Kabbalah Mysteries:
The Vision of Ezequiel Points to the Centre [Monad] of the North-Mountain: I once described the Sefirot’s association with the planets under our firmament in part eight of this thesis collection. The literal attempts to reach the sky via rockets as an endeavour to reach the stars are also analogous to the ascension of the Holy Mountain [Meru]. And this, in turn, is ascension towards the Tree of Life and the ascension to the Stars. And in part twenty-seven, we mentioned Magus’s recalling Nebuchadnezzar’s dream of the great Tree that shelters the world. In which a Watcher turns up in his dream and decrees that the Tree must be cut down. In short, the Tree was cut down with celestial fire, and following the aftermath, new growth spurred into a mountain where gods will reside. The growth also equates to new roots that will identify it to mind and intelligence, adhering to a Tree of Life concept.
Magus describes Paradise as a Womb and Edem [Eden] being the afterbirth, “a river flowing forth from Edem, to irrigate Paradise” the Naval. God formed man in his mother’s womb, in Paradise. He states the navel is separated into four principles represented as two arteries (the channels of spirit) and two veins (the channels of blood). Magus is making a symbolic similarity between the nature of gestation and birth with the physical creation of the world.
The mountain in which Moses received his Prophetic missions differs from the Great Tree that once resided in the centre of the Earth. Much like Magus’s metaphorical map for the world as a natural birth with all its intricacies of the womb and veins – the great Tree is a type of Monad. All other mountains, much like veins and rivers, are other trees (now mountains) that once emanated from them, with some having a holy aspect to them.
An excerpt from Manly P Hall to his students describes a mysterious vision [we describe this as cosmic consciousness, an awakening or enlightenment experience, and even alien encounter abductions in today’s standard] by a prophet while captive by the River Chebar. That Prophet was Ezequiel:
| Ezequiel receives his strange vision on the shores of the aetheric consciousness, the river Chebar is that mystic stream which flows from the material and divine world. |
In religious terms, water symbolises an aetheric world that extends beyond the physical plain [plane] of life or the aetheric interval between the physical and astral planes. And this means Ezequiel had his vision [cosmic consciousness] between such dimensions.
| Ezequiel beheld a world-wind coming out of the north a great cloud filled with fire in the midst appeared a chariot of the most high. It was from the north from the axis mountain that whirling vision of Ezequiel came. Out of the whirlwind of the north there appeared an extraordinary instrument of power. |
In Egyptian mythology, the North is regarded as the ‘abode of the gods’ – a suggestion that can be validated in their ancient writings. Examined in the description of the construction of Temples for the gods, it must have gates facing east, south and west. And excluded is the north gate as the Sun never appeared to them on the northern part of the Heavens. The Egyptian’s polar mountain was the abode of the old dark gods – the fathers of the divine kings – the mysterious Meru of the Hindus. The Bible gives no name to the chariot of majesty [Ezequiel’s visions], but by the Hebrews, it’s called the Merkaba.
| The Merkaba was so sacred that it might be spoken of only with the greatest narration and only in the presence of the elders and among the elders. The Merkaba is one of the deepest mysteries of Cabalism; the chariot of righteousness; the seed of the most high; the mysteries of the wheels that goes all ways and are filled with eyes – is thus interpreted by the wisest of cabalists. The Chariot consist of four creatures called Cherabs each going a different ways with four heads, six wings and the hooves of a calf – each of the Cherab bore the face of a man, a bow, a lion, an eagle and their wings met at the corner of the Merkaba. These mysterious creatures rode on the wheels filled with eyes, and above them was throne and upon the throne was an awful presence in white, surrounded by light and power and accompanied by a rainbow, so numerous and complicated are the interpretation of this vision that we can mention only a small part. |
Manly P Hall further describes symbolic associations in the Merkaba to that of the world and the universe as a body or vehicle of the creator. It is beneath his feet, for the earth is his foot-stool. And the Merkaba is the foot-stool where God manifests only in his lesser part. I won’t go into the symbolic details of Ezequiel’s vision but point out that the astronomical significance needs to be updated to fit non-hyperreal-space, but within truer dynamic reality, and therefore the structure of the Merkaba is redefined back into its originality.
