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From: "Blue Resonant Human"
Originally to: iufo@xbn.shore.net
Original Date: Wed, 01 May 1996 16:20:56 GMT
Crowley on Atlantis:
Those interested in the subjects of ETs, the Mars Cydonia region,
Atlantis, the alleged coming ascension, genetic hybridization,
manipulative service-to-self gods, the Bramleyesque custodial
wage/slave game, incubi & succubi (Nephilim), numerology, etc.
may be interested in this treatise by noted occultist Aleister
Crowley. In fact, none of the current topics of alienology(tm)
are new but merely rehashes of ancient and enduring mythologies
and workings. "There is nothing new under the sun," someone once
said.
I personally find it of great interest that some decades back, the
Magickal Childe (read: daemon) which Crowley conjured up through
certain occult rituals looked remarkably like one of the current
greys. Probably just a coincidence, I'm sure.
Smell the Zro, folks; this whole thing's been going on for millenia.
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THE LOST CONTINENT
By Aleister Crowley
Ordo Templi Orientis
P.O Box 2303
Berkeley, CA 94702
(C) COPYRIGHT O.T.O.
June 21, 1985 e.v.
Sun in Cancer
Moon in Leo
The Lost Continent
PREFACE
Last year I was chosen to succeed the venerable K-Z--who had it
in his mind to die, that is, to join Them in Venus, as one of
the Seven Heirs of Atlantis, and I have been appointed to
declare, so far as may be found possible, the truth about that
mysterious lost land. Of course, no more than one seventh of
the wisdom is ever confided to one of the Seven, and the Seven
meet in council but once in every thirty-three years. But its
preservation is guaranteed by the interlocked systems of
"dreaming true" and of "preparation of the antinomy". The
former almost explains itself; the latter is almost
inconceivable to normal man. Its essence is to train a man to
be anything by training him to be its opposite. At the end of
anything, think they, it turns out to be its opposite, and that
opposite is thus mastered without having been soiled by the
labours of the student, and without the false impressions of
early learning being left upon the mind.
I myself, for example, had unknowingly been trained to record
these observations by the life of a butterfly. All my
impressions came clear on the soft wax of my brain; I had never
worried because the scratch on the wax in no way resembled the
sound it represented. In other words, I observed perfectly
because I never knew that I was observing. So, if you pay
sufficient attention to your heart, you will make it palpitate.
I accordingly proceed to a description of the country.
Aleister Crowley
I. OF THE PLAINS BENEATH ATLAS, AND ITS SERVILE RACE*.
Atlas is the true name of this archipelago--continent is an
altogether false term, for every 'house' or mountain peak was
cut from its fellows by natural, though often very narrow
waterways. The African Atlas is a mere offshoot of the range.
It was the true Atlas that supported the ancient world by its
moral and magical strength, and hence the name of the fabled
globe-bearer. The root is the Lemurian 'Tla' or 'Tlas', black,
for reasons which will appear in due course. 'A' is the
feminine prefix, derived from the shape of the mouth when
uttering the sound. 'Black woman' is therefore as near a
translation as one can give in English; the Latin has a closer
equivalent.
The mountains are cut off, not only from each other by the
channels of the sea, but from the plains at their feet by cliffs
naturally or artificially smoothed and undercut for at least
thirty feet on every side in order to make access impossible.
These plains had been made flat by generations of labour. Vines
and fruit-trees growing only on the upper slopes, they were
devoted principally to corn, and to grass pastures for the
amphibian herds of Atlas. This corn was of a kind now unknown,
flourishing in sea-water, and the periodical flood-tides served
the same purpose as the Nile in Egypt. Enormous floating stages
of spongy rock--no trees of any kind grew anywhere on the plains
so wood was unknown--supported the villages. These were
inhabited by a type of man similar to the modern Caucasian race.
They were not permitted to use any of the food of their
masters, neither the corn, nor the amphibians, nor the vast
supplies of shellfish, but were fed by what they called "bread
from heaven", which indeed came down from the mountains, being
the whole of their refuse of every kind. The whole population
was put to perpetual hard labour. The young and active tended
the amphibians, grew the corn, collected the shell-fish,
gathered the "bread from heaven" for their elders, and were
compelled to reproduce their kind. At twenty they were
considered strong enough for the factory, where they worked in
gangs on a machine combining the features of our pump and
treadmill for sixteen hours of the twentyfour. This machine
supplied Atlas with its 'ZRO'* or 'power', of which I shall
speak presently. Any worker showing even temporary weakness was
transferred to the phosphorus works, where he was sure to die
within a few months. Phosphorus was a prime necessity of Atlas;
however, it was not used in its red or yellow forms, but in a
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third allotrope, a blue-black or rather violet-black substance,
only known in powder finer than precipitated gold, harder than
diamond, eleven times heavier than yellow phosphorus, quite
incombustible, and so shockingly poisonous that, in spite of
every precaution, an ounce of it cost the lives (on an average)
of some two hundred and fifty men. Of its properties I shall
speak later.
The people were left in utmost slavery and ignorance by the wise
counsel of the first of the philosophers of Atlas, who had
written: "An empty brain is a threat to Society." He had
consequently instituted a system of mental culture, comprising
two parts:
1. As a basis, a mass of useless disconnected facts.
2. A superstructure of lies.
Part 1 was compulsory; the people then took Part 2 without
protest.*
The language of the plains was simple but profuse. They had few
nouns and fewer verbs. 'To work again' (there was no word for
'to work' simply), 'to eat again', 'to break the law' (no word
for 'to break the law again'), 'to come from without', 'to find
light' (i.e. to go to the phosphorus factory) were almost the
only verbs used by adults. The young men and women had a verb-
language yet simpler, and of degraded coarseness. All had,
however, an extraordinary wealth of adjectives, most of them
meaningless, as attached to no noun ideas, and a great quantity
of abstract nouns such as 'Liberty', 'Progress', without which
no refined inhabitant could consider a sentence complete. He
would introduce them into a discussion on the most material
subjects. "The immoral snub-nose", "the unprogressive teeth",
"lascivious music", "reactionary eyebrows"--such were phrases
familiar to all. "To eat again, to sleep again, to work again,
to find the light--that is Liberty, that is Progress" was a
proverb common in every mouth.
The religion of the people was Protestant Christianity in all
essentials, but with an even closer dependence upon God. They
asserted its formulae, without attaching any meaning to the
words, in a manner both reverent and passionate. Sexual life
was entirely forbidden to the workers, a single breach implying
relegation to the phosphorus works.
In every field was, however, an enormous tablet of rock, carved
on one side with a representation of the three stages of life:
the fields, the labour mill, the factory; and on the other side
with these words: "To enter Atlas, fly." Beneath this an
elaborate series of graphic pictures showed how to acquire the
art of flying. During all the generations of Atlas, not one man
had been known to take advantage of these instructions.
The principal fear of the populace was a variation of any kind
from routine. For any such the people had one word only, though
this word changed its annotation in different centuries.
'Witchcraft', 'Heresy', 'Madness', 'Bad Form', 'Sex-Perversion',
'Black Magic' were its principal shapes in the last four
thousand years of the dominion of Atlas.
Sneezing, idleness, smiling, were regarded as premonitory. Any
cessation from speech, even for a moment to take breath, was
considered highly dangerous. The wish to be alone was worse
than all; the delinquent would be seized by his fellows, and
either killed outright or thrust into the compound of the
phosphorus factory, from which there was no egress.
The habits of the people were incredibly disgusting. Their
principal relaxations were art, music and the drama, in which
they could show achievement hardly inferior to that of Henry
Arthur Jones, Pinero, Lehar, George Dance, Luke Fildes, and
Thomas Sidney Cooper. Of medicine they were happily ignorant.
The outdoor life in that equable climate bred strong youths and
maidens, and the first symptoms of illness in a worker was held
to impair his efficiency and qualify him for the phosphorous
factory. Wages were permanently high, and as there were no
merchants even of alcohol, whose use was forbidden, every man
saved all his earnings, and died rich. At his death his savings
went back to the community. Taxation was consequently
unnecessary. Clothes were unnecessary and unknown, and the
'bread from heaven' was the "free gift of God". The dead were
thrown to the amphibians. Each man built his own shelter of the
rough stone sponge which abounded. The word 'house' was used
only in Atlas; the servile race called its huts 'Hloklost'
(equivalent to the English word 'home'). Discontent was
absolutely unknown. It had not been considered necessary to
prohibit traffic with foreign countries, as the inhabitants of
such were esteemed barbarians. Had a ship landed men, they
would have been murdered to a man, supposing that Atlas had
permitted any approach to its shores. That it hindered such,
and by infallible means, was due to other considerations, whose
nature will form the subject of a subsequent chapter.
This then is the nature of the plains beneath Atlas, and the
character of the servile race.
II. OF THE RACE OF ATLAS
In the city or 'house' which was formed from the crest of every
mountain, dwelt a race not greatly superior in height to our
own, but of vaster frame. The bulk and strength of the bear is
not inappropriate as a simile for the lower classes; the higher
had the enormous chest and shoulders and the lean haunches of
the lion. This strength gave an infallible beauty, made
monstrous by their most inexorable law, that every child who
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From: "Blue Resonant Human"
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developed no special feature in the first seven years should be
sacrificed to the Gods. This special feature might be a nose of
prodigious size, hands and wrists of gigantic strength, a
gorilla jaw, an elephant ear--or any of these might entitle its
owner to life:* for in all such variations from the normal they
perceived the possibility of a development of the race. Men and
women were hairy as the ourang-outang and all were closely
shaven from head to foot. It had been found that this practice
developed tactile sensibility. It was also done in reverence to
the 'Living Atla', of which more in its place.
