monkeyboy
26-05-2009, 08:50 PM
Here is somthing i found in Christopher Hyatt - Undoing Yourself With Energized Meditation and Other Devices does anyone know of this guy and his validity? all the same a very interesting read however you take it :)
http://www.scribd.com/doc/50606/Christopher-Hyatt-Undoing-Yourself-With-Energized-Meditation-and-Other-Devices
Chapter Nine
THE ORDER OF THE WHITE LION1
THE SEEDS OF A NEW TANTRIC ORDER?
FACT OR FICTION? AND WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES
IT MAKE?
The essence of this story was revealed to me in 1965 by an
elderly woman (from the South) who claimed to be an adept of
an ancient secret order which was somehow linked with the
Golden Dawn. I worked with her for approximately 9 months at
which time she disappeared. Her personal handmade Tarot deck
had a White Lion on the Strength Card which made a very strong
impression on me. She told me that the symbol of the White Lion
had major significance for me as well as for the future of
mankind. What follows is a present day offering of that
information.
The Order of the White Lion (OWL) was said to be due to
emerge prior to 2005. However, it will establish its roots sometime
in the late 1980's and early 90's as an offshoot of the
Original Order of the Knights Templar. The acronym OWL is no
simple coincidence: it relates to Horus, the Hawk Headed God of
the emerging Aeon, which was transmitted to Crowley in 1904.
1The Order of the White Lion has nothing to do with any rock group
which uses the name to represent itself or its music. In fact the Heads of the
Order (if they existed) would be horrified at this possibility, as the Order
doesn't concern itself with the fantasies of Instant Breast. (The Instant Breast
represents a 60's fantasy, first created by Dr. Spock. It concerns itself with
instant gratification as well as with no competition, no frustration or
struggle for life. It evolved into notions of mystical equality where all
individual differences would be summed and a golden mean established.
Further this concept—best represented by early communism, and still
embraced in the Christian West—is being abandoned elsewhere. However, it
is important to remember that Instant Breast was a counter proposal to male
authoritarianism, but Instant Breast is still a symbol of the Patriarchy.
159
160 Undoing Yourself
As many know, the Knights Templar were involved with the
Saracen fraternity of the Hashish-Takers. One of the original
purposes of the Knights (before the Inquisition when the
Powerful Church wrenched them away from the service of the
'Lady' and coerced them to fight for the Church), was to aid and
uphold the feminine goddess, which included the practice of a
secret form of Tantra. This spiritual quest was degraded by the
Church's attempt to remove the power of the Goddess by making
her the mother of God, and relegating her to a secondary
position. The idea of reducing the female to insignificance can be
seen in this quote by a silversmith in Acts 19:26-27 "...this man
Paul has persuaded and converted a great number of people with
his argument that gods made by hand are not gods at all. This
threatens not only to discredit our trade, but also to reduce the
sanctuary of the great goddess Diana to unimportance. It could
end up by taking away all the prestige of a goddess venerated all
over Asia, yes, and everywhere in the civilized world."
The romantic tales of Lancelot, Parsifal, Galahad, etc. also
enhanced the image of the helpless female which held great
masculine appeal and does so even today, particularly in the
South. The greatest danger to a budding Goddess is always a
gentleman. (See Note 1 below.)
The Christian movement was instrumental in projecting all
these negative qualities on the female. She became the scapegoat
for the male's inability to integrate and cope with his own
darkness. (See Note 2 below.)
In the Christian world, darkness takes away from the image of
God, rather than "adding" to it, and as such, its existence must
be accounted for by division and isolation.
The Lion was often a symbol of the sun god for the Greeks
and the Romans, however, in other places it was associated with
images of the Great Goddess, such as Astarte, Cybele, Ishtar and
Hathor all of whom rode or drove lions and often appeared in the
form of a lioness or lion-headed female. Her many names have
been associated with both Power and the practice of Tantra.
(Look at the Strength Card in the Tarot. Why does it appear that a
female is controlling the Jaws of the Lion?)
