Script Treatment 2
by Iona Miller, (c)2014
Count St. Germain faces personal and metaphysical dilemmas
against a background of a dying, corrupt, Western culture, at an environmental tipping point.
Catastrophes recorded in ancient sources were traumas common to all mankind.
Purged from common memory they are now interpreted as allegories and the trauma submerged in the unconscious. Now, we are awakening from collective amnesia,
wondering when we can expect the next catastrophe.
against a background of a dying, corrupt, Western culture, at an environmental tipping point.
Catastrophes recorded in ancient sources were traumas common to all mankind.
Purged from common memory they are now interpreted as allegories and the trauma submerged in the unconscious. Now, we are awakening from collective amnesia,
wondering when we can expect the next catastrophe.
Note well in the art of our magistery, nothing is concealed of the Philosophers, except the secret of the art, which is not lawful to be revealed to any man, for he that should do so would be accursed. --Rosarium
Genuine or “traditional” initiation leads to a transformation of the candidate,
he or she becomes another, whereas modern forms of initiation are sterile and
thus unable to cause this change.
"God is reality itself" ~Carl Jung
he or she becomes another, whereas modern forms of initiation are sterile and
thus unable to cause this change.
"God is reality itself" ~Carl Jung
Walter Bruneel http://www.walterbruneel.com/
MORE THAN METAPHOR
Count St. Germain
Myth, Music, Magic, & Media
by Iona Miller, (c)2014
ALTERED EGOS
Count St. Germain is a fascinating figure. Rumored to be (at various times) Cartaphilus (the Wandering Jew), immortal, and an alchemist, an occultist, a vampire, and, in modern terms, "the real Doctor Who." He is enshrined in history, and fiction -- as a Mason, a Magus, a scientist, a healer, a musician, a spy, a jeweler, a visionary -- and romantic hero. Madame Blavatsky mentions a "Cypher Rosicrucian Manuscript" in his possession. The Triangular Book is such a manuscript of Solomonic magic, under the sigil of the Dragon. The Latin word draco is Greek δράκων, (drákōn, gazer).
THE PRIMORDIAL DRAGON IS CHAOS
The Count acquaints himself with great pretension with the secrets of nature, the transmutation of metals and jewels, and the prolongation of life and youth. His extended mid-life crisis is a quest for the Holy Grail. The polymath plays the Great Game of global architectronics as maestro, art dealer, gem hunter, spy, natural philosopher. As an astronomer, he creates his own fine lenses, discovering little-realized threats in the sky -- maybe the very dragons of old.
Perhaps such dragons as Tiamat and her poisonous children are the very things hidden in the sea and deep beneath the earth, as his secret cypher book implies. Humanity once knew the struggle of titanic forces as a gargantuan war in the heavens. But none of this Enlightenment, or worldly success, or romantic conquests assuage the loss and nostalgia for his soul mate, who is not really of this world. He is caught in perpetual conflict between his personal and transpersonal, mortal and immortal desires.
SOROR MYSTICA
The Soror Mystica, (Anima Mundi, the muse, genius, genie, daemon, holy guardian angel, etc.), works with the alchemist while he mixes his substances in his retorts. She is the Sister in Mystery. In alchemical lore these two work together seeking the philosopher's stone, or Holy Grail - brought together by invisible choreography. The alchemical partnership seeks, in essence, to find each person's own divinity through the conscious assistance of another. We never quite know for sure if the Count is courting another mortal woman or his muse in yet another guise.
In the process of transformation, the creative binaries emerge and begin their interaction designed to bring about the coniunctio or alchemical union. In this ultimate union, says Jung, the previously confined light is redeemed and brought to the point of its ultimate and redemptive fulfillment. They mirror back all the aspects of the other's soul which lay hidden; aspects which either taint or cloud the polished vision through which the divine could otherwise see clearly through human eyes. Finally, there is a mystic wedding or hierosgamos. It is a forbidden love which can only be fulfilled outside of matrimony. The physical becomes transformed into ritual. The product of this forbidden love is the Androgyne, the Total Being, all of whose centers of consciousness are now awakened -- The Dragon.
SECRET KEYS
To unlock the secrets of St. Germain, we have to think like an alchemist, think like a Rosicrucian, think like a Qabalist. The main purpose of the Great Work is to create a transcendent, miraculous substance variously symbolized as the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of Life, or the universal medicine (panacea). Death and rebirth is a natural cycle and cosmic pattern.
Isis was called the "Black One" because of her association with fate and the mysteries of death. The ancient name for Egypt was "Kemi," which translates "Black Earth." The Arabs called Egypt "Al-Kemi" and the ancient art of alchemy practiced in the ancient Near East and medieval Europe was probably derived from this name. Jung relates her identity to Sophia, and as Isis she was reputed to possess the elixir of life from earliest times as well as being adept in sundry magical arts. She was also called the Old One, a pupil of Hermes, or even his daughter. She appears as a teacher of alchemy . . . She signifies earth, according to Firmicus Maternus, and was equated with Sophia . . . She is . . . the vessel and the matter of good and evil. She is the moon . . ."the One, who art All." (Carl Jung, Collected Works Vol.14, 14-15)
TRANSPSYCHIC EXPERIENCE
Under the guise of liberating the light confined in matter, alchemists endeavored to redeem the spirit or psychic energy locked up in the body and psyche, freeing energy for spirituality. The symbolic life leads toward ecstatic demolition of the ego and liberation of transcendent nature. But the way is precarious and no certain goals are ever in sight. The old self dies in rebirth to an unconditioned mode of being. The initiate creates a new body, a Body of Light, a spiritual body -- a vehicle of consciousness.
SYNCHRONICITY
Synchronicities are those moments of "meaningful coincidence" when the boundary dissolves between the inner and the outer. At the synchronistic moment, just like a dream, our internal, subjective state appears, as if materialized in, as and through the outside world. Touching the heart of our being, synchronicities are moments in time in which there is a fissure in the fabric of what we have taken for reality and there is a bleed through from a higher dimension outside of time. Synchronicities are expressions of the dreamlike nature of reality, as they are moments in time when the timeless, dreamlike nature of the universe shines forth its radiance and openly reveals itself to us, offering us an open doorway to lucidity.
Synchronicities are cystallizations in linear time of a nonlinear, acausal, atemporal process, windows into the realm outside of time and space, a world in which we ourselves are active participants in and of "the one creative act." Synchronicities are both timeless and temporal, which is to say they are possessed of a double nature with regard to time. Synchronicities can be deeply religious and mystical experiences, expanding our sense of who we imagine we are and transforming our intimate relationship with ourselves. Synchronicities are expressions of the dreamlike nature of reality. Synchronicities are both the vehicle through which and an expression of the fact that we are waking up to the dreamlike nature of the universe. Being genuine wake up calls from the awakened part of ourselves, synchronicities are emanations of the part of ourselves that is waking up projected into time.
Synchronicities are a reflection of the deeper, underlying nonlocal field of consciousness waking up to itself through us. The gift of synchronicity cannot be realized from the point of view which imagines we exist as a separate person who is "other" than the field in which we are arising. Jung and his patient's shared synchronistic event was a living experience of being connected to something greater than themselves. Synchronicities are acute outbreaks of the archetypal, collective mind-field crystallized into our personal sphere through the third-dimensional medium of time and space.
Synchronicities are glimpses of transcendental unity, what in Latin is called the "unus mundus," the one world. The unus mundus is the unitary and unifying realm which underlies, pervades and contains all dimensions of our experience. The unus mundus, just like the deeper, dreaming Self, is a psycho-physical reality, a universe beyond time and outside of space in which psyche and matter are inseparably co-joined as interconnected parts of a deeper, unified field. The unus mundus is a world in which we have already woken up. It is a realm beyond duality, beyond the opposites, beyond even the concept of beyond. In the unus mundus, opposites like matter and psyche form the outer and inner aspects of the same transcendental reality. Revealing its designs through events in the outer world as well as the psychic landscape within, the unus mundus is actualizing itself in time as we divine our wholeness through the synchronistic clues encoded within the fabric of experience itself.
Paradoxically, synchronicities are a living, unmediated materialization of our unconscious, while simultaneously being a nonlocalized manifestation of the part of us that's waking up into a more expanded consciousness. Like a genuine symbol, synchronicities are utterances of the soul, as they contain, are an expression of and unite the opposites. Synchronicities are soul-making in action. Synchronicities occur when we step out of the personal dimension of our experience and access what is called the archetypal dimension of experience. When an archetype gets activated within us, it nonlocally constellates itself outwardly in the surrounding field. Conversely, when an archetype is activated in the seemingly outer field, it simultaneously constellates and is a synchronistic reflection of the same activated archetype within ourselves.
An activated archetype's magnetic field-of-force orders and organizes the entire field to synchronistically re-arrange itself so as to embody the archetype "in form." Synchronicities occur at times of deep archetypal excitation in the field, which is to say moments of crisis, transition, creative tension and dynamic intensity. The archetype that gets activated by the field precipitates itself into the field as a synchronistic expression of the very field which activated it. Periods of disturbance in our world are both a manifestation of and trigger for a corresponding archetype in the collective unconscious of humanity to draw to itself everything it needs to synchronistically render itself visible in form. Times of distress, both individually and collectively, catalyze a deeper, self-regulating and healing archetypal process to awaken within the human psyche which simultaneously expresses itself throughout the whole universe.
Count St. Germain
Myth, Music, Magic, & Media
by Iona Miller, (c)2014
ALTERED EGOS
Count St. Germain is a fascinating figure. Rumored to be (at various times) Cartaphilus (the Wandering Jew), immortal, and an alchemist, an occultist, a vampire, and, in modern terms, "the real Doctor Who." He is enshrined in history, and fiction -- as a Mason, a Magus, a scientist, a healer, a musician, a spy, a jeweler, a visionary -- and romantic hero. Madame Blavatsky mentions a "Cypher Rosicrucian Manuscript" in his possession. The Triangular Book is such a manuscript of Solomonic magic, under the sigil of the Dragon. The Latin word draco is Greek δράκων, (drákōn, gazer).
THE PRIMORDIAL DRAGON IS CHAOS
The Count acquaints himself with great pretension with the secrets of nature, the transmutation of metals and jewels, and the prolongation of life and youth. His extended mid-life crisis is a quest for the Holy Grail. The polymath plays the Great Game of global architectronics as maestro, art dealer, gem hunter, spy, natural philosopher. As an astronomer, he creates his own fine lenses, discovering little-realized threats in the sky -- maybe the very dragons of old.
Perhaps such dragons as Tiamat and her poisonous children are the very things hidden in the sea and deep beneath the earth, as his secret cypher book implies. Humanity once knew the struggle of titanic forces as a gargantuan war in the heavens. But none of this Enlightenment, or worldly success, or romantic conquests assuage the loss and nostalgia for his soul mate, who is not really of this world. He is caught in perpetual conflict between his personal and transpersonal, mortal and immortal desires.
SOROR MYSTICA
The Soror Mystica, (Anima Mundi, the muse, genius, genie, daemon, holy guardian angel, etc.), works with the alchemist while he mixes his substances in his retorts. She is the Sister in Mystery. In alchemical lore these two work together seeking the philosopher's stone, or Holy Grail - brought together by invisible choreography. The alchemical partnership seeks, in essence, to find each person's own divinity through the conscious assistance of another. We never quite know for sure if the Count is courting another mortal woman or his muse in yet another guise.
In the process of transformation, the creative binaries emerge and begin their interaction designed to bring about the coniunctio or alchemical union. In this ultimate union, says Jung, the previously confined light is redeemed and brought to the point of its ultimate and redemptive fulfillment. They mirror back all the aspects of the other's soul which lay hidden; aspects which either taint or cloud the polished vision through which the divine could otherwise see clearly through human eyes. Finally, there is a mystic wedding or hierosgamos. It is a forbidden love which can only be fulfilled outside of matrimony. The physical becomes transformed into ritual. The product of this forbidden love is the Androgyne, the Total Being, all of whose centers of consciousness are now awakened -- The Dragon.
SECRET KEYS
To unlock the secrets of St. Germain, we have to think like an alchemist, think like a Rosicrucian, think like a Qabalist. The main purpose of the Great Work is to create a transcendent, miraculous substance variously symbolized as the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of Life, or the universal medicine (panacea). Death and rebirth is a natural cycle and cosmic pattern.
Isis was called the "Black One" because of her association with fate and the mysteries of death. The ancient name for Egypt was "Kemi," which translates "Black Earth." The Arabs called Egypt "Al-Kemi" and the ancient art of alchemy practiced in the ancient Near East and medieval Europe was probably derived from this name. Jung relates her identity to Sophia, and as Isis she was reputed to possess the elixir of life from earliest times as well as being adept in sundry magical arts. She was also called the Old One, a pupil of Hermes, or even his daughter. She appears as a teacher of alchemy . . . She signifies earth, according to Firmicus Maternus, and was equated with Sophia . . . She is . . . the vessel and the matter of good and evil. She is the moon . . ."the One, who art All." (Carl Jung, Collected Works Vol.14, 14-15)
TRANSPSYCHIC EXPERIENCE
Under the guise of liberating the light confined in matter, alchemists endeavored to redeem the spirit or psychic energy locked up in the body and psyche, freeing energy for spirituality. The symbolic life leads toward ecstatic demolition of the ego and liberation of transcendent nature. But the way is precarious and no certain goals are ever in sight. The old self dies in rebirth to an unconditioned mode of being. The initiate creates a new body, a Body of Light, a spiritual body -- a vehicle of consciousness.
SYNCHRONICITY
Synchronicities are those moments of "meaningful coincidence" when the boundary dissolves between the inner and the outer. At the synchronistic moment, just like a dream, our internal, subjective state appears, as if materialized in, as and through the outside world. Touching the heart of our being, synchronicities are moments in time in which there is a fissure in the fabric of what we have taken for reality and there is a bleed through from a higher dimension outside of time. Synchronicities are expressions of the dreamlike nature of reality, as they are moments in time when the timeless, dreamlike nature of the universe shines forth its radiance and openly reveals itself to us, offering us an open doorway to lucidity.
Synchronicities are cystallizations in linear time of a nonlinear, acausal, atemporal process, windows into the realm outside of time and space, a world in which we ourselves are active participants in and of "the one creative act." Synchronicities are both timeless and temporal, which is to say they are possessed of a double nature with regard to time. Synchronicities can be deeply religious and mystical experiences, expanding our sense of who we imagine we are and transforming our intimate relationship with ourselves. Synchronicities are expressions of the dreamlike nature of reality. Synchronicities are both the vehicle through which and an expression of the fact that we are waking up to the dreamlike nature of the universe. Being genuine wake up calls from the awakened part of ourselves, synchronicities are emanations of the part of ourselves that is waking up projected into time.
Synchronicities are a reflection of the deeper, underlying nonlocal field of consciousness waking up to itself through us. The gift of synchronicity cannot be realized from the point of view which imagines we exist as a separate person who is "other" than the field in which we are arising. Jung and his patient's shared synchronistic event was a living experience of being connected to something greater than themselves. Synchronicities are acute outbreaks of the archetypal, collective mind-field crystallized into our personal sphere through the third-dimensional medium of time and space.
Synchronicities are glimpses of transcendental unity, what in Latin is called the "unus mundus," the one world. The unus mundus is the unitary and unifying realm which underlies, pervades and contains all dimensions of our experience. The unus mundus, just like the deeper, dreaming Self, is a psycho-physical reality, a universe beyond time and outside of space in which psyche and matter are inseparably co-joined as interconnected parts of a deeper, unified field. The unus mundus is a world in which we have already woken up. It is a realm beyond duality, beyond the opposites, beyond even the concept of beyond. In the unus mundus, opposites like matter and psyche form the outer and inner aspects of the same transcendental reality. Revealing its designs through events in the outer world as well as the psychic landscape within, the unus mundus is actualizing itself in time as we divine our wholeness through the synchronistic clues encoded within the fabric of experience itself.
Paradoxically, synchronicities are a living, unmediated materialization of our unconscious, while simultaneously being a nonlocalized manifestation of the part of us that's waking up into a more expanded consciousness. Like a genuine symbol, synchronicities are utterances of the soul, as they contain, are an expression of and unite the opposites. Synchronicities are soul-making in action. Synchronicities occur when we step out of the personal dimension of our experience and access what is called the archetypal dimension of experience. When an archetype gets activated within us, it nonlocally constellates itself outwardly in the surrounding field. Conversely, when an archetype is activated in the seemingly outer field, it simultaneously constellates and is a synchronistic reflection of the same activated archetype within ourselves.