The lower class were few in number. Its function was to
superintend the servile race, to bring the food of the children
to the banqueting-hall, to remove the same, to attend to the
disposition of the 'light-screens', to ensure the continuance of
the race by the begetting, bearing and nourishing of the
children.
The priestly class was concerned with the further preparation of
the Zro supplied by the labour-mills, and its impregnation with
phosphorus. This class had much leisure for 'work', a subject
to be explained later.
The High Priests and High Priestesses were restricted in number
to eleven times thirty-three in any one 'house'. To them were
entrusted the final secrets of Atlas, and to them was confided
the conduct of the experiments in which every will was bound up.
*
The colour of the Atlanteans was very various, though the hair
was invariably of a fiery chestnut with bluish reflections. One
might see women whiter than Aphrodite, others tawny as
Cleopatra, others yellow as Tu-Chi, others of a strange, subtle
blue like the tattooed faces of Chin women, others again red as
copper. Green was however a prohibited hue for women, and red
was not liked in men. Violet was rare, but highly prized, and
children born of that colour were specially reared by the
High Priestesses.
However, in one part of the body all the women were perfectly
black with a blackness no negro can equal; from this
circumstance comes the name Atlas. It is absurdly attributed by
some authors to the deposit of excess of phosphorus in the Zro.
I need only point out that the mark existed long before the
discovery of black phosphorus. It is evidently a racial stigma.
It was the birth of a girl child without this mark which raised
her mother to the rank of goddess, and ended the terrestrial
adventure of the Atlanteans, as will presently appear.
Of the ethics of this people little need be said. Their word
for 'right' is 'phph' made by blowing with the jaw drawn sharply
across from left to right, thus meaning 'a spiral life contrary
to the course of the sun'. We may assume it as 'contrary'.
"Whatever is, is wrong" seems to have been their first principle.
Legs were 'wrong' because they only carry you five miles in
the hour: let us refuse to walk; let us ride horseback. So the
horse is 'wrong' compared to the train and the motor-car; and
these are 'wrong' to the aeroplane. If speed had been the
Atlantean's object, he would have thought aeroplanes 'wrong' and
all else too, so long as the speed of light was not surpassed by
him.
Curious survivals of these laws are found in the Jewish
transcript of the Egyptian code, which they, being a slave race,
interpreted in the reverse manner.
"Thou shalt not make any graven image." Every male child on
attaining manhood, had a graven image given him to worship, a
miracle-working image, whose principle exploits he would tattoo
upon it.
"Remember the Sabbath Day and keep it holy." The Atlantean kept
one day in seven for all purposes unconnected with his principle
task.
"Thou shalt not commit adultery." Though the Atlanteans married,
intercourse with the wife was the only act forbidden.
"Honour thy father and thy mother." On the contrary, they
worshipped their children, as if to say: "This is the God whom I
have made in my own likeness."
Similarly, there is one exception and one only to the rule of
silence. It is the utterance of the 'Name' which it is death to
pronounce. This word was constantly in their mouths; it is
'Zcrra', a sort of venomous throat-gargling. Hence, possibly
the Gaelic 'Scurr' 'speak', English 'Scaur' or 'Scar' in
Yorkshire and the Pennines. 'Zcrra' is also the name of the
'High House', and of the graven image referred to above.
Other traces may be found in folklore; some mere
superstitions. Thus the correct number for a banquet was
thirteen, because if there were only one more sign in the
Zodiac, the year would be a month longer, and one would have
more time 'for work'. This is probably a debased Egyptian
notion. Atlanteans knew better than anyone that the Zodiac is
only an arbitrary division. Still it may be laid down that the
impossible never daunted Atlas. If one said, "Two and two make
Four" his thought would be "Yes, damn it!"*
I now explain the language of Atlas. The third and greatest of
their philosophers saw that speech had wrought more harm than
good, and he consequently instituted a peculiar rite. Two men
were chosen by lot to preserve the language, which, by the way,
consisted of monosyllables only, two hundred and fourteen in
number, to each of which was attached a diacritical gesture,
usually ideographic.
Thus 'wrong' is given as 'phph' moving the jaw from right to
left. Wiping the brown with 'phph' means 'hot', hollowing the
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From: "Blue Resonant Human"
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hands over the mouth 'fire', striking the throat 'to die;' so
that each 'radicle' may have hundreds of gesture-derivatives.
Grammar, by the way, hardly existed, the quick apprehension of
the Atlanteans rendering it unnecessary.
These two men then departed to a cavern on the side of the
mountain just above the cliff, and there for a year they
remained, speaking the language and carving it symbolically upon
the rock. At the end of the year they returned; the elder is
sacrificed and the younger returns with a volunteer, usually one
who wishes to expiate a fault, and teaches him the language.
During his visit he observes whether any new thing needs a name,
and if so he invents it, and adds it to the language. This
process continued to the end. The rest of the people abandoned
altogether the use of speech, only a few years' practice
enabling them to dispense with the radicle. They then sought to
do without gesture, and in eight generations the difficulty was
conquered, and telepathy* established. Research then devoted
itself to the task of doing without thought; this will be
discussed in detail in the proper place. There was also a
'listener', three men who took turns to sit upon the highest
peak, above the 'light-screens', and whose duty it was to give
the alarm if any noise disturbed Atlas. On their report that
High Priest charged with active governorship would take steps to
ascertain and destroy the cause.
The 'light-screens' spoken of were a contrivance of laminae of
a certain spar such that the light and heat of the sun were
completely cut off, not by opacity, but by what we call
'interference'. In this way other subtle rays of the sun
entered the 'house', these rays being supposed to be necessary
to life. These matters were the subjects of the deepest
controversy. Some held that these rays themselves were
injurious and should be excluded. Others considered that the
light-screens should be put in position during moonlight,
instead of being opened at sunset, as was the custom. This,
however, was never attempted, the great mass of the people being
devoted to the moon. Others wished full sunlight, the aim of
Atlas being (they thought) to reach the sun. But this theory
contradicted the prime axiom of attaining things through their
opposites, and was only held by the lower classes, who were not
initiated into this doctrine.
The 'houses' of Atlas were carved from the living rock by the
action of Zro in its seventh precipitation. Enormously solid,
the walls were lofty and smoother than glass, though the
pavements were rough and broken almost everywhere for a reason
which I am not permitted to disclose. The passages were
invariably narrow, so that two persons could never pass each
other. When two met, it was the law to greet by joining in
'work' and then going away together on their separate errands,
or passing one above the other. This was done purposely, so as
to remind every man of his duty to Atlas on every occasion on
which he might meet a fellow-citizen.
The Banqueting-Hall of the children was usually very large. The
furniture, which had been brought by the first colonists, and
gradually disused by adults, never needed repair. A vast open
doorway facing North opened on the mountainside on to the
vineyards and orchards, the meadows and gardens, in which the
children passed their time. Suckled by the mother for three
months only, the child was then already able to nourish itself
on the bread and wine, and on the flesh of the amphibious herds,
of which there were several kinds; one a piglike animal with
flesh resembling wild duck, another a sort of amatee tasting
like salmon, its fat being somewhat like caviar in everything
but texture, and a sure specific for any of childhood's troubles.
A third, an ancestor of our hippopotamus, was really tamed,
and was employed by the serviles for preparing the ground for
the corn, trampling through the fields while they were covered
with sea-water, and thus leaving deep holes in which the seeds
were cast. Its flesh was not unlike bear, but more delicate.
Notable, too, was the great quantity of turtle; also the giant
oysters, the huge deep sea crabs, a kind of octopus whose flesh
made a nutritious and elegant soup, and innumerable shell-fish,
added to the table. The waterways were haunted by shoals of a
small and poisonous fish,* whose bite was immediate death to
man, a fact which altogether cut off communication between one
island and another except by air, as the hippopotamus-animal,
although immune to its bite, was unable to swim.
Of the sleeping chambers I shall tell more particularly in the
course of my remarks on Zro.
III. OF THE AIM OF THE MAGICIANS OF ATLAS: OF ZRO; AND ITS
PROPERTIES AND USES: OF THAT WHICH COMBINED WITH IT: AND
OF BLACK PHOSPHORUS.
It was the most ancient tradition of the Atlantean magicians
that they were the survivors of a race inhabiting a country
called Lemuria, of which the South Pacific archipelago may be
the remains. These Lemurians had, they held, built up a
civilization equal, if not superior to their own; but through a
misunderstanding of magical law--some said the 2nd, some the
8th, some the 23rd--had involved themselves and their land in
ruin. Others thought that the Lemurians had succeeded in their
magical task, and broken their temple. In any case, it was the
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secret Lemurian tradition that they themselves represented the
survivals of a yet earlier race who lived on ice, and they of
yet another who lived in fire, and they again of earlier
colonists from Mars. The theory, in fine, was that the aim of
man is to attain the Sun, whence, according to one school of
cosmology, he was exiled in the cosmic catastrophe which
resulted in the formation of Neptune. His task on any given
planet was therefore to overturn the laws of Nature on that
planet, thus mastering it sufficiently to enable him to make the
leap to the next planet inward. Exactly how and in what sense
the leap was made remains obscure, even to the heirs of Atlantis.*
The men of Atlas could fly, it is true, and that by a method so
simple that men will laugh outright when it is rediscovered; but
they needed air to support them; they could not confront the
cold and emptiness of space. Was it in some subtler body that
they conveyed the Palladium? Or, content to die, could they
project some vehicle across so great a distance? The answer to
such questions probably lies in the recovery by mankind of the
knowledge of Zro and its properties.