Undoing Yourself 161
The Goddesses of the Lion were law givers, creators of cities,
the mothers of both the Gods and men, the fierce destroyers of
obsolete civilizations and the human race. It has been noted that
in a conversation with Ra, She replied to his request to stop
slaying mankind by saying, "when I slay men my heart rejoices."
However, through Her grace man was also allowed to learn
about the nature of the Gods. (See Note 3 Below).
The West borrowed her power and force and of course
attributed it to such images as King Richard, the Lion Hearted,
King Arthur and many others.
The symbol of White must not be associated with ideas of
Christian purity and virginity. White has nothing to do with such
infantile and hysterical fantasies. The best I can make of the idea
of White is that it represents an idea which is difficult to convey
by words and concepts. White light is undifferentiated. It is the
origin, as the Tree of Life intimates of the completely
unknowable qualities of Nuit, manifested in Kether, the first
point of reference which man can even begin to cope with.
The development of OWL as a living Order would emerge
after the major thrust of the feminist movement "failed". The
original movement was to be the basis of the re-emergence of the
feminine as a powerful force in the universe, however it was
deeply contaminated by the influence of the Male Gods, no doubt
a contributory factor in its failure.
First the psychology of the patriarchal identification of the
feminine has to be altered. This means that the feminine can not
find its true roots by imitating western patriarchal consciousness.
As many will note, what woman wanted she didn't get. The
stone tablets of Moses cracked just enough to encircle her in the
charms and trappings of the paternal system.
The Order of the White Lion's purpose will be to help usher in
the New Aeon by establishing a group of leaders and supporters
who will help the Goddess emerge in totally unexpected ways.
The Order will establish fellowships of older males and
females (brothers and sisters) which will practice the ancient arts.
More importantly it will be involved in training younger females
as Scientists, Inventors, Artists, who through their creative
Yourself
162 Undoing Yourself
genius would help replace the arthritic patriarchy as painlessly as
nature will allow.
These new women would come from all classes. They will
have an exceptional IQ. The purpose of the Order will be to save
as many of them and their children as possible from being
absorbed into the reproduction bias, wild man-hating, and the
patriarchal prison of glitter and 'YUP-STATUS-SEEKERS'.
Their training will encompass "mind/body" (which we are
now seeing in early form, as "hard-body") and MIND
SHAPING which the mad Dr. Hyatt is busily developing. (See
the section on Devotional Sexuality as one simple example).
Those that are the most able will be trained in ancient and
modern thinking, science and art. They will be taught to respect
and revere their own sexuality without the image of being
demanding harpies.
Training will be vigorous and only the best suited for the task
will complete the entire course.
The above myth of such an Order is an ancient one. However,
it is only now in the latter part of the 20th century that women
have enough apparent freedom to undertake such a difficult and
profound journey. (See Note 4 Below.)
Of course much UNDOING will be necessary to prepare the
new Goddess, and much of it will be done by middle age and
older males, and by those females who have had more experience
with the patriarchal deceits, lies and paraphernalia. Some of these
males may be considered "failures" themselves, but this is how
they will utilize what they learned about the true nature of the
system.
The elitist female myth is exploited in numerous James Bond
stories where superior women are both adversaries and helpers
of Bond. In time they submit to his superior male powers and fall
from their throne. In other words, it was the female's dedication
and devotional quality which was exploited and which caused her
to fall and become the slave of man. This is intentional since this
is the quality that the patriarchy most fears about women. Why
might this be? One of the great threats to any patriarchal system
occurs when competency and power are joined with commitment
and loyalty. With these "virtues" alone empires have toppled.
Undoing Yourself 163
Ian Fleming was no fool however, as he did have the vision
which brought to consciousness the strength and power of the
female life force.
The Order of the White Lion will have more in mind than to
simply return to a Matriarchal view of the Universe. Its goal is
the transcendence of the sex differences as we know them. The
secret meaning behind this can not yet be revealed, except in the
form presented in the Tantric section of this book.
To my knowledge, the Order has not made an overt appearance.
Nor do I know of any organizations with the financial base
and Will to bring such an Order into existence.