An activated archetype's magnetic field-of-force orders and organizes the entire field to synchronistically re-arrange itself so as to embody the archetype "in form." Synchronicities occur at times of deep archetypal excitation in the field, which is to say moments of crisis, transition, creative tension and dynamic intensity. The archetype that gets activated by the field precipitates itself into the field as a synchronistic expression of the very field which activated it. Periods of disturbance in our world are both a manifestation of and trigger for a corresponding archetype in the collective unconscious of humanity to draw to itself everything it needs to synchronistically render itself visible in form. Times of distress, both individually and collectively, catalyze a deeper, self-regulating and healing archetypal process to awaken within the human psyche which simultaneously expresses itself throughout the whole universe.
COUNT ST. GERMAIN -- AN EPIC MALE
We enter his borderland world of myth, metaphor, subtle forces, dream states, and anomalous states of awareness. That is where the nature of the true temple exists, the invisible temple -- The Temple of Living Light. In his youth, St. Germain learned the archaic wisdom in the finest Hermetic library, under the protective tutelage of the de Medici family.
Eventually you realize there is a library of knowledge being shared. But such treasure is guarded by a Dragon. Its contents are boundless and timeless, the sum of all there is: universal codes of energy, ancient systems of knowledge, rhythm, measure and proportion, and how these are applied at any given moment.
THE STONE OF GOD
The Great Year Precessional cycle is the meta-pattern. The Lathe of God, the Millstone, the Great Wheel revolves inexorably through its cycles of the sacred geometry of time -- the Ages. The secret language of symbolism, of the Gods, of the Birds, etc. gives alternate meanings to superficial content, using puns, homophones, correspondences, etymological derivations, emblems, sigils, numbers and symbols. These alternate meanings form a cypher text of hidden teachings. Symbols are partly divine, are penetrated with it, and are in the alchemical process of transmutation. This is both a physical and a spiritual quest.
COSMIC SCIENCE
Sun = Gold = Stone = Immortality
Like the Holy Grail, the dragon is a symbol for the repository of knowledge. The Grail Quest is also called Opening the Eye of the Dragon. Grail and Dragon traditions are that we should be at one with the earth and not presume dominion over it. The Grail has a cosmic dimension of meaning unequivocally described in the texts themselves. There is an inextricable bond between the stars and man’s destiny; "as above; so below". The alchemical Orobourus is the serpent who, in consuming itself, has become a Dragon. Evolution concocts the "universal medicine" in a "special fire".
The Grail represents a universal theme of knowledge or gnosis which has vanished and must be found or invoked again for the redemption of life on earth. Blood royale becomes diluted over the course of generations. It requires revitalization in the hieros gamos for its bearer to remain worthy of the perogatives of divine rule, serving as the intermediary between mortal humans and the gods, between heaven and earth. Renewal completes the great round of life/death/rebirth in the living adept. Consciousness is the root of identity -- centered on gnosis and transcendent consciousness.
DECIPHERING SECRET LANGUAGE
This hidden meaning is revealed by symbols, images, characters and events that make up the Holy Grail narrative, which includes The Wasteland, when Britain was scathed by meteoric heat in the legendary Camelot era. Grail symbols include a chalice, cup, cauldron or platter; Messianic, holy or sacred blood; a man’s head on a platter; a quest for something hidden or lost; King Arthur, the Round Table, the Templar Knights; Eye of Thoth; a bleeding Lance; fertility of the landscape; royal dynastic lineage; troubadours; courtly love; angels; rejuvenation, the universal medicine; the Divine Feminine; dragons; rains of blood, and -- a stone fallen from heaven. (video montage with narrative)
ARCHETYPAL EYE IN THE SKY
Perhaps the Grail mythos is a carefully composed code, or cryptogram, deliberately disassembled to conceal, preserve and transmit. The modern Grail quest is the attempt to recover and reassemble the symbolic components to reveal the original structure in its entirety, to restore the coherent whole in scientific terms of the Big Picture or overview.
DISCORD ABOVE; DISCORD BELOW
Arguably, this was a big part of St. Germain's own quest, and the reason he had an observational tower in Hessen-Kassel, where he put his significant astronomical knowledge to work. Historical stronmy was preceded by at least 50,000 years of shamanic observations of the heavens. Great comets had been reported in 1680, 1744, and 1882, among others. There he kept his eye on the sky even as the Eye of Thoth penetratingly stared back from above the backdrop of constellations.
Why has the idea of something like a dragon arisen in almost every culture around the world? There is no evidence of living classical dragons, yet the morif is common in most civilizations around the world. Ancient Greeks collected fossils to worship in their temples as Cyclopes, Monsters, and Giants. The legend of the gold-guarding griffin sprang from tales first told by Scythian gold-miners. In the the Gobi Desert at the foot of the Altai Mountains, they encountered the skeletons of Protoceratops and other dinosaurs that littered the ground.
If dragon-like predators never existed with humans, why is it so commonly recognized and feared? According to Jung’s principles there must be "something" about this symbol that arose from a genetically stored memory in our collective unconscious. At some point in our evolutionary past something imprinted our response to a dragon symbol so that, with no foreknowledge of this predator and without having ever seen it ourselves, we can all still recognize a dragon and label it as dangerous. Maybe that is because it actually came from above.
What could it have to do with St. Germain's secret magic book, the Triangular MS, which begins with the symbol of a rampant Dragon? Is it his bloodline? His secret society? His ally? His nemesis? His god? His salvation?
In Solomonic magic, demons are bound by placing them in the Triangle of Art; perhaps dragons are, too. The Great Work of alchemy transforms an ordinary mortal into a self-realized immortal. It is a technology of regeneration.
Some claim the Grail is a symbol for a lost technology of individual, social and planetary regeneration. The Grail Quest then, is an allegory for the search and eventual recovery of this technology for the restoration of both the debilitated king and the devastated kingdom that has devolved into an infertile wasteland -- a "Doom Messiah".
We enter his borderland world of myth, metaphor, subtle forces, dream states, and anomalous states of awareness. That is where the nature of the true temple exists, the invisible temple -- The Temple of Living Light. In his youth, St. Germain learned the archaic wisdom in the finest Hermetic library, under the protective tutelage of the de Medici family.
Eventually you realize there is a library of knowledge being shared. But such treasure is guarded by a Dragon. Its contents are boundless and timeless, the sum of all there is: universal codes of energy, ancient systems of knowledge, rhythm, measure and proportion, and how these are applied at any given moment.
THE STONE OF GOD
The Great Year Precessional cycle is the meta-pattern. The Lathe of God, the Millstone, the Great Wheel revolves inexorably through its cycles of the sacred geometry of time -- the Ages. The secret language of symbolism, of the Gods, of the Birds, etc. gives alternate meanings to superficial content, using puns, homophones, correspondences, etymological derivations, emblems, sigils, numbers and symbols. These alternate meanings form a cypher text of hidden teachings. Symbols are partly divine, are penetrated with it, and are in the alchemical process of transmutation. This is both a physical and a spiritual quest.
COSMIC SCIENCE
Sun = Gold = Stone = Immortality
Like the Holy Grail, the dragon is a symbol for the repository of knowledge. The Grail Quest is also called Opening the Eye of the Dragon. Grail and Dragon traditions are that we should be at one with the earth and not presume dominion over it. The Grail has a cosmic dimension of meaning unequivocally described in the texts themselves. There is an inextricable bond between the stars and man’s destiny; "as above; so below". The alchemical Orobourus is the serpent who, in consuming itself, has become a Dragon. Evolution concocts the "universal medicine" in a "special fire".
The Grail represents a universal theme of knowledge or gnosis which has vanished and must be found or invoked again for the redemption of life on earth. Blood royale becomes diluted over the course of generations. It requires revitalization in the hieros gamos for its bearer to remain worthy of the perogatives of divine rule, serving as the intermediary between mortal humans and the gods, between heaven and earth. Renewal completes the great round of life/death/rebirth in the living adept. Consciousness is the root of identity -- centered on gnosis and transcendent consciousness.
DECIPHERING SECRET LANGUAGE
This hidden meaning is revealed by symbols, images, characters and events that make up the Holy Grail narrative, which includes The Wasteland, when Britain was scathed by meteoric heat in the legendary Camelot era. Grail symbols include a chalice, cup, cauldron or platter; Messianic, holy or sacred blood; a man’s head on a platter; a quest for something hidden or lost; King Arthur, the Round Table, the Templar Knights; Eye of Thoth; a bleeding Lance; fertility of the landscape; royal dynastic lineage; troubadours; courtly love; angels; rejuvenation, the universal medicine; the Divine Feminine; dragons; rains of blood, and -- a stone fallen from heaven. (video montage with narrative)
ARCHETYPAL EYE IN THE SKY
Perhaps the Grail mythos is a carefully composed code, or cryptogram, deliberately disassembled to conceal, preserve and transmit. The modern Grail quest is the attempt to recover and reassemble the symbolic components to reveal the original structure in its entirety, to restore the coherent whole in scientific terms of the Big Picture or overview.
DISCORD ABOVE; DISCORD BELOW
Arguably, this was a big part of St. Germain's own quest, and the reason he had an observational tower in Hessen-Kassel, where he put his significant astronomical knowledge to work. Historical stronmy was preceded by at least 50,000 years of shamanic observations of the heavens. Great comets had been reported in 1680, 1744, and 1882, among others. There he kept his eye on the sky even as the Eye of Thoth penetratingly stared back from above the backdrop of constellations.
Why has the idea of something like a dragon arisen in almost every culture around the world? There is no evidence of living classical dragons, yet the morif is common in most civilizations around the world. Ancient Greeks collected fossils to worship in their temples as Cyclopes, Monsters, and Giants. The legend of the gold-guarding griffin sprang from tales first told by Scythian gold-miners. In the the Gobi Desert at the foot of the Altai Mountains, they encountered the skeletons of Protoceratops and other dinosaurs that littered the ground.
If dragon-like predators never existed with humans, why is it so commonly recognized and feared? According to Jung’s principles there must be "something" about this symbol that arose from a genetically stored memory in our collective unconscious. At some point in our evolutionary past something imprinted our response to a dragon symbol so that, with no foreknowledge of this predator and without having ever seen it ourselves, we can all still recognize a dragon and label it as dangerous. Maybe that is because it actually came from above.
What could it have to do with St. Germain's secret magic book, the Triangular MS, which begins with the symbol of a rampant Dragon? Is it his bloodline? His secret society? His ally? His nemesis? His god? His salvation?
In Solomonic magic, demons are bound by placing them in the Triangle of Art; perhaps dragons are, too. The Great Work of alchemy transforms an ordinary mortal into a self-realized immortal. It is a technology of regeneration.
Some claim the Grail is a symbol for a lost technology of individual, social and planetary regeneration. The Grail Quest then, is an allegory for the search and eventual recovery of this technology for the restoration of both the debilitated king and the devastated kingdom that has devolved into an infertile wasteland -- a "Doom Messiah".
"The holy dragonmen, trailblazers of a new age
Riding the universe to force the evil to its cage"
Riding the universe to force the evil to its cage"
THE SOLOMONARI - RIDERS OF THE DRAGON
The solomonarii take their prospects from their parents at age 7; hence St. Germain disappeared from his dynastic house and family. They watched for children born with a caul, a mark of second sight, symbolized in the Phyrgian liberty cap of Mithras and Perseus. It signifies the supernatural simultaneous 'sacrifice' and 'triumph' -- the sign of the 'Enlightened'.
The Scholomance was not a German superstition, but derived from the Romanian word Solomonari, meaning "students of alchemy". The Romanian healers are not allowed to eat meat, sleep during daytime or else essential things could be lost, or to touch a dying or a dead man. The place where they perform their rituals needs to be “cleaned” by sweeping it six times in six different directions.
DRAGONS DEEP
The name Solomonari is allegedly derived from the Biblical Solomon, perceived in Romanian tradition as someone quite extraordinary, if mysterious. More than simply "wise ones", it actually means "those learned in the Wisdom of Solomon" -- Solomon, the binder of demons and djinn. They are a secret order stretching back to the wise king, an order of wizards -- a secret society of elite human beings, trained in pairs and bound through eternity. In Romanian folklore, Uniila is termed as archdemon of solomonari.
A close examination of the ’Song of Songs’ attributed to Solomon reveals certain esoteric references to the Grail. Solomon’s bloodline had Scythian Dragon origins and therefore connections with the Cult of the Head. That a head, said to be that of the Magdalene, successor to Sheba, to turn up in the inventory attached to the Templar trial papers should therefore come as no surprise.
The Pineal Gland is specifically associated with Grail Lore and closely aspected to manifestations of the Grail in the forms of a Cup, a Stone, a Cauldron, a Well, Mere or lake; a fountain, (such as that found in certain kabalistic rituals) and an underground stream.
PRE-HISTORY
The Sumerians appeared first in Mesopotamia in 3500 BC. Prior to their emergence they were preceded by the Ubaid migrants from what is now southern Romania, from Carpathia and Scythia. They fled south to escape the Black Sea flood of 4000 BC. Dated to about 5000 BC, archaeologists working in Tartaria in the Ubaid territory of Transylvania, discovered a ’tepes’ or Rath under which they found a fire-pit.
Buried amongst the ashes were the human remains of a cannibalistic sacrificial victim and two clay tablets. On these were inscribed the name of Enki (Samael), the number of Anu - 60 - and the image of a goat, Enki again, and a Tree - Lilith. In Hinduism Siva is the Goatherd of the Mountains. Tantra, Qabalah, and alchemy descend from ancient Ubaid philosophy.
The pictographic nature of the inscriptions convinced the archaeologists that the language was the forerunner of Sumerian and so they called it proto-Sumerian. Making it fairly obvious that the Sumerians were originally Ubaid Overlords from Central Eurasia.
The culture responsible for the production of the Tartarian clay tablets and the Rath structure was Ubaid - the founders of civilized Mesopotamia and, as it turns out, the Overlords of the Indus valley civilization of Mohenjo Daro and Harrapa where Ishtar reigned as Queen. (de Vere)
A Distinct Royal Caste
The Sumerians or Ubaid as we should call them, along with the pale-skinned and red-haired Lilith and her descendants, were the early Elven, Aryan-Scythian Dragon Overlords of what we know now as Transylvania and Greater Scythia.
This particularly in the light of the discoveries of bat winged, serpent-god statuary found in Dacia and Tibet (not too far from Takla Makan!) which is said to date back at least 5000 years, putting it into the period of the emergence of civilization in Sumeria. The Vampire was and is. A very rare individual, a God-King amongst the race of human kings, the Vampire descends from the supernatural Dragon Royalty of Sumeria back to the Ubaid Overlords of what was to become known as Transylvania and Greater Scythia.
Such figures we would readily identify as the Dragon or, in Gaelic - The Sumaire - whilst the Kurgans/Tells/Tepes that these early Transylvanian/Scythian Sidheans or Ubaid occupied were clearly duplicated in the Irish Raths of the Danaan, such as Newgrange with its spirally engraved stones, the Ziggurats of the Sumerians and the Pyramids of the Egyptians.
Whilst these ancient structures bore the marks of the sumaire, the spiral labyrinth or vortex design, thus emphasizing the creachaire - sumaire theme of the Dragon - witch - Vampire - Overlord theme, the Egyptians too adopted the labyrinth and used the spiral as a hieroglyph which they termed the ’Mer’, a symbol of irrigation associating it with water and, via weir spelt Vere and Mhaior, rendering Muir, returning once more to the Egyptian Mer - the fish trap or fish-woman trap, the enclosure of the mermaid, the maze or labyrinth and intimations of the wild hunt.
The Vampire: the Dragon King or Queen was an Archdruid, a Witch Queen or King, a Fairy Princess or Prince amongst the race of Elphame. Consequently the Vampire, the Fairy, the Dragon and the Witch were all the same individual and far from being the characters of fable they were in fact very powerful, very real beings whose vampiric natures and rituals sustained their superconsciousness, transcendent vision which in its turn maintained their positions as the overlords of mankind.
These gods of flesh and blood were the only gods that ever actually existed: Myth, however, transformed them into the ethereal deities whom we are conditioned to think of as Gods now, and who came to be worshipped worldwide. Nevertheless flesh and blood they were and their bloodlines descend to the present day.
Though the Druids are associated with groves and, as some will insist, with oak trees, it is feasible to suggest that in the light of their Sumerian and Ubaid origins, the druids as priest kings of the Dragon, were connected specifically with the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge, rather than with any mundane or temporal shrubbery.
Accepting this we may further suggest that, as priests of these pre-eminent Trees of Life and Knowledge, they may be further identified with those magicians and scholars whose Transylvanian descendants, the Scythian Aryans or Sumerian Anunnaki - the Dragon God-Kings - were instrumental in establishing the Chakric system of Hindu and Buddhist Tantra and Hebrew, Arabic and Greek Qabalah whose magical systems, as we all know, contain a glyph called the Tree of Life.
