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The Book of the Seniors by Benjamin Rowe
Copyright 1986, 1992 by Benjamin Rowe Introduction This book
is part of the record of an extended magickal working involving
the Tablet of Earth from John Dee's Enochian magickal system.
This section presents the results of a series of invocations
of the Seniors from that Tablet. The record is complete and is
presented exactly as it was recorded at the time of the invocations,
without editing. The invoking names of the Seniors are derived
from the Great Central Cross of the Tablet by reading outwards
horizontally and vertically from the two centermost squares of
the Tablet. In the theory of the Enochian system, they represent
the forces of the planets within the element, and are considered
to be Briatic in nature. With the Elemental King, who represents
the Sun and is a link between the Briatic and the Yetziratic
levels of the Tablet, they bind together all the forces within
the Tablet. Additionally, the Seniors are said to provide knowledge
specifically concerning "human affairs", and the present
record confirms that in a broad sense. A somewhat different method
of presentation is used here than in the previous invocations
of the series that were described in Touring the Earth Tablet.
In that work, each of the "Kerubic" squares of the
Tablet was examined individually. The visions were delibrately
forced into a highly visual and symbolic form, along the lines
set down in the Golden Dawn's rules for astral workings. While
these restrictions made it easy to establish the validity and
consistency of the visions, it also forced the information given
by the Kerubic forces into an extremely cumbersome and hard-to-read
form. In the current series, no effort has been made to make
the visions conform to the baroque style touted by the Golden
Dawn. Rather, the Seniors were allowed to present themselves
in their own manner, except for a brief presentation of a telesmatic
image as a check of validity. Attempting to examine each square
individually would have been much too cumbersome. The result
has been much more direct and readable than in the previous case.
Despite the looser form, the results of these invocations are
entirely consistent with the previous invocations of the working.
Taken together, they present a developing system of symbolism
related to the planet Earth, the various modes of magickal initiation,
and man's place on Earth and in the universe. The story presented
by the Seniors is a history of the spiritual development of man
on Earth, as viewed by the being who is the life of the Earth
and those appointed to direct that development. The main characters
are those beings whose actions are the root of the mythos of
the gods Set and Horus, and the plot describes their conflicts
as they contended for control of man's evolution over eighty
million years. With the earlier works in this series, it also
presents a reconstruction of the original mythos of Set, from
before the time when priests of Horus and Osiris demolished his
temples and turned him into a devil-god for their own forms of
religion. This mythos is not a step backward in time, but a re-formulation
in terms of the incoming energies of this present day, when the
equinox is moving into the constellation of Aquarius. The philosophy
presented is entirely consistent with the basic tenets of Thelema
as originally stated in Liber AL vel Legis, and those later elaborations
presented by C.S. Jones (Frater Achad). The energies of the sign
of Aquarius are vastly different from the energies of the previous
aeon, which was under the sign of Pisces. The Piscean age was
characterized by highly structured, imposed systems of religion
and magick, presented through the work of rigid hierarchical
organizations. In that age, the individual was expected to subordinate
himself to the work and symbolism of the group, and to accept
what was given to him on faith. Man was seen as being at the
bottom of the spiritual hierarchy, and was therefore subordinate
to all of the spiritual forces. He could only contact them through
faith and supplication, in effect begging them for a bit of wisdom.
The Aquarian energies, on the other hand, are extremely individualistic.
The ruling planet, Uranus, and the exalted planet, Mercury, show
that in this new time individuals can achieve magickal and spiritual
success entirely through their own efforts, without the aid of
any outside force. The results of their work will be proportional
to the effort they put into it. Where Mercury, knowledge, was
in its detriment in Pisces, here it is at its height. Thus knowing
and self-will, and not submission and faith, are now to be the
key to initiation. Under the Aquarian energies, each man contributes
to the group work by doing his own work and discovering his own
Will, without reference to the work of others. The links between
the work of one person and another will come naturally, as a
consequence of the internal connections that exist between all
things, and not as an externally-imposed set of frmulae. The
connections mentioned above are one example of this principle.
No doubt many more examples will arise in coming years. Following
this principle, I would like to encourage the reader to examine
this work and all such works with a critical eye, to not accept
it as literally true, and not accept it as symbolic truth unless
it fits your own views of the spirit. Perhaps another way is
better for you. There is more than enough room for any number
of views. Before concluding, a few explanatory remarks might
be in order. Where reference to the cabalistic Tree of Life is
made in this work, it is always to the revised version discovered
and presented by Frater Achad. I have personally found this form
of the Tree to be much more productive than the old G.D. version.
The extended working of which this paper is a part has demonstrated
that it is not merely a curiousity, but a workable and very effective
system of symbolism, at least the equal of the older version
of the Tree. But the use of this alternate system should not
deter users of the older Tree from reading this book. The essential
aspects of the work are not dependent on the Tree at all, and
can be applied to many different systems. There is also the question
of identities to be considered. The reader might wonder, as he
examines this work, just who the Seniors are speaking to. It
would be absurd to think that the scribe, the fellow whose name
appears in the copyright notice, is the one who did all the things
the Seniors attribute to the one they speak to. He is all too
human, very much a child of his times, and more than a little
bit of a fool. But if not him, then who? In the words of the
Seniors, the scribe is part of a tripartite being, a "man
who is a mage who is a god". As a general rule, when the
first person singular is used in this work, it is a blend of
the scribe and the mage, in varying proportions, who speaks.
The distinction between them is never too clear to the scribe,
and it is becoming less clear as this working progresses. But
the more doubtful and uncertain the "I" who speaks
appears, the greater the proportion of the scribe in the mixture.
But when the Seniors speak, they are generally referring to the
actions of the mage, the god, or a blending of the two. The sole
exception is when they refer to events occurring on the physical
plane during the lifetime of the scribe. Perhaps the best view
to take on this subject is to consider each aspect as a pseudo-autonomous
subset of the next highest aspect. That is, each is a projection
of the will of the next which can act independently most of the
time, but which is absorbed and loses its individuality when
the next highest aspect choses. Thus, the lower aspect is never
certain whether it is expressing just itself or is acting as
an extension of a higher aspect. It should be added that the
scribe makes no claims or assertions concerning things said about
him by the Seniors, and has no desire to be seen as any sort
of teacher, leader, prophet or "great mage". He considers
himself an explorer, and nothing more. -- 5/7/86, Niles, Ohio.
Postscript added 9/10/92: It seems appropriate to provide the
readers with a minimum sketch of the symbolic basis of the narrative,
so that they might have some clues to its occult interpretation.
The planetary symbolism of the Seniors themselves appears only
on a very superficial level, and has little to do with the content
of their story. The plot of the story follows the sequence of
the zodiac signs in precessional order, starting with the sign
of Pisces, showing the Earth and her Lunar twin as the two fishes.
Further development follows through Aquarius and the other signs
until it ends in Aries, with a minor epilogue not related to
the signs. The portion concerning the Earth-Spirit and the portion
concerning the character Set follow parallel but separate threads
until they meet in the sign of Scorpio, from which point the
story goes forward in a single plotline. All the plot elements
relate in some way to the _astrological_ (as opposed to the Cabalistic)
attributes of the signs. The main characters represent the elements
of the modified INRI or IRNI formula, presented in detail in
the paper titled "Set / Horus" and several of my other
papers. (The formula's appearance here is in fact the first clue
I received as to the modified formula's existence.) Briefly,
the Earth herself represents the first and last "I"
of the formula, corresponding to the astrological signs Taurus
and Aquarius respectively. This dual characterization shows her
as both a celestial being in her own right (Aquarius = "The
Star") and as the nurturing mother (Taurus, ruled by Venus
and the Moon) within whose "womb" and at whose behest
most of the action takes place. The protagonist, Set, corresponds
to the "N" of IRNI, and his described character relates
closely to that sign, its traditional ruler Mars, and its exalted
planet Uranus. The sign's modern ruler, Pluto, appears only as
an undercurrent and in the Pisces phase of Set's plotline. Set's
opposite number, Horus, represents the "R" of INRI,
corresponding to Sol and its sign Leo. Aczinor, Senior of Jupiter
in Earth 4/10/86 As the vision opened, I found myself in a place
where blue sky came down to a yellow plain. There was a brilliance
about everything, a cheery internal glow. I saw that the yellow
plain had the texture of velvet or cotton candy. Looking to the
east, I saw a star coming up above the horizon. It had eight
points around the circumference, another point aimed towards
me and another pointed away from me. To the south, I saw a lion
seated on a cubical throne. To the west, there was a watery area,
in which a boat or barge was travelling. To the north there was
an image of the planet Jupiter, rotating majestically in space.
I called again upon the Senior Aczinor, and he appeared wearing
robes of blue with a dark purple shimmer in the folds. I did
the LVX signs, to which he responded with the sign of Set, LVX,
and the sign of the Enterer. I tested him with the pentagram
of earth ( which had no effect) and with the hexagram of Jupiter,
which caused his force to flow into me. He himself dissolved,
passed through the hexagram, and reformulated himself on the
near side of it. >From close up, I could see that his hair
was white, and his skin was a violet so dark and rich as to be
almost black. His eyes were a lighter shade of violet. He held
up his right hand in the sign of blessing and asked me to return
it. Another flow of force went between us, filling my own aura
with a deep violet similar to his own color. He said "Thank
you, o mage of power. Now we can speak clearly to each other.
I am Aczinor, representative of the father Jupiter in the system
of the Earth Tablet. Though your invocations began with the King
Iczhihal, yet I am the first to speak, being the initiator among
the planetary powers of the Tablet. I the wisdom of the King,
and of his father the Sun, and cause it to take form before the
eyes of man. I am the first below the so-called abyss in the
Tree of Life, and so I am the pattern of manifestation within
the world. Thus my star shows ten points, and thus the lion,
the king, is enthroned by my existence. I function as his seat
of rulership, causing his power to be extended into matter. Thus
the four-square throne is mine. The barge of the west shows my
watery character, as the yellow plain and blue sky show my airy
nature. The barge again is a foursquare construction, fitting
the symbolism of my sephira, which is also considered watery
in some ways. Thus also I float above the waters of creation
in the earth's sphere, guiding those waters in their flowing
downwards into matter. "Since I am of the earth as well
as of Jove, I am also related in some ways to his physical manifestation.
The equivalent power in Jove's system rules those levels of his
physical body in which life has appeared, taking its energy not
from the Sun, but from the weaker but still great life of Jove
himself. "Now you have been asked to be shown the invocations
of the planets in the enochian system. I can not do this myself,
being but the most junior of his representatives within the levels
of the system. But I can tell you how to go about preparing for
these. As you have thought, it is best to do invocations of all
the seniors within the tablets. But rather than holding to a
single tablet, invoke all of the equivalent Seniors from each
of the tablets at once. This will allow you to get a full view
of the action of the planet with the sphere of Earth, who contains
all of the tablets yet presented to man within herself. "From
this, we will hope to instill enough of the force within you
to make the presentation of the sphere clear and easy to perceive.
Then you can go to your castle and locate the books with the
invocations, and read them and transcribe them clearly."
(3-hour interruption at this point.) "To continue, since
you have invoked me and I have come, we must use the force for
some purpose. Therefore, let me begin a tale, as is my right
as the initiator. "The planets of the system, with the exception
of Luna, are all the bodies of lives of a scope so inclusive
as to make the perceptions of men and angels nothing in comparison.
All of them, even the least, operates at least at the level of
Yesod in the Tree of which the manifest Tree of Life is Malkuth.
Most of them operate in Netzach or Tiphereth of that larger Tree.
"The one exception, Luna, is a dead world. Its action on
man is purely a reflection of the Earth's own power, projected
outward by the minds of men onto the nearest convenient target.
Luna is the body of a being who is now no longer in incarnation,
having completed his tasks at an earlier stage in our solar system.
His twin, the Earth, remains in living incarnation, and her influence
extends to control her brother's dead shell. The cycles of life
within the earth that are tied to Luna reflect the rhythms of
interaction between the Earth and her brother in long-ago days,
before the appearance of life out of her seas. Their cyclic interaction
produced a `standing wave', a continuing cycle of echos of the
original interaction of the two. "The Earth herself continues
to reflect these cycles in the pulsations of her magnetic envelope.
These aural-magnetic effects are the true cause of the lunar
cycles in living things. "I myself, angel and Senior though
I be, am still within the range of these cycles, and I have less
power sometimes and more at others as a result. You yourself
are also subject to them, though since you wear a body of a male
human, the effects are more of a psychological nature than they
would be for those who wear female bodies. Nevertheless, the
effects are there to be seen in all humans. "I speak so
long about Luna-Earth because I myself was the proximate cause
of the brother's loss of connection with his body. Yea, even
I, Aczinor, most junior of the Seniors of Jove, have had my influence
in the dramas of the solar system. As you are now to have yours,
o man who is a mage who is a god. Yours is the separation of
the consciousness of the Earth from the deep levels in which
she sleeps. Mine was similar for her brother in Luna. So you
and I are brothers of the spirit, in the ways of our works, and
I am pleased that you have come to me for aid in your quest.
"Now the brother's work was to express fully, with his sister,
the effects of the so-called Third Ray of Active Intelligence
within the system. Where she represents the lifting of the spirit
out of matter by that force, he represented and embodied the
movements of life into matter. For life must be present in matter
before it can again be raised up. "This one in Luna was
of the younger of the stellar brethren, only a few cycles away
from existence as a being of the type now embodied by human beings.
This effort on Luna was to have been his first experience in
incarnating as a full planetary being, free from the supervision
of a mentor. (In the early stages of life in the higher realms,
the man-gods perform their creations within the aura and under
the guidance of a more advanced practitioner of the art.) "Well
did he do his work. Too well, in truth. For in concentrating
himself to pass the spirit of life into matter he concentrated
too well and part of his own spirit, though not his awareness
of being nor his true self, but only that spirit which enlivens
the ethers, became tied again into matter as it had been in the
days before his rise to godhood. Worse, even when he realized
what was going on and attempted to separate himself again, the
flow of his energies into matter continued against his will.
"But we speak here of things far beyond this level, and
words are not fully suited to the expression of these concepts.
Perhaps a few images would make clear what we desire to express."
(I had had a strong feeling at this point that I was not really
perceiving the presentation in its correct form. Aczinor's comment
is the result of this feeling.) He gestured with his left hand,
and before us there appeared an image of the Earth-Luna system.
But where in our own time Luna is dead, here he was surrounded
by an aura of life, though the surface seemed as barren as it
does now. The earth also shone with an aura of equal brilliance.
Now some of the life around the moon seemed to be sucked into
it, leaving a hollowness, growing outward from its surface inside
the aura. A shock went through the remaining aura and out into
space. As it passed over the place where Aczinor and I stood
in the heavens, I felt a tremendous sense of despair and failure,
and a sort of panicky desire to repair the disaster before it
was too late. The despair, sorrow, and self-recrimination I sensed
was so overwhelming that I cried out, and had to leave the vision
for a few minutes until it passed and I could again think sensibly.
Worst was the sense of shame this being felt, as if in his failure
he had also brought the works of the rest of the beings in the
system to naught. It was as if this being in Luna had lost all
sense of self-respect and self-confidence by his failure. The
pain he felt could be seen to radiate out into the system. It
caused sympathetic responses in all the lives of the other planets,
and so the whole system was threatened with disruption. Now Sol
turned his attention to the situation, seeking the cause of the
disruption he had felt on the levels where he had his attention.
Seeing the plight of Luna, he immediately overshadowed that entity,
taking him over body and soul as he was able to do from his higher
level. He caused a stasis in Luna so that the flow into matter
was halted. The soul and awareness of Luna he lifted up, out
of the trap, and wrapped in his own aura, comforting him and
healing him. Aczinor continued: "With the immediate danger
halted, there was time to look at the situation clearly and objectively.
Sol and the planets attempted to comfort the lunar lord, but
his shame was too great. He knew that by his failure he had ruined
the whole beautiful plan by which Sol had intended to express
love and life for this section of the galaxy. The far-reaching
consequences of his failure overwhelmed him, and he begged to
be allowed to resolve his error in some way, to expiate his shame
with action. "Since this disaster took place within the
aura of Sol's work, it must therefore be remedied within the
limits of his kingdom. He could not simply eject the ruined matter
from the system, any more than a man can cure a cold by giving
it to someone else. Nor could he allow this involutionary flow
to remain free in the system, for then it would continue to increase,
eventually ruining the plan which Sol's quick action had so far
saved. There was much discussion among Sol and the senior planets
of the system, and deep meditation by all, lasting many millennia,
on how this problem could be solved. Many plans were proposed,
but none of the senior planets felt confident enough of his solution
to propose it as a definite course of action. So the discussion
continued. "Our earth, being among the junior planets of
the system, having not yet reached Tiphereth of that larger Tree
in which the gods live and act, was not a party to the discussions
but was only an observer. But unlike the seniors she was on a
level where she was intimately connected with the type of force
her brother manifested. And her love for her twin motivated her
in a way the senior planets could not be. She devised a plan,
and when the senior planets did not arrive at a satisfactory
solution, she proposed her plan to Sol. "It is impossible
to state now what Earth's path would have been had this disaster
not taken place. The conditions under which it might have been
understood by human beings have not existed for many tens of
thousands of millennia. The minds of men, as they have evolved
under her new plan, are too far from the type of consciousness
needed for any meaningful expression to be possible. "But
it can be said that under that original plan there would never
have been incarnate human beings on Earth. The furthest into
matter they would have gone would have been Yesod, and for most
of the life of the system they would have been in Tiphereth.
"In Earth's proposed plan, she would take the involutionary
forces of her brother's sphere into herself and hold them there
by deep concentration. She would, by her concentration, create
a shell around herself which would keep the involutionary force
out of the rest of the system. Thus the other planets could continue
to develop their themes without interference. "To eliminate
the involutionary force from the system completely, she would
set it against the evolutionary aspect of the Third Ray that
she herself expressed. The incredible tension between the two
would be used to produce an acceleration of evolution within
her sphere. Where before evolution was a gentle process, with
many thousands of millennia between substantial changes in form
in a species, now evolution would be forced, with continual changes
of both form and content of the living animal bodies. this forced
evolution would produce bodies of a degree of refinement and
integration that would never have been seen within the limits
of Sol's original plan. "Thus would she tie the involutionary
and evolutionary tendencies together, halting the involution
in Malkuth, keeping it from pulling the whole system back into
the shell-worlds that preceded the full incarnation of the gods.
And when the bodies were of a great enough degree of refinement,
she would begin to eliminate the involutionary force all together.
She would do this by forcing the human souls within her sphere
to incarnate in matter. "Unlike the matter itself, these
souls, being already of a spiritual, evolutionary nature, would
evolve much more rapidly. In matter, they would ache to return
to the levels from which they first came, and their natural desire
to return would eventually counter the involutionary tendency.
"Not only this, but the hammer-blows of experience the human
souls would receive within the forge of incarnate existence would
change them into something far greater than they ever could have
been within the original scheme. For they would come out of that
forge with a temper, a hardness, that could never be lost, making
them as the gods of the system and of the stars, brothers to
these within whose influence they had led their many lives, where
otherwise they would have remained the pawns and tools of the
gods throughout the life of this current universe. Thus many
thousands of millions of new gods would eventually rise out of
matter where otherwise there would have been none. All of them
able to express within the universe both the formula of spirit,
which is evolution, and the formula of matter, which is involution.
