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Jul 1, 2023Liked by Gryphon ☿

Magnificent work, as always.

Are you familiar in any way with Matthieu Pageau? (Jonathan Pageau's brother)

I feel your works are quite complementary and interactions between the two of you could possibly bear great fruits.

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Yes, I am. Haven't read his book, but have been more influenced by the two of them than Jung.

Would love to speak with either of them, but I think me reaching out right now would be a misstep.

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The only Hellraiser I watched was the latest one by Hulu. I dont know if these patterns show up anywhere else in the series, but (spoiler alert) the two patterns that stuck out to me in this film were this:

Firstly, that the main character used the blades of the puzzle box to stab the Cenobites themselves, and that they were forced to destroy themselves according to their own rules.

Extending this, could it be possible to turn the strengths of the escapist temptations these black boxes offer us, against the temptor himself?

Secondly, that when presented with everything the Leviathan Configuration could offer, the main character recognizes that everything it offers only ends in suffering, and thus chooses to bear the full weight of her life and sins with no external help, effectively taking up her own cross.

Extending this, is it fair to ask if the only way to win, is not to play?

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Jun 30, 2023·edited Jun 30, 2023

To this if I may be of some help I recommend you to read this short piece on the topic. Hopefully also Galahad and everyone may benefit from it. As you can see it has so many parallelisms that is basically mind-blowing.

https://acephale.xyz/contributors/georges-bataille/the-sacred-conspiracy-from-acephale-1/

“ his belly is the labyrinth in which he himself goes astray, led me astray, and in which I find myself being he, that is, a monster.”

In the spanish translation the word for labyrinth is dédalo as a mention of Daedalus designated creator of the labyrinth in which to enclose the Minotaur, the co-creator of the labyrinth in the story ends up trapped in its own labyrinth because he contributed to the exodus of Theseus out of the labyrinth. When scaping with the wings of his own design, his son Icarus is known to go VERTICALLY to the sun while the father Dædalus flies HORIZONTALLY and lands on the other shore and succesfully is out of that particular trouble. I just said the last part to make an allusion to the constellation of Pisces which Galahad brilliantly explains in Apokalypsis and also relates to Abraxas’ legs and the two serpents. Of course there’s something in between left to discover in the story, i.e. that the figure of the acephalus is not yet explicitly present, but that’s a conversation for another moment. The main reason was Bataille’ piece and what comes with it. This is just a proof for of one of the hidden parallelisms.

I will adjunct two illustrations of the parallelisms.

The second is particularly interesting since the pyramid resembles, at least in my imagination, the building of the labyrinth by unconscious humans known in those times by the name of slaves. The dream and the taking of apparently external material (luciferic artifacts) that finally becomes part of the tower resembles the ouroboros in action and all this process together of craftsmanship can be taken to be the notion of the architect which in freemasonry is the god of the labyrinth (that’s why the big G inside the compass).

In less words, the labyrinth can be interpreted in other way as the pyramid and the architecture of creation and preservation in which we found ourselves involved whether we like it, or know it, or else. The pyramid as the labyrinth is also present in Galahad’s work as it is the proof that the angel gave to Galahad but in mathematical language. This may be another proof… At least for me it makes sense to also be explained in this manner. It still needs more and I’m pretty sure that I’ll change this notion in the future and come to know it more deeply, but in the meantime I offer you guys a part of this knit which involves me.

https://monoskop.org/File:Acephale_1_Jun_1936.jpg

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Guido-Preparata/publication/304683930/figure/fig1/AS:1152731972677633@1651844127792/Batailles-Acephale-original-sketch-by-Andre-Masson-reinterpreted-by-Evelyn-Ysais.ppm

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Hey there I've been following your content for quite a while, I feel like it's the right time for me to bring this up. Are you aware of the video game by the name of "Echo"?

I will be mentioning spoilers, so anyone who hasn't played the game yet, this is your fair warning to avoid reading my post here.

There is a very large amount of symbolism that you could say is extremely similar to a lot of the things that you talk about. The main character is a woman with short white hair who wears a black suit of armor which carries a Red Cube on the back. The character enters a labyrinth where she is forced to fight off endless waves of strange clones of herself that mimic her and become better and better at copying her every time the clock resets the Labyrinth. Every time the clock resets the Clones are all Reborn and made into better copies of the main character. At the end of the game she is able to save friend of hers by sacrificing herself to a cube that in my opinion looks extremely similar to the cube that you're talking about from hellraiser. A great way to see part of the story is to just watch a cutscenes only video game movie playthrough video on youtube, or just search echo full gameplay walkthrough, and then just skip through parts of the video and then just watch the ending. I've been meaning to tell you about this for a long time, and now's the time. I hope this is somehow helpful for you.

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"Music is the Universal Language" - Truth clutched away from the Jaws of the labyrinth.

