Parallel Perspectives: MAY GREETINGS 2008

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ISIS 1ST Rotation of May

Year of OurSELF2008

DEAR BROTHERS & SISTERS,

COMRADES OF MOTHER EARTH:

Radically adapted from:

The Testament of Isis

If Gods are superstars, then Isis is the most beautiful Supreme Diva of them all—and considering that her “show” is still playing through 3 Aeons (at least 10,000 human years), that’s not too shabby. In the Testament she reveals her human incarnation during the primordial Aeon of Set; how, alone & destitute, she walked the barren earth & swamps. It relates how she entered a city mired in darkness by the Archons, how she too fell prey, a victim to their corruption; even how she became a prostitute, falling so far from the light that she actually went blind. Then there was another change, another shifting of terrestrial orbit or aeon. The Goddess could see again, but she saw that all of humanity had rejected The Holy Redeemers & paid homage only to Set or Yahweh, their own ego image. Yahweh created the Archons to rule over the infant souls of earth, and instilled greed and cruelty and the love for domination in them. When they saw The Holy Mother dressed as a beggar, an outcast, a homeless one—the Archons spit on her & threw stones at her & called her a whore. Isis’ tears flowed dark red, drops of blood covered her nude & torn feet. The air was so hot it felt like fire when she tried to breathe. In this final misery she raised her arms to the blackened sun and cried out, Why am I, The Mother of All, forsaken? The Goddess would have died by her own hand, and she still possessed that which was hers by birthright—the power of life & death, and the gnosis (knowledge) of good & evil. But suddenly a single sound was heard reverberating the most heart-breaking hymn ever heard throughout the universe. It was the sound of all the infant souls crying out to their mother in one voice, this elemental wail. Isis heard the cries of her children, and she enveloped them into her true form that was infinite. Then the sound changed, the sorrow was transformed into the hymn of heaven and that magnificent sound was pronounced OMMMmmm. Then the black primordial mound of the earth was itself transformed. The flowers grew back from the barren ground, they flourished & bloomed; even the sacred lotus emerged once more from the clay beds, soothed by the cooling blue-green waters of Osiris. The lotus bloomed all white with the faintest shading of the palest blue. Isis took delight in the scent of the sacred flower, and then smiled as she was rejoined with her most loyal of companions: the Ibis bird Thoth who was also a god, and the mystic Jackal, Anubis who was also a god. Thoth was Isis’ scribe, he made records of her magic (gnosis) for the benefit of all humanity. He hid them in unadorned clay pots. The dog-headed Anubis was Isis’ mortuary priest and her trusted familiar & her bravest companion. Her beloved sister too returned from exile where the Archons had imprisoned her in chains. Isis was a true Goddess & formed the apex of the pyramid & below her one god on the right, and the other on the left. With these friends standing to the left and to the right, Isis was no longer afraid & regained her highest form. She was protected by a ring of fire. It was the Sun. It was here Isis experienced the Epiphany of Horus and was now prepared for her second test: the death of her brother & lover Osiris by the hand of Set aided by the cruel Archons. She knew eventually the power of the corruption would be overcome, and in complete victory, she would crush the head of Set like a serpent beneath her heel.

Archons = Rulers of the Lowest Plane = The Oligarchs

Celebrated Days in the Month of Isis:

1— Festival of Isis

Beltane Sabbath
International Worker’s Day

Lei Day in Hawaii

3-4—Bona Fortuna

29—Ambarvalia /in honor of Ceres

— For more information see —

1st Generation of The New Aeon

J.E. Farrow,

PARALLEL PERSPECTIVES

Suzanne Radford,

The Gnostic Pagan Project

~ Our Favorite Sight ~

Featuring the intricately designed music box replicas

of French architect, artisan and designer

Philip LeMarchand

"...Like other artists through time, LeMarchand had heard
of a perfect material in which to work, a perfect medium in
which to express his talents. And like other damned artists
through time, LeMarchand never dreamed just what it was
he would create with that most perfect,
most orderly material..."

Valentina Sprague, Architect of the Damned. Pentacle, June 1967

In the Court of the Crimson King

21^st CENTURY SCHZOID MAN

Cats foot iron claw
Neuro-surgeons scream for more
At paranoias poison door.
Twenty first century schizoid man.

Blood rack barbed wire
Polititians funeral pyre
Innocents raped with napalm fire
Twenty first century schizoid man.

Death seed blind mans greed
Poets starving children bleed
Nothing hes got he really needs
Twenty first century schizoid man.

EPITAPH

The wall on which the prophets wrote
Is cracking at the seams.
Upon the instruments of death
The sunlight brightly gleams.
When every man is torn apart
With nightmares and with dreams,
Will no one lay the laurel wreath
As silence drowns the screams.

Between the iron gates of fate,
The seeds of time were sown,
And watered by the deeds of those
Who know and who are known;
Knowledge is a deadly friend
When no one sets the rules.
The fate of all mankind I see
Is in the hands of fools.

In the Court of the Crimson King

Text Box: Confusion will be my epitaph.
As I crawl a cracked and broken path
If we make it we can all sit back
And laugh.
But I fear tomorrow Ill be crying,
Yes I fear tomorrow Ill be crying.

