I find it odd, every post gryphon makes envokes a sense of urgency of disasters consequences, like crawling across glass to escape when you don't have legs.
And on the other hand the sense that regardless it will be okay, whats to come will come regardless and to keep taking tests no matter how many you fail or pass. And is very layed back.
Hi Gryphon, curiously just days before you posted this article it came to my mind the Lovecraft tales as I was thinking about some new stories to read on my e-book on my way to work. Then I discovered that one weird movie that I wacthed a few years ago is based on one of Lovecraft's books called "From Beyond, 1986".
I don't remember much of it, I will watch it again this month but it was about a device that allowed its operators to see some kind of mind viruses from another dimension. When this things realised that they had been detected, they became hostile.
Very interesting movie, if you haven't watched it yet I'm sure you'll like it.
You're welcome, by the way I just watched the trailer and I realised that the guy who ends up possessed by those other dimension creatures beheaves just like the one in the movie I recommended you some time ago titled "In The Tall Grass, 2019" after he touches the ancient rock.
Both begin the movies as just normal people but when they come in direct contact with them it's as if they go "mad from seeing that other reality" that Lovecraft talked about.
This post lays out the dark symbolism associated with the Cosmic Void very well. Maybe I’m not understanding properly, but I resonate more with the Void’s positive associations.
I see the Void as containing infinite potential and irreducible mystery. I see the world partially as an island in this sea of chaos, protected somewhat from these higher realities, even though dark incursions are happening. I’m not really bothered by being cosmically insignificant. There’s a sort of wonder to it, about what else could be out there. Our reality still seems real enough to us, even though all our knowledge, the entirety of history, and everything we are ultimately dissolves away in comparison to that Great Other.
Knowledge can definitely be perceived as terrifying, but I don’t think it’s intrinsically so. The glimpses we get into the Void’s nature are often one-sided, and lacking in proper context. I do believe the Void’s dark aspects are real, but it’s difficult to distinguish which of our visceral feelings are the result of our own projections rather than the thing in itself.
I do believe Nietzsche’s proclamation of the death of God does signify a shift that can’t be undone. The pre-modern world has ended, and perhaps something was lost. I took on Carl Sagan’s worldview since early childhood and didn’t start studying spirituality until my early 20s. So I guess I don’t know what it’s like to live out a Christian worldview, or to lose that faith under the weight of modernity. That might be an aspect of what’s being expressed here.
As long as we agree to pick the void over the simulation or vice versa, we consent to the ultimate duality of the two and the unconscious will simply assume the opposite attitude.
I dont really understand most of your writing, dont see a point or a way, what final revelation it should bring. Still something yearns in me to read what you post. Something else pushes back while im reading, but still I carry on.
Thats how I feel reading all of this. Im interested. But only understand like maybe 30% of his work. I really wish i could talk to someone to help me understand more of this.
If you know that you don't consciously understand it, but there's an unconscious desire to keep reading, that means it's working and it will most likely "click" at some point.
The metanarrative pieces like this are basically software. I'm going to break down what that software is actually for and what it does very soon.
“We desire deeply that good should be more frightening than evil, not less”
Nothing can be brought to you that you have not already accepted or called into being, not always on the level of perception most live in.
I picked that quote above because it encapsulates just about everything about man.
We want good/God to be frightening because it would be easier to “understand” — coming from the framework we already abide in: ego-minded fear.
There is no final revelation, in the sense that all will be done being revealed because God is infinite. What was revealed in the beginning is already its own end, purpose: being One with God.
It’s easy to read articles like this and think the writer is trying to tell us to do something or tell us something that will change what we are here to do.
We can find great connections and insights, as Gryphon has, but it will not invalidate or change the truth at the first step of the ladder: to choose alignment with God and not the fear/desire of the ego (the separating force).
I only have a very basic understanding of Christianity, but some connections I am seeing when reading this are here:
* the connection between the vastness of space and the depth of the ocean, paired with azathoth and leviathan comparison. Interesting that azathoth lives outside of space. Does leviathan live outside the ocean? Cthulhu lives in the ocean and he himself is dreaming. What do god’s dream of?
* god moving on the face of the water in Genesis. There was a boundary between abyss and non-abyss even, light only reveals what was already there
* the ozone and atmospheric layers protecting us from the highly charged radioactive cosmic rays of space “The abyss “. Now climate change and greenhouse gases creating death from within? Trapped under our own surface? Prehistoric times when the earth was young there was no ozone layer and the surface was uninhabitable. Only aquatic creatures could survive
* Ancient near East cultures believed in an ocean in the sky that the gods descended down from? Spirits passing through the vacuum of space down to earth?
