is the Fusion, the Emergence. Whilst being liberated man is guided by Virgil, the Heavenly Messenger. He is also called the Witness in Heaven, as termed in (H. Corbin, The Man of Light in Iranian Sufism, Omega Publications, New Lebanon, New York, 1994). Zosimos, a gnostic and Hellenistic alchemist refers to the Witness as the Adam Cad­mon, or “anthropos,” the Man of Light.

The Fusion is the Mystical Marriage, and therefore Adam is her­maphroditic, and the Awakening is the Mystical Putrefaction of the Prima Materia or Matrix, chosen by God for the creation of man. From Chaos to Cosmos, which is not like beginning and end.

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