Beneath the labour mills* run troughs* in which the sweat of the
workers collects and drains off into an open basin without the
mill. In this basin churns with immense rapidity--through
multiple bevel gearing--a sort of paddle with knife edges. The
sweat is thus churned into froth, and gradually disappears, and
is as continually replaced. The workers toil in shifts--eight
hours work, four hours repose, eight hours work, four hours rest
and recreation. The mills never cease day or night.
The basin is of polished silver and agate, and is set at an
angle, facing two enormous spheres of crystal, encased in a sort
of trellis made of a certain greenish metal, its optical focus
at a point midway between the two.
The only sign of activity is that out of this focus a spark
crackles unless the air be dry, a condition difficult to secure
in this part of the world, although fans blow air, dried over
chloride of calcium and sulphuric acid, over the globes and
their focus. These fans are worked by tidal power, human labour
being appropriated solely to the one use.
In the temple of the 'house' are two globes similar to those
upon the plains, and the mysterious force generated below is
transferred to those above, collecting within them. Now the
name of this substance is always Zro, but in its first state the
gesture is a twiddling of the thumbs. In its second, it is a
rapid twittering of the fingers, and in its third state of
distillation it is a screwing of the hands together. Within the
spheres it sublimes suddenly in the air as a snaky powder (4) of
silver, which immediately turns to an iridescent fluid (5) that
is forced up, by its own need of expansion, through a fountain
into the temple, on whose floor it lies (6) in a semi-solid
condition. Expert priests gather this in their hands, and
rapidly shape it into its seventh state, when it is a knife of
diamond, but alive. An instrument like a Mexican machete is
used to carve rocks. The edge shears them, the back smooths
them. The rock behaves exactly like wax, responsive to the
lightest touch. What is not used for weapons is then gathered
up swiftly and kneaded by women of the rank of high priestess.
It is not known even to the high priests with what they knead
it, but in its eighth stage it is a substance solid enough to
support great weight, but eternally heaving of its own force.
Of this they make beds, so that the sleeping Atlantean is (as it
were) continually massaged. To this they attribute the fact
that Atlanteans sleep never more than half an hour, though they
do so four times daily. These beds remain active only for a few
days, and they are then thrown into the ninth stage by being
taken into a room where is a cauldron of great size. They are
thrown into this and sprinkled with black phosphorus.* The Zro
then divides into two parts, one liquid, one solid. Neither of
these has any ascertainable properties, for it is absolutely
passive to the will of the user, who may taste therein his
utmost desire, whether for food or drink. Among adults there is
no other food or drink than this. The children are not allowed
to taste it.
The black phosphorus is always added by a high priestess, and it
is not known in what manner she does this. The Zro that may
remain is the subject of eternal experiments by the Magicians.
It is generally thought by the greatest of them that an error
was committed in bringing it to a ninth stage of division into
two, and many openly deplored the discovery of black phosphorus.
All however strive in harmony to produce a tenth stage that
shall surpass the virtues of the ninth. Theoretically it is
possible to reach an eleventh stage wherein the Zro takes human
form, and lives! Opinion is divided as to whether this was not
actually done by a certain magician at the time of the passing
of Atlas. In any case, I beg the reader to remember that I have
only described one seventh of the virtues of Zro, and I have
even omitted this, that in its ninth stage it is not only food
and drink, but universal medicine, if properly understood. For
Zro is also a vision and a voice!
Now the muscles of the people of Atlas are the muscles of
giants, and yet they do one thing only. And this thing is
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combined by the wisdom of the magicians, so that it is at the
same time work, exercise, sport, game, pleasure, and all else
that may fulfill life.
This work never ceases. It has these parts:
1. Working at Zro, i.e. bringing it from the first stage to
the ninth.
2. Working with Zro, i.e. for one's own particular purpose.
3. Working for Zro.
This is the common and most honourable task, the Zro eaten and
drunken being worked into a quintessence of higher power, though
identical in property with the common Zro. This new Zro (Atlas
Zro) goes through the same stages as the common Zro of the
serviles. But it is the result of free and joyful labour, and
so serves the magicians in their experiments, and the Governor
of all for his sustenance. None by the way is ever wasted. For
example, a tunnel was drilled completely through the earth and
filled with Zro, and it is said that by this tunnel the
Atlanteans escaped.
This working, whether with or for Zro, requires two persons at
least at any one time and place. Great heat is generated in the
working, and the bodies of the workers are therefore sprinkled
heavily with the black phosphorus, which is incombustible. This
black phosphorus, poisonous to the servile race, becomes
innocuous to anyone who has been in any way impregnated with Zro.
This itself, in its first stage, is as dangerous as electricity
of high voltage.
The reverence attached to Zro is unbounded. At one time it was
hymned as the father of the gods, and till the end all children
were thought to be "begotten of Zro", though everyone might know
who was the father.* All such conception was however held
indignity. Its official name was 'the old experiment'. It was
carried on simply because the new methods of continuing the race
were not perfected. Childbirth was therefore in one way
accident; although a duty, everyone shrank from it. For though
no pain or discomfort attached to the process, it was a sort of
second-best achievement from which proud women turned
contemptuously. This was in part the reason why the father's
name was never mentioned.
On several occasions in the history of Atlas the Zro 'failed'.
Although not changed in appearance, its properties were lost or
diminished. In such a case young men and maidens in great
numbers were captured on the plains, brought into Atlas, and
offered in sacrifice to the Gods. Their blood was mingled with
Zro in its third stage, and the latter recovered its potency.
Their flesh was eaten by the high priests and priestesses in
penance for the unknown wrong. It was subject to other and
terrible scourges, being the most sensitive as well as the
strongest thing on Earth. On one occasion it had to be treated
with a fox-like perfume prepared by the chief magician; on
another it was subjected to streams of moonlight from parabolic
mirrors.
The most serious crisis was some two thousand years before the
destruction of Atlas. One of the serviles, riding his
'hippopotamus' to the ploughing, fell off and was instantly
bitten by the poisonous fish previously described. Through an
accident of boyhood he had, however, for a reason too obscure to
describe here, no such vulnerable spot as suited the Zhee-Zhou.
He survived and went to work, as it chanced, the next day. The
Zro was poisoned; a third of Atlas died within the hour; the
plants on the affected island had to be destroyed, and all its
people. It was only repopulated some three hundred and eighty
years later, and then for particular reasons of magical economy
impossible to dwell upon in this account.
Marriage was compulsory on all those whose passion had been so
exclusive and enduring as to produce two children. Further
intercourse between the pair was barred. The Magicians thought
it was inimical to variation for a woman to have more than one
child (a fortiori two) by the same father; and the custom
further prevented those stupid sporadic outbursts of burnt-out
lust which make so many modern marriages intolerable.
Closely connected with marriage, the close of the reproductive
life, is that of death, the close of the little that remains.
Death hardly threatened the Atlantean; he would decide to "go
and see", as the old phrase ran, and take an overdose of a
particular preparation of black phosphorus mixed with a very
little Zro in the ninth stage, which ensured a painless death.
That none ever returned was taken as proof of the supreme
attractiveness of death.
The ghoulish and necromantic practices with which Atlanteans
have been unjustly reproached never occurred. A little
vampirism, perhaps, in the early days before the perfecting of
Zro; but no Atlantean was ever so stupid or so ignorant as to
confuse death with life.
Beside this voluntary death only one danger existed. As the use
of Zro guaranteed life and health and youth--a centenarian high
priest was no better than a kitten!--so did its abuse spell
instant corruption of those qualities. As mentioned above, now
and then the Zro itself was at fault, and caused epidemics; but
from time to time there were deaths in a particularly loathsome
form caused by what they called 'misunderstanding' the Zro.*
Such mistakes were particularly common in the early days of its
discovery, and before its use had become well nigh a worship.
The first symptom was a crack in the skin of the temple, or
sometimes of the bridge of the nose, more rarely of an eyelid or
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From: "Blue Resonant Human"
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Original Date: Wed, 01 May 1996 16:20:56 GMT
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cheek. Within a few minutes this crack became one open sore, of
horrid foetor, and within twenty-four hours, the patient was
completely rotted away, bone and marrow. A circumstance of
singular atrocity was that death never occurred until the spinal
column collapsed. No treatment could be found even to prolong
the agony by an hour. This being recognised, sufferers were
thrown from the cliffs at the first sign of the malady. In this
way too were all other corpses disposed. It was the most
honourable death possible, for becoming 'bread from heaven' for
the serviles, they were again worked up into Zro itself, a
transmutation which in their view would be well worth all the
"resurrections of the body" and "immortalities of the soul" of
the theoretical, dogmatic, hearsay religions. So much then
concerning Zro, and the matters immediately connected with it.
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ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
From: "Blue Resonant Human"
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Original Date: Wed, 01 May 1996 16:22:13 GMT
IV. OF THE SO CALLED MAGIC OF THE ATLANTEANS.
Magic in Atlas was a 'Science of Sciences'. It was the final
integration of all knowledge. In method its theory was
differentiation, and in theory its method was integration. For
example, the fifth of the great philosophers indicated
"Everything is Zro" to the Keeper of the Speech at the annual
sacrifice. This in spite of the fact that in that very year two
new forms of Zro had been discovered by that same philosopher.
It was the third of the galaxy who announced "The ultimate
analysis of sensation is pain; that of thought, madness; that of
super-consciousness (a state of trance induced by Zro and valued
above all things) annihilation."
His successor had retorted that in this was implicit a postulate
that pain, madness and annihilation were undesirable. The third
admitted that he had so meant his phrase, but destroying the
postulate, still stuck to it. All this was the foundation of
much magical theory, and on these purely psychological
researches was based the whole magical practice. 'There is no
God' was a commonplace. It only implied that the mind was wrong
to try to conceive within it what was by definition without it.
