Key Quotes
In late 1979 Pete Dawe and Mike Langridge
embarked upon a number of impromptu workings and researches based
upon the Enochian System. Pete had
already familiarised himself with the System as perpetuated by
the Golden
Dawn and the Cubic Stone, whereas Mike had developed an alternative
understanding that related it to, amongst other things, the supposedly
"fictitious" Cthulhu
Mythos.
Sharing their ideas led them to speculate that their workings
might introduce them to experiences not attainable via
"conventional" Magical means. This notion prompted a certain amount
of trepidation for, if correct, it could mean that unknown territory
were being explored, where accepted Magical techniques and safeguards
may not be effective.
These reservations were in part derived from the warnings of previous intrepid researchers to the effect that the Enochian System permitted access to forces that differ from those the average ritualist is accustomed to encountering; the history of practical research into the System abounds with tales of mishaps, accidents, and tragedies. Invariably these occurred in the performance of perfectly mundane activities, being brought about through the agencies of carelessness, forgetfulness, and momentary lapses of concentration. This phenomenon was subsequently confirmed by both Pete and Mike, consequent upon experiences derived from their own research activities.
The description of the Enochian-type forces and their effects took
as their theme words such as alien, chaotic, and destructive.
These are of course all relative terms dependent upon subjective
judgments, and thus they both recognised that a fuller understanding
of these forces would probably require the ability to transcend
normal modes of thinking. (Much later this was refined into the
concept of deliberately inducing a mental condition that could
fairly be described as a "state of insanity"!)
The whole period had been marked by various unusual happenings,
sufficient to indicate (if interpreted in that way) that they
had in fact started some sort of "Enochian Current" flowing, and
both were convinced they were on the threshold of some significant
Magical breakthrough.
In early 1980 when the Fellowship (or Circle of the Luna Light, as it was initially called) was in its gestation period, those earlier researches had brought them to the point of almost certainly having identified a disturbing connection between Contemporary Witchcraft and the Enochian System; a connection moreover that also embraced elements of the product of H.P.Lovecraft's fevered dreams and imaginings - the Cthulhu Mythos. Speculation was that maybe Lovecraft had unwittingly and subconsciously "picked up" on something that, given his mindset and cultural conditioning, could only be interpreted by him in one particular (and not necessarily entirely accurate) way.
In any event the conclusions arrived at and the most valuable or suggestive fruits of their research were finally distilled down into what they came to call "Key Quotes", as follows:
(Our emphasis throughout)
"The Lunar and Venusian aspects are indissolubly merged... the Yesod symbolism thus denotes the foundation of the physical world (Venusian aspect) and the phantom world of spirits (Lunar aspect). The three macrocosmic seats of Power (Isis, Venus, Luna) equate with these three aspects. Isis, transplutonic, is not of the Solar System but of its outer rim; it is the pylon of another system, vaster than ours. Therefore, in this Aeon of Horus man will reach up and into the transcosmic regions through the formula of Love Under Will..."
"In order, therefore, that Venus and Luna may be perfectly blended there must be a perfect balance and control of the Lunar and Venusian forces in the earthly Isis. The Venusian aspect must be fulfilled not only in a downwardly directed sense but also in the sense of spiritual procreation which can occur only through the formula of Love under Will. This is the 93 Current, and in order that it may be effective special vehicles are required..."
"Now it seems that the centre of infinite space is that Urn, and Hadit is the fire that hath burnt up the book Tarot. For in the book Tarot was preserved all of the wisdom (for the Tarot was called the Book of Thoth) of the Aeon that is passed. And in the Book of Enoch was first given the wisdom of the New Aeon. And it was hidden for 300 years, because it was wrested untimely from the Tree of Life by the hand of a desperate magician. For it was the Master of that Magician who overthrew the power of the Christian church; but the pupil rebelled against the Master, for he foresaw that the New (i.e., the Protestant) would be worse than the Old. But he understood not the purpose of his Master, and that was, to prepare the way for the overthrowing of the Aeon."
"It must be repeated that very few myths, in their extant form, take us back as Neith's does to the Goddess reigning by herself. But many - however re-edited, diluted, distorted - take us back to an age when she was still ascendant, if not so toweringly. In clasical myth this is the age of the gods-before-the-gods, when Zeus was still unborn, and the Titans and Titanesses were supreme over mankind; their head, Cronus or Saturn, being the Goddess' son (in her capacity as Earth) and also her brother-husband (in her capacity as Rhea).
That age's atmosphere comes through to us with a disquieting ambivalence. It is 'other', it is weird. Notorious monsters such as the Gorgons are survivors from it. Yet it is also, nostalgically, the Golden Age. Greeks such as Hesiod look back on it as a time when men lived without toil and were just and carefree. The Golden People, they say, had no fear of death, and indeed are still alive as invisible benign spirits..."
The last of the foregoing quotes may benefit from further explanation...
Its relevance hinged upon the fact that Pete and Mike had by this time become convinced that not only did Enochian forces go beyond, or function in, dimensions "outside" the known physical Universe, but also that they were of great antiquity, probably being far older than Man. In other words, the primal forces of Creation.
Adapted from Volume 1 of the 'History
of the Fellowship of the Dragon'
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