The Fire creates itself and feeds on Fire,
And it is the Child of the Fire;
Therefore it must return to Fire,
So that it does not fear the Fire.
-Nicholas Flame!
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The Old Ones are the star-headed ones in Lovecraft. Theirs is the starry wisdom, Wisdom-Knowledge, and theirs are the Deeps Illuminated. They are the Keepers of the White Stone, and representing the sacred Octade, their shape is octopodic. Their coming is announced with the Mystical Aurora.
The Pole Tradition is “of ” the heavens and it is “from” the heavens. It is the Wisdom of the Fifth Element, the Eternal Spirit that becomes manifest in space-time.
(Note: In Sufism, the Fifth Element is called “rukn,” alternatively called “the fifth angle of the edifice.” It is the “Cornerstone,” the “Angle of Angles” in the World-Temple of God, or “rukn alarkan.” The esoteric concept of the Cornerstone is related to the “Head” and the lost “Apex of the Pyramid.” It is also essentially identical with the “Lost Word,” buried in man during the Fall, into-Space-Time.)
The Fifth Element is Sulphur-Ammonia or the Quintessence in Alchemy, to be identified with the “lapsit exillis,” a designation introduced by Wolfram von Eschenbach in his Grail romance Percival, in which we are told:
They take their life from a Stone Which is most pure
Perhaps you do not recognize it: It is called the Lapsit exillis.
As a bard drawing from Celtic tradition, von Eschenbach was a phonetic cabalist. The construction “lapsit exillis” is a code of different meanings.
It is the “lapis lapsus ex coelis,” “the Stone fallen from Heaven,” while an alternative reading is “lapis exilis” which according to the “Rosarium Philosophorum” (R. Guenon, Fundamental Symbols- The Universal Language of Sacred Science, Quinta Essentia, Cambridge, 1995) designates the “Philosophers’ Stone,” being exactly the same as the “Chintamani-Stone,” spoken of in Hinduism. As the lapis exilis, “it is the “Stone ‘of’ or ‘in’ Exile.”
The Tablet of Fates is also known in Sufism, where we have the Preserved Tablet. Indeed, Hermes is al-Khidr, the Green One, the Messenger, Guardian of [both] the Green Ray and the Waters of Immortality. He is the link between man, the Mystic Pole Tradition, and the lost Planet of Origins, formerly located between Mars and Jupiter. He is the Messenger of the Deeps and the primordial Seas of Sulphur-Ammonia, the one passing on the Primordial Wisdom to the Awakened One.
Man can recover the Stone in himself. The Eighth Chakra is the Gateway and the place where the Seed Indestructible must be found. With the Stone whitened, the flight on the Wings of Fire has begun, and the individual, now become an Entity, belongs to the heavenly race of the Ana.
In Lovecraft’s At the Mountains of Madness, the Old Ones are described as beings formed in an evolution other than that of Earth. And in “The Call of Cthulhu,” we are further told that they are not altogether composed of flesh and blood.
They are divine forces that became manifest in a very early phase of manifestation. And they were the first ever to reach beyond the Veils-that-Hide; thus they paved the way for other forms of life succeeding them. With that mystical achievement, the link between the One and manifest Creation was re-established. The Eternal One saw Itself fathomed in the likeness of the Old Ones. Therefore they became the Messengers and the Message.
The Old Ones are extraterrestrials in the material sense of the word, but they are also depicted as spiritual beings, “not altogether composed of flesh and blood.”
The Heavenly Stone is in Earth, in Exile, like the Logos is implanted in its Fields. Before a planetary Clash of Orders, there was the Golden Age, the Age of the Stone of Unity. What was its color? It had a light as bright as a Thousand Galaxies. And like the Messenger took on the Raiment that Hides, the Stone turned green with the Fall.
When Unity was entwained in the Clash of Orders, Spirit dropped into manifestation like a stone drops into water. Unity sank deep and the Tradition of the Mystic Pole was born. When the Pole became like the Raiment, the Stone became green. Therefore we also say that from Luzifer’s Crown the Emerald fell when the Spirit dropped in the Ocean of Night.
The Emerald is a stone of green color, such as the Voice of Nature is the Green Language. It is the true Call of Death-in-Life, for it is the Green Light that unseals Truth and makes it accessible to those prepared to embark upon the Sacred Journey. Indeed, Life is taken from the Stone; In Polar Tradition the Emerald represents the ‘Way Back to the Source’ and out of the Wheel of Incarnations.
