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The Goddess:Isis and her various other

names and symbolsAthanasius Kirchner

from Oedipus Aegyptiacus (1652-1654)

extra:

Goddess Isis and the taboo onloving Lilith

Benjamin Adamah

BasiliscOccult Documents/ Hexen-Antiquity No. 2

© pdf Benjamin Adamah 2009

www.luxnoxhex.org

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This small but lovely little document by Athanasius Kirchner is of occultinterest because it shows the many names properly and mistakenly given toIsis, the Goddess of the Smaller Mysteries. Isis was the feminine and Lunarcounterpart of the male and Solar Serapis, God of the Greater Mysteries.The Greater Mysteries deal with the most primordial ontological directingof Creation, while the Smaller Mysteries encompass every mystery ofbecoming and creating on the border of involution and evolution. Includedare the mysteries of nature, life and death, astrology, magic and divination.Isis is most akin to Diana, Hecate, Proserpina, Luna and Lilith (notmentioned). – B.A.

Based on Apuleius, The Golden Ass, Book XI chapter 47

Then by little and little I seemed to see the whole figure of her body, mountingout of the sea and standing before me, wherefore I purpose to describe her divinesemblance, if the poverty of my human speech will suffer me, or her divine powergive me eloquence thereto. First she had a great abundance of hair, dispersedand scattered about her neck, on the crown of her head she bare many garlandsenterlaced with flowers, in the middle of her forehead was a compass in fashionof a glass, or resembling the light of the Moon, in one of her hands she bareserpents, in the other, blades of corn, her vestment was of fine silk yielding diverscolours, sometime yellow, sometime rosy, sometime flamey, and sometime (whichtroubled my spirit sore) dark and obscure, covered with a black robe in manner ofa shield, and pleated in most subtile fashion at the skirts of her garments, thewelts appeared comely, whereas here and there the stares glimpsed, and in themiddle of them was placed the Moon, which shone like a flame of fire, roundabout the robe was a coronet or garland made with flowers and fruits. In herright hand she had a timbrel of brass, which gave a pleasant sound, in her lefthand she bare a cup of gold, out of the mouth whereof the serpent Aspis lifted uphis head, with a swelling throat, her odoriferous feet were covered with shoesinterlaced and wrought with victorious palm. Thus the divine shape breathingout the pleasant spice of fertile Arabia, disdained not with her divine voyce toutter these words unto me: Behold Lucius I am come, thy weeping and prayershath moved me to succour thee.

"I am she that is the natural mother of all things, mistress and governess of allthe elements, the initial progeny of worlds, chief of powers divine, Queen ofHeaven, the principal of the Gods celestial, the light of the goddesses: at my willthe planets of the air, the wholesome winds of the seas, and the silences of Hellbe disposed; my name, my divinity is adored throughout all the world in diversmanners, in variable customs and in many names, for the Phrygians call me themother of the Gods: the Athenians, Minerva: the Cyprians, Venus: the Candians,Diana: the Sicilians Proserpina: the Eleusians, Ceres: some Juno, other Bellona,other Hecate: and principally the Ethiopians which dwell in the Orient, and theEgyptians which are excellent in all kind of ancient doctrine, and by their properceremonies accustom to worship me, do call mee Queen Isis.

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Reconstruction

I S I D I SMagnæ Deorum Matris

APVLEIANA DESCRIPTIO.

Nomina variaIsidis.

Explicationessymbolorum

Isidis.

Isis

Minerva

Venus

Iuno

Proserpina

Ceres

Diana

Rhea seu Tellus

Pessinuncia

Rhramnusia

Bellona

Hecate

Luna

Polymor phus dæmon

A Diuinitatem, mundum,orbes cœlestesBB Iter Lunæ flexuosum, &vim fœcundatiuam notat.CC Tutulus, vim Lunæ inherbas, & plantas.D Cereris symbolum, Isisenim spicas inuenit.E Byssina vestis multicolor,multiformem Lunæ faciem.F Inuentio frumenti.G Dominium in omniavegetabilia.H Radios lunares.I Genius Nili malorumauerruncus.K Incrementa &decrementa Lunæ.L Humectat. vis Lune.M Lunæ vis victrix, & visdiuinandi.N Dominium in humores& mare.O Terræ symbolum, &Medicinæ inuentrix.P Fœcunditas, quæ sequiturterram irrigatam.Q Astrorum Domina.R Omnium nutrix.S/M Terræ marisqueDomina.

