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F.A.Q
ADONISM
What is Adonism?
Adonism or the age-old secret teaching is a magical Religion which already in antiquity was counted as one of the mystery-cults. The main deities in this religion are Adonis and Dido (a Phoenician name for Astarte or Venus).
Adonism was re-discovered by Dr. Musallam (Dr. Franz Saettler) and Friedrich Willhelm (Rah Omir) Quintscher and is undergoing a renaissance today.
The travel-writer Dr. Franz Saettler who mainly traveled in the orient, met after the First World War oriental esoterists who initiated him admitted him into their lodge-organisation as Brother Chakum Musallam. Chakum is Chaldean and means initiate. The Chakum are the initiated Adepts of the order in the mysterious temple ìBit Nurî in the legendaryNuristan. By the way Nuristan is located at 36degree northern latitude and 70 ñ 72 degree eastern longitude. Nuristan (persian) means Land of Light. It is a clear allusion to the Persian fire-worshippers or magicians. Bit Nur means ìHouse of the Lightî and it is supposedly located on a rock called ìMaha Wedaî The source of light that comes from that rock is considered the source of the eternal Light, the Holy Grail whose light is getting stronger. Bit Nur allegedly has the largest library in the world and has a copy of every occult book in the world. The museum there is supposed to possess and the original copy of the ìTabula Smaragdinaî of Hermes Trismegistos and the ìBrazen Serpentî of Moses. There in Bit Nur in Nuristan, Dr. Musallam claims to have studied Adonism.
This teaching was disseminated by Dr. Musallam in his ìZauberbibelî (Magicians-Bible) which contains 7 volumes.
1. Cartomancy
2. Astrology
3. Oniromancy
4. Magical art according to adonistic secret teaching
5. Chiromanty
6. Alchemie
7. Necromancy
According to Dr. Musallam Adonism was allegedly the age-old oriental secret philosophy of the Chaldeans, Phoenicians, Persians, Egyptians and the corresponding mysteries of the Greeks and Romans. Apparently these teachings have been preserved even today by the Yezidiñ (ìdevil worshippersî) therefore Kurdish tribes in the area of Mossul, Nazarites (Light-extinguishers), the Druzes in theLebanon and the Haurang mountains. Adonism has all the characteristics of a messianic Saoshiant-Religion.
Musallamís ìZauberbibelî is a compendium of all the mantic arts (mantic, adj. =of or pertaining to prophecy or divination.), the philosophy and religion of Adonism. To disperse the teaching the oriental order ìNizam al Quofî and the lodge ìHekateî, which was founded inVienna, were designated.
Like the ìZauberbibelî published an other collection of 7 volumes under the title: ìAdonismus oder die uralte Geheimlehre (Adonism or the age old Secret Teaching)î.
The number 7 is astrologically assigned to the planet logos Venus=Aphrodite. The Adonis cults, as sex-cults were part of matriarchy. They proclaim the exaltation of unlimited love and are ultimately Venus-Aphrodite-Isis-Astarte-Ishtar-Nephtys-Kybele-Mater-Dido-Lilith religions. Therefore 7 is a special holy number which deserves to which deserves to be glorified. Add to this the male counter-pole Jupiter-Adonis-Osiris.
To the planet-logos Jupiter is assigned the number four (7 + 4 =11 =2). According to cabbalistic manner you get the number 11, the number the carnival, the promise sensual passion. 11 (1 + 1 = 2), the number two is the number of the polarity of the world especially manifested in brother-sister pair. The brother-sister pair which is actually one and their apotheosised ( apotheosize = to make a god of; deify, to glorify; idealize), sexual relations point to the actual prime cause of the world. Here lies the deeper explanation of the incestuous behaviour of Adonis and Dido, Osiris and Isis, etc.
The Secret Teaching of the Adonis-Cult
The Adonis and Dido cult belong to the original religions of humanity. They are like a red thread that goes through all the religions of antiquity and they only got extinguished in our age of materialism. It was from the beginning and especially in its heydays a pure sexual cult an affirmative religious basis for the enjoyment of the pleasures of life and of the Sexus
It belongs to the primal beginnings of polytheism and always adhered to the teaching of polytheism even after it became an oriental Secret Teaching. After the demise and downfall of the Knight Templar the even then few rudiments of the old sec-cults disappeared...
Manu of the old customs were absorbed by the pre-Christian Gnosis and only levelled out levelled out after Christianity became popular.
The adonistic Secret Teaching says: Before the creation of our closer universe, before the birth of the gods, there was Chaos. One could call it the primal being in the cosmosophical sense. One could also name it as the sun-logos which then wasnít revealed then, because its nature was hermaphroditic. His creation was caused by pleromatic universal waves. If it became fertilized from there as it is assumed by the esoterics or if it was a self=fertilisation is not clear. The pregnancy lasted for seven thousand years and this time span is called the first aeon.