The Wisdom of Heaven is the Wisdom of the Heart that is engraved in the Stone that fell from Heavens into the Bowels of Earth. The Heart went lost like the Oasis cloaking itself in the dream of space-time existence. Life is like this Oasis, known to the whole world, man draws his Spirit from its everlasting springs of fresh water in the Desert of Dream. Yet who can really see it? Who can see the One in the Manifold, the Unknown in the Known?
Emerald is the color of the Tabula Smaragdina of Hermes-theThrice-Great-One. The “Tabula” designates the Green Ray through which the Divine Plan is enacted. The Emerald Tablet in Transpolaria is called the Tablet of Sight, identical with the Tablet of Fates mentioned in the Akkadian, Babylonian Epic of Creation. Before the destruction of the Planet of Origins, before winter settled upon the Fields of Earth, it was in the possession of the Creatrix and her allies. Yet, as we know, even in winter there is always a patch of gree[n].
As we have seen so far, Lovecraft’s Primordial Pantheon is highly allegorical.
Shub-Niggurath is the Creatrix, the Matrix of space-time, the Element of Transformation; Kadath is the World-Mountain or Axis Mundi to be climbed; and Cthulhu is Kutullu, the Fish being caught in the Ocean of Night. He is one with the individual who is dreaming the dream of sensory existence and must be awakened from his Exile.
Since the Old Ones were the first life-forms ever to reach beyond the Veils of the Creatrix, they became immortal. The one that beholds is being beheld by the One. When [a] transformation is accomplished, the Awakened One has opened the Eye of the One. This is the Sacred Link, Black Light to Black Light.
Man is not the oldest vehicle of the Seed, nor is man a master of this planet. The Old Ones were the first to achieve the Stone and the Arcanum of Creation, and they are the last to guide to Resurrection. Resurrection can only be when the Way of the Mystical Heart is embarked upon, the Green Ray received, the Messenger summoned.
With the formation of the planetary bodies around the exoteric sun, the initial circumstances for evolution were set. In the center of the solar system the Green Ray became manifest in the Planet of Origins, being the sixth planetary body in the system. It was the Mystical Heart, for there were five planets preceding, and five planets succeeding it, totaling eleven. Eleven is the number of the allies of Tamtu-Tiamat. Therefore we say it was the Age of the Eleven, the Age of the Old Ones.
Tamtu-Tiamat was the globe of the Primordial Waters, the Spirit, Deeps. These Waters were principally composed of sulfur-ammonia, the chemical configuration which is [the] bearer of the Fifth Element in manifestation. The appearance of sulfur-ammonia, and the evolution of form combined with it, is older than that of carbon-oxygen.
Now it is of particular importance to emphasize that the National Aeronautics and Space Administration supplies a study on life-forms on Jupiter’s satellite Europa Q. Oro, S. W. Squyres, and others,
Europa: Prospects for an Ocean and Exobiological Implications, N93, 1852, NASA Scientific and Technical Information Office, Key West, FL), whose atmosphere is similar to that of the lost sixth planet.
NASA furnishes a model of life, consistent with the satellite’s density and surface composition, surface morphology, and internal thermal evolution. They speak of lifeforms able to use sulfur, instead of oxygen, in their respiratory mode of metabolism. And they speak of an ecosystem “analogous to those that exist presently near terrestrial submarine geothermal vents.”
In the context of conceivable European biota, the NASA scientists mention the ecosystems of the cold waters in the Polar regions of Antarctica and the Arctic Circle.
The evolution of sulfur is older than that of oxygen. While the fourth globe was but the evolving Matrix, the beings of the sixth planet plunged like Flying Fish through the atmospherical Waters of Immortality.
The Planet of Origins was the Stone of Unity in the solar system. It was the axial manifestation of the Ray Divine in space-time, the Heart-Stone, life-supporting energy-center on the interplanetary plane. It was the Globe of the Shepherds, of the Winged Ones.
The Planet disappeared from the spectrum of matrical light, but it is still there, only perceptible for the one who has the Sight of Yore. The Old Ones are the Messengers and the Message; theirs is the Mystical Heart, and the Gateway-out-of-Space-Time in the lower abdomen of the human body leads into their Presence.
After the Heart-Stone had been destroyed in a collision with a straying interstellar body, its energy field remained in the form of an asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter. With the destruction, the Eye was concealed, and Jupiter took its place. Therefore we say that 6 opens the Heart to become 6 again.
The energies of the belt are corresponding with the secret Gateway-out-of-Space-Time, for the Sight of Yore is the Sight of Spirit beyond the Sevenfold Veil of Illusion.