They would be true microcosms, and after many more cycles of
evolution on the god-levels, each of them would be individually
capable of creating whole new universes for life to express itself
in. Thus was `life more abundantly' once said to be the keynote
of our planet. "Even within this present universe will the
effects of the Earth's proposal be felt. For these lives of men
will spread out to the stars, when the gates are again open fully,
and they will catalyze similar reactions in other spheres, where
conscious life exists but develops at a slow pace. Thus will
our galaxy and universe benefit from the crisis of Luna- Earth,
as consciousness independent of the gods rises up all over in
response to the calls of the souls of men. "But to return
to our story, Sol heard the Earth's plan, and felt that it was
the only possible one that had any hope of success. But he was
certain there were aspects Earth had not considered, being beyond
her current level of consciousness. And such a radical change
of plan could not be put into effect on his own authority since
its effects would spread so far beyond his own sphere of action.
So he `passed the buck' as you would say, laying the decision
in the hands of his own mentor, who incarnates in one of the
stars of the Sirius group at this time. "Now Sirius (as
we shall call him, though that is not his true name) saw that
the Earth's plan would work, but that there was a danger of her
becoming so concentrated that she would not know when the disposal
of the involutionary force was completed. Thus he declared that
if the plan were to be implemented, there must at all times be
within her sphere those who were capable of breaking out of it
on their own, with no assistance, so that she might never suffer
for lack of light should she have need of it. And also, these
others must bind themselves to her, and constantly recapitulate
the process of their evolution within her sphere, so that she
might ever be reminded by her connection with them of the purpose
for which she had hidden herself. "The adepts of Active
Intelligence, and of Love- Wisdom, and of the lesser rays who
were acting in her sphere and under her direction could none
of them accomplish this task. For their natures lack the forcefulness
needed for such a solitary breakout as Sirius demanded. Only
the adepts of the First Ray, the Will aspect, could succeed at
this task, and those few of this type who were already working
within Sol's system were working at tasks that they did not dare
abandon. For the First Ray is not natural to our system and only
enough adepts to fill the critical needs were there. "So
the call went out for adepts of the First Ray willing to fulfill
the task set by Sirius. And this is where you yourself come into
the story, o scribe who is a god. To tell of your part we must
tell more of your origin than we have as yet. "Now, the
progression of spiritual beings upwards through the planes in
the course of evolution follows a regular cycle. That is, there
are generations of such beings, and each generation must mature
to a certain level as gods before they can perform the acts that
cause the next generation to be born out of the union of spirit
and matter. "Thus there are large gaps between these generations.
These gaps are not gaps in time, for time is meaningless on the
levels of which we speak. Rather, there are gaps of relative
accumulation of experience between the generations. This amounts
to the same thing on your present level, but not on these higher
levels. Normally there is a gap of one full Tree of Life's worth
of experience between generations, although certain members of
each generation will advance more quickly so that the gap becomes
less as the progress continues. As one generation moves out of
our manifest tree, another arises out of the union of spirit
and matter to replace it. This occurs in cycles so vast from
our current viewpoint as to be indenumerable in terms of years.
Our Earth is now an exception to this because of her daring plan.
"You were born of one such generation and your progress
followed that of your fellows up to the level of Tiphereth in
that time and place's Tree. But at one point you had completed
a cycle of existence within a planetary system, and as that system's
lives withdrew from matter you went off into space with your
fellows to find further opportunities for experience. "Now
by what can only be called a fluke, a play of Murphy's law, the
current that the souls ride between the stars separated you from
your fellows, and pulled you into the center of a cataclysmic
conflict between two stellar beings of a vastly higher level.
Like a piece of flotsam on the waves, you became trapped in the
circulating currents between these two. "The forces there
were so vast and intense that at first it was all you could do
to keep your being from vanishing, torn to pieces by the conflicting
pulls. For a time not to be measured in years did you struggle
to maintain your integrity against these near-overwhelming forces.
That you were not made naught was more due to fortune than skill
at first, for there were places in the currents between the two
gods where you would have vanished like smoke on a breeze. "But
eventually you learned to draw on those currents of will themselves
to maintain your being. While still trapped within the currents
of the two gods' conflict, yet you could live and learn and grow.
And so you did, drawing on the knowledge of those gods as you
drew upon their power, ever increasing your own power and will,
rising through the planes until finally your will was so strong
that you could force yourself out of the bonds of the conflict.
"Out in the spaces between the stars again, you sought out
your former companions who had not been caught in the trap. Finding
them was a shock, for you had not realized how much you had changed
in the course of your escape, having had no one to compare yourself
to. Now you found that you had little in common with them. They
were still singular beings, being all of the Third Ray essence,
while you were now tripartite, having absorbed the forces of
Love-wisdom and Will from your experience in hell. "You
could no longer communicate with them as equals. They could not
understand you as you now were, and only your tales of shared
experiences convinced them that you were their lost companion.
You could still communicate with them within the limits of the
third aspect, but even there your formulations were often so
subtle as to escape their comprehension. "There were beings
around who could understand the other parts of your being to
an extent. But these were devas and other angel-like beings,
passive transmitters of higher forces rather than active users
like yourself. So they also were of no use to you in the long
run. "The gods of that time and place were also uncertain
of what you were. Like them, you encompassed the entire Tree
of Manifestation in its three aspects. But you had fully fused
the three aspects at a level of experience far below that at
which they themselves had done, and none of them knew of precedents
that would aid in deciding your case, determining where you could
fit into the scheme of things. "So, neither fish nor fowl,
you wandered the universe, going wherever there was need of one
or another combination of your three aspects. But never did you
find a place where you fit fully, and could use all your skills
at once. And always, always, there was that tremendous sense
of loss at your separation from your original group, and an ache
to fit in somewhere with companions of like powers and perceptions.
Alone and apparently unique, you conceived of yourself as the
`solitary one' or the `unique one'. Eventually you shortened
this to simply `one', since one of anything is always unique
and solitary. This you translated into Hebrew during your last
completed cycle of incarnation on Earth, calling yourself `Achad',
and expressing your full command of all the Tree in your two
mottos, `O.I.V.V.I.O.' and `V.I.O.O.I.V.'. "But I digress.
You continued to wander, seeking work worth your skills, until
the call went out seeking adepts of the Will aspect for the Earth's
plan of salvage. You were far away in space and time, but a god
who had known you in the old days and had felt the gods' equivalent
of compassion for you and frustration at his inability to help
you, remembered and recommended you to the god Sirius. Sirius
saw that you were ideal for this work, for you had already demonstrated
an ability to free yourself from traps of a far greater strength
than the Earth's blockade would be, and you were already capable
of acting almost on the levels of the gods themselves. Thus your
presence would ensure that the shell could always be broken,
no matter how bad the disaster. "You had also demonstrated
your ability to live isolated from the universe at large for
long periods, during your captivity between the warring gods.
Many of the adepts of Will who had already been considered had
been passed over for this very reason. They could not function
without external contacts. "And again, being somewhat less
than a full god, though fully expressing all aspects of the Tree,
you were still capable of incarnating as a human being without
too great a loss of your higher perceptions. Thus you seemed
ideal for the position Sirius sought to fill. After consultation
with Sol and Earth, you were called to Sirius to have the proposal
laid before you. "You agreed with Sirius' evaluation, and
saw in the plan two possible benefits for yourself. First, the
drop-forge environment Earth was to become was a reasonable substitute
for the trap in which your own skills had been shaped and tempered.
Thus you now had some hope that companions who would be your
equals would come out of it. If not from among the human souls
on Earth, then from among the adepts called for the task. And,
failing that, the additional experience might be sufficient to
raise you to full godhood by the end of the cycle of closure.
I am happy to say that both of these goals have been accomplished,
though few of your true companions are incarnate at this time.
"Thus you became the head of that group called, in Liber
AL, the `Kings of Earth', but who prefer to be called Knights,
for their task is one of aiding a good and righteous cause, and
not one of rulership for its own sake. And the Knights of Will
in the Earth were formed from among the adepts of will who volunteered
and were qualified for the task. "You ask why this was not
said at the outset, in the visions of the Kerubic squares. The
reason is that you would not have believed it. As it was, your
resistance to what was shown about yourself was so great that
everything had to be couched in symbols, and even those were
slightly distorted. It could not have been otherwise, for Sirius'
rule still holds among the Knights, and in each life in incarnation
the Knight must recapitulate the whole of his evolution in the
Earth. For such a recapitulation to succeed, it must be done
blindly. And so you could not have known what was coming, and
your initial resistance was reasonable and appropriate. With
what we have given you since hen, you are coming to accept the
truth of what we say, and you will eventually merge your incarnate
and excarnate aspects again. "Nevertheless the Kerubic visions
do contain many symbolic statements of what we have said here,
particularly in the visions of the earthy lesser angle. That
dark self who spoke in those visions, through whose eyes you
seemed to see at times, is merely that part of yourself that
has been excluded from consciousness during your recapitulation.
"We have been at this much of the day, and it is time to
stop. Tomorrow we will finish with my part of the tale."
4/11/86 I tried to get contact using the usual invocations, but
there seemed to be a great deal of interference. So I decided
to delay the rest of Aczinor's tale for a day. 4/12/86 I did
the invocations, and again found myself in the area of yellow
land and blue sky that opened the previous vision of this Senior.
I called upon Aczinor to appear, and he did so, looking essentially
the same as in the previous vision. I did the sign of Set and
the signs of LVX. He replied with the same signs, and added the
sign of fire, which he held until I returned it. I tested him
with the pentagram of Earth and the hexagram of Jupiter, and
neither had any effect on him. I asked why he had done the sign
of fire, since we were in the Earth tablet at this time. He replied,
"We are not in the Earth, but above it, in the airs of the
planets from which it was formed. But that is not the reason
why I did the sign. It was done in salute to the master of the
First Ray of Will who stands before me." I decided this
was an acceptable explanation, in view of the previous messages,
and asked him to continue. "When we left off, we were at
the point of describing the initiation of the Earth's closure,
under the auspices of Sirius, Sol, and the Knights of Will within
her sphere. You were described as the chief of the Knights, and
a little of your history was given. We started to supplement
this with additional information the next day, but the currents
were against us and we cut off communication until today. "Before
we continue, though, I wish to say a few more things in relation
to what has come before. "I said in the aborted session
yesterday that the reason why your own path from Tiphereth to
Binah was done alone, instead of with a group as is normally
the case was due to your duties as the chief of the Knights.
In your position, by declaration of Sirius, you are required
to recapitulate the whole of your own history of initiation in
each of your incarnations. Since the initiation must be done
blindly, we could not earlier explain the reasons for your isolation,
despite your frequent requests over the years that someone do
so. I speak in this case for the other Knights, who have monitored
and aided your progress through this current incarnation, while
you did the difficult task of repeating the unrepeatable. "We
said before that it was only by a fluke that you became what
you now are. If things had been otherwise, you would never have
come to the position you now hold, nor would you have ever heard
of it. You would still be down in the Tree with the rest of your
original group of companions of the spirit. But because of your
entrapment between the two conflicting gods, in that far-away
place and time, you became more than a man, and somewhat less
than a full god, long before your time would have come in the
normal course of evolution. You are indeed, as you have so aptly
described it, a queer fish. Before the closure of the Earth in
long-ago times, there were none known who duplicated the qualities
of your own being, intermediate between god and man, partaking
of the nature of both in the fullest possible measure, fusing
them into a third thing for which the universe at that time had
no name. With the closure of the Earth, and the development of
other adepts of the Will aspect under the forceful conditions
of the Earth, you have come to have at least a few who are similar
enough to yourself that you are able to communicate fully the
quality of your being to them. But these are still not exactly
like yourself, for the forge of Earth is not the forge of the
stars in which you grew, and all of the adepts had companions
of their own type with whom to develop. So your quality of uniqueness
has not been completely lost to the world, and Achad is still
the appropriate description of your being. "The conditions
under which you grew to power and mastery are unrepeatable, as
we have said, being a fluke of cosmic nature that will not likely
come again. So it is nearly impossible to produce in matter a
complete recapitulation of your development. In some instances,
mere symbolic substitutions had to be made for the true powers
that affected you in the original course. "To substitute
for the two powers whose conflict gave your being the boost into
mastery, you were in this life maneuvered into situations where
you found yourself in the middle of arguments and conflicts in
which you had no personal interest. But you presence acted to
catalyze the manifestation of the full emotional force of the
participants. These forces, being diverted from the direction
in which they should have gone, towards the opposing party, were
directed instead onto yourself. These orces were in some instances
of such an intensity that they did almost kill you, as did the
original forces. But these forces of the present day events would
only have killed your body, where the true forces of the original
conflict would have resulted in the true annihilation of your
being. "In the conflict between Paul Solomon and the other
David , you were given the opportunity by one of them to chose
between them, and when you refused to chose, preferring to maintain
your independence, he tried to kill you by psychic means under
the guise of helping you. This resulted in the rip in your aura
that was not healed until your later contact with Nema. But at
the time, this rip was a help, for it allowed the inner powers
who supported Paul Solomon, on the other side of the conflict,
to open you up to the spirit of the Earth at our request, so
that you would have a true feeling for the goal of your work
from the beginning. Also they did the service of prophesying
the course of your work. And as you have found now, their prophesy
was accurate to the last decimal place, so to speak. Like all
good prophesies it was incomprehensible at the time but perfectly
clear when the events it referred to occurred. Thus they referred
among other things to `the One', Achad, who is yourself in your
fullness, at a time when you had not even heard of Jones, let
alone of Achad or his Tree. "Now this compensation of the
forces of evil thrown at you by David, with the forces of healing
and light thrown at you by the supporters of Solomon, was the
closest we could come in this incarnate world to the powers of
the stars that caused you to be as you are, in the beginning
of time. We continued to bring you into such situations, of a
lesser degree of force but greater duration, for several years
afterward. The circumstances that were engineered were designed
to force you into the solitary path that you had to take and
to keep you there until the path had been trod to its end. The
pain and confusion and loss you felt by this isolation, and your
consequent efforts to rid yourself of the inhibiting influence
were fairly good analogies to the feelings and acts you did while
caught between the two gods. "The loss of your original
companions from before your entrapment and your later finding
of them and experiencing of their noncomprehension of yourself
was duplicated in this life by the lack of comprehension the
adepts showed for your work in its early stages, and in the rejection
and insults of your skills that they showed. This was run concurrent
with the other events that caused you to become isolated, so
that the intensity of the isolation could be increase to the
point needed for this life's work. So the periods of your isolation
in the entrapment and your later isolation after your escape
were run in parallel in this life, compacting the story's two
similar parts into one for convenience. "Thus your path
in this life has been the closest possible duplication in incarnation
of the original course of your initiation. Now that you have
achieved the level of Binah, the rule of Sirius is somewhat mitigated.
But still, your whole course has not been trodden, so the blindness
must continue in part for a short while yet, until the powers
of the planets chose to bring you back into their fold. The timing
of this will not be under your control or the control of your
fellow knights, but is a decision to be made by the gods themselves,
in their own chosen time. But at the same time, it is vital that
you have a reasonably clear view of what has come before, so
we, Aczinor and the Knights, must resort to this more indirect
method of revealing your past. The memories on which what we
say is based are open to you, but the time to seek them must
be kept in the future for a short while yet. In the course of
your planetary explorations in the next few months, more will
come to you in the form of direct memories, as you have already
had direct memories of your lives as Dee, and as the priestess
of Isis and Set, and as the priest-child of Set in that same
temple in a later time, and of that other life in the middle
ages in which you discovered the path to the stars in the powers
of the menhirs, and in that life in the last century, immediately
preceding your incarnation as Jones, in which you met David the
Israelite in his incarnation among the Indians. "The scope
of your past is too great to be absorbed at once, and so these
expedients must be used to accustom your brain to the ideas,
opening the channel by which the true memories will come. "Now
I would like to continue with the story of the Earth's closing,
but the next section is the responsibility of the goddess Lzinopo,
who rules the lunar-earth currents within the Earth Tablet. She
will be the one to describe the manner of the removal of the
twin's ethers from Luna, and their incorporation into the body
of the earth by yourself and the other Knights. She will also
go into some other things related to your own course in that
time and place, and how these affect your current work. "To
do this, invoke her at the time and place that you will, but
soon, so that the currents you began with the invocation of Iczhihal
will continue to flow without need for re-initiation." I
said that this was acceptable, and asked if there was anything
else he wished to say at this time. He indicated not, but added
that if I had any questions, he would surely answer. I asked,
as a matter of curiosity, if he could tell me the meaning of
his name. "My name, Aczinor, means `Wisdom flowing from
the waters of Night'. Wisdom is of course the province of Jove
among the planets, as truth is the province of Saturn. Night,
in this case, is the Earth herself, who is the manifest representation
of the powers of the True Mother, Nuit. It is from her womb that
these waters of wisdom flow. Thus I embody the principles of
wisdom in the element of Earth, as my opposite, Saturn, embodies
factual truth." I thanked Aczinor for his efforts on my
behalf, and gave him license to depart. Lzinopo, Senior of Luna-Earth
in Earth. 4/13/86 I invoked the forces of the Senior Lzinopo
of the Tablet of Earth. The Senior appeared as a woman, dressed
in a long flowing gown of a dark blue or violet color. On her
head she wore a crown like the waxing moon, with the limbs of
the moon projecting out on either side of her head. She had a
high rounded forehead, like Queen Elizabeth I, coupled with a
square jaw. She stood turned about 30 degrees to her right. Her
right hand was held forward, with the palm cupped upwards in
a gesture of pouring. Her left arm was held at her side, with
the hand facing to the rear, and it was bent at the wrist so
that it was also cupped upwards. >From her right hand, I saw
fall what appeared to be either grain or flakes of silver. These
fell, but before they could hit the ground they were blown backwards
between her legs, and appeared to flow upwards from there into
her womb, which was concealed by her robes. Then, from the womb
descended another stream, this time of golden flakes, which again
were blown backwards before they could hit the ground. This second
stream flowed up and landed in the palm of her left hand. A moon
was embroidered on her left shoulder, and a sun was embroidered
on the right shoulder. I did the LVX signs, and the Sign of Set.
The image of theSenior slowly rotated until she was facing me,
still holding the position in which she first appeared. The front
of her robe was cut deep, so that the tops of her teats could
be seen. The edge of the cut was embroidered with a design of
golden bees and butterflies. Her skin was white, but her feet,
sticking out beneath the robe, were black. I did the LVX signs
and the sign of Set again, and she did not respond. The pentagram
of Earth and the hexagram of Luna caused the background to become
brighter, but had no effect on her. Testing with the letters
made her grow larger, but still she did not move. Finally, I
tried the signs of the rending and closing of the veil, at which
she straightened up and replied with all the signs I had given,
plus the sign of fire, which I returned. She said, "I salute
you, o mage who is the power of Will within the Earth, with the
sign of your power among the elements. I am the goddess Lzinopo,
who is a senior within the Tablet of Earth at the bidding of
our goddess who resides in the planet Earth. "Now, to answer
your unspoken question, the reason I did not at first respond
to your gestures and signs was so that you could get a full view
of my magickal image. This will be important later, for reasons
we will not now go into. I also did so to express that I not
only symbolize the so-called Lunar current within the Earth,
but am also of the nature of the Earth herself. The combination
of the Lunar flexibility and changefulness with the power and
stability of the Earth bring about that condition known as stillness
and silence, which are the primary virtues of the elements of
Earth. The gesture in which I stand is a traditional gesture
of Isis and of Nepthys, the revealed and the hidden powers of
the Earth. My countenance also reveals my combination, with the
lunar forehead and the earthy jaw. So too with the combined forces
of the Sun and Moon which are shown in the grains or flakes that
fall from one hand into my womb, and out into the other hand.