* there always seems to be connections between the abyss and the unconscious. Unconscious and dreams. Dreams and night. Night and moon. Moon and tides. Tides and oceans. Oceans and abyss
* the deadening of consciousness coinciding with the rising of unconsciousness. Rising tides and an impending bottleneck on humanity?? Where’s the ark?
I read this article, picked up a Lovecraft compendium and read “The Silver Key.” I’m amazed you didn’t mention it directly! It’s maybe the greatest and most succinct expression of the thoughts you’re putting together here.
So, Azathoth would be the Father, Nyarlathotep the Son, and Yog-Sothoth the Holy Spirit—or are we talking about a different kind of triad?
My favorite Outer God has always been Nyarlathotep, the most human of them all. Maybe he’s the odd child of the gods, the one who stays during recess watching the ants, or maybe he’s the only one who sees humanity’s potential to ascend. Nyarlathotep was imagined as Nikola Tesla in his early dreams, and his nickname, the “Crawling Chaos,” evokes images of serpents. A being who grants knowledge and resembles a snake, cruel and leading humanity to its own ruin.
The first story I heard about him was called “The Black Book.” In it, a human finds a grimoire that grants him magical powers through knowledge, and in his arrogance, he travels to the abode of the Crawling Chaos. There, all of Nyarlathotep's followers laugh at him, and Nyarlathotep uses the mage’s body to escape his prison and enter the human world. Seeing it from a wider perspective, as you explained, perhaps Nyarlathotep represents all the horrors that can only be born into the world with human help, horrors that call themselves forth from the future.Horrors that Lovecraft’s, Jung’s and Crowley’s mind could hear scratching at reality like rats in the walls.
I have a question concerning Abraxas: I thought I understood (if even remotely) what his place in the Cosmogram was, now I'm not so sure anymore. It seems to me, your position towards Abraxas has changed completely, since here you link him to spiritually corrupting forces while in your first video he seemed to be more positive or neutral. Is this perception correct? Is this question even relevant or would it just be an unnecessary intellectualization of symbolism?
Well, it's a Halloween post, but although my views have evolved a lot since 2020, I always saw Abraxas in this way.
My work has a very strong Lovecraftian element because I think cosmicism is true in some non-trivial way or else it wouldn't have been so influential. I think this is kind of the meta-problem of the modern world and we're medicating the symptoms.
However, denying the truth of cosmicism (flat earth for example) lands you in a simulation and you actually remain under the outer gods' influence.
The cosmogram frames God as "good" and indeed, wholly good -- but not in a way that is simply recognizable to man in his current condition. There is a psychological (but not ontological) relativity to good and evil. Evil perceives its own will as good and resistance to it as evil. We all feel this to some extent (just watch your reaction to getting cut off in traffic).
Moreover, the outer gods are the outer aspects of us, so it doesn't make sense ultimately to humanize them because they are that which dehumanizes. They are the ultimate form of inhumanity. We experience their "gravitational pull" through a microcosm of them in ourselves, so they seem to be like us and it does make sense to depict that. But someone pulled fully into them (someone like Patrick Bateman) becomes deeply inhuman and that state is most likely the nearest we can get to the actuality of these beings.
And so Abraxas is something like the very high-order pattern through which these infinitely alien intelligences ultimately participate in the infinitely human image of God and so it contains the formula for how to embody that microcosmically.
Esoterically, Azathoth and the Solar Temple are the same thing, the perception of which is defined by your relation to it.
"Every heart draws a line somewhere and says: “if that’s wrong, I don’t want to be right.”"
That's strong. I'm not a good role model for a devout Christian, yet here I am reminded that Jesus knew, his church is a church for the sinners (not literate enough to pin this down on a biblical text). We can try not to sin, but we do and we will. And we'll be forgiven, if we choose so. In my naivety, I still believe that.
Thanks for this text, I'll read it a few times more. The occult foundations of the modern world are always fascinating to learn about.
I perceive something of a confession in all of this. I am no priest, though.
Wishing you well, sincerely.
The medicine turned to poison, life turned to death, and beauty turned into a light that exposes your hideousness.
I find it odd, every post gryphon makes envokes a sense of urgency of disasters consequences, like crawling across glass to escape when you don't have legs.