The destruction of the Heart-Planet is communicated in an allegory older than mankind. It was given to the first individual of the human species who found Life Eternal in the Age of Titans. The allegory is concise, and it is spoken of today, though those understanding-byHeart its spiritual depth are not those living on the surface of the Earth, but in its very Bowels where no mortal thought can reach.
When the solar system was intact, there were 11 planets and 1 Mystical Heart in its center. There was the Crown of Luzifer. The Ray of the One was manifest in planetary harmony. The Eye was in Luzifer’s Forehead. The One beheld Its Creation and Creation beheld the One.
However, with the collision and destruction of that sixth globe, the Order of Yore came to its cyclic end.
The interstellar body that caused the planetary turmoil in times of old is of foremost importance in the Tradition of the Mystic Pole. The French alchemist St. Gilles writes of the lapidary, however, cryptic words: “It is the very secret of our Science.”
The Yemenite poet and alchemist Al Wiriz writes on it and of pre; lunar times, that is the mystical epoch when the Earth had no satellite. ( translated into French by Raymond Mesary as Miroir de la Science, Cilien, Paris, 1532):
All the great Savants of Astronomy, chief among them Khalid, say that there was a time when the night was not presided over; and they furthermore say that that was the time when good and evil had not been in the world. Only the star that appeared in those times brought great disorder into the world. His burning was that of a torch, and his aspects were most intolerable. Forsooth, the star was like the Peacock with a tail of many different colors; forsooth, it was that Star which plunged the world into a dark; ness; as its offspring the Moon was installed to rule over the dark hours. It was in these days that good and evil came into the world.
The collision brought about a planetary disaster, a fateful Clash of Orders: Spirit dropped into the Ocean of Night, the Seed was cyclically concealed. Indeed, concealed has been the Arcane Heart in the Bowels of Earth thenceforth.
That interstellar body is of crucial significance in Alchemy and Polar Tradition. It is called O-Samon, the Roaming One. The word O-Samon contains the Egyptian Amun, like in Amun-Ra or the Sun. The Clash of Orders was a necessity for cyclic reasons. The Stone of Unity was to be [estranged] so that Creation could be. Alchemists such as St. Gilles say that it will return out of the Heavenly Vault of Mysteries, come into sight again like a Sun effulgent with a Message Divine. O-Samon is the Torch of Joy and Wrath at the same time, and also called the Falcon or Slaying-Star. And did not Lovecraft allude to that Burning Torch writing in The Whisperer of Darkness that one of his characters was told: “why half of the great temporary stars of history flared forth?”
Eventually, that Clash led to the creation of mankind. Yet what might the return of the Roaming One bring? Will the Fruits of Earth be ripe enough to set out and people other planets and solar systems? Is it that which Mazzini meant? What happens when the planet is torn open by the claws of the relentless wolves fed in the Wood of the Creatrix to bring judgment to mankind?
The Virgin is in the Whore, Black becomes White becomes Red. That which was promised of old is in man, the Matrix is to be cleansed, the forms must change in the Baptism so that Our True Nature can finally emerge.
Is there a mystery in the words written on the portal of an ancient sepulcher, said to be reared by the Emperor Vestian: “No one is here without receiving the Baptism.”
The Old Truth: Create, Destroy; Water, Fire; Give and Take ever since the beginning. And Water quenches Fire, the Dance of Creation. The myriad parts of the Planet of Origins tumbled through the system toward the sun. One of these parts was caught by the gravitational force of the fourth planet
The Seed came to Earth. The beings that once swam free in the Element of Spirit like fish on the Globe of Unity were now caught in the Ocean of Night. As von Eschenbach wrote: “They take their life from a Stone.” While the Seed of Fire began to evolve on the young Earth, the one larger part of the original sixth planet was now its satellite. Now the Earth had a Moon, and indeed a symbol of the Order of Yore was perceptible to the sensory apparatus of early mammals.
The Earth was now the Exile. Luzifer had fallen into material existence. The energy-center that corresponded in early terrestrial life; forms with the Fifth Element on the Planet of Origins became concealed with its destruction. Yet it is still there, only buried for cyclic reasons; and epochs later it was related in Solar mysticism that the Titans were cast into the Underworld.
The Keys to the Arcanum of the Gateway were only received by a very few early mammals whose form was not human in today’s sense of the word. There is an Arabic esoteric aphorism alluding to that: “Kana l-insanu hayyatan fil-qidam,” “Man was formerly a serpent.”
The Seed came to the fourth planet, and with it there came the Old Ones, for all the world is a world of correspondence.
We can say, they came “on time,” because there is no time. While life has taken its inevitable evolutionary course, the Wisdom-Tradition of the Old Ones has been there for those realizing and understandingby-Heart that the only purpose of evolution is Mystical Involution.