Meditate on this for a while, after we have finished here, and
you will see some significant symbolism of the Earth in this.
"The bees and butterflies are also traditional symbols of
the Moon and of the female sex, for obvious reasons. "Now
in order to continue with the tale of the Earth's closing, we
must give you just a little more information about your own position
in the matter, and the relations between you and certain other
adepts who had been considered for the position which you now
hold. "In the time when the adepts of Will were being selected
for their part in the task of the Earth, there were several adepts
of Will already working in the solar system. These were not First
Ray adepts, as you yourself are, but adepts of the first sub-ray
of the Second Ray of Love-Wisdom, which is the common keynote
of our system. Among these was one who working in Sol's sphere,
doing the work of connecting the Earth with Sol's pattern. "This
one, who felt that he was best qualified by his previous experience
in the system, and by his intimate connection with the Earth,
wanted to be the leader of the group which was to handle and
integrate the force of the dying brother into the aura of the
Earth. Being of the Second Ray, he was comfortable in the system,
and he felt that his ease of movement and ability to direct the
forces made him the best qualified for this job. However, he
was somewhat lacking in the ability to operate alone, having
grown up spiritually in direct and full contact with many of
the cosmic forces, and having attained his initiations through
group work, as is normally the case. In the position you now
hold, he would have required the force of all the other adepts
of Will to crack through the shell of Earth at the time when
the work was completed. He did not feel that this was a handicap,
since once the closure occurred, none of the adepts could escape
from the earth, and therefore would be available at the proper
time. "But an adept of the Will aspect of Love is a far
different thing that the adept of the Love aspect of Will, such
as yourself. The Second Ray adepts are proficient at gathering
together and integrating energies, but are less able to deal
with the release of those energies back into chaos, which is
what this task requires at its end. It was felt by the gods involved
that allowing him to be the chief of the Knights would leave
open a possibility that the shell would not be cracked, if his
identification with his being in the Earth became strong enough
in the intervening thousands of millennia. "What was needed
was one who was not entirely comfortable in the system, being
of another nature, so that even in the body the system would
tend to reject him. This would ensure that the chief's identification
with the manifest earth would never be strong enough to preclude
his necessary rejection of it in the breaking of the shell. "It
was at this point that you were brought to Sol by Sirius, and
examined for the position you hold. The candidates were gathered,
and tested in their ways and abilities. Of all examined, only
two had the minimum qualifications, you and that other we speak
of. "There was really no question in the minds of Sirius
and Sol that you were the better qualified, so the examinations
were more or less pro forma. But this other one did his best
to convince them that he was better, and so they selected him
as the alternate, in case some misfortune happened to prevent
you from doing the work at the last moment. "One can not
really say that this being was jealous of you, for such is an
emotion that only manifests in the lower bodies. But the adepts
of Love- Wisdom have one fault, which is that often, being identified
with the essential force of our system, they believe that their
perspective is greater than it is, that their own evaluation
is the only evaluation possible. In their identification with
the solar force, they take on something of the sense of inclusiveness
that is his, but without also taking on the perspective needed
to truly manifest that inclusiveness. This fault reflects, on
a higher level, the egoism of the integrated personality in the
worlds below Tiphereth. All of the rays have their faults, which
are usually the same as their virtues, except exaggerated. The
First Ray types like yourself have the fault of being over-persistent,
of being too forceful in their presentation of their will for
the matter on which they are working. Thus, left to themselves,
they sometimes tend to produce degenerate versions of what they
should have done. Such types are very dangerous within a system
of the Second Ray type, and so they can only manifest here under
the greatest of restrictions. In your present life, and in the
case of your previous incarnation as Dee, these limits were applied
by withholding from you the powers to match your will until you
were sufficiently advanced to restrain yourself. "So the
chief and alternate were chosen, and the lesser adepts who would
fill out the organization of the Knights of Will in the Earth
were chosen, under the recommendation of Sol and Earth, each
for his particular purpose in the scheme. When this was done,
the preparations for the actual closure began. "Now as was
said by Aczinor, during all this time the moon was held in a
psychic stasis in which no actions could occur. The spirit who
inhabited the moon, being healed of his shame and his desire
to rectify the situation on his own, was given over to certain
gods in another system, to continue his training in the methods
that would prevent him from being caught in a similar situation
in the future. This separation of the spirit from the life of
the ethers, the part of his being that had been trapped, was
performed by Aczinor. Being the closest in nature to Luna's spirit
among the Seniors of Jove, who is the manifestation of the synthetic
aspect of Love-Wisdom, it was he who was called upon to draw
away the living substance from the lunar body and to bring it
here to Earth. Sol opened a gap in his stasis, away from the
point where the Lunar Lord was connected to his body, and slowly
he allowed the force of etheric life to flow to that opening.
As it flowed, it was picked up by Aczinor and drawn across the
short distance into the Earth's inner aura. When there was no
life left in the lunar body, the connection between the Lunar
Lord and that body shriveled and disappeared, since no more of
his life could enter through Sol's continuing stasis. Thus he
"died", in the sense that he could no longer be considered
as having a connection with his body of manifestation. "This
all took place many millions of years ago, in the middle of the
Cretaceous period of Earth's history. The absorption of the etheric
substance of the dead brother into the body of the Earth caused
an intensification of the Earth's magnetic field, and in the
etheric equivalent of that field, her life-aura. And as a consequence,
the amount of radiation coming into the Earth was substantially
reduced. This purely physical effect was the first stage of the
Earth's closure. Coupled with a reduction by Sol in the physical
radiation output from his body, this caused a climatological
change which eventually resulted in the extinction of the major
animal forms then inhabiting the Earth. The was part of the Earth's
plan, this change being the first of the methods by which the
animal bodies would be put under stress to force their evolution.
"The Earth was not fully closed at this point, but the time
of closure followed soon upon it. The adepts of will came to
Earth, and the first of their tasks was to make use of the new
force of the dead brother to complete that closure. "Before
this could be done, preparations had to be made. In order for
the Earth to experience the work of the adepts in the manner
decreed by Sirius, each adept had to be fused on one level with
her energies, in a marriage of spirits. On a cosmic level, this
fusion took place through a process analogous to the sexual process
in humans, which leaves a permanent connection between the participants.
In effect, and speaking very loosely, the Earth allowed herself
to be raped by these adepts, allowed them to take into themselves
the essence of her spiritual substance, and to place that substance
completely under each adept's individual control. She became
the whore of these man-gods, accepting all that they thrust into
her, and giving all that they took from her, without expression
of her own will, completely passively. To allow the adepts this
freedom on her, she had to concentrate her consciousness to the
point where her will was completely divorced from her bodies
of manifestation. She concentrated her consciousness in her equivalent
of the womb, her navel chakra, in the mode of receptiveness,
and divorced her consciousness from the rest of her body. (Her
life, of course, continued to regulate the actions of that body
without her attention, in the same way that a human being does
not have to consciously think about the processes of digestion
or circulation of blood in order for those processes to function.)
"The adepts of Will, who at that time were all operating
on the levels of the solar system, now had to create for themselves
the various bodies of manifestation that would allow them to
function in her sphere. These bodies, the so-called Atmic body
of the hindus, and the body that is called the soul, they built
directly out of the living substance of the Earth, forming it
to their Will without regard for her awareness. In doing this,
they created the prototypes, the models, on which the human bodies
of this current day and those more developed bodies to come in
the future would eventually be based. Their very presence in
these levels, and their act of will in forcing the substance
of the Earth into the desired forms, initiated the changes that
would lead to incarnate humans seventy million years in the future.
"From that day forward the Earth progressed and developed
only through her connection with the adepts, as they did their
work within her. Gone was the possibility of her active development
under her own will, until such time as the involutionary force
of the dead brother's ethers was completely eradicated. She now
progressed by reflection of the adepts as they recapitulated
their own paths of initiation within her sphere. This has all
been gone into in much more detail in the visions of the Kerubic
squares, and we need not expand on it any more here. "In
the visions of the fiery lesser angle of the Earth Tablet, it
was shown how a force of Will, represented by the element of
fire, becomes encapsulated when it is forced into the Earth.
This is an automatic effect, requiring no conscious effort on
any being's part. In the instance we are examining now, the force
of Will was the force of the Knights of Will in the Earth, as
they took and manipulated her substance to their own ends. The
force of Will presented by the adepts, particularly by yourself
who was more than an adept though less than a god, caused such
an encapsulation to take effect on a scale that caused the entire
earth to be enclosed within the shell. Thus was the earth cut
off from the heavens, and thus was her sleep within her own womb
made complete. And thus has it continues to this present day,
when the shell is about to be broken again. "And thus also
we complete our own presentation for the moment. More will be
given if you return in the next few days and invoke the next
of the Seniors in the series, Alhctga, Senior of Venus, who will
show how the adepts made use of the forces of involution to force
the development of bodies suitable to the task of destroying
that very force. She will also go more into the developing conflict
between yourself and your alternate, which is the basis for so
much of the religious mythology of later ages. If you have any
questions, ask them now, please." I asked her to describe
the nature and limits of this shell that was formed by the presence
of the adepts. What could enter into it, and what could go. "This
shell is primarily on the levels of consciousness, those levels
that begin with the ego in Netzach, and end with the individual
pattern of destiny in Chesed. The lower levels, which are merely
matter, with no inherent self-consciousness, are open to the
outside. But the energies that can get in even on those levels
are distorted by the aura of the earth in their passage, so that
communication with the outside is problematical and subject to
many errors. On these levels, the shell acts mainly to keep the
involutionary force inside, rather than keeping the outside from
coming in. "On the egoic-solar levels, the shell is two-way.
That is, it keeps all but a few beings of a certain type from
coming into the earth, and also keeps any involutionary forces
that have come that high from getting out. Again, some inward
communication is possible, but it is often distorted. The main
effect is to keep those souls who are on Earth now within her
sphere of action. None who are here can really escape from the
earth, although it is possible to send portions of the consciousness
outwards, provided they are of a sufficiently pure character,
and get back information from outside. But they can not leave
the Earth completely, and can only incarnate within her sphere,
until the shell is broken again. Similarly, souls of the human
type who are outside the Earth's sphere of action can not come
in and join the fun, but can sometimes send projections of themselves
to see what is happening. "On the levels above Chesed, the
shell does not really exist, but the thought-forms created in
the minds of men by the isolation of the lower levels generally
insures that they do not think of the outside without some outside
influence contacting them first. This is changing rapidly in
this present day, though, as the consciousness of space produced
by the space programs and the use of communication satellites
sends men's minds outwards again. The American lunar landings,
and the landings and fly-past missions to the other planets by
our unmanned spacecraft are a sign that the shell around the
earth is deteriorating and will soon fall. "On a physical
level, the shell extends somewhat beyond the orbit of the moon
in the form of an almost- spherical torus. That is, the shell
is closer to the Earth at the poles than at the equator, and
tends to hollow inwards right above the poles. The forces making
up the shell rotate in both a spiral around the center of the
earth, and in a spiral around the ring of the torus, much in
the way that magnetic fields cause electrons to move." As
I did with Aczinor, I asked her to explain the meaning of her
name. She said, "My name, Lzinopo, means `first to come
from the depths', or `first in the lower waters', depending on
context. I am the flowing watery aspect of the Earth, its changeableness
and its physical adaptability. I rule the production of new forms
out of her substance, which is why I was chosen to give this
part of the story which has to do with such creations. Also,
being of the `lunar', receptive nature, I am also of her `mother'
aspect. I represent the link between her and those greater waters
which flow from the womb of Nuit, her correspondence on the cosmic
levels. Thus I am first to come out of her waters into those
larger waters, among the powers that serve her. "Now, do
you have any more questions? If not, I will take my leave. Do
not forget to invoke next the powers of Alhctga, so that the
story will continue in its proper order." I told her I could
not think of any other questions, and gave her license to depart.
(I note here that I had a great deal of difficulty keeping my
mind passive enough to receive this communication clearly. It
seemed that even the slightest evidence of will on my part tended
to distort it a little, so that the grammar became stilted in
places. I suspect that this is due to the reflective, lunar nature
of the force of the Senior.) Alhctga, Senior of Venus in Earth.
4/14/86 I invoked the Senior of Venus in the Tablet of Earth,
named Alhctga. The currents of force felt strong, but did not
show any tendency to produce an image. After several invocations,
the Senior appeared as a woman, dressed in a flowing green and
amber robe (the cloth shimmered in these colors as she moved).
Her hair was a honey-blonde color, worn loose to her shoulders.
On her head was a circlet of copper, with a star of seven points
mounted on the front, covering the ajna chakra. The skin of her
face and hands was a mediterranean olive-tan color. She appeared
to be pregnant, and held her left hand to her belly. Her right
hand was held forward in the same gesture as was shown by Lzinopo
in the previous visions, but nothing fell from her hand. Her
face was middling-narrow with a fine bone structure. A small
satisfied smile creased her face. The hem of her robe was embroidered
with doves and serpents, and an occasional double-headed eagle.
I did the 5=6 signs, and the signs of Set and LVX. She responded
in kind, and then held her hands out to her sides as if inviting
me to come closer and embrace her. I tested her with the pentagram
of Earth and the hexagram of Venus. Neither had any effect except
to brighten the area a little. Testing with the letters also
had no effect. I invited her to speak, and she said, "Come
closer and embrace me, o mage of Will, for I have the power of
the Earth in her fullness within me, and you are the father.
Therefore do I take a mother's right with her mate." I willed
myself forward and embraced her. Her eyes could be seen to be
of a very deep green color, with streaks of olive and amber-brown.
She leaned against me within the embrace for a moment, then stepped
back. She said, "My name, Alhctga, means `closest in spirit
to the Mother'. I am the example of what the Earth's eventual
force within the system will be after her rising. For the Earth
is intended to express the force of Love-Wisdom within the system,
in its reproductive aspect and its desire aspect, where the planet
Venus expresses that force in its egoic aspect, and Jupiter expresses
the synthetic aspect. Since you have caused her to awaken slightly,
therefore is she aware again of the power of her mate, and has
taken some of it into herself. As the force of the union increases,
she passes it on to those of us who are her servants, so that
we might prepare in our own way for the rising that is to come.
You have not yet seen your mate in these visions, and will not
until the day of the marriage, when you again rise into the stars
and take her with you to meet the planetary lives of the system
as a new, greater being than when she laid herself in her womb
to sleep. "Now being of the reproductive aspect of the Earth,
and of her spiritual aspect as well, it is my task to explain
the ways in which the Adepts of Will had their way on her, in
the early and middle days of the hiding, before the appearance
of human beings incarnate in the body. I will show you the ways
in which the adepts used the involutionary forces of the dead
brother of Luna to force the growth of more refined, tougher
forms within her sphere. To begin with, we must again speak of
the developing conflict between you and the one appointed as
your alternate. "In the early days of the Hiding, many thousand
of millennia ago, there were no bodies on the Earth that could
be used for the incarnation of intelligent, self- aware beings.
Since the appearance of such beings was vital to the eventual
elimination of the involutionary force within a reasonable span
of time, the first task of the Knights of Will within her was
to initiate the processes that would eventually lead to the appearance
of such suitable bodies. In terms of its effect on the goal,
this was the least important of the periods of time, though it
was the longest as it would be measured by incarnate intelligences.
These later periods after the appearance in bodies of true human
beings are much shorter. But the intensity of the effects working
now are such that the difference between the earth before the
Hiding and afterwards for many thousands of millennia is minuscule
by comparison. "But nevertheless, this creation of bodies
had to precede the important part of the work, or that work could
never be done. Effectively, the Knights of Will had to create
a situation in which the evolution of the physical animal bodies
would be accelerated several fold. To do this, they had to make
use of the involutionary force of the dead brother. "Now
at this point there came a disagreement over methods, between
you and your alternate. As usual, he was trying in some way to
take away the leadership of the group from yourself, so that
he could be the one who would be the initiator of the Earth's
rising in this present day. Lzinopo has already gone over the
ways in which the powers of the adepts of the Will sub- ray of
the Second Ray, and of the Love sub-ray of the First Ray, could
degenerate or be exaggerated into faults. Both of you, you and
your alternate, possess the faults to match your virtues, and
always have done so. This was inevitable, since neither of you
really had any competition on your own level to slap you down.
"But within the framework of the Earth, you, of the two
of you, has tended to be more cautious and workmanlike in the
manifestation of your force. You being alien to the system's
essential keynote, the system tends to backfire on you more rapidly
that on your alternate and thus you retain more caution in your
actions. Your alternate on the other hand, being comfortable
with and in the Second Ray, tends to jump ahead of himself, thinking
he knows it all and can do whatever he wants without care of
caution. "Now at the point in manifest time of which we
speak, the Knights were discussing the ways in which the involutionary
force could be used to accelerate evolution. Being of the First
Ray, and having experienced the effects of forceful invasion
of your being in the time of your entrapment, you held that the
organism itself must always be held inviolate. That is, that
the involutionary force should never, ever, be merged into the
actual physical bodies of the animals being evolved. Rather,
it should be applied to the organism from the outside, in the
form of rapid and unexpected environmental changes. This would
allow the evolutionary aspect of the Third Ray within the animal
bodies to operate freely in its adaptation to new conditions.
"Your alternate, being of the Second Ray, was inclined to
merge the involutionary and evolutionary forces within the same
body, and to try to harmonize them by balancing their conflict
in the nervous systems of the animals themselves. He felt this
would be more effective than your own method. "As it has
turned out now, your own method was the better of the two, and
was the one that eventually was adopted for most of the surface
of the planet. But at that time it was questionable whether one
or the other was better, since it had not before been tried in
the knowledge of any available source. "Your alternate managed
to convince a large minority of the Knights to support his own
proposal. This group, while not large enough to over-rule your
own decision on the matter, was strong enough to demand that
their own ideas be given a fair test. Therefore two areas of
the Earth's surface, each at that time reasonably isolated, were
designated as test areas. The one given over to your own plans
was the area now known as East Africa. The one given over to
your alternate's plan was the area now known as Australia-New
Zealand. These two land masses, having separated from each other
only recently as geological times go, still had comparable groups
of animals on them. But they were far enough separated that there
would not be any cross- fertilization between them. "So
the two of you and your adherent adepts went to work. Within
the area of Africa you caused severe climatic and geological
changes to take place, using the involutionary force to produce
these changes as you needed them. The food shortages, and the
increased dangers to survival, you believed would cause a rapid
increase in adaptation among these creatures, making them more
versatile and resilient, able to adapt that much more quickly
to future changes. Eventually you hoped to create a creature
that would be able to not only adapt itself to its environment
but to cause modifications of that environment for its own use.
"Your alternate, on the island continent of Australia-New
Zealand, did not indulge in such climatological modifications
to any great extent. He considered them unimportant, and did
not even attempt to control those natural changes that took place
within his area of work except when they became too extreme to
allow his subjects to live. In his area, he attempted to fuse
the involutionary aspect of the Third Ray with the evolutionary,
hoping and expecting that this would create internal stresses
in the animals that would cause their bodies to adapt and become
more refined. Eventually, he hoped, the forces in these bodies
would cancel out completely. Since the amount of involutionary
force within the Earth was much less than the amount of evolutionary
force, his idea was that even after the involutionary force was
entirely canceled (over a period of millions of years in billions
of animal bodies) there would still be enough evolutionary force
left so that the Earth could go back to her original plan of
expression within the system. That this idea was in direct conflict
with the intent of the Earth herself did not bother him, since
there were none but yourself who could prevent him, and you,
being the consummate individualist that you were, would not do
so without at least a fair test. He figured that a fait accompli
would put him on top again among the adepts of the system, and
even Sol would not be able to say him nay. "But alas for
this plan, his system did not work well enough to be continued.