To set limits to anything whatever seemed to them the greatest
of crimes, the exact opposite of the true path to the Sun.
The practical side of magic was for the most part a mere
utilization of known forces, such as are employed by modern
science. But the resources of Atlas were as great, and the
advantages incomparably greater. The whole archipelago was a
laboratory. There was no question of the 'cost of research';
every man was devoted to it. Every man thought only of the main
problem 'How to reach Venus' and its sub-issues. Further, the
main laws of magic had always been found to govern and include
chemical and physical laws.
In the early days of colonization Zro was only known in its
crude state; it was the genius of a single man that obtained the
third state in its purity. From this state to the seventh it
moved almost of itself, very much as radium does. The genius,
having sufficient in this seventh state, made a sword, and
completed in three days the subjugation of the servile races.
It was a stroke of fortune, this quickness, for on the fourth
day the Zro began to disintegrate. The magicians then began to
seek a means of making this state permanent. But in this they
failed,* so that knives had always to be replaced twice weekly;
but in the course of their failures they discovered the
infinitely more valuable eighth and ninth stages of Zro.
Tradition has preserved a hint of their efforts in Alchemy with
its problems of the fixation of the Universal Mercury, the
secret of perpetual motion, and 'potable gold--the Universal
Medicine'. It has been theoretically determined towards the end
of the tenth state, that Zro should be a solid, but whether this
was confirmed is beyond my knowledge.
To return to the main magical theory, the Quintessence, said
they, or Universal Substance (which some strove to identify with
Hyle, others with the Luminiferous Aether) is the two-in-one,
liquid and solid, the former part being also twofold, fluid and
gaseous, and the latter earthy and fiery. The combination of
these four phases of Zro accounted for the universe. This
quintessence is Zro in some state unknown and incalculable.
Some expected to find it in its twelth state, some in a
seventeenth, others in a thirty-seventh: all this was pure
guesswork. Some tradition to this effect appears to have
reached Plato; and the neo-Platonists combined with those Jews
who had preserved fragments of the Egyptian tradition to form a
new initiated hierarchy, the echo of whose teaching is found in
Paracelsus. At one period, too, missionaries (not colonists, as
has been ignorantly asserted; there was no trouble of over-
population in Atlantis) were sent to the four quarters and
parties landed in Mexico, Ireland and Egypt. The adventures of
the party who travelled South form an astounding chapter in the
history of Atlas. It was they who discovered the Magnetic
South, and whose observations rendered possible the theory which
resulted in the piercing of the Earth by Zro.*
There were also preparations of Zro which increased the size of
the user, and others which diminished it. In general use among
the lower classes, until the very end, was that composition
which made the body light. Careful adjustment would equalize
its weight with that of the displaced air, and movements of the
limbs would then permit flying. In this way the overseers
visited the plains and returned. The other and earlier art of
flying needed no apparatus, but I am forbidden to disclose the
method, except to hint that it is connected closely with the art
of 'dreaming true'.
These are but a few of the magic powers so-called of the
compounds of Zro; but they will indicate the power of Atlas by
shewing what it could afford to neglect. Yet all these powers
were implicit in the process of 'working'.
The art of prediction was in the same unsatisfactory state as it
is in England today. Nor was its practice encouraged. A
magician makes the future, and does not seek to divine it. All
true prediction was therefore necessarily catastrophe. The
greatest good fortune seemed worthless to an Atlantean, since it
was accident, and if accidents are to happen, one of them may be
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ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
From: "Blue Resonant Human"
Originally to: iufo@xbn.shore.net
Original Date: Wed, 01 May 1996 16:22:13 GMT
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fatal. They believed themselves to be equal to the whole
tendency of things, and proudly gazed on Nature as a man might
upon a virgin captive to his spear. Everything that was being
was Zro; everything that was Energy was 'working for Zro'.
Outside this was but by-product and waste-heap.
The arrangement of the houses was in accordance with the magical
theory. There was first the High House, then four (later six,
last ten) 'Houses of Houses'; and to each of these was attached
a varying number of ordinary houses. The High House was the
central shrine of the whole archipelago, and must be separately
described.
V. OF THE HIGH HOUSE OF ATLAS, OF ITS INHABITANTS, AND OF THEIR
MANNERS AND CUSTOMS, AND OF THE LIVING ATLA.
The High House was separated from its nearest neighbor by over
twenty miles of sea. Its diameter was about an half-mile and
its height four miles. It had no plains at the base, and its
cliffs went absolutely sheer and smooth into the water. It was
in shape a flattish cylinder, but the top broadened into a
pointed knob, somewhat in the style of St. Basil's at Moscow.
There was not a trace of vegetation, which by the way was
despised by the Atlanteans. A child would pick a flower
contemptuously thinking "You cannot even move about", or pet it
as an English degenerate woman does a dog. The only entrance
was by an orifice at the top. But the base was tunneled so that
from every house was a channel for the Zro which having been
brought to the highest perfection was thus transferred to
headquarters. The receptacle at the base being far below the
earth, and the Zro further heated by friction, it seethed
continually into a bluish or purplish smoke. This was the sole
sustenance of the inhabitants of the High House. In early days
the old High House, in an island since destroyed by order of the
Atla, had been called the House of Blood, the inhabitants
subsisting only on blood sucked from the living. The
improvements in Zro had changed all that; but the idea was the
same, to live on the Quintessence of Life. Hence while the
'houses' ate and drank Zro, the High House drank its vapour. No
children were born in it, and none below the rank of High Priest
dwelt there. Except for one matter which was never thought of,
though constantly spoken, the inmost mystery of the High House
was the 'Living Atla'. This had many names, 'Wordeater',
'Unshaven' (because the razors of Zro were turned on its hair),
'Fireheart', 'Beginning and End' and so on: but especially a
word I can only translate as 'To Her', a defective pronoun
existing only in the dative. What the Living Atla really was,
is a secret of secrets.* We know it only from its epithets, its
veils. Thus it was 'That Black which makes black white'. It
was 'twenty-six feet high and fifteen feet across--Oh my Lords,
it is the essence of the Incommensurable!' It was 'the wife of
Zro', 'the heart of Zro', 'desire of Zro', 'the Atla that eats
Atlas', 'the swallower up of her own house', 'the pelican', 'the
fire-nest of the Phoenix', according to the greatest of the
poets. And the burden of his hymns of worship was that it must
be destroyed.
It was impossible to approach the Atla without being instantly
sucked up and devoured by it. This was the greatest death, and
ardently desired by all. The favour was accorded only to those
who discovered improvements in Zro, or otherwise merited signal
and supreme recognition from the state. Hidden men listened to
the cries of the victim, and thus learned the nature of the
death. It appears that the black suddenly broke into a fiery
rose, 'the only* luminous thing in Atlas', and a shooting
forward enclosed him. For some reason which was never even
guessed the Atla refused women. Those who had seen Atla were
however useless to instruct. They came forth from the Presence
smiling, and even under the most fearful tortures that the
magicians could devise, continued to smile. This smile never
left them during life, and the conscious superiority of it was
so irritating, and so contrary to the harmony of life in Atlas
that the women were killed, and their companions for the future
forbidden to approach the Atla.
Whatever theories as to its nature may have been formed by the
magicians were upset by a famous experiment. A most holy high
priest, a man who at puberty had insisted on immediate marriage
with all the women of his house, a magician who had formed four
new compounds of Zro, and discovered how to pass matter through
matter, was honoured by the great death. On reaching the last
corridor, where the concentrated spirals of Zro vapour whirled
up into the Presence of Atla, he bade farewell to the appointed
listeners in the manner suitable to his dignity, and then,
taking a last deep draught of Zro into his lungs, rushed into
the antrum. They heard him cry aloud "O!" with surprise, and
then with inexpressible rapture the words "Behind Atla, Otla!"
which were, and still are, completely unintelligible. Their
surprise was greater, when, seven days later he came striding
past them without greeting. He went to his 'house' and shut
himself up, was never seen or heard again, but was assuredly
living at the time of the 'catastrophe'. This man founded a
school of philosophy, or rather, it founded itself on what it
supposed him to have discovered; and this school disputes with
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ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
From: "Blue Resonant Human"
Originally to: iufo@xbn.shore.net
Original Date: Wed, 01 May 1996 16:22:13 GMT
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the orthodox the credit of the final success.
The lesser mysteries of the High House were concerned almost
entirely with the creation of life, and the bridging of the gulf
between Earth and Venus. These were connected intimately; the
theory was that if Atlantean brains could exist in bodies
sufficiently subtle to traverse aether, the task was done. Some
of the experiments were crude enough, and, to our minds,
horrible. They attempted to breed a new race by crossing with
snakes, swans, horses and other animals.* The Greek legends of
such monsters as Chimaera, Medusa, Lamia, Minotaur, the
Centaurs, the Satyrs and the like are mere filtrations of the
Atlantean tradition. The only theory behind such experiments
was that they were contrary to the natural order, and so worth
trying. Men of more scientific mind more plausibly passed Zro
vapour through sea-water; but they only created serpents of vast
size, which they cast into the sea about the High House as
guardians. The sea-serpent, whether legend or fact, is derived
from this experiment. It is quite possible that some such
survive. Another school, objecting strongly to the sex-process,
"which must be transcended as the Lemurians overcame gemmation"
vivisected men and women, taking various parts of the brain,
especially the cerebellum, the pineal gland, and the pituitary
body, and cultivated them in solutions of Zro under the
invisible rays of black phosphorus. The best results of this
work was a race of translucent jelly-folk of great intellectual
development; but so far from being able to travel through space,
they could hardly move in their own element. Another school
argued that as Zro in vapour combined the virtues of the liquid
and the solid Zro, so a fiery state might be produced which
would so impregnate their bodies as to make them 'mates of the
aether'. This school held that fiery Zro already existed in
Nature, "in the heart of the Living Atla", and asserted that
those who died by absorption into Atla passed straight to Venus.