Generally speaking this Tree, a system of pathways both macrocosmic and microcosmic in nature, links the various subtle energy centers which are said to exist both in the universe, as levels of density and emanation relating to the manifestation of cosmic power and being, and in the human body - on the microcosmic level - as energy centers corresponding to the glands in the endocrinal system. In Qabalah the spheres which do not relate to the glands may be seen as points in the meridian system adopted by the Chinese. On another level, the Qabalistic Tree of Life is a genealogical chart of the Gods. The magical Tree is a universal symbol.
In Romania however, these grades with their animal totems or badges make up the degrees or conditions of vampirism. The most potent vampire is the Dracoi or female Dracoica, from whence the House of Drakul obtained its name, meaning ’Satan’ or ’Dragon’ whilst Drakulea or Dracula means ’son of Satan’ or ’son of the Dragon’. Lying at a close second place comes the Stregoi or female Stregoica, a being that manifests itself as either a wolf or a raven.
On his death in 1477, Prince Vlad Draculea’s body was taken to an Abbey he had built on an Island in the middle of a lake in Smyrna. Such a sanctuary has distinct Arthurian overtones and associations with the Isle of Avallon, upon which there was also built an abbey of the quasi-druidic Celto-Scythian Church.
This replaced the early Rath temple, grove and sanctuary of the Morganas, the ladies of the lake who were the Swan Maiden-Valkyries of the Scythian world, vampires and head hunters. In such sanctuaries headless corpses, as we have seen, were placed as portal guardians and it is in just such a condition that we discover that, according to local tradition, Draculea’s head was removed from his body and his corpse was buried beneath the stone flags beneath the doorway of the Abbey’s chapel.
A similar incident is reported to have occurred with the establishment of the Celtic Christian Shrine on the Island of Iona. Here it is St Columba who is said to have severed the head of one of his disciples and buried the blood drained corpse beneath the doorway of the chapel.
The Priestess Queens and Priest Kings, as we have seen, dwelt in the holy places, the royal Raths that served as both temple and tomb. These subterranean palaces mimicked the the Bergs or mound houses of the Scythians’ ’proto’-Sumerian ancestors, who originated in Transylvania and Carpathia. The cult of the severed head, as part of Celtic religious practice originated with the druids and therefore the Scythians.
The Solomons of Hermannstadt, Toledo and Transylvania became the hidden leftovers of an ancient, originally druidic educational system which necessarily went underground and became the subject of myth and fairytale, along with the bloodlines it once educated openly.
The Dragon Colleges produced the ’Uber’, the Overlords who, in Britain were called the Pendragons and in Transylvania the ’Dracoi’ or ’Dracoica’ - the ’vampires’. Only the highest graduates of the Druidic bangors would be thought of as true men or women of power, true Sidhe or Fairy Royalty and thus it was only the prince who ’rode the Dragon’ who could be said to fit the same criteria for inclusion in the bloodline of the vampire, the witch and the fairy families - The Dragon Kings.
OCCULT SCHOOL
Kogaion (Holy Mountain)
A monumental complex, Gobekli Tepe sanctuary observatory in Turkey is the Watchers' oldest known Holy Mountain, circa 12,000 BC. -- a temple of the cult of the dead. Recent DNA analysis of modern domesticated wheat compared with wild wheat has shown that its DNA is closest in sequence to wild wheat found on Mount Karaca Dağ 20 miles (32 km) away from the site, suggesting that this is where modern wheat was first domesticated. Such scholars suggest that the Neolithic revolution, i.e., the beginnings of grain cultivation, took place here. Myths of the ancestor gods raking the holy mountain have come down to us today.
The seers are the Watchers, described as "tall, redheaded men clad in white wool. Solomonari, which were a group of nobles and wizards. In early history, the “solomonarii” were considered benevolent, but as Christianity supplanted early beliefs, the “solomonarii” began to be considered evil. There is only one Kogaion in the Academy and he is considered to be the Preeminent Guardian.
Kogaionon was the holy mountain of the Geto-Dacians, the place where Zalmoxis stayed in an underground cave for three years. After his disappearance into Kogaionon, he was considered dead by the Getae but after three years he resurrected and showed himself to the people. One modern translation of Kogaionon is "sacred mountain", which would be connected to a probable Dacian word kaga meaning "sacred".
“Ancient Creed and Science Center”
The Dacians had sanctuaries all astronomically oriented and hold certain and complex scientific meanings. Dealul Gradiste was an outstanding spiritual center, likely the legendary Kogaion(on) mentioned by Strabo. The group of the three round sanctuaries: the “Great Round Sanctuary” (MSR), the “Small Round Sanctuary” (mSR) and the “Andesite Sun” (S.A.) - work together like a... real computer. They are depositories of numerical codified mathematic means (a numerical system on the basis of mixed “6”,“17” and "10"); that they are depositaries of the Dacian length modulus; depositaries of geodetic notions and of a wonderful calendar, etc).
But in Orashtie Mountains, into secluded nest of Dealul Gradiste, there was the heart of Dacian creed, a hiden place for Dacian treasury, a “sacred ironsmith congregation” and a virtual Dacian Academia, improved probably in the time of Decaneus (Deceneu). We guess that the place must have been a very older spiritual center, maybe from the time of Zamolxis (?) and, yes, that monastic center was raised around of a first astronomical (old) observatory, located on the top of the hill. Surrounded in three sides by more high mountains, as an astronomical observation, Dealul Gradiste had a single one "window", a single opening to the
mandatory, VISIBLE HORIZON (to West, 2700).
SPIRITUAL CULTURE
Nicknamed "Hyperboreeans", Thracians are called GETAE (in the South and East of Carpathian Mountains) and DACIANS inside the Carpathian Arch and in Pannonia. They say there was a large fraternity of old learned priests, a full town, which lead their life praising to
Apollo as the deity, in a very special location "close to the sky" and from where "... due to the clear atmosphere of place, you can see mountains in the Moon, like on the Earth". They built towers for astronomical research, as St. Germain would later in Germany.
The Great Round Sanctuary of Kogaion was built on the top of a much older one, marking Winter solstice sunrise. Its axis appears to be oriented to the First Century A.D. from the Dacian observatory of Godeanu.
Herodotus, Flavius Josephus, Strabo, Pausanias, etc, all agree about the high religious spirituality of that people lead by almost legendary rulers like Zamolxis (Salmoxis) and Dicineus (Decaneus). Those rulers have learned their special skills in the ambiguous spiritual arch which starts with the enigmatically Schytian mysteries and ends with the Egyptian famous knowledge. Geto-Dacian spirituality had another dimension: scientific knowledge.
Scholars & Astronomers
The very old religion used sophisticated mathematics,astronomy and geodetics, visible only to a researcher with connected skills. Dacians were the best scientists of that time. Their spiritual leaders learned the knowledge in Greek traditions and in the temples of Egypt. An excerpt from “THE HISTORIES” of Herodotus says the famous historian of Vth century BC refers to Salmoxis (Zalmoxe), considered as the first spiritual leader of “Getai” (the Greek name for Getae):
This Salmoxis I hear from the Hellenes who dwell about the Hellespont and the Pontus, was a man, and he became a slave in Samos, and was in fact a slave of Pythagoras the son of Mnesarchos. Then having become free he gained great wealth, and afterwards returned to his own land: and as the Thracians both live hardly and are rather simpleminded, this Salmoxis, being acquainted with the Ionian way of living and with manners more cultivated than the Thracians were used to see, since he had associated with Hellenes (and not only that but with Pythagoras, not the least able philosopher of the Hellenes)..., (...)....but I think that this Salmoxis lived many years before Pythagoras. However, whether there ever lived a man Salmoxis, or whether he is simply a native deity of the Getai, let us bid farewell to him now.)
Alike in fame historian Strabo, after four centuries, wrote:
"...For it is said that one of the nation of the Getæ, named Zamolxis,- had served Pythagoras, and had acquired with this philosopher some astronomical knowledge, in addition to what he had learned from the Egyptians, amongst whom he had travelled. He returned to his own country, and was highly esteemed both by the chief rulers and the people, on account of his predictions of astronomical phenomena, and eventually persuaded the king to unite him in the government, as an organ of the will of the gods. (...) This custom even continues to our time; for there is always found someone of this character who assists the king in his counsels, and is styled a god by the Getæ. The mountain likewise [where Zamolxis retired] is held sacred, and is thus distinguished, being named Kogæonus,
as well as the river which flows by it; and at the time when Byrebistus, against whom divus Cæsar prepared an expedition, reigned over the Getæ, Decæneus held that honour...”
The next excerpt regards outstanding astronomical activities of Geto-Dacian monks under the teaching of Decaneus, alias Dicineus; the quote is from “GETICA”, written in Latin by bishop Jordanes in 551 AD. In that book he put the equality sign between the Old Geto-Dacians and the Goths of his time (after he corroborated much information from the manuscripts than still preserved):
"... He taught them logic and made them skilled in reasoning beyond all other races; he
showed them practical knowledge and so persuaded them to abound in good works. By
explaining theoretical knowledge he urged them to contemplate the progress of the twelve
constellations and the courses of the planets passing through them, and the whole of
astronomy. He told them how the disc of the moon waxes and wanes, and showed them how
much the fiery globe of the sun exceeds in size our earthly planet. He explained with which
name or designations in the arching heavens the three hundred forty six stars hurtle from
their rising to their setting. Think, I pray you, what pleasure it was for these brave men,
when for a little space they had leisure from warfare, to be instructed in the teachings of
philosophy! You might have seen one scanning the position of the heavens and another
investigating the nature of plants and bushes. Here stood one who studied the waxing and
waning of the moon, while still another investigated solar eclipses and observed how those
bodies which rush to go toward the East are whirled around and borne back to the West by
the rotation of the heavens. When they had learned the reason, they were at rest. These and
various other matters DECANEUS taught (them) in his wisdom and gained marvelous
repute among them, so that he ruled not only the common men but their kings”.
http://www.aos.ro/site_mod/Editura/Online/Istorie/2013/Sunrises.pdf
Popular beliefs even invented an “anti-solomonar” sort of hero. St. German is one such hero from the earlier days of the mystery school. The belief in the “solomonarii” has not died out completely, since it remains in some of the most remote villages. Pricolici (a vampire or demon); Solomonari; Sânziana (or Drăgaică).
The sound of the voice or that of the instruments can bring a new sense of power to performers and auditors. The magician uses a special language. The words and syntax, the common constituents of language, are obscured, strange or totally abandoned.
The sonorous part of spells and incantations can be taken just as rows of syllables that the intellect refuses to understand. In fact, is a sacred language, sometimes spoken only by the performer. Nevertheless, an enormous psychological power is attributed to these incomprehensible and magic words.
Half divine being, they have magical powers.
The image of the Solomonar is to say the least, scary. He is seen as a giant wild man, with eyes that stick out and hard red hair, wearing a white coat. He carries an iron axe, filled with magical spells, that can be used either to bring hail or to steer away the thunder if it is stuck in the ground. A magical belt made of holy wood helps him to tame and control the dragons. The Solomonar's book in which resides all their power and knowledge hangs from his shoulder and on his chest he carries a piece of wood used to call the winds.
Romanian legends say that only a child born with a 'mask' over his face can become a Solomonar. Kidnapped as an infant by one of the old members of the order, the child s taken to the Solomonar's school, found somewhere at the end of the Earth in a deep cave. The legend says that out of nine children, only one can become a Solomonar, at the end of a teaching period that lasts twenty years, and done in highly difficult conditions.
In this school, The Cloud Travelers learn all the languages of all the beings from the Earth, all the magic spells ever done, and only after they lean all of these, they retire in a cave where, sitting at a rock table, write down all the knowledge of the world. The old ascetic priests of the Geto-Dacians were called Kapnobataii, 'The Clouds Travelers" or "The Smoke Walkers". They made important changes in the weather just by ordering it.
The world of the Solomoars is full of magic and mystery. They use their extraordinary powers in controlling the spirits and the elements of nature. They are seen is extraordinary circumstances: walking on the clouds riding dragons, flying through the sky and using their will can bring the rain.
Upon initiation each adept receives their own book, that is described as a stone talisman with nine mysterious letters in it, with spells and rituals. Once initiated, they became alchemists and sorcerers with the power to maintain the balance of nature and with the ability to preserve order. Among other things, they can summon and "ride" dragons, and call upon the aid and power of dragon potential to perform great magic. The Great Work allows the human body to contain the power of the Dragon.
PROTO-SLAVIC ZMAJ- "DRAGON"
Their origin is linked with ancient Dacian priests. The name “Solomonars” (plural), “Solomonar” (singular) is a recent name, given because of Christian influences into the folklore, probably in the seventeenth century, and means “a man learned in the wisdom of Salomo”, an incantator, a summoner and master of high and subtle energies. The original name for them, is “Zgrimties”, or “Hultan”. More properly, Zalmonari originate from the name Zalmoxe (or Zamolxe). They were healers, summoners, thaumaturgs who mastered the highest science and lore about the Universe that arose in Neolithic times, among the Vinca and Cucuteni-Trypillian cultures.
Solomonarii shamans receive their training in the Carpathians, in the massive steep-sided crater that still marks the fall of the Lapis Excelis, a grail to the stars. Their temple and library are built of shocked quartz (coesite) produced in the fiery cauldron like the building stone (suevite impact brecchia ejected from the crater) of the Nördlingen town church in the Reis Crater in Germany. In other words, the buildings contain millions of tiny diamonds made in the Miocene in the Promethean inferno; the altar is moldavite carved into dragons. A labyrinth of underground caves there leads into the netherworld.
Both are symbols of the mystic center. As a metaphysical image, the “Center” marks the “sacred space” par excellence. An individual reaches “reality” by returning to the “Center”, to the transcendental Absolute. The initiatory path marks the adept’s quest to the sacred “Center”, to the ultimate “reality”. The neophytes are taken to the “Crugu Pamantului” or Middle/Center of the World, where they learn all the mysteries and secrets to become “Solomonari” or Mages.
MOUNTAIN OF LIGHT
The homology between Sky and World is manifested indirectly, through correspondences. Only in special, singular conditions, in a sacred “Center”, can the link be direct. Otherwise, the influences of the two planes are exercised through “proxims”; for example, every planet corresponds with a certain metal, a certain color, a certain God, etc. According to this, there are links between Shamash (Sun-God) and “gold”, between Anu and “silver”, between Ea and “bronze”, between Nimidni and “stone”.
The Sacred Ubaid Race settled Mesopotamia and founded the Anunnaki religion of the Sumerians in 3500 BC. Their Transylvanian ancestors were the Anunnaki Gods themselves, and their descents The Solomonari. The word 'vampire' has been identified with ’The Watchers’ (Seers - Derkesthai: Dragons). Originally Uber - Vampire - meant Overlord.
Solomonarii origin legends say that during the First Crusade in the Dark Ages, two Templar Knights discovered mysterious secrets on alchemy and magic in the legendary and secret library of Solomon. The knights returned to their homeland Wallachia and mastered the arts they had discovered. But soon their destinies and their spiritual paths were deeply divided.
Ancient tales claim there have been two Solomons: 1) Solomon the King, whose knowledge was closely related to the teachings of the Kabbalah; 2), and “Black Solomon”, known as Asmodeus, the king of demons. This devil claims a tenth of the Solomonari scholars for himself. Perhaps this is more than a metaphor for becoming the hallucinated by the archetype of the original land -- an act of possession, a monomania, with no way out of the labyrinth. Vlad Tepes was one such sacrifice.
The purer the blood was through unbroken descent from the Dragons, the stronger the return of the ancestors within. The stronger the blood the stronger the invocation and the more complete the possession. With mixed blood there was weak inspiration and little discernible presence.
The seer was possessed by a daemon, being by descent and heredity that daemon itself. It was his or her genetic inheritance and part of his or her consciousness, to which that person would yield, when occasion necessitated. They were trance seers (derkesthai), a practice rooted in Scythian shamanic culture. Such Priest Kings stood above all others as ultimate Overlords of Eurasia.
This is confirmed in the word genius, meaning inborn intellect or inspiration. Closely related to this word is genie, meaning a spirit, as in genius loci - ’a spirit of place’. In Arabic the jinni is a spirit of fire or inspiration. The Latin genius, in Greek, is a daemon or inspiring intelligence and the root Latin gens signifies birth, origin and especially blood. The daemon or genius of the Dragons is inherited through the blood.
Historically Draculea himself attended the ’Solomon School’ in Hermannstadt, an alchemical, hermetic college that taught magic to the sons of Royalty. Two other schools like this existed in Europe, one was in Toledo in Spain and the other was said to be in Transylvania. At the ’Solomon’ only one person per class ever graduated, or ’rode the Dragon’ as it was termed.