After several million years, a sudden change in climate caused
all the animal life over the largest portion of his work area
to be killed off, and the coming of a desert condition that appeared
to be permanent prevented the remaining animal lives from ever
gaining the needed strength and numbers again. Thus, even his
own adherents decided that his plan would not work and it was
decided to abandon it in favor of your own plan, which seemed
to be working well. "(I should point out here that your
own manipulations of the African climate led to the changes in
his work area. He could have prevented them if he had paid more
attention to the climatological effects, but he had not done
so. You had warned him several times that he should do so, and
predicted the result that came. But he had rejected it as gratuitous
carping on your part. Since you were all now working on a lower
level than before, such emotional reactions were now possible,
and he expressed them in this instance. He blamed you directly
for the failure of his plan, and vowed privately to perform an
act of revenge at a later point in your own work. But he missed
his chance the first time, and after that you were warned and
manipulated his anger to your own ends.) "Meanwhile, the
animals of your own area of work had been adapting constantly
and continuously to the changes you had forced upon them. Many
of them developed sufficiently to be able to survive over ranges
of climate that would have killed any of their predecessors in
less than a day. And not only to survive, but to flourish. The
population had not only increased despite the changes, but had
increased in variety far beyond what you yourself had expected.
Large numbers had even escaped the work area and fled to other
lands, spreading the adaptations far and wide. "Now in view
of their relative success there was no question in the minds
of the adepts that the external-threat system of forced evolution
was superior to the internal-conflict model. So even your alternate
abandoned his project, and went to work to spread the new animal
lives about the globe and to force even more adaptations within
their being. Thus, the modern mammals and birds became the ruling
classes of the animals upon the Earth, and the marsupial descendants
of the alternate's experiment were left to develop as they could
in the new conditions. Some of them did evolve significantly
once the internal pressure of the involutionary force was removed,
but none ever came fully up to the standards of the mammals.
"All of these events took place during what man now calls
the Tertiary period of evolution on Earth. Within that period,
the time of experiment ended about twenty-five thousands of millennia
ago. By the beginning of what is now called the Miocene epoch,
the adapted animal forms had been spread all about the Earth,
and had taken root and begun to adapt even more on their own,
filling every available niche in the ecological pattern. "This
time-scale seems vast from the standpoint of an incarnate intelligence,
I know. But from the point of view of the Adets of Will, it was
more brief than the later period in which human-like beings had
appeared. On the levels on which they were working, time as man
now knows it did not exist, and duration, the rate at which events
are experienced, could be varied widely by the will. So it did
not seem all that long from their viewpoint. "It was only
after the appearance of man-like or ape-like beings that the
work again began in earnest. These being represented the ultimate
in adaptability and nervous-system development of all those animals
that had been forced to evolve. And they had already begun to
use tools on their own, to change their environment, when it
was discovered that their nervous systems had developed enough
to incarnate a human-type soul. "There were several species
that showed potential for full awareness and intelligence, and
it was decided that all of them would be tested and set against
each other to see which would come out best. This testing began
about seven million or eight million years ago, with the appearance
of the first true hominid species, which were small ape-like
beings. It continued in irregular spurts up to the present time,
as one species after another showed itself to be of less than
human potential and was dropped from the schedule. Usually these
beings were rapidly killed off by the competing species who were
still within the testing cycle. "About a million, a thousand
thousand years ago, the last three of these species had been
selected and set against each other in competition for living
space and food. Eventually one of them won out, and became the
only truly human species of Earth. But this species again fragmented
as small populations became isolated from the main group and
began to evolve even more on their own in the less fruitful areas
of the world that circumstances forced them to. With the increased
adaptations that their extreme living conditions gave them, they
eventually migrated into the areas controlled by the main group,
and either supplanted that group or mixed with it, either way
leaving their own genes in charge and causing the weaker genes
of the losers to disappear from the race. This occurred several
times more during the intervening millennia, and each time the
replacing race was stronger and more adaptable that its predecessor.
Eventually we came to a point where all of the animal-humans
were fully capable of holding all of a human soul. Though at
that point the consciousness aspect of the humans could still
not be fully expressed. The lives of men, the connection between
the heart center of the body and the life aspect of the soul
that enlivens the body, had been in place since the first appearance
of the hominids. Now the consciousness aspect, which was present
but rudimentary in the races, had to become fully developed.
"Now at this time on earth, the human souls who lived within
her sphere were gathered into a community on the astral plane.
There was a civilization there that compared favorably with most
of the present-day human societies in manifestation, as far as
human thought and behavior went. Since, on the astral, there
was no inherent need for competition, this society was relatively
peaceful and given to simple human artistic pursuits, along with
the normal interactions between souls that make up the substance
of most lives. There was no pain that was not self-created, and
no horrors of any sort. This would not have been the case if
the earth had been open to the stars in that time. If that had
been the situation, then conflict would have been more prevalent,
as one or another group sensed the force of one or another cosmic
being and attempted to put its energy into practice in their
lives. But the isolation of the Earth made for relative stability
and coherence in the group of human souls. This was the civilization
that is remembered today in the legends of Atlantis, and Mu,
and of other "lost" civilizations. "The manner
in which the consciousness of human souls was forced to come
down into the bodies completely has been covered in the visions
of the Airy Lesser Angle of the Earth Tablet, and we need not
go into it again here. But we should remind you for purposes
of reference that it was you yourself who was the cause of the
fall into matter, and thus it is you who was the proximate cause
of the legends of Lucifer, the angel who fell and carried the
legions of angels with him. This same event was the cause of
the legend of the snake in the garden of Eden, who tempted the
more receptive (and therefore more "female") human
souls to become attracted to matter, and to leave the light of
the sun for the darkness of Earth. "Now in the foregoing
years, before the fall, you had spent several different "incarnations"
on the astral plane, trying to convince the souls there to go
into matter willingly. But most would not hear you, and so you
devised a plan, with the other adepts of the Will, to cause the
fall to take place involuntarily. This was the event that was
described as the act of the child who studied crystals, in the
account of your past lives in the Kerubic visions. "I said
that I would not say much on this, so I had better stop now.
But there is more to be seen in this area before you go on to
the next senior, Liiansa, so you should again invoke me before
that time. I will come to your call, and we will see what remains
to be seen." 4/15/86 I called upon Alhctga again, and she
appeared. This time she was not pregnant, but all other aspects
of her appearance were the same. I did the 5=6 signs, and the
signs of LVX and of Set. She responded with the sign of Set,
and then transformed her body into the various crosses and symbols
of LVX. Then she reformed as a woman and saluted me with the
fire sign. "Hail, o mage of Will, hail to you, and homage
to you! For in the dark of night you have brought the light again
to the Earth, and the Earth rises up in response. "Now during
the previous day, we had difficulty speaking together, and there
seemed to be some inhibition working to make the communication
weak. This is in part due to the fact that you are operating
under a transit of Saturn, but more to the fact that we are here
dealing with energies far beyond what might normally be encountered
in an invocation of these squares of the Tablet. "To continue
with our story of yesterday, we were about to tell of the way
in which you caused the souls of men to become incarnate consciously
in bodies for the first time. "In that time of which we
speak, man was living in consciousness primarily on the astral
levels. Those few parts of his consciousness that had been fused
with the physical body were concerned with the operation and
functioning of that body in the world, its maintenance and basic
survival, and so seemed dark to the larger part of awareness
that remained upon the astral levels. "It has long been
known that the lower levels of the astral reflect the heaviness
and inertia of the lower earth, and the darkness and seeming
evil there acts as a barrier between the incarnate existence
and the astral. This barrier today acts mainly to keep men from
becoming fully aware of their astral life, which they continue
in their dreams but which they do not remember in the waking
incarnate state. "In those earlier times, the barrier's
effect was mainly in the opposite direction, keeping the astral
self from remembering those parts of its being that existed upon
the manifest plane of Malkuth. This barrier was the main difficulty
to be overcome in forcing the fall of man into matter. "You
will recall from the visions of the fiery lesser angle of the
Earth Tablet that the energies of matter have a mode of rotation
opposite to that natural to the higher planes. The friction between
these counter-rotating planes was what created the darkness on
the lower astral, and the barrier between them. "The entire
purpose of the work of the Earth, her plan for the removal of
the involutionary force from the solar system, took on a rapid
increase in activity at this point. Where the previous thousands
of millennia had been given over to the refinement of bodies
through the external-threat model of evolution, now the main
rite of the work must come into being. The involutionary force
had to be placed into the consciousness of man, so that by his
will and his awareness, and his striving to return to the spirit,
it might be overcome and eliminated while at the same time giving
a tremendous boost to the development of consciousness in the
cosmos. Where before the force only acted upon the bodies from
the outside, now it must be incorporated into the feelings and
minds of men, so that the conflict might be resolved forever.
"To do this, and also to get the greater part of the awareness
of each soul down to the level of Malkuth, you took the involutionary
energies and formed them into a vortex, a whirlpool, on the higher
levels of the material plane. Since the involutionary force also
has a rotation opposite to that of the evolutionary aspect in
matter, its rotation was identical with that of the astral levels.
The only thing separating it from the astral before this time
was the intervening evolutionary aspect, and the effect of Saturn
upon this low plane by reflection from his normal place beyond
the Tree of Life. "So you gathered this whirlpool around
yourself on the physical plane (the etheric levels of that plane).
Then by your concentration upon the relation between the astral
and the physical, from a viewpoint on the lower astral, you caused
the effect of that vortex to be drawn upwards through the barrier
that separates the astral from the physical. You opened the gate
into hell for the innocent lives of the early men. That this
was done at the bidding of the planet herself was not known to
them, and so they perceived your action as evil after the desired
effect had been fully achieved. "Having opened the gate,
you yourself were the first to pass through it, leaving behind
the astral to explore the physical through the senses of the
body. Having done so, you returned with reports of what was in
that place, seeking to inspire curiosity and a will to see among
the humans. Some of these responded, and not all by any means
were your fellow adepts of the Will aspect. For even in that
time, when humans were merely a form of angel or deva, passive
to the action of higher forces, some of them by flukes of nature
were prepared for this work and became attracted. "Each
one who passed through the gate and returned to the astral culture
brought with him a bit of the involutionary force. By contact
with the others on that plane, the force was slowly spread throughout
the astral assembly of men. They became infected with the force
unawares, and its effect on them, the changes it made in their
perceptions, were not immediately grasped by them. "But
eventually it became clear to even the most innocent that something
unprecedented was happening. Where before the astral community
had been relatively stable and unified, now there was growing
dissent. Conflicts arose as the perceptions of men were changed
by the experience of the involutionary Third Ray force. What
had once been whole now became divided. Groups of men on the
astral came into conflict, and the way in which the society was
to be governed became a matter of debate instead of natural activity.
Some held for attempting to retain the old state. Some held for
going immediately into matter. Others developed opinions that
were at odds with any type of perception known to man up to then.
"This growing development of conflict is remembered to this
day in the stories of the fall of Atlantis, how the priests of
the different gods fought, and in their fighting caused Atlantis
to sink beneath the waves. This sinking was not the sinking of
a land mass into a physical ocean, as it is usually interpreted,
but instead is the sinking of man down through the astral waters
to the material world. "Having tied nearly all the souls
of men in existence into that vortex through their infection
by the ones who had passed through it, you now did the act which
caused men to fall into matter no matter what their will. Focusing
yourself on the highest levels of the material world, you caused
these souls to be drawn to you through the gate by their connection
with its energy. You caused the vortex to descend from the astral
and this caused a corresponding descent of man. "Having
brought men into matter, on the side of consciousness, you now
closed the door to the astral fully, locking them in until by
the force of will they would eventually break out again. With
the door closed the vortex was no longer needed, and you caused
its energies to be dispersed among the population, each one absorbing
his share of the involutionary force to the extent he was able
despite his desires in the matter. The rest of the force, that
could not immediately be held, was dispersed back into the environment.
"While this event seemed to occur rapidly from a viewpoint
on the astral plane, in the realms where time governs it was
spread over many years, as the souls had chances to incarnate
in the limited number of bodies available. In manifest time,
the event began at the end of the tertiary period, and continued
on well into the quaternary, or most recent, epoch. "At
the same time, the concentrated involutionary force that was
released back into the environment caused a degradation of the
living conditions on earth, through a reduction in the amount
of heat escaping from the Earth's core. This caused the climate
to vary widely, rapidly swinging from hot to glaciated and back
again, putting extreme stress for survival onto the now incarnate
humans. The needs for survival forced the human souls to make
use of that faculty of their being now known among men as the
concrete mind, forced them to make use of their higher faculties
within the limits of incarnate existence. "The involutionary
force in men's minds caused them to perceive each other as enemies,
if they were not already familiar with each other. This time
was one of great killing of man by man, and of tribe by tribe.
The many skulls from this period found by archaeologist that
had damaged skulls are evidence of the severity of the problem.
At the same time, man perceived the involutionary force in his
environment, in the form of the dangers to himself, and the concrete
mind had to be used to devise ways of countering the danger from
both man and world. Thus was born the beginnings of civilization,
in the gathering of men for the protection of each other against
other men and the environment. "In many ways, the conflicts
between men within each group were more intense than the conflicts
with external dangers. For the need for survival caused them
to refrain from killing each other as easily as they killed strangers,
and this restraint let the force build up. It was the effort
to devise ways to live with each other despite the tendencies
of the involutionary force, as much as it was the effort to devise
protection against the outside, that caused the concrete mind
to be developed. "The effort to survive caused thought-forms
to appear on the astral and mental levels, which incorporated
a will to counter the effects of the involutionary force. These
thought forms, slowly built up by the minds of men, acted directly
as a balance to the involutionary force, weakening it and destroying
it a bit at a time. The will-to-survive proved to be greater
than the will-to-death, and slowly man conquered the involutionary
force for his mother the Earth. "By the end of the last
great period of glaciation, about ten thousand years ago, the
battle had been effectively won. Man had learned to survive in
the worst conditions that nature could throw at him, and flourished
in all the environments that could be experienced on earth. Now
the concrete mind, freed somewhat from the essentials of the
battle, began to create new ways of living, different from those
of the animals from which he evolved, which so greatly increased
his ability to survive that he became in truth the lord of the
world that he is today. Truly is man Adonai, the Sun in the Earth,
the light of the spirit within matter, as the Earth had intended
him to be in that long-ago day when the plan of salvation was
devised. "I might mention in passing that he conflicts between
men in this day, between nations and individuals, are merely
the hangovers from this period. The involutionary force is gone,
save for those rare cases when man invokes it deliberately. The
evils that men do are the result of his racial memories of that
time, brought forward into this new age. "It might seem
as if man is more violent than ever in this day, but this is
not the case. The per capita number of deaths by homicide in
this day is much less than even a thousand years ago. And when
it is compared with those early days, there is no comparison
at all. The existence of such great weapons as man can now bring
against man is causing him to become consciously aware, as a
race, that what aided him in his early survival has now passed
its day, and must consciously be removed from his behavior. The
men of those early days, had they had atomic weapons, would not
have hesitated to use them at the first offense. Man in this
day shows his superior state by the fact that, once he realized
the terror he produced, he restrained himself from its actual
use. I have confidence, as do my fellow Seniors, that man will
be able to survive the existence of his own tools, and will remove
them from the world in short order, as circumstances change and
they become unneeded even as deterrents. "Truly do I speak,
and all men should listen to these words: Nowhere, nowhere in
the cosmos (save in your own case, o unique one who writes this)
has consciousness come through such tribulations as man on Earth
has suffered. And nowhere has the conquest of mind been as great
as it has here. Truly has man shown himself to be the child of
the gods, the conquering child who sweeps all before him. All,
even the least of men, have already passed onto the road of the
Gods, and all, even the least, shall tread its path in the endless
going into wonder. Those who say differently, that man must subordinate
himself to the will of the gods, and become as the beasts of
the field in his submission, speak from ignorance, and the blindness
that the closure of the Earth has kept upon him. "Open your
eyes, O Men! Open them, and see that even now, upon the Earth
and in the body, you are gods. Nothing now determines your path
but your own desires and will. Nothing now stops you in your
going save only that resistance of matter that all the gods must
fight against. Fight ye with a good will, and conquer! Let the
light come into the Earth again through your minds, and ye shall
bring that light to the universe at large, and the beings who
inhabit that universe shall wonder at you, and be abased as you
continue to do what they can not, and bring down the light beyond
the Tree into matter. "Other places are there in this universe,
very many, where consciousness does exist in the body, and mind
act upon matter. But in those places, the course of evolution
was of a gentler nature than here, and the minds of the souls
that were like men before the fall were placed into their bodies
directly, by the gentle hand of their gods. None of them, none,
have the strength of being that the least of men shows. None
of them, none, will survive the withdrawal of their enlivening
god from matter, save those on whom man acts in the future years
beyond the opening of the gates to the stars. Those on whom man
acts will partake of his nature, and thus will his strength infect
mind in the cosmos, as the involutionary force infected him in
that long-ago fall into matter. Thus will light spread ever more
abundantly through the cosmos, and the gods shall rise up out
of matter to create endless new universes for the play of evolution
and wonder. "Now, o scribe who is a mage who is a god, we
have done with the presentation of Alhctga, who is myself. We
have taken man from his fall to his rising, and now the course
of evolution is inevitably upwards to the stars. With man's final
conquest of nature, a new phase opens in his history, which is
the phase of the evolution of the mind through the conflict of
the gods who are men. The new phase shall be described in part
by the next of the Seniors in order, Liiansa, whom you should
next invoke. I am proud to have been the instrument of the revealing
of the knowledge before men, and I salute you, the first of the
adepts of Will within the Earth, and I salute all those who have
risen by your acts, the races of man. Let it ever be thus, that
man strives for the light, and leaves behind the darkness, destroying
it by his will. "I have done." Liiansa, Senior of Saturn
in Earth 4/18/86 I recited the calls and invoked the powers of
the tablet of Earth, ending with the Senior Liiansa. Liiansa
appeared before me in vision in the form of a man, rather old
with graying black hair. He wore a black and red robe, with a
lining of dark violet. His feet were shod in what appeared to
be sandals made of some dark, heavy metal. In his left hand,
he held a book, open to a page showing a black tower with a guardian
before its gate. As I watched, he turned the page, and showed
another picture, of the planet Saturn, with the enochian letter
equivalent to "A" under it. I did the 5=6 signs, and
the sign of Set. Liiansa answered with the LVX signs, and also
the sign of Set, followed by the sign of fire, which he indicated
was a salute to myself. I returned the sign. I asked him to speak,
but he did not. Instead he turned to his left, and pointed with
his left hand to a point to my right. I turned, and there I again
saw the image of the planet Saturn. But here it seemed in some
way emphasized that the rings of Saturn actually represented
a hole between levels of existence, and the body of the planet
sat in the hole and guarded it. On closer examination, I saw
that there were forces of some sort coming down from above, and
passing between the ring and the body of the planet. Below the
planet, these forces came out again, but in a different form.