Many of them therefore tried hard to obtain messages from that
planet. Familiar with Newton's first law of motion, they
further held it possible to prepare Zro in such a state that a
current of it could never be deflected or dissipated, and so, if
it could be made in sufficient quantity, a bridge to Venus might
be built by which they might travel. They therefore tunneled
through the planet, as previously explained, to have a sort of
cannon for the Zro. But as their supply was pitifully
insufficient, they endeavoured also to prepare a Zro which would
have the power of multiplying itself. Alchemical tradition has
some record of this problem.
Yet another group of magicians argued that as Nature had cast
off the planets from the Sun--a disputed point, some thinking
this due to magic, which if so completely destroys the argument--
it would be contrary to Nature to cause the planets to fall back
into it. They busied themselves with attempts to increase the
Earth's gravitational pull, and (alternatively) to check her
course. Their schemes were generally regarded as Utopian--yet
they could boast of the discovery of the Zro that lightened
bodies, and of a kind of aether-screen which generated
mechanical power in inexhaustible quantities by making matter
slightly opaque to aether. This engine only worked on a very
small scale. A screen two inches long would tear itself from
fastenings that would have held an earthquake, while the rocks
in its neighbourhood would melt in a few minutes, and the sea
boil instantly where its rays struck. The most brilliant of
this school asserted "Matter is a strain in the aether." He
explained gravitation in this way. Place two ivory spheres in a
rubber tube; the strain on the tube is least when the balls
touch. The tendency is therefore for them to come together.
Friction alone checks them. Now aether is infinitely elastic
and without friction. From these data he calculated the Law of
Inverse Squares.
A more mystic school saw life everywhere. It knew all that we
know, and more, about ions and electrons; it saw every
phenomenon as a manifestation of will. The crowning glory of
this school was the discovery that Zro in its ninth stage, eaten
and drunken with concentrated intention, produced the desired
result, whatever (within wide limits) that result might be.
This went far to supersede the use of all specialized forms of
Zro, and so to unify the magical practice.
It seems curious with all this magic, Magic itself should be the
thing most deplored. But it was the means, and, as such, "that
which is in particular not the end". The word for Magic,
'Ijynx', was the only dissyllable in the language, for Magic was
the essentially two-fold thing, more two-fold (in a way) than
the number two itself. It is interesting here to sketch briefly
the mathematics of Atlas. The task is not easy, as their minds
worked very differently from ours.
The number 1 was a fairly simple idea; but two was not only two,
but also 'the result of adding 1 to 1' and 'the root of 4'. The
numbers grew in complexity out of all reason. Seven was 6 plus
1, and 5 plus 2, and 4 plus 3, and so on; as well as 'the root
of 49', 'half 14' and the like. They even distinguished 4 plus
3 from 3 plus 4. Each number also represented an idea or group
of ideas on all sorts of planes. It would have been quite
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ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
From: "Blue Resonant Human"
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possible to discuss dressmaking in terms of pure number. To
give an example of the way in which their minds thought,
consider the number three. Three, in so far as it gives the
first plane figure, suggests superficies; with regard to the
dimensions of space, solidity. Three itself is therefore 'that
ineffably holy thing in which the superficies is the solid'. Of
course hundreds of other ideas must be added to this; and to
grasp and harmonize them all in one colossal supra-rational idea
was the constant task of every mathematician. The upshot of
this was that all numbers above 33 were regarded as spurious,
illusionary; they had no real existence of their own*; they were
temporary compounds, unreal in very much the same sense as our
square root of 1. They were always expressed by graphic
formulae, like our own organic compounds. To take an example,
the number 156 was regarded as a sort of efflorescence of the
number 7; it was never written but as 77 plus [(7+7)/7] plus 77.
Again 11 was usually written 3 plus 5 plus 3. It was always
the aim to find symmetry in these expressions, and also 'to find
an easy way to 1'. This last is difficult to explain.
Eleven was their great 'Key of Magic'. It is a twofold number
in 'the act of becoming 1'. Thirty-seven was the essence of 1
inasmuch as multiplying it by 3 gives 111, three ones, which
divided again by 3 in another manner, yield 1. "One would
rather think of 48 as 37 plus 11 than as 4 times 12" is the
statement of an elementary text-book dating from the earliest
days of Atlas. It was a sort of moral duty to teach the mind to
think in this manner.
The number 7 was the 'perfect number' with them as with us, but
for very different reasons. It was the link between Earth and
Venus, for one thing; I cannot explain why. It was 'the number
of Atla', and the 'house of success' (two being the 'house of
battle'). It was also grace, softness, ease, healing and 'joy
of Zro' as well as 'play of phosphorus'. Many mathematicians,
however, attacked it with rigour; there was at one time an
almost general consent to replace it by 8, and its 'rapture-
combination' 31, by 33. Despite the intense preoccupation with
such ideas, mathematics as we know them had reached a perfection
which if it does not surpass that of our own civilization, fails
principally because of its theorems, handed down to Euclid and
Pythagoras, although imperfectly, formed a springboard whence we
might leap.
The initiation of children was also a matter reserved for the
High House. Weaned at three months, the children were tended by
the lower classes until the age of puberty, an occurrence which
fitted them at once for initiation. A legate from the High
House was sent for, and in his presence the child was brought,
acquainted with Zro by its father and mother, and full
instruction in 'working' was further conferred by any member of
the 'house' who chose to do so, this in practice meaning by
everybody. The ceremonies were frequently long and exhausting;
children often enough died in the course of them. This was not
regarded as a serious calamity; some schools of magicians even
pretended to rejoice. The representatives of the High House had
a prior right to the parents of the child; at times he conducted
the initiation in person, a high honour, but invariably fatal.
On rare occasions male children were sent over to the Atla to be
devoured. The parents of so fortunate a child were advanced in
rank on the spot, and had special privileges conferred on them,
sometimes even being transferred to a 'House of Houses'. All
those who dwelt in the High House were veiled whenever they
appeared, in order to prevent it being known that they were of
the same appearance in all respects as their inferiors. This
ordinance had been made after the Great Conspiracy, with which I
shall deal in the chapter on History.
VI. OF THE UNDERGROUND GARDENS OF ATLAS, AND OF THE ALLEGED
COMMERCE OF THE ATLANTEANS WITH INCUBI, SUCCUBI, AND THE
DEMONS OF DARKNESS.
I have referred to the contempt with which the Atlanteans were
prone to regard the vegetable kingdom. Animals, including man,
shared their scorn. The idea may have been that with their
advantages they ought to have done much better for themselves.
Minerals, however, were regarded as helpless; and hence the
extraordinary attention paid to them. Beneath the houses the
rock had been tunneled out into grottos, some in odd fantastic
forms, but most in immense polyhedra or combinations of curves.
Each 'house' had some twenty of such gardens. Three reagents
were used in the cultivation; the 'seed of metals', 'the seed of
Light', and the seed of '', an untranslatable idea approximating
to our mystic's interpretation of 'Alpha and Omega'. The two
former produced simple effects, the first formed jewels, self-
luminious, which yet grew like flowers, the second similar
effects with metals; while the third brought any mineral to
flower in the most extravagant combinations of colour and form.
All such conditions as texture, hardness, elasticity, and
physical attributes in general, were considered worthy of the
profoundest attention.
As an instance of these, I may describe particular gardens.
One would have a roof of softly-glowing sapphires, foxglove,
bluebell or gentian, and between these champak stars of ruby.
The walls would be covered with tendrils of vine within whose
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ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
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VII. OF MARRIAGE AND OTHER CURIOUS CUSTOMS OF THE ATLANTEANS:
AND OF SACRIFICES TO THE GODS.
I have already adverted to that most singular conception of the
duty of the married which opposes the customs of Atlas to those
of any other race on Earth. But the considerations which
established it have yet to be discussed. I will not insist on
that gross and cynical point of view which might perceive in
English marriage today a practical vindication of the Atlantean
position. On the contrary, in Atlas marriage formed the
loftiest of ideals. It resembles the 'Hermetic marriage' of
certain alchemists. The bond between the parties was only
stronger for the absence of the lower link. The idea underlying
this was in the main a particular case of the general
proposition that whatever was natural should be transcended. As
will be seen in the final chapter, the very stigma of success in
their Great Work was the transcending of the sexual process.
The bond of marriage was not, however, entirely of this negative
character. It had its positive side, and here closely resembled
the so-called Christian doctrine of Christ and the church.
Husband and wife were to be father and daughter, mother and son,
brother and sister, teacher and pupil, and above all, friends.
And this relation was to subsist on all planes. The hieroglyph
of love was a cross; that of marriage, parallel straight lines,
and as the cross was to be transcended in the circle, so were
these lines to converge not on earth, but in Venus. In the
meanwhile each partner led his own free life; and it often
occurred that a woman, having borne two children to a man and
married him, would bear two children to another man, and so on
perhaps for two centuries, thus acquiring a cohort of husbands.
