In this worldwide flood of financial capital, we see the image of a mythical water element reducing the world of real economy—tied to actual life, real culture, and civilization—to a Noah's Ark, desperately adrift in a watery wasteland. This image represents the sheer quantitative dominance of the global ocean over the global landmass, whose shores are eroded by speculative waves, reducing its expanse to the level of islands—ideally depicted as a fragmented Pacific or Caribbean archipelago. Even symbolically, those so-called offshore locations—tax havens on faraway tropical islands—are telling and emblematic, serving the role of modern pirate coves. The world today has been drowned in a flood of historical proportions: the flood of the financial West. Geopolitically speaking, the West itself has become nearly shoreless, turning into the embodiment of a metaphysical West—a place of abyssal descent and quiet dissolution. Above it all, above the surface of that immense watery mass, we see lunar reflections and, beyond them, the spirits of Saturn and Jupiter. At the same time, we witness the pale glimmers of the Sun sinking ever deeper. The Moon represents production, the fertility of capital, the printing of money, its ex nihilo creation, the illusory nature of currencies and financial derivatives—a mirror of financial speculation. Jupiter symbolizes yield, profit, privilege, and gain. Saturn stands for mass, context—the one who creates paths of events, the master of time and process. Riding the waves of this (post)modern cargo cult, which promises its believers and priests (investors) gifts (profits), this modern embodiment of the ancient god Mammon has seized all of humanity. This global flood is the manifestation of the metaphysical West—its chthonic emergence that, in our time, revives the fate of mythical Atlantis: a plunge into the watery abyss. It is the transformation of the maternal water element—the Great Mother—into the Terrible Mother, the devourer, whose gaping jaws now represent the ever-more-likely prospect of civilizational collapse.
In Aleister Crowley’s Book of
the Law, there is a verse indicative of this theme: “A
rich man from the West shall pour his gold upon thee. From gold forge
steel!” In this statement, we sense a reflection of the cargo
cult—though in a different sense. The rich man from the West is an
ancestor or forerunner—a spirit—arriving from the world of the
dead or the departed, bringing a sacred metal from which the adept
will forge a golden sword. Of course, this is not literally about
gold, but rather symbolic of something else. The sword in question is
the alchemical melitus gladius, the honeyed sword, the solar
sword made of gold—if we understand gold as a part of the
subterranean Sun, since gold resides and "ripens"
underground. This sword is a symbol of the effective use of solar
energy and its earthly spiritual derivative—gold. The sword of
golden steel is like Excalibur, and only the rightful king is worthy
of wielding it to part the waters and reveal the salvific land. That
mythical West may, in some sense, be Atlantis—from which emanates
the flame of gnosis that nourishes various magical and religious
currents. Here I’d like to quote an indicative passage from the
very beginning of the famous book by occultist Michael Bertiaux:
“One time there was a big school of magick on the island of this same Atlantis and the magicians were very powerful. What they didn’t know when they were alive they soon learned after they died. The island, as we said, just sank under the ocean and the magicians went down with it. But they didn’t die, they just became spirits with fish-like bodies and frog-like bodies, and snake-like bodies. They did this so they could continue their work under the ocean, in their big temple down at the bottom of the sea. They are still down there, but they are also spirits and as spirits they are able to do a lot of things. In fact they know how to do more things now than they knew a long time ago. The older they get the more powerful they get.”
—Michael Bertiaux, The Voudon Gnostic Workbook, Weiser Books, San Francisco, CA, USA, 2007, p. 1.
From there, these deep chthonic
sleepers telepathically and through dreams influence their initiates.
The scarab, as a chthonic creature, points precisely to that dark
depth—the habitat of essential plutocracy. From there come
obsessions, projections of aliens, and all things demonic and
obscure. I am not sure that these phenomena should be interpreted
purely in terms of darkness and depravity—but I am certain it would
be wrong to ignore that element. Ultimately, it does not matter
whether Atlantis ever truly existed—for as a symbol, it is real: an
aggregate of magical power and the source of an essentially vampiric
force. Atlantis is the occult spring of thalassocracy and of the
modern black parasitic economy upon which the invasive, destructive
consumer culture is built. That culture is the most vulgar form of
the cargo cult—or rather, its secular, agnostic modalities. The key
word of this depraved mindset is success. Success lies
behind every interest, every profit, every form of power. It is the
root of motivation and serves as a kind of mental talisman implanted
in the modern individual. The word for sin is Success. Failure is
only its consequence.
However, the very source of parasitic thalassocracy is also the starting point of vampiric manipulations of sexuality. Sexuality—or, more precisely, its abuse—belongs to the stream of occult causes upon which today’s global cargo cult is founded. We know that the so-called world’s oldest profession once held a sacred role in the form of temple prostitution, linked to the planetary nature of Venus as expressed in various goddesses. Yet what I wish to highlight is the vampiric archetype behind temple prostitution, buried deep in prehistory and in the depravities of the black magicians of Atlantis. To evoke this image, it is enough to recall the monstrous behaviors of certain sorcerers from the lineage of ancient seers in pre-Columbian Mexico, as described by Carlos Castaneda. They engaged in terrifying and bizarre behavior—by human standards—in desperate attempts to survive, to somehow tap into the energy of the living.
Fritz Schwimbeck
Similar forms of energy extraction
by depraved sorcerers—this time linked to sexuality—are mentioned
by Michael Bertiaux. He hints at peculiar brothels ruled by blind
forces in service of energetic vampires who drain the semen of men to
maintain their existence. Though conveyed through brief allusions,
Bertiaux cracked the door open to understanding the true origin of
prostitution. That motif is rooted deep within the underworld of
black-magical realms, inhabited by strange creatures like the ghastly
fish that dwell in the great oceanic abysses where eternal darkness
reigns. From those depths come the cargo cults of prostitution and
pornography. The Age of Aquarius, with its undulations, will stir the
sediment from the depths—releasing to the surface unimaginable
energies and forms of consciousness, whose vibrations and emanations
will flood the minds and bodies of human beings. Visions reminiscent
of Lovecraft, the resurgence of interest in Atlantis, pre-Columbian
American civilizations, dinosaurs, monstrous aliens—all of it is
the result of a kind of renaissance of the spirit of Egypt within
modern civilization. And the road out of Egypt leads directly to
Atlantis. All of this finds grounding in the plan of the spirit of
the age. From Saturn’s perspective, it is clear—and by
understanding Saturn’s nature, we may begin to fathom why the
things written here are taking place.