I could see that they now had an ordering to them of a different
type than when they entered. It was as if an inchoate mass of
particles had been bound together into a sort of crystalline
web, which the planet spun out behind it as it moved. I turned
back to Liiansa, and he said: "Welcome again, o mage of
will. Now that we have covered the nature of my being by these
symbols I have shown, let us continue with the story that we
have been telling, of the past of the earth and mankind. "When
you last left off, we were at the point where the involutionary
force had been completely conquered by the desire of men, acting
in the body and upon the earth. The time is just after the last
of the great ages of ice, about ten to twelve thousand years
ago, depending on the part of the world we are considering. "This
is the time which is felt, in the backs of the minds of men of
the present day, to have been the "Golden Age" of man,
that wonderful past that everyone thinks of but no one can identify.
The "good old days", as it were. "Indeed, in many
ways it was a golden age, though from the standpoint of our modern
environment it was a rather harsh time physically. The reason
that it was golden, from man's point of view, is that in that
time, the true opponent of man, the involutionary force, no longer
had a great effect on him, and at the same time, population was
so low, and so spread out over the surface of the earth, that
competition between man and man over resources had not yet begun.
Man took what he willed from the earth, without opposition. "Now
in that time, the culture was much more of a cooperative than
a competitive venture. Man did not have to compete with man,
but he could gain great advantage in life by combining his individual
skills with those of other men, to make life a little easier
for all. Thus the groups of men were cohesive and cooperative,
rather than competitive. "Since the pressure of forced evolution
was no longer on man, and his mind was at that time not distorted
by the teachings and acts of later days, the signs of the spirit
were given openly to man, without concealment or distortion.
For the first time on earth, and for the last time for a very
long time, knowledge of the relationship between yourself, acting
as Set, and the Earth was fully known. The religious symbolism
of the day emphasized this union of yourself and the earth and
expressed it in the ways most relevant to man of that time. "The
basis for their "religion" was the light in the earth.
Man was that light, and you as the Son of the Stars were the
symbol of that light in the minds of the seers. The earth itself
was symbolized by the cave, the womb in the ground, within which
man sheltered, and had his civilization. The earth's womb, as
the caves were considered, was always of the same temperature,
no matter the forces outside, and so it was the best of places
to live. The earth gave these places without demanding anything
in return, and so man saw her as the great provider, out of whom
came all good things. Not only their shelter, but their tools
of stone and their nourishment came from her, and so she was
worshiped as the all-mother. "The religions of that time
were truly magickal in character, and were concerned more with
getting things from the earth to make life easier than they were
with the worship of some god or another. Man felt that the world
would give him anything, if he planted the seed of his need deep
within her womb. "So the priest-leaders of that time, who
were magickians and also were hunters and leaders in the mundane
sense, would travel as far into the earth as they could, deep
into the lowest passages of her caves, and there they would plant
the seed of the need, in the form of pictures painted on the
walls of her womb, and energized by the desire of the heart.
By doing so, they believed that they could cause the earth to
produce exactly those things they desired. And so it often was,
for confidence in action is the key to magick, and their belief
in the efficacy of their actions was absolute. "The artistry
of these paintings is not much appreciated in these later days,
for man now sees these pictures in the light of his bright lamps,
and not as they were intended to be seen. In the light of the
dim torches by which they were created, these pictures seemed
to move, to take on the life of the thing they represented, so
that in the eyes of the magician- priests, they were identical
to their physical counterpart. "In the more southerly climes,
where the caves were not so common, there developed a similar
worship, but using the symbolism of the seed in the ground, which
sprang to life to provide man with food. Thus were the beginnings
of agriculture brought into the world, as an adjunct to the worship
of the goddess, and of her son. "Now the name Set is not
the name by which you were known to these men and women, but
the symbolism they used is substantially the same, within its
limits, as the symbolism we are trying to re-introduce to the
world today in an effective form. The symbolism of the mother
and the son was nearly universal in that time, and apeared in
cultures that had never met each other directly. All of the symbolism
came directly from the sensing of the mages of the story which
we tell now, to the extent that it had been accomplished in that
day. "So this was the golden age, when man was at peace
with himself, and with the earth. It was a period of necessary
rest for the souls of men, after the terrible trials of the previous
thousands of millennia. Conflict existed primarily on a personal
level, and not at all on the social level. That is, group did
not normally fight against group, but cooperated in the tasks
of living. "But this situation was not to last, as we all
know all too well today. And, as in the previous phase of the
cycle, you and the Knights of Earth were primarily responsible
for its ending, and the initiation of the next phase of the Earth's
plan for man. "The golden age was intended also as a sign
for the future, so that men might have in their astral memories
the sense that there was a time at which men did not fight men.
In the earlier phase of the work, the natural desire of the souls
of men to return to the spirit from whence they came acted as
the impetus for the work of eliminating the involutionary force.
Now, in the present day, a new goal had to be created. For now
the Knights were to plunge man into the state of conflict with
man that has continued to this current day, and is still in process
of overcoming. "The reason for this conflict was not to
destroy man, or to cause suffering for its own sake, but to force
man to come to terms with man, to understand himself and others
through the ability to sympathize and feel another's pain. Man
at that time, while in tune with nature, was still not completely
master of himself, as is still the case today with a small portion
of the population. In order to get man to come to this understanding,
he had to experience its opposite. That is, the conflict, the
pains of civilization, would act to cause man to evolve himself
further than nature could force him, so that he gained full control
of his incarnate being. The unification of that being, through
the elimination of both internal and external conflict, would
cause man to eventually express not only the third-ray influence
of Active Intelligence, but also the second-ray influence of
Love-Wisdom, acting as the cause and goal of right human relations.
Man had to learn to live with man in ways that would be beneficial
to all, despite the pressure to conquer and eliminate opponents."
(At this point, I felt that I was having some difficulty getting
the information clearly, and asked Liiansa if there was anything
that might help. He indicated that it would help to use the word
of spirit I had been given, with the first key. But since I was
ill with some infection at the moment, he suggested I stop here
and continue another time, so as to not over- stress my body.)
(Later that evening, I decided that the difficulty was due to
my perceptions not being properly aligned with the force invoked.
To try to correct the problem, I did an invocation of Nuit using
my self-developed version of the VIIIth degree OTO method. Her
relation to the idea of alignment is through the Tarot card now
known as The Star, which shows at its top a star surrounded by
seven smaller stars in a partial circle. I associate the center
star with Polaris, and the seven stars with the stars of Draco,
which were related to her in early times. Since the position
of Polaris is an expression of the Earth's center of rotation,
it represents the alignment of the manifest and unmanifest parts
of existence, the mundane and the "heavenly". It is
also interesting to note that in Achad's Tree of Life, the sum
of the paths of the Supernal Triangle, which has this path as
its base, is 510, the numeration of ThNIN, Draco. (The immediate
effect of the invocation was to relieve me of the stress my illness
had put on me, and to allow me a good night's sleep for the first
time in several nights. Her answer to my request for the missing
key to perceiving this story properly was given to me in the
dreams I had that night, which will be described below.) 4/19/86
11:23 AM I invoked Liiansa using the usual methods. He appeared
to me in vision in the same form as the previous day's, but lacking
the book he had held at that time. Instead, his left hand now
held a phoenix wand, and his right hand an ankh. His skin was
an indigo color today. I saluted him with the signs of Set and
of LVX, and he answered with those signs. Testing him with the
pentagram and the Hexagram of Saturn caused him to formulate
more clearly. He came forward, and called on me to take the wand
and ankh from him. I did so, and asked what the purpose of these
gifts was. He replied, "Now that you have found how to use
the invocatory word of the spirit in its proper fashion, you
are entitled to use these tools, which are the expression of
the spirit of life, and of its return to incarnation in new forms.
Both of these are part of the symbolism of yourself who is Set.
He is the master of life, and the master of death. His power
of going takes men to the stars, where Horus can only touch them
through the sun. "Take these tools, and make use of them
in your rituals of the spirit, and their power will be multiplied
greatly, to your benefit and the benefit of the earth whom you
seek to raise. "Now, let us go on with the story as we have
begun it. Yesterday, we were about to explain the manner in which
intra-human conflict on a large scale was introduced to the world,
in order that men might learn of the power of Love-wisdom through
the expression of its negative side, which is repulsion-conflict.
By exhausting the possibilities of the latter in manifest experience,
they eventually were and are being forced, individually and as
a group, to come to the realization that the former is the higher
expression. "To do this was something you could not do yourself,
as you knew in that time. For your own nature, being of the Will
aspect, was too far from the natures of men to affect them directly.
So, in this time, you decided to turn over the main focus of
the incarnate work, the work in the world, to your alternate.
Being of the Love aspect, in its Will sub- aspect, his expression
was closer to theirs, and so he was better able to introduce
that idea which would eventually result in the conflict you desired.
"How was this to be done? The symbols of the mother and
the self-begotten son were already strong in the earth at the
time we speak of, and had no further need of encouragement to
continue their flow of force into the world. Had this flow been
allowed to continue unobstructed, then man would not have advanced
much further than he had at that time, living a natural life
in a natural world. The association of the mother is too strong
to be overcome without an equally strong opposing viewpoint being
available. The stars of night now had to be masked by the brilliance
of the Sun, who is closer to man but less holy than her. But
the sun is the soul, and the soul is what you sought to bring
men to, through the harmonizing of conflict. "This is where
your alternate came into the picture, as the opponent of the
forces of night, and the proponent of the power of Sol. Sol is
of the second ray of Love-wisdom, as has been said before, and
your alternate in his essential nature embodied that force, as
has also been said. "Even in those very early times, before
the beginnings of civilization, it was known how men and women
united to produce children. But the power of the father was seen
to be merely a stimulus to a process that was inherent in the
female, the manifest aspect of the Mother. Now the father, the
male, had to take on his own power, and understand his own place
as the key to power. In effect, the martial side of life, which
no longer could fully express itself in the fight against nature,
had now to be channeled into higher levels, where it could affect
the course of men's minds and actions towards each other on a
large scale. "And so the first revisionists of the spirit
were born onto earth, and developed, over a period of millennia,
a current opposing the current of the mother. This was the solar
current, with its symbolism of the sun who dies and is reborn,
without the aid of the mother. In later days, this expressed
itself in the temples of Horus, Osiris, and of the Jews and Christians.
It was the system of hierarchical dominance, as opposed to the
natural association and merger of abilities which was the hallmark
of the mother's symbolism. Man fought man, following the ways
he observed among the animals, fighting each other to establish
which should rule, which should be the one to breed, and therefore
to carry on his life into the future. "This was also the
earliest time in which the power of Saturn was raised up to Binah,
figuratively speaking, and the power of the Mother cast down
into Malkuth. The new philosophy denied her her place in the
heavens, and put up the father, in the form of the authoritarian
figure, the so-called "Alpha male", in her place. "The
religions of the mother were not cast down permanently in that
time. For many ages, lasting into the dynastic times of Egypt,
she again came to power for periods. But these periods grew shorter
and shorter as the millennia progressed, and the periods of dominance
by the father-gods became longer, until in these later days,
in the late Hebrew, the Greek (to a lesser extent), and the Roman
and christian religions, she has been effectively wiped out as
a manifest power, even though her adherents and servants continue
to do her work on earth. In fact, their work has been helped
by her loss of mundane power, for her practitioners could develop
their work in secrecy, and with their full attention, instead
of being distracted by the needs of running a civilization. So
her inner power, and that of her child Set, increased substantially
at the same time that their outer power decayed. "You will
recall, from an earlier invocation, your memories and feelings
of a time in the early period of the Egyptian civilization when
you and your opponent were both incarnate at the same place and
same time. The place was a temple of the mother and son in the
southern part of that country. At the time, you were incarnate
as a woman, a senior priestess of that particular cult. One of
the methods by which the cult tried to express the idea of the
mother and son was in the way of having women have children fathered
by their own children, or the children of other priestesses.
In this way, they hoped to produce a son eventually who fully
expressed the power of the mother, being different from her only
in the one gene that caused him to be male. (They of course did
not think of it in terms of genes, but came to a similar conclusion
by direct observation of breeding experiments with animals.)
"In that particular life, the adversary in this contest,
your appointed alternate for the eventual awakening of the Earth
spirit, was incarnate in one of the bodies of these male children.
But unlike most who resulted from such processes, and were conditioned
by the teachings of the temple to accept their place in things
(which was a good one for the times), he, from the first moments
of his conscious selfhood, desired to be free of the influence
of women. He disliked being subordinate to any being, and he
perceived the women, being physically weaker than the males he
saw in the temple and outside it, as being naturally subordinate
to himself. Like the male lion with whom he later has identified
himself, his will was purely to dominance of self over others,
the innate expression of his perceived superiority to men. "As
he grew in that time, and came to his physical maturity, he was
trained in the methods of the temple, in the ritual of uniting
male and female for the purposes of the gods and the priestesses.
His power was so great that he took the training much more rapidly
than most, and by the time he was fifteen, he had accomplished
the full training and become an initiate of the temple. "But,
despite his power and authority in the temple, due to his magickal
skills, he found his new position even more aggravating. He saw
his own abilities as superior to those of all the other temple-
workers, and believed himself to be the natural leader of the
temple. But above him stood yourself, his actual physical mother,
as well as the head of that temple. No matter how great his accomplishments,
it seemed he could never get away from your perceived dominance.
This created great hate, a great force of the rejective aspect
of love-wisdom within him. And he determined to overcome you
by any means possible of accomplishment. "Within the temple,
as we have said, there were many young men. These were educated,
and if found unsuitable for the priesthood were given honorable
positions managing the affairs and properties of the temple.
Many of these latter were also resentful, for reasons like or
unlike those of your opponent. These he sounded out, with a proposition
that they take over the temple themselves, and raise themselves
up as its leaders. He found many who would go along with him
for one reason or another. He also sounded out those outside
the structure of the temple, the hunter and worker classes, and
got many of the strongest of these to agree to his plan. Thus
he obtained the forces needed to conquer the temple. "In
the night he opened the gates of the temple, and called in his
assistants and conspirators. Together, they attempted to slay
all those who came within their reach, so that none would survive
to tell of their evil. But many heard the noise of their attack,
and managed to escape through other entrances. (Tactics was not
one of your opponent's strong points, in that time or later times.)
And so many lived to preserve the knowledge and warn other temples
of the impending change. Many of those who escaped hid within
the temples of other gods and goddesses, in other places, and
as small groups within these temples preserved the symbology
of the mother and son. "Now, on the morning, this one called
forth the peoples of the area, and declared from the steps of
the temple that a new aeon had arisen, in which the elder gods
were thrown down, to make place for the new, chief of whom was
to be the Child of Victory, the conquering child, who he claimed
to embody in himself. Thus was born the first of the "official"
Sun-gods, he who later became Horus. "You yourself were
captured in that raid, by the express will of your son and adversary.
And you became the first of the "official" victims
of Horus, as your son sacrificed you to his new image of the
gods. "Note the irony of this, o scribe! In this present
day, in that last life of his and of yours, did he again attempt
to declare the aeon of Horus, and to absorb the intent of your
will in this time into himself, thus becoming the one to reopen
the earth to the stars. He even dared to adopt your own symbolism
in his effort! The parallels between that time and this are exact,
save that since you were in a male body this last time, he must
needs take out his hate of women upon others in your stead. Nevertheless,
his attack upon your being in that last life, through the magickal
link created by your oaths to him and his organization, are a
correspondence to his slaying of you in that earlier time. The
gods laugh at him, as he stands before them now, exposed for
the fool that he is in his failure. "Yet much of good was
accomplished by him, nevertheless. He never knew of your secret
intent that events happen in just that fashion, in that day as
in this. For Set, who is Achad, the Isolated One, who is yourself,
does keep his secrets well (even from himself, if need be), hidden
on the levels beyond the reach of those that he has manipulated
for the development of man, and the raising of the Earth. "Thus
in that time did he serve your will by bringing the forces of
conflict between groups to a new pitch of intensity, inaugurating
the forceful development of the emotional and mental natures
of man. And thus in this present time, through his will to succeed,
and to be the opener of the stars for man, did he have to revive
the very doctrines that in earlier days he did suppress. Thus
again is he the tool of his own downfall, his actions against
your body in that last life providing the shock that, when its
recoil returned to him, knocked his own intent askew, and left
him sitting on the sidelines in this most important of times.
All as you intended. For never could he see that in death was
your victory, your opportunity to come again in another form
and another place, to continue the fight for the freedom of men
from the subjection of the gods. "Thus also in those old
days, when the priests of the mother and son who had hidden among
the other gods' priests summoned up again in secret the force
of your will, to continue the work. The many tales of Set returning
in the god-forms related to other gods, only to be slain again
by Horus, or by his successor Osiris, reflect the fact that no
matter how hard he tried, in his many incarnations, he just could
not destroy the intent of your work, nor could he make it his
own. He attempted to control the world, through his many god-
forms in many nations, but the more order he brought about, the
more disorder resulted. Thus did Set ever conquer Horus. Thus
did the sacrificial victim become the god, while the slayer was
bound away by his own acts. We laugh at him, laugh and gloat,
at the great one fallen so low! Yet how could he expect otherwise,
with his will bound to an ill purpose from the beginning?"
(All during this speech the astral area in which we stood echoed
with huge laughter, and a feeling of immense humor, coming from
some point not seen. As if the universe itself were greatly amused.)
"Now we are done with the tale that I am to tell, and the
rest of the story of Set and Horus, and their works in the Earth,
will be told by the last two of the Seniors, Ahmlicv and Laidrom,
and by the Sun-King of the Tablet, Iczhihal. "But it might
be good to explain a few things from your own life's recent events,
to show how even in this time has Horus-Osiris attempted in his
feeble way to interfere with your work. "First, I would
like to cover the incidents that took place in Indianapolis.
First, tell the tale of the policemen, then that of the authority
who employed you. Then I will explain for those who read how
these fit with the story we are telling. Finally we will look
at the dreams of last night, which are rather clever answers
by the goddess to your questions, and also show a new bit of
the symbolism of Cancer, as it relates to the work." (I
was still a bit ill this day, and tired rapidly, so I delayed
writing the description, and getting the rest of the presentation
until the next day, 4/20/86.) After the completion of the invocations
described in Touring the Earth Tablet, I was in Indianapolis
on an assignment from my then-employer, the Federal government,
to teach some new employees my job. I continued to work with
the current instigated by the invocations during that time. Set
first appeared openly as an operator in the work while I was
there. The incident with the policemen occurred the first day
after Set announced himself. In the evening, I was in my room
at the Hyatt Regency Hotel, room 1216. It was around 11:00 pm,
and I had settled down to do an invocation of Set using my version
of the VIIIth degree methods. I had also smoked some pot a while
earlier for relaxation, and still had my supply out, but disguised
from view by being in a plastic shopping bag from a local department
store. I had been doing the invocation for some few minutes,
and had a strong feeling of being filled with the force of the
god, when a loud pounding came from the door. I went to the door
and opened it a crack to see who was there. What I saw was two
policemen, one with his hand on his gun and his thumb on the
hammer, and several persons behind him in medical green clothes.
All of them were looking at me as if I were a particularly obnoxious
laboratory specimen they were about to dissect. The cop with
his hand on his gun told me to open the door and let him in so
that he could ask me some questions. I asked him to explain his
reasons, but he refused to give them. I then told him to wait
while I put on some pants. But as I moved to close the door,
he pushed against it and forced his way into the room, followed
by all the others with him. Since there appeared to be nothing
I could do about his forced entry, I got some pants on, and turned
to question him about his purpose. He did not answer, but started
grilling me about what I had been doing that evening, whether
I had made any phone calls, who I had seen, where I was from,
and what I was doing in Indy. I answered every question responsively,
as seemed prudent, and repeated my demand for information after
every question. Meanwhile, his partner looked around the room,
not touching anything, but obviously looking for something actionable.