Such an arrangement must clearly have lead to grave confusion
had any question of property and inheritance been involved, but
notions so unfortunate were unknown. Where all had every
heart's desire, of what value were they? It is true that some
division of labour (though little) was involved in the social
scheme, but it occurred to no one to regard the supervision of
serviles as less honourable than the offering of great
sacrifices. In a perfect organism one part is as necessary and
decent as any other part, and no sane observer can reason
otherwise. For a perfect organism has a single definite aim,
and the only dishonourable feather on an arrow would be one that
was out of place. Human nature being what it is, one may
nevertheless agree that this measureless content with the
existing order, except in so far as the purpose of the
establishment of that order was unfulfilled, was rendered
possible by the extreme lightness of the toil demanded of any
individual. But it is impossible for slaves to understand free
men. It is always a wonder to Englishmen that a man should
devote himself to unremitting toil for an ideal. He is called a
crank, basely slandered, the lowest motives being without any
reason assigned to his actions, mocked, persecuted, perhaps
crucified. This is partly forgivable, as in England
philanthropy is almost invariably the mask of vice and fraud.
The ceremony of marriage* was simple, dignified, yet poignant.
The lovers in the presence of their whole house, publicly
embraced for the last time. Their two children pressed them
apart. Elevating their hands in a crossed clasp they gave way,
and the children passed through, preceding a most holy image
which was borne by a priest and priestess between them. Then
they parted, and each was severally congratulated and embraced
by any of the others who chose, and the priest and priestess
then, exalting the image and setting it in a suitable shrine,
closed the ceremony by the command "To work" and adding force to
the same by their example.
The education of the children was another important matter in
which their ideas were wholly opposed to our own. It ceased
altogether at the age of puberty, which was sometimes as early
as six, never later than fourteen. Were it so delayed, the
delinquent was crowned in mockery with a square black cap,
sometimes tasselated, and sent among the serviles to instruct
them in religion and similar branches of learning, and never
permitted to return to Atlas. The ignorance and superstition of
the plains was thus kept at a proper height.
The method of education was indeed singular. Certain
Atlanteans who made it their study would place the various
articles in the hands of the infants, and observe what use they
made of them. In the course of a few months the experts had
accurately mapped the psychology of the child, and it was led in
accordance therewith. The marriage customs of Atlas allowed no
too rapid growth in numbers, and it was therefore easy to give
each child attention. The method of opposition was again
employed in education, the child's natural wish being
constantly stimulated by a parallel training in the contrary
subject. Children were also shewn a series of ordered facts,
and an explanation given. But not the least pains was taken to
ascertain whether the child had retained those instructions;
they were left as impressions on the mind. The brain was not
injured by the strain of being constantly forced to bring up its
stores from the subconscious. It was found in practice that
every child learnt everything that it was shown, and that this
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ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
From: "Blue Resonant Human"
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learning was always ready for use, while the consciousness was
never wearied or overcrowded. It was also found that those
whose memories were what we call good were precisely those who
failed to develop in other ways more useful to society.
The most peculiar of their methods was the search for genius.
It was the business of the experts to pay the most serious and
reverent attention to all that a child did, and whenever they
failed to understand the workings of its mind, to place it under
the charge of a special guardian, who did his utmost to
comprehend sufficiently to be able to encourage it to become yet
more unintelligible.
Apud eos membrum virile membrano lucido erat; ob quod qualis
circumscisio die nativitatis facta erat. Vix credere dignum
est, tanquam verum, feminarum montes venereales similutidine
facies fuere, facies demonicae, sardonicae, Satyricae, cujus os
erat os vulvae, res horribiles atque ridiculosa. Ferunt similia
de virorum membris, quae fingunt sicut imagines homunculorum
fuere. Lege--Judice--Tace.
Many of the men had ossified extensions of the frontal process
which amounted to horns, and the formation was occasionally
found in the higher types of women. Curiously carven head-
dresses of gold were worn by both sexes, and those of priestly
rank adorned these with living serpents, and the high priests
yet further with feathers or with wings, such being not the
spoils of dead birds, but the blossoms of the live gold of the
crowns. Some tradition of this custom is found in the pictures
of the 'Gods' of Egypt, these gods being merely the Atlanteans
whose mission civilized the country. The names of some of the
earlier gods confirm this. Nu (Hebrew Noah) is Atlantean for
arch, Zu (Egyptian Shu) for many ideas connecting with wind, Asi
means 'cum quasi serpens', obviously the name of an actual High
Priestess. Ra is pure Atlantean for Sun, and 'Mse' (Egyptian
Chomse) for moon. The idea in 'Mse is that of a strong woman
('M) closing the mouth of a serpent (S) or dragon, and from this
we have the XIth card of the Bohemian Tarot, and the legend in
the Apocalypse. In the mystic Greek used by the Gnostics we
find similar traces, SOPHIA being from S Ph, giving the idea of
'serpent breath' i.e. wisdom. IAO is PHALLOS, KTEIS, PROKTOS.
The word LOGOS means the Boy (G) naturally engendered of the
Virgin (L) and the Serpent (S). THEOS (root O, first written 0)
means the sun in his strength and also the Lingam-Yoni conjoined.
CHRISTOS is 'The love of passion of the Rising Sun (R) and the
serpent' (S). The I and T indicate certain details which are
foreign to the present discussion. NEUMA (Atlantean N M) is the
'Arch of the Woman', MARIA, the Woman of the Sun.* The words
MEITHRAS and ABRAXAS are again derived from Atlas. "The woman
entered, Lingam being conjoined with Yoni, bears the sun from
her serpent womb" and "From the womb's mouth the sun (cometh
seeking) a womb for his desire, even the womb of a serpent", the
course of the year being signified in this manner, as usual with
the ancients. This plan of an idea corresponding to each letter
was carried out very strictly: thus TLA, black, means the stigma
or mark of the virgin's womb, IA (Hail! Greeting!) 'Face to
Face', from the other peculiarity described above. These few
examples will suffice to indicate the singular character of the
language,* and the way in which its essential dogmatic symbols
have been incorporated by the heirs of Atlas in the inmost
sanctuaries of races which they deemed worthy of such assistance.
I must not pass over in silence the question of sacrifice to the
gods, to which a passing reference has already been made. Such
sacrifices were not very frequent; the victims were the
'failures', those who were useless to the social economy.* As
they represented capital expenditure, the object was to recover
this, at least, since no interest could be expected. The victim
was therefore handed over to a High Priest or Priestess, who
extracted the life by an instrument devised for and excellently
adapted to the purpose, so that it died of exhaustion. The life
thus regained was given to 'the gods' in a manner too complex to
be described in this brief account.
The early age at which puberty occurred was due to design. The
normal period of gestation had also been shortened to four
months. This was all part of the scheme to economize time. Old
age had been almost done away with by the great readiness of the
Atlanteans to 'go and see' at the first sign of failing power.
No doubt, further improvements would have been made but for the
loss of interest in the matter, all generation being regarded as
'the old experiment', not likely to repay the trouble of further
research. In the 200 or 300 years of a man's full vigour, only
8 years on an average was the wastage of childhood, and even
this was not all waste, since some time at least must be
necessary for the experts to discover and direct the tendencies
of the mind. The body ought therefore to be regarded as an
engine, the theoretical limit of whose efficiency had been
reached.
So much I mention of the customs of the Atlanteans with regard
to marriage, education and religious sacrifices.
VIII. OF THE HISTORY OF ATLAS, FROM ITS EARLIEST ORIGINS TO THE
PERIOD IMMEDIATELY PRECEDING THE CATASTROPHE.
The origin of Atlas is lost in the obscurity of antiquity. The
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ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
From: "Blue Resonant Human"
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Original Date: Wed, 01 May 1996 16:23:31 GMT
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official religious explanation is this: "We came across the
waters on the living Atla", which is pious but improbable. A
mystic meaning is to be suspected. The lay historian says "We
came, escaping from destruction, eight persons in a ship,
bearing the living Zro." This reminds one of later legends of
presumably equal value. Poets frankly claim "We descended from
heaven", and it has been seriously urged that seafarers would
have preferred the plains to the rocks. The law of contrariety
to Nature explains this away. Others maintain that the earliest
settlers came 'by air,' or 'through air'. This must mean
balloons or airplanes, as flying was not known until centuries
after. What is definitely known is that the earliest settlers
were of a purely fighting race.
An Atlantean Homer, Ylo, has described the first battle in such
detail as to leave no doubt that he is retelling facts--a marked
contradiction to his earlier books. There appear to have been
but few Atlanteans, unless the names given are those of chiefs,
which internal evidence contraverts. Their valour seems to have
been prodigious. The natives were armed with every possible
instrument of precision, having cavalry and artillery in
abundance, as well as weapons that must have been as superior to
the modern rifle (unless Ylo exaggerates) as that is to the
arquebus. In spite of this the men of Atlas 'smote them with
rods' or 'fell upon them with their cones', and routed them
utterly. This mention of rods and cones has absurdly suggested
to commentators that the Atlanteans used their eyes, and
hypnotised the enemy. To state such an opinion is sufficient to
expose its author to the contempt of the thoughtful. Altogether
86 battles were fought, extending over five years, before the
natives were reduced to sue for peace. This was granted on
generous terms, which the colonists broke, as soon as they dared
to do so, in accordance with the invariable rule of colonists,
then as much as today. However, it was nigh on a hundred years
before the first college of magic was established. Previously
the Atla had been carried about as occasion demanded. It was
now enshrined with some decency of ceremonial upon a mountain.
About three hundred years later we find ourselves face to face
with the first great Mystery of Atlas. This is a translation of
the record of that most strange event.