And to also make the most significant in the symbology is that the Human body itself is a Merkaba [the Chariot of the Law]. So the four bodies of Man are represented by the four heads of the living creature. And the physical body is the Earth or Torus, which is seeded in the heart.
We discussed the Trinity briefly regarding an association with the gnostic One-Parent [the Mother-Father-Son or Christ] to the Abrahamic Trinity. And a claim I made about the first three Sefirot [Wisdom-Crown-Intuition] as a Trinity; as a map for our left and right dualism, and can be used to discern Hegelianism [notably in politics]. The Merkaba Star Structure [two sold triangles conjoined together at opposite fixtures] is also a design that comes out of sacred geometry. It rotates in different directions, and as it rotates, it creates a three-dimensional field. It creates a perfect balance between our dual nature, of the earth and cosmos, our two sides of our brain, and the masculine and feminine.
The Triangle represents the divine, harmony, and proportion in two-dimensional perspectives. It’s also a symbol of the trinity in Christianity, while in the eastern and Gnostic Arcanum belief systems, they are defined by many meanings and have various esoteric-philosophical associations. One of those is that the symbol indicates the male and female sex. So the apex at the top represents the male, and the one with the top down represents the female. And both aspects are within the individual sexes.
According to Arcanum (Gnostic teachings), within Adam formed the first female human (Eve). Elohim took one of Adams’s (who was a hermaphrodite human) ribs, closed up the flesh and made a woman (Eve). This form of separation is represented symbolically with the triangle (male) and upside down triangle (female) throughout time; men and women have played the game of seeking unity, hence the craving for sexual connection.
Three solves the discord created in two polarities, resulting in a new integration and wholeness. And this can be seen in the divisions of the mind, body and spirit, whose unification makes us whole; our visible world is three-dimensional. Three possesses the attributes of wisdom, understanding and knowledge; on the negative side, it exhibits pessimism, foolhardiness and unnecessary risk-taking. Three is seen as a magical number. Three, “the magic number”, is further defined because it’s the number of manifestations. It represents thoughts, emotions and actions, each having a casualty effect on the other.
Its roots stem from the meaning of multiplicity, Creative power and growth. Three is a moving forward of energy, overcoming duality, expression, manifestation and synthesis. Three is the first number to which the meaning “all” was given. It is The Triad, being the number of the whole as it contains the beginning, middle and end. The power of three is universal and is the tripartite nature of the world as heaven, earth, and waters. It is human as body, soul and spirit. Three are birth, life, and death. It is the beginning, middle and end. Three is a complete cycle unto itself. It is past, present, and future.
Throughout history, some traditional civilizations had a direct relationship with numbers and letters of the alphabet, so much so that discerning numbers and letters were indistinguishable. On the other hand, some Native American cultures knew no alphabet but could cipher the harmonious measures and proportions within the numerable or nameable totality of the cosmos and so became knowable.
The [Jungian] archetypes and symbolism can be knowable also, and it has everything to do with the context of what is around. Take, for instance, the letters of the Hebrew alphabet – their names, meanings, and purposes are fascinating. Each letter represents a fundamental articulation of the Unity of Being, known to persons of faith as God and known to science as a “Theory of Everything.” Hebrew is a truly universal language, not just among the nations of humankind but also universal in meditation, cosmology and physics, spiritually and technically sound. Meru Foundation research demonstrates that the letter sequences in the Hebrew text of Genesis are part of an effective science of consciousness, an extraordinary cosmology meeting the highest technical standards – and by no means through the understanding of allegory, but a Tree of Life for those who can grasp it.