However, I have met more males in recent years who have
indirectly and unconsciously supported such a notion, although it
has been somewhat plebeian and ignoble and frequently filled
with saccharin male hysteria (Christian Ideals and denial mixing
with Pagan Lust) and cliches. Here again, most of these males,
while trying to help the Goddess re-emerge, are terrified of the
depths of her Psyche and spend a good deal of time suppressing
its manifestations. Some of these types have sought me out.
However, once I treat them to the dark side of their own image
they promptly cast me in the role of devil and continue on in their
hysterical ways. From time to time a few try to hold on, but their
fear prevents them from doing any real work.
In addition to working with the Feminine Force, the Order is
to work with rejected children in a way never before heard of on
this planet. Rather than helping them live boring and hum-drum
lives they will be taught to live superior lives. Again, to my
knowledge, this has not yet been done or even advertised.
Once the Order has planted its seed it will disappear, as it will
be of no further use. This will happen sometime between 2090
and 2150.
This entire scenario is not based on the assumption that the
Western World will not experience numerous and great
upheavals. While I do not suffer from GEOGRAPHICMANIA, I
have it on good report that the Order will first manifest itself in
the English speaking world.
Another bizarre teaching of the Order is that WE ARE ALL ALIENS.
Yourself
164 Undoing Yourself
All of history as reflected in our ethical philosophies, religions
and secret orders are bastardized accounts containing one
message—Transcendence.
What transcendence means is nothing more than focusing on
our alien qualities, while de-focusing on our earthly qualities.
The way that this has been taught has been both foolish and
destructive.
The secret of Transcendence is not negation nor is it
affirmation. It is simply an act of P O W E R Concentration
without placing a moral value on what is transcended.
Re-stated simply, it doesn't matter whether you transcend
eating habits, sexual habits, drug habits, clothes habits, or
simply the way you open a door.
What matters is that you transcend and by repetitive acts of
transcendence, consciousness becomes transformed. You can see
why indulgence as a hedonic notion, and abstinence as a
Christian notion, and compulsions as a Psychological notion,
have no place in Transcendence, except as Technique.
Additionally, transcendence has nothing to do with secret
messages from the Psyche, secret orders, drug related
experiences etc. It has to do with WORK.
Everything else is simply information, the lowest form of
knowledge. Without transcendence permeating the Ego and the
Psyche, very little will be accomplished.
In other words, it is time to stop talking about Gods,
messages, channels, etc. and time to act like the Gods/Goddesses
we are. It is time to stop waiting and wondering and it is time to
start acting and doing.
The proof that we are aliens is very simple. There is nothing
like us upon the planet earth. Nothing at all.
We are the definers of what we can be. This is the difference.
Nothing else can change itself, at will, into something
different. We can even transcend death and stupidity if we
identify these as desires and put our efforts into it.
Only transcendence can lead to more transcendence. We can
get out of our mess by doing something different. The first act is
to realize that we are, in fact, Aliens.
The next step is to practice being Alien all day long.
Undoing Yourself 165
This is accomplished by using your imagination, disidentifying
with your conflicts and by doing.
What if the Order as revealed to me is only fiction and the
whim of an old woman's mind?
There is no way to answer the question of legitimacy. The
Catholic Church had a nightmare and made it come true. So,
does that prove the legitimacy of the Catholic nightmare? I do not
think so. What it does prove is that validity can not be proven by
simple existence over time. Nor can it be denied.
What we do know is that if the potential is there and if enough
power and force is placed behind that potential then almost
anything can come true. This method has little or nothing to do
with our primitive notions of morality, belief or faith. What it
does prove is that power works.
ENOUGH ON THIS FANTASY
NOTES
Note 1: The idea of slaying the Dragon, to rescue the distressed
maiden has great psychological import. (The dragon/serpent is an
allegory for the Kundalini Force. However, the notion of slaying
versus controlling is purely Christian.) An important meaning
here is that males can only enter the mysteries of the Goddess
once they have faced, conquered and integrated the power of
their own beast. This is why the Knights were preoccupied with
loyalty and betrayal. Their image, which was often portrayed as
kind and holy was frequently tarnished by deception, lust and
greed. In other words, they both required and made the image of
the helpless female as a device to rescue themselves from their
own feminine attributes.