With the Seed of Old there came Wisdom, and with Wisdom there came the Tablet of Sight, now well preserved in the Bowels of Earth.
And there Our Stone is surrounded by the Waters of Immortality, guarded by Hermes. But was the Planet of Origins in this solar system the origin of the Old Ones? Where did they first come from? No man knows, for it is No Man’s Land they came from. Out of those Deeps that are silken and scintillating with a Thousand Stars …
The Way of the Mystical Heart is the Way of the Winged Ones, and the Way of the Winged Ones is the Way of the Poleward Pilgrim, and in the Palace of Eight Pillars beyond the Barrier, they meet in the Light of the Black Flame. Together with the Old Ones the Entity can plunge through the Vistas of Vastness.
Lovecraft wrote in The Dunwich Horror that the Old Ones broke through of old and that they will break through again. Did he know about the sacred location to be found on this planet? In due course, the Underworld will open up and the dead shall outnumber the living, and the Earth will be drowned in streams of waters sulfurous.
The secretive Visionary of Providence caught glimpses of the Lost Planet through his esoteric-alchemical practice; and he was given a message, older than mankind and older than any carbonoxygen-based evolution.
The Old Ones are the spiritual-manifest link between the six cycles of the One Being and the seventh cycle of the One Becoming, of Day and Night. This very link is the Eighth Cycle, into which life has to transform to be reabsorbed into the Eternal One.
Man’s descendancy is cloaked in mystery, for it lies beyond the spectrum of matrical consciousness. Vainly, Men of materialistic science keep on searching for the so-called missing link. It cannot really be found, because the one who is searching in the Web of Illusions is the object of the search itself.
Though traces of early humanity can be found in many places around the globe, its origins are much older than the humanoid shape.
[The] first man was not humanoid at all. Manifest life has evolved over billions of years, and there were various shapes walking the Earth.
Lovecraft alludes to the origins of the human species in his epic At the Mountain of Madness. We are told:
“When the star-headed Old Ones on this planet had synthesized their simple food forms and bred a good supply of Shoggoths, they allowed other cell groups to develop into other forms of animal and vegetable life for sundry purposes. With the aid of the Shoggoths whose expansions could be made to lift prodigious weights, the small, low cities under the sea grew … “
The Shoggoths are described as amorphous, marine life-masses, originally created as food and working force.
Lovecraft further tells us that in later epochs of terrestrial evolution, the necessity arose to adapt some of the specimens to land life. From what can be gathered in Lovecraft, a genealogical linkage with early hominids can be established. More: The Shoggoth were of gigantic stature indicating their Origins.
These early terrestrial life-forms, destined to become a mystical bridge to [the] divine being, were the seed of humanity, carrying with them the Lore of Wisdom. Man’s prehuman descendancy is alluded to in the encoded-word “Shoggoth.”
At first sight, this word is recognized containing the English “to shog,” “to shake or roll from side to side,” or “a shog” designating “a bumpy jerking gait.” The meaning of this word goes well with the description given in At the Mountains of Madness. But we know that Lovecraft was a master of the Language of the Birds. And, indeed, the word has a double meaning.
Shoggoth is pronounced “Shaggath.” Due to “sh,” respectively, “s” and “th,” being interchangeable, since both sounds are designating the serpent, “Shaggath” becomes “Shaggash” or “Sag-gas.” This is a mirror word like Sarras, the Heavenly City. “Sag” is “Zag,” as in “azag,” “brightness” in Sumerian, preserved in Lovecraft’s code of ”Azathoth,” explained in detail in the next chapter. “Saggas” thus mirrors Absolute Being, since Azathoth designates the Totality of Worlds. “Saggas” indicates man’s status of linkage with the Emerald and the Age of the Eleven.
The offspring of the Shoggoths, early humanoids, were of gigantic stature. Their esoteric lore had in it the Wisdom of Origins; its disappearance from the surface of the Earth brought about the establishment of Solar Order, a man-made order, a departure from spiritual unity.
Man has in him the Seed Indestructible, yet he is dreaming, and what he thinks is intellectual is but matrical cognition. Intellect is Wisdom enveiled. Man untransformed is caught in the Matrix; his expansive demeanor constitutes but the characteristic translation of the reproductive scheme of cyclic existence. He is but a link between animal, or egoless, nondefined matrical becoming, and ego, annihilated, divine being. If the individual can achieve the mode of the White Stone, he becomes the first and the last, 1 and 8. Man has to recover his origins and restore the Sight of Yore.
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