The ’Solomon School’ finished Vlad’s education and fitted him to become a Dacian counterpart of the British Pendragon, with all the brutal wisdom of his fairy ancestors and predecessors who, as God-Kings of the specifically intermediary, guardian-class of Anunnaki deities, were inhumed in the same manner that Dracula himself was laid to rest.
Draculea the prince of Wallachia was a Sacred Prince, a Hermetic scholar and initiate, a student of magic, Magus, Witch Lord and Dragon Prince, counterbalanced the bloodlust of his forebears with a refined knowledge and advanced practice of Grail procedure which echoes the teachings that the historical Draculea would have received at the ’Solomon School’, teachings encountered in the Dragon Court of which he was a member, teachings which were held in common by Archdruids, Alchemists, Tantric Yogis, Hermeticists and Qabalists alike, each discipline originating from one ancient Fairy Tradition in Sumeria and Transylvania - the heartlands of the Dragon Kings and Queens of the Sacred Danaan Peoples.
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/dragons/esp_sociopol_dragoncourt02_02.htm
Each graduate had their hoary grimoires or books of magic with Sumerian origins. St. Germain's is based on the triangular Tetractys, which Pythagoras learned in Babylon as a mnemonic devise summarizing the ten principles of life. Pythagoras devised the tetractys, the triangular figure of four rows, which add up to the perfect number, ten. As a mystical symbol, it was very important to the worship of the Pythagoreans, who would swear oaths by it: And the inventions were so admirable, and so divinized by those who understood them, that the members used them as forms of oath: "By him who handed to our generation the tetractys, source of the roots of ever-flowing nature."
—Iamblichus, Vit. Pyth., 29
Pythagoras was quite a 'Demiurgos', with powers like healing people, soul and/or body, whispering to wild animals to make them obey his commands and prevent their possible aggressions, remote viewing and accurate prediction of future cataclysms .
Alchemy and kabbalah associated the progression of the tetractys with the restoration of unity. In the Human Tetractys the first three levels were the Body, the Soul, and the Spirit. Wisdom was the 4th level and component. To reach that 4th level however, the only possible way was to ensure that the first three had been already developed first in perfect equilibrium. Then the acquisition of wisdom, or the development of the 4th component, was finally possible, and the corresponding wisdom was constituted the only real form of human happiness on this Earth.
One knight, very likely an earlier alter of St. Germain, pursued practical Kabbalah, an art similar to that described in the Greater and Lesser Keys of Solomon. The self-reallized Dragon went west, diffusing a gnostic tradition that grew into the “Illuminati”, related to the earlier Cathari (Manichean dualism) tradition. Cathar centers migrated with the royal bloodline. Manichean teachings revolved around astrology, medicine, and magic, the Matrix Words of the Universal Pure Language -- in the meaning of life and mirror of knowledge. If we only knew at least another opposite of Good except Evil our world would have another meaning thus becoming a different world -- Global Oneness.
The other knight became a devotee of ancient Transylvanian religion, and restored the contact with the archaic cult of the primordial Dragon-Deity. This is St. Germain's descent, and why the Dragon appears on his Triangular MS. and why he struggles with the Immortal within. They had a magical book used to cast magic spells together with the dragons. The solomonari concentrated on the book, and discerned what must be done. They also had the ability to affect the weather, bringing hail, rain or drought.
But over time their lines degenerated into corruption. Their notions of Global Oneness became exploitive, predatory. The Solomonari use the Dragons and their genetic 'gifts' for their own ends to increase their own power, ruling the world from behind the scenes. They are known by their cross-shaped birthmarks. They know about the Dragons, and the secrets of the summoning and binding Solomonic formulae. They free just enough draconian essence to allow it into our world, with only a fraction of the unbound power of its true potential. Corrupted stewardship has devolved into lust for personal power for its own sake -- the power to be Dragons. But, the question remains whether the human (now "Mandrake") or "Dragon" then predominates.
The Elixir Vitae and Philosopher's Stone purify the body that is powerful enough to contain the power of a Dragon. St. Germain, "Sol Luminari", has it and they want it from him and are willing to stop at nothing to get the formula. He has fooled them -- he no longer uses magic potions for longevity, but the science of quantum bioholography and gene silencing. But now a cosmic dragon, devoid of conscience -- long foreseen by St. Germain -- challenges the world from the edge of our Solar System. This partially aligns St. Germain with the goals of the rival Solomonari. He saw this grand dragon from his tower observatory with Prince Karl in a by-gone century, and now he is seeing it again, just as he had calculated.
“Another manifestation of the grail and the philosopher’s stone was the comet, the lance-shaped ray of light that could blight a land or bring salvation . . . Merlin was also an astrologer who interpreted to Uther Pendragon at Stonehenge the significance of a comet with two tails, shaped like a dragon, which he said presaged the death of a king and the rebirth of a dynasty, a time of joy and bliss . . .” --Jonathan Hughes, Arthurian Myths and Alchemy: The Kingship of Edward IV (2002), pp. 168 – 168.
Ancient people represented meteors, fireballs, comets, etc. by a variety of images, the most prominent of which were dragons and serpents, and thunderbolts. Other images and symbols included burning torches and lamps, swords, swastikas, beams, lances, swords, and stones. Comets were often depicted by long hair or beards, brooms, the omega symbol, chariots and scythes or sickles.
One indication that points to a general genetic knowledge rather then a learned response is the prevalence of the dragon myth. Jones cites 26 different cultures as having almost identical versions of the dragon. Even in cultures as vastly different as Icelandic, Dutch, and the Cherokee Indians of North America there are stories of dragons. If the dragon was a learned response to an immediate threat it would reflect the geographic enemies more clearly, although all of these cultures may have snakes, cats and birds of prey, they are all different species; however, their dragons are all too similar to reflect this. Dragons are not picked out of a landscape but are inherently recognized and feared.
Archaic cultures first used “meteoritic iron” of celestial origin. In the Sumero-Akkadian culture the meteoritic iron was called “AN-BAR” (“Sky” – “Fire”), meaning “celestial metal”. The word that later came to be used instead of it, “BAR-GAL”, meant “great metal”. The Egyptian word for iron “bi-n-pet” can be translated as “celestial metal”. A Hittite text tells of 14th century BCE kings obtaining “black iron from the Sky”. Iron was designated in ancient Greece by the word “sideros”, which links to the Latin word “sidus, -eris” (=star) and the Litvanic word “svidu” (=to shine), fact which shows the celestial origin of iron.
It also relates to "disaster". The root of the word disaster ("bad star" in Greek) comes from an astrological theme. It is the ancient name for a calamity blamed on unfavorable positions of planets (wandering stars); likewise they were leery of comets as ill omens. Therefore, metals – either coming from the Sky, having a celestial origin, or extracted from the bowels of the Earth – always represented powerful magical agents. Cosmologically speaking, in ancient cultures, metals took part in the great cosmic cycle – “birth” – “sexuality”/reproduction – “death”, as any other element of the cosmos. Even they must submit to the "torture of metals"; they must suffer and die in order to attain eternal life.
In Babylonian metallurgic art, the ore appears as a “divine embryo” (“an-kubu”). The ore is subdued in a series of magical operations (sacrifices, libations, purifications, etc.) to banish away the malignant forces. Therefore, in the cauldron the metal is passing through a mystico-magical rebirth, as the cauldron symbolizes, the womb of Mother-Earth. The secret school was born in a cauldron once boiling with the mingling of heaven and earth. The Solomonari train in soul communion with the forefathers in such a cauldron/crater/grail in perpetual remembrance of that horrific union.
Meteorites, such as that in the Kaaba to this day, were considered sacred and revered. The Solomonari used them for magic. Things which have been struck by lightning or meteorites are believed to carry the power of the sky. Some meteors and meteoric glass have been found, dug up, broken apart, studied, carved into objects, etc. but the essences of the Dragons remain bound within the matter. A Dragon can feed upon the life force of a human while mating with them.
Alchemy is a mystical method of self-perfection, by the symbolical exteriorization of the piritual processes, by projecting spiritual interior elements on an exterior plane, the metals. In this way, the Great Work is ambivalent: a holding of the tension of the opposites, interior and exterior, unifying the Microcosm and the Macrocosm and thus annihilating “Creation” (the dualistic, split world), reiterating the primordial Unity. During the quest from ordinary metals, to noble metals, the adept’s spirit is liberated from the mundane and reaches supreme metaphysical freedom.
After centuries of practice with various options, St. Germain finds he prefers the isolation tank above all for freeing his unbound spirit. The sensory deprivation Consciousness Induction Device reminds him of his old 'Witches Cradle'.
Qlippoth, Hebrew, "shells, husks," is a term in the Kabbalah tradition means "Lords of Unbalanced Powers" referring to demonic entities from a former universe who survived in the present one. The Qlippoth are the subject of a vast but uncertain demonological lore, which originated from Jewish sources but also was barrowed or came from other sources, and parts expounded upon by later occultist theorists. Also see qlippoth - breaking of the vessels: http://www.themystica.org/mystica/articles/q/qlippoth.html
The solomonarii take their prospects from their parents at age 7; hence St. Germain disappeared from his dynastic house and family. They watched for children born with a caul, a mark of second sight, symbolized in the Phyrgian liberty cap of Mithras and Perseus. It signifies the supernatural simultaneous 'sacrifice' and 'triumph' -- the sign of the 'Enlightened'.
The Scholomance was not a German superstition, but derived from the Romanian word Solomonari, meaning "students of alchemy". The Romanian healers are not allowed to eat meat, sleep during daytime or else essential things could be lost, or to touch a dying or a dead man. The place where they perform their rituals needs to be “cleaned” by sweeping it six times in six different directions.
DRAGONS DEEP
The name Solomonari is allegedly derived from the Biblical Solomon, perceived in Romanian tradition as someone quite extraordinary, if mysterious. More than simply "wise ones", it actually means "those learned in the Wisdom of Solomon" -- Solomon, the binder of demons and djinn. They are a secret order stretching back to the wise king, an order of wizards -- a secret society of elite human beings, trained in pairs and bound through eternity. In Romanian folklore, Uniila is termed as archdemon of solomonari.
A close examination of the ’Song of Songs’ attributed to Solomon reveals certain esoteric references to the Grail. Solomon’s bloodline had Scythian Dragon origins and therefore connections with the Cult of the Head. That a head, said to be that of the Magdalene, successor to Sheba, to turn up in the inventory attached to the Templar trial papers should therefore come as no surprise.
The Pineal Gland is specifically associated with Grail Lore and closely aspected to manifestations of the Grail in the forms of a Cup, a Stone, a Cauldron, a Well, Mere or lake; a fountain, (such as that found in certain kabalistic rituals) and an underground stream.
PRE-HISTORY
The Sumerians appeared first in Mesopotamia in 3500 BC. Prior to their emergence they were preceded by the Ubaid migrants from what is now southern Romania, from Carpathia and Scythia. They fled south to escape the Black Sea flood of 4000 BC. Dated to about 5000 BC, archaeologists working in Tartaria in the Ubaid territory of Transylvania, discovered a ’tepes’ or Rath under which they found a fire-pit.
Buried amongst the ashes were the human remains of a cannibalistic sacrificial victim and two clay tablets. On these were inscribed the name of Enki (Samael), the number of Anu - 60 - and the image of a goat, Enki again, and a Tree - Lilith. In Hinduism Siva is the Goatherd of the Mountains. Tantra, Qabalah, and alchemy descend from ancient Ubaid philosophy.
The pictographic nature of the inscriptions convinced the archaeologists that the language was the forerunner of Sumerian and so they called it proto-Sumerian. Making it fairly obvious that the Sumerians were originally Ubaid Overlords from Central Eurasia.
The culture responsible for the production of the Tartarian clay tablets and the Rath structure was Ubaid - the founders of civilized Mesopotamia and, as it turns out, the Overlords of the Indus valley civilization of Mohenjo Daro and Harrapa where Ishtar reigned as Queen. (de Vere)
A Distinct Royal Caste
The Sumerians or Ubaid as we should call them, along with the pale-skinned and red-haired Lilith and her descendants, were the early Elven, Aryan-Scythian Dragon Overlords of what we know now as Transylvania and Greater Scythia.
This particularly in the light of the discoveries of bat winged, serpent-god statuary found in Dacia and Tibet (not too far from Takla Makan!) which is said to date back at least 5000 years, putting it into the period of the emergence of civilization in Sumeria. The Vampire was and is. A very rare individual, a God-King amongst the race of human kings, the Vampire descends from the supernatural Dragon Royalty of Sumeria back to the Ubaid Overlords of what was to become known as Transylvania and Greater Scythia.
Such figures we would readily identify as the Dragon or, in Gaelic - The Sumaire - whilst the Kurgans/Tells/Tepes that these early Transylvanian/Scythian Sidheans or Ubaid occupied were clearly duplicated in the Irish Raths of the Danaan, such as Newgrange with its spirally engraved stones, the Ziggurats of the Sumerians and the Pyramids of the Egyptians.
Whilst these ancient structures bore the marks of the sumaire, the spiral labyrinth or vortex design, thus emphasizing the creachaire - sumaire theme of the Dragon - witch - Vampire - Overlord theme, the Egyptians too adopted the labyrinth and used the spiral as a hieroglyph which they termed the ’Mer’, a symbol of irrigation associating it with water and, via weir spelt Vere and Mhaior, rendering Muir, returning once more to the Egyptian Mer - the fish trap or fish-woman trap, the enclosure of the mermaid, the maze or labyrinth and intimations of the wild hunt.
The Vampire: the Dragon King or Queen was an Archdruid, a Witch Queen or King, a Fairy Princess or Prince amongst the race of Elphame. Consequently the Vampire, the Fairy, the Dragon and the Witch were all the same individual and far from being the characters of fable they were in fact very powerful, very real beings whose vampiric natures and rituals sustained their superconsciousness, transcendent vision which in its turn maintained their positions as the overlords of mankind.
These gods of flesh and blood were the only gods that ever actually existed: Myth, however, transformed them into the ethereal deities whom we are conditioned to think of as Gods now, and who came to be worshipped worldwide. Nevertheless flesh and blood they were and their bloodlines descend to the present day.
Though the Druids are associated with groves and, as some will insist, with oak trees, it is feasible to suggest that in the light of their Sumerian and Ubaid origins, the druids as priest kings of the Dragon, were connected specifically with the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge, rather than with any mundane or temporal shrubbery.
Accepting this we may further suggest that, as priests of these pre-eminent Trees of Life and Knowledge, they may be further identified with those magicians and scholars whose Transylvanian descendants, the Scythian Aryans or Sumerian Anunnaki - the Dragon God-Kings - were instrumental in establishing the Chakric system of Hindu and Buddhist Tantra and Hebrew, Arabic and Greek Qabalah whose magical systems, as we all know, contain a glyph called the Tree of Life.
Generally speaking this Tree, a system of pathways both macrocosmic and microcosmic in nature, links the various subtle energy centers which are said to exist both in the universe, as levels of density and emanation relating to the manifestation of cosmic power and being, and in the human body - on the microcosmic level - as energy centers corresponding to the glands in the endocrinal system. In Qabalah the spheres which do not relate to the glands may be seen as points in the meridian system adopted by the Chinese. On another level, the Qabalistic Tree of Life is a genealogical chart of the Gods. The magical Tree is a universal symbol.
In Romania however, these grades with their animal totems or badges make up the degrees or conditions of vampirism. The most potent vampire is the Dracoi or female Dracoica, from whence the House of Drakul obtained its name, meaning ’Satan’ or ’Dragon’ whilst Drakulea or Dracula means ’son of Satan’ or ’son of the Dragon’. Lying at a close second place comes the Stregoi or female Stregoica, a being that manifests itself as either a wolf or a raven.
On his death in 1477, Prince Vlad Draculea’s body was taken to an Abbey he had built on an Island in the middle of a lake in Smyrna. Such a sanctuary has distinct Arthurian overtones and associations with the Isle of Avallon, upon which there was also built an abbey of the quasi-druidic Celto-Scythian Church.
This replaced the early Rath temple, grove and sanctuary of the Morganas, the ladies of the lake who were the Swan Maiden-Valkyries of the Scythian world, vampires and head hunters. In such sanctuaries headless corpses, as we have seen, were placed as portal guardians and it is in just such a condition that we discover that, according to local tradition, Draculea’s head was removed from his body and his corpse was buried beneath the stone flags beneath the doorway of the Abbey’s chapel.
A similar incident is reported to have occurred with the establishment of the Celtic Christian Shrine on the Island of Iona. Here it is St Columba who is said to have severed the head of one of his disciples and buried the blood drained corpse beneath the doorway of the chapel.
The Priestess Queens and Priest Kings, as we have seen, dwelt in the holy places, the royal Raths that served as both temple and tomb. These subterranean palaces mimicked the the Bergs or mound houses of the Scythians’ ’proto’-Sumerian ancestors, who originated in Transylvania and Carpathia. The cult of the severed head, as part of Celtic religious practice originated with the druids and therefore the Scythians.