Note 2: Image making is always interesting, as it requires
rejecting certain qualities, while emphasizing others. Males have
the awful tendency of projecting all traits and tendencies which
are regarded as inferior or negative onto females as a result of the
sex-differentiated socialization process engendered by the
Patriarchal system.
Yourself
166 Undoing Yourself
Note 3: The image of the Goddess as both the nurturing Mother
and the destroyer of her own children is disturbing to the
Christian "Mind", but long recognized as an essential Wisdom in
the East. It represents the acknowledgment of the opposites of
the Tree, and begins to imply the Middle Pillar of Mildness.
Note 4: As the reader will observe the OWL is not a Christian
Order, nor was the Golden Dawn. One attribute among many
others of the Golden Dawn which gives the whole thing away is
the equality between male and female adepts. However, the
practice of tantra was never directly mentioned, although there
are numerous sex-negative references. This is due to the fact that
the original teachings fell into the hands of the Christians as well
into other hands who disguised its real meaning to protect it from
the jealous and dangerous Church. The new Golden Dawn which
is now emerging no longer has to disguise its real purposes or its
association with the Knights Templar and other Tantric groups.
To this day I am amazed by how many people believe that the
Golden Dawn is a Christian Order, and that Dr. Regardie
supported the Christian value system. I am even more amazed
that individuals think that I support the idea of Christianity in any
form. I still have a few disciples who are deluding themselves by
interpreting what I say as being a form of Christian mysticism.
The reverse of this is also true: many people believe that the
Golden Dawn is an offshoot of Satanism and that Dr. Regardie
and I are Satanists.
The Golden Dawn developed from the Rosicrucian Order—
mystics who called themselves Knights of the Rosy Cross—
who borrowed the symbols and colors of earlier pagan groups,
mystical Jews, Egyptians and Hindus. These were later transformed
into Christian symbols. (Remember the symbol was
White with a Red Cross.) During the Crusades the Christians
adopted the symbol and said that it was representative of
"innocence and blood" when in fact it was the emblem of the
"Assassins" (a mispronunciation of the Saracen brotherhood of
hashishim, the "hashish-takers") the forerunner of the Knights
Templar.
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Chapter Nine
THE ORDER OF THE WHITE LION1
THE SEEDS OF A NEW TANTRIC ORDER?
FACT OR FICTION? AND WHAT DIFFERENCE DOES
IT MAKE?
The essence of this story was revealed to me in 1965 by an
elderly woman (from the South) who claimed to be an adept of
an ancient secret order which was somehow linked with the
Golden Dawn. I worked with her for approximately 9 months at
which time she disappeared. Her personal handmade Tarot deck
had a White Lion on the Strength Card which made a very strong
impression on me. She told me that the symbol of the White Lion
had major significance for me as well as for the future of
mankind. What follows is a present day offering of that
information.
The Order of the White Lion (OWL) was said to be due to
emerge prior to 2005. However, it will establish its roots sometime
in the late 1980's and early 90's as an offshoot of the
Original Order of the Knights Templar. The acronym OWL is no
simple coincidence: it relates to Horus, the Hawk Headed God of
the emerging Aeon, which was transmitted to Crowley in 1904.
1The Order of the White Lion has nothing to do with any rock group
which uses the name to represent itself or its music. In fact the Heads of the
Order (if they existed) would be horrified at this possibility, as the Order
doesn't concern itself with the fantasies of Instant Breast. (The Instant Breast
represents a 60's fantasy, first created by Dr. Spock. It concerns itself with
instant gratification as well as with no competition, no frustration or
struggle for life. It evolved into notions of mystical equality where all
individual differences would be summed and a golden mean established.
Further this concept—best represented by early communism, and still
embraced in the Christian West—is being abandoned elsewhere. However, it
is important to remember that Instant Breast was a counter proposal to male
authoritarianism, but Instant Breast is still a symbol of the Patriarchy.
