Saturday, May 3, 2014

With Baphomet on the Left Hand Path (Part II)





(a project of mine for Atu VII; its symbolism is based not on the qabalistic Tree of Life, but on the sevenfold Tree of Wyrd, where this path connects the Sphere of the Sun with the Sphere of the Moon)

The psychedelic interest aroused in the 1960s, as well as the postmodern currents of the 1970s, though  sprung up spontaneously in their existing cultural conditions now also serve the anti-Self agenda of the above-mentioned cliché-makers. In fact the hedonism replaced the asceticism as a means of  Self-denial. There is neither true adeptship, nor mastership of magic to make sense of the chaotic intrusions from the Abyss and to find a new Meaning of Life, adequate to meet the coming Aeon. If there were actual masters of magic the world would be different. Paradoxically enough, there is a huge mass of sentient beings, whose ideas of the Things serve nothing except to increase the inertia of the follies against the Self. Until the Vision of the Abyss of Dispersion drives them totally mad.

The Devil, or Baphomet stands for the Self despite of all mystic doctrines, religions, governments, psychedelic hippies, and chaos magicians. Ego is merely the Greek for Self, probably a temporary unit of consciousness, which however has the chance of gaining integrity, or unity, and thus immortality. The Ego is where our being’s Focus of Awareness is fixed in the Abyss of Dispersion, and the power of that Focus of Awareness to make sense of that particular world it perceives. What makes us all humans is that we share a comparatively common fixation of the Focus of Awareness within our beings. Thus we perceive an objective consensus reality and we are almost totally lost in its details. Both the favor and the harm of that fixation are obvious for the Sorcerer. It may enslave one by imprisoning one into a fixed reality, but it also may make sense of the reality one perceives instead of being exposed to the permanent chaos of the Abyss. What distinguishes the Sorcerers from the rest of humanity is that they are able to unfix their Focus of Awareness, and fix it on other spots of the Abyss thus perceiving other worlds and making sense thereof. The identities may change, even the human form may change, but the  “I” as the Sorcerer’s Focus of Awareness remains and evolves. In fact there exist only “I” and the Abyss. Again, the Devil stands for the Self , that is, Zero stands for the Self in a mysterious way. The Devil is the Zero Energy of the Abyss of Dispersion, the Dark Force, the Sorcerer seeks to master. Inspired by the devil Baphomet, the “I” separates from everything which is not “I” [1-(-1)=2] and unites with everything which is recognizable as “I” were it even of the opposite energy charge [1+(-1)= 0], an unending process. Thus are the things held in division (0=2) that the Self and the Abyss of Dispersion may exist separately from each other. Of course, these abstractions explain nothing, since the Mystery of the Unknowable remains.

On a larger, or on a smaller scale, due to the present aeonic pattern the first phases of the Sorcerer’s Initiation often follow a certain comparatively repeating catastrophic, tragic pattern, or model. Therefore what follows might sound a bit cognate to certain folks. Now it’s a magical fact for those able to get it, that we perceive the tides of the Abyss in patterns, or models, and that we are unconsciously conditioned to do it by what is known as the “aeon”. The closer one comes to the Abyss, the more one realizes the Human-centric Model as irrelevant, and starts to adopt a certain Life-centric Model wherein the human is just a means to something greater. 

One starts to ride the surges of the Wyrd and as if there is nothing to stop one from fulfilling one’s triumphant Will. The mysterious Providence now assumes a starry dimension; the ancient Solar Deity is here again to inspire the awe but this time by the Star of our system seen as it is - the very source of all Life upon the Earth. One is now the Star’ sovereign proxy on the planet. Again the Pharaoh is the Flesh of the Sun, and the People - the Pharaoh’s Flesh. Though “every man and woman is a star”, this is a potential only, the most of  humans will never want even to hear about, so they represent a part of the inert mass of the Abyss of Dispersion. Their only chance of  meaningful Life is to obey the Pharaoh. His attainment will be their attainment as well. The non-individuated individual won’t pretend anymore of one’s own way except by doing one’s duty. Those who know their wills should know also that they are to work in concert with the Central Will. The personal concern will take care of itself, if a suprapersonal ideal is aimed - that of the Starry Imperium. The work of the mediocre won’t be anymore treated equally with that of the man of genius. The opinion of those who have neither experienced, nor suffered what they claim won’t be taken into consideration alike with that of those who have risked their lives for their ideas. The competency of those who confuse information with culture won’t be of any value anymore. No access to wealth and power will be allowed to the rednecked primitive peasant anymore. Any idea that doesn’t serve the ideal of the Starry Imperium, or contradicts its aesthetics, is regarded as decadent, and discarded. The equation Word =Deed constitutes the Code of Honour. The armed legions of the Star are ready for the Holy War of establishing the new world order.  
(To be continued)