Out of the chaos was born a pair of god-twins. A god and a goddess. The god was Belus, the exalted one which visible manifestation was the sun. The goddess was Biltis, the sublime one, the primal goddess of the moon.
Between the pair of gods existed a love of siblings, because they united and Biltis gave birth to her firs-born the Molchos, whose symbol was Saturn at the end of the second aeon. The Goddess became pregnant a second time and gave birth to a pair of twins a brother and a sister: the god Adonis who was assigned to the planet Jupiter and the goddess Dido who was assigned to the planet Venus. This happened in the third aeon. Adonis took his sister Dido as her lover. This was the golden aeon and their rulership lasted again for 7000 thousand years.
In the year 5000 before our common area Molchos destroyed the empire of Adonis and Dido and the fifth aeon started under the rulership of Molchos under which todayís humanity is still living. With Molchos the evil principle came into the world. His rulership will last for another two time-spans and then the sixth aeon will start, again a new golden age in which Adonis and Dido will return. According to the esoteric teaching this will happen after the Age of Aquarius and the age of Capricorns which follows and when the age of Sagittarius starts.
According to the adonistic-cosmgenic teachings of the gods the original Unity changed into the original Duality later to a Trinity and then if formed into a fife-fold order.
This system of a five-fold order of the gods entered all antique religions. They can be classified as follows:
Adonistic Chaos Belus-Biltis Molchos Adonis-Dido
Assyrian-
Babylonian Tiamat Bel-Belit Chizur Marduk-Ishtar
Phoenician Derketo Baal-Baalit Moloch Tamuz-Astarte
Egyptian Kneph Pe-Anuke - Set-Osiriis-Isisi
Old-
Persian Zarwana Mithras Dushman Ahriman-Anahita
Greek Chaos Uranos-Gaia Ares Dionisos-Aphrodite
Adonism as Baal-Cult
The following leading themes are emphasised in (modern) Adonism:
- The Recourse to the Adonis-Cult of antiquity.
- The sexual revolution, the sex-mythos, the sexual-cult and the sexual-magic.
- The abolishment of marriage.
- The theme of psychoanalysis and libido according to Freud.
- The program of free love.
- Adonism as Baal-Cult (Baal=House of the gods).
- The re-birth of polytheism.
- The connecting links to the Yezidiís
- The founder of Adonism (in the modern time) in sociological, social-political and psychological view, Dr. Franz Saettler-Musallam.
- The fundamentally declared enmity of Adonism to Christianity and the goal of the complete elimination of the church.
- The reestablishment of the matriarchy.
- The anarchistic and social-revolutionary traits in Adonism.
- The health policy of the state (if the mother wishes so abortion would be legal up to the third month of pregnancy.
- The prohibition of prostitution and punishable by forced labour.
- The assumption for the happiness of the individual and a healthy, live-positive nation.
- The reform of the criminal code according to psychological and medical biological points of view.
(To be continued)
The word Adonism is the English version of the German word Adonismus which itself comes from the god Adonis. Adonismus or Adonism is a philosophy of life or world view which has been disseminated in Europe by the ìAdonistische Gesellschaft fuer das deutsche Sprachgebiet (Adonistic Society for the German speaking territories) since the 1920ís.
The Adonistic Society is considered a sexual-magical society which was founded onthe 1st of May 1925 in Vienna, Austria by Dr. Franz Staettler who also used the pseudonym Dr. Musallam.
The Adonistic Society declared itself the sister organisation of the oriental order ìNizam el-Khatî who existed for over half a century in the orient
DIDO
The founder and first queen ofCarthage, Dido, or Elissa, as she was also called, was a daughter of Belus, Agenor, or some other Tyrian king. Her brother, Pygmalion, succeeded to the rule and Dido married their uncle Sychaeus. Pygmalion, discovering that Sychaeus had much hidden wealth, treacherously murdered him for it. Dido learned of the murder from her husbandís ghost, which warned her to leaveTyre. Keeping her preparations secret, she gathered together provisions and a company of Tyrians who were disaffected with Pygmalionís rule. She sailed toCyprus, and from there to the Libyan coast, where she bought from the natives as much land as could be encompassed by a bullís hide. Dido had a hide cut into exceedingly thin strips, which, when tied end to end, enclosed enough land for the citadel of a town. This town was called by a Phoenician word meaning citadel, which sounded to the Greeks like byrsa,a hide.
Thenew cityprospered quickly, attracting many people from surrounding regions. According to early Roman accounts, the Libyan king Iarbas (or Hiarbal) grew alarmed and forced the Phoenicians nobles to urge Dido to marry him. Knowing that he would overrunCarthageif she refused, she consented, but asked time to prepare for the nuptials. Secretly she ordered a funeral pyre to be built and killed herself upon it.