159
160 Undoing Yourself
As many know, the Knights Templar were involved with the
Saracen fraternity of the Hashish-Takers. One of the original
purposes of the Knights (before the Inquisition when the
Powerful Church wrenched them away from the service of the
'Lady' and coerced them to fight for the Church), was to aid and
uphold the feminine goddess, which included the practice of a
secret form of Tantra. This spiritual quest was degraded by the
Church's attempt to remove the power of the Goddess by making
her the mother of God, and relegating her to a secondary
position. The idea of reducing the female to insignificance can be
seen in this quote by a silversmith in Acts 19:26-27 "...this man
Paul has persuaded and converted a great number of people with
his argument that gods made by hand are not gods at all. This
threatens not only to discredit our trade, but also to reduce the
sanctuary of the great goddess Diana to unimportance. It could
end up by taking away all the prestige of a goddess venerated all
over Asia, yes, and everywhere in the civilized world."
The romantic tales of Lancelot, Parsifal, Galahad, etc. also
enhanced the image of the helpless female which held great
masculine appeal and does so even today, particularly in the
South. The greatest danger to a budding Goddess is always a
gentleman. (See Note 1 below.)
The Christian movement was instrumental in projecting all
these negative qualities on the female. She became the scapegoat
for the male's inability to integrate and cope with his own
darkness. (See Note 2 below.)
In the Christian world, darkness takes away from the image of
God, rather than "adding" to it, and as such, its existence must
be accounted for by division and isolation.
The Lion was often a symbol of the sun god for the Greeks
and the Romans, however, in other places it was associated with
images of the Great Goddess, such as Astarte, Cybele, Ishtar and
Hathor all of whom rode or drove lions and often appeared in the
form of a lioness or lion-headed female. Her many names have
been associated with both Power and the practice of Tantra.
(Look at the Strength Card in the Tarot. Why does it appear that a
female is controlling the Jaws of the Lion?)
Undoing Yourself 161
The Goddesses of the Lion were law givers, creators of cities,
the mothers of both the Gods and men, the fierce destroyers of
obsolete civilizations and the human race. It has been noted that
in a conversation with Ra, She replied to his request to stop
slaying mankind by saying, "when I slay men my heart rejoices."
However, through Her grace man was also allowed to learn
about the nature of the Gods. (See Note 3 Below).
The West borrowed her power and force and of course
attributed it to such images as King Richard, the Lion Hearted,
King Arthur and many others.
The symbol of White must not be associated with ideas of
Christian purity and virginity. White has nothing to do with such
infantile and hysterical fantasies. The best I can make of the idea
of White is that it represents an idea which is difficult to convey
by words and concepts. White light is undifferentiated. It is the
origin, as the Tree of Life intimates of the completely
unknowable qualities of Nuit, manifested in Kether, the first
point of reference which man can even begin to cope with.
The development of OWL as a living Order would emerge
after the major thrust of the feminist movement "failed". The
original movement was to be the basis of the re-emergence of the
feminine as a powerful force in the universe, however it was
deeply contaminated by the influence of the Male Gods, no doubt
a contributory factor in its failure.
First the psychology of the patriarchal identification of the
feminine has to be altered. This means that the feminine can not
find its true roots by imitating western patriarchal consciousness.
As many will note, what woman wanted she didn't get. The
stone tablets of Moses cracked just enough to encircle her in the
charms and trappings of the paternal system.
The Order of the White Lion's purpose will be to help usher in
the New Aeon by establishing a group of leaders and supporters
who will help the Goddess emerge in totally unexpected ways.
The Order will establish fellowships of older males and
females (brothers and sisters) which will practice the ancient arts.
More importantly it will be involved in training younger females
as Scientists, Inventors, Artists, who through their creative
Yourself
162 Undoing Yourself
genius would help replace the arthritic patriarchy as painlessly as
nature will allow.
These new women would come from all classes. They will
have an exceptional IQ. The purpose of the Order will be to save
as many of them and their children as possible from being
absorbed into the reproduction bias, wild man-hating, and the
patriarchal prison of glitter and 'YUP-STATUS-SEEKERS'.
Their training will encompass "mind/body" (which we are
now seeing in early form, as "hard-body") and MIND
SHAPING which the mad Dr. Hyatt is busily developing. (See
the section on Devotional Sexuality as one simple example).