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Goddess Isis and the taboo onloving Lilith

Benjamin Adamah©2009

During Hellenism Isis became identified with the Queen of Magic and Hekate /Diana. Originally the Egyptian Isis or Aset was the wife of Osiris. She was alsorelated to the sun god Ra. The name Isis means ‘seat’ or ‘throne’ or ‘dwelling’,indicating the correlative-dialectic chthonic counterpart of the uranian principle,represented by the Solar or trans-Solar deity (See Helios-Hekate in GreekTheurgy and Apollo-Diana). The term ‘dwelling’ links Isis to the qabbalisticShechinah or embedding of God in the world and therefore also to the tantricBrahma Shakti.

The cow (related to the bull/Taurus/the world), the lotus (Lulu = lotus = ancientname for Lilith) and Mercurial snake (kundalini) were sacred to Isis. In Egyptboth Isis-Osiris and Nephthys-Seth were associated with funeral rites. Here wehave an archetypal link to Hekate residing on the threshold of the Underworldand astral realm, but also via (Isis sister) Nephthys-Seth (God of evil, chaos,mental disorder) to Lilith-Samael in the qabbalistic tradition.

In her left hand Isis holds a bucket of water and with her right foot (second plate)she rests on an overturned amphora, pouring the water out. This water is whatthe Hawaiian kahunas call the ‘mana’ , which can be translated with both ‘water’and ‘ water of life’ which is the ‘Od’ of Reichenbach, the ‘jing-qi’ (sexual/physicalenergy) of the Taoists and the same “substance” that in the twentieth centurywas rediscovered by Wilhelm Reich as ‘orgon’. Our etheric double or bio-electricmagnetic field is made of this subtle energy annex substance. Quoting DionFurtune, the etheric double is the only interface between mind and matter. In theetheric double are located all our chakras, secondary and tertiary chakras, all ourmeridians, reflex zones and acupressure points. These thousandths of energypoints and energy channels are our direct contact – as a unique microcosmicentity – with the macro cosmos and the cycles of natural time (kairos) which are‘ideomotoractivated’ by planetary transits to our horoscopes (birth, progressed,solar, etc.).

On a secondary scale the etheric double is influenced by psychospheric pressurein our environment, astral entity interaction and our way of life including thefood we take in and the way we use our body and mind (See the many Taoist andtantric studies in this field).

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The bucket in Isis left hand symbolises on a human level our birth or radixhoroscope; a semi fixed set of implosion points in the time/space/consciousnesscontinuum which configures apart from evolutionary influences like our genes, byinvolutionary coordinate settings [1] our character, affinities, fears, ambitions,talents, situations etc.. Between the contained water in the bucket and theeternal flowing waters of life flowing out of the amphora [2] a continuousinteraction takes place between our incarnated microcosmic awareness and thecycles of natural time for which the movements of celestial bodies andastrologically defined sensitive point like the Black Moon, the Nodes etc. providethe clockwork.

From the awareness of this interaction in combination with the awarenesssimultaneously arising of an intrinsically static point in the soul (atman), verticalconsciousness can arise. Crowley once expressed this very poetically with thephrase ‘awake from sleeping, awake from waking’. And from this psychologicalzero point the phroura or true growth of the soul (or collapse of the soul) underfree will, and by a hyperconscious accepting the core challenge of ones currentincarnation, may take place.

That is after the awaked seeker for liberation, happiness and truth hasconfronted and defeated his Waiters on the Threshold, the so called egregors orartificial elementals (Bardon’s larven). These are not psychological complexes butactual entities with a formidable survival instinct and embedded in the sameinvolutionary hypostasis wherein also our etheric double is embedded, the realmof Isis/Hekate: the World Soul, Yetzirah, the Sublunar Realm or morphogeneticfield as Rupert Sheldrake has renamed it.

Egregors arise out of inner tensions caused by conflict aspects in our horoscopes(usually the radix or progressed) or as a result of evildoing by others (jealousy,hatred, humiliation, repression etc.) or finally by unconscious reactions ondeformities in the ‘raw man-testing’ Zeitgeist (Lucifer) [3]. The latter caused bythe total unawareness of the masses and their leaders of natural time and theinability to deal with natural time in an active way instead of an unconsciousreactive way which keeps man passively subjected to the ups and downs of themacro-microcosmic fluctuations in the World Soul without learning anythingfrom it.