Modern kabbalah researchers focusing on hyperreal space to explain the cosmos in a Kabbalah framework are wasting their time. Although there is legitimacy in how they structure mysticism as a rational approach via the scientific method [like meaning in words and even that it’s closer to philosophy], there is no difference to an atheist trying to rationalise a universe that has supernatural elements. And even in the science of Alchemy, it has more to do with chemical essence that coincides with the body and psychological evolutions of the mind and spirit. And alongside its astrological planetary levels [Celestials garments within the firmament], magic is also part of it. A Kabbalistic hyperreal Cosmos [minus the planetary levels] are two philosophical disciplines that can never go together.
Then how about maths? It’s more of language that can be attached to anything, even the exploits of any scientism’s notion. Mysticism is a generic term that has far more meaning than science. Jewish mysticism refused to define mysticism because mysticism is intrinsically connected with the particular system, whether it’s Mysticism like Kabbalah, concerned about cosmology [the divine is manifesting itself to the world] or mysticism, that’s more personal in terms of connection with god and how to approach god.
The Mountain as a Psychological interest: The debate around what is universal concerning symbols, archetypes, correspondence, etc., is by no means by its specific context. If it does happen to be universal, it still doesn’t negate specific interpretations; for example, a mountain in a dream doesn’t necessarily relate to a mountain in a folk tale. Mountains as a symbol are significant. Often a mountain can represent the polarity of good and evil, positive or negative. In Revelation:
| Revelation 8:8 | The second angel sounded his trumpet, and something like a huge mountain burning with fire, was thrown into the sea. A third of the sea turned into blood. |
Swedenborg’s book Apocalypse Explained; answers this in a way that is more meaningful to how a fundamentalist might see it. In Apocalypse Explained 510:1, he says: And something like a huge mountain burning with fire. This symbolizes self-love and, from that, a love for one’s own intelligence. … This kind of love is meant by this mountain because a “mountain” in the Word can symbolize either kind of love – namely, heavenly love or hellish love. The subject here is the evil who are to be separated from the good … – Apocalypse Explained. Hellish love, in this interpretation, means self-interest or narcissism. The last sentence is about removing that evil by being cast down from the mountain and seeing what is false, the blood in the sea.
While Magus describes passing through the Red Sea, which he calls Blood, and that its water has a bitter taste, he says: “For bitter, he says, is the water which is (drunk) after (crossing) the Red Sea; which (water) is a path to be trodden, that leads to a knowledge in (this) life of (our) toilsome and bitter lot.” Both interpretations are similar; so it’s safe to say it’s universal; both are shedding or passing the bitter taste of self-interest and narcissism to reach an understanding of intelligence or knowledge. In the Bible:
| Isaiah 56:7 | Even them I will bring to My holy mountain, And make them joyful in My house of prayer. |
You can equate this verse with Swedenborg’s many inspirational texts; his book Last Judgment – Supplements states: “Once people have been received by the Lord [into heaven], they can never be plucked out of his hand.” And this is the immovability aspect, much like the phrase, “If the mountain doesn’t come to Muhammad, Muhammad must go to the mountain.” But, moreover, it’s more about the non-repeated cycles in Heaven, to never be put back into the Samsara Wheel.
In Apocalypse Explained Swedenborg’s reasoning for mountains being equated to heavenly love or hellish love is stated:
| The reason why a mountain can mean either heavenly love or hellish love is this: Angels of the third heaven who have heavenly love live on the mountains in the spiritual world. So … “mountain,” means that third heaven. Or, in terms of the way angels think about it – abstracted from people and places – it means the heavenly love that makes heaven, heaven. In the negative sense, however, a mountain means a love for oneself, because those who are immersed in self-love constantly want to climb mountains, to make themselves equal to angels in the third heaven. Because they think about doing this their fantasies, they also try it when they are outside of hell. This is why “mountain” in a negative sense means self-love. In a word, those who are immersed in self-love always yearn for high places. So after death, when all the states of love become correspondences, they have the illusion if propelling themselves way up high, and believe they are on high mountains, when their bodies are in hell. – Apocalypse Explained |
When talking about Mountains residing in the spiritual world, it means you have to be in a place of love (or love is the place where one lives) then a mountain manifests. A mountain can also mean a love for oneself, which is about self-interest and putting oneself above everyone else. They constantly want to climb mountains to make themselves equal to Angels in the third heaven – these ego types are negative. They are merely illusionary, so mountains, in a negative sense, always mean self-love. So, after death, when all that states of love become correspondences, they have the illusion of propelling themselves way up high and believe they are in high mountains when their bodies (spiritual bodies) are in hell. – Ofthelefteye, Good vs. Evil, Swedenborg & lIfe
Swedenborg, a universal genius, was a psychologist (among many other things) even before Freud. There are hints of what psychologists diagnose as Narcissism (overt, covert, borderline) personality disorders in his biblical interpretations. Unlike former psychologists, now YouTubers (and psychologist wannabes) have indicated these Narcissistic symptoms and traits – Swedenborg mentions these symptoms in his work but does it more subtly.