The Solomons of Hermannstadt, Toledo and Transylvania became the hidden leftovers of an ancient, originally druidic educational system which necessarily went underground and became the subject of myth and fairytale, along with the bloodlines it once educated openly.
The Dragon Colleges produced the ’Uber’, the Overlords who, in Britain were called the Pendragons and in Transylvania the ’Dracoi’ or ’Dracoica’ - the ’vampires’. Only the highest graduates of the Druidic bangors would be thought of as true men or women of power, true Sidhe or Fairy Royalty and thus it was only the prince who ’rode the Dragon’ who could be said to fit the same criteria for inclusion in the bloodline of the vampire, the witch and the fairy families - The Dragon Kings.
OCCULT SCHOOL
Kogaion (Holy Mountain)
A monumental complex, Gobekli Tepe sanctuary observatory in Turkey is the Watchers' oldest known Holy Mountain, circa 12,000 BC. -- a temple of the cult of the dead. Recent DNA analysis of modern domesticated wheat compared with wild wheat has shown that its DNA is closest in sequence to wild wheat found on Mount Karaca Dağ 20 miles (32 km) away from the site, suggesting that this is where modern wheat was first domesticated. Such scholars suggest that the Neolithic revolution, i.e., the beginnings of grain cultivation, took place here. Myths of the ancestor gods raking the holy mountain have come down to us today.
The seers are the Watchers, described as "tall, redheaded men clad in white wool. Solomonari, which were a group of nobles and wizards. In early history, the “solomonarii” were considered benevolent, but as Christianity supplanted early beliefs, the “solomonarii” began to be considered evil. There is only one Kogaion in the Academy and he is considered to be the Preeminent Guardian.
Kogaionon was the holy mountain of the Geto-Dacians, the place where Zalmoxis stayed in an underground cave for three years. After his disappearance into Kogaionon, he was considered dead by the Getae but after three years he resurrected and showed himself to the people. One modern translation of Kogaionon is "sacred mountain", which would be connected to a probable Dacian word kaga meaning "sacred".
“Ancient Creed and Science Center”
The Dacians had sanctuaries all astronomically oriented and hold certain and complex scientific meanings. Dealul Gradiste was an outstanding spiritual center, likely the legendary Kogaion(on) mentioned by Strabo. The group of the three round sanctuaries: the “Great Round Sanctuary” (MSR), the “Small Round Sanctuary” (mSR) and the “Andesite Sun” (S.A.) - work together like a... real computer. They are depositories of numerical codified mathematic means (a numerical system on the basis of mixed “6”,“17” and "10"); that they are depositaries of the Dacian length modulus; depositaries of geodetic notions and of a wonderful calendar, etc).
But in Orashtie Mountains, into secluded nest of Dealul Gradiste, there was the heart of Dacian creed, a hiden place for Dacian treasury, a “sacred ironsmith congregation” and a virtual Dacian Academia, improved probably in the time of Decaneus (Deceneu). We guess that the place must have been a very older spiritual center, maybe from the time of Zamolxis (?) and, yes, that monastic center was raised around of a first astronomical (old) observatory, located on the top of the hill. Surrounded in three sides by more high mountains, as an astronomical observation, Dealul Gradiste had a single one "window", a single opening to the
mandatory, VISIBLE HORIZON (to West, 2700).
SPIRITUAL CULTURE
Nicknamed "Hyperboreeans", Thracians are called GETAE (in the South and East of Carpathian Mountains) and DACIANS inside the Carpathian Arch and in Pannonia. They say there was a large fraternity of old learned priests, a full town, which lead their life praising to
Apollo as the deity, in a very special location "close to the sky" and from where "... due to the clear atmosphere of place, you can see mountains in the Moon, like on the Earth". They built towers for astronomical research, as St. Germain would later in Germany.
The Great Round Sanctuary of Kogaion was built on the top of a much older one, marking Winter solstice sunrise. Its axis appears to be oriented to the First Century A.D. from the Dacian observatory of Godeanu.
Herodotus, Flavius Josephus, Strabo, Pausanias, etc, all agree about the high religious spirituality of that people lead by almost legendary rulers like Zamolxis (Salmoxis) and Dicineus (Decaneus). Those rulers have learned their special skills in the ambiguous spiritual arch which starts with the enigmatically Schytian mysteries and ends with the Egyptian famous knowledge. Geto-Dacian spirituality had another dimension: scientific knowledge.
Scholars & Astronomers
The very old religion used sophisticated mathematics,astronomy and geodetics, visible only to a researcher with connected skills. Dacians were the best scientists of that time. Their spiritual leaders learned the knowledge in Greek traditions and in the temples of Egypt. An excerpt from “THE HISTORIES” of Herodotus says the famous historian of Vth century BC refers to Salmoxis (Zalmoxe), considered as the first spiritual leader of “Getai” (the Greek name for Getae):
This Salmoxis I hear from the Hellenes who dwell about the Hellespont and the Pontus, was a man, and he became a slave in Samos, and was in fact a slave of Pythagoras the son of Mnesarchos. Then having become free he gained great wealth, and afterwards returned to his own land: and as the Thracians both live hardly and are rather simpleminded, this Salmoxis, being acquainted with the Ionian way of living and with manners more cultivated than the Thracians were used to see, since he had associated with Hellenes (and not only that but with Pythagoras, not the least able philosopher of the Hellenes)..., (...)....but I think that this Salmoxis lived many years before Pythagoras. However, whether there ever lived a man Salmoxis, or whether he is simply a native deity of the Getai, let us bid farewell to him now.)
Alike in fame historian Strabo, after four centuries, wrote:
"...For it is said that one of the nation of the Getæ, named Zamolxis,- had served Pythagoras, and had acquired with this philosopher some astronomical knowledge, in addition to what he had learned from the Egyptians, amongst whom he had travelled. He returned to his own country, and was highly esteemed both by the chief rulers and the people, on account of his predictions of astronomical phenomena, and eventually persuaded the king to unite him in the government, as an organ of the will of the gods. (...) This custom even continues to our time; for there is always found someone of this character who assists the king in his counsels, and is styled a god by the Getæ. The mountain likewise [where Zamolxis retired] is held sacred, and is thus distinguished, being named Kogæonus,
as well as the river which flows by it; and at the time when Byrebistus, against whom divus Cæsar prepared an expedition, reigned over the Getæ, Decæneus held that honour...”
The next excerpt regards outstanding astronomical activities of Geto-Dacian monks under the teaching of Decaneus, alias Dicineus; the quote is from “GETICA”, written in Latin by bishop Jordanes in 551 AD. In that book he put the equality sign between the Old Geto-Dacians and the Goths of his time (after he corroborated much information from the manuscripts than still preserved):
"... He taught them logic and made them skilled in reasoning beyond all other races; he
showed them practical knowledge and so persuaded them to abound in good works. By
explaining theoretical knowledge he urged them to contemplate the progress of the twelve
constellations and the courses of the planets passing through them, and the whole of
astronomy. He told them how the disc of the moon waxes and wanes, and showed them how
much the fiery globe of the sun exceeds in size our earthly planet. He explained with which
name or designations in the arching heavens the three hundred forty six stars hurtle from
their rising to their setting. Think, I pray you, what pleasure it was for these brave men,
when for a little space they had leisure from warfare, to be instructed in the teachings of
philosophy! You might have seen one scanning the position of the heavens and another
investigating the nature of plants and bushes. Here stood one who studied the waxing and
waning of the moon, while still another investigated solar eclipses and observed how those
bodies which rush to go toward the East are whirled around and borne back to the West by
the rotation of the heavens. When they had learned the reason, they were at rest. These and
various other matters DECANEUS taught (them) in his wisdom and gained marvelous
repute among them, so that he ruled not only the common men but their kings”.
http://www.aos.ro/site_mod/Editura/Online/Istorie/2013/Sunrises.pdf
Popular beliefs even invented an “anti-solomonar” sort of hero. St. German is one such hero from the earlier days of the mystery school. The belief in the “solomonarii” has not died out completely, since it remains in some of the most remote villages. Pricolici (a vampire or demon); Solomonari; Sânziana (or Drăgaică).
The sound of the voice or that of the instruments can bring a new sense of power to performers and auditors. The magician uses a special language. The words and syntax, the common constituents of language, are obscured, strange or totally abandoned.
The sonorous part of spells and incantations can be taken just as rows of syllables that the intellect refuses to understand. In fact, is a sacred language, sometimes spoken only by the performer. Nevertheless, an enormous psychological power is attributed to these incomprehensible and magic words.
Half divine being, they have magical powers.
The image of the Solomonar is to say the least, scary. He is seen as a giant wild man, with eyes that stick out and hard red hair, wearing a white coat. He carries an iron axe, filled with magical spells, that can be used either to bring hail or to steer away the thunder if it is stuck in the ground. A magical belt made of holy wood helps him to tame and control the dragons. The Solomonar's book in which resides all their power and knowledge hangs from his shoulder and on his chest he carries a piece of wood used to call the winds.
Romanian legends say that only a child born with a 'mask' over his face can become a Solomonar. Kidnapped as an infant by one of the old members of the order, the child s taken to the Solomonar's school, found somewhere at the end of the Earth in a deep cave. The legend says that out of nine children, only one can become a Solomonar, at the end of a teaching period that lasts twenty years, and done in highly difficult conditions.
In this school, The Cloud Travelers learn all the languages of all the beings from the Earth, all the magic spells ever done, and only after they lean all of these, they retire in a cave where, sitting at a rock table, write down all the knowledge of the world. The old ascetic priests of the Geto-Dacians were called Kapnobataii, 'The Clouds Travelers" or "The Smoke Walkers". They made important changes in the weather just by ordering it.
The world of the Solomoars is full of magic and mystery. They use their extraordinary powers in controlling the spirits and the elements of nature. They are seen is extraordinary circumstances: walking on the clouds riding dragons, flying through the sky and using their will can bring the rain.
Upon initiation each adept receives their own book, that is described as a stone talisman with nine mysterious letters in it, with spells and rituals. Once initiated, they became alchemists and sorcerers with the power to maintain the balance of nature and with the ability to preserve order. Among other things, they can summon and "ride" dragons, and call upon the aid and power of dragon potential to perform great magic. The Great Work allows the human body to contain the power of the Dragon.
PROTO-SLAVIC ZMAJ- "DRAGON"
Their origin is linked with ancient Dacian priests. The name “Solomonars” (plural), “Solomonar” (singular) is a recent name, given because of Christian influences into the folklore, probably in the seventeenth century, and means “a man learned in the wisdom of Salomo”, an incantator, a summoner and master of high and subtle energies. The original name for them, is “Zgrimties”, or “Hultan”. More properly, Zalmonari originate from the name Zalmoxe (or Zamolxe). They were healers, summoners, thaumaturgs who mastered the highest science and lore about the Universe that arose in Neolithic times, among the Vinca and Cucuteni-Trypillian cultures.
Solomonarii shamans receive their training in the Carpathians, in the massive steep-sided crater that still marks the fall of the Lapis Excelis, a grail to the stars. Their temple and library are built of shocked quartz (coesite) produced in the fiery cauldron like the building stone (suevite impact brecchia ejected from the crater) of the Nördlingen town church in the Reis Crater in Germany. In other words, the buildings contain millions of tiny diamonds made in the Miocene in the Promethean inferno; the altar is moldavite carved into dragons. A labyrinth of underground caves there leads into the netherworld.
Both are symbols of the mystic center. As a metaphysical image, the “Center” marks the “sacred space” par excellence. An individual reaches “reality” by returning to the “Center”, to the transcendental Absolute. The initiatory path marks the adept’s quest to the sacred “Center”, to the ultimate “reality”. The neophytes are taken to the “Crugu Pamantului” or Middle/Center of the World, where they learn all the mysteries and secrets to become “Solomonari” or Mages.
MOUNTAIN OF LIGHT
The homology between Sky and World is manifested indirectly, through correspondences. Only in special, singular conditions, in a sacred “Center”, can the link be direct. Otherwise, the influences of the two planes are exercised through “proxims”; for example, every planet corresponds with a certain metal, a certain color, a certain God, etc. According to this, there are links between Shamash (Sun-God) and “gold”, between Anu and “silver”, between Ea and “bronze”, between Nimidni and “stone”.
The Sacred Ubaid Race settled Mesopotamia and founded the Anunnaki religion of the Sumerians in 3500 BC. Their Transylvanian ancestors were the Anunnaki Gods themselves, and their descents The Solomonari. The word 'vampire' has been identified with ’The Watchers’ (Seers - Derkesthai: Dragons). Originally Uber - Vampire - meant Overlord.
Solomonarii origin legends say that during the First Crusade in the Dark Ages, two Templar Knights discovered mysterious secrets on alchemy and magic in the legendary and secret library of Solomon. The knights returned to their homeland Wallachia and mastered the arts they had discovered. But soon their destinies and their spiritual paths were deeply divided.
Ancient tales claim there have been two Solomons: 1) Solomon the King, whose knowledge was closely related to the teachings of the Kabbalah; 2), and “Black Solomon”, known as Asmodeus, the king of demons. This devil claims a tenth of the Solomonari scholars for himself. Perhaps this is more than a metaphor for becoming the hallucinated by the archetype of the original land -- an act of possession, a monomania, with no way out of the labyrinth. Vlad Tepes was one such sacrifice.
The purer the blood was through unbroken descent from the Dragons, the stronger the return of the ancestors within. The stronger the blood the stronger the invocation and the more complete the possession. With mixed blood there was weak inspiration and little discernible presence.
The seer was possessed by a daemon, being by descent and heredity that daemon itself. It was his or her genetic inheritance and part of his or her consciousness, to which that person would yield, when occasion necessitated. They were trance seers (derkesthai), a practice rooted in Scythian shamanic culture. Such Priest Kings stood above all others as ultimate Overlords of Eurasia.
This is confirmed in the word genius, meaning inborn intellect or inspiration. Closely related to this word is genie, meaning a spirit, as in genius loci - ’a spirit of place’. In Arabic the jinni is a spirit of fire or inspiration. The Latin genius, in Greek, is a daemon or inspiring intelligence and the root Latin gens signifies birth, origin and especially blood. The daemon or genius of the Dragons is inherited through the blood.
Historically Draculea himself attended the ’Solomon School’ in Hermannstadt, an alchemical, hermetic college that taught magic to the sons of Royalty. Two other schools like this existed in Europe, one was in Toledo in Spain and the other was said to be in Transylvania. At the ’Solomon’ only one person per class ever graduated, or ’rode the Dragon’ as it was termed.
The ’Solomon School’ finished Vlad’s education and fitted him to become a Dacian counterpart of the British Pendragon, with all the brutal wisdom of his fairy ancestors and predecessors who, as God-Kings of the specifically intermediary, guardian-class of Anunnaki deities, were inhumed in the same manner that Dracula himself was laid to rest.
Draculea the prince of Wallachia was a Sacred Prince, a Hermetic scholar and initiate, a student of magic, Magus, Witch Lord and Dragon Prince, counterbalanced the bloodlust of his forebears with a refined knowledge and advanced practice of Grail procedure which echoes the teachings that the historical Draculea would have received at the ’Solomon School’, teachings encountered in the Dragon Court of which he was a member, teachings which were held in common by Archdruids, Alchemists, Tantric Yogis, Hermeticists and Qabalists alike, each discipline originating from one ancient Fairy Tradition in Sumeria and Transylvania - the heartlands of the Dragon Kings and Queens of the Sacred Danaan Peoples.
http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/dragons/esp_sociopol_dragoncourt02_02.htm
Each graduate had their hoary grimoires or books of magic with Sumerian origins. St. Germain's is based on the triangular Tetractys, which Pythagoras learned in Babylon as a mnemonic devise summarizing the ten principles of life. Pythagoras devised the tetractys, the triangular figure of four rows, which add up to the perfect number, ten. As a mystical symbol, it was very important to the worship of the Pythagoreans, who would swear oaths by it: And the inventions were so admirable, and so divinized by those who understood them, that the members used them as forms of oath: "By him who handed to our generation the tetractys, source of the roots of ever-flowing nature."
—Iamblichus, Vit. Pyth., 29
Pythagoras was quite a 'Demiurgos', with powers like healing people, soul and/or body, whispering to wild animals to make them obey his commands and prevent their possible aggressions, remote viewing and accurate prediction of future cataclysms .
Alchemy and kabbalah associated the progression of the tetractys with the restoration of unity. In the Human Tetractys the first three levels were the Body, the Soul, and the Spirit. Wisdom was the 4th level and component. To reach that 4th level however, the only possible way was to ensure that the first three had been already developed first in perfect equilibrium. Then the acquisition of wisdom, or the development of the 4th component, was finally possible, and the corresponding wisdom was constituted the only real form of human happiness on this Earth.