In this state of unawareness of the True Science of Nature, man remains a selfimagined victim of “cruel gods” or “inevitable fate” or “apocalyptic future events”while the true knowledge of the divine can free him from this self activated perilsforever; changing Lucifer back into a Light Bringer so to speak. One of the mostancient archetypes of Isis was Chthonie in the Orphic religion. Chthonie was theshamanistic World Tree or ‘Winged Oak’ (Huptopteros Drus) with her rootsfirmly planted in the Earth and her crown of leaves high in the Sky, thusrepresenting like Isis/Hekate the interface between the spiritual and chthonicrealm of the Universe. She was clothed by a predecessor of the Demiurg orcreative God (Zeus, Adonay) called Zos who wrapped her in the pharos. Heremeaning a divine cloak, which is Assiah, the Manifesting or Earthing or (fully)

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Conscious Universe symbolized by the visible stars, we already noticed on thedress of Isis.

Interesting is the connection Isis with Lilith, an ancient Mesopotamian goddess,in later times demonized by the Israelites while in a paradox one of the deepest

qabbalistic secrets teaches of the marriage (Hieros Gamos) of Adonay/ יהוה [4]

and Lilith, representing Shiva and Brahmah Shakti (Kali). This holy marriagesymbolises the completed synergy through the heart chakra between the higher(uranian) chakras and the lower (chthonic) chakras. This is the realizedkundalini, a process that in average takes about 12 years from the moment ofawakening the serpent fire.

On an even higher level it also symbolises the emancipation of chaos, theuntamed wild and darkness. When chaos, the untamed wild and darkness are notintegrated in our consciousness and social system but suppressed, these forces,which are necessary forces in the process of creation and internal growth, aredeformed into the qlippoth, the shells or demons that will drain the energy out ofevery living creature or positive process. [5] This is the reason why we seemedieval demons portrayed as semi-anthropomorphised caricatures of thepsychospheres belonging to the root chakra, the sex chakra and the solar plexus.Thus representing features of the traditional seven sins. It is crucial however torealize that only in the error state, the forces represented by the dark side of Isisand all the other representatives of the original Great Mother Goddess(Matriarch) become evil and destructive. They actually become forces of deathwhich are the harder to control and overcome the longer we let them grow in aclimate of primitive inherited patriarchal absolutism that dwells unconsciouslybut nevertheless aggressively under our skin.

After Aristotle [6] made a fatal mistake concerning the “one cause” that startedall causes, and the Archaic Greek culture lost their eudemonia by splittingthemselves up into Stoics and Epicureans, the exoteric religions based on theAbrahemitic tradition have split the divine definitely into a transcendent uranic,male solar principle (which became identical with ‘God’ in general) and achthonic, female, lunar principle (which became taboo). Thus the lobotomy of Godbecame institutionalized.

A process that first lead to the disrespect for Mother Nature, Earth the feminineand the sexual and in the course of history it catalyses in Descartes’ furthersplitting up of body and mind, in the end resulting in a culture that is in anesoteric sense truly Satanic. Ula von Bernus defined Satan as the theonic force ofthe techne, the technical solution, an offensive ultra-exoteric approach of realitythat flourishes most in a climate of denial of the internal realities of the soul. Themodern climate that ridicules or denies the psychological, archetypal andpsychosferic realities, denies the dialogue between a macro-, and microcosmos(involution), by fusing pragmatism, Darwinism, materialism and fundamentalmodernism with science and instituting this hybrid product with science ingeneral. It does so despite intelligent science-philosophical criticism andempirical proof for the existence of the subtle realms. (See today’s professional

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astrology, Kirlian photography, the studies of Walter Kilner, Rupert Sheldrake,Masaru Emoto and many others). The irony is that modern science is overrulingitself because Heisenberg has more or less debunked it’s flag ship the doubleblind test. The tragedy however is something called scientism. Scientism haspenetrated even the higher regions of the human soul by obsessing it with aperverted and cancerous techne, philosophically catalysed by Max Stirner,Friedrich Nietzsche and their offspring, practised on a political level by NewWorld Order politics aiming at barbarous Orwellian crowd control systems thatcan only be realized by a complete fusion of politics with high-tech.