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Jun 30, 2023·edited Jun 30, 2023

Hi, Gryphon. You’re work is deeply appreciated, much of what you utter is interconnected to an extent that I can’t help but be astonished to what I happen to found and practice through my research of Phenomenology and specially to what I’m most drawn which is a kind of hermeneutics to understand pre-socratic thinkers. The work of Martin Heidegger in which I found myself to be immersed calls for really interesting connections to your work. I’m starting a project about the nature on the divine (immortals) in the greeks which you’re readings and videos settled the spark. I wanted to suggest if you’re interested in creating a Discord server in which we the acephalī could interact and hear the words of the Λόγος.

I personally want to ask if we could have a conversation to further elaborate on the topic of the manifestation of conductors.

Have a nice rest of the week you all.

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Btw, when I was writing this some friend randomly sent this…

https://youtu.be/l_tfihRqBnI

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Wow! This one is making me remember an experience I had Many years ago. I went deep in the desert and did plant medicine with a very discreet but deep group of friends. We’d done many ceremonies together for years. Long story short I had an experience one night while in medicine that felt like a force infinitely bigger and stronger than me was trying to invade and take over my soul causing my very atoms to quake. Then on the far horizon of a nighttime scene in a white sand desert that opened up in my minds eye a goddess that looked sort of like mother Mary but with an additional crown of stars over her head and holding a scepter and sword rose above the horizon lighting the desert up like a big moon. She held the sword above her and cried out with a booming voice that shook the heavens that I was her child and looking up into the night sky I saw a gargantuan almost hidden black cube floating there. I felt weird, like it shouldn’t be there deep in the landscape of my being. She waved her sword and it disintegrated and I passed out of the Vision and found myself alive and ahold of myself again. I’ll never forget it. For some reason after that particular ceremony I felt it was time to remove my name from the records of the church I was raised in. Anyway. The black cube stuff really brought the memory up.

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Have you heard this track channeling the Artifex?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ev_vPbqUlZs

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Boggles my mind that this post has been there the whole time. Thank you for answering the question.

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The description of Artifex here seems highly comparable to what Rudolf Steiner identified as Ahriman, or the Ahrimanic deception.

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Question, with the 3x3 magic square Mathematics they have here in our past ancestors, is that in some way connected to the 'game' Sudoku? I know math is greatly involved in life itself but I just can't put my thoughts into words so I apologize. As I know the Eye of Horus was more than just a belief/religion but used as a mathematical exchange in their time as well. (I was a math and speech genius until my Epilepsy started but got a gift in a way from it. My communication and spelling got 'shot' but it opened up a knew part of my mind in dew time that I am actually greatful' for).

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A thing I would do for hours was fantasize ever grander stories about someone, implied to be me if I do anything with myself, changing the world. These thoughts would overpower my own, and they often left me catching myself replaying them while frozen and spaced out. I found them very odd since they felt other than myself. All I could do was change the costume to fit a more ideal want for 'my future'. Since these thoughts were so different from my current ones, I believed they had been harming me. Reading this, I think I was staring at the maze. Hearing it's whispers. It whispers in your greatest desires, but it puts them in the infinite future. Perfectly promising everything that it won't have to deliver for if it's plans succeed then time would stop entirely. It wants to block the signals from the future calling us all towards it by giving us a grand illusion of a future that freezes our ability to act. I think it basically takes pure desires and turns them into wants. "Eventually, I'll have everything I desire. I remember that these fantasies aren't now. I really WANT them to be now, but they can't be. I'll indulge in my mental illusion just to escape how boring now feels since I don't get what I want until later.

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Sep 14, 2023·edited Sep 14, 2023

It makes me think of the faked quote "the capitalist will sell us the rope which we will hang them". If I didn't practice using my imagination while helping to build the labyrinth, I couldn't have seen what convinced me to wake up. In a way, it put me asleep so well that I noticed it. Dreaming so intensely that you realize you aren't awake at all.

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i have the tangible side to your story. like a real place, a thing, something you can hold. your you tube videos have stolen my words, i tried to message you on Instagram but i don't know much about online. i dont mean stolen as taken from but synchrony, coincidence and what i discuss are different. i don't know what this substack thing is but ill have to delete it soon.

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im not fluent with much online but as i set to explain "something" i found your you tube videos. i sent you a message on Instagram. i have the tangible side to your story. like something real, a place you can go, a thing you can see.

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Dude, I'm sorry. This is 10+ hours of worse-than-nothing.

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Sorry for potentially wasting your time, i could probably just summerize what the dude meant in like 5 sentences but i was lazy and didn't think about it

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No, it's not that it's a waste of MY time, it's a waste of YOUR time. Your time is more valuable than this dude's nonsense.

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Do not apologize to me ever Galahad

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