One knight, very likely an earlier alter of St. Germain, pursued practical Kabbalah, an art similar to that described in the Greater and Lesser Keys of Solomon. The self-reallized Dragon went west, diffusing a gnostic tradition that grew into the “Illuminati”, related to the earlier Cathari (Manichean dualism) tradition. Cathar centers migrated with the royal bloodline. Manichean teachings revolved around astrology, medicine, and magic, the Matrix Words of the Universal Pure Language -- in the meaning of life and mirror of knowledge. If we only knew at least another opposite of Good except Evil our world would have another meaning thus becoming a different world -- Global Oneness.
The other knight became a devotee of ancient Transylvanian religion, and restored the contact with the archaic cult of the primordial Dragon-Deity. This is St. Germain's descent, and why the Dragon appears on his Triangular MS. and why he struggles with the Immortal within. They had a magical book used to cast magic spells together with the dragons. The solomonari concentrated on the book, and discerned what must be done. They also had the ability to affect the weather, bringing hail, rain or drought.
But over time their lines degenerated into corruption. Their notions of Global Oneness became exploitive, predatory. The Solomonari use the Dragons and their genetic 'gifts' for their own ends to increase their own power, ruling the world from behind the scenes. They are known by their cross-shaped birthmarks. They know about the Dragons, and the secrets of the summoning and binding Solomonic formulae. They free just enough draconian essence to allow it into our world, with only a fraction of the unbound power of its true potential. Corrupted stewardship has devolved into lust for personal power for its own sake -- the power to be Dragons. But, the question remains whether the human (now "Mandrake") or "Dragon" then predominates.
The Elixir Vitae and Philosopher's Stone purify the body that is powerful enough to contain the power of a Dragon. St. Germain, "Sol Luminari", has it and they want it from him and are willing to stop at nothing to get the formula. He has fooled them -- he no longer uses magic potions for longevity, but the science of quantum bioholography and gene silencing. But now a cosmic dragon, devoid of conscience -- long foreseen by St. Germain -- challenges the world from the edge of our Solar System. This partially aligns St. Germain with the goals of the rival Solomonari. He saw this grand dragon from his tower observatory with Prince Karl in a by-gone century, and now he is seeing it again, just as he had calculated.
“Another manifestation of the grail and the philosopher’s stone was the comet, the lance-shaped ray of light that could blight a land or bring salvation . . . Merlin was also an astrologer who interpreted to Uther Pendragon at Stonehenge the significance of a comet with two tails, shaped like a dragon, which he said presaged the death of a king and the rebirth of a dynasty, a time of joy and bliss . . .” --Jonathan Hughes, Arthurian Myths and Alchemy: The Kingship of Edward IV (2002), pp. 168 – 168.
Ancient people represented meteors, fireballs, comets, etc. by a variety of images, the most prominent of which were dragons and serpents, and thunderbolts. Other images and symbols included burning torches and lamps, swords, swastikas, beams, lances, swords, and stones. Comets were often depicted by long hair or beards, brooms, the omega symbol, chariots and scythes or sickles.
One indication that points to a general genetic knowledge rather then a learned response is the prevalence of the dragon myth. Jones cites 26 different cultures as having almost identical versions of the dragon. Even in cultures as vastly different as Icelandic, Dutch, and the Cherokee Indians of North America there are stories of dragons. If the dragon was a learned response to an immediate threat it would reflect the geographic enemies more clearly, although all of these cultures may have snakes, cats and birds of prey, they are all different species; however, their dragons are all too similar to reflect this. Dragons are not picked out of a landscape but are inherently recognized and feared.
Archaic cultures first used “meteoritic iron” of celestial origin. In the Sumero-Akkadian culture the meteoritic iron was called “AN-BAR” (“Sky” – “Fire”), meaning “celestial metal”. The word that later came to be used instead of it, “BAR-GAL”, meant “great metal”. The Egyptian word for iron “bi-n-pet” can be translated as “celestial metal”. A Hittite text tells of 14th century BCE kings obtaining “black iron from the Sky”. Iron was designated in ancient Greece by the word “sideros”, which links to the Latin word “sidus, -eris” (=star) and the Litvanic word “svidu” (=to shine), fact which shows the celestial origin of iron.
It also relates to "disaster". The root of the word disaster ("bad star" in Greek) comes from an astrological theme. It is the ancient name for a calamity blamed on unfavorable positions of planets (wandering stars); likewise they were leery of comets as ill omens. Therefore, metals – either coming from the Sky, having a celestial origin, or extracted from the bowels of the Earth – always represented powerful magical agents. Cosmologically speaking, in ancient cultures, metals took part in the great cosmic cycle – “birth” – “sexuality”/reproduction – “death”, as any other element of the cosmos. Even they must submit to the "torture of metals"; they must suffer and die in order to attain eternal life.
In Babylonian metallurgic art, the ore appears as a “divine embryo” (“an-kubu”). The ore is subdued in a series of magical operations (sacrifices, libations, purifications, etc.) to banish away the malignant forces. Therefore, in the cauldron the metal is passing through a mystico-magical rebirth, as the cauldron symbolizes, the womb of Mother-Earth. The secret school was born in a cauldron once boiling with the mingling of heaven and earth. The Solomonari train in soul communion with the forefathers in such a cauldron/crater/grail in perpetual remembrance of that horrific union.
Meteorites, such as that in the Kaaba to this day, were considered sacred and revered. The Solomonari used them for magic. Things which have been struck by lightning or meteorites are believed to carry the power of the sky. Some meteors and meteoric glass have been found, dug up, broken apart, studied, carved into objects, etc. but the essences of the Dragons remain bound within the matter. A Dragon can feed upon the life force of a human while mating with them.
Alchemy is a mystical method of self-perfection, by the symbolical exteriorization of the piritual processes, by projecting spiritual interior elements on an exterior plane, the metals. In this way, the Great Work is ambivalent: a holding of the tension of the opposites, interior and exterior, unifying the Microcosm and the Macrocosm and thus annihilating “Creation” (the dualistic, split world), reiterating the primordial Unity. During the quest from ordinary metals, to noble metals, the adept’s spirit is liberated from the mundane and reaches supreme metaphysical freedom.
After centuries of practice with various options, St. Germain finds he prefers the isolation tank above all for freeing his unbound spirit. The sensory deprivation Consciousness Induction Device reminds him of his old 'Witches Cradle'.
Qlippoth, Hebrew, "shells, husks," is a term in the Kabbalah tradition means "Lords of Unbalanced Powers" referring to demonic entities from a former universe who survived in the present one. The Qlippoth are the subject of a vast but uncertain demonological lore, which originated from Jewish sources but also was barrowed or came from other sources, and parts expounded upon by later occultist theorists. Also see qlippoth - breaking of the vessels: http://www.themystica.org/mystica/articles/q/qlippoth.html
Walter Bruneel
UNIVERSA MYSTERIUM by Santiago CARUSO
Ink and scratch over plastered cardboard, 26 cm x 35 cm The universal vibration of the snake
Ink and scratch over plastered cardboard, 26 cm x 35 cm The universal vibration of the snake
TEMPLARS
Some say St. Germain is/was a Templar knight, certainly in the masonic sense. Templars live from a stone of the purest essence…the Lapis Exilis -- lapis ex caelis - “stone from the heavens”; or of lapis lapsus ex caelis - “a stone fallen from the heaven” or of lapis elixir - the fabulous Philosophers Stone of alchemy. By the power of this stone the Phoenix, another masonic symbol, is burned to ashes, but from the ashes is reborn. The phoenix is established alchemical shorthand for resurrection or rebirth. This stone confers such powers on mortal men that their flesh and bones are made young again. The stone is called the Grail, and it is unknown and protean -- stones fallen from heaven, dragons, the phoenix, the universal medicine, the divine king, and holy blood.
COSMIC SYMBOLISM
Literacy in this language of cosmic symbolism opens up a whole new domain of understanding about our human past on this planet, and explains one very important reason that ancient cultures all over the Earth were so obsessively interested in what happened in the heavens. The legacy of ritual, symbolic architecture, and the sacred and prophetic writings of our ancient predecessors conveys a powerful and compelling significance concerning our place in the Cosmos. Denizens of the Deep continue to encroach upon our celestial neighborhood. Sometimes they rain down mayhem on the human population.
Regarding the prevalence of the dragon in the myths of ancient cultures, British astronomers Victor Clube and Bill Napier, wrote in 1982: “The earliest recorded myths are those of combat, between a god or hero and a dragon. The dragon was a familiar figure in Greece, Egypt, Mesopotamia, Babylon, India, China, North America, and elsewhere. Usually, he has the form of a winged serpent.He is a gigantic monster; he spouts fire and smoke; bellows and hisses; he throws rocks, and is the creator of terrible destruction; and his home is in the sky.” (The Cosmic Serpent: A catastrophist view of Earth History: Universe Books, New York)
Another example comes from the ancient Far East, as recorded by Engelb. Kœmpfer, M.D in 1728: “In the thirty sixth year of his reign, it rain’d Stars from Heaven, in Japan…In the 40th year of his reign, on a clear and serene day, there arose of a sudden in China, a violent storm of thunder and lightning: Comets, Fiery-Dragons and uncommon Meteors appeared in the Airs, and it rain’d fire from Heaven.” Roberta J. M. Olson in Fire and Ice: A History of Comets in Art (1985) writes: “Certain artistic conventions were employed in the rendering of comets and these carried over to images of other celestial events. For example, the English artist Thomas Sandby recorded a large meteor observed in August 1783 which was identified with the ancient type called Draco volans, or “flying dragon”.”
The same "Flying Dragon" is the icon of St. Germain's Cypher Manuscript.
In the Alchemical quest the Philosophers Stone is used concocting the Universal Medicine with which extraordinary restorative or regenerative effects are conferred upon the alchemist. Thus, Grail mythos and arcane symbolism of alchemy are inextricably intertwined.
INDIVIDUAL, SOCIAL & PLANETARY REGENERATION
The artist is an alchemical vessel containing the creative flux of transformation, a continuous alchemical movement. The creative gold is generated and embodied in the alembic of the mindbody.
Our essence is the same substance as the Cosmos and contains and reveals its mysteries.
The athenor of the human body contains all it needs to produce the great circulation. The fire, the First and Last Matter, and the vessel are “One.” Nothing needs to be added to the Stone, except the removal of the impurities that surround and drown it. Raise the fire, evaporate the superfluidities and burn off the dross which inhibits its energy to liberate the Light in its fullest expression. This is the secret of Eternal Life. Light is the root of life in death.
St. Germain has learned to live on such Meta-Syn Light.
The dragon is a symbol of immortality and archetype of the creative process. One paradoxical meaning of the downward-pointing or inverted triangle is the Sacred Womb through which we are born into life, and the tomb through which we are reborn in the spiritual world. It represents the magical potential for transformation and projecting into the future, forever - perpetual life. What is resurrected is a hyperdimensional vehicle of consciousness. Mere matter is transcended in new dimensions. Spirit and matter are realized as One.
The cosmic triangle is the Womb or Water of Space, the great Nothingness, invisibly radiant with omnipresent virtual photonic Light -- the seed of all-containing Space. The beauty and power of eternity is found in that Void or Abyss that is EverywhereAlwaysForever. Retrieving spiritual gold, gems and Mysteries from this hyperdimensional matrix is the work of magic, the energetic science. Your spine connects from deep in the center of the earth, to high in the sky.
This is the subject of St. Germain's Triangular MS. The triangle is a 2-d representation of a pyramid, a virtual resurrection machine. In legend, the Philosopher’s Stone is kept in the custody of the reawakened Dragon, the Adept who fully inhabits his or her Body of Light. Alchemy itself is a triple process of uniting the physical, psychological and spiritual. The unusual triangular shape of the book itself implies the Three Principles of alchemy — Salt, Mercury and Sulpher — body, soul and spirit. The triangle itself upright is a symbol of fire; reversed of water; and interlaced of the union of opposites. The triangle form could also suggest a triple meaning for the contents of the book: alchemy, qabbalism and Hermeticism.
Some say St. Germain is/was a Templar knight, certainly in the masonic sense. Templars live from a stone of the purest essence…the Lapis Exilis -- lapis ex caelis - “stone from the heavens”; or of lapis lapsus ex caelis - “a stone fallen from the heaven” or of lapis elixir - the fabulous Philosophers Stone of alchemy. By the power of this stone the Phoenix, another masonic symbol, is burned to ashes, but from the ashes is reborn. The phoenix is established alchemical shorthand for resurrection or rebirth. This stone confers such powers on mortal men that their flesh and bones are made young again. The stone is called the Grail, and it is unknown and protean -- stones fallen from heaven, dragons, the phoenix, the universal medicine, the divine king, and holy blood.
COSMIC SYMBOLISM
Literacy in this language of cosmic symbolism opens up a whole new domain of understanding about our human past on this planet, and explains one very important reason that ancient cultures all over the Earth were so obsessively interested in what happened in the heavens. The legacy of ritual, symbolic architecture, and the sacred and prophetic writings of our ancient predecessors conveys a powerful and compelling significance concerning our place in the Cosmos. Denizens of the Deep continue to encroach upon our celestial neighborhood. Sometimes they rain down mayhem on the human population.
Regarding the prevalence of the dragon in the myths of ancient cultures, British astronomers Victor Clube and Bill Napier, wrote in 1982: “The earliest recorded myths are those of combat, between a god or hero and a dragon. The dragon was a familiar figure in Greece, Egypt, Mesopotamia, Babylon, India, China, North America, and elsewhere. Usually, he has the form of a winged serpent.He is a gigantic monster; he spouts fire and smoke; bellows and hisses; he throws rocks, and is the creator of terrible destruction; and his home is in the sky.” (The Cosmic Serpent: A catastrophist view of Earth History: Universe Books, New York)
Another example comes from the ancient Far East, as recorded by Engelb. Kœmpfer, M.D in 1728: “In the thirty sixth year of his reign, it rain’d Stars from Heaven, in Japan…In the 40th year of his reign, on a clear and serene day, there arose of a sudden in China, a violent storm of thunder and lightning: Comets, Fiery-Dragons and uncommon Meteors appeared in the Airs, and it rain’d fire from Heaven.” Roberta J. M. Olson in Fire and Ice: A History of Comets in Art (1985) writes: “Certain artistic conventions were employed in the rendering of comets and these carried over to images of other celestial events. For example, the English artist Thomas Sandby recorded a large meteor observed in August 1783 which was identified with the ancient type called Draco volans, or “flying dragon”.”
The same "Flying Dragon" is the icon of St. Germain's Cypher Manuscript.
In the Alchemical quest the Philosophers Stone is used concocting the Universal Medicine with which extraordinary restorative or regenerative effects are conferred upon the alchemist. Thus, Grail mythos and arcane symbolism of alchemy are inextricably intertwined.
INDIVIDUAL, SOCIAL & PLANETARY REGENERATION
The artist is an alchemical vessel containing the creative flux of transformation, a continuous alchemical movement. The creative gold is generated and embodied in the alembic of the mindbody.
Our essence is the same substance as the Cosmos and contains and reveals its mysteries.
The athenor of the human body contains all it needs to produce the great circulation. The fire, the First and Last Matter, and the vessel are “One.” Nothing needs to be added to the Stone, except the removal of the impurities that surround and drown it. Raise the fire, evaporate the superfluidities and burn off the dross which inhibits its energy to liberate the Light in its fullest expression. This is the secret of Eternal Life. Light is the root of life in death.
St. Germain has learned to live on such Meta-Syn Light.
The dragon is a symbol of immortality and archetype of the creative process. One paradoxical meaning of the downward-pointing or inverted triangle is the Sacred Womb through which we are born into life, and the tomb through which we are reborn in the spiritual world. It represents the magical potential for transformation and projecting into the future, forever - perpetual life. What is resurrected is a hyperdimensional vehicle of consciousness. Mere matter is transcended in new dimensions. Spirit and matter are realized as One.
The cosmic triangle is the Womb or Water of Space, the great Nothingness, invisibly radiant with omnipresent virtual photonic Light -- the seed of all-containing Space. The beauty and power of eternity is found in that Void or Abyss that is EverywhereAlwaysForever. Retrieving spiritual gold, gems and Mysteries from this hyperdimensional matrix is the work of magic, the energetic science. Your spine connects from deep in the center of the earth, to high in the sky.