The second time I protested this, he came back and stood by his
partner. After about ten minutes of this grilling, the cops turned
and left, followed by the others, still with no explanation given.
The next day, I called the hotel management to protest this treatment,
and the lack of hotel security personnel on hand to protect my
own interests. After checking with the police, the manager (who
had never been informed of this impromptu raid) called back to
explain that the cops had had an anonymous call saying that someone
was going to suicide by jumping off the twelfth floor balcony
of the hotel. Since I was the only person living on the twelfth
floor that day, the cops had made a beeline for my room, on the
idea that wrong action was better than no action. The second
incident(s) involved my relationship with my employer. One day
in class, I had been asked some questions about matters of import
to new employees, such as the promotion possibilities, chances
for raises, working environment, benefits, etc. I had answered
these questions truthfully, saying that promotions were becoming
rare, salaries would continue to stay far behind the national
average, benefits were being rapidly eroded, and that the pensions
system was clearly headed for dissolution. Naturally, this caused
more than a little upset among the local management. They wanted
me to tell the trainees that everything was all right with the
government, and that they could expect all sorts of great and
wonderful things to come out of their work. I told them that
if they wanted to have fairy tales told, they would have to do
it themselves, and that I would in the future refer any such
questions to them. About a week later, I was talking with the
local manager, who appeared to be a nice person as an individual,
afterhours at a local restaurant-lounge. She had asked me what
my true feeling about the agency were, and after getting her
assurance that my answers would be held in strictest confidence,
I told her exactly what I thought the problems with the agency
were, and that the problems came from the very top management.
The next day, I found that not only had she not kept the confidence
as she had sworn, but had immediately called the regional commissioner
and blabbed the whole thing. The commissioner came down, along
with one of her assistants, and I found myself in a good approximation
of a star-chamber proceeding. No, more like the Inquisition,
at least in atmosphere. They had gathered, I was told, to decide
whether a person of my clearly heretical views, who had dared
to actually criticize the gods of the agency, had any business
teaching the minds of innocent young trainees. They first discussed
my comments to the class about benefits, trying to convince me
that I was wrong. When I countered by quoting substantial evidence
in favor of my statements, in the form of the documented actions
of their own superiors, and of the current administration, they
gave up on that tack. Then they went to work on the comments
I had made to the manager. These, they said, were the worst form
of heresy, and the only way I could get back into their good
graces would be by recanting the whole thing in writing, and
apologizing in person to those I had mentioned. The fact that
the information was given in strictest confidence, and they only
knew about it through the actions of an oath-breaker made no
difference to them. If I said it once, I could say it again in
the future, with more damaging effect to their reputations, particularly
that of the commissioner who headed this panel. I declined to
do as they told me to do, and matters rested there for the moment.
Two days later I had the misfortune to contract pneumonia from
the usual nasty Indianapolis winter. I called in sick, and mailed
them a statement from the doctor I had seen saying that I would
be too ill to work or travel for at least ten days. On Friday
of that week, two minutes before the close of business, I got
a call from the lowest-ranked person on the office's management
team, telling me that they were cutting off my per diem as of
noon the next day, and I was being reassigned to my home office.
I protested that I was too ill to travel, and asked that it be
extended. In fact, I was running a 103 degree fever at that moment.
I was told that everyone authorized to make that decision would
be out of town until after the end of the next week. I was also
told that they had already called the hotel and told them I was
moving out. So I ended up driving 500 miles, in half-hour segments
so I could rest, half delirious with fever, in the middle of
winter. Being forced to do this added at least two weeks to the
time it took to recover from this illness. It also lead to my
rapid resignation from that organization. I'm too stinking proud
to work for scum like that. Liiansa's comment: "The meaning
of these two events in the light of our tale here should be fairly
clear. It was a last-ditch effort by the forces of Horus-Osiris
to get you off the path of your destiny. Government is of course
heavily Osirian, since Osiris was a black god, and black is the
color of Saturn, and of the astrological Capricorn, which rules
government. "Two attempts were made. These reflect the usual
actions of the Horan-Osirian powers towards individuals, and
they expected you to react in the usual way, giving them something
they could use to either hang you or put you back firmly under
their control. "The policemen are enforcers of the authority
of the government, their powerful arm. So long as police exist,
it is possible for the group that controls them to say 'Do what
we want or we will kill you'. All government, no matter where
in the world you look today, is based solely and deeply on this
principle of forced obedience. Not one of them, not one anywhere,
is truly responsive to the will of the individuals over whom
and in whose name they claim to govern. "Had the force of
the Osirian current had its effect on the anonymous mentally
ill person who made the call to the police a little earlier than
it did, then it is quite possible that you would have been caught
smoking pot, and the amount you held on you at that time would
have been sufficient for a long prison sentence. "But, as
is usual, the forces could not act quickly enough. Never is a
government really able to control events, no matter how hard
it tries or oppresses its people. It always and only reacts to
what is forced upon it. The self-styled "rulers" of
the lands think they are the top of the heap, but in fact they
are whores, dishonest ones at that, incapable of initiating anything
truly new into the world. All they can do is take what the world
throws at them, and try and twist it to their purpose. But never
do they catch up. Always, Set is one step ahead of them, creating
new things to disorder their system faster than they can control
them. This delay is inherent in the force of Saturn that they
have co-opted to their own purpose, though they never realize
it. Thus in this case, the force of Set within yourself, making
you stand up to the police instead of quaking fearfully as they
had hoped and expected, countered the force of the Osirians sent
to derail you again. "Similarly for your confrontation with
your employers. You had already had a full exposure to Set's
force, and nothing their little bureaucratic minds could do,
filled as they were with the fear of ruin by their superiors,
would have caused you to go back to their way of doing things.
Again, it was too little, too late, and so will it always be.
"Now, you took this force of Saturn that had been sent at
you, and used it in the way it was intended to be used, in the
beginning of time. Saturn truly relates to Malkuth, as the barrier
between the Tree of Life and those realms that lie below it,
with which none of any spirit will deal. Being Malkuth, he relates
also to the crystallization or outward expression of the inward
will. And so did you use it, crystallizing your decision to quit
their ways and go your own, which had been building for some
time. "It was no accident that the forces came at you just
as Set, who is Achad, who is the core of yourself, appeared on
the scene. The actions of light, until they are firmly established
in the person, always generate an opposition. It is natural that
this be so, and also convenient, for it forms a sort of final
test of the effectiveness of your work. Had you not actually
succeeded in your intent in the Earthworks, then these things
would not have appeared. So even the shells unwittingly have
acknowledged the appearance of the new master, and again shown
themselves to be the inferior. "Now as to the dreams, I
will summarize them to save time. You had invoked Nuit to find
out the key to what I was trying to say, the concept that would
allow your intuition to understand it whole. The first dream
was short, and only one image is of relevance to our discussion
here. In it, your mother handed you a key, in the form of a small
red obelisk or menhir. You discovered that this key was to a
car. But rather than going directly into the keyhole of the ignition,
it went into a loop that allowed it to be used as a lever, like
a torque wrench, to start the car. "The mother is obviously
a symbol of Nuit, as you have already interpreted it. The key
is a form of the pyramid, representing the path of Shin, which
connects Kether with Tiphereth in your system. The loop it went
into is the yoni, here representing the lower aspect of your
being who is the scribe. "The car is a form of the Tarot
card The Chariot, since an automobile is a vehicle which is powered
by the elements. That is, it moves by burning (fire) in a vaporous
form (air) a liquid (water) derived from the ground (earth).
Exactly as the chariot of the card is drawn by sphinxes of the
elements. So in all, this image indicated that the key you sought
is to be found in the union of spirit-fire with its opposite,
in the sign of Cancer. "Just to drive in the point, you
were caused to awake from the dream at exactly 4:18 am. And the
invocation was done on 4/18. The significance of the date did
not occur to you until you saw the time at which you awoke. "Now
Cancer is a water sign, and therefore has to do with distribution
and dissolution of things in some fashion. In the context of
this story we are telling, we will look at it in a slightly different
fashion than it is usually interpreted. "In the normal interpretation,
Cheth, Cancer represents the dissolution of the lower self in
ecstatic union with the higher spirit. With the lower self gone,
the bodies of the person that live below Tiphereth become a shell,
like the knight's armor, that is empty except for the spiritual
forces, with no real personal self to be seen. This is in accord
with the traditional astrological interpretation of this sign
except that it is on a higher level. "The dream was in part
an acknowledgment that you are achieving this level of union
in your work with Set/Achad. You are almost ready at this point
to reverse yourself and acknowledge that you are indeed as we
have presented you to be, in the Earth Tablet working. Already,
your magickal memory has opened widely, and you have had many
glimpses of your other lives, as they relate to your overall
work and your work in this time and place. These will continue
and improve in clarity and precision as you progress. "But
as I said, the dream was also the answer to your question. Remember
that your purpose at the time we have been speaking of was to
generate a counter- force to the Sirian force ou represent in
the earth, so that by conflict men would come to understand the
causes of conflict and learn eventually to establish right relations
among themselves. "So look at the symbol of the sign of
Cancer. It is made of two lower-case sigmas, one turned upside
down and pushed so that its tail is below the body of the other.
The uninitiated astrologer often says that this is a picture
of the claws of the crab, but this is not the case. The initiate
frequently associates it with the symbol of yin-yang, again associating
it with the merger of opposites. "But it is also a glyph
of the whirlpool, which is a concentration of water into a distinct
form within a larger sea of undifferentiated water. The whirlpool
is a shell-full of air within the water, again relating back
to the Tarot card. "Consider how a whirlpool comes into
being. It is caused by two currents of opposing vector sliding
past each other. The friction of their passage transfers momentum,
changing the vector forces along the interface so that they turn
and become circular in their movement. Your satellites have photographed
any number of these whirlpools where the Gulf stream goes past
the main body of the Atlantic along the east coast of your land.
"In this case, you needed to generate such a whirlpool,
a vortex (to use the magickal term) in the mental and emotional
levels of being, so that the spirit could find a way into those
levels. It is fortunate that you had the ideal method of doing
so immediately to hand, or your work would have been much more
difficult than it was. "Remember that you yourself are of
the First ray of Will, and the sub-ray of Love-wisdom, represented
by the term 'love under will'. Your alternate is of the Second
ray of Love-wisdom, and the sub-ray of Will, so that he might
be termed 'will under love'. So the vectors of your individual
forces, along one dimension, are exactly opposite to each other.
"Your own force, as I have said, was already firmly established
in the minds of men at that time, between seven and eight thousand
years B.C. In order to generate the conflict you desired, so
that man might become conscious of the gods while in the body,
you merely had to give your alternate his head, and allow him
to attempt to fulfill his own plan within the world. Naturally
you did not tell him of your real purpose, but held it concealed
on levels he could not yet reach. Remember your origin, and what
we have said about your level of achievement at the time you
were first called to the Solar system. "Rather, you put
a different face on it, one he would find believable. In a conclave
on the inner planes around 7000 B.C., you informed him and his
followers that it was your will that they take over the next
part of the work, and do it according to their own ways. The
reason you gave was that you had realized that your own type
of force, the First ray, was too far from the consciousness of
men to be effective, and also too dangerous to be allowed into
the world in its pure form. You said that it could only cause
destruction if introduced at this point. Your opponent, expressing
his usual Second-ray faults, believed you implicitly since your
words fit with his own evaluation of the situation. "For
two and a half millennia, you allowed them a free hand in creating
their works. You effectively withheld yourself from action on
any large scale, although you continued to support fully those
who followed your way. But you made no effort to expand your
power base on earth, and allowed your alternate to create in
the minds of men those ideas that would eventually cause a flow
of power along his own lines. "He introduced conflicting
ideas alon two lines that affected yours directly. First, he
emphasized the group over the individual, encouraging the subordination
of the soul to the purpose of the group. Second, he introduced
the concept of hierarchical status, of relative individual value,
to man. That is, he encouraged men to think it natural that one
who is stronger than another, either physically or spiritually,
should dominate and control the other's actions. Together, these
concepts eventually resulted in the form of top-down imposed
structuring that is common to all the civilizations on earth
today, with only small groups actually attempting to operate
on a basis of your own concepts, which are the sanctity of the
individual will, and the cooperation of men for mutual benefit
without coercion. "His current was in effect an overlay
on yours, and your own current was in line with the memories
of the "Golden Age" that all men sense in themselves,
so there was never really a chance that he could overturn your
own current on any level higher than Tiphereth. Too many individuals
would be subconsciously sabotaging his work, even as he did it.
This naturally occurs in any situation where imposed restrictions
take too much away from the individual. Also, biologically, the
human body is suited on an instinctive level to working in groups
no larger than thirty or forty persons, which was the natural
size of human communities for most of the evolution of truly
human bodies. Thus in larger groups there is a natural tendency
towards splintering and separation which acts automatically against
imposed forces. Every government that has ever existed has eventually
succumb to their own largeness. The larger the group or organization,
the more unconscious sabotage occurs, and the more likely it
is that it will come to the end of its existence. The rapidity
with which this occurs is inversely proportional to the degree
of freedom the group allows its individual members. "Now
in this current time we are attempting to redress the balance,
bringing the sanctity of the individual back into the minds of
men, as the forces of Aquarius come into appearance on the lower
planes. This force is associated with the voluntary association
of individuals in groups, on the basis of mutual need and interest.
Thus it is suited to our purpose, as is the energy of the sign's
ruler, Uranus, who represents the principle of individuality,
or the destruction of imposed groupings. "The force going
out of manifestation, that of Pisces, is associated of the dissolution
of the individual into the group. Through its ruler Neptune it
relates to illusion, false prophecy, Maya, inchoate idealism,
etc. Thus the popularity of the Big Lie, and of emotional manipulation
as tools of governance among the predominantly Piscean governments
of the world. Through its other ruler, Jupiter, it relates to
the idea of kingship, of order imposed by fiat or decree that
is characteristic of such governments, no matter their supposed
philosophical base. Note also that Mercury, intelligence and
knowledge, is in its detriment in Pisces. Hence the common demands
by the hucksters of the Christian churches that man put aside
his intelligence and have Neptunian "faith", and mindless
obedience to the Jupiterian rulers of the churches. Contrary
to this, Mercury is exalted in Aquarius, and thus will knowledge
overcome superstition as the currents of the sign takes over
from its predecessor. "Our work and yours, o beast, is to
help man in the transition to life based on knowledge, on gnosis,
by providing invocations and a system of symbolism suited to
the consciousness man will have to adopt to deal with the incoming
age. The rituals and invocations will be given as your sight
develops to the needed degree of clarity to read your own library
on the inner planes directly, instead of through the picture-book
representations we keep for the less well developed. "That
is all we have to say about this, except to say that the other
dream you had, of a man breaking into your room while you examined
a handful of jewels, was merely a reminder. The big man is of
course the cop who broke into your room. The jewels in the hand
relate to the VIIIth degree working you were doing at the time,
with the colored gems representing the chakras you were stimulating.
"Now I am done, and you need not invoke me again, save when
you desire my assistance in some matter in the future. Tomorrow
or the next day, you should invoke Ahmlicv, who will show you
the tasks you put yourself to, while your alternate was working
his will within your secret design. Ahmlicv, Senior of Mercury
in Earth. Invoked 4/23/86 4:54 pm The vision opened upon a region
of air, light blue in color. Ahmlicv appeared. His likeness was
of a stocky youth, wearing a robe-like garment that appeared
to be covered with round, overlapping scales of a silvery blue
color. He wore on his head a crown with small wings, on which
were engraved the sigil of Mercury, its astrological symbol.
His left upper arm was horizontal at the shoulder and cocked
forward about forty-five degrees. His left forearm was vertical,
with the hand open and the palm facing forwards. His right arm
was held down and slightly behind him. I could see the end of
a wand of some sort in his right hand. It looked like a caduceus
without the entwined snakes. His skin looked the color of buckeyes
or chestnuts, perhaps a little lighter. My viewpoint revolved
around him until I could see that on his back he had small wings
like the typical Christian depiction of an angel. I did the signs
of Set and of LVX. He responded with LVX, the Set's sign, then
the fire sign, and then the sign where the arms are held down
and out from the sides at a 45 degree angle. He said, "I
greet you, o mage of earth and fire. Let it be that we become
one, in the telling of this tale of the earth and her masters.
"Now, when you left off with Liiansa, you had come to the
point where you had turned over your main work to your adversary,
so that his more congenial force could produce in man the sense
of conflict between individual and group that has been the source
of all the conflicts of mankind since. At the same time, though,
you were taking on another aspect, that of Thoth, so that you
could produce a tendency to upward motion to add to the cyclic
nature of the conflicts generated. That is, you sought to ensure
that the conflict would result in upward progress rather than
becoming stasified in a circulating current. "This was to
be done by enhancing the knowledge of mankind, and causing his
mind to look ever towards the new things possible in life, rather
than backwards towards the golden age. If the force of your adversary
had been left to itself, it would have caused a regression to
those more primitive conditions again after a short period of
conquest. "Now on the first plane of this system, that which
is represented by Kether in the Tree of Life, and the highest
of the seven planes of the Bailey system, you caused to be formed
an image of the god Thoth, as the god of wisdom and knowledge.
This expression of your will you then brought down into Chokmah,
so that it would reflect your will rather than embodying it.
Thus the lunar aspect of Thoth was born, even though this was
not the strongest of his aspects. But knowledge had to be represented
as complete in itself not tied to either of the conflicting forces,
and so it required both a male and a female aspect in one. "In
one sense, Chokmah is male, in that it balances the definitely
female character of Binah, but in another sense, it reflects
itself into Tiphereth as the son, and is in itself the son on
a higher plane, uniting in itself the femaleness of Binah with
the initiating impulse of Kether. As the son, it balances male
and female, as Thoth balanced the conflict between Set and Horus,
so that neither would ever win in their perpetual battle. This
legend reflects your intent exactly, as does his role as one
of the Lords of the Balance in the Tuat. Knowledge had to be
seen as impersonal, not tied to any one condition or philosophy.
"Now, in those old days, you caused to be created through
the other Knights the Temples of Thoth in Egypt, and his correspondence
was shown in other lands around that same time, give or take
a thousand years. Remember, a thing established on the inner
planes can only manifest in a particular area of the world when
the zeitgeist allows it, so the time differed from place to place.
"Most of this work was not done directly by the Knights,
for the Earth already had a full complement of adepts of the
fifth ray of Intellect, ready to go into action in this very
way. The intellect aspect would have been part of the earth whether
or not the events leading to her hiding had taken place, and
so she had the appropriate kinds of workers available. The part
of the Knights and yourself was to determine the time at which
they would start to work with full force within the world, and
the form of manifestation that they would take in the human kingdom.
Thus your manifestation of the image of Thoth caused the initiation
of this cycle. "Up to this point in history, about four
thousand years before the dawn of the Christian era, mankind
looked at knowing primarily in terms of the passing on of skills.
That is, knowledge of how to do things was considered of primary
importance, and other knowing was considered useless by definition
and was not kept. There were exceptions to this, as there always
are, but on the whole, this was the condition that prevailed.
"Now you had to show that knowing for its own sake also
led to things of value. So the introduction of Thoth as a god
was intended to turn the zeitgeist in this latter direction.