And on the other hand the sense that regardless it will be okay, whats to come will come regardless and to keep taking tests no matter how many you fail or pass. And is very layed back.
Your thoughts sure can send ripples across the waters of the psyche. Disturbing, unsettling, provocative.
Hi Gryphon, curiously just days before you posted this article it came to my mind the Lovecraft tales as I was thinking about some new stories to read on my e-book on my way to work. Then I discovered that one weird movie that I wacthed a few years ago is based on one of Lovecraft's books called "From Beyond, 1986".
I don't remember much of it, I will watch it again this month but it was about a device that allowed its operators to see some kind of mind viruses from another dimension. When this things realised that they had been detected, they became hostile.
Very interesting movie, if you haven't watched it yet I'm sure you'll like it.
Ooh, I will check that out, thank you for the tip!
You're welcome, by the way I just watched the trailer and I realised that the guy who ends up possessed by those other dimension creatures beheaves just like the one in the movie I recommended you some time ago titled "In The Tall Grass, 2019" after he touches the ancient rock.
Both begin the movies as just normal people but when they come in direct contact with them it's as if they go "mad from seeing that other reality" that Lovecraft talked about.
This post lays out the dark symbolism associated with the Cosmic Void very well. Maybe I’m not understanding properly, but I resonate more with the Void’s positive associations.
I see the Void as containing infinite potential and irreducible mystery. I see the world partially as an island in this sea of chaos, protected somewhat from these higher realities, even though dark incursions are happening. I’m not really bothered by being cosmically insignificant. There’s a sort of wonder to it, about what else could be out there. Our reality still seems real enough to us, even though all our knowledge, the entirety of history, and everything we are ultimately dissolves away in comparison to that Great Other.
Knowledge can definitely be perceived as terrifying, but I don’t think it’s intrinsically so. The glimpses we get into the Void’s nature are often one-sided, and lacking in proper context. I do believe the Void’s dark aspects are real, but it’s difficult to distinguish which of our visceral feelings are the result of our own projections rather than the thing in itself.
I do believe Nietzsche’s proclamation of the death of God does signify a shift that can’t be undone. The pre-modern world has ended, and perhaps something was lost. I took on Carl Sagan’s worldview since early childhood and didn’t start studying spirituality until my early 20s. So I guess I don’t know what it’s like to live out a Christian worldview, or to lose that faith under the weight of modernity. That might be an aspect of what’s being expressed here.
As long as we agree to pick the void over the simulation or vice versa, we consent to the ultimate duality of the two and the unconscious will simply assume the opposite attitude.
I dont really understand most of your writing, dont see a point or a way, what final revelation it should bring. Still something yearns in me to read what you post. Something else pushes back while im reading, but still I carry on.
Thats how I feel reading all of this. Im interested. But only understand like maybe 30% of his work. I really wish i could talk to someone to help me understand more of this.
If you know that you don't consciously understand it, but there's an unconscious desire to keep reading, that means it's working and it will most likely "click" at some point.
The metanarrative pieces like this are basically software. I'm going to break down what that software is actually for and what it does very soon.
I like your writing and your videos. Do what you can while there is time.
Cool. Sounds good 👍.
“We desire deeply that good should be more frightening than evil, not less”
Nothing can be brought to you that you have not already accepted or called into being, not always on the level of perception most live in.
I picked that quote above because it encapsulates just about everything about man.
We want good/God to be frightening because it would be easier to “understand” — coming from the framework we already abide in: ego-minded fear.
There is no final revelation, in the sense that all will be done being revealed because God is infinite. What was revealed in the beginning is already its own end, purpose: being One with God.
It’s easy to read articles like this and think the writer is trying to tell us to do something or tell us something that will change what we are here to do.
We can find great connections and insights, as Gryphon has, but it will not invalidate or change the truth at the first step of the ladder: to choose alignment with God and not the fear/desire of the ego (the separating force).
Your mind might not understand it, but your soul does. I get the same thing when i read a lot if Seeles older works.
I only have a very basic understanding of Christianity, but some connections I am seeing when reading this are here:
* the connection between the vastness of space and the depth of the ocean, paired with azathoth and leviathan comparison. Interesting that azathoth lives outside of space. Does leviathan live outside the ocean? Cthulhu lives in the ocean and he himself is dreaming. What do god’s dream of?