This is the subject of St. Germain's Triangular MS. The triangle is a 2-d representation of a pyramid, a virtual resurrection machine. In legend, the Philosopher’s Stone is kept in the custody of the reawakened Dragon, the Adept who fully inhabits his or her Body of Light. Alchemy itself is a triple process of uniting the physical, psychological and spiritual. The unusual triangular shape of the book itself implies the Three Principles of alchemy — Salt, Mercury and Sulpher — body, soul and spirit. The triangle itself upright is a symbol of fire; reversed of water; and interlaced of the union of opposites. The triangle form could also suggest a triple meaning for the contents of the book: alchemy, qabbalism and Hermeticism.
Bruneel, Lapis Excelis
Count St. Germain:
No Christian saint, St. Germain seems more than mortal, though likely less than immortal except in the most metaphysical sense. The Count is a protean, seductive, and mesmerizing Trickster who remains elusive, ambiguous, mercurial, quixotic. Sometimes he is seen as an immortal mystic, Masonic occultist, or a just an opportunistic rogue.
His story lives on through the Dragon, the deep and eternal treasure house of the Unconscious, the source of meaning. The unconscious is Double -- personal and universal. But psychic energy flows both forward and backward, collapsing normal barriers of time and space, while 'traveling in foreign countries'. Jung concluded that mankind's collective unconscious 1) far predates the evolution of the conscious part of the mind, and 2) forms the same basic patterns repeatedly. In each individual, of course, the patterns are differently arranged. Primordial consciousness continuously spins archetypal tales, including that of the mage destined to save mankind. That spirit is still with us today.
Apprenticeship -
This psychological path to the spiritual first leads our conscious “I” into encounter with Shadow hinterland areas of ourselves – things we don’t know, don’t want to know, don’t like about ourselves and project onto others or, conversely, hints of possibilities, gifts, attributes we have yet to develop in ourselves and often project onto people we admire. Ego has to grow into self-responsibility
Why do people create gods of certain people, so they can imagine they watch over them, as immortals, ascended masters, gurus, or whatever? As children, many of us grew up on redemption stories about the hero that saves a people. St. Germain has long been the object of such projections, but if you let another carry higher potential for you, you deny it in yourself. We empower the person who is the supposed "savior" in a story. In myth, sacrificed savior gods tend to resurrect and come back. What would compel anyone to repeatedly do so? When the edge softens, a man realizes that he will not solve the secrets of the Universe, despite what the mind may have said earlier. Self-delusion is always a possibility.
MYTHING LINK
We like to hear of him, the radiating savior, who as a son of the sun cut through the webs of the earth, who sundered the magic threads and released those in bondage, who owned himself and was no one's servant, who sucked no one dry, and whose treasure no one exhausted. You would like to hear of him who was not darkened by the shadow of earth, but illuminated it, who saw the thoughts of all, and whose thoughts no one guessed, who possessed in himself the meaning of all things, and whose meaning no thing could express. ~Carl Jung, Red Book, Page 273
A myth is something that is always happening, but never occurs - not as some lens between the physical and metaphysical, but as "always already" there, inscribed or embedded in every human encounter, incapable of dis-entanglement from the enactment of a present. The hereafter is always here. Those who understand empower themselves to communicate more effectively with the divine. The past reveals identity.
St. Germain as prototypical creative genius and primeval time traveler (float tank) searches for his eternal love and eternal stone. But he is a victim of his own savior complex and slightly imperfect immortality and bloodline infirmities. He has made and lost the Stone on many occassions. Love is his kryptonite, even if one can live an eternity in a night.
IN SEARCH OF THE BELOVED
This Apollonic maestro's real bete noire is his anima problem: a failure to integrate the archetypal Feminine and a compulsion to create emotional and physical distance. We like to hear the tidings of he whom things have not lived, but who lived and fulfilled himself. We like to have tidings of the son of the sun, which shines.
Because the emptiness lacks fullness, it craves fullness and its shining power. And it drinks it in by means of its eye, which is able to grasp the beauty and unsullied radiance of fullness. When beauty grows, the dreadful worm also creeps in, waiting for its prey. Nothing is sacred to him except his eye, with which he sees the most beautiful. He will never give up his eye. He is invulnerable, but nothing protects his eye; it is delicate and clear, adept at drinking in the eternal light.
An Apollo man's life purpose is to illuminate the darkness but it is also a fundamental denial of darkness. The world is rejected and deliberately kept at a distance. Such lives can become detached or compartmentalized -- disconnected from their emotional center. Logic cannot solve all problems. All St. Germain lacks is that union with the cosmic feminine that would finally make him complete.
Both emotional 'escape artists', Apollo and Artemis work well together. Apollo wants no competitors. Love affairs pale in comparison with the consistent inspiration of creative spirit, but romantic nostalgia remains as a drive, even compulsion. With great pretension, St. Germain acquaints himself with the secrets of nature, the transmutation of metals and jewels, and the prolongation of life and youth -- an extended mid-life crisis, a quest for the Holy Grail, in Nature and his own nature.
Jung recognized the spiritual instincts of the soul. Such instincts modify instinctual urges into the spiritual by creation of spiritual symbols and ‘ideals.’ Through spiritual symbols the soul expresses a capacity to integrate the tension of opposites. Jung goes on to say that such symbol creation may hold a ‘presentiment of the future,’ guiding the individual in the process of psychical transformation.
The ‘higher unconscious’ or soul’s imagination appears to hold the instinctual and creative ability to create a subliminal synthesis of opposites. Such a synthesis may offer ‘visionary clarity’ into the ‘hidden meaning’ of one’s life. Dreams are very often anticipations of future alterations of consciousness. The soul’s instinct is to create symbols of transformation, given spontaneous form in dreams and imagination.
“Everything psychic has a lower and a higher meaning, as in the profound saying of late classical mysticism: ‘Heaven above, Heaven below, stars above, stars below, all that is above also is below, know this and rejoice.’ Here we lay our finger on the secret symbolical significance of everything psychic.” (CW 5, para 77)
PLOTPOINTS
A concrete portrayal of psychognostic philosophy (any penetrating study of the psyche, especially as concerned with each individual character), particularly the concept of a syzygy and the Divine Feminine. The goddess of wisdom, journeys downward toward what appears to be the Father's light, but winds up being trapped in the chaos. She is held captive and tormented by the evil archon/demiurge. The demiurge is the creator god, also the author of all evil, including the NWO (in league with the Solomonarii) with its global stranglehold. The critical catalyst is integrating the feminine. This St. Germain hopes to do by forming a couple conjunction, as in the days of old before history began.
"WHETHER BEINGS LOVE ME OR FEAR ME IS IRRELEVANT.
IF BEINGS GIVE ME THEIR ATTENTION I WILL TAKE THEM TO
ENLIGHTENMENT AND BLISS." ~SG
The Wise Old Man
(AKA mentor, senex, sage or sophos)
Guidance; knowledge; wisdom.
The wise old man can be a profound philosopher distinguished for wisdom and sound judgment. Jung describes this archetype as a classic literary figure, or stock character. The wise old man appears in some way "foreign", that is, from a different culture, nation, or occasionally, even a different time, from those he advises. In extreme cases, he may be a liminal being, such as Merlin, who was only half human. Jung describes the masculine initiator as 'a figure of the same sex corresponding to the father-imago. This mana-personality is a dominant of the collective unconscious, the recognized archetype of the mighty man in the form of hero, chief, magician, medicine-man, saint, and
the ruler of men and spirits.'
'Just as all archetypes have a positive, favorable, bright side that points upwards, so also they have one that points downwards, partly negative and unfavorable, partly chthonic' - so that (for example) 'the sky-woman is the positive, the bear the negative aspect of the "supraordinate personality", which extends the conscious human being upwards into the celestial and downwards into the animal regions'. Yet both aspects, celestial and chthonic, were (at least potentially) of equal value for Jung, as he sought for what he termed a "coniunctio oppositorum", a union of opposites. 'One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light', he argued, 'but by making the darkness conscious'.
Similarly with respect to the goal of the individuation process itself, 'as a totality, the self is a coincidentia oppositorum; it is therefore bright and dark and yet neither'. The wise old man appears in dreams in the guise of a magician, doctor, priest, teacher, professor, grandfather, or any person possessing authority. ["The Phenomenology of the Spirit in Fairytales," CW9i, par. 398.]
In the Symposium, Plato draws a distinction between a philosopher and a sage (sophos, σοφός). The difference is explained through the concept of love, which lacks the object it seeks. Therefore the philosopher (literally lover of wisdom in Greek) does not have the wisdom he or she seeks. The sage, on the other hand, does not love or seek wisdom, because he already has wisdom. According to Plato, there are two categories who do not do philosophy:
LODESTONE OF WISDOM
The philosophers' stone or stone of the philosophers (Latin: lapis philosophorum) is a legendary alchemical substance said to be capable of turning base metals such as lead into gold (chrysopoeia) or silver. It was also sometimes believed to be an elixir of life, useful for rejuvenation and possibly for achieving immortality. For many centuries, it was the most sought-after goal in alchemy. The philosophers' stone is attributed many mystical and magical properties. The most commonly mentioned properties are the ability to transmute base metals into gold or silver, and the ability to heal all forms of illness and prolong the life of any person who consumes a small part of the philosophers' stone.
The central symbol of the mystical terminology of alchemy, the Stone symbolizes perfection at its finest, enlightenment, and heavenly bliss. Alchemists claim that its history goes back to Adam who acquired the knowledge of the stone directly from God. This knowledge was said to be passed down through biblical patriarchs, giving them their longevity. Efforts to discover the philosophers' stone were known as the Magnum Opus (“Great Work”). The Work may pass through phases of nigredo, albedo, citrinitas, and rubedo. When expressed as a series of chemical processes it often includes seven or twelve stages concluding in multiplication, and projection.
Alchemical authors sometimes suggest that the stone's descriptors are metaphorical. It is called a stone, not because it is like a stone. The appearance is expressed geometrically in Michael Maier's Atalanta Fugiens. "Make of a man and woman a circle; then a quadrangle; out of the this a triangle; make again a circle, and you will have the Stone of the Wise. Thus is made the stone, which thou canst not discover, unless you, through diligence, learn to understand this geometrical teaching." Today we know it as The Flower of Life and its tech is the Merkabah Chariot.
ANIMA MUNDI, THE FEMININE, SOUL AWAKENER
The theoretical roots outlining the stone’s creation trace to Greek philosophy. Alchemists later used the Classical elements, the concept of Anima Mundi, and Creation stories presented in texts like Plato’s Timaeus as analogies for their process. According to Plato, the four elements are derived from a common source or prima materia (first matter), associated with chaos. Prima materia is also the starting ingredient for the creation of the philosopher’s stone. The importance of this philosophical first matter persisted through the history of alchemy. In the seventeenth century, Thomas Vaughan wrote, “the first matter of the stone is the very same with the first matter of all things”.
The anima in film is much like the anima anywhere else: a confusing, deceptive presence with the capacity to engender creativity and inner transformation (muse, genatrix). Perhaps the only advantage a film-goer has is that the archetype is visible as well as effective. Anima Mundi is the animated possibilities present in each event, as it is, its sensuous presentation as face, revealing its interior image -- its availability to imagination, its presence as a psychic reality.
LOVE MYSTICISM
Anima embodies the magical world of creative mystery, the spiritual essence of the world and partner with the Magus in the hieros gamos, or mystic marriage that opens an underlying unified reality from which everything emerges and to which everything returns. Hieros gamos combines the erotic impulse with the religious impulse. Alchemists referred to the mysterious union of mind and matter as unus mundus - One World.
She is the Elixir of Life; she enlivens all things. When the "three treasures" are maintained in the balanced body, it is possible to achieve a healthy body, and longevity; which are the main goals of internal alchemy. The "three treasures" of human life are vitality, energy (ch'i), and spirit. With her, he imagines he can transform the world.
EROS IN THE TIME OF THE ESCHATON
(the final, heaven-like stage of history, when God decrees the fates of
all individual humans according to the good and evil of their earthly lives)
Jung said a particular woman in the outside world will have a "hook" that catches a particular man's anima. That hook is is a resemblance.
Men tend to fall in love with an actual woman who bears a resemblance to his anima. The danger with anima/animus-based relationships is that the man carries on a relationship not with the actual woman in his life, but with his own inner feminine for which the actual woman is merely a surrogate, or his anima incarnate, setting up a MYSTIC TRIANGLE, between the elusive inner soul mate and outer world.
Desire does not belong to heaven or earth, but “welds” the spheres together in immediate connection. Sexuality becomes a vehicle for manifestation of the Divine. Hieros gamos‚ (sacred marriage) can be the union of two divinities, or a human being and a goddess, or two human beings. The latter often includes a belief that the human partner becomes divine through ritual union. A royal perogative, the Mesopotamian rite was practiced from around the third millennium b.c.e. until at least 500 b.c.e. The rite is likely much older.
Being "in love" can actually block true relationship, and make what relationship there is to the actual person more difficult. We invest the actual person with qualities that come from the anima. But the anima is a symbolic expression of something eternal. No mortal woman is. Archetypes are like the gods and goddesses of ancient mythology that they inspired. The anima is an idealized image of woman. But no real person can live up to that, so we become disappointed when our anima "angel" or "goddess" reveals to us what, but for the anima, we would have seen from the beginning; her human feet of clay.
In his quest for the Heart of Gold, the Fountain of Life (liquid gold), the Count learns "it's the Journey". . . and it's not over yet. It's a journey inward, to plumb the infinite depths of oneself, and outward, to plumb the equally infinite depths of the universe beyond the self. Gnosis turns us inward to probe the nature of the relation of the self to the divine and also moves us outward, to discover the nature of the relation of the self to others and the natural world.
She is the Elixir of Life; she enlivens all things. When the "three treasures" are maintained in the balanced body, it is possible to achieve a healthy body, and longevity; which are the main goals of internal alchemy. The "three treasures" of human life are vitality, energy (ch'i), and spirit. With her, any man imagines he can transform the world. When we remember to honor the relationship between our Selves and the universe, our actions inevitably acquire a different character. There is nothing unholy about combining desire, sexuality and the divine as they are fundamentally linked. Celebrating our humanness transforms our entire life into a hieros gamos, since each and every thing that we do takes us closer to what is.
Anima Traits
1. Unusual radiance. is one sign of the anima. Often the most amusing and gripping aspect of a movie is to watch ordinary actors or actresses contend with a more mind-blowing presence--a star personality who seems to draw life from a source beyond the mundane.
2. A desire to make emotional connection is the main concern of the character. One of the ways to distinguish an actual woman is her need to be able to say "no," as part of the assertion of her own identity and being. By contrast, the anima figure wants to be loved, or occasionally to be hated, in either case living for connection, as is consistent with her general role as representative of the status of the man's unconscious eros and particularly his relationship to himself. We feel her hunger for connection and anticipate that he will come alive only if he says yes.
3. Having come from some, quite other, place into the midst of a reality more familiar to us than the character's own place of origin.
4. The character is the feminine mirror of traits we have already witnessed in the attitude or behavior of another, usually male, character.
5. The character has some unusual capacity for life, in vivid contrast to other characters in the film.
6. The character offers a piece of advice, frequently couched in the form of an almost unacceptable rebuke, which has the effect of changing another character's relation to a personal reality. The anima figure rescues his authentic relationship to himself, which requires a tragic acceptance of this pattern as his individuation and his path to self-transcendence.
7. The character exerts a protective and often therapeutic effect on someone else.
8. Less positively, the character leads another character to recognize a problem in personality which is insoluble. Failure to overcome ambivalence is a precise indicator of the extent of the damage that exists in his relationship to himself.
9. The loss of this character is associated with the loss of purposeful aliveness itself. The man who is left behind is in a state of archetypal ennui.
No Christian saint, St. Germain seems more than mortal, though likely less than immortal except in the most metaphysical sense. The Count is a protean, seductive, and mesmerizing Trickster who remains elusive, ambiguous, mercurial, quixotic. Sometimes he is seen as an immortal mystic, Masonic occultist, or a just an opportunistic rogue.
His story lives on through the Dragon, the deep and eternal treasure house of the Unconscious, the source of meaning. The unconscious is Double -- personal and universal. But psychic energy flows both forward and backward, collapsing normal barriers of time and space, while 'traveling in foreign countries'. Jung concluded that mankind's collective unconscious 1) far predates the evolution of the conscious part of the mind, and 2) forms the same basic patterns repeatedly. In each individual, of course, the patterns are differently arranged. Primordial consciousness continuously spins archetypal tales, including that of the mage destined to save mankind. That spirit is still with us today.
Apprenticeship -
This psychological path to the spiritual first leads our conscious “I” into encounter with Shadow hinterland areas of ourselves – things we don’t know, don’t want to know, don’t like about ourselves and project onto others or, conversely, hints of possibilities, gifts, attributes we have yet to develop in ourselves and often project onto people we admire. Ego has to grow into self-responsibility
- Persona is a danger that blinds a man to the existence of his own shadow. This shadow, part of the personal unconscious, is the Mr. Hyde in every Dr. Jekyll, the inferior or evil element that wants to do what the conscious or the conscience forbids.