Christian fundamentalists will no doubt link Swedenborg’s teachings to the New Age movement, with words like; love, heavenly love, a place of love, divine, and enlightenment being thrown around because they want to essentially deny intuition. And Swedenborg’s teachings are interpretations of theology that seem out of tune with their rigid reasoning and so would infuriate them. They’ve made it clear that their opinion of the New Age is a way of thinking (or institutions) that undermines Christianity and destroys God’s revelation. What they mean is it’s something that undermines their type of Christianity (an institution that is in bed with the state) and destroys their interpretation of the revelation of God. And those interpretations are always about consolidating the mythology of the ancient world and deeming it satanic.
And this is kind of strange and ironic, given there are a lot of Protestants and reactionaries, specifically marginalized and disenfranchised males. A large group who listen to modern-day T.S Elite like Jordan Peterson, who himself takes a lot of subjects concerning biblical archetypes and ancient mythologies and applies them through psychology. He applies that in real life and conveys it like a modern self-help guru. So kind of aligns with what Swedenborg had done with concepts of esoteric Christianity. However, Evangelicals see psychology as something that goes against their religion.
Recently Peterson was incorrectly labelled a spokesperson for the Incel groups. And this is kind of ironic because the author Neil Strauss, who authored a dehumanising book on picking up girls in a methodical manner, is what inspired [indirectly] groups like Incels. Methods like negging, which is no different to gaslighting.
Strauss’s book mentions that men secretly seek a particular father type, the Miyagi to Daniel-son, or Balboa to Creed Johnson. So what I’m inferring is that these father archetypes, in their way, have wisdom. And this is what we wish our fathers to be, the new man; mystical (spiritual), scientist (alchemist/ Pythagoreans), Artist (poets), only to realise that in reality, what we get instead are rigid pragmatic old vanguards [egoist]. And this is why Peterson has become so influential because he fits that father archetype that secretly all men want – and it’s more universal than being falsely directed as a spokesperson for a group of marginal men
It doesn’t negate that reactionaries and fundamentalists like to lump someone like Swedenborg or someone like Blavatsky, who was also prolific, be the first few authors that popularize occultism and merge it with Christianity. Maybe so, but it’s also a clever way to indicate two different teachers who are different in their methodology to something the same. One specifically used a method like séances for contact with the dead the other was about being struck by the light or (fire) and was not by choice but by the grace of God. Fundamentalist Christians have regulated Swedenborg as someone who shaped the thinking of nineteenth-century New England transcendentalists like Emerson, Thoreau, Ripley, Holmes, and Alcott, who would later influence Madam Blavatsky.
