The Elder Gods, the Forgotten Ones and the Jungian shadow
Found : The Elder Gods, the Forgotten Ones and the Jungian shadow
The major means of contact between the conscious man and the Elder Gods are the forgotten ones. Now, the forgotten ones dwell in the individual and irrational unconscious. They are the gods of survival, they are pre-rational, they are blind and immensely powerful. Their [...]
H.P. Lovecraft: Visionary of the Void
Found : H.P. Lovecraft: Visionary of the Void
The occult subgenres holds up a mirror to Consensual reality. Occultists readily sneer at Slave-God religions and then piss themselves in ecstasy buying a genuine set of Aleister Crowley socks. There is much talk of the magician as a dangerous rebel or anarch of the soul by people [...]
Dead But Dreaming: The Great Old Ones of Lovecraftian Legend Reinterpreted as Atlantean Kings
Found : Dead But Dreaming: The Great Old Ones of Lovecraftian Legend Reinterpreted as Atlantean Kings
It takes only a cursory examination of H.P. Lovecraft’s most quintessential work, The Call of Cthulhu to see that his entire system of mythology is based on The Book of Enoch, the Nephilim story in Genesis, and the universal tale [...]
Key Concepts
Cognitive frames of reference informing the design and purpose of this web site:
Antinomianism – taboo-breaking as a means to wisdom, e.g., the “transgression” of Georges Bataille, Ikkyu , the “left hand” or “short path” of Tantra and Vamamarga.
Animism – the underlying assumption of indigenous shamanism is that everything is alive and capable of communication: rocks, [...]
Retinal Rulers
“The moment I close my eyes, there appear on the retina strange geometrical figures and designs, together with vague lights and even more sinister shapes beyond, as of great creatures past the conception of mankind – and the most frightening thing about them is that they are creatures of intelligence – immeasurably alien.” [1]
Lovecraft, [...]
Fear
"Fear is the oldest and strongest emotion of mankind." – H. P. Lovecraft
"Fear has many eyes and can see things underground." – Miguel De Cervantes
"Grab the broom of anger and drive off the beast of fear." – Zora Neale Hurston
"Where fear is present, wisdom cannot be." – Lucius [...]
Great Library
"Part of my fear arose from the dim understanding that I was a prisoner within a prisoner, that even as I was imprisoned with a body similar to those around me, so this body was imprisoned within the great library." – H.P. Lovecraft, The Shadow out of Space, from The Watchers out of Time, [...]
Most
"The most merciful thing in the world… is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents." – H. P. Lovecraft
"The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is comprehensible." – Albert Einstein