"Now it came to pass that all men turned black and died, and
that the living Atla abode alone, bearing Mercury, whereof the
Sun knoweth. Thus came again the true men of Atlas, and their
women, bearing gods and goddesses. And the void suffered
nothing, and the earth was at peace. Now then indeed arose Art,
and men builded, being blind. And there was light, and some of
the light wrought mischief. Wherefore the wise men destroyed
them with their magic, and there is no record because it is
written in that which is." A sort of 'Si monumentum quaeris,
circumspice' seems here implied. In any case there were clearly
two gaps unbridge able between the early struggles of the
settlers, the period of great buildings, and the modern period,
which proved stable of 'houses'. The 'houses' were only made
possible by the perfecting of Zro, and this helps considerably
to fix the date. The next 2500 years were years of peaceable
progress; the labour-mills were run without a hitch, and the
next event was the discovery of black phophorus. It had been
the custom to worship the Atla with lights, and these lights had
been candles of yellow phosphorus in golden sheathes. At that
time the Atla was veiled. At one festival of Spring the veils
were burnt up, the lights extinguished, and the yellow
phosphorus was found to have been turned into the black powder.
The magicians examined this, and brought Zro to its ninth stage.
This revolutionized the condition of things: old age and
disease were no more, and death voluntary. Strangely enough
this led directly to the Great Conspiracy.
At the end of this period of 2500 years the system of 'houses'
was well established. There were over 400 such 'houses', each
of perhaps 1000 souls on an average. These were governed by 4
'houses of houses' whose rulers took orders from the High House,
at the head of which was the living Atla. The plain principle
of Atlas was revolution; and like all revolutionary bodies, was
obliged to adopt the strictest form of autocracy. A democracy
is always soddenly conservative. The only hope is to catch it
in one of its moments of crazy enthusiasm, and crush it before
it has time to recover. Caesar and Napoleon both did this as
far as they could; Cromwell and Porfirio Diaz did the same
within narrower limits.
Now a certain sophist--for philosopher one cannot call him--
tried to enunciate a magical law to the effect that the present
standard of life was all that could be desired; that further
progress would be harmful, that Venus was not worth attaining,
and that the sole endeavour of the magicians should be to
preserve things as they were. That such a proposition could be
supposed a 'law' reflects no credit on its author or its
supporters. Yet of these it found many. The ninth stage of Zro
was a leap calculated to unsettle the calmest mind. Its reality
had beggared the optimist's daydream. Poets had thrown down
their stilettos.* High Priests who had spent decades in hopeful
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ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
From: "Blue Resonant Human"
Originally to: iufo@xbn.shore.net
Original Date: Wed, 01 May 1996 16:23:31 GMT
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experiment saw their results attained by an entirely different
method. In short, two thirds of the people were infected with
the heresy, and hoped to hear it promulgated as a Law of Magic.
It should here be explained that every Law of Magic had its turn
as the principal law of practical working, and the school
supporting any law, or insisting on it, became prominent with it.
Every dominant law in all history had always been made
insignificant by a new discovery about Zro, or other matter of
practical importance, just as the "Peace with Honour" battle-cry
of Disraeli was drowned by the calculation of the cost of
warships, soldiers and patriotism. Each step in Zro had
consequently implied the rise to power of a new school; and the
sophist was ambitious, and yet the law he wished to establish
was the ruling law of the servile races.
The 'law' was accordingly sent to the High House for approval.
Some opposition may have been forseen, but no one was prepared
for the blackness of disapproval which actually radiated,
striking hearts cold. A course without precedent, no answer was
vouchsafed. On the contrary, even normal communication was
suspended. The houses which favoured the innovation--333 in
numbers--took counsel, came to the decision that it was useless
to oppose the High House, and were about to acquiesce, when a
woman who had once been in the presence of 'To Her' rose and
thought vehemently 'The Living Atla is the head of our
conspiracy'. In other words, they were the loyalists, the
Magicians of the High House the rebels. This was why they had
cut themselves off, because their own head was against them. It
was instantly resolved to go to the High House, and demand the
custody of 'To Her'. Nearing the goal, however, a remnant of
the ancient reverence half cowed even the ringleaders--I may
mention that five of every six of the heretics were women--when
they saw a stern phalanx of magicians, its point threatening
their centre. As they wavered, a woman cried "They are only men
such as we are." The ranks stiffened; on all sides the army
closed upon the tiny phalanx, which only numbered 66 all told.
It was then that the truth was known. Ere a blow could be
struck, the attacking party vanished; it was instantaneous and
complete annihilation. From that moment it was certain that the
ruling power in Atlas was Something* infinitely more awful than
the Living Atla. In order to avoid any possible repetition of
such a disaster--for the Magicians of the High House knew that
any manifestation of the Supreme must undo the work of centuries--
they gave out that they had become too terrible to look upon,
and for the future they always appeared with heavy veils, or
rather masks, since for the most part they were carven
fantastically by the wearers in their leisure hours. A further
alteration was made in the system of government. The head of
one of the 'houses of houses' was made supreme: the High House
took no part in affairs of state. Thus the Atla was to all
intents and purposes deposed, although the same reverence and
sacrifice were paid to it as formerly. It became a
'constitutional monarch', in our modern jargon.
The next thousand years were years of serious trial in other
ways. The toil of repopulation was excessive, and there was a
revolt or rather strike of the servile races, which was ended by
the substitution of 'bread from heaven' for those products of
the earth on which they had formerly been fed, a diet which
proved so adapted to their natures that no labour troubles ever
recurred.
The Greek legends of the wars between Gods, giants, Titans are
traditional of a real war or series of wars which continued with
intervals over 200 years. The enemy had developed naval
armament to an extreme. Their tactics were these:
1. To wipe out the servile races and so to interfere with the
production of Zro.
2. To rush and destroy the High House.
The first of these met with a great deal of success, the
floating rock being struck with projectiles and sunk. This
occurred chiefly on the outlaying islands, where they were not
too much afraid to make raids in force. They also sent epidemic
disease of many kinds. Atlas was reduced to such extremity in
these ways that at one time the waterways were forced and the
assault on the High House was actually carried out, bombardment
continuing day and night for months together. Through a
misunderstanding of a well known magical law, Atlanteans at that
time considered themselves prohibited from employing any other
defence than the rods and the cones of their forefathers; and
these, it appears, were useless against machinery, or against
men protected by fortification in such a way that they could not
be got at from any quarter. Thus the sharklike submarines of
the enemy were unassailable. The war was therefore at first
entirely one-sided. A certain youthful magician, however,
resolving to die for his country if need were, decided to
retaliate. He had found that Zro in its nascent state (i.e.
between the globes) had the power of bringing about endothermic
reaction, seawater for example, becoming caustic soda and
hydrochloric acid; and further that this acid thus produced was
many thousand times more active than in its normal state. For
example, the rock basins in which he conducted his first
experiment dissolved as rapidly as butter under boiling oil. He
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ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
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then prepared a number of pairs of receiver-globes, and dropped
them in the vicinity of the enemy's submarines by night. In
this manner he destroyed the hulls of almost the whole fleet in
a single night; and the remainder fled in panic at dawn. They
returned the following year, carrying out daylight raids only
and devoting themselves chiefly to destroying the labour-mills.
The young magician had been rewarded for his services by being
presented to the Atla, and this example encouraged others to
find means of attacking the invaders. Artificial darkness was
therefore invented, and combined with the former method; but
this was only partially successful, the tremendous pace of the
'sharks' enabling them to evade any threatening clouds. They
did enormous damage, and the supplies of Zro were seriously
curtailed. Things now went from bad to worse, and culminated in
the attack on the High House, the besiegers keeping their
battleships surrounded by rafts of fire, so that attack was
impossible even by night. It was then that the High House
called on the heorism of its sons. Armed with long swords of
Zro, they plunged into the sea, to perish under the tooth of the
Zhee-Zhou, but not before they had time to hack the invading
battleships to shreds. Their floating torch-rafts only assisted
the attack by directing the swimmers to their quarry. The
attack on the High House had aroused Atlas at last. A counter
invasion was plotted and carried out with immediate and complete
success, the enemy being exterminated, and their country not
merely ravaged but destroyed by arousing the forces of
earthquake. All activity of this kind however was deprecable, a
recurrence was guarded against by removing the High House to the
lofty mountain previously described, and a 'house' was chosen to
cultivate the art of war, and entrusted with the duty of
destroying any living thing that might approach within a hundred
miles of Atlas.
Only one other adventure of historical importance remains to be
recorded. It is the attempt of some foolish Atlanteans to found
an 'Empire', and so to be entirely distinguished from the
missionary effort referred to previously. The original
settlement of Atlas, as has been the case with all flourishing
colonies, was made by a few hardy pioneers, who strengthened
themselves gradually by growth. But Atlas in her momentary
madness poured out blood and treasure in the fatuous attempt to
impose alien domination on lands utterly unsuited to the genius
of the people. The idea, of course, was to increase the supply
of labour and consequently of crude Zro. In the first place the
adventure was expensive. It was uneconomical (in the scientific
sense) to send ships with less than 1000 fighting men. The Zro
required for these meant the employment of at least 7000
serviles, and the naval construction was therefore of a colossal
order. But although little difficulty was found in conquering
the country in the military sense, the natives had to be almost
exterminated, and the labour of the survivors proved difficult
to enforce. It was even then not a tenth as efficient as that
of the serviles at home. The imported serviles moreover caught
native diseases, and died in hundreds; and though by prodigious
sacrifices the West African Empire was kept going for nearly 200
years, it had to end at last no less ingloriously than the
French adventure in Mexico, or the English in India, and South
Africa.*
The main causes were the impossibility of breeding children in a
climate so unsuitable, even of maintaining their own women, and
above all the fact that the crude Zro was not of a quality equal
to that obtained in Atlas, and that the Zro generated by the
Atlanteans themselves was not to be made at all outside their
own country. The lesson was learnt. Until the end no further
attempt was made to advance in any but the true direction. The
great majority of the colonists returned to Atlas; but many,
degenerating as is the fashion with colonists of this conquering
kind, abandoned Zro for gross food, intermarried with the
natives, and have generally degenerated yet further to races
inferior even to the present descendants of those who were in
those days the equivalents of the serviles of Atlas.