Perhaps it was so, but it’s still a generalization; Blavatsky was a product of her situation, a combination of reactionary impulses during her time. The industrial revolution brought about a kind of paranoia in a steampunk landscape in England, from grounded farming sensibilities to a labour force, industry and factory mills. And as a counteraction, there was a move towards mysticism. Occult groups would pop up everywhere, like Theosophy, Freemasonry, Mormonism, Christian Science, and so on – all merging at a time of social upheaval. The point of belief was the idea that parallels the ubermensch concept that a new superhuman would counterbalance this new upheaval. Taking ideas from [a famous Rosicrucian] Edward Bulwer-Lytton, the author of ‘Vril, the power of the coming race’ novel –a book that popularised hollow earth theory. As well as the idea of a civilization that housed hidden higher evolutionary alien-like beings, living in that hollow underground. And this caught the interest of Theosophist groups like Blavatsky and Baily, who took those ideas and introduced them into their books.
A mystical fictional fantasy novel would be the catalyst for Theosophy, which was the impetus for the interest in the mystical, occult, new/proto-new-age that engulfed the 19th century. After which, a common perpetual cycle of inspiration would attach itself to reality and the fictional aspect of that reality. So Vril became popular that rumours of that the core Nazi party came from the Vril society, a theory brought forth by a German rocket scientist named Willy Lay – who was also part of the science fiction circle in Los Angeles. That included people like Jack Parsons and L Ron Hubbard [creator of scientology] – and so this nexus of inspiration manifests itself in fiction, the new age of spirituality, and religion and politics.
I once described Northrop Fry’s Demolition: “symmetry, in any narrative, always means that historical content is being subordinated to mythical demands of design and form.” The symmetrical aspect of false memory divulges into aspects of what memory isn’t. So, when non-fictional modes adopt something potent like ancient, apocryphal, esoteric archetypes. It’s attaching itself to a structure that ascends upwards like Jacobs’s ladder or climbing the holy mountain. The potency of this symmetrical nature is timeless. And I think Alien Cults or Watcher Cults understand this and use that structure for their self-interest and benefit. Unlike that State Cult – that tunnels it through an infinite asymmetrical external satellization. Though it might be hyperreal, it might be the last false ideological stronghold. And if it breaks down [and is why they introduced the whole flat earth thing to the zeitgeist in the first place], so they can introduce a synthesis of fallen angel worship.
The cult groups retell the same potent story through fiction or science-fiction; it’s a meta-fiction within a fiction within non-fiction. Fiction uses ancient archetypes and then adopts fictional modes of symmetry [this is like recycling or rebooting]. Still, when it adopts something asymmetrical to work in a symmetrical mode, you’ve got something. Resulting in something like a Scientology religion or something that can veer off into politics and entertainment; now you’re in the cult space.
The hollow earth is nothing but the underworld [or, in our non-fictional perspective, underground breakaway civilisations]; the incarnated coming race is nothing but watcher angels and their hybrid’s offspring [Alien human hybrid experiments and also spirit possessions from the spirits of the Nephilim and Watchers]. And the cult groups that worship them that has a lot of sway in determining the future of civilisations. And their worship is about making plans for the fallen ones or ‘The Fallen One’ to find their way back home to the stars. So in a structure that ascends upwards … it seems they’re descending … or you could entertain the ascending aspect depending on your cosmological ideologue. So, what do these worshippers think they’ll get in the end?
Witch Mountain; Revising an Astro-Gnostic Parable: Witch Mountain is a film about a Las Vegas cabbie who enlists the help of a UFO expert to protect two siblings with paranormal powers from the clutches of an organization that wants to use the kids for their nefarious plans.
The Witch Mountain may play like a Gnostic parable; two children who are aliens who fell to Earth from their home planet in a binary star system (Sirius). These notions compare to Aeons who fell from the Pleroma (meaning “the Fullness”). And also a hyperreal space similarity to the Centre of the Earth, much like the Cosmic Centre of the Earth (the centre of the Galaxy). In this sense, the Sun being the centre of the solar system is the closest Pleroma we have in human terms, in so much as a hyperreal-space-notion.
Another outlook would entail that the Mountain that once resided in the centre of the earth is the Witch Mountain. The witch aspects suggest magic, and in magic something supernatural happens in the Mountain, for it was once a tree that reached the heavens. It’s now a gateway or a singularity, and it’s what new-age-flat-earthers call the entrance to Paradise. The two children are displaced from their home, representing falling from the earth.
