| The Witch-King and America's Dreaming Mind |
| �Patriarchy,� my frosted ass. No, me droogies, things ain�t always what they seem. Usually, they�re just the opposite. And that�s not a coincidence. Originally the Ka�bah stone was attended not by �sons of the Old Woman,� but by seven priestesses, who circled the stone �skyclad� (that�s �nekkid� for you homeys) seven times. This ritual, now kept by Islamic �priests,� was conducted in imitation of the Sumerian Goddess Inanna�s descent through the seven gates of Hell. At each gate Inanna was required to remove an article of clothing, that is, an aspect of illusion, until at last she stood before her sister Ereshkigal, Queen of the Underworld, shadow side of Inanna and of the collective feminine (i.e., �Kore� in Hellenism, the �bride� of Hades, or what depth psychology terms the �Terrible Mother� -- what the West knows as �feminism�). Shaybah, the Old Woman of Islam, refers to the Queen of Sheba of Solomonic times, and thus inspires images not only of the Goddess, but also of the beginnings of the Western magickal tradition, and of the once-and-future hieros gamos prophesied by the �Song of Solomon.� (This hieros gamos, or mystical wedding, personifies the reconciliation of all material duality, and is a chief goal of the occult/alchemical �workings� of the Western Brotherhood of Death � commonly referred to as the Illuminati, or New World Order. But that tale is long indeed, and though directly related to our current discussion, must be deferred at present.) In the Near East Shaybah, the �Old Woman,� is Lilith, the dark, first wife of Adam -- Hagar in the Old Testament, or more generically, The Crone. Q�re, the Nymph aspect of Al-lat, is probably the source of the Greek Kore, and Ereshkigal is also known as Allatu, from which Al-lat likely was derived. But don�t sweat the linguistics � point being, the holy shrine and central icon of supposedly ultra-patriarchal Islam is in fact a lithic of the Death Goddess of Hell, and by extension of necromancy -- which is to say, the primal destroyer and enemy of masculinity. Looks like our Empowered Witch in the Statue of Liberty�s basement was a�humping . . . well, herself. One might well ask the phallic stone of Mecca the same question arising in the minds of males in the modern �patriarchal� West: what is behind the cloak of the most sacred shrine of Islam? Who exactly does the "phallic" stone serve, and who exactly is served by the essentially matriarchal policies of the world�s major religions? Al�lat is the pre-Islamic triple goddess, divided into prototypical Nymph, Matron and Crone personifications, and the name�s resemblance to masculine couterpart Allah is no coincidence. Peel off the candy-coating of modern Christianity, strip off the �patriarchal oppressiveness� of Islam, and we find the same old song -- �Sons of the Old Woman�-- priests in dresses, serving WomanChurch. The black obelisk that symbolizes the new millennium in 2001: A Space Odyssey revealed the re-emergence of the primal power of the Goddess -- forced into collective Western consciousness by a master subverter of matriarchy, Senor Stanley Kubrick. The Old Woman, or Crone, is better known in the conserved wisdom of both Eastern and Western civilizations as the Witch, representing the malevolent aspects of the collective feminine. These aspects do not consistently crop up in the oral and written traditions because men oppress women � as feminism propagandizes -- but because malicious elements truly exist within real-life females, and because both individually and collectively, women often act out those elements in quest of supremacy. The success of the movie the Blair Witch Project in the final summer of the last millennium was ascribed largely to the innovative pseudo-documentary style used by the filmmakers. In fact, however -- as with 1974�s The Exorcist -- Blair Witch�s enormous appeal derived not from cinematographic technique, but from its expose of occult energies operating in the collective unconscious of the modern West, particularly in American culture. (�Occult� here indicates both �metaphysical/magickal,� and �hidden.�) The Exorcist emerged as modern feminism was beginning its cultural coup, and Blair Witch is a mirror held up to the Gorgon of the modern West, illustrating the consequences of that coup. The Exorcist demonizes male energy in the form of a priapic Devil, whose icon haunts the film�s introductory scene, representing male libido penetrating and possessing the �innocent� female adolescent. In fact, The Exorcist marks the beginning of mass male scapegoating in America, followed promptly by waves of molestation and child abuse hysterias which swept the nation in subsequent decades, presaging both our current �culture of victimization,� our onrushing prison/police state, and the landslide feminization of American culture. When The Exorcist was released, I was working on a neuro-psychiatric hospital ward, and got an intimate view of the extremely potent psychic effects of the film, through the raft of admittees that, for a few months following, sought psychological shelter on our ward. Extrapolated, the effect on the collective Dreaming Mind of America was profound � shocking and terrorizing a considerable part of a citizenry already �softened up� by the slayings of our cultural/political �kings,� and by ubiquitous serial murders -- including those of the contemporaneous sorcerer, the �Zodiac Killer.� But who stood to benefit by this raping of the collective American Mind? By the mass bestialization of American males, and the concomitant infantilization and re-deification of females? Well, those who always benefit, of course. The Elite, the Powerful � particularly, those established persons and groups who, having witnessed the very real uprising of masculine, revolutionary energy during the Sixties, knew a male spiritual and cultural revolt was imminent These Elite persons and groups have many names; ancient scripture calls them the Powers of the Earth; collectively, I name them Empowered Witch and Toxic King. Fast-forward thirty-five years, to the 1999 release of the Blair Witch Project. In this film, we see � finally � the Dreaming Mind of the nation beginning to �wake up� � that is, to transfer collective information from unconsciousness to its Awake Mind. |
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