Virgil, perhaps taking a cue from an earlier Roman author, introduced AENEASinto Didoís story. The Queen welcomed Aeneas toCarthageand the two fell in love with one another. Didoís infatuation led her to neglect affairs of state, but Aeneas, twice reminded by Mercury of his destined future inItaly, regretfully sailed away. Distraught, Dido committed suicide.
Since Didoís other name, Elissa and those of her husband and sister, Anna, seem to be versions of Semitic Names, it is likely that the story contains genuine elements of some Phoenician myth. It is believed by many scholars that Dido, and perhaps other characters in the story, were Phoenician divinities, but little more can be gleaned from existing evidence.
Dido is a famous tragic heroine almost exclusively as a result of her sympathetic treatment by Vergil in the Aeneid.
(This description of Dido comes from ìThe Meridian Handbook of Classical Mythologyî by Edward Tripp.)
Adonis
"Lord".Adonis is the Greek version of the Semitic Adonai, "The Lord," a castrated and sacrificed savior-god whose love-death united him with Aphrodite, or Asherah, or Mari. InJerusalem, he was known as Tammuz.
Adonis was born atBethlehem, in the same sacred cave that Christians later claimed as the birthplace of Jesus.1 He was the son of the Virgin Myrrha, a temple-woman or hierdule, identified with Mary by early Christians who called Jesus's mother Myrrh of the sea.2 Myrrh was a symbol of the Lord's death, in both pagan and Christian traditions. He returned to his Great Mother, the sea, Aphrodite-Mari. Alenandrian priestesses celebrated the event by throwing the god's image into the sea.3
Syrian Adonis idea at Easter time, with the flowering of the red anemone, supposedly created from his blood. Its name was derived from his title, Naaman, "darling." He was also called the Beautiful God, like other gods of the spring flowering, such as Narcissus, Antheus, Hyacinthus.
Another form of the same god was Anchises, castrated after his mating with Aprhodite. Adonis, too, was castrated: "gored in the groin" by Aphrodite's boar-masked priest. His severed phallus became his "son," the ithyphalic god Priapus, identified with Eros inGreeceor Osirir-Min ofEgypt. Priapus carried a pruning knife in token of the Lord's necessary castration before new life could appear on the earth.4
Castrating the god was likened to reaping the grain, which Adonis personified. His rebirth was a sprouting from the womb of the earth. Each year, sacred pots called kernos or "gardens of Adonis" were planted with millet or wheat, and allowed to sprout at Easter. The custom was followed in Mediterranean countries up to the present century.5 The clay pot signified the womb. Sometimes in processions it was a gigantic kernos carried on a chariot, having the special name of kalanthos.6
Adonis died and rose again in periodic cycles, like all gods of vegetation and fertility. He was also identified witht he sun that died and rose again in heaven. An Orphic hymn said of him: "Thou shining and vanishing in the beauteous circle of the Horae, dwelling at one time in gloomy Tartarus, at another elevating thyself toOlympus, giving ripeness to fruits."7 He was buried in the same cave (womb) that gave him birth. It was now the Milk Grotto, whose dust is supposed to benefit bursing mothers; it was said Mary nursed Jesus there.8 The Grotto was sealed as Jesus's sepulchre, for in the cults of both Jesus and Adonis the virgin womb was the same as the virgin tomb, "wherein never man before was laid."9
The Magic Papyri10 said Jesus and Adonis also shared the same name-magic. "Adonai" was the highest god, having the true name that could work miracles.11 Centuries later, Christian authorities declared that "Adonai" was a demon.
References and Notes:
1. Doane, T.W. Bible Myths and Their Parallels in Other Religions. Pg. 155; Briffault, Robert. The Mothers (3 Volumes). Vol. 3, Pg. 97.
2. Ashe, Geoffrey. The Virgin. Pg. 48.
3. Frazer, Sir James G. The Golden Bough. Pg. 390.
4. Graves, Robert. The Greek Myth (2 Volumes). Vol.1, Pgs. 69, 72.
5. Frazer, Sir James G. The Golden Bough. Pgs. 400-401.
6. Briffault Robert. The Mothers (3 Volumes). Vol. 3, Pg.126,
7. Baring-Gould, Sabine. Curious Myths of the Middle Ages. Pg. 286.
8. Budge, Sir E.A. Wallis. Amulets and Talismans. Pgs. 319-20.
9. Luke 23:53.
10. Magic Papyri - Collections of exorcisms, invocations, charms, and spells widely circulated during the early Christian era, used as bases for later grimoires and Hermetic texts.
11. Smith, Morton. Jesus the Magician. Pg. 124.