Deftones’ Chino Moreno’s many Astro-Gnostic songs a lyric in particular “Bloody Cape” suggest ships (boats) leaving their home and seeking the frontier, much like the British and Columbian ships, which set sail for the New World or New Atlantes.
In waves the ships have all sailed to the sea
Well do you want to wait or leave with me tonight
Cross your heart and pray
The ocean will take us all the way in
First we are ever to fall off of the earth
We must be the
First ones in the world to fall off of the earth
Of course, the song is represented through the aspects of human experience; it just outlines the similarities between the two Children and humanity’s affiliation of being lost in its world. The two children are either original Atlantean beings or Star-Childs, both coming from different places but ultimately wanting to go in the same direction and hoping the “ocean will take us in” to that unknown. Still, for the two Children, its home. A parallel in humanity’s alienation, humanity is alien from its world, ever so slightly standing apart from the animal kingdom, which is harmonious and inherently with a sense of synchronistic animism. The human capacity to explore to determine where we come from follows the same mission statement.
Like in Star Trek, a spaceship made to explore space, and when it fires up its nacelle engines to go light speed, they are “falling off of the earth.” A motif likened to the first civilisations to cross continents in their ships. In a more spiritual sense, the ships refer to a Duat Boat that can also represent a Chariot and a Merkaba, all symbols of the spirit.
The children fell to earth from space, and space is where the stars reside, is often called one of the heavens under the firmament. The children are not aliens but angels who have forgotten where their original home existed, leaving them alienated; because of their supernatural powers, they realize they’re from somewhere else. And would later figure out that where they must go is Witch Mountain. And let’s not forget Swedenborg describes: “Angels of the third heaven who have heavenly love live on the mountains in the spiritual world.” “Mountains mean people who possess the goodness of love since angles dwell upon a mountain.”
Deftones’ Guitarist Stephen Carpenter is open about his flat earth belief. It’s fitting, considering Chino’s fall of the earth lyrical remark is also used by rationalists to denote an obtuse presumption that living on a flat earth – ships in sail will eventually fall off the earth. It’s a fact that people believed in flat earth longer than a spherical one, and even in a rationalist position, it is the most rational, and at the same time, the most innocuous. In such a case, the archetypal dominance or imagery is highly unlikely to be perceived in the collective unconscious, unlike the dominant flood-like dream.
A combination of archetypes manifested through archetypal symbols combined with the individual conditions and cultural characteristics along with archetypal symbols from the past (that we call myth) – like a living collective trauma [say, for instance, a flood] trying to express itself alongside the dreamer.
| Genesis 7:19,20 | And the water strengthened greatly, greatly on the earth, and all the high mountains that were under the whole heaven were covered. Fifteen cubits upward the water towered, and it covered the mountains. |
Secrets of Heaven 797, 798: The water that covered the mountains symbolizes the fact that persuasive lies wiped out all the good effects of charity. The meaning of fifteen cubits upward the water towered, and it covered the mountains [is] the fact that nothing was left of charity. [- Secrets of Heaven]. Another meaning for a mountain is charity and love for thy neighbour (likened to basic human decency that became unheard of during that time), which was buried by persuasive lies during a certain point in human history.
The fifteen cubits are a clear indicator that nothing was left. And this is certainly something for infinite-flat-earth believers to ponder; for a flood to rise (or water to rise in general), you need a container to hold water in, something enclosed. A hyperreal notion of a spherical planet fixes this in a way that’s not beholding to a creator – but in the realms of a cosmic event.
The flood symbolizes an archetype, to be more precise, an archetypal symbol that is within all of us – something universal that’s part of the collective that applies to all cultures and across all generation gaps – something that is not dependent on the individual and their life experiences. They can appear in dreams, fairy tales, mythologies and so forth; often, these archetypes are transcendent and beyond conscious perception, even beyond dreams. The flood symbol is synonymous with dreaming [personally, I’ve had many flood dreams].
