17/03/2025
A preview of some themes in vol. 2 of "The Many Faced Jewel" https://topazbooks.pub/MFJ . The process of initiation, in relation to the Fall and the Virgin sacrifice. You can see nature in its unfallen state, and individuals, too, as implicitly containing all sorts of negative potentials, which are superficially controlled, but are still there under the surface. To truly resolve these potentials, to shine the light on them, and redeem them, and so to come to a regenerated state of being, you need to open yourself up to them. They have to be brought to the surface. This was the consequence of the Fall, the Fall of Nature, as well as the Fall of Man.
The regenerated state, after the Fall has happened, is greater than the state of things before the Fall, even though in that state things appeared to be nice and orderly.
Drawing on Schelling's thought, the state of Nature before the Fall, was obedient to the external God, the lower god, the cosmic jailer, who concealed the negative realities of life, and of the true nature of the world, within it. The Fall, in this, breaks the dominance of the false god over Nature, and over the individual, and, in the process, reveals the true reality both of Nature itself and of the individual, which includes quite a lot of things which were being suppressed in the illusionary state before the Fall.
Disobedience, and temporary derangement, are necessary for the true light of the transcendent to be able to come in and sanctify that which has been revealed by the fall, leading to regeneration. This true light is from the true divine source, beyond the False god.
Schelling, in talking about fallen nature, speaks of it as being motivated by primal, primitive, violent and s*xual drives, but seeking to become more than it is, seeking to perfect itself, to develop itself, to approach the Ideal realm, to approach the transcendent. Within human society, the transcendent realm sends down a ray of revelation, or light, to start the process of recovery, and to guide human society, or the individual, in their reconstruction, moving from the revealed debased state to one which is a more fully developed, which approaches the Divine, in its sophisticated development of the potentials which are within it.
What is present crudely, the basic drives, is tempered and refined, ennobled and brought to a higher level.
This has a parallel with certain aspects of mystical Christian thought, in that they see Theosis, becoming god like, as being the end goal of humanity, but interpreting this not in an egoistic way, but in a way of being both god like and good.
Now, how this relates to the virgin sacrifice, is that this process itself, is the virgin sacrifice. The offering of the virgin, the deflowering and opening up of all the potentials of the virgin, is recommencing the Fall, on a personal level, of bringing all of the implicit tendencies to the forefront, in order to shine the light on them, master them, and develop them. Before progress, in this, there has to be temporary debasement.
"The Many Faced Jewel" deals with the primal, transcendental, reality of the witches' Sabbat. It outlines how the individual can hook into this reality, as well as how this basic reality has been recognized by a variety of mystical religious traditions throughout the ages. These include Christian, G...
