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- THE AEON OF CTHULHU RISING
-
- By Tenebrous
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- ``Nor is it to be thought ... that man is either the oldest
- or the last of earth's masters, or than the common bulk of
- life and substance walks alone. The Old Ones were, the Old
- Ones are, and the Old Ones shall be. Not in the spaces we
- know, but between them, they walk serene and primal,
- undimensioned and to us unseen. Yog-Sothoth knows the gate.
- Yog-Sothoth is the gate. Yog-Sothoth is the key and
- guardian of the gate. Past, present, future, all are one in
- Yog-Sothoth. He knows where the Old Ones broke through of
- old, and when they shall break through again...''
-
- H.P. Lovecraft, The Dunwich Horror
- (as from the `Necronomicon')
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-
- The century in which we live has witnessed the dawning of a New Aeon; or
- rather, the return of energies and entities, across vast gulfs of time
- and space, from primal eras which antedate by millenia the appearance of
- humankind upon the Earth. In his pivotal Mythos tale, The Call of Cthulhu,
- Lovecraft has adumbrated the first portents of this return, the outer
- edges of whose pericosis with our own continuum is detected by the
- incredibly subtle and sensitive `antennae' of poets, writers and artists -
- more especially those already aligned to the concept of `outsideness'
- through their own explorations of alien, exotic, bizarre and outre subject
- matter. And indeed, it is through the work of such artists in actuality
- that the first hints and descriptions of these forces and entities find
- expression.
-
- This `new Aeon' is currently known under a variety of names by differing
- cults: the astrological `Age of Aquarius'; the Thelemic `Aeon of Horus',
- inaugurated by the avatar Aiwaz, in 1904 e.v.; Frater Achad's `Aeon of
- Maat', the Era of Truth and Justice; and so on. To that particular body of
- magicians, artists, writers, and other visionaries of the Cthulhu Mythos
- which constitutes The Esoteric Order of Dagon, the emerging era is
- recognised as the Aeon of Cthulhu Rising, with reference to the prophetic
- fictional work of H.P. Lovecraft, as outlined above. As his description of
- the initial wave of Aeonic energy (which has such drastic effect on the
- dreams of `sensitive' individuals around the world) coincides with the
- rising of the island of R'lyeh on 28 February 1925 e.v., the E.O.D
- numerate this event this event as Year One, A.C.
-
- However, before the complete influx of these elder forces into our
- present space-time continuum can be facillated, the secret and primal
- gateways must be located, and opened, to allow access from `outside the
- circles of time.' This gateway has been glyphed by Lovecraft as one of the
- Great Old Ones themselves - ``the noxious Yog-Sothoth who froths as primal
- slime in nuclear chaos beyond the nethermost outpost of space and time.''
- As Guardian of the Gate, he is synonymous with Choronzon. The ``nethermost
- outpost'', itself an opening or window to the dimensionality of the Great
- Old Ones (Universe B), is the star Sothis, or Sirius.
-
- In turn, the gateway of the New Aeonic forces (Yog_Sothoth) is identified
- with the `non-Sephiroth', Daath, on the qabalistic Tree of Life. As
- Kenneth Grant explains:
-
- ``It is now possible to see the continous flow and evolution
- of Aeons occuring simultaenously and passing over into the
- world of anti-matter. The Yog (or Yug .. an aeon or age ..)
- of Sothoth is the counterpoint - as the Aeon of Set-Thoth,
- or Daath - of its Twin, the Yug-Hoor, or Aeon of Horus.
- Yog-Sothoth is the Gate through the aeons to the Star-
- Source beyond Yuggoth, the Yug or Aeon of Goth.''
-
- Outside the Circles of Time, p. 214
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-
- The knowledge and formula by which this gateway can be reopened can
- therefore be only apprehended through the negative vortex of Daath. In the
- case of Lovecraft himself, who in waking life vehemently denied the
- verdical nature of the material with which he was dealing, the process of
- appropriation was almost completely subconscious, occuring through the
- medium of dream-experiences. As would be expected, the visitation of such
- unhuman and ultracosmic revelations took the form of the most hideous
- nightmares.
-
- By the same token, those initiates of the E.O.D. who are working towards
- the Opening of the Gate of Yog-Sothoth must be prepared to undertake this
- most dangerous descent into the Abyss of Daath (the so-called `false
- knowledge') in order to activate these formulae effectively. This process
- involves the projection of a part of themselves into those spaces
- `between', to which Lovecraft makes repeated reference, and which
- constitute the existentiality of the Old Ones themselves. Is is here that
- this `false knowlege' (glyphed as Lovecraft as the grimoire, Necronomicon)
- can be found and retrieved, brought back through the vortex of Daath, and
- finally given actual, concrete manifestation in the Outer.
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- -oOo-
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