On a small human scale scientism is expressed especially by an every facet ofwork and social life penetrating addiction to and dependency on technicalgadgets. Without wanting to create some kind of gothic rhetoric prophecy ofdoom, it is the naked truth that we live in a world that is more Satanic than everbefore in history.

In a paradox this is due to the fact that we have lost the art of integrating aparticular aspect of the divine intelligence called Lilith. That which does not fitwithin the official narrow exoteric corporate scope, the chaos, the untamed wildand darkness (and the free individual opinion) the New World Order-policy triesto overcome with technical solutions, thus exteriorising a problem that can onlybe solved within the inner realms and processes of the soul. The holocaust, atechno-genocide powered by IBM and I.G.Farben, was just one example of acollective consciousness trapped in a self created yang-Universe, yearning forthat missing piece of yin as a new born baby crying for his mum.

The fact that the last 30 years Mother Nature lost 30% of all animal species and30% of all plants, that are now extinct forever, the fact that deep reflection (afeminine chthonic faculty) is replaced more and more by automatic life stylereflexes, the fact that one out of two marriages ends in a divorce, and the factthat modern youth escapes the suffocation of an overstressed yang-climate withwagonloads of drugs and alcohol are just a very few other examples of theapocalyptic end phase of the ‘half God-world’. An end state that replaced thenatural matrix containing the souls of our body and the world with an artificialpatrix empowered by a virtual mass hysteria in symbiosis with techno-corporations, ruled behind the curtains not by Illuminati but by whatcontemporary philosophers have recognized as the soulless thing itself that hasdeveloped the power of an active obsessing entity.

So let us abandon this barren plane where we stand with our feet no longer onsoft fertile living earth but on ‘sterile thingness’, ‘crying under the broken wingsof the Shechinah’, as the poet Bialik described it. Let us submerge ourselvesagain, like our ancestors, in the Living Waters of Isis, Queen of the SmallerMysteries. And when the days of the self proclaimed techno-Übermensch of todayfinally end, perhaps that breathtaking dream of a world less sterile, morecolourful and mysterious, more human, sexual and natural and less overstressedcan reanimate itself by some hidden process of natural contingency. History willteach us for shore that the most powerful, evil and boring egregor ever created by

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man’s outstanding talent for institutionalized stupidity or history, the clinicalover-control of life (that has to remain a wild uncontrollable element to remainlife measured to normal human semantics) [7] will simply end in implodingdullness. And that is exactly the wrong way to reintegrate the chthonic orfeminine principle of the divine in our social, ecological and psychological makeup…

Earth as the sustainer of live’s diversity Earth as awakened consciousness

Notes

1 Our native horoscope, a blueprint for our individuation process during one incarnation2 the tantric ‘Spanda’ made manifest under the right foot of Isis3 Lucifer is the name a gave in my first book ‘Nulpunt Revolutie’ to a variable Zeitgeist of

2160 years which is exactly the period the Galactic centre needs to transit one sign of thezodiac. The starting point of a new Luciferian Zeitgeist, that is the moment on which theGalactic Centre moves into a new sign of the zodiac, delivers an exact horoscope of anew eon that maps the way humanity can grow or degenerate by following the right or thewrong way. In our current epoch Lucifer is dominated by Sagittarius and Pisces and hasit’s karmic pattern in Cancer. The wrong way is indicated by centuries power misuse andbureaucracy by the Vatican, the right way ironically by the message of the Virgin and theChild.

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4 Originally the demiurgic aspect of God represented by יהוה (Adonay / Fire / Yod, Air / He,

Water / Waw, Earth / final He) was born out of the Three Mothers of Chaos אםש (Air /

Aleph, Water / Mem, Fire / Shin).5 Causing the ‘ecstatic negativity’ described by Julius Evola, which is one of the least

recognized yet most dangerous and destructive features of the post-modern era.6 The one primordial cause of causes in the way Aristotle formulated it created the

fundament for the mutilation of God that put It’s transcendent aspect on the throne andamputated It’s chthonic or feminine half out of the collective consciousness. Aconceptualization of the divine with a tremendous masse-psychological impact.

7 Summarized as the archetype Lilith.