Those that are the most able will be trained in ancient and
modern thinking, science and art. They will be taught to respect
and revere their own sexuality without the image of being
demanding harpies.
Training will be vigorous and only the best suited for the task
will complete the entire course.
The above myth of such an Order is an ancient one. However,
it is only now in the latter part of the 20th century that women
have enough apparent freedom to undertake such a difficult and
profound journey. (See Note 4 Below.)
Of course much UNDOING will be necessary to prepare the
new Goddess, and much of it will be done by middle age and
older males, and by those females who have had more experience
with the patriarchal deceits, lies and paraphernalia. Some of these
males may be considered "failures" themselves, but this is how
they will utilize what they learned about the true nature of the
system.
The elitist female myth is exploited in numerous James Bond
stories where superior women are both adversaries and helpers
of Bond. In time they submit to his superior male powers and fall
from their throne. In other words, it was the female's dedication
and devotional quality which was exploited and which caused her
to fall and become the slave of man. This is intentional since this
is the quality that the patriarchy most fears about women. Why
might this be? One of the great threats to any patriarchal system
occurs when competency and power are joined with commitment
and loyalty. With these "virtues" alone empires have toppled.
Undoing Yourself 163
Ian Fleming was no fool however, as he did have the vision
which brought to consciousness the strength and power of the
female life force.
The Order of the White Lion will have more in mind than to
simply return to a Matriarchal view of the Universe. Its goal is
the transcendence of the sex differences as we know them. The
secret meaning behind this can not yet be revealed, except in the
form presented in the Tantric section of this book.
To my knowledge, the Order has not made an overt appearance.
Nor do I know of any organizations with the financial base
and Will to bring such an Order into existence.
However, I have met more males in recent years who have
indirectly and unconsciously supported such a notion, although it
has been somewhat plebeian and ignoble and frequently filled
with saccharin male hysteria (Christian Ideals and denial mixing
with Pagan Lust) and cliches. Here again, most of these males,
while trying to help the Goddess re-emerge, are terrified of the
depths of her Psyche and spend a good deal of time suppressing
its manifestations. Some of these types have sought me out.
However, once I treat them to the dark side of their own image
they promptly cast me in the role of devil and continue on in their
hysterical ways. From time to time a few try to hold on, but their
fear prevents them from doing any real work.
In addition to working with the Feminine Force, the Order is
to work with rejected children in a way never before heard of on
this planet. Rather than helping them live boring and hum-drum
lives they will be taught to live superior lives. Again, to my
knowledge, this has not yet been done or even advertised.
Once the Order has planted its seed it will disappear, as it will
be of no further use. This will happen sometime between 2090
and 2150.
This entire scenario is not based on the assumption that the
Western World will not experience numerous and great
upheavals. While I do not suffer from GEOGRAPHICMANIA, I
have it on good report that the Order will first manifest itself in
the English speaking world.
Another bizarre teaching of the Order is that WE ARE ALL ALIENS.
Yourself
164 Undoing Yourself
All of history as reflected in our ethical philosophies, religions
and secret orders are bastardized accounts containing one
message—Transcendence.
What transcendence means is nothing more than focusing on
our alien qualities, while de-focusing on our earthly qualities.
The way that this has been taught has been both foolish and
destructive.
The secret of Transcendence is not negation nor is it
affirmation. It is simply an act of P O W E R Concentration
without placing a moral value on what is transcended.
Re-stated simply, it doesn't matter whether you transcend
eating habits, sexual habits, drug habits, clothes habits, or
simply the way you open a door.
What matters is that you transcend and by repetitive acts of
transcendence, consciousness becomes transformed. You can see
why indulgence as a hedonic notion, and abstinence as a
Christian notion, and compulsions as a Psychological notion,
have no place in Transcendence, except as Technique.
Additionally, transcendence has nothing to do with secret
messages from the Psyche, secret orders, drug related
experiences etc. It has to do with WORK.
Everything else is simply information, the lowest form of
knowledge. Without transcendence permeating the Ego and the
Psyche, very little will be accomplished.