Men were now beginning to develop the abstract mind, and those
who incarnated with strong minds had to have some sort of symbol
on which to support themselves, so that they would not allow
their minds to become subordinate to the conceptions of those
less-developed persons who made up the majority of humanity.
If Thoth had not been there, then peer pressure would have distracted
them from their true purpose into less productive lines. "Now,
the essence of preserved knowledge is in the symbols by which
it is preserved. Word-of-mouth transference of knowledge is limited,
even in those societies where guilds and work groups had formed
to preserve particular sections of knowledge. There is only so
much that one man can hold in his mind, and word-of-mouth transference
inevitably leads to a situation in which some knowledge is lost
with every generation. New things come into being, but old things
are lost at the same time. "Writing, the preservation of
words in a concrete form, which can then be read by many men,
is a superior way of doing things, as all men would nowdays be
willing to admit. Without writing, man could never have developed
the kind of society that he has now. If writing were to be suddenly
removed from the world, all would immediately collapse back into
barbarism. "So the essene of this new tack was to cause
to be developed in the minds of men the idea that symbols could
be made for ideas as well as for experiences. Up to that time
the symbols available were mainly intended to express in visual
form the experiences and perceptions associated with a certain
god, or a certain state of mind. Now man had to see that words
themselves could be made into symbols, and that these symbols
could be understood by all, and not just by those who had had
the experience. "Into the minds of men, then, was forced
this idea. And many responded to it in many parts of the world.
It did not take any incarnations of masters to produce the effect,
although many did incarnate. Men alone and without aid from the
masters and Knights were already of a level of achievement that
they could do the work on their own, given the original impulse
to do so. This latter way was preferable, because then the new
idea became directly incorporated into the zeitgeist, where if
the masters had tried to introduce it by themselves, it would
have been adopted much more slowly. Even as it was, many men
considered writing to be a magick on the same order as the powerful
rituals of the priests. And so it was, and is, but it is a magick
that can be used by any, not just those of talent. "To be
certain, writing was in the beginning mainly the property and
secret of the priestly classes. But once introduced, it could
not be withheld from man. Like the physical Mercury that is named
after the god, it flowed outwards and downwards through the classes,
sneaking through every available crack in the priest's security.
And once it became known, and the advantages seen in such mundane
pursuits as the tallying of stores, then the demand for persons
who could write became so strong that the priests could not do
other than train many and release them into the world. Thus came
into being a new category of man, the scribe, of whom you have
in part chosen to be an example yourself in this life. "The
scribes, the masters of letters and numbers, the translators
of fact into symbol, have been the mainstay of every civilization
that has had them since that time. Through their works, the knowledge
of man has grown, not exponentially, but at a rate that is much
more than geometric. If we were to chart the amount of accumulated
knowledge available to the race since the dawn of consciousness,
for most of the race's history the line would barely be above
the baseline. But with the introduction of writing, the line
suddenly curves upwards. With the invention of paper and ink,
and its spread through the world, the line began to approach
the vertical. With the introduction of easy methods of reproduction,
the line immediately passes through the top of the graph and
out of sight. "In this present time, the number of book-
equivalents of information produced yearly has come close to
equaling the number of people alive in this time. No one, not
even the most intelligent, can possibly comprehend all the knowledge
that is produced in a single year, let alone during a man's whole
lifetime. The universe of the knowable has become as effectively
infinite as the physical universe from which knowing sprang.
Man has created out of himself a new world, one in which he is
the true ruler, and none of the lesser orders can equal him.
He has indeed become a god by his knowing, and even the least
of those who know is guaranteed a place in the universal work
of consciousness. "Strangely, man has not yet realized,
on a broad scale, that this is the case. Most still seem to think
that they live and move in a world of facts, that can be checked
by reference to the world they can see and feel. Bt this has
not been the case for many centuries. It is fair and valid to
say that today, in the developed countries, the number of persons
who live entirely within the world of factual experience amount
to no more than five percent of the population. Even in the least
developed countries, where writing is not the property of the
masses, less than twenty percent of those alive could be said
to be in this category. The rest of them live more and more within
the world of mind, of concepts, and the manipulation of concepts
takes the greater part of their lives. Without realizing it,
man as a whole has raised his consciousness out of the living
world, and taken the first three initiations in the process.
That is, the initiations corresponding to 0=0, 1=10, and 2=9
in the cabalist systems. "There is no man alive today who
has not taken at least the 0=0 initiation, and the vast majority
have taken the 1=10 initiation, and now live their lives with
their consciousness focused on the astral/emotional level. That
they have done so unconsciously and as a part of the great upward
movement of the consciousness of the race-being does not in any
way lessen their achievement. Mankind is now initiated. "Thus
it becomes necessary in this time that men learn those techniques
and viewpoints that will enable them to control their emotions,
and to live focused on the intellectual level. The methods to
do this have been available for many centuries, and in this present
day have more or less become public property. Anyone who has
need of such can easily locate the needed materials in any library
or bookstore. Most men can figure out the needed techniques without
any help at all, by the innate power of their minds. All it takes
is the desire to do so, and a little persistence. "In the
coming centuries, even this amount of effort will become unnecessary.
As the intellectuals of the race become a larger portion of the
population, and true thinkers appear in more and more areas of
life, the needed perspective will become an inherent part of
the zeitgeist, and will be absorbed without effort in the process
of growing up. "All this, from a few men scratching marks
in clay! And now we have reached a point where even the symbolic
equivalents of factual events are becoming of lesser importance,
and ideas about ideas, and about thinking, are becoming more
important. Meta-thinking and meta-language are rapidly being
developed in this present time, and within a few years, probably
within the lifetimes of many alive now, the structure and properties
of the world of thought will be as familiar to man as the physical
world in which he lives. "And as humanity as a whole rises
through the planes to their new focus in Hod, the task of the
adepts has also been raised up a level. In the early days of
man, when you first called the souls of men into matter, the
task of the adepts was to bring about a fusion between the astral
world and the physical world. And this task was the primary task
for many thousands of millennia. Then, in the early days after
the end of the glaciers, the task was to develop the astral powers
of the race, to teach them to become the masters of emotion rather
than the subjects. This was accomplished on a large scale by
the end of the Egyptian dynastic periods, well within the times
of recorded history. And since then, up to the present day, the
task has been to fuse the intellect with the previously-fused
spheres. In the last three hundred years, the task has gradually
been shifting, so that now, and in the immediate future, the
task of the adepts with respect to humanity as a whole is to
teach man to unify the three lower spheres, and to put them fully
under the conscious control of the individual, making him a fully
integrated personality. This latter task is in process, parallel
with the fusion of mind and emotions, and should, if things go
as foreseen, be accomplished for a large part of the race by
the end of the next five hundred years. "There will always
be some, a large minority of men, who do not achieve full fusion
within the limits of this current humanity. These people will
act as the brain of the race-being, the material expression of
the ideas of the race, subject to the direction and will of those
who have achieved higher levels. Hod and Netzach must balance,
and these will act as Hod to the Netzach of the integrated personalities.
"At the same time, this upward progress of the race as a
whole has opened up new horizons for the adepts. Since humanity
is so close to full fusion of the lower levels, the adepts can
now concentrate on the development of the middle levels of the
tree, from Tiphereth to Chesed, which make up the soul of man.
More and more as the years progress, the adepts will concern
themselves solely with events on these levels, and the fusion
of these levels with the lower ones. No longer do they have to
spend most of their time leading the blind majority of men to
their destiny. Man will be able to be self-determinative in the
best sense, and will be able to develop his own methods of right
action within the world, within the limits and specifications
given by the masters. "It will be more common in coming
centuries for adepts to work in their natural field of expression.
And humanity will shortly come to accept that these adepts are
doing something valid for the earth. What, even today, seems
to be an area of blindness that men fear and misunderstand, will
shortly become accepted, and will seem no more peculiar to society
than a man who specializes in some little-known area of knowledge
or science. Persecution will become a thing of the past, as the
emotional types gradually leave incarnation, and the mental types
suited to the incoming Aquarian energies become more common.
Man will change his society so much in the next two hundred years
that any true predictions we make now would seen fantastic and
unimaginable. "This is another reason why your own theme,
that of the advantages of reincarnation to the willful traveler
of the Path, becomes so important at this time. As the changes
in society become ever more rapid, the need to gain new bodies
adapted to the zeitgeist of the times will be ever more vital.
Man must be able to see that if his present physical, emotional,
and mental bodies are no longer able to adapt rapidly, he has
the option to drop that body and reincarnate in a new one, without
loss of purpose, and without developing so- called "bad
karma" as a result. "The only reason why suicide has
ever caused bad results for a person is that he believed it would
do so. The sense of sin in the western cultures, and the false
view of karma in the eastern cultures, created a mind-set that
drew limiting energies to the person. He was punished for suicide
because he believed he would be punished. "Death is every
man's privilege, if I may quote your favorite scribe quoting
someone else. As the truth of reincarnation becomes self-evident
in the next century, the idea that suicide is a sin will gradually
fade, and men will laugh at the naivete of their ancestors, fearing
to kill themselves and get a new body, when they had so many
times an advantage in doing so. "The false view of karma,
which says that man is forced to compensate for past acts in
a current life, must now be taken from man. The true view is
as you have stated it. The acts to be done in any life are under
the full, willed control of the incarnating entity. If he chooses
not to learn fully of a particular perspective on existence,
by looking at all sides of it in the compensatory process that
has been called karma in the past, then he need not do so. "At
the point where man chooses his new body of manifestation, nothing
controls his selection but his own conscious choice. Those who
say this is not so are liars, or self-deluded fools. The will
of man is greater than the false limits put on him by incarnate
minds, and no act of any sort on the physical plane can force
him to incarnate in a particular way in any future life. "However,
this truth does not give license to run roughshod over other
men. All men have this freedom equally, and revenge is a well-developed
concept in the minds of men. If one acts too cruelly towards
one's fellows, injuring them without option of defense, then
that one may find himself in his next lives surrounded by those
who are intent, by their own wills, on making him suffer. "Consider
the case of he who was Hitler, in that recent time. Since then
he has attempted to reincarnate seven times. Each time he has
selected a body without the defects that caused him to be as
he was in that time. But he erred in making the Chosen of God
his victims, for the memory of that people is as long as their
history, and they never, ever, forget an injury. In each lifetime
since then, he has been murdered at an early age, in a cruel
fashion, by the will of those who can not forgive. When they
will allow him to live as a man again can not be said, for as
yet the hate of those who stalk him has not been poured out fully.
"Therefore, it is best, from a practical standpoint, to
not seek to injure others, without allowing them an equal chance
at yourself. When such is the case, all involved will usually
feel that the fight was fair, and will not seek to follow from
life to life for revenge. This is true even if the incarnate
self feels he will never forgive. For the non-incarnate self,
freed from the pain of events, can see with a truer perspective
and act accordingly. "'As brothers fight ye!' So says Liber
Al, and so say I. Let each accord the other his place and will,
and where wills appear to conflict, let the fight be as among
equals, for the pleasure and challenge of the contest, and not
for perceived gain of one over another. "Now, I have done
with my part of this narration which is to be the book of the
seniors of Earth, and have no more to say. But I perceive that,
as with my fellow Seniors, you wish me to state my nature, and
the meaning of my name. "He whose book you have recently
obtained is a talented individual, and worthy to explore the
realms of Enoch. But as is inevitable with a work so broad, errors
creep in. He has been fairly accurate in the definition of my
fellow's names, but in the case of my own he is in error. My
name does not mean 'most ancient one', as he says. Rather it
means, 'youthful in all the ages'. Thus I have carried the spirit
of Mercury, the god of youth, in the Earth through all the times
since the beginning of the planet. And so will I until the end.
I am the fresh green buds of spring, as they come forth full
of life, green from the rains of Pisces and the warmth of Aries,
and the nourishment of Taurus. I am the principle of new growth
in the world, of new things come to lighten the lands after the
time of darkness. I am also the principle of relative value,
and of the objectification of thought. Thus it was my force,
acting through the adepts of the fifth ray, that caused the concrete
mind to be developed in man under the will of the Knights and
masters in the Earth. "Your own group had little to do directly
with the development of the concrete mind in man, save that your
efforts caused the time of its development to be set forward
by many thousands of millennia. Had the Earth not closed herself,
and set the Knights to direct her course through the dark times,
then man would have remained upon the inner planes, and mind
of my sort would not have come until far in the future. Fortunate
is man that he has been put under the hammer of the gods, and
forged into a sword to cut the earth from the ties of her past!
Fortunate is he to have been tortured as the ore is tortured
to get the pure metals out, and fortunate is he that his metal
proved good in the eyes of the Knights, and of their brothers
the gods. Now let that sword be drawn from its scabbard, and
let the Knights direct that sword against the ties that bind
the earth into her sleep in the womb! And praise unto the adepts
of the gods, in all their forms and functions, for they have
been an acid to leach from the ore the last pure drop of metal,
and a flame to make from that metal a weapon fit for the use
of the gods! "Now I am done, unless you have more questions,
o mage of fire and earth." I had no questions, and so gave
him license to depart. Laidrom, Senior of Mars in Earth. Invoked
4.24.86 10:45 am. The vision opened upon an air of a steely-blue
color. Laidrom first appeared as a roman centurion, with back-and-breast
armor, a small circular shield in his right hand and a sword
held point upwards in his left hand. Upon his breast armor there
were the sign of Mars and the enochian sigil of Earth. He wore
a short black tunic under his armor, and shields on his lower
legs. As I watched, his image transformed so that the armor became
a long leather apron, the sword became a chisel, and the shield
became a hammer. On the breast of the apron were the signs of
Mars and the Tau-cross, the former above the latter. His hair
was a red shading to gold where the light hit it. His skin was
of a dark red color, as if he had a sunburn over a tan. I did
the sign of Set and LVX. He responded with Set, LVX, and then
raised the hammer over his head and brought it down in a swift
motion. I asked him to begin his presentation. He said, "It
is not yet time for us to do my section of the presentation of
the seniors, o mage of earth and fire. For there is some other
work for you to do in this time that is more urgent. I would
suggest that you do the invocation of spirit, and then use the
word you have been given to invoke the spirit in its sub-aspect
of fire, the last letter of the word. This is important, and
should be done asap. "But while we are here, I should clarify
the meaning of my name so that this does not distract you in
the other work. My name means 'first among the third angle's
conscious powers'. That is, 'L', first, 'aai', among, 'd', third
angle, 'r-om', with 'om' meaning consciousness or understanding,
and the 'r' being a symbol, a contraction of the enochian word
'rahe', meaning 'willfulness' or 'directed power'. Thus, they
combine to show the meaning I have stated. Now go and do the
invocation of the word and return." I saluted him and left
the vision. ------------------------------- I recited the first
key, and vibrated the word. I visualized the pyramid, which has
three sides of the element of spirit, and the left-hand, west,
side of fire. I entered into the pyramid and waited, vibrating
the name with a will to attract entities who could explain the
nature of the square to me. A column of light appeared in the
center of the pyramid, and began to expand, filling the whole
interior with light. But the visions stopped at that point. I
sensed that the true intent was that I prepare myself for my
visit with some other magicians the coming weekend, by balancing
myself as much as possible under the current transits of Uranus
and Saturn to my astrological pattern. This was so that these
powerful forces would not interfere with the events of the weekend.
4.30.86 I invoked Laidrom with the usual methods. He appeared
this time in the guise of a Knight, with a dark brown horse at
his side. He had his sword in his left hand, and a small shield
in his right. The sword was held upright. I did the signs of
Set and LVX, and he answered with the same, followed by the sign
of fire. I tested with the pentagram of Earth, which made his
image brighter. Now he mounted his charger, and rode towards
me. As he passed, I was drawn up onto the horse behind him. He
said, "We have far to go today, so I have brought this mount
to make the way go faster. Observe as we go, and tell what you
see." He gave the horse a kick with his heels, and we were
off. The first place we came to was a dark plane, with the sky
above it lightening with the dawn. On the horizon ahead of us
was a tower outlined against the sky. As we came closer, I saw
that the tower was cylindrical and did not have any buildings
attached to it. We rode into the tower and came out upon its
battlements. Here Laidrom said we should dismount for a moment.
On the plain below, I saw a number of small dark creatures scurrying
about. Closer examination showed them to be scorpions. They dressed
themselves into ranks, and turned to the tower. I saw thm raise
their claws in an imitation of the sign of Set. Then they rose
upon their hindmost pair of legs, and gave a fair imitation of
the signs of LVX. Observing them, I asked Laidrom of the significance
of this place. he said "These are the ranked powers of the
sign of Scorpio, which is Set's sign. Though we are in the earth
tablet, we have come here as the first step on today's journey
of discovery. For the powers of Set are your own powers, and
must be invoked and absorbed before we pass on to other places.
I bid you, go down among the ranks, and accept their salute."
I mounted the horse, and rode down the tower and onto the plane,
drawing up before the first rank of the scorpions. There I dismounted
and went forward. The lead scorpion, who stood a half-length
in front of his fellows, came forward and placed his left claw
into my right hand. Thereupon his sting jetted forth venom, covering
both the claw and hand. They melted into each other, and then
the scorpion melted into my astral body. I felt a thrill of power
as it did so. The other scorpions came forth in turn, and each
did the same. There were seemingly endless ranks of the beasts,
but the process took only a few moments of time. As I absorbed
the ranks, there appeared about me a storm-like charge of power,
filling out my aura with its force. I could see flashes like
lightning bolts along the outer shell of the aura, and a whirling
wind sprang from nowhere bringing with it rain and thunder. I
myself changed as the power increased. My skin turned a dark
olive color that looked almost black in this half-light, and
I felt myself changing into the image of a man in the short kilt
and collar typical of egyptian deities. I requested a mirror,
and saw that my head had become the head of a grazing beast of
some sort that I did not recognize. The skull was long and ended
in a horse-like muzzle. The ears were small, and in the position
the head was held on the body they were above and forward of
the horns. They twitched in short arcs. The horns went out horizontally
from the sides of the head, and then curved upwards. Each was
about the same length as the thickness of the head. In my right
hand I held a staff of life, a phoenix wand, and in my left hand
I held an ankh. Now the mirror vanished, and I was again on the
plain, which was now almost empty of the scorpions. One or two
of them were headed out over the horizon, but I did not pursue
them. I turned to the horse and saw that it had also changed.
Where before it had appeared as a knight's horse, thick-bodied
with strong legs, suitable to carry a great weight, it now had
more the aspect of the arabian type, a racer rather than a charger.
Its mane was lifted up in spikes, as if an electric charge were
held in it. Its skin and hair was now black in color, instead
of the previous brown. The horse gestured with its head in a
way clearly intended as an invitation to mount. I did so, and
the horse returned me to the parapet of the tower. There, Laidrom
mounted again, and we took off into the sky. As we passed on,
he said "Now you have absorbed the force of your father,
the God Set, who is Achad, and we can go on to other things.
The image in which you found your body is the image of Set, with
the head of the beast that is his sigil. Use this image if you
would invoke his force at any time in the future." Now we
were passing through a realm of silvery- gray, with patches of
fog swirling around, so dense they looked almost like steel.