- The anima, explains a Jung disciple, "has attributes that appear and reappear through the ages . . . She always looks young, though there is often a suggestion of years of experience . . . She is wise, but not formidably so; it is rather that 'something strangely meaningful — something like secret knowledge . . . clings to her.' "When this image is projected on a flesh-and-blood woman, a man falls in love, but trouble arises when she fails to fit his unconscious prefab design.
- The old wise man may appear in dreams or fantasies as a king or hero, medicine man, magician or savior (to Dr. Jung's patients, he often appears as Dr. Jung). A little of this, Jung holds, is good: every man has in him the seeds of greatness; and it is well for him to be aware of it. But a man abnormally receptive to the idea may turn into the leader of a wild-eyed revivalist sect, with messianic delusions, or a Hitler, or simply a madhouse Napoleon.
- The transcendent Self embodies elements from both conscious and unconscious, from all the archetypes, good and evil. It is a symbol of oneness such as is found in many religions. Jung's concept of the Self leads to individuation, a lifetime task. By getting to know more and more aspects of his unconscious, we give proper values to what were once half-sensed and disturbing urges. Individuation is "finding the God within."
Why do people create gods of certain people, so they can imagine they watch over them, as immortals, ascended masters, gurus, or whatever? As children, many of us grew up on redemption stories about the hero that saves a people. St. Germain has long been the object of such projections, but if you let another carry higher potential for you, you deny it in yourself. We empower the person who is the supposed "savior" in a story. In myth, sacrificed savior gods tend to resurrect and come back. What would compel anyone to repeatedly do so? When the edge softens, a man realizes that he will not solve the secrets of the Universe, despite what the mind may have said earlier. Self-delusion is always a possibility.
MYTHING LINK
We like to hear of him, the radiating savior, who as a son of the sun cut through the webs of the earth, who sundered the magic threads and released those in bondage, who owned himself and was no one's servant, who sucked no one dry, and whose treasure no one exhausted. You would like to hear of him who was not darkened by the shadow of earth, but illuminated it, who saw the thoughts of all, and whose thoughts no one guessed, who possessed in himself the meaning of all things, and whose meaning no thing could express. ~Carl Jung, Red Book, Page 273
A myth is something that is always happening, but never occurs - not as some lens between the physical and metaphysical, but as "always already" there, inscribed or embedded in every human encounter, incapable of dis-entanglement from the enactment of a present. The hereafter is always here. Those who understand empower themselves to communicate more effectively with the divine. The past reveals identity.
St. Germain as prototypical creative genius and primeval time traveler (float tank) searches for his eternal love and eternal stone. But he is a victim of his own savior complex and slightly imperfect immortality and bloodline infirmities. He has made and lost the Stone on many occassions. Love is his kryptonite, even if one can live an eternity in a night.
IN SEARCH OF THE BELOVED
This Apollonic maestro's real bete noire is his anima problem: a failure to integrate the archetypal Feminine and a compulsion to create emotional and physical distance. We like to hear the tidings of he whom things have not lived, but who lived and fulfilled himself. We like to have tidings of the son of the sun, which shines.
Because the emptiness lacks fullness, it craves fullness and its shining power. And it drinks it in by means of its eye, which is able to grasp the beauty and unsullied radiance of fullness. When beauty grows, the dreadful worm also creeps in, waiting for its prey. Nothing is sacred to him except his eye, with which he sees the most beautiful. He will never give up his eye. He is invulnerable, but nothing protects his eye; it is delicate and clear, adept at drinking in the eternal light.
An Apollo man's life purpose is to illuminate the darkness but it is also a fundamental denial of darkness. The world is rejected and deliberately kept at a distance. Such lives can become detached or compartmentalized -- disconnected from their emotional center. Logic cannot solve all problems. All St. Germain lacks is that union with the cosmic feminine that would finally make him complete.
Both emotional 'escape artists', Apollo and Artemis work well together. Apollo wants no competitors. Love affairs pale in comparison with the consistent inspiration of creative spirit, but romantic nostalgia remains as a drive, even compulsion. With great pretension, St. Germain acquaints himself with the secrets of nature, the transmutation of metals and jewels, and the prolongation of life and youth -- an extended mid-life crisis, a quest for the Holy Grail, in Nature and his own nature.
Jung recognized the spiritual instincts of the soul. Such instincts modify instinctual urges into the spiritual by creation of spiritual symbols and ‘ideals.’ Through spiritual symbols the soul expresses a capacity to integrate the tension of opposites. Jung goes on to say that such symbol creation may hold a ‘presentiment of the future,’ guiding the individual in the process of psychical transformation.
The ‘higher unconscious’ or soul’s imagination appears to hold the instinctual and creative ability to create a subliminal synthesis of opposites. Such a synthesis may offer ‘visionary clarity’ into the ‘hidden meaning’ of one’s life. Dreams are very often anticipations of future alterations of consciousness. The soul’s instinct is to create symbols of transformation, given spontaneous form in dreams and imagination.
“Everything psychic has a lower and a higher meaning, as in the profound saying of late classical mysticism: ‘Heaven above, Heaven below, stars above, stars below, all that is above also is below, know this and rejoice.’ Here we lay our finger on the secret symbolical significance of everything psychic.” (CW 5, para 77)
PLOTPOINTS
A concrete portrayal of psychognostic philosophy (any penetrating study of the psyche, especially as concerned with each individual character), particularly the concept of a syzygy and the Divine Feminine. The goddess of wisdom, journeys downward toward what appears to be the Father's light, but winds up being trapped in the chaos. She is held captive and tormented by the evil archon/demiurge. The demiurge is the creator god, also the author of all evil, including the NWO (in league with the Solomonarii) with its global stranglehold. The critical catalyst is integrating the feminine. This St. Germain hopes to do by forming a couple conjunction, as in the days of old before history began.
- Another interpretation from gnosticism with many possible interpretations): SG needs her essence in order to survive. He seduces her by proposing to share power with her. She discovers his cyphered magical diary, encrypted at many levels. They are ceremonially initiated in a magical “soul-bonding” ritual -- “inseparably paired for eternity”. They essentially share two halves of cosmic information, making them interdependent upon one another. He hopes to keep her trapped in matter. In the ever more material world the need to acknowledge the spiritual realm and the Spirit is greater then ever. His desperation becomes visible at the end of the film. Yet, against all odds, he triumphs by revealing the secret of the philosopher's stone to the world, allowing anyone to transmute the commonest substance into gold. This undermines the globalist economy and reminds humanity that the true treasure is deep within, simply awaiting embodiment in each of us in the renewed One World
--the new Eden. - A homage to kabbalah, in the form of numeric/alphabetic, musical, or otherwise coded symbolic imagery. The symbology could simply stand alone, or is a symptom of the pursuit of grand scale mythopoeia.
- The movie glories in ambiguity, allowing more than one interpretation of almost everything.
The backstory is presented by flashback, mostly initiated in a float tank.
"WHETHER BEINGS LOVE ME OR FEAR ME IS IRRELEVANT.
IF BEINGS GIVE ME THEIR ATTENTION I WILL TAKE THEM TO
ENLIGHTENMENT AND BLISS." ~SG
The Wise Old Man
(AKA mentor, senex, sage or sophos)
Guidance; knowledge; wisdom.
The wise old man can be a profound philosopher distinguished for wisdom and sound judgment. Jung describes this archetype as a classic literary figure, or stock character. The wise old man appears in some way "foreign", that is, from a different culture, nation, or occasionally, even a different time, from those he advises. In extreme cases, he may be a liminal being, such as Merlin, who was only half human. Jung describes the masculine initiator as 'a figure of the same sex corresponding to the father-imago. This mana-personality is a dominant of the collective unconscious, the recognized archetype of the mighty man in the form of hero, chief, magician, medicine-man, saint, and
the ruler of men and spirits.'
'Just as all archetypes have a positive, favorable, bright side that points upwards, so also they have one that points downwards, partly negative and unfavorable, partly chthonic' - so that (for example) 'the sky-woman is the positive, the bear the negative aspect of the "supraordinate personality", which extends the conscious human being upwards into the celestial and downwards into the animal regions'. Yet both aspects, celestial and chthonic, were (at least potentially) of equal value for Jung, as he sought for what he termed a "coniunctio oppositorum", a union of opposites. 'One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light', he argued, 'but by making the darkness conscious'.
Similarly with respect to the goal of the individuation process itself, 'as a totality, the self is a coincidentia oppositorum; it is therefore bright and dark and yet neither'. The wise old man appears in dreams in the guise of a magician, doctor, priest, teacher, professor, grandfather, or any person possessing authority. ["The Phenomenology of the Spirit in Fairytales," CW9i, par. 398.]
In the Symposium, Plato draws a distinction between a philosopher and a sage (sophos, σοφός). The difference is explained through the concept of love, which lacks the object it seeks. Therefore the philosopher (literally lover of wisdom in Greek) does not have the wisdom he or she seeks. The sage, on the other hand, does not love or seek wisdom, because he already has wisdom. According to Plato, there are two categories who do not do philosophy:
- Gods and sages, because they are wise;
- senseless people, because they think they are wise.
LODESTONE OF WISDOM
The philosophers' stone or stone of the philosophers (Latin: lapis philosophorum) is a legendary alchemical substance said to be capable of turning base metals such as lead into gold (chrysopoeia) or silver. It was also sometimes believed to be an elixir of life, useful for rejuvenation and possibly for achieving immortality. For many centuries, it was the most sought-after goal in alchemy. The philosophers' stone is attributed many mystical and magical properties. The most commonly mentioned properties are the ability to transmute base metals into gold or silver, and the ability to heal all forms of illness and prolong the life of any person who consumes a small part of the philosophers' stone.
The central symbol of the mystical terminology of alchemy, the Stone symbolizes perfection at its finest, enlightenment, and heavenly bliss. Alchemists claim that its history goes back to Adam who acquired the knowledge of the stone directly from God. This knowledge was said to be passed down through biblical patriarchs, giving them their longevity. Efforts to discover the philosophers' stone were known as the Magnum Opus (“Great Work”). The Work may pass through phases of nigredo, albedo, citrinitas, and rubedo. When expressed as a series of chemical processes it often includes seven or twelve stages concluding in multiplication, and projection.
Alchemical authors sometimes suggest that the stone's descriptors are metaphorical. It is called a stone, not because it is like a stone. The appearance is expressed geometrically in Michael Maier's Atalanta Fugiens. "Make of a man and woman a circle; then a quadrangle; out of the this a triangle; make again a circle, and you will have the Stone of the Wise. Thus is made the stone, which thou canst not discover, unless you, through diligence, learn to understand this geometrical teaching." Today we know it as The Flower of Life and its tech is the Merkabah Chariot.
ANIMA MUNDI, THE FEMININE, SOUL AWAKENER
The theoretical roots outlining the stone’s creation trace to Greek philosophy. Alchemists later used the Classical elements, the concept of Anima Mundi, and Creation stories presented in texts like Plato’s Timaeus as analogies for their process. According to Plato, the four elements are derived from a common source or prima materia (first matter), associated with chaos. Prima materia is also the starting ingredient for the creation of the philosopher’s stone. The importance of this philosophical first matter persisted through the history of alchemy. In the seventeenth century, Thomas Vaughan wrote, “the first matter of the stone is the very same with the first matter of all things”.
The anima in film is much like the anima anywhere else: a confusing, deceptive presence with the capacity to engender creativity and inner transformation (muse, genatrix). Perhaps the only advantage a film-goer has is that the archetype is visible as well as effective. Anima Mundi is the animated possibilities present in each event, as it is, its sensuous presentation as face, revealing its interior image -- its availability to imagination, its presence as a psychic reality.
LOVE MYSTICISM
Anima embodies the magical world of creative mystery, the spiritual essence of the world and partner with the Magus in the hieros gamos, or mystic marriage that opens an underlying unified reality from which everything emerges and to which everything returns. Hieros gamos combines the erotic impulse with the religious impulse. Alchemists referred to the mysterious union of mind and matter as unus mundus - One World.
She is the Elixir of Life; she enlivens all things. When the "three treasures" are maintained in the balanced body, it is possible to achieve a healthy body, and longevity; which are the main goals of internal alchemy. The "three treasures" of human life are vitality, energy (ch'i), and spirit. With her, he imagines he can transform the world.
EROS IN THE TIME OF THE ESCHATON
(the final, heaven-like stage of history, when God decrees the fates of
all individual humans according to the good and evil of their earthly lives)
Jung said a particular woman in the outside world will have a "hook" that catches a particular man's anima. That hook is is a resemblance.
Men tend to fall in love with an actual woman who bears a resemblance to his anima. The danger with anima/animus-based relationships is that the man carries on a relationship not with the actual woman in his life, but with his own inner feminine for which the actual woman is merely a surrogate, or his anima incarnate, setting up a MYSTIC TRIANGLE, between the elusive inner soul mate and outer world.
Desire does not belong to heaven or earth, but “welds” the spheres together in immediate connection. Sexuality becomes a vehicle for manifestation of the Divine. Hieros gamos‚ (sacred marriage) can be the union of two divinities, or a human being and a goddess, or two human beings. The latter often includes a belief that the human partner becomes divine through ritual union. A royal perogative, the Mesopotamian rite was practiced from around the third millennium b.c.e. until at least 500 b.c.e. The rite is likely much older.
Being "in love" can actually block true relationship, and make what relationship there is to the actual person more difficult. We invest the actual person with qualities that come from the anima. But the anima is a symbolic expression of something eternal. No mortal woman is. Archetypes are like the gods and goddesses of ancient mythology that they inspired. The anima is an idealized image of woman. But no real person can live up to that, so we become disappointed when our anima "angel" or "goddess" reveals to us what, but for the anima, we would have seen from the beginning; her human feet of clay.
In his quest for the Heart of Gold, the Fountain of Life (liquid gold), the Count learns "it's the Journey". . . and it's not over yet. It's a journey inward, to plumb the infinite depths of oneself, and outward, to plumb the equally infinite depths of the universe beyond the self. Gnosis turns us inward to probe the nature of the relation of the self to the divine and also moves us outward, to discover the nature of the relation of the self to others and the natural world.
She is the Elixir of Life; she enlivens all things. When the "three treasures" are maintained in the balanced body, it is possible to achieve a healthy body, and longevity; which are the main goals of internal alchemy. The "three treasures" of human life are vitality, energy (ch'i), and spirit. With her, any man imagines he can transform the world. When we remember to honor the relationship between our Selves and the universe, our actions inevitably acquire a different character. There is nothing unholy about combining desire, sexuality and the divine as they are fundamentally linked. Celebrating our humanness transforms our entire life into a hieros gamos, since each and every thing that we do takes us closer to what is.
Anima Traits
1. Unusual radiance. is one sign of the anima. Often the most amusing and gripping aspect of a movie is to watch ordinary actors or actresses contend with a more mind-blowing presence--a star personality who seems to draw life from a source beyond the mundane.
2. A desire to make emotional connection is the main concern of the character. One of the ways to distinguish an actual woman is her need to be able to say "no," as part of the assertion of her own identity and being. By contrast, the anima figure wants to be loved, or occasionally to be hated, in either case living for connection, as is consistent with her general role as representative of the status of the man's unconscious eros and particularly his relationship to himself. We feel her hunger for connection and anticipate that he will come alive only if he says yes.
3. Having come from some, quite other, place into the midst of a reality more familiar to us than the character's own place of origin.
4. The character is the feminine mirror of traits we have already witnessed in the attitude or behavior of another, usually male, character.
5. The character has some unusual capacity for life, in vivid contrast to other characters in the film.
6. The character offers a piece of advice, frequently couched in the form of an almost unacceptable rebuke, which has the effect of changing another character's relation to a personal reality. The anima figure rescues his authentic relationship to himself, which requires a tragic acceptance of this pattern as his individuation and his path to self-transcendence.
7. The character exerts a protective and often therapeutic effect on someone else.
8. Less positively, the character leads another character to recognize a problem in personality which is insoluble. Failure to overcome ambivalence is a precise indicator of the extent of the damage that exists in his relationship to himself.
9. The loss of this character is associated with the loss of purposeful aliveness itself. The man who is left behind is in a state of archetypal ennui.
Reference / Background / Terminology
Lake Solomonari in Carpathian Fangs, Transylvania
I've found something thats...well, its suspicious. its like a ruined building that goes into a mountain, by a lake. But its not the only one... There are ones by Lacul Vidra, Lacul Vidraru, Lacul Podragu, and Lacul Balea
I've found something thats...well, its suspicious. its like a ruined building that goes into a mountain, by a lake. But its not the only one... There are ones by Lacul Vidra, Lacul Vidraru, Lacul Podragu, and Lacul Balea
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