* god moving on the face of the water in Genesis. There was a boundary between abyss and non-abyss even, light only reveals what was already there
* the ozone and atmospheric layers protecting us from the highly charged radioactive cosmic rays of space “The abyss “. Now climate change and greenhouse gases creating death from within? Trapped under our own surface? Prehistoric times when the earth was young there was no ozone layer and the surface was uninhabitable. Only aquatic creatures could survive
* Ancient near East cultures believed in an ocean in the sky that the gods descended down from? Spirits passing through the vacuum of space down to earth?
* there always seems to be connections between the abyss and the unconscious. Unconscious and dreams. Dreams and night. Night and moon. Moon and tides. Tides and oceans. Oceans and abyss
* the deadening of consciousness coinciding with the rising of unconsciousness. Rising tides and an impending bottleneck on humanity?? Where’s the ark?
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I read this article, picked up a Lovecraft compendium and read “The Silver Key.” I’m amazed you didn’t mention it directly! It’s maybe the greatest and most succinct expression of the thoughts you’re putting together here.
So, Azathoth would be the Father, Nyarlathotep the Son, and Yog-Sothoth the Holy Spirit—or are we talking about a different kind of triad?
My favorite Outer God has always been Nyarlathotep, the most human of them all. Maybe he’s the odd child of the gods, the one who stays during recess watching the ants, or maybe he’s the only one who sees humanity’s potential to ascend. Nyarlathotep was imagined as Nikola Tesla in his early dreams, and his nickname, the “Crawling Chaos,” evokes images of serpents. A being who grants knowledge and resembles a snake, cruel and leading humanity to its own ruin.
The first story I heard about him was called “The Black Book.” In it, a human finds a grimoire that grants him magical powers through knowledge, and in his arrogance, he travels to the abode of the Crawling Chaos. There, all of Nyarlathotep's followers laugh at him, and Nyarlathotep uses the mage’s body to escape his prison and enter the human world. Seeing it from a wider perspective, as you explained, perhaps Nyarlathotep represents all the horrors that can only be born into the world with human help, horrors that call themselves forth from the future.Horrors that Lovecraft’s, Jung’s and Crowley’s mind could hear scratching at reality like rats in the walls.
Art the clown
the man in white is winking at me again
How do you study to connect all these dots?
I have a question concerning Abraxas: I thought I understood (if even remotely) what his place in the Cosmogram was, now I'm not so sure anymore. It seems to me, your position towards Abraxas has changed completely, since here you link him to spiritually corrupting forces while in your first video he seemed to be more positive or neutral. Is this perception correct? Is this question even relevant or would it just be an unnecessary intellectualization of symbolism?
Well, it's a Halloween post, but although my views have evolved a lot since 2020, I always saw Abraxas in this way.
My work has a very strong Lovecraftian element because I think cosmicism is true in some non-trivial way or else it wouldn't have been so influential. I think this is kind of the meta-problem of the modern world and we're medicating the symptoms.
However, denying the truth of cosmicism (flat earth for example) lands you in a simulation and you actually remain under the outer gods' influence.
The cosmogram frames God as "good" and indeed, wholly good -- but not in a way that is simply recognizable to man in his current condition. There is a psychological (but not ontological) relativity to good and evil. Evil perceives its own will as good and resistance to it as evil. We all feel this to some extent (just watch your reaction to getting cut off in traffic).
Moreover, the outer gods are the outer aspects of us, so it doesn't make sense ultimately to humanize them because they are that which dehumanizes. They are the ultimate form of inhumanity. We experience their "gravitational pull" through a microcosm of them in ourselves, so they seem to be like us and it does make sense to depict that. But someone pulled fully into them (someone like Patrick Bateman) becomes deeply inhuman and that state is most likely the nearest we can get to the actuality of these beings.
And so Abraxas is something like the very high-order pattern through which these infinitely alien intelligences ultimately participate in the infinitely human image of God and so it contains the formula for how to embody that microcosmically.
Esoterically, Azathoth and the Solar Temple are the same thing, the perception of which is defined by your relation to it.
"Every heart draws a line somewhere and says: “if that’s wrong, I don’t want to be right.”"
That's strong. I'm not a good role model for a devout Christian, yet here I am reminded that Jesus knew, his church is a church for the sinners (not literate enough to pin this down on a biblical text). We can try not to sin, but we do and we will. And we'll be forgiven, if we choose so. In my naivety, I still believe that.
Thanks for this text, I'll read it a few times more. The occult foundations of the modern world are always fascinating to learn about.