Lucifer's Court: A Heretic's Journey in Search of the Light Bringers (Paperback)
by Otto Rahn

Product Description

(From Amazon.com)

Rahn’s personal diary from his travels as occult investigator for the Third Reich

• First English translation of the author’s journeys in search of a Nordic equivalent to Mt. Sinai

• Explains why Lucifer the Light Bringer, god of the heretics, is a positive figure

Otto Rahn’s lifelong search for the Grail brought him to the attention of the SS leader Himmler, who shared his esoteric interests. Induced by Himmler to become the chief investigator of the occult for the Nazis, Rahn traveled throughout Europe--from Spain to Iceland--in the mid 1930s pursuing leads to the Grail and other mysteries. Lucifer’s Court is the travel diary he kept while searching for “the ghosts of the pagans and heretics who were [his] ancestors.” It was during this time that Rahn grasped the positive role Lucifer plays in these forbidden religions as the bearer of true illumination, similar to Apollo and other sun gods in pagan worship.

This journey was also one of self-discovery for Rahn. He found such a faithful echo of his own innermost beliefs in the lives of the heretics of the past that he eventually called himself a Cathar and nurtured ambitions of restoring that faith, which had been cruelly destroyed in the fires of the Inquisition. His journeys on assignment for the Reich--including researching an alleged entrance to Hollow Earth in Iceland and searching for the true mission of Lucifer in the caves of southern France that served as refuge for the Cathars during the Inquisition--also led to his disenchantment with his employers and his mysterious death in the mountains after his break with the Nazis.

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OTTO RAHN was born in Michelstadt, Germany, in 1904. After earning his degree in philology in 1924, he traveled extensively to the caves and castles of southern France, researching his belief that the Cathars were the last custodians of the Grail. Recruited by Himmler into the SS as a civilian archaeologist and historian, Rahn quickly grew disillusioned with the direction his country was taking and resigned in 1939. He died, an alleged suicide, on March 13, 1939, in the snows of the Tyrolean Mountains. Lucifer’s Court was translated into English by Christopher Jones, who also translated Otto Rahn’s Crusade Against the Grail, published in 2006.

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Not in my wildest dreams would I have thought that I'd read--let alone review--a book written by a member of the Nazi SS, even written while the author was on the SS pay roll.

But here we are.

There are two lines of thought that would advise against this book: either its contents promote anti-Semitism and/or publication of the book encourages the growing momentum of neo-Nazi historic revisionism. The latter is probably more insidious than the first in the sense that with each new generation Nazi crimes fade from collective memory, further into the past. For example, I posted an Amazon review that commented on Robert Eisenmen's The New Testament Code. Eisenmen details the anti-Semitism contained in the New Testament. One person commented: "Anti-Semitism...isn't that something associated with the Nazis way back in World War II?" The reader was implying that anti-Semitism was something that only existed in the 1940's & confined to Germany!

Modern education has a lot to answer for…

I understand that the works of Richard Wagner are banned in Israel because of that influential composer's anti-Semitism (he was Hitler's favorite composer). I wouldn't go that far, but then I'm not Jewish. However, if there was even the faintest whiff of anti-Semitism in LUCIFERS COURT, I would not have finished reading the book (I probably would have torn into pieces)--let alone review it.

But I did.

There IS a virulent hatred expressed in this book—and it is aimed at the Roman Catholic Church. I am not a "Defender of The Faith" in any way, shape or form--but the high degree of anti-Catholicism reminded me of the great author Dostoevski's anti-Catholicism (and anti-Semitism as well). Such extreme hatred interjected into otherwise fictional or educational writing amounts to de facto propaganda & is deserving of literary criticism.

Author Rahn equates himself and his ancestors with the heretics who were persecuted by the Roman Church in that institutions' zeal to achieve universal religious conformity.

It is a passionate & at times even romantic defense.

Rahn also equates heretics such as himself (a baptized Catholic) and the Cathars, for example, with the Luciferian tradition, the "Light Bearers." The SS saw themselves in this role and their insignia represented two lightening bolts of Thor. In terms of the Occult, the Luciferian traditions represent the middle path between Satanism and Yahweh--in other words, Lucifer is seen as a sort of Pagan-Christ figure…

LUCIFER'S COURT is written in the format of a travel journal as the author investigates various "leads" in his quest for the Grail. Incidentally, it is not the Grail of Christian fable or contemporary lore--in fact, the main intent of LUCIFER'S COURT is to uncover the "real" Grail. In this journey the author reveals a store house of Pagan Germanic/Scandinavian tradition. In fact, as the book progresses, the allusions & metaphors become almost overwhelming & one must wonder how much is historically correct or the author's fantasy. This is a problem with all metaphysical writing (ie.you can fall into the trap of taking the symbolic lliterally, or simply get lost in the symbolism)--and in the case of LUCIFER'S COURT is compounded by the writer's hatred of the Catholic Church.

Rahn is a talented writer & it has been said that he was the original inspiration for the character Indiana Jones. At times LUCIFER’s COURT reminds me of the film The Ninth Gate with Johnny Depp. In the book there are images of mystic ruins, strange castles & misty landscapes. There is even a mysterious Countess, well versed in the occult & ancient lore...

[Continued in Reviews & Interviews.)