In other words, it is time to stop talking about Gods,
messages, channels, etc. and time to act like the Gods/Goddesses
we are. It is time to stop waiting and wondering and it is time to
start acting and doing.
The proof that we are aliens is very simple. There is nothing
like us upon the planet earth. Nothing at all.
We are the definers of what we can be. This is the difference.
Nothing else can change itself, at will, into something
different. We can even transcend death and stupidity if we
identify these as desires and put our efforts into it.
Only transcendence can lead to more transcendence. We can
get out of our mess by doing something different. The first act is
to realize that we are, in fact, Aliens.
The next step is to practice being Alien all day long.
Undoing Yourself 165
This is accomplished by using your imagination, disidentifying
with your conflicts and by doing.
What if the Order as revealed to me is only fiction and the
whim of an old woman's mind?
There is no way to answer the question of legitimacy. The
Catholic Church had a nightmare and made it come true. So,
does that prove the legitimacy of the Catholic nightmare? I do not
think so. What it does prove is that validity can not be proven by
simple existence over time. Nor can it be denied.
What we do know is that if the potential is there and if enough
power and force is placed behind that potential then almost
anything can come true. This method has little or nothing to do
with our primitive notions of morality, belief or faith. What it
does prove is that power works.
ENOUGH ON THIS FANTASY
NOTES
Note 1: The idea of slaying the Dragon, to rescue the distressed
maiden has great psychological import. (The dragon/serpent is an
allegory for the Kundalini Force. However, the notion of slaying
versus controlling is purely Christian.) An important meaning
here is that males can only enter the mysteries of the Goddess
once they have faced, conquered and integrated the power of
their own beast. This is why the Knights were preoccupied with
loyalty and betrayal. Their image, which was often portrayed as
kind and holy was frequently tarnished by deception, lust and
greed. In other words, they both required and made the image of
the helpless female as a device to rescue themselves from their
own feminine attributes.
Note 2: Image making is always interesting, as it requires
rejecting certain qualities, while emphasizing others. Males have
the awful tendency of projecting all traits and tendencies which
are regarded as inferior or negative onto females as a result of the
sex-differentiated socialization process engendered by the
Patriarchal system.
Yourself
166 Undoing Yourself
Note 3: The image of the Goddess as both the nurturing Mother
and the destroyer of her own children is disturbing to the
Christian "Mind", but long recognized as an essential Wisdom in
the East. It represents the acknowledgment of the opposites of
the Tree, and begins to imply the Middle Pillar of Mildness.
Note 4: As the reader will observe the OWL is not a Christian
Order, nor was the Golden Dawn. One attribute among many
others of the Golden Dawn which gives the whole thing away is
the equality between male and female adepts. However, the
practice of tantra was never directly mentioned, although there
are numerous sex-negative references. This is due to the fact that
the original teachings fell into the hands of the Christians as well
into other hands who disguised its real meaning to protect it from
the jealous and dangerous Church. The new Golden Dawn which
is now emerging no longer has to disguise its real purposes or its
association with the Knights Templar and other Tantric groups.
To this day I am amazed by how many people believe that the
Golden Dawn is a Christian Order, and that Dr. Regardie
supported the Christian value system. I am even more amazed
that individuals think that I support the idea of Christianity in any
form. I still have a few disciples who are deluding themselves by
interpreting what I say as being a form of Christian mysticism.
The reverse of this is also true: many people believe that the
Golden Dawn is an offshoot of Satanism and that Dr. Regardie
and I are Satanists.
The Golden Dawn developed from the Rosicrucian Order—
mystics who called themselves Knights of the Rosy Cross—
who borrowed the symbols and colors of earlier pagan groups,
mystical Jews, Egyptians and Hindus. These were later transformed
into Christian symbols. (Remember the symbol was
White with a Red Cross.) During the Crusades the Christians
adopted the symbol and said that it was representative of
"innocence and blood" when in fact it was the emblem of the
"Assassins" (a mispronunciation of the Saracen brotherhood of
hashishim, the "hashish-takers") the forerunner of the Knights
Templar.