"This is the original realm of your brother-god, Typhon,
on one of whose horses you now ride. We will not see him this
time, for he is involved in another work elsewhere at the moment,
but he lef for you this mount, as a gift to his brother. In the
group working of last weekend, you invoked the Dark Hunt of the
Sidhe, which is the image of Typhon in the lands of the Celts,
your ancestral clans. Their relation to Typhon is clear from
the whirlwind-like way in which they appeared and flew around
the circle, and in the way they rose up to heaven and off to
the south at the end of their appearance. The horse who remained
and nuzzled you is this horse on which we now ride, in one of
his more playful moods. He also nuzzled your friend Kenn, in
order to show that his own work has a part in the release of
the minds of men from the tyranny of the Osirian priests and
authorities. Thus we praised him and recognized his value in
this way." Now we came out of the silvery area, and into
another which was of a more normal aspect. Here there was green
grass growing, and trees full of fruit and nuts. The horse stopped
beneath a tree, and we dismounted again. He went aside a pace
and cropped the grass. Still in the aspect of Set, I turned about
in a full circle. To the east the sky was blue, and showed the
rays of the sun slowly rising over the low hills there. In the
south it was still dark, and lightning flashed in the clouds.
To the west the ground rose and then dropped away, so that it
appeared that one could step off the edge directly into the realm
of the stars, which shone brightly. The space between them seemed
to be living, and projected a sense of extreme depth, passing
into dimensions different from the one we were in. To the north,
a great wheel revolved in the sky, its center in the position
of the star Polaris. The ground beneath us was rich with the
remains of plants, compressed into peat, and directly above,
a small cloud lingered, shielding our sight from the sky there.
I willed it to move, and saw behind it a deep abyss, a door seemingly
entering into nothingness. My consciousness was riveted by this
hole, this rip in space, and it seemed to pull me towards itself.
I resisted, and asked Laidrom to speak and account for these
images. "The hole above is the abyss which is your brother
Typhon, the gate to the worlds beyond the worlds of light. He
is not the entry into that lower darkness beyond the roots of
the tree, as the later egyptians taught, but rather is the entry
way into that larger world of which the manifest Tree is the
reflection and body. Let us mount again and go to it." We
did so, and as we did, he said "The other images were of
your place as Set within the symbols in the minds of men. Set
is the pole-star, the force of light entering into the earth
through the tunnel in her magnetic shielding that exists at each
pole of rotation. Around that star is the constellation Draco,
frequently attributed to Nuit, or to the mother-goddess who is
the Earth. The pre-dawn light indicates his other aspect, as
the god Kephra, the god of incarnate light in the darkness, the
light within all men that enlivens them and drives them back
to the spirit with its painful prodding. The stars to the west
are of course the stars and space of Nuit, the higher mother
from whom Set was born into the Earth. The south is the realm
from which we just came, the realm of Typhon within the earth.
" We had continued to rise towards the abyss while he said
this. Instead of becoming darker in its immediate area, it became
lighter, until the space about us was filled with intense brilliance.
"The abyss of Typhon appears to be dark to the eyes of the
lower worlds, for its light is beyond the range of man's senses.
But as we come nearer, and adapt to it, it shows its true character
as the light which powers all existence." As we came closr
to the abyss, I saw within it little squiggles of light, like
the sigil of the astrological sign of Aquarius, save that these
were in constant motion, flashing about within the limits of
the gap. They also reminded me of the wavy visual effects that
sometimes precede a migraine headache. Laidrom said, "Typhon
is related to the powers of the planet Uranus, and the sign of
Aquarius. Uranus is the power within atoms, that constantly changing
force that takes on the aspects of all the sub-atomic particles.
Each can change from one to another while retaining the same
energy as its essence. This ability to change rapidly from one
thing to another is the mark of Typhon. Since the Horan-Osirian
priests saw change as destruction, and did not appreciate that
change is also development and unfolding of life, they saw him
as evil, as a devil like unto yourself, and caused his image
to be changed within their culture to reflect their fears. Now
in this time has he come forth in the minds of men as your precursor,
your herald, pointing out his true nature to man so that he might
have the perceptual and conceptual base to manifest your own
energies. He combines yourself and Nuit in an unfolding tension,
not merging the two, but holding them separate but intensely
involved. Thus the flashing images of the energies bounding between
the poles within himself." Now we drew very near to the
gap. It took on the aspect of a great wall, looming above us
to infinity. We plunged between two sets of the energetic lines,
and out into darkness. On the far side, my consciousness seemed
to be in two places at once. Part was still within the astral
body, and another part stood off at a distance, apparently being
held there by another consciousness greater than itself. I saw
myself, Laidrom, and the horse as tiny figures, just barely visible
above the gap, which itself seemed very small. I got the sense
that they were being observed by beings of a much greater scope,
who surrounded the hole and looked at the world through it. One
among them was very close to the hole, and I could feel that
his being was bound into a spherical shape. From him radiated
a sense of god-like tranquility and unconcern with self. His
spherical body was of an intense blue color, and this color seemed
to transform by synesthesia into other forms, a sound like a
triumphal organ note, a feeling of warm fatherly protectiveness,
a taste like the rich taste of fine dry sherry. Others beyond
him manifested other colors. One was the red of Mars, and a line
went from him to Laidrom. Another was mirror-like, a reflecting
stillness that could be vitally fluid when appropriate. Yet another
like the sudden rush of green things from the ground in spring,
throwing out life in abundance. And another like a dark stable
cube, who moved not, yet held all movement within himself. Beyond
them yet was another like the light of the Sun, brilliant yellow-gold
with the internal certainty of one who rules by divine right.
Beyond them were many others, going off into the distance on
all sides. Only those closest to us were silent and observing.
The rest talked among themselves in tones of many instruments,
so that their voices made an harmony like the best of orchestras
playing a song of grandeur and magnificence. Now my consciousness
was separated from the one who held me above my body, and I saw
him as the incarnation of the force of Typhon into a conscious
entity. His color was a sort of yellowish green that could not
be focused on. It changed as one looked at it so that it did
not register on the mind directly, but only as a memory after
the fact. My own consciousness was still dual, one part in th
astral body in the form of Set, and the other, no longer held,
taking on a form like those of the gods surrounding me, but not
so large. My own note seemed to be triple in character, one part
like a flute, one like a bassoon, one like a trumpet volley.
But all three were the same in some way. The part of me that
was still on the horse asked Laidrom to explain this thing. "The
bodies that surround you are the bodies of the planets on their
true plane of existence beyond the realms of the manifest Tree
of Life. They live here, and send their energy into the world
through the worlds in which they attach themselves to matter.
"Now they have come here to welcome and help the one who
will bring to man the consciousness of their true nature, which
is the nature that man will take on the star-roads, and to see
that he is connected properly with his own body within their
realm. "You are a marvel to them, as you are to all within
the greater realms who have seen you. Of these before us, only
one, he who manifests as Uranus, has managed to manifest a nature
which is of three different natures at once. The others are all
triplex as well, but manifest only one or two natures among their
three aspects. Uranus must do so, for he powers the Tree of Life
in its existence, but he has come to his threefold nature by
another route than you, and only came to it after many universes
full of experience, and on a much higher level. That you have
managed to do so while barely out of the Tree is the miracle
that they marvel at. "Of course, we speak here of that fullness
of being that is not yet completely within your self- conscious
aspect, and not alone of the scribe who writes these words and
comprises two of those aspects within himself. The third aspect
is yet the largest of the three in power, and can not yet be
comprehended within your incarnate perceptions. "Because
he is the only one who is of the three natures of yourself, Uranus
was the only one who could hold you in place and avoid the premature
merging of your excarnate consciousness with your incarnate consciousness.
Thus he did aid you to protect yourself in those first moments
when your body came into this world, so that it would not be
destroyed by an inflow of power. Now, that larger part of yourself
is holding back on its own, giving you just as much of its awareness
as you can absorb at this point." Laidrom directed the horse
towards the Sun, who stood behind those others. At the same time,
that larger sphere of self went into orbit about the sphere of
Sol, each orbit drawing it closer in. It intersected the lower
aspect once on each orbit, so that its spiral path and our straight
path progressed inward at the same rate. As we approached the
sun, an image began to form out of the center of his sphere.
It was the image of a king upon his throne, as in the card called
The Emperor in the Tarot. Its throne was lacking the symbols
of the Ram that are in the card, and in their place had the symbols
of the Lion and the Dove. As I watched, this king raised the
scepter that was in his left hand, and pointed it towards me.
He also raised high the orb in his right hand, and shook it towards
me. A golden fluid sprang out of it, and covered me and the horse
fully with a sheen like oil. Laidrom, I noted, had jumped out
of the way as this was done, and then come back to stand in the
air beside me. This king now spoke, saying, "Thus do I anoint
as my herald the one who has been the aid and comfort of my daughter
in her times of trial. He shall come before me in the Courts
of the Stars, in the place of honor in our procession to the
marriage of the daughter and that one who is beyond me, as I
am beyond her. Let him be seen by the gods as the promise of
all men who live within her sphere, for they shall duplicate
his state in their own beings, a legion of miracle workers to
aid in the development of life and light in all our realms. "Now
let him see himself as I have seen him in his place in the Earth,
and let him know his place truly in these coming days, so that
all shall know, within and without her sphere, that man has come
to his adulthood, and is ready to seed the stars with his incredible
qualities of light. "In him, I have given unto man the sign
of his future, and a guide through the darkness of the days of
the Hiding. Let them see him, and know that they themselves are
as he is, when they rise into the realms of the gods. Let no
man deny another his place within this realm, for all are ready,
and all shall come in their own time to their own place of honor
within these hallowed halls of the gods. Let all take joy in
the prospect before them, and let all rise as they chose to the
tasks that await them. "One life has he who is my herald,
one life in three aspects, that cover the Tree of Life in its
fullness, and go beyond into the stars of the Greater Night who
is reflected in my daughter. "Go now, o man who is a mage
who is a god. Go, and return to your world and body. As the days
progress you shall see that here I have spoken a truth, a truth
that should be known of all men who hope to be greater than they
are. Let them know that within themselves, though they perceive
it not as yet, they also are of a threefold nature and one life,
and shall be in their own way as ou are in yours, new gods, created
out of time and space to work their will within the universe.
Go now, and be blessed. I shall call you in that day to come
before me to the courts of the stars, and all shall honor you,
and your men of earth, as they honor our child in her own achievement.
Yea, honor shall come to all, within the Courts of the Stars.
"Be ye gone now to your place." The part of myself
that was outside the astral body seemed to be locked onto the
sun in some way, so I performed the sign of Hoorpokrati to reabsorb
it. Yet a part still seemed to be within the aura of the Sun,
and remained there as I willed the horse to turn, and pass through
the abyss of Typhon into the worlds of the Tree of Life. As we
passed through the Abyss of Typhon, it receded into the distance
again, leaving us suspended in light above the landscape from
which we began our passage outwards. Laidrom was still in the
air beside me, and directed me to land upon the peat fields.
We did so, and I dismounted again. I noted that I was still in
the god-form of Set, which seemed to have maintained itself without
any attention on my part throughout this working. I needed a
few moments to gather my wits again, so I examined the wand that
I held. It was a phoenix wand, as I had perceived earlier, but
rather than being in the standard form of such wands in the Egyptian
cults, it was a staff of ebony wood, with a phoenix rising in
flames mounted on its top. The flames seemed to flicker and flow
down the staff as I watched, covering my hand and arm with its
power. After a few moments, the fires dispersed into the general
glow of my aura, and I began to feel more normal again. The ankh
that I held in my other hand looked to be of some metal that
was extremely hard, and had a blue sheen to it. The hardness
reminded me of platinum in some way, and the blueness of refined
uranium. Sparks flashed frequently through the glow that surrounded
it, and also flashed up my arm and into my heart center. I got
a sense of increased life in the heart as this occurred. Now
I turned to Laidrom, and asked him what was next to be done in
this time. He said, "We are done, except for a small explanation
of what has occurred." He gestured, and an image of the
temple that I constructed from the Tablet of Earth appeared before
us. "In the course of these visions, you have been generating
the force to fully charge the parts of the temple within which
the gods are said to reside. Your previous efforts, viewing the
Kerubic squares of the tablet, had the effect of charging the
pillars of the temple, which enclose between them the part of
the temple given over to man. Thus in these two series have we
completed the construction of the temple in truth, so that now
you stand as the exemplar of the path which that temple describes,
fully able to manifest all its levels and functions. "The
parts of the temple attributed to the sephiroth need not be invoked
at this time, although I am certain that you will do so at some
time in the future, simply for the sake of consistency and completeness.
But in fact they have already been invoked in their essence in
the invocation of the pillars. For note you, the lowest of the
sephirotic squares of each angle, which sum up the powers of
the sephirotic crosses, are placed in the temple exactly upon
the intersection of each angle's kerubic squares, as they are
grouped to form the pillars of the temple. Thus, the invocations
of the pillars also served to manifest a sufficient amount of
the sephirotic energies that a new set of invocations is not
needed. "The tour of the paths of the Seniors within the
Earth Tablet is completed. Within this tour, we have given you
knowledge of the course of yourself within the earth, and the
course of man under the tutelage of the Knights of Will in the
Earth, who are also known as the Knights of Set and the Mother.
We have shown how man was forced to develop along lines not originally
intended for him, and how the many tortures man has gone through
have all had the purpose of raising him higher, to a greater
kind of being than he would have been had not the earth conceived
her plan of salvation for the solar system. "We have also
stressed the importance of knowing, of the intellect and higher
mind in the development of man in these later days, and how that
mind has caused the evolution of man to proceed at a pace that
outstrips anything that has been within the cosmos, in its current
cycle. Let men not abandon their minds, but use them fully. Let
the forces that hope to hold them in the passions of the lower
astral be done away with by their will. Let them abandon the
falsehood of faith for the certainty of self-obtained gnosis,
and let the limiters of Horus and Osiris be damned to the hells
they have created to generate false fears within the hearts of
men. "Fear not, o men and women of Earth! Fear nothing!
Ye are gods, and the gods do not force their will on their fellows.
Fear not the forces that seek to oppress you within your incarnate
existence, for their hold is only as long as the incarnate life,
at the worst. And when ye are free of the body, ye shall know
the evil they do is a transitory thing, with no lasting hold
upon ye, save if ye believe their lies. Instead, fight them!
Declare their falsehood before your fellow men, and offer man
the truth of light in place of the dead darkness. They who do
these things to you with a conscious will shall not survive the
Earth's awakening, but shall be shattered into shards and shells,
and discarded on the trash heap of existence, to rot and molder
away from the realms of life. They who oppress you due to the
delusions laid upon them by those men shall see their error,
and beg forgiveness of those they have injured. Ye who know and
seek of the light can not be permanently injured by them, so
long as ye fight them. Death is not the end of existence, but
its beginning. "Fear not death! He is your final refuge
from their power, should ye be set against in battle. Ye shall
return therefrom to continue the fight, ever confounding they
who hope to hold the world in stasis for their own benefit. They
can not abolish you, for ye have the power of Set within you.
No matter how many times they kill you, ye shall return in another
form, ever confounding them with the new, driving them to the
ultimate hells of their own creation when they realize that it
is they who are lost, and not ye. Never surrender! Ever seek
to do your will in the world, free from the shackles of the mass
emotions they seek to control you with. "Those who fight
alongside ye are many more than ye might comprehend. Many are
the forms the god-men take within the world, more by far in non-magickal
modes than those who have their will to seek the direct experience
in Light, through the means of magick. Deny not a man his place
as your fellow-soldier, simply because his ways are not yours.
In the freedom of Set's path, all can do their will without conflict.
Let those who seek freedom simply for the honor of man in the
world, or for the freedom to do business unhampered, or for many
other reasons, be recognized as your brothers in spirit, doing
a work that is parallel to your own, with its own place within
the future community of man. Each area of life requires its own
types of warriors to free it from the thrall of Osiris and Horus.
Fight ye your own fight, and encourage them in fighting theirs,
whether or not it fits with your own work. "I, who have
the power of Mars, the warrior, within the Earth, tell ye this.
Ye have nothing to fear, save submission to the will of evil
men. Be the gods that ye are, and ye shall triumph. Let it be
so. "Now, o man who is a mage who is a god, I have done
with my part of this story, and all ye have left to do is to
complete it by the invocation of the Sun- king of the Tablet,
Iczhihal, who is the summation and director of us all. Proud
am I to have been the instrument of this message to men, and
proud shall I be to fight with those who hear these words and
take them to heart. Never shall I, or any of the Seniors of Earth,
abandon man to the will of Osiris the Devil-god. Always shall
we be there, to strengthen the hearts of those who seek freedom,
and to aid them in the fight of spirit against the deeper darkness.
This, ye men, I do swear before ye all, and may I be torn into
pieces, and those pieces scattered beyond recovery, should I
ever break this oath." (Scribe's note: The invocations of
Iczhihal mentioned above were done, but the results were not
satisfactory, and so are not detailed here. Apparently, the Yetziratic
character of the Elemental King makes it difficult to manifest
his force in the form that these visions of the Seniors have
taken. The Seniors themselves are Briatic in nature, and manifest
somewhat more easily.) When he said the words "seat"
and "throne", there was a second voice sa ying the
enochian word "thild", which Dee translated to mean
both these words. These invocations have never been obtained.
At the present (9/92) I am assuming that the promise that they
would be acquired was simply a distraction until events allowed
me to understand my true will more clearly. I suspect that this
statement is a bit of Jupiterian humor. The many moons of the
system are included among those bodies called planets, for purposes
of this statement. On the physical plane, these two beings were
represented by a pair of mutually orbiting black holes. The currents
mentioned are equivalent to the gravitational stresses between
two such objects. At the time I was working with Paul Solomon
in 1973, there were two per sons named David associated with
his group, known as the Fellowship of the Inner Lig ht. One,
David Railly, seems to have been the reincarnation of the biblical
King David. The other, whose name I have deliberately forgotten,
seemed more an avat ar of Loki, though I never found out for
certain. It is the latter person who is mentioned here. The tower
in this case is the tower of the elements, Malkuth, and the guardian
before it is Saturn in his capacity as guard of the gate to the
worlds below Malkuth. Caer Benoic, the "four-sided castle"
of the Grail myths, is a congruent symbol. The enochian letter
Un, equivalent to the English "A", is attributed to
Taurus, kerub of Earth, in the G.D. system of symbolism. Hence
th e second page indicates Saturn of Earth, the character of
Liiansa. Saturn is again shown in Malkuth, as the crystallizer,
or cause of outw ard expression, of subjective concepts. The
May, 1986, issue of Scientific American (distributed about two
weeks after this section was completed), contains an article
about this period of time which substantiates the claims made
here. The article also clarifies that man at that time had developed
a complete, workable system of life that allowed him to live
in relative comfort and safety throughout the year. The technology
of the period was highly developed for the materials they had
to work with, and the society, while completely egalitarian,
was thoroughly effective in achieving the set goals. The article
also supports the statement made later in this section that hierarchical
systems of status did not appear until two to three thousand
years later. The defective children of either sex were killed
humanely (that is, qui ckly and without warning) as soon as their
defects were detected. The priestesses fe lt that they were merely
following the Mother's way in this, and taught such. Liiansa
neglects to mention here that the idea of suicide, the purporte
d cause of the police invasion, is related to Set. Suicide relates
to Scorpio, Se t's sign, through the scorpion that stings itself
to death, and also directly in th at Set has frequently made
his own murder an intrinsic part of his plans for a giv en lifetime.
Thus the anonymous caller was telling the Osirian authorities
that Se t was up to something on the twelfth floor of the hotel,
in a direct symbolic fashion. He apparently spoke better than
he knew, to my present great amusement |