IX. OF THE CATASTROPHE, ITS ANTECEDENTS AND PRESUMED CAUSES.
In my remarks on Zro I have a necessarily somewhat diffuse
account of the properties of this remarkable substance. It must
now be made clearer that the crude Zro in its nine stages
produced by the serviles, and consumed in the 'houses' was in
each stage of inferior quality to that of the same degree
produced by the Atlanteans, and consumed by the High House. For
example, the crude Zro was made in a labour-mill with all sorts
of insulations. The first stage of the priest's Zro could be
made anywhere and at any time, and naturally directed itself to
the receptable for it without any precautions. It must, I
think, be presumed that the Zro generated in the High House was
again of far greater purity and potency. Very little of it can
have been used in the experiments of the magicians, and it is
therefore necessary to account for enormous quantities, produced
during many centuries of uninterrupted labour. I have, however,
no data of any kind for this investigation; the mysteries of the
High House have ever been inscrutable, and were not wholly
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From : Blue Resonant Human 1:330/201.1
To : All
Subj : Crowley on Atlantis (3/3)
ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
From: "Blue Resonant Human"
Originally to: iufo@xbn.shore.net
Original Date: Wed, 01 May 1996 16:23:31 GMT
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delivered to the Heirs of Atlas. They must be rediscovered by
the magicians of the new race. It may be that in some form or
other the Zro had been made stable, and used to impregnate the
column which is alleged to have been driven 'through the Earth';
perhaps, and less improbably, only to the depth of a few hundred
miles. This column, however long it may have been, had
certainly its top immediately beneath the reservoir of the High
House. It had been completed about 70 years before the
'catastrophe' but apparently no effort was made to utilize it in
any way. To me it appears probable that in some one mind the
whole 'catastrophe' was brooding, that the column was part of
the device, and that the event which I shall now describe was
the other part.
This event was the birth of a child in the High House, a child
without the distinguishing mark of the daughters of Atlas. That
any child at all should have been born there is so incredible
that I am inclined to suspect an improper use of the word 'born'.
I think rather that a magician brought Zro to its eleventh
stage, when it takes human form, and lives! The alternative
theory is that of the 'Angel of Venus' described in the chapter
on the Underground Gardens of Atlas. The supporters of this
theory hold that the child was not born of a priestess, but of
the Living Atla.
In any case, the whole country gave itself up to unbridled
rejoicing. Work was carried on at a greater speed than ever
before: one might say a delirium of labour. For eleven years
this continued without cessation, and then without warning came
the order to repair to the High House--every man, woman and
child of Atlas. What was then done, I know not, and dare not
guess; that same day seven volunteers, heroic exiles from the
reward of so many centuries of toil, voluntary maroons on the
discarded planet, the Heirs of Atlas, turned their faces from
the High House, and severally sought distant mountains, there
each to guard his share of the Secrets of the Holy Race, and in
due time to discover and train up fit children of other races of
the earth so that one day another people might be founded to
undertake another such task as that now ended.
Hardly had the pinnacle of Atlas melted into the sea behind
them, than the 'catastrophe' occurred. The High House and the
column beneath it, with all the inhabitants of Atlas, shot from
the earth with the vehemence of a million lightnings, bound for
that green blaze of glory that scintillated in the West above
the sunset.
Instantly the Earth, its god departed, gave itself up to anguish.
The sea rushed unto the void of the column and in a thousand
earthquakes Atlas, 'houses' and plains together were overwhelmed
forever in the ocean. Tidal waves rolled round the world;
everywhere great floods carried away villages and towns;
earthquakes rocked and tempests roared; tumult was triumphant.
For years after the catastrophe the dying tremors of the Event
still shook mankind with fear.* And the eternal waves of the
great mother rolled over Atlas, save where Earth in her agony
thrust up gaunt pinnacles, bare masts of wreckage to mark the
vanished continent. Save for its heirs, of whose successors it
is my highest honour to be the youngest and the least worthy,
oblivion fell, like one last night in which the sun should be
forever extinct, upon the land of Atlas and its people.
Shall such high purpose fail of emulation, such achievement and
example not excite us to like striving? Then let earth fall
indeed from her high place in heaven, and mankind be outcast
forever from the sun! Men of Earth! Seek out the heirs of Atlas;
let them order you into a phalanx, let them build you into a
pyramid, that may pierce that appointed which awaits you, to
establish a new dynasty of Atlanteans to be the mainstay and
mainspring of the Earth, the pioneers of their own path to
heaven, and to our lord and Father, the Sun! And he put his
hand upon his thigh, and swore it.
By the ineffable, Tla, and by the holy Zro, did he swear it,
and entered into the body of the new Atla that is alive upon the
earth.
NOTES:
Chapter I:
p3. There were four (some say five) distinct races, each having
several sub-races. But the main characteristics were the same.
Some alleged the Portuguese and the English to be survivals of
this or kindred stock.
p3. Or ZRA'D. The ZR is drawled slowly; then the lips are
suddenly curled back in a sneering snarl, and the vowel sharply
and forcibly uttered. It is disputed whether this word is
connected with the Sanscrit SRI, holy.
p4. The same danger to society in our own time has been
forseen, and an identical remedy discovered and applied in
compulsory education and cheap newspapers.
Chapter II:
p6. Gautama Buddha was the reincarnation or legend of a
previous Buddha who was a missionary from Atlas, hence the
account of his immovable neck, the ears that he could fold over
his face, and other monstrous details.
p6. There was a Governor of these, of whose name, nature and
function I am not permitted to speak.
p7. One of the most brilliant children committed suicide on
learning that he could not move his upper jaw. This boy is of
the eleven heroes who had statues in the High House. And the
Atlantean for 'sorrow' in its ultimate sense ('dukka' or
'weltschmerz') is to wrench at the upper jaw.
p8. This system of communication has great advantages over any
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From : Blue Resonant Human 1:330/201.1
To : All
Subj : Crowley on Atlantis (3/3)
ÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄÄ
From: "Blue Resonant Human"
Originally to: iufo@xbn.shore.net
Original Date: Wed, 01 May 1996 16:23:31 GMT
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other. It is independent of distance, and dependent on the will
of the transmitter. Telepathic messages could not be 'tapped'
or miscarry in any way.
p9. Called by them Zhee-Zhou, in imitation of the swish of the
tail and the cry of its victim.
Chapter III:
p10. The point was discussed fully, and finally relegated, in
the Council of Stockholm, 1913.
p10. The scene is so real to me that I find it impossible to
avoid using the historic present here and elsewhere,
inadvertently.
p10. There are six other pieces of apparatus to insulate and
carry to the basin the six subtler principles of sweat.
p11. Only the smallest quantity is required, and it is
unchanged, its function being purely catalytic. This form of
phosphorus is one of the most stable elements. It combines (so
far as is known) only with Zro. But if thrown out of such a
combination, it becomes ordinary yellow phosphorous.
p12. In spite of the absolute promiscuity of the Atlanteans,
this was never in doubt, owing to the special mark of each man,
whose stigma or variation was infallibly transmitted.
p13. This item is loosely used, as equivalent of 'life.' The
sacrifice is described later, and the point made clear.
p13. No other disease was known after the bringing of the Zro
to its ninth stage, all indisposition being instantly cured by a
single dose.
Chapter IV:
p14. No known state of pure Zro is stable. From this it will
be seen how entirely Atlas was in the hands of the servile races.
Fortunately no trouble ever arose; the supply of labour was
always ample.
p15. There was also a settlement in Finland. Its only remains
in historic periods is 'Lapland Witches.'
Chapter V:
p16. There are various theories; one a sort of avatar affair,
another that the Atla is a quintessence of some kind; another
calls 'To Her' the 'Angel of Venus, the force of our aspiration.'
p16. A mere compliment.
p17. Especially monkeys. The results of this experiment were
sent to colonize an island, but escaped, and after many
journeys, reached Japan, where their descendents flourish still.
p19. A partial exception existed for prime numbers, as being
self-generated, and each of these which had been investigated
had its special (and comparatively simple) signification.
Chapter VII:
p25. There was also the marriage of those of the Magicians who
refused all intercourse with the opposite sex, and were
therefore married to the whole sex as such. Here was no
ceremony used; but each had a special mark signifying that he or
she was thus consecrated.
p26. MAR is Atlantean (also Sanscrit) for die. This word
throws light on their conception of death.
p26. Note that no tautologies defile its linguistic wells. "As I
have written" is never changed to 'as I have observed, noted,
described, said, indicated, remarked, pointed out' and so on.
p26. I must revert for a moment to the language. OIK, Greek
OIKOS meant the 'House of the penetrating men.' NOM, Greek
NOMOS, the 'arch of the House of the Women,' i.e. that which
roofed them in or protected them. Hence "the law.'
Chapter VIII:
p29. Needle-sharp daggers of Zro in its seventh stage were used
to write on the rock walls of Atlas.
p30. This matter is not for open discussion. Even at this
distant date it would be dangerous to do so much even as indulge
in speculation.
p32. I write a little, but not much, in advance of the events.
To illustrate the theory here advanced I will ask the reader to
compare the results of the attempts to colonize America by (a)
the whole military power of Spain at her zenith, (b) the handful
of exiles in the 'Mayflower.'
Chapter IX:
p34.The Legend of the Deluge is derived from this event.
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